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Kendra Wilkinson on Today Show

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Before settling down as a wife and mom, Kendra Wilkinson admits there were moments in her past that she’s not exactly proud of – but they never defined who she was.

“I kind of lost myself for a little bit,” the reality star, 25, said on Tuesday’s Today show, while discussing her new book Sliding into Home and how she once experimented with drugs as a teen and also became a stripper.

“I wasn’t a druggie stripper. I was a very good person doing it. [But] I was kind of still embarrassed about it,” she clarifies.

“I always knew that it was wrong. [But] the drugs and everything, that’s what found me and accepted me,” she says, explaining that her behavior came from a painful place when she had to cope with her father leaving the family.

After trying drugs, Wilkinson realized she was “that tomboy, I’m that kid that loves sports. That wasn’t me.”

Deciding to get back her life wasn’t a swift decision. “It took a while,” she admits. “A good couple of weeks to think about, okay, the time is coming. I don’t know when yet. [But] this isn’t me.”

A few years later – and her Playboy Mansion days and sex tape scandal behind her – Wilkinson now says she finally feels “safe.”

“I’ve been through a lot. I’ve gotten through it,” she says. “I’m home, where I’ve always wanted to be.”

Holly Madison adds author to her list

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Holly Madison’s world is about to get even bigger! Not only is the Girls Next Door star launching her own spin-off show, Holly’s World, on June 13 on E!, she reveals to Life & Style that she’s hard at work on her first book. “I’m writing a book about Las Vegas,” she tells Life & Style. For research, she took a wild road trip from LA to Sin City, with stops at “freaky roadside attractions,” she says, and a haunted hotel in Death Valley. That certainly sounds like a world away from the Playboy Mansion!

Holly Madison Ready to Get Hitched?

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Peepshow and all her Las Vegas acts aren’t the only things occupying Holly Madison’s mind, because her friends say she’s got babies on the brain. The former Girls Next Door member isn’t married, nor can she even say she’s in a relationship with Benji Madden. However, pals of the model know that she wants to settle down too.

Holly Madison’s Girls Next Door co-star Kendra Wilkinson is busy with mommy duties and Bridget Marquardt is picking out an engagement ring. What about her, will she start her own family as well?

Angel Porrino, the assistant of Holly Madison, revealed to E! Online that the reality TV star has shown potential in nursing children. When she brings in her son Roman to work, the Girls Next Door actress never fails to act so motherly.

“She definitely wants to get married and have babies in the near future,” Porrino admitted. “I know she really really wants it. She looks at Roman and bonds with him and I know she’d be a great mom and a great wife. She’s ready to settle down.”

The problem, however, is the man. While she’s seeing musician Benji Madden of Good Charlotte, things still haven’t gone on to he next level.

“Do they like each other? Absolutely!” said Holly’s Peepshow co-star Josh Strickland. “They are so cute and cool together and he couldn’t be cooler and a sweeter guy. But they don’t live in the same city and he was doing his album and now he’s on tour so it does complicate things. I guess the attitude is we’ll see what happens.”

We’ll certainly see a lot of that on Holly’s World, which will premiere on June 13. There’s a lot more in store for Holly Madison, who seems to be doing really well after her life with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Though she didn’t find herself building a family with him, there’s still time.

“She just turned 30 and I think that clock is ticking for her,” Strickland added. “She definitely wants to have kids and settle down and find that right person.”

The audience being packed during her Peepshow performances proves that guys still line up for Holly Madison. But another friend added that she only likes a certain type.

“She’s super busy and she can’t have somebody up her ass 24/7,” Holly’s pal Laura Croft declared. “If she dates somebody, they’ve got to be successful and have their own life.”

Kendra Wilkinson trying for baby #2 to save marriage

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Kendra Wilkinson has been laying pretty low since the news of her sex tape broke.

Now, after exclusively publishing the proposed cover art for the Vivid video on Tuesday, Pop Tarts has obtained the first photos of the former Playboy pinup with her family since the revelation in an exclusive first look from this week’s Life & Style magazine.

Wilkinson and her NFL star husband Hank Baskett escaped Los Angeles to spend some in Palm Springs, Calif. with their son Hank IV last week, putting on a brave face amid rumors that the marriage is falling apart as a result of Wilkinson’s alleged tape, and reports that she even tried shopping it around herself 18 months ago.

An insider told the magazine that the couple, who welcomed their first child in December last year, is already trying for baby number two in an attempt to salvage their relationship.

“They’ve been trying for a second child for a while. And Kendra hopes it will happen sooner rather than later,” a source said. “Kendra knows she upset Hank over all this sex-tape stuff, and she wants it all to go away… Focusing on another baby would help. Plus, it would make for more great TV for the show ['Kendra'].”

And when it comes to keeping her husband, it seems Wilkinson’s plan is working.

“There was some tension, but they managed to get over their problems and focus on the baby,” the insider told Life & Style. “At the end of the day, Kendra’s main concern is keeping her family intact, and a new child could only help.”

Speaking of Hugh Hefner’s former flames, the mens magazine mogul’s other ex-girlfriend, Bridget Marquardt, is busy expanding her “brand” and we’ve learned that she set to collaborate with celebrity jeweler Pascal Mouawad with her very own watch line.

“I always have ideas for cute products. I constantly dream up the cutest pair of shoes, costumes or bikinis that I wish existed. Sometimes I have the means to get my ideas custom made for myself but I have rarely had the opportunity to develop something for the public,” Marquardt told Pop Tarts.

And just incase you thought this “Girl Next Door” was the epitome of a girly girl, think again.

“Don’t get me wrong, I am very girly but I have another side as well. I’m very adventurous. I love roller coasters, waterslides, trapeze and exploring haunted locations,” Marquardt added. “I love to go hiking, camping, rafting, etc. I’ve been sky diving, parasailing, rock climbing, cliff jumping, scuba diving, swimming with sharks and flying in aerobatic planes (just to name a few). I’m not a tomboy by any means, but I am an adventure and experience seeker. I just might do it differently than everyone else…like with a pink rhinestone helmet and pig tails!”

— foxnews.com

Bridget Marquardt talks about engagement ring

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Bridget Marquardt may have it all in the looks and money departments, but it looks like the former Girls Next Door star is still working on one thing – an engagement ring!

The Playboy playmate and ex-girlfriend of Hugh Hefner recently admitted to E! Online that she’s been nudging her live-in-honey, Nick Carpenter, to put a ring on it.

“We are looking into that,” she told the news source.

Marquardt and Carpenter have been dating since late 2008 and cohabitating for less than a year. Carpenter is an aspiring director who helmed the horror flick, The Telling, which starred his lady love and another playmate pal, Holly Madison.

Even after casting Marquardt in his movie, it seems like the girl is pretty demanding when it comes to her future bling.

“I see a lot of ugly rings on people and I think, ew, I wouldn’t want that,” she told the news outlet. “Some of them are so gaudy with so many different diamonds on them. I’d want something very clean.”

Kendra fighting release of sex tape by Vivid Entertainment

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Kendra Wilkinson’s picture perfect life as a happy wife and new mom may soon be crashing down.

According to RadarOnline.com, the former Playboy Playmate has been desperately trying to stop the release of a scandalous sex tape that has surfaced from her wild past.

Wilkinson’s lawyer, Yael E. Holtkamp has reportedly demanded for porn company Vivid Entertainment to “cease and desist” with the release of the video.

“The video is private and highly confidential taken for private use and not for public disclosure,” the letter reads. “Any exploitation of the video would be a gross violation of Miss Wilkinson’s constitutional and common law rights of privacy.”

Now happily married to NFL star Hank Baskett, Wilkinson reportedly knew about the tape she made with an unidentified man, however believed it would never be released.

Wilkinson, 24, has admitted to having a sordid past that includes drugs, self-mutilation and a stint in a mental hospital.

During her “E! True Hollywood Story,” she revealed that a near-death experience from a cocaine overdose during her teen years made her realize she needed to get her life together.

Despite her legal attempts to keep her past hidden, the CEO of Vivid, Steve Hirsch, doesn’t seem to be backing-down in the fight.

“After reviewing our legal position we remain confident of our right to distribute the video,” he said. “Thus Vivid.Com plans to release ‘Kendra Exposed’ within the next several weeks.”

As Wilkinson awaits the dreaded outcome, her rep, “During this difficult time, Kendra and her family would greatly appreciate the respect of their privacy.”

Bridget Marquardt, undead bride?

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Most people don’t buy wedding dresses and then run them over with their cars, at least not before the divorce papers go through. But most people aren’t Girls Next Door alum Bridget Marquardt, and most people aren’t prepping to host a Halloween party in the middle of April.

This Saturday, Eve Nightclub at CityCenter is fast-forwarding to October for a Halfway to Halloween bash and costume contest hosted by Miss Marquardt and her boyfriend, Nicholas Carpenter. The pair will be going as a dead bride and groom, complete with wedding cake, dead bouquet toss and a blood spattered puffy white wedding dress that they picked up at a shop in Downtown LA.

When the shop offered to order Marquardt the dress in her exact size, the petite blonde declined. “I was like, ‘Oh, we’re not really getting married,’” she laughs, admitting that picking out a wedding dress — even one that she planned to destroy — next to her boyfriend was a bit “surreal.”

Going to a Halloween party in 80-degree weather, however, won’t be. Marquardt is a costume party junkie from way back who once used her father’s socks to create cleavage worthy of Marilyn Monroe. These days, she’s got her own boobs and plenty of custom-made costumes that show them off — like the sexy vampire bat number she designed for her appearance as Grand Marshall of last year’s Fantasy Fest in Key West. “I want to do my own line of Halloween costumes,” adds Marquardt.

While the Halfway to Halloween party won’t make it onto Marquardt and Carpenter’s upcoming reality show (not on E!), which begins filming in three weeks, that doesn’t mean you won’t see her undead formalwear sometime in the future. “I keep every little thing. To me it’s like scrapbooks,” says Marquardt, who compares herself to the people in the TV show Hoarders. “That’s what my wardrobe room looks like. It’s all costumes and props. It’s ridiculous.”

Of course, if we had her costumes we might keep them around, too. After all, you never know when you’re going to need a bloodstained wedding gown for a More than Halfway to Halloween party in, say, July.

Halfway to Halloween with Bridget Marquardt
Eve Nightclub at Crystals
April 24, 10 p.m.

Kendra Wilkinson Praises Britney

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Kendra Wilkinson is impressed with Britney Spears for releasing untouched photographs.

The former Playboy model has applauded the ‘Womanizer’ star for allowing her flaws to be scrutinized by the public after releasing pictures from a recent Candies advert in order to highlight the pressure there is on women to look perfect.

The reality TV star wrote on her Twitter page: “I might do that too hahahahaha..scary!!! (sic)

“On my show, i show the untouched all the time..i love bein real n showin my flaws. (sic)”

Britney unveiled the before-and-after pictures, in which she wore a pink swimming costume and high heels, even though there were a number of noticeable differences between them.

In the airbrushed images her waist and legs were slimmed down and her bottom was shrunk in order to sell the product for the fashion firm.

Kendra – who gave birth to her first son, Hank Randell Baskett IV, four months ago – has previously spoken about how, unlike Britney, she is body conscious and no longer comfortable with her figure.

Speaking about watching her American footballer husband Hank Baskett play football, she said: “Even though I was excited that Hank’s team won the game and that they were in the playoffs, I was still depressed. I know it doesn’t make any sense, but I was feeling unattractive and my friends being there just made it worse… because they are so hot. I was just feeling really emotional. I felt jealous. I felt insecure. I felt sad.”

— contactmusic.com

Holly taking it all off for Playboy again?

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Holly Madison fans rejoice—especially those of the horndog variety!

The blond bombshell tells us she will pose for Playboy again.

“Maybe not right away because I was just on the cover last year,” Madison says. “Maybe get a little bit of time in between, but I also don’t want to be one of those superold ladies who needs a ton of Photoshop either.”

In fact, she has quite the opinion about women of a certain age stripping down for the nudie mag…

“Here’s my pet peeve,” Madison says. “It’s when people pose for Playboy and they’re like, ‘Blah, blah, blah. I just wanted to show that fortysomething-year-olds could be beautiful,’ but then it’s like all Photoshopped anyway…Sometimes the pictures don’t even look like photographs. It looks like it came from the same people who brought you Shrek.”

Madison’s not naming names, but she says celebrities are usually the ones getting cleaned up in the pics. “Playmates don’t need retouching because they’re picked for what they look like,” she explains. “But a celebrity pictorial will come out and you’re like, ‘That just walked out of a video game because it doesn’t even look like a photo.’ ”

Madison knows what it takes to maintain her Playmate body. “I’m lucky [Peepshow] keeps me in pretty good shape, but I do love junk food,” she admits. “I eat half junky and half healthy…I love french fries and also cake, but my favorite is chicken fingers. I love late-night chicken fingers with barbeque and ranch dressing mixed together.”

Meanwhile, Madison recently spent some time with ol’ Girls Next Door pal Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett. She’s still the same Kendra, but Madison has definitely witnessed a shift. “When Kendra started seeing Hank, even before I knew about Hank or had met him, I noticed a change in her,” Madison says. “She became more comfortable with herself. She’s a lot more caring and a lot more censored. She and Hank are so perfect for each other.”

What’s perfect for Madison? Politics! She says she wants to get involved with Las Vegas city politics and “I want to be mayor in, like, 10 years.”

Democrat or Republican? “I definitely lean towards one party, but I really hate all the bickering that’s going on,” says Madison, whose new reality show Holly’s World premieres on E! in June. “I hate party politics, so I would never claim any party. You watch CNN and all it is is people fighting—not over issues, but over partisan politics. It’s ridiculous.”

— eonline.com

Bridget Marquardt and BF Score Reality Show

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

First Kendra Wilkinson got one, then Holly Madison, and now it’s Bridget Marquardt’s turn.

The former Girl Next Door star told E! News last night at Star Magazine’s Young Hot Hollywood party that she just got the thumbs-up for a new reality show she’s filming with her boyfriend, Nicholas Carpenter.

The pilot will shoot in April and will cover “life after the Mansion, moving on, our relationship,” Bridget told us.

As for how her movie director beau will do in front of the cameras? He says he’s not too worried…

“I’ve been on Kendra like 700 times now, so I think I’ll be fine,” he said.

It sounds like Bridget’s mom is jockeying for face time, too. When Bridget said how excited her mom was about the show, Nick quickly interjected: “She just wants to get back on TV…that mother of yours,” he said.

Ooh. That’s gonna make things awkward at the next family gathering.

— Yah! Looks like we will be seeing our favorite trio again, except separately! :D