In this episode, Holly divulges her recent cosmetic procedure and the girls speculate on which beauty secret Megan Fox is gatekeeping. The ladies dive deep into their favorite episode of the season "Girls will be Ghouls" and talk round bed theories, the time Holly was terrified Bridget was going to get kicked out and early 2000's pumpkin patch paparazzi. They talk which sexuality rumors were flying, the weird convention that should have been a docuseries, meeting horror icon Elvira, the episode'...
Apr 22, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Your favorite Girls Next Door guest star Sara Underwood is back to spill more tea with Holly and Bridget! She tells us what it was like living at the Bunny House, competing against your roommates for Playmate of the Year and why Sara was never expecting to win the coveted title. The girls talk surprise body insecurities, which mansion regular tried to ask Sara out, the celebrity she had to lock out of her room in Vegas, the pivotal moment that made her decide to get her boobs done and finding va...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 32
If anyone was the fourth Girl Next Door in the hearts of the fans it was definitely Miss July 2006 Sara Jean Underwood. She sits down with Holly and Bridget to tell us all about her weird experience trying out for the Playboy college girls issue, bra stuffing and what her parents though of her decision to pose nude. Sara gets into what it was like shooting her pictorial at her childhood home, what it was like being thrust onto reality tv and the Playmate video shoot that led to a meltdown. The g...
Apr 08, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 31
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 reveal who got tattoos in Vegas, what hangover weekends were like at the mansion and much more! For m...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 30
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, how they got their first overnight away from Hef and . . . WTF is a jewelry party? Check out our me...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 29
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 10 "Baby Talk" - the most hilarious moments and the most cringe-worthy! For more content, check out...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 28
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 Playmate friend to have a baby and the planning that went into throwing the shower seen on The Girls Next...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 27
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 from part of the trip. The trio dive into the other adventures they shared together, talk touring w...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 26
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 and their Roman empires. For more content, check ou t our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/girlsne...
Feb 26, 2024•57 min•Season 2Ep. 25
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 girls talk the creep that followed Holly back to their hotel, the huge cringe moment in the episode an...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 24
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 people who got sent home (and the ones who almost did), the eerie element of Hef's last party and the ...
Feb 12, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 23
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 London adventures that weren't shown on TV! Take a deep dive with us into what it's like to be sued, gett...
Feb 05, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 22
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 busy schedule. Holly and Bridget detail the strange ways they had to pack, who was cut out of their tr...
Jan 29, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 21
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 she won "America's Hottest Bartender," and what her former Disney co-workers thought of her posing fo...
Jan 22, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 20
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 2000's, prank calling the butlers and how the neighbors felt about Hef's parties. As Kara Monaco get...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 19
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," they confess which scenes make them cringe watching back, "redecorating" the mansion bedrooms and Mara...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 18
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 her mother's experience and much more in this emotional and healing conversation. For the full versio...
Jan 05, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 17
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 with at the mansion. We talk meeting Taylor Swift, the confusion that was our Season 5 exits, which h...
Jan 02, 2024•51 min•Season 2Ep. 16
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 talks which scene she felt was the most real for her so far, Bridget talks about who she saw getting do...
Dec 18, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 15
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 ownership has changed over the years, dog cloning and the resentment that was starting to brew betwe...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 14
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 Kendra's spin-off series and which plot lines were faked for the show. Colin covers partying at the...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 13
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 little too much attention placed on some childhood videos. They talk justifying the age gap to themsel...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 12
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 why thy felt this episode was a little more "produced" than the others. They discuss why Hef went to...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 11
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 at https://www.patreon.com/girlsnext level Control body odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeoderant and get $5 ...
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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 time it took to maintain the beauty standard. We find out what made Hef mad about the shoot, what his ...
Nov 06, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 9
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 on spending a Ferrari’s worth of money on therapy, personal growth and moving from toxicity to positi...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 8
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 the pressures he felt growing up, what it was like having an unconventional dad, and reminisce abou...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 7
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 admit to your goals. They recap what it was like designing a jewelry line, shooting their first print ad,...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Join Holly and Bridget as they talk all about what it was like becoming infamous in the early 2000's, shooting their first movie, cars, why Holly thinks she's such a bitch in this episode, who was the only one allowed to do high paying club appearances, their back-in-the-day career goals, and an autism diagnosis. For more content, check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel Get your first visit for only five dollars at https://www.apostrophe.com/nextlevel when you use our cod...
Oct 09, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 5
This week, Holly and Bridget drop all the details of what they agree was the craziest party at the mansion while discussing the importance of personal boundaries and how holding them can sometimes backfire in your face. The girls talk being labeled a "bitch," corsetry, being self conscious of their bodies, the Playmate finder's fee, celebrity worship, mirroring, Paris Hilton's viral birthday serenade, who Donald Trump "hired," Ed Hardy, The Playboy Murders , the lack of diversity at the parties,...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 4
