It’s proving to be quite the soap opera, and now the latest in the Hulk Hogan sex tape saga is that the video was reportedly leaked by ‘an unhappy ex-employee of his best friend Bubba the Love Sponge.’
But far from believe any gossip the wrestling star. who hit the headlines after X-rated footage of him and Heather Clem – the estranged wife of Bubba – surfaced online, Hogan plans to contact the FBI over the leak.
With rumours that overweight Bubba may have leaked the tape, Hogan is determined to get to the bottom of the leak.
A source told TMZ that Hogan had tried to report the leak to local police in Florida but because of the statute of limitations and the nature of the offence, officers could not help him.
Hogan’s lawyer added the wrestler will meet agents on Monday.
Meanwhile source told Radar: ‘Even though Bubba knew how much the Hulk sex tape would be worth, he didn’t stab his friend in the back and he’s not the one who released it.
‘It’s a former employee of Bubba’s who was outraged when he left Sirius to go back to terrestrial radio. He wanted payback.’
The source added: ‘Bubba didn’t secure the tape properly and showed it to a bunch of people. And that’s why they’re all in this mess now.’
On Wednesday, it was reported that Hulk’s partner in his now infamous video was completely obsessed with the 59-year-old, and always had dreams of getting intimate with the star.
Radar allege that Clem used her former husband and the Bubba to get to the former reality star.
Sources claim that Clem was ‘obsessed’ with Hogan and that she and her former husband set up the camera to film the act so she could obsessively and repetitively watch it.
Insiders claim that Clem is a voyeur and used every possible means to have sex with the star.
‘Heather has been obsessed with Terry [Hulk Hogan] Bollea forever,’ an insider told Radar.
‘She took advantage of her husband’s friendship with him and used Bubba to get to Terry.
‘She’s a voyeur and her fantasy was to have sex with Terry and then have a tape of her conquest.’
Meanwhile, earlier this week Hogan said he was ‘sick to his stomach’ after hearing his best friend Bubba plotted to leak the sex tape of the wrestler with his own ex-wife.
The wrestler admitted on the Today Show on Tuesday that his life had been turned ‘totally upside down’ by the tape… and confessed on Howard Stern’s radio show that the woman in the video was Clem, the ex-wife of his best friend.
And in the same afternoon he called into TMZ Live to admit he was ‘completely stunned’ when they told him about footage of Bubba planning to profit from the tape.
He told them: ‘I’m sick to my stomach right now.’
Hogan also told them Bubba had vociferously denied even knowing about the sex tape and said he wasn’t aware a camera even captured the steamy tryst.
Hulk relayed that he said to his buddy: ‘If you had anything to do with this, that means we were never friends.’
At the end of the TMZ footage, Bubba can be heard saying to Heather: ‘If we ever did want to retire, all we’d have to do is use this footage.’
Hulk told the Today show that he had no idea footage was being taken – and TMZ reports Hulk is now filming a criminal police reports in Florida, claiming he was filmed illegally.
In the clip, the professional wrestler can be seen engaging in a sex act with the brunette after a man thought to be his friend Bubba is seen leaving the room.
Bubba, who legally changed his name by deed poll, is mentioned in the video as Hulk asks his partner if she had slept with him earlier that day.
Hulk told Today hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb: ‘It was a bad choice and a very low point.
‘I was with some friends and made a wrong choice. It has devastated me, I have never been this hurt.’
Hulk revealed the video – which only recently leaked online this week following stills from the encounter being released in April – was from six years ago.
