Thank goodness the media has a diligent watchdog like Brooke Hogan to keep us on the straight and narrow. Brooke is absolutely livid at reports that she skipped jailbird brother Nick’s 18th birthday celebration. Because nothing says “You’re an adult” like getting moved to the big kid section of jail.

Brooke says she did show up – but unlike her famewhoring parents, she entered the jail through the back door. Linda Hogan brought a skateboard for her newly adult – and incarcerated – son. In college I volunteered in a state prison, and we weren’t even allowed to enter wearing underwire bras because the wire could be taken out and used as a weapon. But Linda Hogan seemed to think a skateboard would make it through security.

It’s her brother’s birthday – and Brooke Hogan will cry if she wants to. The 20-year-old lashed out at “stupid people of the press” on her MySpace blog for claiming she skipped her sib Nick Bollea’s 18th birthday behind bars on Sunday. She seethed:

Heres how stupid and inaccurate the media can be…
According to the press I didn’t show up to my brothers 18th birthday at the jail.
Lets see…
*hes in jail
*Its an important birthday…the big 18!!!
*I’m only a 4 hour drive to Tampa
*He’s the most important thing in my life.

They must have thought I didn’t show cause they didn’t SEE me.
uhh…there’s such thing as a back door you jerks.

Sunday served as a reunion for the Hogan clan, as Hulk and his estranged wife Linda — whom he recently dubbed “the most formidable opponent I’ve ever encountered” — visited their son in jail.

[From Us Weekly]

Brooke’s present to Nick was flying in a woman he was “very fond of,” according to E! News. At least that’s more meaningful than a skateboard. Brooke also told E! that although she was next to her mother Linda for an hour, the two never spoke or had eye contact.

It’s so tragic when such a lovely, wonderful family falls apart for no reason. I’m not gloating, I swear.