At first I thought Bridget couldn't be a correspondent in a billion years 'cause of her annoying phoney baloney syrupy sweet personality. But I guess she could. She does look still good (for 82, that is). And that's really what's required. Most entertainment correspondents are awful. And that's why most of them don't last too long.

Remember when she was reading lines for the old guy announcer (obviously one of Hef's cronies)? He was too nice to tell her how bad she was. She read like 10 sentences in one breath and with a very, very flat line delivery. It's a plus to have an upbeat personality -- it's also sort of a requirement to be a correspondent. But Bridget's just too jazzed. She's got to ease up on the happy pills. Maybe downing fistfuls of meds (Anna Nicole style) is the only way she can get thru the days (and nights -- BLEECH) of being locked away in the mansion and its grounds.

What would Bridget's personality really be like if she laid off the meds? Would she really be nasty and snippy like Holly? I only remember one time, seeing Bridget break out of the fake ickey sweet personality. It was when she first got the dog that looked like her cat. When her sister went to pet the dog, Bridget said something nasty and pushed her very meanly out of the way and grabbed the dog. It was like fangs and claws came out, horns popped out of head and her eyes turned red like the devil!

The real evil Bridget finally showed and she didn't need any dopey costume to disguise herself. But Bridget hasn't broken out of the yucky-sweet personality since. She's been as good at hiding her real personality as Holly has been at avoiding almost any mention of her past and her family.

It'll be a cold day in hell when Bridget gets her PhD. Almost anyone can get a bachelor's, and assuming her MA was all coursework and no original work or research, I can even see her going that far. However, unless she's planning to get her doctorate from the University of Phoenix, she will never get a PhD. Acting on the show or not, there is no way that woman is intelligent enough to pass her quals, convince faculty to be on her dissertation committee, or write and pass said dissertation.

Bridget getting her PhD would devalue any doctorate and destroy academia, and I would go crazy and start telling my committee that all I need to do to pass is show my boobs and dress up like a doll.

I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. We've never exactly seen Bridget in a situation where she's had to act truly professional, put on a grown-up suit, and impress people her own age, in her career field, without using her looks. If a camera crew filmed me all day, I'm sure I'd wind up sounding like a complete idiot 95% of the time. They would also see me flaunting my assets on occasion, enjoying theme parties, and interacting with inappropriate/older men. But the other 5% of the time, when I'm doing stuff related to getting my doctoral degree involving professionals and actual skills, I can turn all that off, and be professional, intelligent, and well-spoken. Point being, I'm not sure we've seen Bridget doing anything on the show that exactly required her to use her intellect in any way. Even the correspondent things she did were in the context of being a PB bunny or Hef's girlfriend--not exactly Walter Cronkite material. So, for now, until I've seen her completely fail in a stressful academic situation, I'm going to respectfully disagree.

Ha. Probably true. She says she thinks he looks like a puffin, though. I wonder if she told him to call her "Muffin" to be all cutesy-wootsey. I wonder what the timeline of those nicknames was.


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Holly is required to say Puffin in a baby voice -- it's part of her job description -- in addition to being a nursing home aid.

Izzie mentioned the Muffin and Puffin thing in her book but I don't remember what the exact deal was. She probably desperately came up with it to separate herself from the other girlfriends, but not sure.

True; the closest we've come is when she tried blowing off a school final to take nude photos. Not too professional, there, since I assume people in her field are teaching/taking the class.

It'd be cool if they did a theme week (theme:Bridget::fetch:dog) where the girls go undercover and try to get "normal" jobs. That'd be tough with a camera crew in tow though.... maybe some of those detective-type cameras would work.

I thought the time-lapse they did on the mansion grounds was creepy because you could see all these animals crawling around it -- like the peacocks and stuff. It was like those nature shows when they show decomposition.

Does Hef buy into the muffin-puffin thing? I thought he calls all his girls a generic "honey".

Thanks for reminding me about that! Boy did that smile look natural and unforced, ha ha.
Ouch! But Hee!
That's just part of it. *ZING*

Was it Holly who was so proud about sneaking a stuffed Puffin somewhere in her pictures? Is this like how Playboy slips their bunny logo into every cover photo (or so I have been told)?

Yes, that was Holly with the Puffin doll in her picture. I think these girls are getting more immature by the moment.

I have known several people who were complete bobble heads and a couple who were bat shit crazy that were horrible employees, sometimes I wondered how they found their way to work in the morning. Many of them were straight A honors students.

Actually I find that circumstance to be quite common, people with almost no real life social skills are often quite successful in academia.

Yup...I've known a couple of people I seriously thought to be serial killer material at first. Brilliant, creative, sometimes devastatingly funny - but total loony tunes. Since I'm secretly loony tunes, we got along great once I got to know them and work with their personality quirks.

I agree with the poster who said no degree is usless and plus she has a Masters or two so she'll find some sort of gainful employment after all of this is done. A lot of people are picking on where she went to college, but just because someone didn't go to an Ivy or Stanford doesn't mean their degree was a breeze to get and is worthless. I have an MA from a state university and I worked my butt off and did have to do a thesis. I've known people who have gotten degrees from high-end private colleges and I scratched my head in confusion as to how they got accepted in the first place. ;) So unless Bridget went to some fake online college, I'll give her a kudos for her education. Someone else also said that some people with no real social skills do well in academia. That's so true. I remember having a few professors who were crazy smart, but just plain weird--no common sense. They're always interesting to talk to after class. lol!

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This may be a tiny nitpick, but I was looking so hard at Bridget's custom snowboard (of herself in the bunny costume, of course) and I swear she had the "Ed-Grimley-smelly-cheese" (awesome, by the way) look on her face in that picture as well. Maybe it was me just hoping for it, but I looked as close as I could and it just looked like her "do I have anything in my teeth?" face that I do to my boyfriend after we eat. The snowboards were cute, but I felt kind of icky about Bridget's. I don't know what it was, but I was weirded out and embarassed for her.

Ummm...if a bachelor's degree is supposed to be easy to get, someone forgot to send the memo to my school. It was hard and required a lot of hard work, research and application skills.

Now as for Bridget...I want to know if she has any kind of plan. She seems to follow whims. First she gets her degrees in broadcasting or communications or whatever it is...then she is in an online paranormal investigation class...now she wants to do voice overs. What's next...clown college?

Any doubt Bridget's an extreme mental case? Keep chowin' down those meds Bridgie baby!

At the time she was getting her masters in communications online from the University of California system. She had to got to a testing center take the final exam (they needed a proctor so the students don't cheat from home, obviously). There are different time slots one can sign up for in advance (so it's possible she could have done it another day if she planned ahead).

Their pet names are Puffin and Muffin. (I've only heard him call her Muffin once though)
She calls him Puffin because of his beak nose and because he used to be photographed "puffin' on a pipe.

No disrespect meant to anyone, but 33 is kinda late to choosing a career path. Yes, most people with two masters (ALWAYS impressive imho) might begin working at that age, however most usually ta or publish or intern will going to school. Most schools might even require some practical experiences such as those I mentioned while finishing the program.

I don't think Bridget's an "extreme mental case." Odd, juvenile, spazzy...yes. And if she is on medications for mental illness, well, as far as I'm concerned, that's her decision. I won't go Tom Cruise on her for it.

It is the desperation she broadcasts with every costume, every smelly cheese smile, every pig tail she wears, every time she makes certain that everyone knows she is associated with PLAYBOY. It is just the sad desperation that you sense.

I wouldn't dream of going Tom Cruise on Bridgie baby for chugging those meds. Who can blame her? She's trapped in that decrepit mansion with Holly, Kendra and Hef and is on call 24/7 for sex with a fossil -- and she has to always keep up that that happy, happy sweetie-pie personality, while continuing to act like a 6 year old. Hey, it's hard work making "just smelled shit" faces.

Anyone else notice that Hef doesn't really have any affection towards Bridget? He cares about deluded Holly because she's the one that will call 911 when he starts to stroke out, and he loves Kendra's youthful attitude, but I just don't see or feel anything from Hef towards Bridget.

I've never heard Hef call Holly muffin on the show, but I have heard him call her "Honey Bunny" many times, which is really squicky. And I think once I heard Holly and Bridget referring to themselves as "Snuggles" and "Buggles". It's like they think they live in some secret clubhouse where everyone gets stupid nicknames.

If I lived in that house my nick name would be 'constantlypuking'.

Bridget is becoming more painful to watch. She like the zeta female in a wolf pack, always deferring to mean bitches like Holly and not having any confidence. She's getting too old to roll out the big ol' crocodile tears when she's upset, like she did last season when they took photos without her for Playboy. As she ages in her youth-obsessed environment, her insecurities grow and become more obvious. I get the impression Hef hardly notices her.

I used to be a TV and radio news correspondent. It's an insanely competitive field. I used to wallpaper my walls with rejection letters as I tried to move out of my small-town market. Many very young people who are very good will work for free or for minimum wage to get in the door, then you don't make much money for many years. How can Bridget possibly enter that field at her age, or even try for some barely-seen entertainment show? I was surprised that her demo reels are as bad as they are -- she has to get much, much better or they won't even watch all of her reel. Plus, the creeps are going to try to get her on the casting couch because of her Playboy association.

I think Hef's using Holly as an all-around mistress/housekeeper/errand runner. I don't think he has serious feelings for her. It's convenient to have her around.

Kendra's the one that will emerge with life success, which I did not expect after the earlier seasons. She used to annoy me because she was rude, uncouth and insensitive, but I think she's acquiring more polish.

Word.

I sat right in front of Gwen Stefani at a broadway show (Hairspray) and I walked out next to her. She has the most shockingly unhealthy hair I have ever seen. It looked like a straw. I got a good look at it because she is also shockingly short so I was looking down at the top of her head. Bad bad hair. She has a very beautiful face though. Just as pretty in person.

I was the one who said this, and obviously I didn't mean any BA/BS was easy to get, but if a person who is not smart or a hard worker wants to get through college and get a degree, they most certainly can with a relative degree of ease. Most degrees aren't a cakewalk, but saying that holding a degree means the person is intelligent isn't true.

Also, even though lots of weird people flourish in academia, weird does not equal intelligent. Again, I highly doubt that Bridget is any smarter than average, likely below average, and I think a PhD is out of reach of people like that.

Enough of that debate- what do y'all think will happen if HH starts to become senile or incapacitated? Will the girls bolt, or stay around knowing they can now do what they want without getting kicked out, and hope for the big payoff?

Holly will stay until the bitter end. I could see Bridget staying, because I can't see any kind of a future for her; she seems like a lost child. I think Kendra would leave, though.

Bridget isn't that famous to be a celebrity correspondent. The average Joe or Jane wouldn't know her from any other bottle blonde. If she were more famous, like an AI person, she would definitely receive a job doing those dumb interviews. I also don't know what career she'll have in anything. She's kind of old (I don't believe the age she's giving us at all) and lacks work experience. Part of me wonders if she went to school because that's the only thing she knew to do at the time. Plenty of people don't really have a set ambition (like professor or journalist) and just go onto graduate studies, because they don't know what else to do.

She's been on a television show for the past few years, somebody will hire her.

Exactly, this show pulls in respectable ratings for E! and there's no doubt the network will place Bridget or any of the other girls on one of their weaker-rated programs (such as The Daily 10) in the hopes of pulling up the ratings and bringing attention to those shows.

So, I've been concocting a bit of a conspiracy theory. This week, obviously, was all about pimping the snowboards...Bridget mentioned they had a connection, or a hookup, or something. Hasn't it been rumored that's she's actually married to the owner of a skate shop in Lodi? Isn't it fairly common for skate shops to also sell ski and snowboard equipment? Furthermore...since when does Hef let the girls out by themselves overnight? It seems like a pretty rare occurrence. And Bridget looked awfully flirty with one of the guys...hmm. I wonder if Bridget convinced the hubby to donate snowboards and whatnot so she could convince Hef to let them all go overnight, claiming it was a business-promotion type opportunity?

Anyway, I'm going to go wrap my head in tinfoil...

I actually thought something like that when Bridget talking about her connections.

From what university did Bridget get her degrees?

PCDI?

Well...if Kristin Cavalleri from Laguna Beach can get work, then I'm sure Bridget has a shot. Kristin has done nothing on Laguna Beach that is worthy of hosting gigs, and endorsments, but she gets work. At least Bridget has majored in this sort of thing.

According to Bridget's official website, she got her bachelors degree at CSU Sacramento, and a masters from University of the Pacific. Apparently, she's currently working on another degree (they call it a 'certificate', whatever that is) through UCLA's extension program.

I know very little about CA universities, so I'll keep my mouth shut!

Kristin is a lot younger and a lot prettier than Bridget, though, and Laguna Beach was probably more popular than The Girls Next Door. I never saw a single episode of that show, and I know who a bunch of the cast is. Besides Hef, I can't say I'd know anyone on this show.

Let's see...Sac State is a very middle of the road state uni. Pay your money; get in. Currently there's a big conflab going on because the new president had the feral chickens killed, the unoffical mascots of the school.

A typical chick student would share a shithole apartment with a couple of other girls, cocktail at Chili's a couple nights a week, party hard on the weekend, and still make it through with little effort. UOP is in Stockton, armpit of CA. Supposed to be a pretty good school, but you're in Stockton. I guess that means you cocktail out at the Olive Garden by the freeway.

I assume her degrees are in 'communications', the major of hot chicks?

Whenever I hear of Bridget's hometown, I immediately hear the song 'Lodi' by CCR. "Stuck in Lodi again..." I bet the residents of Lodi are proud of their dubious claim to fame of having Bridget being from there, as opposed to having a really negative song being the only thing people know of Lodi.

OK, that had nothing to do with anything, but I really like Lodi.

I always wondered about the people that ordered drinks at those chain restaurants (Applebees, Chillis, Olive Garden, Ruby Tuesdays, Bertutccis). It's a running joke between my friends and I, those people always crack me up.

Hey now! I have nothing against getting a few drinks at Applebee's makes the food taste better (much like the only time Perkins taste like good food is when you are A) really drunk or B) really hungover.

I just watched the reruns of the calender episode, dear lord did Holly and Kendra look like ghetto crap. I have to say Bridgets pics where by far the cutest, except for the cover, where she look fat, poor thing.

Oh no!! My girls and I alternate between Red Robin, Applebee's and Outback every Thursday hence alternating between "Sand in Your Shorts" "Mainstreet Margaritas" and "Wallaby Darn'ds" until we're pissed enough to have draft Bud Lights!

On topic - did you notice when they were getting their massages, Kendum said her legs were really hairy. Guess Hef doesn't mind, unless of course, dum dum dum!!

Nice call on the conspiracy theory though.

Yeah, Bridget probably could get some entertainment correspondent job -- maybe even on E -- but could she keep it for long?

I say no way. She's really, really stinky. And that happy, happy fakey personality of hers is so freakin' annoying. Maybe she could keep it going if she continues to make those "just smelled shit" faces that she thinks is soooo sexy, sexy. Then everyone would be laughin' their asses off at her.

I bet the Playboy association will hurt her more than help her. Everyone she'll work with is going to expect her to give oral -- men, women, and the cleaning-people too. Bridgie better keep bowls full of those meds handy.

Guess it's tough for a prostitute to get used to a real job in the real world.

Talent is subjective, though. I'm sure Bridget could get a job somewhere where her audience thinks she's great. The Naked News comes to mind. Hee.



I don't agree with this. Plenty of successful (by Hollywood standards) women have posed for Playboy or had their careers jump-started by the magazine. I don't think they're all walking around with people expecting sexual favors in exchange for jobs. Kelly Monaco, Jenny McCarthy, Pam Anderson--I'm sure their looks play a large part in their career paths, and I'd be stupid if I said that they're getting these jobs based on being serious actresses. But I doubt anyone's expecting them to put out for parts anymore. Anyway.

I don't think Bridget is on drugs/medication (other than perhaps the sex night quaaludes that were discussed previously in the Jill Ann book). I think she's just plain bizarre. I'm just uncomfortable assuming that about someone without any evidence.



Nor do I think any of the GND are prostitutes. I think they're women who have made choices to pursue an (allegedly) monagamous relationship with a wealthy older man. Whether it's for the money, or true love, or fame--not the same as prostitution, IMO.

And we haven't seen her try to get used to a job in the real world, so I'll reserve judgment on that one as well.

I think Isabella St. James hinted (maybe kidding) that Bridget was taking taking meds, but I don't think she was too specific. It would certainly explain her wacky behavior 'cause it doesn't seem like an act.

Certainly, lots of less talented people than her have succeeded in entertainment reporting -- I would bet that perserverence counts for a lot. And one thing I'll say for Bridgie is that she's extremely ambitious. That's how she got into the mansion and that's why she's still there, in spite of her advanced age.

Well, I certainly like Bridget better than her Surreal Life counterpart Andrea Lowell. At least based on their on-screen personas.

Word to bmb654's entire post. I got no beef with Bridget and the idea that "everyone" is going to expect her to "give oral" just seems out of left field. I seriously doubt that.

Bridget annoyed me at first (her admission that she tries to sabotage prospective Playmates' photo shoots *really* turned me off) but she's won me over. I sure wouldn't pick her lifestyle but she seems harmless and sweet.

The contestant almost didn't recognise her as being with Playboy the time she appeared on Identity. In fact, he only chose her because she was blonde and had bigger boobs.

I don't think anyone is going to expect casting couch stuff anymore from Bridget than Pam Anderson, but posing for Playboy is different from being Hef's live-in "Girlfriend." What have the rest of the girlfriends done?

None of the ex-girlfriends appear to have done anything of substance, but it looks like many of them have done silly, fluffy Hollywood-type jobs that Bridget seems keen on getting. Tina Jordan was on Playboy radio for awhile, Brande Roderick has had some small parts in movies, and some of them have promotional-type gigs.

Actually, the armpit of CA is Bakersfield.

UOP is a very good school. It's mostly known for its pharmacy school, though, which is top-notch.

Barbie Benton has probably had the best career of all the girlfriends -- and that's not saying much. She was beautiful, intelligent and articulate, but as an actress -- not so great. Didn't she do a lot of (mostly crappy) TV stuff in the 70's and 80's?

What? You callin' Love Boat crappy?

You want to step outside, hmmmm?

"Whether it's for the money, or true love, or fame--not the same as prostitution, IMO. "

Sex for money IS prostitution, whether you call someone your boyfriend or not. Love doesn't involve having an allowance, and from what the few books have told us, this is what goes on there. Living there? Okay. Getting a car? That's nice. A vacation for my birthday? Amazing. (Come with me, don't hide in your house.) My own show? Tres Evita. Coming into Hef's room to get my weekly stipend and being told what I can do better to serve him? Prostitution. There is a line, and I'm more than willing to agree that there are several interpretations, but getting money from a guy I'm having sex with because I'm having sex with him is prostitution.