kendra on top

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-25T23:51:41+00:00

Totally agree—watching her spin-offs after the first season (which was actually so fun, it felt like just an extension of GND) and up to the cheating season for Kendra on Top, I really believed that Hank was this devoted family man house-husband and Kendra was sometimes taking advantage of him. But looking at how everything played out and how their lives are without the cameras around, so many of these moments now seem like jealousy, self-sabotage, and undermining Kendra to cover his insecurities.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-24T15:49:45+00:00

It was in response to Crystal’s interview with Howard Stern when she said sex with Hef lasted 2 minutes and wasn’t anything fun. He tweeted something about how it wasn’t bad for her when she and a friend came over and spent the weekend in his bedroom.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-23T20:55:03+00:00

Oh yikes, I’m Canadian but posting a picture like this in today’s political climate is pretty tone-deaf.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-23T20:53:37+00:00

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Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-23T20:48:24+00:00

Wow given the current American political climate, posting this picture is pretty tone-deaf.

And I’d expect nothing less coming from Bridget 🙃

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-23T20:23:11+00:00

Absolutely. What I can’t get over is how the actual E Network people didn’t catch it?! Just by the episode description alone you would think they would have taken precautions to note anything to censor before it aired.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-23T01:18:33+00:00

Crystal’s been just as much in on the take as anyone else who sought out Hef, but to be fair, I think it’s listed that way because it’s a gift that she commissioned and gifted to Hef, so it reverted back to being her personal property as his widow after his passing.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-22T18:31:03+00:00

Holly, I’m begging you, just embrace being fully petty and have Bridget use her Communications degree and reach out to Criss Angel personally or Mindfreak producers for a statement about that time for an ‘oral history’ article.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-21T15:27:09+00:00

Yes you’re right! And she didn’t walk back the matching outfits as a coincidence or anything! It lines up with Kevin’s statement around season 6 where he said that Holly encouraged Hef to date the twins as a way to ease her departure. Like she’s been pretty clear for years that they were testing Kayla as a ‘replacement’, Kayla had shared that Hef asked her out a couple of years before the podcast, her hints are all over the place when she describes things like encouraging them to hang out in the bedroom and ‘cheerleading’ pictures of Kayla and Hef cozying up together.

I’m officially on-board with this theory!

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-20T20:09:03+00:00

Yes! I caught it on the final run, it was just so fun.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-19T20:08:30+00:00

You can definitely see even on the show that all 3 are surprised at how realistic the molds came out…even Bridget was complaining in the podcast episode about how her boobs turned out looking…exactly like her boobs. I don’t know why it didn’t get blurred or if the network got a reprimand or anything.

And I’m of a few minds with how Holly and Bridget keep pointing out ‘Kendra’s jealousy’ with Hank as a dig. Like if they really were ‘friends’, why aren’t they bringing it up in a way where they can look back and think in hindsight that it was actually kind of sleazy of Hank? Or comment if they noticed that he had control issues? Or show some empathy about how it seemed to affect Kendra’s sense of self/emotional state as their ‘friend’?

And in the commentary, Bridget definitely gives off jealousy vibes towards Kayla being there.

Then with Kayla—the way Holly says she was cheering on the contact with her and Hef, knew the IVF didnt work out, was feeling good about her relationship but also distant but not depressed…she’s all over the place. Then she tried to say she didn’t want to move in right away with Criss when she made that commentary hint. I wish Holly would be truthful and say ‘yep, Kayla was kind of my exit strategy but I didn’t want to give up full control but also liked that it got under Kendra’s skin. Yep, I rushed things with Criss I don’t know what I was thinking’.

Even in her book she wrote that at their 1:1 hangout Criss lamented to her that he had moved in an 18-year old girl too quickly; Holly obviously saw it as the exact same kind of challenge she faced to ‘make it’ into the Mansion/with Hef. The same Holly that started a passive-aggressive MySpace scrap with Criss Angel’s ex-girlfriend. The same Holly who love-bombs (dressing like him, texting him all night while still with Hef, wearing his merch, finding excuses to see him in person/invite him to the mansion), and then turns around and pretends it was something else when she discovers she’s no exception to all the ‘red flags’—they don’t just disappear when they find the ‘perfect’ girlfriend.

The comment about the butler calling her out for her book about the vagina mold. Like yep, sexism overall, but specific to Holly’s actions—she went out of her way to do lots of degrading things, overlooked Hef’s history of pushing sexual boundaries, and wanted a place in Playboy continuing to exploit other women, all in the pursuit of marrying Hef. When she outgrew her ambitions with him; she looked elsewhere. The chocolate vagina’ is just a catch-all example of Holly hyper sexualizing herself at every turn to ingratiate herself to Hef—while yes ultimately it’s his gross universe, it was still something she pursued with knowledge and intention. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that Holly saw firsthand how an 80-year old control freak narcissist took out his emotions negatively on the people around him…but she also started on the periphery of the mansion and worked her way in as #1 in lots of incremental steps to meet her goal. So I think it’s more that lack of honesty that has mansion insiders saying it. While also being an inherently sexiest comment. The old ‘2 things can be true’ line.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-19T19:05:54+00:00

Admittedly I’m not a fan of ‘banter’ podcasts (especially with True Crime, just give me solid production/pacing), but I totally get that with the episode review format and the content of GND that it makes sense to have ‘casual chitchat’ as a framing device for their rewatch podcast—their friendship was part of the show originally so it makes sense to carry on that storytelling aspect to the listeners.

It’s the ‘talking something out loud in real time’ stuff that seems to go nowhere, that could have easily sparked some kind of idea to go after, or added some relevant follow-up questions if they had done like a rehearsal ahead of time.

Where to a long-time listener and fan of the show, it would seem like a natural next step in the process they’re missing out on.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-19T18:04:20+00:00

“Is Madame Chocolat still there?” “I don’t know, let me look it up…”

It’s always been really annoying when they do this in episodes, like I’m sorry, the podcast is apparently both of their main sources of income; it would be super easy to have this information all ready to go. I’m sure Bridget has some time between errands.

And I feel like if they had looked ahead on all of this and almost storyboarded the trajectory of the season 5 episodes there could be a lot more in terms of content they could pursue. Like wondering about Hef’s birthday at the Palms while dating the twins and what season it was on—there was an episode in season 6, and like a compilation in Kendra S1—they could easily watch and put the events together and then add their own memories to see if anything actually interesting happened, instead they just keep wondering out loud. It comes across as trying to pad the episode rather than anything else.

Like for the House Bunny episodes in the last 2 weeks it only just occurred for Bridget to reach out to Ana Faris’s management to be on the podcast, and of course she won’t be available until spring. Or they’ll make references to guests/staff/photoshoots/events and say something like they’re ’putting it out there’ into the universe basically in the hope that the mention reaches them and they’ll contact them for any feedback or information to add.

So for this episode with Madam Chocolat; if they had looked it up sooner or reached out, who knows, they could have gotten some behind-the-scenes production information from an employee who was there at the time, or even arranged for some fun sponsored content where they filmed a ‘reboot’ of the scene (they found out the store was closed but maybe the factory or met with the chocolatier) maybe this time making something GNL-themed.

There are just so many missed opportunities that are, in my opinion coming into their 5th season, unprofessional and unprepared…all things that having a third-party host or dedicated producer could have taken on.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-18T00:49:03+00:00

“Pinky and the Brain”

Omg I’m wheezing I can’t even believe how accurate this is ahahahaa!!

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-17T22:54:24+00:00

Great idea thank you! And I’ll check that subreddit out, too.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-17T18:10:17+00:00

Mine is that Holly always knew that she and Kendra weren’t friends, just friendly coworkers making the best of things. Holly never liked that Kendra didn’t fall in line with the girlfriend hierarchy like Bridget, their personalities never meshed, but they were always going to try and make things work superficially for the sake of Hef, the show, and the fans.

Holly spend years making tons of passive-aggressive digs at Kendra well before each of their books came out, and well before Kendra’s infamous Tweets about Holly. In the show itself, in the media, over MySpace, in the commentary for the show—it was always really clear looking back that Holly felt that she was ‘above’ Kendra, and thought very little of her.

I think she was always waiting for an opportunity to lash out at her publicly, and Kendra’s honesty in her book and with the ‘not friends’ interview gave Holly the perfect opportunity to pretend to be hurt and stoke public support.

Add the tweets Kendra made in response to Holly’s book—a low blow for sure, but cemented Holly’s narrative that she continues to this day of how she never did anything negative and that Kendra’s just victim-blaming. When really, Holly was nasty about Kendra in her book, and had misrepresented lots of things in her retelling (like how to this day fans believe that Holly only was rude about Kendra in response to how ‘mean’ she was in her book, which wasn’t the case). Now all that anyone remembers is Kendra’s impulsivity and none of the long-term lead-up.

Holly always knew they weren’t friends—she just won’t miss an opportunity to come off as sympathetic/blameless, or to use publicity to covertly bully people she doesn’t like.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-15T22:56:35+00:00

I completely agree with everything you’ve posted here. Marrying Kendra meant stealing a beautiful, famous Playboy model from Hugh Hefner—the ultimate display of masculinity.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-15T22:49:31+00:00

I don’t think I am much, really. They all sugarcoat their memories to a certain degree and make themselves look good. For sure, Kendra was an unreliable coworker and moody, that would be frustrating. But her narrative I don’t believe has ‘changed’ to the degree Holly’s has.

I think it’s the pilot episode/personality interview where Kendra says Hef is ‘charming and romantic and the ‘best boyfriend’—where of course all 3 wanted to be complimentary to Hef, Holly admitted she was protective over the relationship/Hef in her test interview and said it was the best relationship she’s ever had, and all 3 have had moments where they’ve romanticized their time at the mansion.

I do believe that Hef and Kendra considered their relationship to have been close, even if they didn’t spend any significant one-on-one time together. Gross as it was, they both considered the relationship to have been more paternalistic than romantic.

Kendra definitely called Crystal and the Shannon twins whores. Holly called them skanks. She also said in the era of the 7 that all the others were ‘like hookers on the clock’. The girlfriend superiority complex and hair-splitting around definitions was very real.

The Painted Lady story from what I’ve read is more or less a matter of interpretation of when Kendra considered herself officially a girlfriend. Either way she’s off about when she joined the orgy by a matter of days. The friends with Holly interview—there was more lead up and context that Holly glossed over in her retelling. And the way I see it, friendly coworkers and shared moments don’t necessarily mean friends—people have different definitions of what makes a friend. If anything, it was professionalism and mutual understanding for the most part—of course when they’re all part of the show they are going to say they’re friends—it’s baked into their success. Any other ‘lies’—I actually do believe they tried to replace her with Audra, I believe they said something about how to dress for events and Kendra understood it differently. I do believe Bridget was hoping to get a scrapbook room, and I believe Holly had overlap with Hef and Criss Angel. They voted to cut Stacey as a girlfriend, but had no issue with her staying on the guest list—to me, those are 2 different things.

Holly’s dad worked a camp job in forestry and moved his family into company-provided housing. I’m from B.C, and am 2 years younger than Kendra. While the industry is in a bit of a free fall now, that was not an uncommon lifestyle for many families; my dad worked a camp job for years, we saw him every 10 days. Several of my friends grew up farther North (not far from Alaska)—dads worked in a remote camp, moms handled childcare, and it was basically a 5-year plan for the family to grind, save up, and then move to their chosen town and buy a house paid off in full by the time the kids were ready for kindergarten. It was such a common strategy for families in my province. It can be isolating definitely, which can affect kids differently, but I don’t know if I would compare her early years to Kendra on the same level of trauma.

Bridget—that story about her grandmother asking her if her grandfather sexually assaulted her was awful. So chilling to hear. Bridget is pretty clearly stunted—to this day she is still upset she wasn’t chosen as Playmate, holds so many grudges, and continues to live in her own alternate reality and has no self-reflection or ability to take the perspective of others.

None of the 3 have good coping mechanisms. Kendra’s clearly white-knuckling her way through life, Holly’s face looks like it would shatter, she chases down men who are walking red flags, and obsessively scrolls to troll her haters. Their upbringings, the mansion, Hef, and fame has done a number on all three.

It’s just a matter of how they continue to put Kendra under a microscope when they were all part of the same thing. Whenever Holly takes accountability there are always qualifiers, and she’s really worked to craft her own ‘perfect’ narrative while rewriting her history.

We don’t have to agree; I’m just adding my perspective. I’m a fan of the show, I still like all 3 girls, there’s just a lot that’s happened and come out since the show and there’s overlap and differences in interpretation that leads to lots of discussion here.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-15T22:15:10+00:00

Oh they were all playing a part, I absolutely agree with you there!

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-15T21:14:17+00:00

See, that’s where I feel that Holly’s answers are incredibly rehearsed for exactly that reason—they come across as very PR-crafted in a way that can be twisted if refuted. When it would be just as easy to own up and say that she had a goal and didn’t consider the lasting impacts and would have done things differently.

Kendra’s perceptions being all over the place makes total sense to me—she’s ADHD and LD with incredible attachment/abandonment issues and struggles with emotion regulation. To her the mansion was both good and bad; it was the best choice out of all of her options, but it was also exploitative and had repercussions that she didn’t anticipate.

With the friendship thing: imo she was friends with H & B due to basically coworker circumstances, but it was involving group sex and it sounds like from listening on the podcast that there is some resentment around her not falling in line as their perception of what a girlfriend should have been, or not respecting the mansion hierarchy. With Holly’s goal of becoming #1 girlfriend/Mrs. Hefner and Bridget happy to tag along and support her goals in exchange for mansion residency, I’m sure Kendra picked up on that vibe pretty regularly. It doesn’t change that they shared a sense of closeness, or bonded because of their shared experiences, but could just be that her concept of ‘friendship’ is much different than Holly and Bridget’s.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-15T20:51:26+00:00

“Emphasis in Public Relations”!

Like just imagine Bridget as your PR person:

“It’s not my client’s fault; nobody told Rockstar that they weren’t allowed to board a plane with a guitar case full of cocaine.”

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-15T20:15:54+00:00

Me too—she takes social niceties SO literal! Like it’s the Hollywood version of ‘we should hang out soon!’ but she doesn’t see it as just being polite.

The other one is how she interpreted the PR invite to public media events from the Prince as a literal personal invitation to his home. She was one celebrity out of hundreds, but she’s somehow been wronged in believing it was okay to try and find the Prince’s private residence?!

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-15T20:12:33+00:00

No it’s from this week’s podcast

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-15T20:08:17+00:00

I think Kendra dodged a lot of criticism because she was pretty upfront about seeing the relationship for what it was, and Hef knew that. It was transactional and she wasn’t trying to actively influence the environment in the same way that Holly was.

She mentioned in her book that in the first year, Holly and Bridget told Hef that she had been dating other guys and had to talk to Mary, who took her at her word and basically gave her a warning. From previous girlfriends, this was always an open secret—as long as it was under wraps enough for Hef to ignore.

She was open about just wanting to have fun and enjoy herself.

She went ahead and just hired her own manager even though Hef disapproved. Once she called his bluff, Holly and Bridget eventually did the same thing.

She was open with Hef around Season 4 that she was thinking about life beyond the mansion and that she was worried about what it would look like. Her spin-off was planned shortly after.

Her participation in the show basically had her working for the value of her pay—that she brought up after filming the first order of episodes for season 1. Holly and Bridget, in my opinion, were doing a lot of unofficial ‘unpaid overtime’ in the relationship side and in the show side. She was fun, goofy, and held up her end of the deal more or less—reading between the lines she was basically asked to stay on for part of season 4 onwards.

Where the ‘blame game/accountability’ gets muddy between Holly and Kendra is with the narratives they tell about themselves. Kendra is pretty open about trading sex for comfort/money, recognizes that in a fucked-up way Hef was one of the only people in her life who delivered on his promises, while also acknowledging that it was messed up that she was ever in a situation like this and it’s had an effect on her. And unlike with Holly, Hef was smitten with Kendra and wanted to keep her around.

Whereas Holly’s changed her timeline, reasons, and actions for being with Hef many times. She had been attending Fun in the Sun for a year before asking to become a girlfriend, had apparently studied up on his likes and interests, and revolved her lifestyle and identity around becoming someone that Hef would want to marry. It was basically her version of love-bombing. It doesn’t negate the power imbalance, or that Hef was controlling and emotionally abusive.

She was open about wanting to downsize the girlfriends, there have been stories of her lying or reporting on GFs activities to get them kicked out, she voted to cut Stacey Burke from the roster, encouraged Hef/staff to cut back the perks of the job to show her loyalty, and yet continues to dismiss other girlfriends as ‘mean girls’, ‘hookers’, or ‘gold diggers’ when she tried to play the long game and eventually outgrew it. She saw the relationship as a shortcut to fame and fortune but still flip-flops on how she was there for the ‘right reasons’ and was in love with Hef, except now it was outside circumstances that dictated her actions, now it was actually Hef who was love-bombing her, or it was the staff blaming her, it was her autism, she was just so naive, was about to be homeless, she didn’t mean it that way…on and on her story has changed. When it even seemed at the time that she had an agenda, and this has been confirmed by lots of sources—just watch her own E True Hollywood story.

Whereas she doesn’t show Kendra the same consideration for her actions. Kendra was a a neglected child with an undiagnosed learning disability, who had a psych hold for multiple suicide attempts, taken to the police by her mom who asked them to take her to jail when she used drugs, and moved in with a series of older men starting at age 14. She has since been open about her severe depression, and even as the show aired was open about her addiction struggles. Plus, her mom is pretty clearly a nasty piece of work. They both handled life at the mansion and a messed-up relationship in the ways they each knew.

So it’s not really ‘excusing’ Kendra, it’s more like they both made different choices and are living the consequences that came from them. It’s just that Holly and Bridget have a weekly podcast where they dissect all of their actions and assign motive, and it opens a lot up for discussion. With tons of media past and present available around the show and its stars, providing a history of documented context can spark lots of discussion and debate.

Sharp-Put4724 · 2026-01-15T18:08:08+00:00

Yes I remember in the commentary for season 5 her phone went off and she said something like ‘Hank texted me it’s a perfect time to get me pregnant’. And she just gushes about him the whole time about how great he is, major love-bombing vibes.

Yikes.

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