Hulk Hogan

Last week, Hulk Hogan won a restraining order against Gawker Media, as a judge ordered the company to remove all material related to the Hulk Hogan sex tape from its site.

There's just one hiccup: Gawker refuses to do so.

The company has taken down a one-minute excerpt from the half hour video, but a 1,400-word narrative about the sex tape remains.

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Thankfully, the Hulk Hogan sex tape will not be coming to a living room near you.

A rep for the wrestling legend confirms that a Florida court has granted Hogan's request for a temporary restraining order that prevents Gawker Media from releasing footage from his bedroom encounter of a few years ago.

That website has grossed out the Internet a few months ago by teasing Hogan's videotaped banging of Heather Clem in 2006.

Hogan sued Gawker for $100 in response.

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Hulk Hogan is married to Jennifer McDaniel, a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to daughter Brooke Hogan.

But in case that isn't weird enough, the former WWE champion Tweeted a photo yesterday of his child sitting on a chair, including with it the following simple caption:

"Brooke's legs."

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Hulk Hogan is lawsuit happy these days.

The former wrestling star has already filed a $100 million suit against Gawker for airing footage of the Hulk Hogan sex tape, and now he's seeking $50 million from the Laser Spine Institute.

Hogan alleges that this Florida-based company royally messed up multiple procedures meant to treat his lumbar spinal abnormalities in 2009.

He adds that the surgeries actually worsened the condition, which was later fixed by a different set of physicians.

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Sadly, we still need to think about the Hulk Hogan sex tape.

While the wrestler dismissed his $100 lawsuit against Gawker in federal court without prejudice last month, TMZ has learned Hogan has now gone ahead and refiled it in Florida state court.

The reason?

This is the same venue in which Hogan has sued Heather Clem, his sex tape co-star, for allegedly playing a role in leaking footage to the public.

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Hulk Hogan is adding another line to his resume.

The former wrestler/reality star/sex tape participant is set to open a restaurant in Tampa Bay this month. It introduce itself to the area via a New Year's Eve blowout.

"It's going to be Jimmy Buffett's [Margaritaville] times 10; Hooters times 10," Hogan bragged to The Tampa Bay Times. "It's a logical extension of the Hogan brand, with my image and likeness... In 36 years I've become so tangible to the public, and not just Americans. We have a chance to have an international draw."

Sort of like that Hulk Hogan sex tape. We hear it's huge in Germany.

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Happy Thanksgiving to all from The Hollywood Gossip!

What would this holiday be without family, food, football and reflection upon the things we appreciate most ... in the case of THG, that means turkeys of a different sort.

On this 22nd of November, we're paying tribute to stars we had the honor and the burden of covering in 2012. We are talking fowl individuals here ... real bird brains.

Without further ado, THG's Top 10 Turkeys of 2012 ...

Who will win the Sixth Annual Spencer Pratt Thanksgiving Turkey Award!?

10. Mitt Romney and Courtney Stodden (tie). One's a relentless fame whore married to a man three times her age. The other cost himself a good shot at the presidency thanks to 47 percent-style gaffes and never deciding what kind of candidate he felt like being. Really, we just wanted to make web history with the first-ever use of Mitt Romney and Courtney Stodden in the same sentence.

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Gawker Media has issued a response to Hulk Hogan's $100 million lawsuit.

The company - which released a one minute and 41-second clip of Hogan pounding Heather Clem on its website - has asked the judge to throw out the wrestler's suit because Hogan already admitted in a 2009 book that he had cheated on wife Linda.

Therefore, the video could not have soiled his reputation, as Hulk alleges.

Moreover, Gawker takes the side that it didn't record the video; it merely alerted the public to snippets from it. Isn't that the job of any news source?

Both sides are now awaiting the ruling from a judge.

Linda Hogan appeared yesterday on Access Hollywood Live to promote her book "Wrestling the Hulk: My Life Against the Ropes," only for the conversation to quickly turn to the Hulk Hogan sex tape.

"It really is quite an embarrassment for our family," Linda said of the video, which depicts Hogan giving it to Heather Clem in 2006. "I'm not really shocked because I knew that he was having affairs and I knew that he was cheating."

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Hulk Hogan and his former best friend have made up. Legally speaking, at least.

The ex-WWE champion has settled his lawsuit with Bubba the Love Sponge, a DJ he initially believed was behind the leaking of the Hulk Hogan sex tape.

Terms of the settlement have not been disclosed, but Bubba released a letter today stating he no longer thinks Hogan knew he was being recorded.

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