12. Hulk Hogan
The public might have been able to forgive Hulk Hogan for cheating on his then-wife, Linda, during the time that they were still taping Hogan Knows Best. Since the show depicted her as cold and frigid, audiences might have been able to look the other way if a young unknown cocktail waitress would have come forward with a torrid one-night-stand story. However, the truth was much more scandalous and difficult to overlook. Having sex with his best friend’s wife, Heather Cole (then Heather Clem), the whole torrid affair was caught on tape with a hidden camera. While you’d think that was bad enough, allegedly Bubba gave permission to sleep with his wife, and amazingly the sex tape was anonymously leaked and picked up by Gawker. Although Hogan ended up winning $140 million from the lawsuit that resulted, the damage was already done in the eyes of the public.
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