What Happened Between Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson? Their Feud Explained

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Though the two appeared to be on good terms while on The Girls Next Door — and even for a time after it — there were some conflicting reports that came out afterward. Kendra, for instance, told CNN in 2012 (per Us Weekly) that she hadn’t ever really been friends with her two main co-stars.

Then, in 2015, Holly claimed in her book Down the Rabbit Hole: “Kendra had apparently given an interview to a tabloid explaining that she wasn’t friends with either of us as if she were somehow better than everyone else. … so I decided to text her how I truly felt: that she was a coward and that she tried to act like the ‘real’ girl on TV, but she’s the fakest person I’ve ever met — and that if she had a problem with me, she should have confronted me like an adult instead of just going silent.”

Holly added that she deleted Kendra’s number and hadn’t spoken to her since.

Hugh Hefner & Holly Madison’s History: Everything To Know About Their Romance & Her Accusations

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The ‘Girls Next Door’ alum was one of the ‘Playboy’ founder’s girlfriends for seven years, but Holly has since revealed some of the darker aspects of being a ‘Playboy’ model.

Holly Madison rose to fame as a model for the famous Playboy magazine. The now-42-year-old blonde beauty became a reality star in 2003, when she was one of the three featured ladies on the series The Girls Next Door, which followed Holly, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson in their lives at the Playboy Mansion along with the magazine’s founder Hugh Hefner. Holly was known as Hugh’s number one girlfriend during her time in the mansion, and the two dated from 2001 until 2008. Since the split, Holly has come forward with many accusations against Hugh, and she’s revealed that her relationship with the late founder, who died in 2017, wasn’t as sweet as it may have seemed on TV. Find out more about Holly and Hugh’s relationship, and the accusations she’s made against him since splitting up, here.

When did Holly and Hugh meet?

Holly visited the Playboy Mansion a number times throughout college. After having spent much of her young adulthood in the mansion, she decided to move in when she was 21 in 2001. While she was working as a model for the suntan oil Hawaiian Tropic, Holly said she got her first invite to a party at the Playboy Mansion, where she first said hello to Hugh.

Holly’s opened up about why she originally decided to move to the mansion in her memoir Down The Rabbit Hole, which came out in 2015. She admitted to feeling like she was in a “desperate situation” during an April 2021 interview with the podcast Call Her Daddy. During the interview, she alleged that Hugh offered her quaaludes, and she was “wasted,” when they first had sex. She said that she was shocked after their first time having sex, because she noticed other girls with Hugh during her first night out with him. “When I got up there, I was so wasted and thrown into it, that once it was done, there was something about the experience that made me feel very out of control,” she said at the time.

Holly also recounted her first night out with Hugh as one of his girlfriends during a December 2021 interview on the Power: Hugh Hefner podcast. She said she expected the night out to be more like a “first date” and said he was “literally pushed on top of me,” when she wasn’t planning on having sex with him.

Shortly after the two started dating, Holly said that she felt “trapped” by some of the mansion’s rules and Hugh’s personal preferences for her. In the years since they’ve split, Holly had admitted to asking Hugh if she could tryout to be a Playboy Playmate, and he would “hold it out of reach” and let various girlfriends try out for it. She alleged that Hugh “flipped out” at her, after she cut her hair short, in an interview as part of the A&E docu-series Secrets of Playboy. “He was screaming at me and said it made me look old, hard and cheap,” she said.

‘The Girls Next Door’

Holly admitted to thinking she’d only live in the mansion for about a year tops, during the Power interview, but she became well-known as one of Hugh’s featured girlfriends on the reality show The Girls Next Door in 2003, two years after moving in. She was regarded as the Playboy publisher’s number one girl. The show ran for six seasons, and Holly appeared in 80 episodes. The show not only showed the lives of the girls surrounding Playboy events, but it also gave an in-depth look to Holly’s relationship with Hugh.

The model revealed that after she learned about the show, she was “annoyed,” because she wasn’t cast as the “ambitious” girl in the Power interview. Holly also explained that she thought that the show would also help her get into the magazine. In some episodes, she admitted to how she wanted to be in the magazine, and how she was disappointed that she was to see other girls come and try out to be Playmates. “He had known for years that we wanted [to be in the magazine], and he very deliberately kept it away from us, and I think, very much enjoyed making us think that we weren’t good enough,” she said in the podcast.

During their time on the show, she became a junior photo editor for Playboy, and she had great things to say about the position, and the show also shifted the dynamics in their relationship. “He wasn’t trying to date other people or sleep with other people, and we weren’t going out to clubs, and we weren’t doing the bedroom thing,” she said on Power. “I felt like his attitude toward me really changed, and he really did start to care for me.”

In the years since the show has ended, Holly has admitted to some of the difficult things she was struggling with behind-the-scenes, both on her own and with Hugh. She admitted to feelings of body dysmorphia, and a strong desire to lose weight, in a July 2021 TikTok video.

Holly and Hugh Break Up In 2008

After seven years together, Holly ended her relationship with Hugh in October 2008. Hugh alleged that the two had broken up, because they didn’t have plans for marriage or children in a 2008 interview with The Associated Press. “If Holly says it’s over, I guess it’s over,” he said at the time, while saying that Holly was still living in the mansion, but staying in a different room. After the breakup, she announced she still planned to work with Bridget and Kendra, and she appeared in four episodes of the of the last season of Girls Next Door, before she produced the spin-off Holly’s World.

After Holly and Hugh split, the Playboy publisher did get engaged (and later married) to the model Crystal Harris. After their engagement was made public, Holly admitted to feeling “surprised” at the news. “I have a lot of different feelings on it. I don’t just feel one way. I kind of didn’t want to put a generic statement out there like ‘Congratulations!’ because I felt everyone would see through that,” she told E! News at the time.

Holly’s accusations since the breakup

In the years since the breakup, Holly has shed tons of light onto the darker aspects of living in the mansion. She opened up about wanting to “drown herself” while she lived in the mansion as part of the Secrets of Playboy series. “I remember there was a point in time a couple of years in. After we had gone out and after we had all been in the bedroom. Everybody’s leaving and walking out, and I was in the bathtub. And I just wanted to drown myself. I just felt like I was in this cycle of misery,” she claimed. Even after the breakup, Holly was still a junior photo editor for Playboy until 2009, which she quit after not finding the job “challenging,” via E! News.

She’s also pushed back on the narrative that Hugh was a “good guy” or “nice man.” She’s called her relationship with Hugh “abusive” and said that he’d commonly practiced love-bombing (or being overly-affectionate early on in a relationship). “The reason I think the mansion was very cult-like looking back on it is because we were all kind of gaslit,” she said as part of the A&E docu-series.

After the breakup

Long after the breakup, Holly eventually married Insomniac Events founder Pasquale Rotella in 2014, and the pair had two children: Rainbow Aurora, 8, and Forest Leonado Antonio, 1. Unfortunately, Holly’s marriage to Pasquale wasn’t meant to be, and the two divorced in 2018. Hugh married his third and final wife Crystal Harris in 2012, and the two were married until the Playboy founder died at age 91 in September 2017.

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Dakota Johnson says Jesse Eisenberg ignored her on ‘The Social Network’ set Dakota Johnson recalls her interaction with Jesse Eisenberg on the set of 2010’s “The Social Network” as … less than ideal. In a new interview for Vanity Fair with Andrew Garfield — who played Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin to Jesse’s Mark Zuckerberg — Dakota says that while Andrew was engaging and friendly on-set, Jesse basically ignored her. “You and Jesse were so busy on that movie, and I was obviously in it for four seconds, but I spent a few days on set just watching,” recalls Dakota, who had a minor role in the film. “I remember sitting down with you guys when you were having lunch one day, and you asked me loads of questions. You were really nice … and Jesse didn’t acknowledge me,” she continues. “He was probably in character,” she adds. “Oh boy, I don’t know. I feel like I need to defend him in some way,” Andrew replies. “There was maybe some of the Zuckerberg coming through in that moment. He was probably overwhelmed by –” Before he can finish, Dakota chimes in. “By beauty!” she jokes. “By your beauty, yes,” Andrew says, playing along. Jesse’s rep took a major hit a few years after “The Social Network,” when he was branded “rude” and irritable for his behavior during a 2013 interview with journalist Romina Puga. (“Cry after the interview is over,” he said at one point in the clip, which quickly went viral.) Romina later wrote a blog post saying Jesse had “humiliated” her. He’s since apologized. RELATED: Forgotten celebrity couples of the ’90s

Holly Madison reflects on ‘cult-like’ Playboy Mansion life: ‘We were gaslit’ In a new trailer for the upcoming A&E series, “Secrets of Playboy,” former “Girls Next Door” star Holly Madison says Hugh Hefner “gaslit” the women in his enclave at the famed Playboy Mansion. Now 42, Holly recalls in the clip how Hef kept a tight rein on multiple aspects of her life during their relationship, which began in 2001 and ended in 2008. (The Playboy magnate died in 2017.) “The reason I think the mansion was very cult-like looking back on it is because we were all kind of gaslit and expected to think of Hef as like this really good guy. And you started to feel like, ‘Oh, he’s not what they say in the media, he’s just a nice man,’” she says in the teaser. At another point in the clip, Holly describes feeling “isolated from the outside world” at the Playboy Mansion. “You had a 9 o’clock curfew. You were encouraged to not have friends over. You weren’t really allowed to leave unless it was like a family holiday,” she says. Holly also recalls working as a waitress once a week as a backup plan, should the Playboy situation not “work out.” Hef, however, wasn’t into it, according to Holly. “He said it made him jealous, and he would appreciate it if I quit my job,” she says. “So instead, we were given $1,000 a week as an allowance.” The 10-part series, which features interviews with a variety of Hef’s former girlfriends and employees, airs Jan. 24 on A&E. RELATED: Hugh Hefner’s highs and lows

Bob Saget’s widow Kelly Rizzo opens up about her loss and his ‘message’ of love In the wake of Bob Saget’s unexpected death on Jan. 9, his widow, Kelly Rizzo, says she’s just starting to feel “a sense of calm” for the first time since she lost her husband. “I think you get to a point where your body will just physically not let you cry anymore — or at least, all day,” Kelly told Hoda Kotb in an interview that aired on “Today” on Jan. 20. “Still, every second is horrible, but you start to come to terms with it a little bit. So I think I’m possibly getting there,” she said. “Or I’m just numb. I can’t tell what it is right now.” The food and travel blogger, 42, met Bob over Instagram before they started dating and eventually married in 2018. When Hoda mentioned Bob was known among friends as “an ‘I love you’” kind of a guy, Kelly smiled. “He put it all out there,” Kelly said, recalling how Bob would never shy away from telling those he cared about how he felt. “He told them that he loved them — he told them endlessly and tirelessly. That was his entire message.” It’s not surprising, then, that the couple’s last conversation was “just all love,” as Kelly put it. She said they’d spoken hours before he was supposed to have been on a plane headed home and she told him she couldn’t wait to see him. “He valued every single second that we had together, that’s why this is so heartbreaking,” she explained, her voice breaking. “But at the same time, I know that we maximized every second and there was nothing left unsaid.” Bob was laid to rest last week at a private ceremony attended by friends and family. He was 65. RELATED: Stars we lost in 2021

Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa ‘drifted apart,’ had different ‘priorities’ before split: Report Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet’s split came after the uber-pretty pair realized they’d “drifted apart and wanted different things” for their lives, a source recently told E! News. Coming out of a busy year of promoting “Dune,” “Justice League” and other projects, Jason, 42, is already in pre-production for at least one new film, according to imdb, with two more, including the “Aquaman” sequel, due out later this year. “Jason is very focused on his career and wants to work. He has found success and it’s driving him and is very fulfilling,” the insider explained. “Lisa wants to be in L.A. and is not interested in going on location for long periods of time with him.” While Jason’s said to be prioritizing his career, Lisa’s “priorities are different,” with health and wellness occupying a top slot for the 54-year-old star, according to E!’s source, who adds that Jason “was moving in a different direction and it did not fit together with her lifestyle.” The actors announced their separation on social media on Jan. 12 after 16 years as a couple. They share two kids — Lola, 14, and Nakoa-Wolf, 13 — and Jason reportedly remains close with Lisa’s daughter Zoe Kravitz, as well as Zoe’s dad, Lenny Kravitz. “[Zoe] loves them both but understands that it was time for them to move on,” the source says.

Kristen Stewart and fiancee Dylan Meyer hit Disneyland with Ashley Benson “Family trips to Disneyland!” That’s how Ashley Benson captioned an adorable Instagram Stories post from her trip to the “happiest place on Earth” this week with engaged pals, Kristen Stewart and screenwriter Dylan Meyer. One pic from the group trip showed Ashley, K. Stew, Dylan and their friends wearing matching Walt Disney Pictures sweatshirts as they smile for the photo in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle, per People, while another shows the crew at Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge section on Jan. 19. The “Pretty Little Liars” and “Spencer” stars have reportedly been pals for a few years, as evidenced by the comments Ashley occasionally leaves on social media when Kristen and Dylan show up together in photos. Kristen confirmed she and Dylan are engaged in November during an interview with Howard Stern. “I wanted to be proposed to, so I think I very distinctly carved out what I wanted and she nailed it,” Kristen said of the proposal. “It was really cute, she did very well. We’re marrying, it’s happening,” she added.

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari enjoy a date night after ruling on surveillance allegations Britney Spears took a breather from the ongoing drama with her family on Jan. 19 and stepped out for dinner in Los Angeles with her fiance, Sam Asghari. According to E! News, the couple enjoyed a private meal at Soho House in West Hollywood, where a source said she “looked very relieved and happy” to be seated after wearing dark shades on her way inside, seemingly hoping not to attract attention. “It seemed like she was very excited to be out and was smiling a lot,” said the insider who spotted them. “Britney looked really happy with Sam and he was making her laugh a lot.” At some point during their dinner, the couple posed for a photo on a couch. “The world is ours baby,” Sam wrote alongside the pic when he later shared it. Britney’s been feuding publicly with her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, over the release of Jamie Lynn’s new memoir, “Things I Should Have Said,” the subject of a cease-and-desist letter Britney’s lawyer reportedly sent. Despite Brit’s ongoing issues with her relatives, she continues to gain more independence since her 13-year-long conservatorship ended in November. This week, the judge overseeing her case ruled Britney does not have to set aside money to cover the legal fees her father, Jamie Spears, wants her estate to pay, since she now controls her own finances. The judge also ordered a “mini-trial” on allegations Jamie secretly surveilled his daughter’s communication for years, according to Deadline.

Chrissy Teigen celebrates six months of sobriety Chrissy Teigen has half a year of sobriety under her belt. The “Cravings” author celebrated her milestone on Instagram on Jan. 19, sharing her thoughts on what’s changed — and what hasn’t –since she stopped drinking. “6 months no alcohol! Honestly kind of sucks saying it because even though I don’t ever crave it now, time has not exactly flown by haha,” she wrote. “I prob won’t be excited til a larger milestone like at leasssst 5 years, and sometimes I don’t even know if I necessarily won’t ever drink again?” she continued. “I have no idea what I’m doing honestly, but I do know a few things: I now have endless energy, way less anxiety (no more benzos!) and I am happier and more present than ever. It’s pretty cool. I look forward to having my full body reset after 1 year, then reevaluating to see my new hopes and wishes for the future! Let’s goooo.” The post got lots of love and support from Chrissy’s friends, famous and otherwise, some of whom said they were in a similar place with their own sobriety. Others, like Octavia Spencer, simply chimed in with words of encouragement. “You hit a rough spot in the road and changed your tires. Now you’re enjoying the ride,” Octavia wrote. “That’s something to celebrate. ❤️.” Chrissy, 36, quit drinking in 2017, but later admitted it didn’t stick. She started again in December 2020, but has said she had “hiccups” prior to six months ago — around the same time she was coming to terms with the fallout from a cyberbullying scandal.

What Is the Cast of ‘Girls Next Door’ Doing Now? Are the Girls Still Friends?

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Reality TV show lovers were instantly intrigued by the flashy premise of The Girls Next Door. The hit show focused on the intriguing life of Hugh Hefner and his many beautiful, blonde girlfriends. It ran for six seasons starting in 2005, and although it was considered pretty controversial at the time, people are still curious to watch reruns for some insight about what really happened behind closed doors at the Playboy mansion.

Rejected by Centre for Republic Day Parade, Bengal & Tamil Nadu Showcase Their Tableaus

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West Bengal and Tamil Nadu are set to showcase their tableaux that were rejected by the central government for the Republic Day parade. While the Mamata Banerjee government showcased its Netaji tableau on Red Road, the MK Stalin government’s tableau featuring the contributions of freedom fighters from Tamil Nadu in the Indian Independence movement was showcased in Chennai.

CM Stalin had expressed disappointment over the exclusion of Tamil Nadu’s tableau from the Republic Day parade, and had even written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention.

Describing the tableau to PM Modi, Stalin had written, “The design had VOC, the famous freedom fighter who founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 during Indian Independence movement to compete against the British. The design also had Subramania Bharathi, popularly known as Maha Kavi Bharathiar, who kindled patriotism in the minds of the people with his fiery patriotic songs and writings during the Indian Independence movement.”

He also said that the rear of the tableau was designed to showcase a statue of Rani Velu Nachiyar riding a horse with a sword in hand and with women soldiers. “She was the first Indian queen to wage a war with the East India Company in India. She was the queen of Sivagangai region from 1780 to 1790 and blew up an ammunition storage of East India Company by arranging a suicide attack,” Stalin wrote.

On the other hand, the Bengal tableau on Netaji has been decked up with a statue and bust of Netaji which are both around seven feet tall. The bust will be at the rear part. It is one of the biggest tableaus and will be the prime attraction of the R-Day parade, an official was quoted by Times of India.

The tableau has been decked up with the words ‘Jayatu Netaji’ and with Netaji’s statue in its frontal part is around 52-feet long, around 11-feet wide and 16-feet high.

An expert committee comprising eminent persons from various disciplines of art shortlists the tableaux for the Republic Day parade on Delhi’s Rajpath. While there is a well-established system for the selection of the tableaux, the process becomes a flashpoint for the play of regional politics nearly every year.

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