Brooke Hogan

Brooke Ellen Bollea, known professionally as Brooke Hogan, was born on May 5, 1988, in Tampa, Florida. She is the daughter of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. During her high school years, she engaged in dance, vocal, piano, and gymnastics activities, and was part of her Clearwater, Florida school’s cheerleading squad. Hogan graduated high school at the age of sixteen.

Hogan began her musical career in 2002, signing with Trans Continental Records. Her debut single, “Everything to Me,” released in July 2004, reached number one on the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart in the United States and peaked at number 97 on the Billboard Hot 100. She toured with Hilary Duff and the Backstreet Boys in 2004 and 2005 to promote her music. In 2005, she gained wider recognition with her family’s reality television series, “Hogan Knows Best,” which chronicled her life and nascent music career. This show became the highest-rated series in VH1’s history at the time.

In 2006, Hogan signed with Scott Storch’s label, Storch Music Company, and SoBe Entertainment. Her debut album, “Undiscovered,” released on October 24, 2006, debuted at number 28 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Independent Albums chart. The lead single, “About Us” featuring Paul Wall, reached number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100. Following the conclusion of “Hogan Knows Best,” she starred in her own series, “Brooke Knows Best,” from 2008 to 2009. Her second album, “The Redemption,” was released in 2009. Beyond music and reality TV, Hogan has acted in films such as “2 Headed Shark Attack” (2012) and provided voice work for Adult Swim’s “China, IL.” She also entered the professional wrestling world, serving as an on-screen authority figure and backstage consultant for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2012 to 2013. In recent years, she has continued to release music, including the EPs “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” (2015) and “So Many Summers” (2018), and founded her design company, BB Designs by Brooke, in 2018.