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Get back to Vegas with Holly and Bridget as Holly discusses why she hates being single and the worst times she's ever run into an ex. Bridget talks getting served divorce papers in public, who threw a fit in Vegas and getting stranded at a strip club. The girls get into sex tape drama, set up "surprises," how it feels having to leave a party early and Playmate vs. celebrity pictorials. The girls r...

For more content, check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel Join Holly and Bridget for a wild 21st birthday party in Vegas! The girls confess what they did on each of their 21st birthdays, reminisce about old Vegas nightclubs, talk about Holly's weirdest responsibility at the mansion and get into this episode's fake drama. Bridget tells us about what almost derailed the trip,...

Join Holly and Bridget as they discuss the ins and outs of alienation, friendships that have fallen apart over the years, current drama and how they plan to possibly resolve it. The girls talk jarring outdated terminology, their take on gross out humor, people faking their personalities and the drama at the end of the episode. Bridget and Holly recap all things The Girls Next Door Season 2 Episode...

In this episode, Holly and Bridget reveal their most salacious group chat, talk true crime and speculate on why The Girls Next Door rarely got truly spontaneous scenes. The girls talk mold at the mansion, thoughts on postpartum depression and what they don't tell you before you give birth. Holly spills the deets on her own baby shower and the girls go back in time to reminisce on their first Playm...

Today Holly and Bridget sit down with makeup artists Stephen Moleski to talk about how he went from Atlanta to doing makeup at the Playboy mansion to working with celebrities and beyond! They get into the relationship dynamics he observed at the mansion, his personal rapport with Mary, the staff and with each girl, getting lost in Europe and then spills the tea on why Hef got pissed and banned him...

Come with Holly and Bridget to Rome, Naples, Pompeii and Venice as they recap the fan favorite episode from The Girls Next Door Season 2, "When in Rome." They talk about the celebrities they ran into on the trip, the blow out parties, being grabbed by Coliseum gladiators, the intricacies and drama of traveling in the Playboy world, Dolores Cannon and past life regressions, journeying into Pompeii...

Journey overseas with Holly and Bridget as they recount the behind the scenes life of The Girls Next Door season 2 episode 9 "When in Rome." In this fan favorite episode from season 2, the girls visit the Cannes Film Festival, meet the most beautiful Playmate in history, catch rare glimpses of Bridget and Kendra's friendship and share a connection with the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills . The gi...

Holly and Bridget dive back into The Girls Next Door Season 2 Episode 9 "I See London, I See France" for a whirlwind trip to Paris. Join them on all the adventures they had on and off camera, including the world's worst fart story, who Hef thought was sleeping with each other and the huge blow out that almost got Bridget sent home. The girls get into the psychic connection they share, the other pe...

This week, we get into what went on during our trip to London and how reality show drama can have real life consequences. We talk about seasonal affective disorder and depression management, being competitive for attention, who was jet lagged and which one thing the three of us all had in common. Come on a trip with us to the London Dungeons, get kicked out of pubs with us and see all of our Londo...

The girls are off to Europe for the trip of a lifetime as they review The Girls Next Door Season 2 Episode 8. Holly talks about which scene makes her skin crawl, the weird scene that doesn't make sense and the girls discuss their bizarre matching pajama ritual. They get into the lengths the show went to to twist their words, what Bridget was stressed about and why men have an easier time with a bu...

Join Holly and Bridget as they talk all things Playmate of the Year with the 2006 winner, Kara Monaco. Holly confesses to kicking someone out of their party tent, they talk which celebrities would cold call Playmates in the mansion guest house and give a history of the best Playmate of the year prizes. Kara spills her behind the scenes stories from working as a princess in Walt Disney World, how s...

On today's episode, the girls explore the themes of female friendship, loneliness and feeling isolated in friend groups. Holly and Bridget dive back into The Girls Next Door Season 2 Episode 7 "Sleepwear Optional," talk about Kendra splintering off from the group in Season 2, diamond necklace horcruxes and what adult women got up to at an all-girl slumber party. They reminisce on swag bags in the...

In this episode Holly and Bridget jump into the topic of jealousy; how it farmed resentment back in the day, how it affects their lives now and who they've been jealous of lately. They also get into women supporting women, both on camera and off; having a "backup plan" in relationships and group dynamics and triangulation. Reacting to The Girls Next Door season 2 Episode 7 "Sleepwear Optional," th...

Today we are joined by a very special guest, Katie Manzella, who spent some of her childhood at the mansion. Her mother was Playmate Sondra Theodore, Hef's girlfriend for the latter half of the 70's. Katie talks what it was like being at the mansion as a child, partying there when she got older, her relationship with her mom over the years, how she balances the memories she has with the truth of h...

Join us for a fun catch up session with the host of the Live From Bed podcast, Jade Iovine, who grew up right across the street from the Playboy mansion. We get her perspective as a kid who regularly went to the Easter and 4th of July parties and as a teenage fan of The Girls Next Door . Jade talks about having a mom who posed for Playboy, borrowing our Halloween costumes and who she was friends w...

We're getting emo on Easter as Holly and Bridget cover the second half of The Girls Next Door Season 2 Episode 6 Heavy Petting. Holly goes deep into why the holiday made her moody and the girls get vulnerable about where they were at mentally and emotionally during the spring of 2006. They talk biological clocks, scene stealing, "pick me girls" in the 2000's and Winnie going "dogatonic." Holly tal...

It's springtime 2006 at the mansion and the girls are talking all things motherhood, baby animals, and one of the most unlikely events to become controversial on the Girls Next Door world. Why do so many people in the GND universe hate on the dog birthday party so much? Holly and Bridget dive into why that might be and how the event even came to be in the first place. The girls talk about how pet...

Catch up with Colin Wilkinson in this very special episode. Bridget and Holly ask Colin what it was like to be an 18 year old guy who got to party at the Playboy mansion, what the other kids at school thought, what the haters would tease him about and what it was like having the show film at his house. They jump into how his grandfather felt about Kendra's situation, Colin's experience filming for...

In this episode, Holly and Bridget recap their Thanksgiving and the body issues that arose with it. They dive back into The Girls Next Door Season 2 Episode 5 "San Diego or Busts" and what Holly feels is the cringiest scene in the entire series. The uncomfortable age gap between Hef and his girls is called into question during this episode as we see prom pictures, Hef's grandfather peers, and a li...

Take a trip down to San Diego with Holly and Bridget for the second of the Girls Next Door hometown visits. They talk tearing yourself apart before others can, nightmare friend rotations, whether or not the were welcomed back to the mansion after they moved out and who took off their underwear on the red carpet. The trip down south brings up memories of uncomfortable age gaps, perv-y comments and...

In this extra long episode, Holly and Bridget get into what pushed them over the edge and led each of them to break down and cry on camera. They dive deep on the camaraderie (or lack thereof) amongst the three cast members, working with Studio boss Marilyn Grabowski, wigs, striving to live up to a beauty ideal and how they were erased from Playboy history.  For more content, check out our Patreon...

This week, Holly and Bridget tackle their second nude pictorial . . . what they loved about it and the challenging group dynamics involved. They talk bondage, posing for pin-up artist Olivia, vibrating beds, Whoopi Goldberg's rancid wine bottle, and their first cell phones.  On top of the fun of the photo shoots, the girls get into being made to feel not good enough, walking on eggshells and the t...

In the second half of this in-depth conversation with Hugh Hefner's son Marston, Holly and Bridget get into what Marston and his friends at school thought of The Girls Next Door , how he felt having his dad on TV and what happened at the mansion after Holly and Bridget left. The girls ask him about Hef's final days and what it was like dating as a teenager with a famous last name. Marston speaks o...

In this very special episode, we are joined by Hef's son, Marston Hefner. We catch up and get to know Marston better, finding out what it was like growing up in one of the world's most famous mansions, if he snuck into parties, what he thinks of Holly's book, highs and lows with the mansion staff, what he thought of his dad's girlfriends, and what his friends at school thought of the show. We talk...

How infanitilized were the women of the mansion and how much were they infantilizing themselves? Join Holly and Bridget as they get into not being allowed to work, how each girl was childlike in her own way, how they infantilized themselves and how they were being held back by others.  In this episode, the girls talk career goals, merchandizing the show, manifesting and feeling embarrassed to admi...