Playboy Rivals: Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson | 63

Diss and Tell

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.2 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the early aughts the Playboy Bunnies were EVERYWHERE. Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson starred in The Girls Next Door, a reality show following the lives of supposed best-friend-bunnies opening the gates to the Playboy mansion and giving an inside scoop on their dolled-up lives. But in the years following the series, Holly and Kendra would release memoirs, podcasts, and spin off reality shows that told very different versions of their friendship – and what life was REALLY like in the mansion.

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to diss and tell early and ad-free right now.
0:05.4	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:09.1	A listener note.
0:10.2	This episode contains sexually explicit descriptions.
0:19.1	Matt, do you remember that delightful time period of the early aughts where Playboy Bunny t-shirts would be found in like the junior section of Coles?
0:32.7	Boy, do I? Yeah. Who do you think was buying all of them? Me?
0:37.1	You, yeah, 15-year-old girls with belly button piercings with the Playboy bunny dangling.
0:43.7	Like, what an odd time to be an adolescent?
0:47.6	Especially a gay adolescent because it was sort of like,
0:50.9	that was the kind of icon that you would cling to to pretend to be straight.
0:56.5	I was about to ask if you were like, yeah, I look at Playboy.
1:00.0	Right. The straightest possible thing that I could think of.
1:03.3	Yeah. And for a while, it was really glorified. And then I feel like Playboy had a major
1:10.1	fall from grace, which is even crazy to describe it as grace, but it was so normalized in the culture of the early odds.
1:18.5	Yeah. Also the fact that it was a kind of esteemed magazine for writers to be published in.
1:24.6	People are like, well, actually the articles are incredible. It's like, okay.
1:29.6	Well, today we're going to dive into one of the biggest scandals to rock the Playboy
1:35.2	Mansion.
1:38.0	Okay.
1:39.0	So back in June 2015, Holly Madison, ex-girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, releases a memoir called Down the Rabbit
1:47.2	Hole, Curious Adventures in Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny. Here's the cover, if you
1:53.6	could describe it. That is a mouthful of a title, first of all. Polly is on the cover.
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