Holly Madison has stated that she remains out of contact with her former Girls Next Door co-star Kendra Wilkinson.
“Kendra and I don’t speak, but I’m not opposed to speaking,” Madison, 46, mentioned during the Thursday, June 18, episode of E!’s “Hot Goss” on YouTube. “We had a falling out, but it was after the show. It was stuff that had to do with our spinoffs and working with the same producer.”
Madison suspects the unnamed producer “tried to pit us against each other and got in our heads, so that’s a shame.”
The situation worsened when Wilkinson, 41, asserted that she was never friends with Madison.
“At the time, she was really caught up in the tabloid cycle. If her thing to get in the tabloids that week was a rift with someone, then she was going to say it,” Madison asserted. “If somebody wrote a clickbait headline, she was going to retweet it and I’m sitting here like, ‘Wait, I just sent your son a Christmas gift.’”
Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner, Bridget Marquardt, Kendra Wilkinson ! Network / Courtesy: Everett Collection
Nearly 16 years after Girls Next Door ended, Madison has gained new insights into why Wilkinson behaved as she did.
“I think she was just really caught up and we were never as close obviously as
me and Bridget [Marquardt],” Madison reflected. “We don’t have much in common, but we shared a lot of experiences and had a lot of good times together, so I never thought of her as not a friend.”
Madison, Wilkinson, and Marquardt, 52, were stars of the popular reality TV series The Girls Next Door, which chronicled their lives in the notorious Playboy mansion while all dating Hugh Hefner simultaneously.
The show’s popularity led to Madison and Wilkinson launching their own spinoff series, Holly’s World and Kendra, respectively.
Wilkinson has since moved away from reality television to pursue a career as a real estate agent. Meanwhile, Madison continues to cohost the “Girls Next Level” podcast with Marquardt.
“Bridget and I have always been super close. We’re still super close. We do a rewatch podcast together,” Madison told “Hot Goss” hosts Eyal Booker and Lonnie Marts IIV. “We’ve never even had a fight or anything in our 25 years of friendship.”
In a previous interview, Madison admitted that she only recently considered reconciling with Wilkinson.
“I don’t know if she would reach out because she really seems to be happy not having anything to do with anything from the past,” she explained. “I think that’s great. But I would not continue to hold a grudge at this point.”
