As Brooke Hogan and her parents, Hulk and Linda, continue to trade barbs and accusations on social media, Nick Hogan finds himself between a rock and a hard place.
Nick, 34, the youngest child of Hulk, 71, and Linda, 65, has refrained from directly inserting himself into the latest family drama involving his parents and his sister Brooke, 36.
“He’s caught in the middle,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly.
The source added, “He has pressure from a lot of different people to just kind of stay where he is. You know, just stay quiet. He has a lot to lose from a few different ends. He can’t really support anybody in the situation. He’s just trying to stay out of it as much as possible to make sure he’s in good graces with as many people as he can be.”
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Nick has had multiple run-ins with the law in the decades since his family’s reality series, Hogan Knows Best, hit the airwaves on VH1 in 2005. Most recently, Nick was arrested for DUI in Clearwater, Florida in November 2023. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year of probation.
Body cam footage from the scene of the arrest was later released that showed Hulk chatting with officers after Nick was placed in custody. “This is crazy. Sorry about this,” Hulk told the authorities.
Hogan Knows Best ran for four seasons, from 2005 to 2007. Brooke went on to star in her own spinoff reality series, Brooke Knows Best, which ran for two seasons from 2007 to 2009 and included guest appearances from her family members.
Nick got married in January to former adult film actress, Tana Lea.
Us Weekly has reached out to representatives of Nick for comment.
The latest chapter in the Hogan family saga began playing out for public consumption on Wednesday, March 26, when Linda — who finalized her divorce from Hulk in 2009 — claimed via her Instagram Stories that she was estranged from Brooke. The next day, Brooke took to Instagram and issued a lengthy statement in response.
“I try very hard to ignore issues surrounding my family in hopes I might have peace in my life,” Brooke explained.
Brooke is not currently on speaking terms with either of her parents, saying she “intentionally made myself smaller in my professional career in music and TV simply to dodge the public negativity surrounding my family that has continuously and relentlessly overshadowed anything I do.”
“I have completely separate reasons for going no contact with each of my parents,” she added in her post. “No contact with my mom has nothing to do with my dad, and no contact with my father has nothing to do with my mother. … This decision was made based purely on how they have each dealt with me my entire life.”
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A source exclusively told Us Weekly how Brooke’s husband, former NHL player Steven Oleksy, has been attempting to broker peace between his wife and Hulk for “years.”
The source said Oleksy, 39, has directly requested a “man-to-man conversation” from Hulk multiple times since he began dating Brooke.
“Unfortunately, that’s never been in the cards,” the source said.
Brooke and Oleksy got secretly married in June 2022 and welcomed fraternal twins — Oliver and Molly — in January 2025.
