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The Gross, The Bad, and The Unforgivable

A review of Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

Let me start off by saying that this book has an instance of what clearly seems like sexual assault, wrapped up in a gloss of romance. Skip down to the “The Unforgivable” section for that information.

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Normally, I don’t rate and review any books that I read for fear of poisoning the memory well. Normally, I wouldn’t rate and review a romance novel in particular, because it isn’t a genre with which I have much experience, nor is it one I have much love for. But the title and the fact that it showed up on a list of good romance novels for men from a source I trust made me pick it up in the first place. I’ve been trying to get deeper into the Writing Community online, and so many writers there are romance authors – and romance is such a popular genre generally – that I wanted to familiarize myself with the genre as I work on my own writing...

I’m making an exception to rating and reviewing this book because there were some truly, deeply problematic things going on here, on top of the bad/schlocky writing, and the gross descriptions so prevalent in my mind’s limited knowledge of what’s bad in the romance genre. So, in the following review I’m going to justify my one star rating of this book by describing The Gross [broadly, the terribly stomach-turning descriptions, characters, and plot points in this book], The Bad [the technical problems – especially in the plot], and The Unforgivable [the glossed-over sexual assault].

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The Gross:

I’m going to jump right in on the most obvious issue I have with (my own idea of) romance novels: the sex scenes. But this isn’t going to be what you think it is; I am not a prude. Nothing turns my stomach faster than euphemistic language about body parts. “Her sex” is bad enough. This book also talked about running his fingers along “her slit.” But the description that almost made me hurl was “her pink bits.” Nope. Vomit. Say vulva. There is nothing gross about that word. A good sex scene is hard to write, and you don’t need to go full-on erotica (though honestly, I think hardcore erotica is far more enjoyable to read, more real, and sexier than the euphemistic stuff), but why have a very descriptive scene only to censor over the words everybody is paying their good money to read? Pick a lane. Give me actual adult sexual content, or have everything fade to black. Please?

I looked at a bunch of the reviews of this book, astounded as I was that it was so highly rated. Where language was used as a fault, the line “my vagina senses are tingling” was often cited. Cited as gross and crass. Sorry, this was a line I found truly funny and endearing, used as it was by a female character who was grossed out by the villain of the story, a serial sexual predator. To me, it was a great Spiderman reference, and an honest thing for a woman to say. I’ve heard such comments from female friends before. Seeing this comment from the romance reading community really saddens me, because not liking an honest use of body parts, but championing “pink parts” is only fueling the female body shaming that is so prevalent in our society.

“Now if you’ll excuse us, we have a happy ever after to start” is the line that ends the bulk of the novel, before the epilogue. Once you’ve scraped the vomit out of your mouth, there’s also the ending of the epilogue, where after the main character “proposes” off-handedly on the couch, they have sex, and then he asks her if that was a yes, and she confirms it, the narration says, “after she said yes he did things that made her say it a whole bunch of times naked.” Then they fist-bumped. End of novel. Yeah… Did I mention they’d only known each other for a little more than six months at this point? Yea, I think that’s kind of fast…

But romance novels are stereotypically bad in this department according to me, who knows little to nothing about them. What other gross stuff happened in this book? Let’s start with the male lead, Mack, who winks at everything in a skirt. There are paragraphs where he literally winks at the woman he’s talking to three times within said paragraph. She’s always super charmed. This is supposed to be endearing behavior. Then there are a whole chapter where the sex the characters are having is compared to the national anthem – wanting to sing it, wanting to wave a flag, saluting this with that appendage. Barf barf barf.

I could go on, but this book isn’t for me, really. I’ll just close with a line I really did like from the book: “Smells like a camel exhibit in here.” This line is said by the bros when they come in to rescue Mack from his depression on losing the girl, and they find him in squalor. This book could broadly be described as smelling like a camel exhibit.

The Bad:

The biggest plot error I found in this book happened near the end. A group of the team is running to meet the “inside guy” who will distribute the dossier on the villain to the press as they march in to his book launch. They get there to find their inside guy knocked out, and another security guy holding the dossiers they were literally carrying to the meeting (he knocked him out to take them away, even though he didn’t know what was in them – not to mention that they weren’t actually there in the first place). Terrible editing!

There are other things – characters switching their mind on something deeply held from paragraph to paragraph, a convoluted plan to expose the sexual predator at his own event, and thinking that’s the only way to take the guy down, when in real life a reporter will take information at any time, not just when tricked into it. But it is the real lack of understanding of the human character that really bugged me.

The secret that Mack is carrying with him is that his father was abusive and murdered somebody, and is in jail. Mack changed his name out of embarrassment, and lies and tells people his father is dead. He is made into the villain towards the end of the book, because he “lied” to Liv, his love interest, about this. They had known each other for some time longer than a week and shorter than a month. They were not dating (she was adamant about that), and had slept together just twice. But he was a liar now, because he had a “secret identity” and lied about his father. People just accepted that that was a terrible thing to do. No! If that’s your past, it is yours, and you don’t owe that information to anybody that early in a relationship. Sure, you need to own up to it before you talk marriage, but not before you’ve started dating. This doesn’t have anything to do with his character, but his father’s. Shaming him for “not being honest” and having him have to come to terms with it, and be open about it publically, is just *not* something that he has to do. Weird morality here. I know it was stretched to add drama, but I think it does a disservice to his great trauma in life.

I don’t believe a group of people should take matters into their own hands to investigate a person on sexual harassment on behalf of other women. I don’t think they need to use their friend’s van (literally an FBI-style surveillance van that nobody seems to think it is weird that a friend just has – a van that never plays an important role except that it doesn’t drive fast). I also don’t think a former cop is going to play along in a game of entrapment with a bunch of youngsters out for the thrill of taking down a celebrity chef. I especially don’t think people are going to trust the “inside guy” who is the security guard for the big bad. There is absolutely nothing that any characters do (aside from taping the bad guy) that moves the plot forward. It is all them falling into luck or information that others provide. Everything happens to them. This is just not the makings of a well-written book.

The characters were also so bland and uniform, with the exception of “The Russian” who was all caricature and comic relief, and whose lactose intolerance goes into play when they almost got caught because of the smell of his fart while they were hiding. Hilarious? No. So juvenile. And also, it was from vegan cheese, which the author says “is still cheese” and thus causes him the same problem as cheese. Speaking as a chef, that’s not how lactose intolerance works.

And, can I quickly gripe about the fact that the tech whiz who can break into a computer in 2 minutes, take out the contents of said computer in 30 seconds, breaks down all the banking info in an hour to tie the sexual predator to dozens of victims financially, also says he will be unable to edit a video (literally cut it off at all), in the hour they have during a drive, so by showing the big bad to be the big bad, they will also expose Mack’s terrible history and show him too to be a liar? Remember, this is literally exposing that his dad was a bad guy… again, not seeing the problem for Mack (as if that would kill his reputation)… but also: press stop on the tape? In an hour I, a complete novice, could learn to edit video enough to be able to stop a video when I wanted it to stop. The drama was unnecessary, and the mechanism to achieve it is so utterly stupid.

I also don’t love the fact that it takes a group of men to save women who were the victims of sexual assault. I also don’t love the message that women have to be a certain way when it comes to coming forward (even though they try to say otherwise, it was very moralistic against anybody being quiet). I very much don’t love the fact that they called the sexual predator – who honestly had unwanted, forced sexual relations with many women – a mere “sexual harasser.”

The Unforgiveable:

Let’s talk about consent. The second time the main characters have sex, Liv expressly says ‘hey, I haven’t given you consent to have sex again.’ He then says that fingering her isn’t sex. Then proceeds to finger her. Then grabs her, carries her to a bed insider her own house, and then has sex with her. Without actually obtaining consent. This isn’t even an instance of tacit consent, because both parties are acting in a certain way and advancing the same act. She literally denied him consent by saying he didn’t have it, and that was never cleared up. Even if she never said no again, that’s pretty terrible for him to just assume.

Also: this happened immediately after he just shows up at her house. They had had sex once. She said she’d call after 3 days. He comes over after two, not calling specifically because he said that she’d have probably said no to his coming over. It was dark, she thought he was an intruder. She hit him with a shoe. She has to apologize to him for hitting him, and clean him up. Hey. In my mind, this dude is a psycho at this point. If you don’t buy into the 3 days before a call, fine. But then you pick up the phone. Don’t just show up at a near-stranger’s house. Don’t do it at night. Don’t sneak up the stairs. And don’t get mad when she’d mad because you acted like a psycho. And then most certainly, listen to her when she says that you don’t have consent to have sex with her again, and go on fingering her immediately thereafter.

This book is bad on a lot of levels, but the sexual assault scene tarted up to look romantic just made me seethe inside, especially because this whole book attempted to be a “bros don’t let bros sexually assault women” morality tale.

Rating: 1 very dim star of 5

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Whatcha Gonna Do When Hulk Hogan Runs Wild On You?!

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Whatcha Gonna Do When Hulk Hogan Runs Wild On You?!

The ’80s had been a decade of massive hair and massive personalities. One iconic athlete of the ’80s was a person named Hulk Hogan. One of the widespread wrestlers of all time, Hogan can be remembered for some main scandals out and in of the ring. Listed here are some details and scandals related to “The Hulkster.”

In honesty, most wrestlers had been impressed by somebody they noticed on tv. Hogan has gone on document saying that when he was a teen, he seemed to Dusty Rhodes, aka “The American Dream” has a supply of inspiration. Now Hogan is called probably the most inspiring wrestlers of all time, telling younger up-and-comers to understand their goals.

Hulk Hogan majored in Enterprise Administration again within the 70’s whereas attending the College of South Florida. Hogan discovered that music was extra appropriate for him and so he dropped out of school and joined a band. The identify of the band that he was part of was referred to as Ruckus, they usually had been truly a reasonably well-known band within the Tampa Space within the 70s.

On the subject of the Make-A-Want basis, Hulk Hogan is among the most requested stars accessible. The inspiration is thought for working with kids with terminal diseases to make one among their goals a actuality. Hogan has labored with them on 9 completely different events because the basis saved a document, believing that quantity can be doubled in the event that they saved data earlier than 1986. Go Hogan!

Would you wish to reside close to your boss? Hulk Hogan did for a few years. Hogan was the following door neighbor of Vince McMahon, the CEO of the WWE in Stamford, Connecticut. McMahon and Hogan frolicked collectively driving bikes and even understanding collectively. Though it could sound bizarre to be neighbors together with your boss, it seems prefer it labored out simply effective for Hulk Hogan.

Wrestler Randy Poffo, referred to as “Randy Savage”, or “Macho Man” appeared within the WWF (now referred to as the WWE) within the ’80s and ’90s, the place he was revered as one of many biggest performers to ever step into the ring. Hogan and Savage had been pals however had considerably of a rocky relationship. Savage suspected Hogan of dishonest on his then-wife Miss Elizabeth, and their friendship went downhill from there. In 2003, Savage carried out a diss observe referred to as “Be a Man” after Hogan refused to have a charity wrestling match with Savage during which the cash from the match was going to be given to a kids’s hospital.

Hulk Hogan had a number of names earlier than he turned “Hulk Hogan”. Some wrestlers change their names as a way to attempt to win over the followers or to maintain up with the instances and traits. Different instances, It’s as a result of they haven’t discovered their wrestling id but. Hogan’s first ring identify that he used was “The Tremendous Destroyer,” which appears becoming due to his measurement. The Hulk went by means of a number of different names together with “Terry the Boulder” and “Sterling Golden.” We’re blissful he stopped at Hulk Hohan.

The primary film that Hulk Hogan ever appeared in was Rocky III. Hogan appeared because the supporting character named Thunderlips. Nonetheless, Vince James McMahon didn’t need Hogan to seem within the film and thought Hollywood ought to don’t have anything to do with wrestling. But, ultimately, noticed this as a chance to introduce a wrestler to the cinema world and he was proper.

In 1985, discuss present host Richard Belzer had Hulk Hogan on his present Sizzling Properties. Hogan was on the present with one other ’80s icon Mr. T as a way to promote the primary Wrestlemania. Belzer requested Hogan to carry out a wrestling transfer on him (huge mistake). Nonetheless new to fame, Hogan obliged and put the discuss present host in a entrance chin lock. Hogan held him within the transfer and Belzer fainted. Belzer later sued Hogan for $5 million and ended up receiving $400,000 in a settlement.

Many individuals have trinkets that give them a sense of safety and luck. Whereas a fortunate rabbit’s foot or necklace is extra frequent, Hulk Hogan’s luck comes from sporting purple underwear. Hogan survived two airplane crashes sporting purple underwear and trusts that they’ll maintain him protected and produce him good luck. If I survived two airplane crashes not even sporting any garments, I’d in all probability by no means put on garments once more. Sensible pondering Hogan.

As a result of Heather Clem tape and its aftermath, which featured Hogan saying some racially insensitive feedback to her, Hogan was faraway from every little thing associated to the WWE. He was launched from his WWE contract in 2015 and the group made it a degree to take away him fully from their historical past. Nonetheless, there have been talks of Hulk Hogan showing at subsequent yr’s Wrestlemania, which is perhaps one other probability for the icon to work with the WWE.

Within the film traditional 1997 movie, Batman and Robin, Hulk Hogan was one of many individuals who was sought out to play the function of the villain Mr. Freeze. The Mr. Freeze go well with weighed 75 kilos, requiring a giant sturdy man to play the function. Arnold Schwarzenegger ended up getting the half. If there was a choice between these two to play the half, it’s any man’s recreation.

Again when he was referred to as Terry Bollea, Hogan was believed to be one of the best beginner pitcher within the entirety of the state of Florida when he was taking part in baseball as a teen. He was even scouted by the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Yankees which isn’t an on a regular basis factor. Sadly, Terry suffered an damage in baseball and determined to not pursue it any additional. I feel he would have been a bit of too huge to play anyway.

Hogan skilled an enormous progress spurt at a younger age, however nobody might foresee the towering top he would attain as an grownup. Within the 70s Hogan was 6’7″ and weighed 295 kilos. His biceps alone spanned 24 inches. Surprisingly, he’s nonetheless across the similar measurement as we speak. That’s plenty of weight to maintain on for that a few years with out actually doing something with it.

At one level, Hulk Hogan was employed as a full-time financial institution teller earlier than getting into the ring. With a stature as huge as his persona, this was not the perfect job for him. Hogan stated he give up this job after two days. Are you able to blame him? His power and persona don’t match up with these of a financial institution teller. I’d be intimidated to go to the financial institution with him behind the counter!

Skilled wrestling has its share of magazines. Nonetheless these are principally strictly wrestling magazines, so it’s extraordinarily uncommon to see a wrestler featured on the duvet of a mainstream sports activities journal, not to mention Sports activities Illustrated. Because it seems, Hulk Hogan was the one wrestler ever to seem on the duvet of Sports activities Illustrated. In fact in 1985 when he was, he wore his “Hulkster” headband.

Within the early 90s, the WWE had its share of arduous instances. The federal authorities got here after Vince McMahon after a steroid scandal within the WWE surfaced. In 1994, Hulk Hogan was immune from prosecution as a result of he cooperated with the federal government, backed up Vince Mahone. He stated that the WWE CEO Vince McMahon by no means advised him to take efficiency enhancing medication, which saved McMahon from serving jail time.

It’s possible you’ll recall the George Forman Grill, with all of these infomercials that includes George Forman speaking about his new and improved grill. Nicely, Hulk Hogan was initially approached to be the pitchman for the grill. Sadly, he missed a name from his agent when he was selecting up his youngsters. Though it could have cool to have a Hulk Hogan grill, George Foreman did simply effective.

Hulk Hogan and Linda Bollea had some arduous instances throughout their marriage collectively. In 2007, Linda Bollea filed for divorce. Hogan was approached by a reporter with the St. Petersburg Instances and was requested concerning the divorce. Having been the primary time he heard about it, Hogan replied, “Thanks for the nice info.” Hogan additionally advised the reporter, “I’m form of shocked. You caught me off-guard. My spouse has been in California for about three weeks. … Holy smokes.”

Bob Backlund is a former WWE champion. Throughout his first run for the title, he was advised by Vince McMahon (Vince Kennedy McMahon’s father) to “drop the strap” (give the belt) to Hulk Hogan. Backlund refused as a result of he stated Hogan didn’t have a “respectable wrestling background.” Backlund was a star athlete in highschool and in school. He misplaced his belt to the Iron Sheik, and in flip, the Iron Sheik misplaced the strap to Hulk Hogan. This marked the official starting of Hogan’s reign as WWF champion in 1984 and thus Hulkamania!

Affected by accidents is sadly, a serious a part of life in skilled wrestling. These accidents stack up through the years, and lots of wrestlers find yourself utilizing wheelchairs and having issues afterward in life. Hogan too has had his fair proportion of accidents from the game, and in 2013, Hulk Hogan sued the Laser Backbone Institute for $50 million after happening in top, from 6’eight” to six’four” due to so many procedures on his backbone.

There are various well-known trainers within the wrestling world: Eddie Sharkey, Shawn Michaels, Verne Gagne, Stu Hart, the listing goes on and on. One among these trainers was a person by the identify of Hiro Matsuda (July 22, 1937 – November 27, 1999). On Hogan’s first day of coaching, Matsuda purposefully broke Hogan’s leg. This didn’t deter Hogan as he returned to the fitness center months later and once more had Matsuda as his coach. The grasp coach reasoned that tough coaching was to “defend the enterprise” so that somebody who give up wouldn’t say that wrestling is “pretend.” Wow.

The game wrestling is among the hardest sports activities for any athlete. Wrestlers incur main accidents and most find yourself disabled later in life. Resulting from quite a few accidents suffered all through the years, together with a spinal wire damage, torn knee cap, injured again and an injured hip, Hogan has misplaced an unlimited quantity of weight and muscle mass. Though followers might inform he’s slimmed down, announcers nonetheless launched Hogan at 300+ kilos. As talked about, the wrestler additionally decreased in top by four inches after a number of spinal surgical procedures.

There was hypothesis amongst wrestlers and followers alike concerning the relationship between Jesse Ventura and Hulk Hogan. Some folks, resembling managing legend Bobby Heenan, claimed that Ventura had all the time wished to wrestle Hulk Hogan. The reality of this matter is that Hogan and Ventura had been pals at one time. Ventura wished to type a union for wrestlers, and as soon as listening to about it, Hogan took this info to McMahon. Ventura has been bitter about it ever since.

Hulk Hogan’s son Nick Bollea was arrested again in the summertime of 2007 for reckless driving. Bollea and his pal John Graziano bought drunk and determined to race Bollea’s automobile. Graziano didn’t fasten his seatbelt, and after dropping management on the moist highway Bollea’s automobile crashed right into a tree. Graziano ended up with severe accidents, leading to mind harm and two years of hospitalization.

For a few years, Hulk Hogan was referred to as “The Immortal Hulk Hogan.” So why was he immortal? Hulk Hogan was recognized for what was referred to as “no promoting” in wrestling. No promoting signifies that a wrestler doesn’t reply to a wrestler’s offense, thus not being affected by it. When a wrestler would use their ending maneuver on Hulk Hogan, Hogan would lie within the ring as if he had been harm. He would then rise as if he had been ”immortal” and make a comeback on his opponent and win the match.

What does Hulk Hogan need to do with Marvel Comics? Unknown to many, there was a protracted ongoing struggle with Marvel Comics and Hulk Hogan. For starters, “The Hulk” is an iconic comedian ebook character created by Marvel Comics someday within the 60s. Hogan began utilizing the Hulk identify within the 70s. Marvel says that Hogan utilizing the identify “Hulk” infringes on their rights. The WWE licensed the identify “Hulk” in 1985 nevertheless it expired in 2004.

Earlier than Terry Bolleta turned Hulk Hogan, he was a musician. He was part of a Tampa-based band referred to as Ruckus, shredding on the guitar. Hogan claimed that Lars Ulrich, drummer of the band Metallica, requested him to play bass for Metallica. Ulrich stated that he doesn’t know Hulk Hogan and doesn’t bear in mind ever assembly him. So, possibly it was a joke, or possibly Hogan actually thought he was that good.

After the divorce between Linda Bollea and Hulk Hogan, the Hulkster went into despair. His spouse bought a lot of the property and he or she began relationship a 19-year-old. Whereas sitting in his empty home on a drug binge, sadly Hogan contemplated suicide. Out of the blue, Laila Ali, skilled boxer and daughter of boxing legend Muhammad Ali referred to as and Hogan opened as much as her. Laila intervened simply in time and stopped Hogan from doing the unthinkable.

The WWE has been round because the early 50s. There have been a number of identify adjustments alongside the way in which and it will definitely turned the WWF. Due to Vince McMahon making wrestling a industrial success, Hulk Hogan is probably the most recognizable identify and determine within the historical past of wrestling. There in all probability isn’t anybody born earlier than 2010 that doesn’t know who he’s.

Though it was not truly an earthquake, and Hogan didn’t truly get injured, this stunt helped Hogan take a break from wrestling. That is known as a “kayfabe” damage during which a wrestler is pretend injured to allow them to not compete. The wrestler Earthquake put down Hogan from exhibits and story traces as a result of his spouse was 9 months pregnant together with his son Nick, so he wanted break day.

Hulk Hogan turned very nicely referred to as a “good man” in wrestling and was named the preferred for a few years, particularly in the course of the ’80s. He was the Most Well-liked Wrestler in accordance with PWI in 1985, 1989, and 1991. Within the mid-’90s he turned heel (turned a nasty man) and have become the Most Hated Wrestler in 1996 and 1998. Apparently, the wrestling group isn’t very loyal to their wrestlers.

Hogan appeared on a chat present with legendary bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno. Hogan was taller and had extra muscle than Ferrigno, who performed the Hulk on the favored tv collection The Unbelievable Hulk. Hogan then adopted the identify Terry “The Hulk” Boulder. A number of years later, Vince McMahon wished him to have an Irish final identify, and so the identify Hogan was born.

World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was a wrestling promotion that was based mostly in Georgia, was a competitor to the WWE within the ’80s and ’90s. Hogan was with the WWE within the ’80s, which was considered by many as the higher affiliation. When Hogan jumped ship to WCW in 1994, he was instrumental in giving the wrestling promotion firm the increase that it wanted to beat the WWE in scores.

Have you ever ever gone to a present and anticipated one factor however bought one thing fully completely different? Hulk Hogan was a part of a faction referred to as the NWO in WCW and had a feud with a wrestler named Kevin Nash. Folks anticipated to see a match, however earlier than the match began, Hogan pokes Nash, he falls, and Hogan wins the title. Lots of people had been upset as a result of they anticipating to see a match. Many believed that this was the beginning of the autumn of the WCW.

Hulk Hogan had mainstream energy, inspiring many kids, teenagers, and adults again within the ’80s. He even went so far as to have 5 “demandments,” versus ten commandments, I assume. These “demandments” had been 1. Practice 2. Say your prayers. three. Eat your nutritional vitamins. four. Imagine in your self and 5. Imagine in Hulk Hogan. Observe these easy steps and also you’ll have the ability to reside like Hulk.

It’s possible you’ll or might not recall that Hulk Hogan appeared in a cartoon referred to as Hulk Hogan’s Rock N’ Wrestling again in 1985. With Hogan as one of many prime stars of the WWE on the time, it appeared like a good suggestion to do. Actor Brad Garrett because the voice of the Hulkster within the cartoon collection, and should you look carefully, you’ll discover Hogan has a full head of hair within the cartoon. Not a lot in actual life.

Wrestlemania is just like the Superbowl wrestling within the WWE. The custom started in 1985 and it has grown ever. Maybe probably the most profitable Wrestlemania of all was Wrestlemania III, which included the primary occasion of Andre the Big and Hulk Hogan. In actuality, this was Andre the Big’s final go round as a result of his well being was failing. Hogan slammed the 530 pound Andre the Big within the Pontiac Silverdome which boosted this recognition.

Vince McMahon introduced wrestling into mainstream society with the Rock and Wrestling connection. McMahon drew in some main names of the ’80s resembling Cyndi Lauper and Mr. T into the world world of the game. Hulk Hogan performed a really huge a part of bringing wrestling to the forefront with Wrestlemania I, and continued to take action all through his profession.

In April 2012, Gawker media leaked video footage of a questionable tape of Hulk Hogan in mattress with Heather Clem, the estranged spouse of his pal Bubba the Love Sponge. In October of 2012, Hulk Hogan filed a lawsuit Gawker media, writer of the Gawker web site, and Gawker-affiliates. He claimed that the leaked footage was an invasion of privateness amongst different issues.

The case was taken to courtroom, the place Heather Clem cried, explaining that her husband inspired her to have intercourse with Hogan, however she didn’t know he had filmed it. Once they divorced in 2012, she requested that the tape be destroyed. Clearly it didn’t, and was leaked. On November 2, 2016 Gawker and Hogan settled for $31 million.

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