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Full Name Linda Marie Claridge Born August 24, 1959 (age 64) ( 1959-08-24 ) Miami, Florida Known for Wife of Hulk Hogan (1983-2007) Partner(s) Charley Hill (2008-2012) Books Wrestling the Hulk: My Life Against the Ropes Similar People Profiles | ||
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Linda Marie Claridge (born August 24, 1959), also known as Linda Hogan, is an American television personality who is the ex-wife of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. She is best known for her role on the American reality television show Hogan Knows Best.
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Claridge was raised Catholic and is of Italian, German, English, and Swedish descent. In 1977, she graduated from Chatsworth High School in California.
She was a winning contestant on Match Game during the late 1970s.
Claridge met Terry Bollea a.k.a. Hulk Hogan in a restaurant in Los Angeles. For nearly two years, the couple had a long-distance relationship mostly over the telephone. They married in 1983 in a wedding attended by André the Giant, Vince McMahon, and other wrestling personalities. They have two children, Brooke (1988) and Nick (1990).
In 1995, Claridge appeared on Hulk Hogan's album Hulk Rules, where she sang back-up vocals along with The Wrestling Boot Band.
Claridge entered the spotlight in 2005 as "Linda Hogan", due to the VH1 reality show Hogan Knows Best.
A 2005 documentary DVD on street racers, called Vehicular Lunatics, includes a segment with Claridge.
She filed for divorce from Hulk Hogan on November 20, 2007. The divorce was finalized on July 28, 2009. Claridge wrote a book, Wrestling the Hulk: My Life Against the Ropes, which was published in 2011.
Claridge received media attention for her relationship with a much younger man, Charley Hill. Hill proposed to her on an episode of the VH1 reality television show Couple's Therapy in 2012. They began dating in 2008, when Claridge was 48 and Hill was 19.