Kendra Wilkinson had a baby shower at the home of Hugh Hefner’s secretary yesterday featuring a Candyland and ice cream and pickles theme. The E! reality star posed for a photo with her former Girls Next Door co-stars and fellow Hugh Hefner exes Bridget Marquardt and Holly Madison along with Hef’s current girls, twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon and coed Crystal Harris. I believe it’s the first time that all of Hef’s former and current girlfriends have been photographed together, although it’s not the first time they’ve all attended the same event.

Former roomies Bridget Marquardt and Holly Madison and Hugh Hefner and his current trio of gal-pals were among those who gathered at a shower Wednesday to celebrate the impending birth of Kendra’s first child with hubby Hank Baskett.

The over-the-moon duo are expecting a boy this Christmas.

Guests at the “pickles and ice cream/Candyland”-themed shower munched on treats that included cupcakes baked by BunnyBridget herself—with the help of her live-in boyfriend, Nick Carpenter.

“Just got done baking, frosting and decorating a ton of mini cupcakes for Kendra’s shower tomorrow…It’s been a busy day. I’m exhausted,” Marquardt wrote on Twitter yesterday.

Madison, meanwhile, twittered during the party that she was “wearing a sympathy pack made of balloons.”

The festivities took place at the home of longtime Playboy Mansion secretary Mary O’Conners, and Hef had twittered earlier today about squiring the new Girls Next Door,
Crystal Harris and twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, to the party.

“The girls are going to Kendra’s baby shower today,” he wrote. “Crystal, the Twins, Holly, Bridget & Kendra will all be there. How can I stay away?”

Madison, who’s staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel while in town, also twittered ahead of time that she’d be filming a baby-shower episode for the sixth season of The Girls Next Door, premiering Oct. 11 on E!

“Hope she likes the gift I brought!” wrote the Peepshow star.

[From E! Online]

Kendra isn’t even six months pregnant as she’s due on December 25th. Isn’t it customary to hold the shower much closer to the end of the pregnancy? According to Babycenter.com, it’s fine to hold the shower “any time after conception.” They don’t say anything about having to accommodate filming for a reality show, but schedules are mentioned so I think that covers it.

Looking at the picture from the shower on E! Online, it’s pretty clear that 83 year-old Hef’s last set of girlfriends is much classier than the ones he has now. At least all of the previous girlfriends knew not to wear belly-revealing clothes to a baby shower. I think you can see the twins’ underwear through their white sweatpants too.

Hugh Hefner’s three ex-girlfriends all showed up to help the aging men’s magazine magnate celebrate his 83rd birthday this weekend in Las Vegas. His former number one girlfriend, Holly Madison, confirmed that she hasn’t seen Hef since their split, and also added a little detail that made it seem like obligations to her reality show also motivated her appearance. Madison said that it was her “first time filming ‘Girls Next Door’ as a single lady,” so I guess we know why she showed up. Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt were also there with their boyfriends:

The American Country Music Awards certainly brought a lot of extra buzz to Las Vegas over the weekend, but what really had temperatures soaring was Hugh Hefner’s 83rd Birthday at the Palms Resort & Casino. The festivities kicked off Saturday afternoon with a Palms Place pool party, hosted by (wait for it) Hef’s former flame, Holly Madison.

“I haven’t seen him since I left the mansion,” Madison told Tarts before his arrival. “And it is my first time filming “Girls Next Door” as a single lady so that’s exciting.”

But Madison wasn’t the only ex girlfriend who came to celebrate the special day, surprisingly Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt also strutted in (with their new lovers) to help Hef and his three new leading ladies Crystal Harris, Karissa Shannon & Kristina Shannon spice up Sin City and the birthday boy couldn’t have been more beside himself.

“As you can tell I am very, very happy. To celebrate my birthday with new girlfriends and former girlfriends is perfect, its wonderful,” he said. “I’ve had a life well-lived with so much satisfaction, I enjoy just looking back.”

(Speaking of which, we couldn’t help but keep a close eye on how the new and the old bonded and while chances are they probably aren’t necessarily BFFs, things appeared to be very civil and no claws came out!)

However when we asked what Madison missed most about mansion life her response was a love affair of a different kind.

“The zoo, the mansion has a fantastic zoo with birds and monkeys — I used to work in the zoo a lot and was really close to the zoo staff,” she said. “I fancied myself as an amateur zoologist.”

[From FoxNews]

Holly was the third contestant voted off “Dancing with the Stars” this season on March 31 in a double elimination. She told Fox that she’s ruled out appearing nude again and that her next career move is a reality show she’s developing “about me and my friends here in Vegas.”

There are also some quotes from Kendra, who said she won’t do another nude spread unless her fiance shoots it for her. Bridget Marquardt provided some sexy entertainment by singing happy birthday to Hef Marilyn-style. Last year Pamela Anderson came in topless to serve Hefner his birthday cake.

Interesting that the article barely mentions the new trio of bland way too-young girlfriends, 19 year-old toker twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, and 22 year-old San Diego State coed Crystal Harris. People don’t know them yet so there’s not much interest in them, but they’re also incredibly boring compared to Hef’s last three girlfriends. In an E! interview I saw of them all in January, Crystal seemed kind of dumb while the twins just sat there giggling idiotically. No wonder the reality show will continue to feature Holly, Bridget and Kendra. There’s only so much mileage they can get out of the “creepy old dude with barely legal girlfriends” angle.

Hugh, Bridget and Kendra are shown at a party for Bridget’s show “Bridget’s sexiest beaches” on 3/11/09. Credit: Mavrixonline. He is shown with his current girlfriends on 3/21/09. Credit: WENN.com. The exes are also shown in September, 2008, Credit: PRPhotos

Bridget Marquardt, 35, is the last member of the Girls Next Door trio to move out of the Playboy mansion and is also the last to go public with a new boyfriend. She told US Magazine that she’s had a new boyfriend since October, a 29 year-old director named Nick Carpenter:

Bridget Marquardt… tells US that, since October, she’s been seeing Nick Carpenter, 29, who directed her in the upcoming thriller The Telling. “I really haven’t dated in so long,” she says of her guy (who dated Marisa Tomei.) “I feel like I’m in high school again.” And while the duo have met each other’s families (including his mom, a former Playboy bunny!), she says the most important blessing came from Hefner, who invited the pair to celebrate New Year’s Eve at the mansion. “Hef called me and said, ‘You’re always welcome here; he is too as long as you want him here.’”

[From US Magazine, print edition, February 19, 2009]

US has a close up photo of Bridget and Nick in which dark-haried Nick is shown making a serious face. He looks surprisingly similar to Holly’s boyfriend, Criss Angel, including the douchy look on his face, but maybe the one photo they have doesn’t do the guy justice. I found other photos of the guy on a MySpace fansite and he bears a resemblance to Colin Farrel and looks positively gorgeous in some shots.

The news about Bridget and Nick first broke in September of last year, and good for Bridget for keeping it under wraps until she felt secure in the relationship. I hope the guy treats her well. She’s a friendly, enthusiastic person and I had a lot of fun watching her get all excited about planning parties and outings on The Girls Next Door. The show just won’t be the same without her and hopefully she’ll go on to better things.

Bridget Marquardt is shown on 2/9/09 at Russell Simmon’s Grammy party, credit: WENN. Photos of Nick Carpenter from MySpace.

Kendra Wilkinson is dishing on life at the Playboy mansion in the latest issue of US Weekly. It sounds like Kendra is saying that she didn’t have sex with Hef, but was expected to stay faithful to him and found the restrictions too hard to deal with long term. She’s now engaged to football player Hank Bassett and was sneaking out to see him while she live under Hef’s paternal thumb:

Kendra Wilkinson has opened up to Us Weekly about her relationship with Hugh Hefner … and how she cheated!!

“I had to have sex every now and then, so I had to kind of sneak it,” she said, noting that Bridget and Kendra stayed faithful to Hef. “I was like ‘How the hell can you do that?’ I had to have [sex] so I could feel my age, like a healthy human being.”

She also says she didn’t spend a lot of time with Hef. “Besides the nights we went out, I only saw Hef, like, once a day walking through the halls to his office — there were never solo dates … The most we kind of say to each other is, ‘I love you,’ ‘Love you too,’ ‘I hope you have a good day,’ ‘Did you have a good day?’”

Kendra also bitched about Hef’s notoriously controlling ways, saying it was “way more strict than my life has ever been” and that it drove her “insane” that staff members would keep track of the girlfriends whenever they left the Mansion. In fact, staff would note the times they left and returned to the mansion in a book, and Hef would review it each morning. And they weren’t allowed to spend the holidays away from the Mansion. And the paycheck? An allowance of $1,000 a week. I kind of have trouble believing that. Shit, their hair extensions alone had to be like $3K a month in maintenance. And the wardrobes?! Those girls were definitely spending more than a grand a month.

Kendra said, “I hate putting my hand out, but we couldn’t have jobs other than getting appearance fees. Hef was kind of like my best friend, but a sugar daddy at the same time … Hef made me feel beautiful. Now I’m totally against [Hefner's] way of life, with three girlfriends and all of that.”

[Quotes from US Weekly, presumed to be print version, January 26, 2008, via Evil Beet]

It’s widely assumed that Holly was the only one of the three who regularly had sex with Hef, and that’s probably true because Bridget has said that she was celibate for months. I wonder what kind of creepy deal Hef’s new girlfriends, the 19 year-old twins and their college student doppleganger, made in order to get a roof over their heads, free food, and the infamy that goes along with being linked to a dude old enough to be their great grandfather.

I really enjoy “The Girls Next Door” and part of the appeal of the show is the pure excitement all of the women have for the great things they get to do. They all seem genuinely thrilled at the fun experiences they have and it offers a lot of vicarious fun. I doubt that the show will have half the appeal with a new, younger cast of barely-legal women that are likely used to getting their way and take more for granted. Hefner had a great cast of women and although his latest co-eds are some compensation, it’s probably like switching from eating at The Olive Garden to McDonalds. One at least has the surface level semblance of class.

Holly, Kendra and Bridget are shown on 12/20/08 at their book launch. Credit: PRPhotos

Hugh Hefner and Holly Madison of officially broke up in October, but things were rocky for quite some time. Holly shares that, as we all suspected, reality television break ups are timed for maximum media impact. Which is just the way we like ‘em. Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt are featured in a special edition of Playboy, to say farewell to the former girlfriends.

“I directed and produced the shoot,” Madison told Las Vegas Weekly of her own Girls Next Door cover shoot. “I’m really proud of that… I’m just excited to have shot and produced the shoot myself.”

Madison, who is now dating illusionist Criss Angel, said the photos were taken before she split from Hugh Hefner.

“We actually shot it in July,” she said of her photo session. “It was back before I got conservative.”

Us Weekly

Bridget Marquardt is also a little pissed at Hef too, for his bad manners. Not about these nude photographs, although selling your ex-girlfriends nude photos would be considered at least bad taste in most situations, but rather replacing the pictures of her around the mansion while she was still living there.

The 35-year-old beauty – who, along with Hugh’s ex-girlfriends Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson, recently moved out of the lavish house after splitting from the magazine mogul – claims Hefner, 82, cleared images of her away and put up ones of his new lovers, twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, with frightening speed.

When asked if she was finding the break-up hard to deal with, the Girls Next Door star replied: “The only thing I have remotely hard feelings about is that we weren’t even gone yet and all the pictures throughout the house were changed to the new girlfriends, and I thought, ‘That’s kind of rude’.

“But Hef is so supportive of the show and of me dating, we are closer than ever.”

Despite hinting that she is ready to embark on a new relationship, Marquardt insisted she is still single and is just looking for fun.

She added to Life and Style magazine: “I would say I’m single. I like some people, but I’m fresh out of the Mansion, and we haven’t been allowed to date this whole time, or not legally anyway. I’m not home much, and there are some people I think are cute and nice – no one famous or anything.

Sydney Morning Herald

I think one little phrase sums up this whole thing, “we haven’t been allowed to date this whole time, or not legally anyway.” Obviously the whole relationship with Hugh Hefner, and the career opportunities that spring from it, is a contract. All of the girls have at some point spoken about life with Hugh, and it wasn’t always flattering.

A few years ago law graduate Izabella St James wrote a book, Bunny Tales, about her time as Hef’s girlfriend. She wrote about catfights between the girlfriends, Hugh Hefner’s strict rules around the house, and that yes, they did have orgies once a week. Hef has Viagra on tap, and doesn’t do much except lie there. The girls aren’t forced to participate, but they are expected to go watch. Don’t pretend you weren’t curious.

Hugh Hefner, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson are shown at the Reality Awards on 9/24/08. Credit: WENN

US Weekly has a new interview between former Girls Next Door Bridget Marquardt, 35, and Kendra Wilkinson, 23. It’s very long and chatty and if you have some time to kill and enjoy pointless girl talk it’s a fun read. Kendra and Bridget talk at extensive length about their favorite junk food and the way they use portion control without depriving themselves of treats. They also discuss their workout methods. Bridget loves doing trapese work while Kendra does drill-type exercises with her fiance, Philadelphia Eagles football player Hank Baskett.

On using portion control instead of counting calories
BM: Do you count calories?

KW: I don’t even know what a calorie is. I don’t give a f–k what calories are. I don’t go by calories. I go just by portions, and we’re both very active so we really don’t need to worry about that. And me and you, we’re the same. We want to live our lives. We have one life to live. Why not live it and eat what you want? But be smart about what you it. It’s all common sense. I don’t think you need to be on any special diet.

BM: It has to be something you can maintain for the rest of your life.

KW: Exactly.

BM: Otherwise, it sets you up to fail.

KW: It does, they do. They really do. I really don’t believe in diets. You stress yourself out. You’ll have extra stress on you. “Oh my god, pizza! But I can’t eat it!”

BM: You can eat anything you want but in moderation. Diet is a bad word. You can’t keep that up the rest of your life. And you’re always going to set yourself up for failure.

KW: Yeah, the word “diet” is stupid and it sucks and I don’t believe in it.

BM: And I definitely don’t count calories either. Sometimes, I’ll look just in case something that I thought might be good for you. for instance, those granola bars. Sometimes I’ll look to see how many calories they have, and some might surprise me and it’s, like, 3000 calories in that or something. I’d be like, “Whoa! I won’t eat those as much.” If it only has 100 calories, then I know I’m okay eating a few of these.

On the moment Kendra decided to get fit after a mild diss by Hefner
BM: When did you start to worry about your diet? Like, “Oh I need to start eating healthier?”

KW: You know when!

BM: I do know when. Do you want me to tell it? I won’t say it that bad, I’ll just give the rundown. We’re on our way to a wedding [about four years ago] with Hef in the limo. Holly was in the wedding. At first, you were like, “Oh I need to start working out. I’m getting kind of fat.” And Hef said, “Yeah, there’s a gym downstairs.”

KW: Yeah, Hef, out of all people, said that to me.

BM: Yeah, “There’s a gym downstairs, and you have to be careful with out kitchen.”

KW: And I’m like, [imitates wailing]. I was crying so bad!

BM: I would’ve too. That was so mean.

KW: I was, like, crying.

BM: And then you got super skinny and super toned. And you became like, fitness girl!

Kendra’s workout tips
BM: What are your secret diet and workout tips when you need to lose a few pounds? For like a photo shoot or something?

KW: I do a 22-minute drill on the treadmill. It’s fast, but it does the trick. I do it at a 15 percent incline. I do it all the way up. It just hits that spot. And just taking a big bar, or big weight, and doing a couple squats and just doing regular sit-ups and I’m done. Did you say just before a photo shoot? For me, I think drinking a lot of water the day before and if I have a little time to do it, maybe a lot of protein and not so many carbs. Like I’m trying. If this photo shoot means so much to me and I really have to try hard, that’s what I’ll do. What’s your normal workout?

BM: When I’m home, it’s trapeze, of course. Or I like going on hikes.

KW: And you have your own trapeze bars and stuff?

BM: Yeah, trapeze bars at the mansion. But while I’m on the road with the Travel Channel, it’s harder though so I try to keep it active. We’re doing all kinds of things from climbing things.

Toward the end of the interview just when you’ve had enough diet and fitness talk, Bridget asks Kendra if she’s still planning on getting married at the Playboy mansion. Kendra says yes, but then admits that she’s looking at other places with her fiance, Hank, and it sounds like the mansion is just one potential venue:

BM: Kendra, tell me about your wedding. What’s going on?

KW: I’m waiting for Hank to come down here when he’s done with his football and help me plan the wedding.

BM: It’s going to still be at the mansion, right?

KW: Yeah, we’re going to do our thing and walk it. We’re going to choose together, you know? We might do something in San Diego. We’re still thinking about it. He’s never really been to L.A. so he’s going to be with me and we’re going to walk the grounds. We’re going to walk to places and choose together where we’re going to get married. Do everything together. I’m bringing him to the mansion.

Bridget also discusses her future plans. She’s still living in the mansion and has a friendly relationship with Hef, but says it’s time for her to move on and that the “vibe is different” there with all the new young girls. Both Kendra and Bridget want to have children and joke about how they’ll continue to remain friends at that stage of their lives:

KW: I know, they’re so good! So are you still happy with Hef? Do you want kids someday? Those two are in the wrong.

BM: I’m still happy at the mansion, but I am moving on. I mean you and Holly are gone. There are all new girls and the vibe is definitely different. My career with the Travel Channel is definitely where I want to focus and so I feel like it’s time to move on. I’ve definitely started packing. My relationship with Hef is still really good and we talk all the time. We’re very open about it, but I feel like it’s time for me to start dating and to move on. And I definitely want kids some day so I feel like now is a good time to make the transition. Focus on the Travel Channel.

KW: We should all have kids at the same time.

BM: We could have a baby shower together!

KW: We’ll name our show The Kids Next Door.

BM: I like it.

[From US Weekly]

Kendra and Bridget have great personalities and you wonder if the new super young catty twins and their doppelganger are going to be able to carry the “Girls Next Door” reality show if it continues. We’re sure to see more of Kendra, Bridget and Holly in their separate endeavors as they all have fans who are interested to see what happens to them.

Kendra and Bridget are shown on 12/20/08. Credit: WENN

Girls Next Door’s Holly Madison was chatting with one of TMZ’s videographers about the annual Halloween party at the Playboy Mansion. She said she was going to dress as Elvis and the guy running the camera dropped the hint that he wanted to get an invite to the party. Holly let it slip that she can’t change the guest list because she’s not with Hef at this point. She said “I have no pull anymore. Hef and I aren’t together, I can’t invite people.”

There will be another season of Girls Next Door, according to Holly. She said “The three of us, we’re still filming stuff together.”

This ends weeks of speculation that there was trouble brewing between Holly and aging Playboy head Hefner. She was Hef’s favorite of his three girlfriends and was long considered the most loyal. There were stories that she was having a fling with magician Criss Angel after the two were spotted getting cozy in Las Vegas, but not much seemed to have come of that. Either way, we’ve heard it straight from her now that she’s not with Hef.

There have been all sorts of stories about what’s going on with 82 year-old Hef and his triangle of much younger blonds. WWTDD reported that Hef was ending his relationships with secondary “girlfriends” Bridget Marquardt, 35, and Kendra Wilkinson, 23. Wilkinson is said to be engaged to Philadelphia Eagles football player Hank Baskett, and Marquardt supposedly has not had sex in three years although she is actively dating someone else.

Hef’s relationship with Holly, 28, was thought to be the only “real” one for him. There were rumors last week that they were having trouble due to Holly’s inability to get pregnant. Holly has spoken to the press about wanting to have a baby with Hef and to get married. The aging patriarch of Playboy recently admitted that the relationships with his arm candy women were “in transition.” It looks now like he was talking about Holly, and not just Bridget and Kendra. I wonder if Holly meant to let it slip that she’s no longer with Hef, because it seems like she’s got to keep some things quiet for the sake of the show.

The sixth season of The Girls Next Door is in the works, and there are rumors of spin-off shows for some of the women.

Header is of Hefner and the women at the premiere of The House Bunny on 8/20/08. Here are some photos of Kendra and Holly out at Foxtail in West Hollywood with Hugh nearby. Kendra is attempting to kiss a woman she referred to as “my friend from Costa Rica.” Credit: Bauergriffinonline.com

The times they are a changing at the Playboy mansion. All the kids have to leave the nest eventually, and while Hef’s blondes aren’t exactly kids, they’re sure young enough to be his children. According to website What Would Tyler Durden Do, some major shiz has gone down at the mansion, and some big changes are ahead. Hef is breaking up with both Kendra and Bridgett. He’s staying with Holly, but the phrase “for now” makes you wonder. And the show will end after the sixth season.

- The sixth season will be the last for Girls Next Door. Hef has made the decision to end the show and his relationship with Kendra and Bridgett. He and Holly are still together, for now. Season 5 will be the last with the three original girlfriends. Season 6 will focus on finding replacements, maybe two, maybe three.
– The search is already underway. Two new girls, one 19 and one 22, were at the Playboy mansion this past weekend as possible replacements. They are not current Playboy or professional models, both have regular jobs.
– Miss October 2008 Kelly Carrington may be on the short list to become one of the new girlfriends.
– Dasha is not on the list to replace Kendra or anyone else. That story was put out by her people. There is no validity to it.
– Kendra is absolutely engaged to Hank Baskett. She has to deny it publicly for the sake of the show but in reality Hef knows and is fine with it.
– Bridgett really has not had sex in three years. She is dating someone but they have not slept together. It’s not clear why, maybe a lingering sense of loyalty to Hef. He would not care if she did. Hef adores Bridgett and wants the best for her, including a happy relationship, as long as its kept quiet for a few more months.
– Hef is with Holly, Holly is with Hef. For now. They have made no decision about their future. He can’t marry her but they have tried to have kids, so far unsuccessfully. She is not sleeping with Criss Angel. She does like spending time with Criss, but she also like spending time with Dave LaChapelle and other flamboyant gay guys. Feel free to reread that last sentence and draw your own conclusions.

[From What Would Tyler Durden Do]

Wow. Three years? Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend hasn’t had sex in three years. That was jaw dropping info to me. I’m sorry, but if I looked like Bridgett I’d be sleeping with every hot guy I could. Every moral I think I have would quickly be revealed to be a load of garbage based solely on my self esteem issues. I would be an absolute skank. Hef should dump her – for being so dumb.

And I hate to say it, but he should dump Holly for being dumb too. Anyone that voluntarily spends time with Criss Angel should be committed. They actually bring the guy in to play prison events as a form of inmate punishment. When prisoners are given the option of x hours in solitary or x hours watching Criss Angel do his act, 9 out of 10 choose the former.

I do not even want to imagine what the audition process must be like for this show. I mean you’re auditioning for a show and to be an old horny guy’s girlfriend. And yet it seems there are plenty of women who are more than interested in the job. So to speak.

Here’s Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson at the Reality Awards in Los Angeles yesterday. Photographer: Fayes Vision. Images thanks to WENN.

I’m starting to feel seriously sorry for Hugh Hefner. He’s got all these women coming in and out of his life… it’s a revolving door of deep emotions and attachments. It’s got to hurt the poor guy that women are always leaving him. Certainly no one stays forever, but can’t women want Hef for anything more than sex? It’s like once the use him and just move on. Poor guy.

Even Hefner has acknowledged that the relationships in the Playboy mansion are changing. Rumors have been floating around for months that Kendra and Holly haven’t been getting along. And there have been quiet whisperings for even longer that Kendra is actually a lesbian.

It seems that particular piece of gossip has been blown apart, since it’s pretty clear Kendra is actually dating Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett. And while Holly seems to have held in there pretty well, Hef said he realizes the girls are likely to move on to new boyfriends soon, and they won’t hide it on the show.

Rumors of Hugh Hefner and his girls calling it quits have been greatly exaggerated. The Playboy captain just told me that he is very much still dating Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt.

“The reality is the girls and I are all together,” Hefner said. He quickly shot down reports that Madison has been seeing Mindfreak illusionist Criss Angel.

“Holly shares my bed on a nightly basis,” Hef said. And Hef had a lot more to say… Hefner does acknowledge that the relationships are “in transition.”

“Are there going to be changes in the relationships, I’m sure there are going to be,” Hefner said. “I think that in the future, the girls are going to, in time, be dating others and moving out of the mansion, and when that happens we will not be keeping it a secret,” Hefner said.

He says he’s not surprised by the constant gossip and false rumors because the girls have become celebrities in their own right because of the success of E!’s The Girls Next Door.

[From E! News]

Holly has certainly seemed exceptionally devoted to Hef. While I find the idea a little gross, it must be even more disgusting to be with Criss Angel.

I appreciate that Hef was honest. See, you don’t have to do the PR bullshit and give constant “no comments” and “we remain the best of friends.” There’s ways to say things honestly and still not be catty about it. Hef just acknowledged that there was truth to some or the rumors and others were bull. And he even specified which ones. All in all, I appreciate his candor. Which is not something I normally think when Hef speaks.

It’ll be interesting to see which girl leaves first, who she hooks up with, and if that’ll be a part of the show. And I’m sadly embarrassed to admit that I’m curious about who could take her place. Something tells me Bridget could stay around for a long time, or until she gets saggy. You don’t hear much gossip about her, she does a good job of managing to just stand there and look pretty.

Here’s Hef and the girls launching his menswear collection at Bloomingdales last October. Images thanks to Fame.

Every few months we hear rumors of a marriage planned for Hugh Hefner and his main girlfriend of seven years Holly Madison. OK! Magazine reports that Hugh will be getting married as part of the fifth series of Girls Next Door.

According to Hef’s second girlfriend Bridget Marquart, 34, next season of The Girls Next Door features a “huge wedding.” So of course we have to ask, could Hugh Hefner, 82, finally be tying the knot with main girlfriend Holly Madison, 28?

Bridget was reportedly overheard dishing about the show, hinting that she and fellow girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson, 23, will be moving out of the Playboy Mansion once season five wraps.

“She said they will be moving on since Holly is Hef’s main girlfriend,” a source tells OK!. Holly is also getting more involved with the magazine. “Holly is taking a bigger role in the company, directing pictorials,” the source added.

OK!

At 82, I think Hugh’s Playboy image is getting a little hard to, ahem, maintain. I can’t imagine why a hot young girl would actually want to bed a guy that old – it can’t just be his personality and charm, okay?

OK! Magazine misses one minor issue though: Hef’s still married to his previous wife 1989 Playmate of the Year Kimberly Conrad. They separated in 1999 but never formally divorced.

Kendra Wilkinson is said to be moving on to her own reality series, and I can’t see 34-year-old Bridget Marquardt staying much longer. Hef needs a nursemaid for his declining years, or companionship, or someone to maintain his image. Having only one girlfriend at 82 Tseems about right for even the creator of Playboy.

Besides, I’m pretty sure that Hef is going to get married in name only, for the series.

Hugh Hefner and Holly Madison are shown at the Playboy Jazz Festival on 6/14/08. Credit: WENN