What meds are these girls on that make them so happy and cheerful all the time? Can I get some? What a sunny world they live in!

I just watched the Valentine's Day show and one of them (Holly?) said she'd dropped big hints to Hef about what she wanted from the Playboy catalogue. Have they never heard of Neiman's or Bergdorf's or Tiffany's? They have catalogues, too, with bunny-free clothing and jewelry. The whole Playboy thing just seems so cult-like.

Is the Playboy stuff they ask for a part of advertising the merchandise or is that all Hef really gets them for holidays?

I'm guessing that Hef gets ANYTHING from the Playboy catalogues automatically comped and free for complimentary gifts, therefore the gals are allowed to pick and choose whatever they like from the Playboy gift shop catalogue.
Which seems pretty cheap on his part, of course...

That's what I think. Just like when they went to the PALMS and got to pick whatever they wanted from the Playboy store.

Ha ha ha!!!! HAHAHAHAHA! They aren't even smart whores! Jeebus, even street hookers wouldn't settle for a silver plated necklace that the John got for free.

You'd think by now they'd have every Playboy t-shirt, g-string, hoodie and craptastic piece of jewelry ever made. But I guess the geniuses in product development keep coming up with more crap for the girls to buy.

Getting back to the cult-y aspect of their little world... have we ever seen them with friends that have nothing to do with Playboy?

Not that I can recall. If I were friends with any of them, I don't know if I'd want to sign the waiver to appear on the show.

The jewelry looks like crap. On the Valentine show when Hef was having a little hissy fit about keeping the jewelry in the cheap box, I couldn't believe how crappy it looked.

LMAO!

I just looked the Playboy merch online. There's TONS of it--lingerie, costumes, clothing, jewelry, etc. They had costume jewelry, of course, but there was a platinum-and-diamond necklace (a bunny head, natch) for $5000 in their Fine Jewelry collection. Do we think any of the girls have that one? Do they even know what platinum is? And would Puffin Boo spring for it if Holly asked him to?

I'm pretty sure Kendra does. I remember seeing several people at her birthday celebrations and at least one person from her home visit who was not Playboy affiliated.

Kendra has had non-Playboy friends visit, and I seem to remember Bridget having at least one as well. Of course Holly hasn't, but that isn't surprising. I don't think she even has any real friends in the Playboy community. But who needs friends when you have Puffin? barf.

I think the reason we rarely see their few 'normal' friends is because they don't look like Playboy idiot Barbies, and thus devalue the brand. I seem to remember the camera flashing on one of Kendra's friends from home, who was a cute girl, but looked normal, but then the camera quickly moved to show a topless Playmate going down the waterslide or something. Can't have people believing that non-blond, non-tan, heavier women with real boobs exist or are worth something, can we now.

Excellent point, kallyk25.



There was one that we saw regularly--Bridget's sister--and look what they did to her. She got falsies for that tacky makeover, but I wouldn't be surprised if Bridget gave her a boob job for her next birthday. They could have given her a tasteful makeover, like on "What Not to Wear," but, no, they had to make her look like a whore. There's nothing in between plain and whore for these people, not even for a teenager like Anastasia.

I'm guessing Hef--like most people in the spotlight--has been having people write unflattering things about him, in Hef's case for the last 70 years or so, and has gotten pretty used to it. I'm guessing he's of the any-publicity-is-good-publicity school of thought. I mean, most of us hear watch this show just to mock them and think Hef is creepy and all the girls are sad and delusional. But yet there are other people who line up to get their signature (with their children -- shudder), and this show has expanded the PB brand and they're opening a club for the first time in many, many years, etc., etc., etc. What the hell does he care about some article in Elle?

I thought the Elle article was pretty kind compared with Barbara Walter's look of utter comtempt when they went on The View in a previous season. Hee! Go on, Baba, with your disapproving self.

Celebrity sighting. I have a friend who works in a small theatre in Chicago where they just did the US premier of Jerry Springer the Opera. Hef's daughter Christy attended this weekend. Nudity, swearing, tacky, whory women, I guess the nut doesn't fall too far from the tree.

And to give to each other as presents. How completely cheap and tacky is it to give something that the receiver can get for free?

Exactly. It's cute when the giver is your five y/o on Mother's Day. Cheap and tacky when it's grown adults with "jobs".

Pretty tacky. However, I wonder if a lot of that is just product placement shilling for the PB jewelry/clothing line rather than actual gifts.

At least, on the Christmas episode, we saw them getting real presents--faux fur coats, Judith Leiber purses, Bridget's pink Vaio...not to mention the various birthday celebrations that didn't involve PB crap as gifts.

I had to laugh, though, last night when I caught a rerun of Kendra's birthday luau episode--Hef gave her a picture of the two of them in some cheap ass looking frame. IIRC, the exact same gift I got from my boyfriend of about two months one Christmas freshman year in high school. Ha.

My favorite was the "one perfect rose" he gave Holly on their five year annivesary (complete with cheap-ass, grocery store baby's breath). I'm pretty sure my high school boyfriend got me that on our first Valentine's day freshman year.

Yeah, that's exactly the kind of touch that's thoughtfull and romantic when your bf is broke, but that screams CHEAP! if he's loaded, as in this case. I'm all for getting flowers, but then again, my husband doesn't have HH's kind of money. If he did, you bet those suckers should come tied by a very nice diamond bracelet...at least!

Guys, I have to share with you my dream I had last night because I know you'll really appreciate it. I had a dream that Hef died and that I was invited to the mansion for his funeral, but I had nothing to wear. So Bridget and Kendra were giving me their dresses to try on. There was a media frenzy because of his death and the interviewers kept trying to interview Holly, Bridget, and Kendra. Holly was the "grieving widow" and in my dream she was a complete bitch to me. I guess in my dream, I was a new playmate, or Hef's gf (ewww!!) too because Bridget and Kendra were trying to help prepare me for all the media's questions etc. Then after I found a dress I liked to wear to the funeral, it dissappeared and I accused Holly of taking it. When in fact, Kendra took my dress and hid it in her closet. LOL. It made no sense, but I thought you would all get a chuckle out of it.

I highly doubt the "girls" are satisfied with cheap Playboy costume jewelry and logo tees. I think that is all an act for the show (along with the forced camaraderie). However tacky the Playboy brand as currently marketed may be, the girls live in Holmby Hills and are surrounded by the best (well, most expensive) of everything. The salon they go to charges anywhere from $300 to $2,000 per visit, depending on what you have done (from a simple haircut to extensions), their favorite clothing store (Baracci) is extraordinarily expensive, and they all drive relatively high-end vehicles (like Holly's Porsche Cayenne). And these aren't cheesy brands that provide product for free in exchange for placement. When your boyfriend is the majority shareholder of a $300 million plus corporation, I'd imagine you could get a little LV luggage every now and then, regardless of current net earnings :) And with Candy Spelling living down the street, I bet one quickly graduates from gold-digger to platinum-digger. However, Holly may want to take notes on that whole getting-him-to-marry-you thing.

This is old, but . . .



I was watching the Entourage episode that the Girls are in, and the director or someone had Kendra (since she is, by far, the hottest, I guess) placed squarely and prominently in the middle. I thought the exact same thing "Holly must be PISSED!" It is so funny to observe her in the rare moments her alpha position is taken away from her! It makes one realize how lightly she holds the number one position if she is so threatened when another girl sits closer to Hef!

I'm super late with this, sorry, but I just saw the episode about HH's 80'th birthday party for the first time, and these are the things that caught my eye:

1-. I WANT Holly's peacock costume. It's colorful and sexy and original and classy at the same time. She was the best of the three, by far.

2-. Kendra's hair-do? A disaster. The dominatrix getup was OK, I guess, but that hair, OMG!!! She was beyond ridiculous. And she looked older than dirt, too. At first I thought she needed to lighten-up a bit about her mom, but then I thought: what if it was MY mom wearing a negligée and dancing with "All The Way Ray"? I wouldn't be happy, that's for sure! On the other hand, Kendra, you little idiot, you DON'T mention how much money you spent on a present, ESPECIALLY if the receiver is going to be editing! That is very bad form. Moron.

3-. Bridget's streap-tease didn't impress me much. Maybe it's because they just showed bits and pieces of it, but I didn't think it was particulary sexy.

4-. Paris Hilton can't sing shit. My ears are still bleeding. STFU!!

5-. They show all these takes of HH laughing with his mouth wide open, and I can't help to notice that he has excellent teeth for an octogenarian. Yeah, that is one of my pet peeves. I have a very hard time when I travel to Europe. Anyway, they seem to be almost too good. They are not blidingly white and milimetrically straight, so I don't think they are veneers. I'm thinking, dentures? Or just good genes? Mmmmmm....

True, true.
However, this makes looking as cheap and poorly put together as they do more of an extrodinary achievement. I look classier with my clothes from Gap and anthropologie. Ah well, you can take the girl out of the trash, but you can't take the trash out of the girl.

I wonder how they'd dress and groom themselves if they weren't Hef's ho's. Kendra's a major exhibitionist, so she might look pretty much the same, but the others???

I just watched the Halloween episode where Holly dressed as "Jackie Ho." Did she realize that the pink suit she wore was based on the one that Jackie Kennedy was wearing when JFK got assassinated? At least she didn't put fake blood on it.

"" It's very expensive to look that cheap. Those trashy lingerie costumes can run in the high hundreds (i.e. the Marie antoinette costume Holly wore).

Were the plans in place to re-open the Playboy clubs before The Girls Next Door started?

And does anyone know if Holly, Bridget, and Kendra profit from the DVD sales of the show?

Implants. Can't risk having Hef's teeth fly out of his head when he does his Old Coot laugh or leers at a pre-pubescent girl on camera or in public.

Does anyone have the link to The View episode with the Girls Next Door? I've been googling it to no avail. I'm DYING to see Babwa's bitchface in action.

I'd love to see The View interview. I missed them on Larry King Live too. Does anyone have it?

So apparently the three of them were arrested in Monte Carlo...

What--Holly wasn't calling Puffin Boo every half-hour like she always does? They must have been having a really good time there.

Just when I think she couldn't get any more trashy, she stupefies me. Way to go, Kendra!

It's probably all made up.

I highly doubt they met the Prince of Monaco. Any royalty would be a major stretch, and the Monagasque royal family, no way. The only European royal I could imagine them meeting is a drunken Prince Harry at some club in London. He would then be photographed with his hand up Kendra's skirt.
Is there going to be a new episode this Sunday? Even though they're boring, I miss new shows.

Awhile back, MMorningstar said:


Has Mary been with Hef for a long time? She looks like what you would get if you called Central Casting and asked for a Mary Wickes type, but in moments like this, their affection for each other seems mutual and long-standing. And, umm, so affectionate that one wonders if they had a fling in Hef's younger, randier days.

nevermind, I found it.

Mary has been around for over 30 years.

Longer. At least 45 years.

It's kinda interesting watching the old eps -- from maybe the first season. Like the one they just showed -- the first time they went to Vegas. Bridget snidely says that they do everything on a budget -- that they had to go coach (and probably on the cheapest flight they could find). But of course she said this giggling in her sweetie-pie phoney-baloney way, yet she still made it quite clear she wasn't thrilled about traveling on the cheap. She was more than hinting that she thought a girl (excuse me, post-menopausal old lady) whose lifestyle is being paid for by a wealthy old man should certainly be travelin' in a better style than this.

I don't remember seeing them traveling like this again. Maybe Hef realized it made him look like the cheapo he really is.

I have been lurking here for awhile and I just thought I would share this old video I found of Holly Madison.

I suspect Holly's been banned from doing impressions on Game night.

What the hell?

*laughing hysterically*

I bet that video gives hope to Hooters girls everywhere.

Hef's former secretary died of an overdose in '75, so a little over 30 years is correct for Mary O'Connor.

Mary worked for Playboy Ent. in some capacity before taking over as primary secretary. In the 60s and 70s, at the height of Playboy, I'm sure Hef had more than one secretary.

Holly looks quite the fug in that video. Her face is 90% different from what it is now. Her voice already was nasal and annoying, though. Some things surgery can't fix.

I just read in today's NY Daily News that there is speculation that Holly is already pregnant. Here is the link. They got one thing wrong though, they said Kimberly Conrad was a girlfriend of Hef's and we all know that she was and still is married to him!

Oh, crazy Holly. She probably "shunned alcohol" and didn't wear skimpy outfits just to fuel the rumors even more. I watched the Bedtime Stories clip show again last night (after falling asleep during it the first time) and I just love her bitchface. It's everywhere. I also love when they order all the food and show us how AWESOME! it is to live in the mansion and have anything you want at a moment's notice. Holly orders Life cereal and soy milk and then spends the rest of the episode eating Bridget and Kendra's fattening (and way more yummy) food. But alas, I fell asleep again, because it was that boring. Oh well, I'll catch it on one of the 4,893 repeats.

So Holly DOES supposedly eat as much as her porkier pal Bridget, huh?

I remember part of JillAnne's book in which she stated that some of the other girls were hinting around that Holly was secretly bullimic. Considering how stick thin she manages to stay without any exercise((or so she's gloated before)), I'd be willing to bet that it's a possibility that Holly just may indeed have an eating disorder of some sort.

Other than Kendra with her daily workout routine and resulting tight lil' bod, I honestly don't get how the Playboy gals manage to eat as much as they do and yet stay as thin as they do without the help of pills, eating disorders or cocaine, really...I guess one endearing thing about Bridget is that she refers to herself as "the fat one" and is unashamed to admit to struggling with her weight because she loves to eat and drink whatever she wants.

Oh, and that vintage footage of Holly and her faux Southern drawl as a young Hooters girl?
Frightening! I don't see how any cowboy could dare safely rest his boots near that shrieking beast...

Eating and keeping it down are two different things:). Realistically, very, very few people have the metabolism to pack down the food she supposedly eats and look like that, especially in their mid-to-late 20s.