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‘I just wanted what was fair’ Former Playboy bunnies didn’t even get paid for first series of reality TV show-Rebecca Sayce-Entertainment – Metro
The former bunnies told all.
The duo opened up on their time living in the Playboy Mansion (Picture: E! Tv / Kobal / REX / Shutterstock)
Former Playboy bunnies Holly Maddison and Bridget Marquardt revealed they didn’t receive any money for appearing in E! reality show The Girls Next Door.
The show, which launched in 2005, followed Hugh Hefner and his girlfriends who lived with him in the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.
It ran for six series before ending in 2010, inspiring several spin-offs, including Kendra and Holly’s World.
But the bunnies who featured on the first series of the show did not receive payment, according to the two former stars.
‘They didn’t pay us for the first season… When they ordered more episodes, they finally paid us,’ Holly claimed during an episode of Juicy Scoop With Heather McDonald.
Bridget added: ‘I just wanted what was fair, like, a couple thousand bucks an episode or something.
‘Just the fact that they didn’t want to pay us anything and just expected us to do as the ‘main characters’ of the show. [We] just [signed] a release, no contracts.’
The pair appeared in the first five series of the show alongside fellow bunny and Hefner girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson.
Holly and Bridget also spoke about the editing of the show during the joint interview, something Bridget described as ‘traumatising’ and that re-watching earlier episodes made her ‘sick to [her] stomach’.
The pair opened up to Heather McDonald on her podcast (Picture: JuicyScoop / Youtube)
Holly and Bridget claim they weren’t paid for appearing in the first series of the reality show (Picture: JuicyScoop / Youtube)
‘They make it look like Bridget is, like, plying all the new playmates with drinks to mess them up for their shoot the next day because she’s jealous,’ Holly said, speaking about episodes in the first series of the show.
‘Which isn’t what she said at all, but they cut and paste it. So it looks like she’s literally trying to, like, shove shots in everybody’s face because she wants to sabotage. And I think that’s messed up and borderline illegal.’
The Oregon-born duo took part in the interview to promote their new podcast Girls Next Level, where they rewatch The Girls Next Door and talk about what was going on behind the scenes of the show.
The Girls Next Door was onscreen from 2005 to 2010 (Picture: E! Tv / Kobal / REX / Shutterstock)
Holly, Bridget, and their co-star Kendra left The Girls Next Door in 2009 after their respective relationships with Hefner ended.
The final series of the show introduced three new girlfriends, Crystal Harris, who eventually went on to marry Hefner, and twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon.
Hefner eventually died in 2017, aged 91, from heart failure after contracting an aggressive strain of e-coli which was resistant to drugs.
The Girls Next Door is available to rent on Amazon Prime.
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