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Hulk Hogan in car crash, trashes son's victim in taped jail calls

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The Hogan family: Nick, Linda, The Hulk and Brooke.

The Hogan family: Nick, Linda, The Hulk and Brooke.

Wrestling beefcake Hulk Hogan was involved in a seven-car pile-up on Sunday, according to several news reports.

Hogan and his estranged wife Linda, along with daughter Brooke, are said to have been involved in the accident in Clearwater, Florida.

Reports say there were seven vehicles involved in the crash, but that no one was seriously hurt.

The accident happened at 3:20pm (local time) on the northbound lanes of the Bayside Bridge in Clearwater.

The family's white Mercedes is said to have been damaged and later towed away from the scene.

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Hogan's role in the accident is not yet clear, but celebrity news blogger Perez Hilton begs to differ. He just posted the following on his website:

Sources tell us that The Hulkster is to blame. "He rear-ended another vehicle," we're told.

FFS, these village idiots obviously aren't safe to be on the roads.

And there's more...

Sticking with the Hogan theme...several rather juicy audio recordings have emerged of yet more conversations between incarcerated Hogan sprog, Nick, and his former wrestler daddy.

The mini-Hulkster, 17, is

currently serving an eight-month sentence

after pleading no contest to reckless driving after a car crash in Clearwater, Florida (deja vu, anyone?) left his mate John Graziano in a vegetated state.

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In one of the recordings, Hogan senior can be heard talking to Nick about crash victim Graziano, who's currently lying critically injured in a hospital with critical injuries.

Hulk says that God laid some "heavy s**t" on Graziano because of things that he was "into." His jailbird son can then be heard agreeing with daddy, adding that Graziano was a "negative person."

Audio

here

.

Sickening, guys.

In another taped conversation, Nick can be heard bemoaning the fact that he's in the maximum security area of the prison he's in, "If you can call the judge or something, please ask him to put me on house arrest, just so I can get out of here." Hulk responds, "Ok, bubba, I'm trying."

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Audio

here

.

But it's not just the Hulkster that's taken aim at the poor crash victim, mommy dearest has stuck her ore in as well.

Listen

here

as Linda brands Graziano's mother as "nasty and vindictive".

I love the expositional power of the internet, especially when it exposes shallow peabrains like this sorry lot.

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Do us all a favour and disappear back down that hole you came from. Be off with you!

Read the latest on the Hogans' car crash

here

.

K.I.S.S.I.N.G

Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong have been spotted kissing and canoodling at Dolce & Gabbana's annual party in Cannes on Friday.

According to

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people.com

, the pair kissed and danced to old Madonna songs and other '80s favorites.

"They were beaming at each other," a source says. "So cute."

Kissing? Imagine that. Such bizarre behaviour for a couple, don't you think? How dare they indulge in shameless PDA.

Plastic fantastic

Eat your heart out, George Clooney,

this guy's

the hotness, and is about to steal your crown.

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Mmmmmmm, dreamboat.

WTF?

The

Jackass

crew is at it again...this time behaving like demented twits with a bunch of sea snakes.

One word: why?

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Blind item

You'll never guess...

This married Golden Globe winning television actor from a network drama is older. Doesn't stop him from having guys nights out with his guy friends. Sad to say though those poker games he says he's having. Oh, he's having them, but with a group of strippers at a condo he owns. The only money changing hands in the game is what he pays for them to act out his fantasies.

Source

Lady loves Lohan

Lindsay Lohan just can't seem to shake off the "you're a lesbian" rumours.

It's hardly surprising when candid pictures like

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these

surface. More pictures

here

.

Are Lohan and Samantha Ronson more than just "close friends", as the actress' rep maintains?

Who cares. Live and let love.

Gay pay day

So Ellen DeGeneres has announced that she's to wed her longtime partner, Portia de Rossi. That's fabulous news.

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How did the old bird celebrate? By inviting Republican presidential candidate John McCain onto her show. He's staunchly opposed to gay unions.

One up for DeGeneres!

Naughty Indy

Indiana Jones has seriously ticked off the Russians. For real.

Communist Party members in Russia are all set to ban

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

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from theaters, branding the film "anti-Soviet propaganda that distorts history".

Talk about life imitating art.

The latest Indy flick sees the intrepid historian battling against an evil Russian KGB agent (Cate Blanchett) to find the coveted crystal skull.

"It's rubbish," says Sergei Malinkovich, leader for the St. Peterburg Communist Party.

"In 1957 the Communists did not run with crystal skulls throughout the U.S. Why should we agree to that sort of lie and let the West trick our youth?"

Walk the plank

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Glamazon Naomi Campbell showed up at P Diddy's yacht in Cannes last week and landed herself in trouble.

Campbell, who was all set to celebrate her 38th birthday, reportedly got into a major argument with Diddy, and he threw her off his luxury yacht. Video

here

.

Amy Winehouse's ghost terror

File this one under 'utter nonsense, yet fascinating'.

Amy Winehouse reportedly fled her home last week like a bat out of hell - claiming she was being taunted by a ghost.

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Winehouse, 24, says a poltergeist - whom she has affectionately named Henry - is haunting her North London home.

Bizarrely, the wayward singer is said to be blaming those

conspicuous scratches 

on her arms on Henry.

A source says: "She has a spare room in her house which she has been too terrified to redecorate because she believes a child died there. It has creepy airplane wallpaper and a weird feel to it.

"Amy is terrified because she thinks he's managed to take over the entire house and has brought bad spirits with him that are scratching and harming her."

Frankly, I'm not surprised that druggie Wino is seeing dead people - she's practically a walking cadaver herself (yes, I do love that term and will use it to death).

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Source: femalefirst.co.uk

Kidman to drop

Everyone's talking about whether Nicole Kidman is about to drop. Judging by recent pics of the star, you'd be forgiven for thinking sometime next year, however, a blogger at the

L.A. Times

thinks she's due in six weeks.

Place your bets, folks.

Quote of the day

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"I like the way I look better now. My thighs aren't as chubby. I'm not kidding. I'm being perfectly honest. I don't think of myself as a great beauty. But I think of myself as stylish". - Madonna

Slaphead

Cameron Diaz has gone bald for a role in new flick,

My Sister's Keeper

, in which she plays the part of a mother whose child has leukemia.

That's a bold slap-head if ever I saw one. It's a prop, obviously; so rest assured Diaz will be back to her follicle-friendly status once filming is over.

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Another quote of the day

"What kind of an idiot goes out in the jungle in a leather jacket?" - Harrison Ford.

Wig out

For a split second there it looked as though Desperate Housewives' Marcia Cross had joined the Scientologists and done a Katie Holmes number on her head.

See Cross' Lego-like hair

here

.

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Mercifully, it's just a wig. See

here

.

One for the bile file...

Charlie Sheen to Denise Richards, via text:

"I hope you and your worthless retarded father get cancer and join your stupid mom. Rot in hell you [bleeping] wh***."

See, they're one big, happy family. Just like the Waltons.

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Source: nydailypost.com

Madge 'n' Guy to split?

Is Madonna's marriage to Guy Ritchie on the skids?

These guys

seem to think so.

But if you read

this gem

it sounds as though there's plenty of spice left in their 7-year marriage.

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Alanis pregnant?

Rumour alert: Alanis Morissette is pregnant.

No confirmation or denial from her rep so far.

Stay tuned for updates.

Blog on tap

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Fast gossip

A guilty pleasure, but never a sin...

* Christina Ricci is the picture of health:

YH

* Man admits to having sex with 1,000 Cars:

GH

* Jessica Alba cracks a smile:

DS

* Victoria Beckham goes back to Ugly Betty:

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AIW

* No more nannies for J.Lo:

JJ

* A new Britney album in 2008?

PITNB

* Cry me a river, Cruise!

DL

* Pregnant man writes a book:

Celebrity Baby Scoop

* Sarah Jessica Parker needs work:

ICYDK

* Katherine Heigl stinks of fag ash:

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Popoholic

* Beyonce is too famous for church:

Hollywood Rag

* Which recent momma is ready for number 2?

ICYDK

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