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Gawker's founder, Nick Denton, sat in the front row on the first day of a civil trial in St. Constitution, and contends it was reporting on a celebrity who publicly discussed his sex life.
Gawker sees its 2012 post as protected speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Petersburg, Florida, near Hogan's home, could last three weeks. Hogan, a longtime champion of World Wrestling Entertainment, told jurors that he was not aware the encounter was being recorded in a private bedroom at Bubba's house, where he considered himself safe among friends. Attorneys for Gawker said the footage was provided to them but they did not know exactly where it came from. The Gawker video showed a consensual sexual encounter between Hogan and the wife of his then best friend, radio 'shock jock' Bubba the Love Sponge. 'It was Hulk Hogan and I was just embellishing,' he said, on the witness stand in a signature black bandana, a matching suit and an oversized cross necklace. He told Gawker lawyers that he had exaggerated about the number of women he slept with during a wild period following a divorce in an interview with the celebrity news outlet TMZ as rumors of the sex tape emerged. He had explained earlier that he considers himself to have artistic liberty as an entertainer when appearing as Hogan. Gawker lawyers explored the distinction he draws between his remarks in character as Hogan and his true identity. 'It will be there forever on the Internet.'
'My problem is this whole videotape that you guys put out that lives forever,' a weary-looking Hogan, wearing a signature black bandanna, said under cross-examination. Hogan said on Tuesday that regardless of his celebrity, Gawker crossed a line when it posted the video.
The video was posted on Gawker in 2012, about five years after it was recorded. 'I am not the same person I was before all this craziness happened,' testified Hogan Tuesday, who was one of the wrestling world's biggest attractions in the 1980s and '90s. He also testified that he exaggerated about his sex life in an interview as part of his over-the-top wrestling persona. 'Because Terry Bollea’s penis is not 10 inches, like you’re trying to say,' said Hogan.
Hogan explained his comments in the radio show by saying he was playing the Hulk Hogan character, and was not speaking as his actual self, Terry Bollea.