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Justin M. Bowen
Holly Madison, one of the stars of the E! cable network’s TV reality show, “The Girls Next Door,” walked the CineVegas 2009 red carpet Wednesday at Planet Hollywood, prior to the premiere of “Saint John of Las Vegas.”
Published Thursday, June 18, 2009 | 11:09 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | 1:02 p.m.
Planet Holly-Wood
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diggWe join the newest "Peepshow" star, Holly Madison, on her photo shoot for the cover of Las Vegas Weekly.
Last week, I spent a couple of days working on a travel story. I visited Hollyland, which I would dub Hollywood but won’t for intellectual trademark infringement concerns.
Holly Q&A
I ride sidecar with Holly Madison and wrote about the experience for the current cover story in Las Vegas Weekly. We’ve assembled a photo gallery and video of Madison’s cover shoot at The Peepshow Theater at Planet Hollywood (yes, the sign was changed to “Planet Holly” for a time last week, allowing for photo ops). Next week, on Monday, Madison begins at least a three-month run as the show's co-star (with Shoshana Bean) and biggest draw. One moment in my time with her not in the Weekly story showed how very isolated celebrities can become.
One day, we went house hunting in Centennial Hills, wound back to Planet Hollywood for a red carpet walk for the CineVegas premiere of “Saint John of Las Vegas,” visited Madison’s suite at P.H., walked her dog Napoleon, hit the Peppermill for dinner and wound up at a late-night performance of “Jubilee!” at Bally’s. We finally got back to the hotel around 1 a.m., and I remarked to her how exhausted I felt after the whole process. “Really?” she said, and it was obvious this was not an atypical day for her. As I drove off, I hit KNPR, where a news report of the shooting at the Holocaust Museum was being updated. I had not heard of this event all day, and certainly no one in Madison’s camp would have been able to catch up on the day’s events during the hamster wheel ride that is Madison’s life. I thought, no wonder celebrities -- or at least, many of them -- seem so out of touch with current events. Where’s the time?
I have also pulled a few quoted highlights of my time with Madison. Read on:
On her ill-fated relationship with Luxor headliner and “Mindfreak” star Criss Angel: “Some people don’t want to be happy, so they look for problems, and they pick away at something until they find problems. … He’s the one with the problem, not me.”
On whether her relationship with Hugh Hefner during “The Girls Next Door,” co-starring Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson, was genuine: “It’s for the audience to decide if it was real. ….It’s not normal, it’s not like you’re dating someone, and it’s normal. It was the most absurd situation. It was just supposed to be fun.”
On why she moved from Oregon to Los Angeles: “Have you ever been to Oregon?”
On her dust-up with Channel 3 entertainment reporter Alicia Jacobs, who took umbrage at a comment Madison made about her sundress during an appearance at an event marking Hugh Hefner’s 83rd birthday at the Palms Place pool over Memorial Day weekend: “I honestly did NOT mean to take a dig at her. I was so unprepared for this to turn into a catty thing. … It’s like she just loves the drama.”
On whether her parents will see her perform in “Peepshow,” where she appears topless: “I’m not sure. I don’t know if I can be sexy with my parents in the audience.”
On her revealing “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” ad for PETA: “I made it clear to them that I’m not a vegetarian, and I’ve got leather seats in my car. I’m not a hardcore PETA person.”
On her objective in Las Vegas: “I want to be the new Miss Las Vegas.”
I liked Holly until she hooked up with Criss Angel. Then she became a dumb blonde. (Truthfully, wanting to have an 81-year-old's baby was the turning point for me.)
Holly, you don't have to go the topless bimbo route. Learn from Pam Anderson and don't make the same mistakes. Be the sweet Holly Madison you were before the implants and the Playboy mansion took you down.
i think it's really sad that a newspaper that just won a pulitzer has nonsense like this in it.
is there anyone that isn't a moron that cares about this girl or what she says?
stevem -- I've posted this before, but repeating it probably makes sense.
The Las Vegas Sun has a wide audience of readers, especially on the Internet. Some are interested in our in-depth analytical and investigative stories that basically come from the print edition. Some follow our breaking news stories that are published primarily online, and others like reading our web-only sports and entertainment coverage.
Well-rounded news organizations offer a wide variety of content.
Other newspapers that have also won Pulitzer prizes -- including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Times -- also regularly cover entertainment stories and celebrity news as part of their overall mix of content.
When it comes to celebrity news on lasvegassun.com, one of our rules is that the story has to be local -- as in happened in Las Vegas or has ties to our city. We write these types of stories frequently when actors, sports figures and other celebrities come to town, giving us a chance to catch them on our home court for interviews.
For all intents and purposes, Holly Madison is now a member of our community. Why is that when we write "hard-news" stories about how Marie Osmond decorates her Henderson home for the holidays we don't get feedback like this?
;)
If you have read the print edition of, say, The Washington Post, you would know that in its daily Style section, there is a gossip and celebrity column very similar to this. The LA Times also has something similar.
We believe the Las Vegas Sun is in good company with those other newspapers in covering such stories. Also, Las Vegas is considered by many readers as the Entertainment Capital of the World. So, we will continue to provide stories, features and reviews on entertainment events and celebrities.
And finally, one of the great attributes of an online news site is that reading every story is completely opt-in; you make the choice to read or view something on a news site by clicking on the link.
Our suggestion would be to stay away from the stories that involve the celebrity side of Las Vegas and focus on reading our news organization's stories that seem to fall more in your interests.
I'm guessing that a good rule of thumb for you might be to only read the stories on this page:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/todays-paper/...
rob,
you're 100% correct.
it's the greenspun media group's paper and they can put anything in it that they wish.
and by having a comments function to the paper, you invite both praise and criticism.
i've given a SOLID lead to one of your writers about a government contractor doing some interesting things and i've not once seen a single line written about it, but holly madison gets 100 words per week.
93.1 "the party" plays "fergalicious" 10 times a day. could they maybe play it 9 times instead of 10 and throw in "you dropped the bomb on me" just once per day?
The Sun isn't going to win another Pulitzer by remaining obsessed with Madison.
Be positive and think big here, folks. Vegas needs a bit of positive PR, and from everything I can tell, Holly might indeed be just the poster gal this town needs. I had the opportunity to see her in action recently when I was doing a volunteer gig at Taste of Nation (big fundraiser), and she seems real, and in fact has a sweet and genuine energy about her. And lay off her bad relationship choices -- we've all made them, and she'll learn not to pretzel herself for men when she's ready!
The Sun is a good read and I like the soft news you include. Thanks.
It's well-rounded coverage and a pertinent/significant topic, don't know if this is the continuation of the lengthy article from the Weekly or not. Same article excerpts and I assume writer? I beleive the resentment with Holly Madison arises because she really has no talent other than that of a nude or semi-model. Let's examine the facts here: She is best known for being linked to an 83 year-old "baffoon" who chairs what amounts to a dying archaic corporation, only to latch onto a white trash half-wit magician from N.J. no less, then immediatly flunked-put of DWTS in early rounds, to be handed a premiere role on the Las Vegas Strip in a major resort hotel. Only in Vegas, baby!!!
Keep "grasping" for the D-List ILO of real talent and we'll never outlive our reputation for shlock!
Its a shame some people can't behave like adults when their relationships don't work out and they resort to trashing people, they once claimed to have cared about in the press. Look back, it just may be Karma!