Brooke Hogan
Background information
Birth name	Brooke Ellen Bollea
Born	(1988-05-05) May 5, 1988 (age 24)
Origin	Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Genres	Pop, dance-pop, R&B, hip hop
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, television personality
Years active	2002–present
Labels	Storch, SoBe, Fontana
Website	Official Website

Brooke Ellen Bollea (born May 5, 1988^[1]), better known by her stage name Brooke Hogan, is an American singer, actress, model, socialite, and television personality, and the oldest child of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. Brooke Hogan is currently signed with "TNA Impact Wrestling" as TNA Knockouts Executive. She appeared on the reality-television series Hogan Knows Best, which focused on her family, and which premiered on July 10, 2005 on VH1. Since the cancellation of Hogan Knows Best, she has starred in the now-cancelled reality series spin-off, Brooke Knows Best, which focuses on her life independent from her parents and living with two roommates.

Hogan released her debut album in 2006, titled Undiscovered. In 2009, she released her second studio album, The Redemption.

Early life[link]

Brooke Hogan was born in Tampa, Florida, the older child of Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea) and Linda Bollea. She has one younger brother, Nick Hogan (Nick Bollea).

In high school, she took dance classes, voice lessons, piano lessons, and gymnastics. She joined the cheerleading squad of her Clearwater, Florida school, Clearwater Central Catholic, in her freshman year. Hogan graduated from high school at the age of sixteen.^[2]

Career[link]

2002–05: Music beginnings and reality series[link]

Hogan was signed to Trans Continental Records in 2002.^[3] Some music was produced with Rich Cronin's assistance.^[4] The album's lead single, "Everything to Me", was released in July 2004. The song appeared at number one on the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart in the United States,^[5] and number 97 on the Billboard Hot 100. To promote the album, Hogan toured with Hilary Duff on her Most Wanted Tour throughout the US, as well as with the Backstreet Boys on their Up Close & Personal Tour, both of which took place in mid to late 2004.^[6] The album, Brooke Hogan: This Voice, was slated for a September 21, 2004 release date,^[7] but the album was not released.

Hogan and her father appeared in the hour-long profile (Inside) Out: Hulk Hogan, Stage Dad.^[8] The television special chronicled Hogan working on her debut album, as well as showed her father's role in the album making process. Her father later stated that the show was mainly an attempt to help promote Brooke and her upcoming music career.^[2] The special was a major success for the network, and the success of the special led to VH1 turning it into an entire television series, titled "Hogan Knows Best". The series premiered in July 2005, and was the highest rated series in the network's history.^[9] The show chronicled the Hogan family's life together, although it mainly focused on Brooke and her father. Hogan Knows Best presented her father as strict with her dating. On the show, Hulk placed a GPS tracker on Brooke's vehicle that enabled him to track her whereabouts and shut down the engine of her car remotely. However, Brooke said in a later interview that her father loosened up after her eighteenth birthday.^[10]

[edit] 2006–08: Undiscovered and Brooke Knows Best

In 2006, Hogan changed record labels and became the first artist signed to Scott Storch's label, initially called Storchaveli Records,^[11][12] but later named Storch Music Company. She also signed with SoBe Entertainment. Storch also became the album's main producer. During an interview, Hogan stated that she was recording the album at The Hit Factory in Miami, Florida, where rapper Paul Wall heard a clip of the song "About Us" and asked to be on the song.^[10]

The lead single from the album, "About Us", was premiered on the season two finale of Hogan Knows Best. It quickly began receiving heavy radio rotation, and peaked at number 33 the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at 33. Undiscovered was released on October 24, 2006 in the United States and Canada. The album debuted at number 28 on the Billboard 200, and number 1 on the Independent Albums charts in the US, selling an estimated 30,000 copies in its first week of release.^[13] The album has only sold an estimated 127,000 copies in the United States.

To help promote the album, Hogan appeared in the November 2006 edition of FHM,^[14] becoming the first FHM cover model under 21 years old. As a result, the November issue had no liquor advertising. Dana Fields, executive publisher and president of FHM, said: "In the very rare instance that you might have a cover star under the age of 21, they don't want to be in the position of seeming to market to anyone under age."^[15]

To further promote the album, Hogan announced its second single would be "Heaven Baby", which featured Beenie Man on guest vocals. The song was released to pop radio in January 2007.^[16] On March 6, "For A Moment" was released as a promotional single from the album, with a music video featuring clips of the third and fourth seasons of Hogan Knows Best. Hogan's record label decided the album should be re-released later in the year; however, Hogan decided against it, opting to begin work on her second album. In August 2007, Hogan confirmed that she would be departing from one of her labels, SMC, and soon confirmed that she had signed a dual contract with SoBe Entertainment and Fontana Records and was at work on her second album. Hogan appeared as a panel judge in America's Prom Queen in early 2008.

While working on her second studio album, the series Hogan Knows Best came to an end. Brooke was later approached by VH1, and signed on to do her own series, Brooke Knows Best. The series premiered on July 13, 2008,^[17] and featured Hogan dealing with her family's problems, her music career, and her life as she's no longer dependent upon her parents nor lives with her family. The show consisted of her friends, Glenn and Ashley — who are often encouraging Brooke to get out, have fun, and party. Brooke, Glenn, and Ashley live in a penthouse in South Beach, which is paid for by VH1. Brooke Knows Best also chronicled the problems Brooke faced while dealing with the divorce of her parents, as well as brother Nick Hogan's prior arrest related to a serious car accident in which he permanently injured his best friend. Hogan's father has appeared in numerous episodes of the series, while her mother and brother have made a few. The first season ended on October 5, 2008.

[edit] 2009–present: The Redemption and film debut

In early 2009, Hogan announced the title of her second album to be The Redemption. The album's lead single, "Falling", featured rapper Stacks, and was released on March 31, 2009.^[18] On June 30, Hogan released the album's second single, "Hey Yo!", which featured Colby O'Donis on guest vocals.^[19] On July 4, Hogan released a mixtape, titled "Judgement Day", to help promote the release of the album. The mixtape caused a buzz online after the song 'Ur Not That Hot' was seen as a diss toward The Hills star, and fellow pop singer, Heidi Montag. The song also includes a fake voicemail that Hogan implies was sent to her from Montag. The Redemption was released on July 21 in the US and Canada for digital download and as a physical copy. It debuted at number 144 on the Billboard 200, and 27 on the Independent Albums chart, selling 3,381 copies in its first week.^[20] She was released from her four-year contract with SoBe Entertainment a year early after the promotion for the album concluded. She is now only signed to Fontana Records. To date, she is the only artist signed to the label.

In November 2009 Hogan was featured in Toni Braxton's music video for "Yesterday". In late 2009, Hogan made her first film appearance in the low budget live action film Little Hercules in 3D, which was only released in certain territories outside of the US. It was released on October 8, 2009 in Kazakhstan and Russia, and in the Czech Republic on January 7, 2010. Hogan's mother, father, and brother also appear in various roles in the film.

Hogan appeared as Kate in the Science fiction film 2 Headed Shark Attack, which was released on January 17, 2012 in the United States. She also appeared as Sandy Powers in the film "Sand Sharks", which was released on January 9 in the United Kingdom. She also guest starred on the episode "The Dean's List" of China, IL, which appeared on March 4, 2012. Hogan is set to appear as Britney Baer in the film "Devour".^[21]

She confirmed on April 11, 2012 via her official Twitter account, that she was writing songs with Benji Harris.^[22]

On May 17, 2012, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), the wrestling promotion where her father works, announced that Brooke had signed on to work in the promotion as an on-screen authority figure and a backstage consultant to the TNA Knockouts.

Filmography[link]

Discography[link]

Studio albums

Singles

References[link]

1. ^ Hogan confirmed a May 5, 1988 date of birth during a Jay Leno interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, see also:
   • Biography. VH1.com. Accessed 2006-11-22.
   Her birthday is sometimes [incorrectly] listed as May 2, for instance: or Brooke Hogan at AskMen.com. Accessed 2006-07-26.
2. ^ ^{a b} Interview on Larry King Live. (July 28, 2005) CNN. Accessed 2007-02-23.
3. ^ Jason Genegabus (October 27, 2006). Sistas are da bomb! Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Accessed 2008-01-12.
4. ^ Brandee J. Tecson (January 3, 2006). LFO Singer In Remission After Chemo Treatment; Working On Solo LP. MTV. Accessed 2008-05-02.
5. ^ Jonathan Cohen (December 23, 2005). Brooke Hogan busy with debut album. Billboard. Accessed 2008-07-23.
6. ^ Brooke Hogan. mtv.com. Accessed 2012-05-29.
7. ^ Joe D'Angelo (July 29, 2004). Brooke-Amania: Hulk Hogan's daughter shoots for pop stardom. MTV. Accessed 2012-05-29.
8. ^ VH1 Inside Out: Hulk Hogan, Stage Dad . tv.nytimes.com. Accessed 2012-05-29.
9. ^ Cast bios. vh1.com. Accessed 2012-05-29.
10. ^ ^{a b} Allison Kugel (October 1, 2006). Brooke Hogan blows up. PR.com. Accessed 2007-01-01.
11. ^ Brooke Hogan gets Signed to Storchaveli records. XXLmag.com. Accessed 2006-07-26.
12. ^ Interview. (August 17, 2006) LatinNewsWire.net. Accessed 2007-02-23.
13. ^ Chris Harris (November 1, 2006). Hannah Montana Rains On My Chemical Romance's Parade MTV. Accessed 2009-08-28.
14. ^ Brooke Hogan. FHM. Accessed 2006-10-20.
15. ^ Lia Miller (October 9, 2006). Under-Age Cover Girl? Farewell, Liquor Ads. The New York Times. Accessed 2006-10-20.
16. ^ SoBe Entertainment. sobeentertainment.com. Accessed 2007-01-10.
17. ^ Brooke Knows Best. VH1. Accessed 2008-07-12.
18. ^ Falling - Single. itunes.apple.com. Accessed 2012-05-29.
19. ^ Hey Yo! (feat. Colby O'Donis) - Single. itunes.apple.com. Accessed 2012-05-29.
20. ^ Daniel Kreps (July 29, 2009). On the Charts: Demi Lovato Leads Debuts, Jackson Still Sells Strong. rollingstone.com. Accessed 2012-05-29.
21. ^ Devour (2011). imdb.com. Accessed 2012-05-29.
22. ^ [1]. (April 11, 2012) Twitter.com. Accessed 2012-05-29.
23. ^ Independent Sales Chart. (April 18, 2007) IndieHQ.com. Accessed 2007-09-03.
24. ^ ^{a b} Walt Belcher (March 12, 2008). Black Roots Out Laughs In Irreverent Series; For Brooke Hogan, A Spinoff Grows In Miami. Tampa Bay Online. Accessed 2008-07-03.

External links[link]

• Official website
• Brooke Hogan at the Internet Movie Database
• Brooke Hogan on Twitter