Everything Bridget Marquardt Has Said About ‘Girls Next Door,’ Playboy, Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson

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Everything Bridget Marquardt Has Said About 'Girls Next Door,' Playboy, Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson

While Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson have been on opposite sides when it comes to reliving their Playboy pasts, Bridget Marquardt appears to fall somewhere in the middle regarding her feelings on their time as Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends. Marquardt, Madison and Wilkinson were already dating the Playboy founder when E! ordered a show about their lives at the mansion. "They made it very clear to us that if we didn't want to do it, there would be a million girls who would want to take our place," Marquardt recalled on A&E’s Secrets of Playboy, which aired in 2022, about the origins of Girls Next Door. “I was in the shower and all of a sudden Hef is standing there. He opens up the shower door like, 'Why aren't you signing this contract? I need you to sign this contract!' I signed the contract, crying and soaking wet." Madison agreed that she signed the contract "under duress” after initially being hesitant because she didn’t want “a contract to be in a relationship’ with Hefner, who died in 2017 at age 91. While the three women went on to star on Girls Next Door for five seasons, Marquardt slammed the series when revisiting it for the “Girls Next Level” podcast with Madison. “Holly warned me that the first three episodes were really hard to watch. And when she said that, I thought she just meant, like, kind of just getting used to watching them again and once you get past three episodes, you’re good. I just watched them not last night, but the night before. And I’m still traumatized. I’m sick to my stomach. I can’t sleep, I’ve been crying,” she said on the “Juicy Scoop With Heather McDonald” podcast in August 2022. “They just took that made it look like I was ridiculing everybody that came, that I was just this jealous bitch, that I was getting people drunk and sabotaging their pictorials.” [jwplayer 7urBEMD8-zhNYySv2] Marquardt added that “little things” with the editing bothered her, suggesting that she and Madison were “immediately made out to be bitches.” The Holly’s Word alum added, “They never did that to Kendra. Ever.” When it comes to her time with Hefner outside of the show, however, Marquardt is seemingly more positive than Madison. “Looking back on [it], my experiences with Hef and the mansion are pretty positive. I would say 98 percent of it is positive,” she told Heather McDonald, noting that A&E didn’t include her more positive experiences for Secrets of Playboy. “There were a few stories that I had or things that I didn't think were quite right or whatever and those are the only stories that they use and they use them to kind of back up Holly’s stories.” Scroll through for more from Marquardt:

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Everything Bridget Marquardt Has Said About 'Girls Next Door,' Playboy, Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson

While Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson have been on opposite sides when it comes to reliving their Playboy pasts, Bridget Marquardt appears to fall somewhere in the middle regarding her feelings on their time as Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends. Marquardt, Madison and Wilkinson were already dating the Playboy founder when E! ordered a show about their lives at the mansion. "They made it very clear to us that if we didn't want to do it, there would be a million girls who would want to take our place," Marquardt recalled on A&E’s Secrets of Playboy, which aired in 2022, about the origins of Girls Next Door. “I was in the shower and all of a sudden Hef is standing there. He opens up the shower door like, 'Why aren't you signing this contract? I need you to sign this contract!' I signed the contract, crying and soaking wet." Madison agreed that she signed the contract "under duress” after initially being hesitant because she didn’t want “a contract to be in a relationship’ with Hefner, who died in 2017 at age 91. While the three women went on to star on Girls Next Door for five seasons, Marquardt slammed the series when revisiting it for the “Girls Next Level” podcast with Madison. “Holly warned me that the first three episodes were really hard to watch. And when she said that, I thought she just meant, like, kind of just getting used to watching them again and once you get past three episodes, you’re good. I just watched them not last night, but the night before. And I’m still traumatized. I’m sick to my stomach. I can’t sleep, I’ve been crying,” she said on the “Juicy Scoop With Heather McDonald” podcast in August 2022. “They just took that made it look like I was ridiculing everybody that came, that I was just this jealous bitch, that I was getting people drunk and sabotaging their pictorials.” [jwplayer 7urBEMD8-zhNYySv2] Marquardt added that “little things” with the editing bothered her, suggesting that she and Madison were “immediately made out to be bitches.” The Holly’s Word alum added, “They never did that to Kendra. Ever.” When it comes to her time with Hefner outside of the show, however, Marquardt is seemingly more positive than Madison. “Looking back on [it], my experiences with Hef and the mansion are pretty positive. I would say 98 percent of it is positive,” she told Heather McDonald, noting that A&E didn’t include her more positive experiences for Secrets of Playboy. “There were a few stories that I had or things that I didn't think were quite right or whatever and those are the only stories that they use and they use them to kind of back up Holly’s stories.” Scroll through for more from Marquardt:

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Bridget on Sleeping With Hef

Marquardt revealed that she always wanted to “go first” when hooking up with Hefner after group nights out because she felt it was the “cleanest” option, adding that the sexual encounters were “definitely no more than a minute.” She also recalled not being ready to sleep with him during her first night out.

“I was still just gonna watch and then and then [another girl] was like, ‘Aren't you gonna go?’ It's like, ‘You need to go.’ And I was like, ‘I would rather not.’ And she's like, ’Well, then probably won't be invited back.’ So then I was like, ‘OK,’” Marquardt told McDonald.

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Bridget on the Quaaludes

In her 2015 book, Madison alleged that Hefner offered the women drugs during a night out. Several other Playmates made similar claims over the years.

“I got in trouble from the other girls for declining it,” Marquardt claimed to McDonald. “They were like, ‘Don't decline it or he'll quit giving it to us.’ … [So] I would accept it and just throw it in my purse.”

Marquardt and Madison noted that at some point, the “Quaaludes just stopped” being offered.

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Bridget Says Hef Was ‘Abrasive’ to Holly

"Hef would be very abrasive in the way he said things to Holly," Marquardt said on “Secrets of Playboy,” agreeing with Madison that things got worse between the then-couple after she and Wilkinson left. “One day I had all these messages from Holly and she and Hef had an altercation downstairs during dinner. And she got up to go away and he said, 'Quit being such a bitch,' but not bitch, the C-word. And that's it, she was done."

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Where Bridget Stands with Holly

The two have always remained friendly, but they were closer than ever in 2022 as they launched “Girls Next Level.”

"We are great friends. We talk almost every day, whether it's text or voice memos or whatever,” she told E! News in 2021.

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Where Bridget Stands With Kendra

"We're not as close, but we still keep in contact here and there," Marquardt told E! News in 2021.

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Bridget on a Potential ‘Girls Next Door’ Reboot

"It's come up a million times. I just don't see it happening. But never say never, right? It seems like so many things from back then are popping up and coming back right now, too. So maybe it's a good time,” Marquardt said in 2021.

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Bridget Slams ‘Girls Next Door’ Editing

“They just took that made it look like I was ridiculing everybody that came, that I was just this jealous bitch, that I was getting people drunk and sabotaging their pictorials,” Marquardt said of rewatching Girls Next Door season 1.