Holly Madison Celebrates The Magic Party At XS

Holly Madison arrives at UFC, Famous Stars and Straps and New Era's "The Magic Party" at XS the nightclub on February 15, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Who Wore It Best: Alexa Chung vs Holly Madison

Former MTV host Alexa Chung topped her Louis Vuitton dress with a sweater in Paris. Holly Madison donned her striped floral number in New York City.

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Holly Madison Hosts A Valentine's Day Affair

Holly Madison, Josh Strickland, and Angel Porrino arrive at the Tryst nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas to host a Valentine's Day event early February 13, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Holly Madison: My BF Loves Me the Way I Am

Holly Madison's boyfriend's band is called "All Time Low," but the reality star is on an all-time high, thanks to her man.

"He's a really down to earth guy," the Holly's World star told PEOPLE in Las Vegas at the opening of Recycled Percussion, fresh off a trip to Mexico with Jack Barakat, her boyfriend of nine months, who is the guitarist for the Baltimore-based band.

The duo plan on celebrating Valentine's weekend together at Tryst nightclub in Sin City. The low-key couple has come a long way since first meeting on Twitter and publicly debuting their romance at her 31st birthday in December.

"I feel like he's really real and he knows me for who I am," said Madison, who stars in the Las Vegas show PEEPSHOW. "I can say whatever in front of him and he's cool with it."

Her friends have already given her their seal of approval, as well, Madison said. "I love that Jack has a sense of humor and I can just be myself around him," she added. "I don't need to be like Miss Priss or Betty Crocker. I feel like every guy that I dated before him expected that."

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Holly Madison Says No Thanks to Hef's Wedding

Holly Madison has not been coy about her distaste for Hugh Hefner's engagement to Crystal Harris. Remember when she told Life & Style that Hef was making a "hasty decision"? The Holly's World beauty has made up her mind, though, telling me on my HDNet show that even if she's invited, she's not going to that wedding.

"I feel like the attention should be on them," Holly tells me. "It shouldn't be about ex-girlfriends showing up and what are their reactions and stuff like that. I think it should be about them."

Holly let slip that Hef and Crystal are thinking about tying the knot this summer. She says that if she doesn't go, "It's probably because I have a show in Vegas."

Since Hef announced the engagement, Holly met up with the pair in early January for a taped segment for her hit E! show, which is back for season two. The encounter was "definitely awkward," and even though a month has passed she's still cautious about saying positive things about the next Mrs. Hefner. "I don't really know her," she tells me.

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Holly Madison's Green Bay Victory Celebration

On Super Bowl Sunday, Holly Madison hosted her Holly Bowl, a special Vegas Victory party for the Green Bay Packers, at LAVO in Las Vegas.

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Holly Madison Not Jealous of Hef's Engagement

Holly Madison may not have been thrilled to hear of ex, Hugh Hefner's engagement news -- but was she jealous? Not so much.

"I think everyone expected me to feel one way, they expected me to be really jealous," the reality star, 31, who split with the Playboy magnate, 84, in 2008 after seen years of dating, tells Us Magazine. "But it's not how I feel. We've been apart for two years. I just want him to be happy."

Continues Madison, whose face-to-face meeting with Hefner and his new fiancee Crystal Harris, 24, aired on her reality show, Holly's World, "I'm more protective than anything else. I just wanted to make sure he's making the right choice."

It helps that Madison, who's hosting Saturday's Leather & Laces Super Bowl party in Dallas with fellow Girls Next Door alum Bridget Marquardt, has a new man in her life: All Time Low guitarist Jack Barakat.

"He's totally cool -- really down-to-earth, she tells Us of her beau of five months, who will be joining her for the Super Bowl festivities. "We're both really busy, but we find a way to make it work. I like having someone as busy as me, its a good match up I think."

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Holly Madison Shows Her Curves In Las Vegas

Holly Madison was spotted sipping on drinks by Svedka Vodka - and getting hosed down with water - in sunny Las Vegas yesterday. The 31-year-old looked amazing flaunting her hot bod in a skimpy black bikini.

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Holly Madison On The Set Of "Extra TV"

Holly Madison on the "Extra" set at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on January 29, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Holly Madison Wants To Visit Playboy Mansion

Holly Madison wants to return to the Playboy mansion.

The 31-year-old reality TV star - who was in a relationship with Hugh Hefner until 2008 - explained she is keen to visit the Los Angeles home she shared with the 84-year-old magazine mogul and his other live-in girlfriends Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt.

She said: "I'd love to stop by the mansion at some point in the day when no one's there and visit Hef and all the animals that live there. We talk on twitter sometimes.

"Kendra, Bridget and I are all far apart now but we speak all the time. Kendra's baby Hank just had his first birthday so we're trying to plan a trip to Disneyland."

Meanwhile, the blonde beauty has admitted she finds it "weird" her current roommate - who she shares a Las Vegas apartment with - is dating Hugh's 19-year-old son Marston because she has known him since he was a child.

Holly added to Perez Hilton: "My new roommate Claire is actually dating Hef's son Marston. I believe he's 19 now and Claire is 18 so that's so weird to me. He's in Los Angeles but he comes up to visit all the time, he's back and forth.

"It's weird to me because I've know Marston since he was like 12 and in my mind he's still like 12. We do have girl talk about it though."

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Holly Madison And Hef Come Face-to-Face

After Holly Madison couldn't get Hugh Hefner to marry her, she comes face to face with the magazine magnate after his recent engagement news. Awkward!

Taking a break from Las Vegas, Holly comes back to Los Angeles and visits the Playboy mansion. Once there, she and her former flame are reunited for the very first time since he became betrothed to Playmate Crystal Harris. The subject at hand is the white elephant in the room -- with neither wishing to address it.

"Thank you for visiting," Hef says. After a long pause in which the two avoid eye contact, he eventually turns and asks "How are ya?"

Holly quickly offers a peppy reply of "really good!" After some small talk, Holly finally blurts out, "Congratulations on your engagement!"

Hef thanks her and the two hug, but Holly's eyes appear to be brimming with tears.

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Holly Madison Makes Her EXTRA TV Debut

Holly Madison made her debut TV correspondent appearance on EXTRA tonight at ‘The Mechanic’ Movie Premiere Red Carpet event at Planet Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas, NV. Also pictured, Laura Croft.

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Kendra Talks Weight, Why Hef Didn’t Marry Holly

Kendra Wilkinson has come a long way since she was first introduced to us several years ago as Hugh Hefner’s brash, booze-lovin’ number three girlfriend on the hit E! reality series “Girls Next Door.”

She’s now the star of her own self-titled show, an author, and an entrepreneur. But most importantly, she’s mother to one-year-old Hank Baskett IV, happily married, and she credits her husband, NFL wide receiver Hank Baskett, for bringing faith into her life at a time when she was seeking something more than just Playboy parties and mindless mayhem.

“Of course our number one priority is to be parents, but we’ve got to that point where we are not going to be ashamed of stepping outside and having a couple of drinks and be wife and husband. That’s our thing now – we are not going to be ashamed anymore,” she continued.

Speaking of spouses, Wilkinson wasn’t surprised that her ex recently proposed to his current live-in girlfriend, 24-year-old Crystal Harris. Wilkinson said the magazine mogul didn’t marry Madison because, even though he is well into his 80’s, he simply wasn’t ready to settle down.

“It is just life and it goes to show when a guy is not ready, a guy is not ready,” she explained. “It doesn’t matter what age you are. Hef was too young!”

And although Wilkinson is only 25, it has still been a battle to bring back that pre-baby body – well, that was until she discovered a metabolism-boosting “magic potion.”

“When I got the six week clearance from the doctor (after giving birth) I worked and dieted but I didn’t pay attention to my metabolism,” she said. “But within the last couple of months I’ve been focusing on my metabolism with the health supplement Ab Cuts and it has been amazing, my magic potion! It’s the metabolism booster I needed.”

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Holly Madison Addresses Hef & Jayde Nicole

Emotional fireworks exploded on last night’s Season 2 premiere of Holly Madison’s E! Entertainment reality TV show Holly’s World. The platinum blond bombshell was shell shocked from all sides as she tackled Peepshow producer demands that she lose weight, former love Hugh Hefner announcing his engagement to Crystal Harris and Playmate Jayde Nicole’s bizarre takeover attempt as her Las Vegas rival.

Moments after I sat with her for the premiere screening last night at Extra Lounge at Planet Hollywood, Holly told me: “I’ll always have a place in my heart for Hef. We were together for seven years. I thought we’d get married sometime and have children. You don’t ever forget something like that! That was my dream and hope. I don’t know how I am really supposed to feel about all of it. I had a lot of different emotions and thoughts on it.

“We went through a lot together. I wanted to settle down. I thought we were headed to being exclusive and then marriage and family. I had to go to The Mansion to confront him and Crystal. This was kind of a shock! I had to film that, so it was my exact reaction and words and not distorted later elsewhere. You will see exactly what happened there next Sunday. Hef didn’t mind the cameras because he lets his life be a very open and honest book. I had to know he was all right. I was being very protective. There are many girls who would take advantage of him, and I had to know he was OK.”

Just 5 hours before the premiere, I’d talked exclusively with Holly in a wide-ranging interview. She told me: “I’m really excited for the new shows. I think it’s a way better season than the first season. Last year, you got to know us, and this year you’re seeing how we deal with life as it throws the curve balls at us. There’s no time to pre-plan anything. It’s all as it just happens even if we are not comfortable about it. It’s a lot of drama that’s very confrontational.

“It’s really dramatic. There are a lot of challenges for all of our characters, and the humor as a result is really funny. We’re still smack in the middle of shooting it, so there’s a lot more surprises to come from me. The filming runs four days a week and will continue through March.”

Five times in last night’s debut, Holly’s friends branded Jayde a bitch, and I’m reliably told that she will vanish after a few more episodes. “I really think she came into Vegas determined to take over what I had accomplished here,” Holly confided. “It really made for some serious tension. There was no need for some of her stuff. She invited Josh out on my birthday as her date and wound up making out with him -- that was seriously bad. So think of it as a fleeting appearance.”

Holly confirmed that Jayde hadn’t seen a preview of last night’s show where Laura and Josh ridicule her and the gift she sent reminding Holly of her upcoming 32nd birthday, which they promptly dumped in the garbage! Josh’s comments about the tainted gift were some of the funniest moments in last night’s high dramas.

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Holly's World Season 2 Screening Party

Laura Croft, Holly Madison, and Angel Porrino pose for photos at the Holly's World season 2 premiere screening party at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on January 23, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Jayde Nicole Talks Life On "Holly's World"

Jayde Nicole has come a long way in five years. Rising to fame as the Playboy Playmate of the Year in 2008, Jayde has been turning heads for Hugh Hefner’s famed magazine ever since she first appeared as the Playboy Playmate of the Month in January 2007, but that was only the first step for the beautiful brunette who would go on to greater fame thanks to her role on The Hills.

Now, less than a year after that show ended, Jayde has moved on to another reality-based series, this time with former Playboy model Holly Madison and her show Holly’s World. Joining the series for the second season, which debut’s on E! on January 23, Jayde chatted with me last week to tell me all about her adventures since she became a Playboy Playmate, and what it’s like living in Holly’s Las Vegas themed World.

» What would you say about your career over the last five years? I would say you’ve gone through quite a few changes.

“Yes, that is for sure. If I was 20 again and somebody asked me what I would be doing in four or five years, there’s no way I could have ever predicted that any of this would be happening. Going from model to [Playboy] Playmate to Playmate of the Year and reality TV and everything has been so exciting and so much fun, and a great learning experience, and a big change of course from my life back home in Port Perry in Canada, but definitely a lot of fun.”

» In terms of your career, I know I read somewhere that you said your last show was a lot of work and it wasn’t very realistic, but I’ve heard that Holly’s World is quite a new experience for you. Is that true?

“Yeah, it’s totally different. I walked into The Hills when it was four seasons in and all the characters were established and there were a lot of changes going on when I came into it. I had no idea what I getting myself in to; I was totally out of my element and I didn’t know what to expect and it was very, very dramatic and they really messed with your relationships and they made you fight when you weren’t fighting and create situations that weren’t happening in real life just for exciting television. And I mean it worked, and the show was very exciting and very dramatic, but it really messes with your real life and relationships with people, and it became a very emotional, dramatic experience.”

“Filming for Holly’s World, I kind of knew what I was getting myself in to at this point, so I’m a little bit better equipped to handle the filming of reality TV, but it’s also just a lot more fun. I get to have a lot of my girlfriends around me, and a lot of my real friends, and real relationships, and just get to have fun and live my life, and it’s just a lot more enjoyable.”

» With the spotlight on you once more, and going into this new show, what would you say is the hardest part of being a celebrity?

“I’m still not used to people calling me a celebrity. I still go to the mall and stores with no makeup and in my pajamas and I do not prepare myself for it and I still am completely in shock and awe when people come up and meet me and ask me for pictures.”

“It’s not really hard. I mean it’s definitely an adjustment in your mindset of how you see yourself and how your friends see you and it just kind of takes some getting used to. Maybe for me one thing that I need to get better with is not looking so much like a bum when I go out because there are paparazzi everywhere and there are people who always want to have their picture taken with you and I just hate getting ready. That’s just the worst part–people seeing you off guard when you look your absolute worst, which I always do when I’m not working because I hate getting ready. That part is the only thing that irritates me, but I still rock the no makeup and the pony tail when I go out. I haven’t changed yet but I’m sticking to it.”

» What can fans expect from you in Holly’s World?

“You know what, I just saw the preview for what’s up this season on Holly’s World yesterday for the first time, and it totally caught me off guard. From a complete outsiders view it looks awesome.”

» My last question is whether you have any comment on Hef’s engagement?

“You know, it’s hard for me because I adore Holly and I love Holly and I came into the Playboy Mansion right when Hef and Holly were in the middle of their relationship and they were so happy. Even though it has been a while it’s still kind of hard for me and a lot of the other Playmates to see him engaged to someone who is not Holly, but I know he’s in love and Crystal is a sweet girl and they’re very happy together, so I’m very happy for them.”

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Holly Madison Met Her Boyfriend On Twitter

The reality star of Holly's World, the former star of the Girls Next Door, Holly Madison revealed in a new interview how she met her boyfriend. The star is currently dating Jack Barakat, and apparently, the star met her current boyfriend via the popular social network, Twitter. Madison formerly dated Hugh Hefner for several years, and allegedly dated Criss Angel for a time, and according to new reports, Madison is happy with her boyfriend.

Madison said in a recent interview of meeting her current boyfriend: "We met through a mutual friend and then somehow somebody retweeted something funny he said on Twitter. So I started following him, and then we started tweeting each other back and forth!" She went on to add: "So then we started direct messaging each other and then exchanged numbers."

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Holly Madison Visits Pix 11 Morning News

Taking care of some media duties, Holly Madison was spotted at Pix 11 Morning News studios in New York City today (January 19).

The “Girls Next Door” babe looked bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as she headed inside, sporting a pretty pink coat and white striped dress.

As for her new boyfriend Jack Barakat, Holly revealed that they met thanks to the micro-blogging site Twitter.

"We met through a mutual friend and then somehow somebody retweeted something funny he said on Twitter," she said. "So I started following him and then we started tweeting each other back and forth!"

“We were texting for months, and finally when I had my vacation, I was like, 'Do you wanna come out hang out with me?' and he did and we hit it off right away."

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Holly Madison Will Drop Pounds for 'Peepshow'

Holly Madison caused a few jaws to drop last week when she revealed that the producers of her Las Vegas burlesque “Peep Show” had ordered her to shed weight from her already super-svelte frame.

"I always thought I looked fine. It was a shock when they told me to lose weight. I've lost a few pounds," Madison, who appears topless in the show, told Radar Online, adding that she wasn’t sure if she wanted to push herself any harder and oblige in popping the pounds.

“This is definitely the first time I've been confronted with a weight issue,” Madison said. “Because I'm so busy, it's a challenge to lose the weight, but I'm trying hard!”

And while she told us after leaving her life at Hugh Hefner’s famed mansion a couple of years ago that she was “over the nudity thing” and didn’t anticipate she would bare her body for any more spreads, it seems her fellow “Girl Next Door” Kendra Wilkinson’s recent Playboy cover may have inspired a change-of-heart.

“I wouldn’t mind doing Playboy again,” Madison continued. “But only if I had creative control.”

Speaking of creative control, the starlet is getting ready to premiere season two of her hit E! reality series “Holly’s World,” in which she is also credited as co-producer.

“This season is really dramatic and holds a lot of character development for everyone on the show,” she hinted. “Troublemakers come to town, so there's a lot of conflict.”

The glamour model also controversially hit the headlines last week when she revealed her disappointment that former flame Hefner was engaged to 24-year-old Crystal Harris, as she felt “he could do better.”

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Holly Madison Clashes With Hef's Fiancée

A new love at the Playbody Mansion is making bunny fur fly.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriend Holly Madison and her reality show costar are making no secret of their low opinion of Hef's new fiancée, Crystal Harris.

Madison, 31, has been reluctant to speak about Harris, but when pressed by PEOPLE, her on-camera sidekick Josh Strickland said, "We don't really know her that well, but the few times we've seen her, it's been a cold shoulder. We really haven't done anything to her."

Madison then jumped in, saying Harris's true colors can be seen in an un-aired scene. "They really need to show that birthday footage," Madison says after mentioning that Hef's gal, 24, appears in an episode of her show "for a second."

"Crystal called us clowns in a circus," adds Strickland of the alleged tape. "It's just kind of like, 'Who the hell are you?' "

But Harris's camp denies any animosity.

"Crystal has always been extremely friendly to Holly, and if that wasn't the case, then Holly wouldn't be continuing to return to the mansion," Harris's manager Michael Blakey tells PEOPLE. "She doesn't understand why Holly and Josh would make these allegations. She has no ill feelings toward Holly at all. Crystal believes this is a misunderstanding. I know her very well, and I've never heard her say an unkind word about anyone."

As for Hefner, 84, Madison's thoughts about his engagement – which will play out in the second episode of her show this season – are complicated.

"I don't really feel just one way about it," says Madison, who is also the star of the Vegas show Peepshow and the face of AMIClubWear clothing line. "It's not really something that's easy for me to sum up, so I need to get all the layers of my feelings out. I just wanted to see Hef and go up and talk to him about it. There's definitely a lot of pressure. People expect me to feel a certain way."

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