Girls Next Door
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Random blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the early 2000's TV show The Girl's Next Door.
The Girls net door also known as The Girls of the Playboy Mansion was a reality TV series which aired on E! From August 7th to August 8th 2010. The series was created by Executive Producer Kevin Burns and Hugh Hefner (Playboy founder), and focused on the lives of Hef's three girlfriends Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkenson as they lived with Hef at the mansion. The series also showcased several events at the Mansion such as Fight Night, Fourth of July Celebration, Midsummer Celebration Etc. alongside the Girls living their lives, celebrating birthdays and more. The show lasted six seasons with the main three girlfriends leaving in S5, S6 showcased Hef's new girlfriends which however didn't save the show. The Girls next door was followed by four spin-offs Bridget's Sexiest Beaches, Holly's World, Kendra and Kendra on Top.
HOLLY MADISON
Born Holly Cullen in Astoria Oregon, on December 23rd 1979, Madison spent a good chunk of her childhood growing up in Craig, Alaska on Prince of Wales Island before her family returned to St. Helens Oregon. Madison went onto attend both Portland state University majoring in theatre and psychology, then onto attend Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. To afford college tuition, Madison competed to become a Hawaiian Tropic Model and worked at Hooters as a waitress. This led to invites to the Playboy Mansion and later a relationship with Hef and moving in.
In 2008 after a seven year relationship Madison and Hef separated, Madison moved to Vegas and ended up with her own show Holly's World which ran for 2 seasons from December 6th 2009 to April 3rd 2011. In 2011 Madison met and started dating Pasquale Rotella who she ended up marrying in 2013. They went onto have two children a daughter born in March 2013 and a son in August 2016. however by September of 2018 Madison and Rotella had separated amicably and are officially divorced as of February 2019. Madison went onto write two books. The first, a memoir was named Down the Rabbit Hole: curious adventures and cautionary tales of a former playboy bunny and was published in July 2015, The second book The Vegas Diaries: Romance, Rolling the Dice and the road to reinvention was released in May of 2016 which detailed her career and dating life in Las Vegas.
BRIDGET MARQUERT
Born Bridget Sandmeier on September 25th 1973 in Tillamook, Oregon. Marquardt grew up in Lodi California the eldest of three with a brother and younger half sister, having seen her parents divorce when she was in the fifth grade and her mother get remarried. Marquardt attended San Joaquin Delta College graduating with an associates degree, she attended California state uni, Sacramento graduating with a BA in Communications and university of the pacific in Stockton California earning a masters degree in communications.
Marquardt married her best friend in 1997 however the pair separated and Marquardt eventually made her way to the playboy mansion becoming one of Hef's girlfriends. Marquardt had always wanted to be a playmate and model for Playboy. Luckily for Marquardt she modelled in the magazine three times alongside her fellow girlfriends. Marquardt and her husband would eventually finalise divorce in 2007. In late 2008 Marquardt left playboy and Hef and starred in her own show Bridget's sexiest beaches which only ran for one season and later met and started dating Nicholas Carpenter, son of Astronaut Scott Carpenter and the pair are engadged as of 2015.
KENDRA WILKENSON
Born in San Diego California on June 12th 1985 to parents Patti and Eric Wilkenson the eldest of two having a younger brother named Colin. Wilkenson grew up without her father in most of her life due to her parents divorcing in 1994 when She was 8 years old. Wilkenson grew up with her grandparents in the picture in San Diego playing Softball for six years for the Claremont Bobby sox. After high school Wilkenson went into modelling, briefly working as a masseuse and a dental assistant.
Wilkenson met Hef in 2004 when she attended his 78th birthday party as a painted lady and by 2005 was living in the playboy mansion as his third girlfriend. Around the time of leaving Hef in 2009 Wilkenson met Hank Baskett and the two became involved, which was focused on in Kendra's spin off show Kendra. Wilkenson and Basket married in June 27th 2009 with Wilkenson giving birth to their first child a son in December 2009, Wilkenson ended up suffering post-partum depression for a while after the birth of her son but eventually beat it. Wilkenson would write her autobiography sliding into home in 2010.
After three seasons of Kendra with E!, Wilkenson and her family went onto release a new show Kendra on Top with WE TV in 2012, the show ended in 2017. Wilkenson would go onto appear on an episode of Wife Swap in 2013 with Kate Gosselin. Wilkenson would give birth to a second child a daughter in May of 2014 and later that year in November be a contestant on the 14th series of the British reality hit TV series I'm A CELEB.....GET ME OUT OF HERE coming in 6th overall. In April 2017 Wilkenson appeared on Marriage Boot camp: Family addition alongside her husband and her mother. Wilkenson would a year later divorce Baskett in April 2018, seeking a restoration of her maiden name in the process.
HUGH “HEF” HEFNER
Born on April 9th 1926 in Chicago to parents Glenn and Grace Hefner, Hef grew up the elder of two boys (Brother Keith Hefner 1929-2016). Hef grew up in a loving home and went onto create Playboy, a magazine he was a founder and editor in chief of, the publication is was mainly revealing photographs and thought provoking articles. The first publication was in 1953 featuring Marilyn Monroe...it sold over 50,000 copies. Hefner expanded the brand into a world network of Playboy clubs with Hef ending up residing in luxury mansions with Playboy “Playmates” sharing his wild lifestyle. Hef styled himself a an advocate of sexual liberation and freedom of expression and was a political activist for the democratic party as well as for the causes of the first amendment rights, animal rescue and the restoration of the Hollywood sign.
Over his lifetime Hef married three times Mildred Williams (1949-1959), Kimberly Conrad (1989-2010) and Crystal Harris (2012-2017)and had four children Christie (1952), David (1955), Marston(1990) and Cooper(1991) with his third wife Crystal Harris being at his side when he died on September 27th 2017 at the age of 91. he died due to sepsis caused by an E. Coli infection, Hef is interred at Westwood Memorial park in LA next to Marilyn Monroe. Hef supposedly paid $75,000 for the crypt in 1992 and told the Los Angeles Times in 2009 “spending eternity next to Marilyn is an opportunity to sweet to pass up”. Hef outlived his brother Keith by 17 months due to Keith passing away on April 8th 2016 one day before Hef's 90th birthday.
I was fifteen/sixteen when I first saw The Girls next door on TV and fell in love with it. The show was pretty much a doorway into a world I knew nothing about Playboy and modelling in general. I think it helped I felt a kinship to all three girls Holly, Bridget and Kendra in different ways. All three of them inspired me and I learned a lot watching the show. I liked Kendra the most but I think that was partially due to being closest to her in age more than anything. Looking back on the episodes I identify more with Bridget than Holly or Kendra, though I believe Kendra evolved the most in the past ten years or so. I highly recommend watching the show for some early 2000's nostalgia and give the show an 8/10.
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