Holly Madison has broken her silence on her yearslong feud with fellow Playboy vet Kendra Wilkinson.
Madison, 46, and Wilkinson, 41, rose to fame alongside each other as two of Hugh Hefner’s three live-in girlfriends who starred on the E! series The Girls Next Door.
The former co-stars have been estranged since 2012, three years after they last appeared together on reality TV.
‘Kendra and I don’t speak, but I’m not opposed to speaking. We had a falling out, but it was after the show,’ Madison told Hot Goss podcast hosts Eyal Booker and Lonnie Marts IIV.
Madison said she felt pitted against Wilkinson by the late television producer Kevin Burns, who was behind both of their spinoff shows.
‘It was stuff that had to do with our spinoffs, and working with the same producer. I really feel like he tried to pit us against each other and got in our heads. So, that’s a shame,’ she reflected.
Holly Madison has broken her silence on her yearslong feud with fellow Playboy vet Kendra Wilkinson; pictured in November 2025
Madison, 46, and Wilkinson, 41, rose to fame alongside each other as two of Hugh Hefner’s three live-in girlfriends who starred on the E! series Girls Next Door; L-R Bridget Marquardt, Hefner, Madison and Wilkinson in 2006
Burns initially produced Wilkinson’s self-titled show, Kendra, and he later helmed Holly’s World.
Meanwhile, Hefner’s third girlfriend Bridget Marquardt’s, 52, spinoff did not make it on air.
In 2022 Madison said on an episode of the Juicy Scoop podcast that Burns privately confessed to strategically putting a strain on her and Wilkinson’s relationship.
‘Things got weird with me and Kendra, and I felt like he was encouraging that,’ she shared at the time.
‘He wanted us fighting, he wanted drama, he wanted me to come on her show and like brag about how much money I was making in Vegas so she’d get a little poke in the *ss to take more jobs to make her show more interesting. I don’t know, that’s what he told me.’
While on Hot Goss, Madison was asked for her take on a 2015 episode of Wilkinson’s other show Kendra on Top, in which she claimed that she and Madison ‘were never friends’ and only ‘f***ed the same man.’
She responded, ‘We were never as close, obviously, as me and Bridget. 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.’
The blonde beauty then speculated, ‘You know what I think it was? 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, and if somebody wrote a clickbait headline, she was going to retweet it.’
Wilkinson, who now has a career in real estate, pictured in March
The Girls Next Door aired for six seasons from 2005-2010
Madison said she felt pitted against Wilkinson by the late television producer Kevin Burns, who was behind both of their spinoff shows; pictured with Hefner in 2006
However, she said she was caught off guard by Wilkinson’s comments.
‘I’m sitting here like, “Wait, I just sent your son a Christmas gift,” like, we’re not friends? That’s so weird. So I think she was just really caught up,’ she emphasized.
Wilkinson shares son Hank Jr., 16, and daughter Alijah, 12, with ex-husband Hank Baskett, 43.
While Madison is busy hosting two podcasts and an HBO Max investigative series, Wilkinson has turned to a career in real estate.
Earlier this month she opened up about work struggles in a candid Instagram post.
Wilkinson wrote in a caption, ‘I love real estate and I love people but wow, I’m so beyond heartbroken today with how things are going.’
The former playmate explained that the job is about more than transactions, ‘it’s people,’ and revealed she’d ‘hit a major wall with people.’
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