Actor and model Pamela Anderson has lifted the lid on how she came to the realisation that she had to leave the infamous Playboy Mansion.
Anderson, best known for her acting roles in TV in shows such as Baywatch and V.I.P, made her name as a Playboy model, featuring as the magazine’s Playmate of the Month in its February 1990 issue, while also being on more Playboy covers than any other model in history.
However, in an interview back in 2018, she revealed her reasons for leaving Playboy behind.
She’s not the first to reveal bizarre stories from behind the doors of the Playboy mansion, with former Playboy Bunnies coming out with claims in recent years following founder Hugh Hefner’s death in 2017.
As part of her episode of Life Stories with Piers Morgan, Anderson was completely candid with questions thrown her way as she opened up about her time at Playboy.
Pamela Anderson made a name for herself with Playboy (Laurence Cottrell/FilmMagic)
One of her admissions included the reasoning behind her leaving the Playboy Mansion behind, which all began when she followed a group of girls and Hefner upstairs in the infamous abode.
Speaking to Morgan, she began: “I followed them upstairs. I thought, ‘What could be going on up here?'”
“Seven girls, one at a time with Hef,” she revealed.
She still values the relationship she had with Hefner, crediting him with the career she went on to have (Chad Buchanan/Getty Images)
“I was stood at the end of the bed watching them and then I realised they were watching me. I thought, ‘This is not a movie. I need to leave’.”
The uncomfortable and bizarre moment didn’t knock the friendship between Hefner and Anderson though, as she revealed how close they were shortly after his death in 2017.
She took to Instagram, describing the Playboy founder as the ‘most important person in (her) life’ apart from family, crediting him with kickstarting her career.
Anderson went on: “Everything anyone loves about me is because you understood me. Accepted me and encouraged me to be myself… You said the magazine was about a girl like me.
“I will miss your everything. Thank you for making the world a better place. A freer and sexier place. You were a gentleman charming, elegant, chivalrous and so much fun,” she concluded.
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Topics: Hugh Hefner, Playboy, Pamela Anderson, Celebrity
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Someone took the Oasis reunion a little bit too seriously…
And by that I mean I got a coat that makes me look like I could be the sixth member of the band, ready to fall out with my wayward brothers Liam and Noel.
Before you wonder, no, I didn’t get tickets. I’m road-testing Uniqlo’s next-generation Hybrid Down Coat, a brand new addition to their AW24 collection that’s super-lightweight but promises to keep you warm and dry whatever the weather.
The latest iteration of Uniqlo‘s sellout down range, it’s filled with a mixture of cotton padding and down, and coated with a water-repellent finish, while breathable mesh and ventilation holes mean you won’t get sweaty when jumping out of a cold winter’s morning onto a hot, crowded bus. It’s no surprise people are already raving about the ‘showerproof’ coat which has racked up dozens of five-star reviews. And the best part? The hood is removable.
But how does it stack up against the Great British Weather?
I’ve been wearing it to the office almost religiously since I got it (Adam Hamdani)
In the cold ❄️
If you’ve ever been to my current hometown of Manchester, you know that grey skies and rainy clouds are the norm up here.
On the coat goes, and the first thing I notice about it is the genuine high quality feel of it. It feels pretty lightweight considering the size and bulk of it, one of those where if you were wearing it on a cold morning but the weather got warm in the afternoon, you’d have no problem carrying it under one arm or stuffing it into your laptop bag.
It has a zip that goes about three quarters of the way down the coat, but buttons all the way down to make it a nice snug fit and keep all the warmth locked in when you need it.
In the rain ☔️
The following day, it was time to really put this coat to the test. I have around a 10-minute walk to the bus stop and it is lashing it down, with fast winds too. Let’s do it.
The first thing I notice is the coat doesn’t flap out, some coats are chaos to wear when it comes to winds as they flap all over the place, but this one seems to hold pretty well. The rain also appears to just brush off the coat? Small trickles remain but the majority of the rainfall seems to just be bouncing off the coat with grace.
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In midler weather 🌦️
I wouldn’t ever wear this coat with anything else heavy on, a light jumper at most. Otherwise you might end up sweating even in the cold because this thing keeps you warm!
The coat is obviously quite long, so worrying about how to style it isn’t really a concern of mine outside of not wearing a hoodie underneath – lesson learnt. You can wear whatever bottoms you feel comfortable in with this piece as it’s quite a casual coat mainly concerned with protecting you from the elements.
My verdict?
I love it. Uniqlo’s Hybrid Down Coat is one that I’ll certainly be using on repeat throughout autumn and into winter. It’s easy to look after, I wear it most days when commuting into work and if I’m heading to do my Big Shop. At £110, this coat is definitely an investment but you’ll get a lot of wear out of it and compared to some others on the market, you’re paying for quality that will last in the long run.
Browse Uniqlo’s Hybrid Down collection here.
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The former Playboy model living in a £60 tent has revealed the truth behind living with Hugh Hefner in his mansion.
Yeah, quite the 180 in lifestyle. Louise Glover is a glamour model who met the magazine publisher back in the early noughties when she was 21.
The now 41-year-old worked in the classic lad mags like FHM and Loaded before Hef had her go on to appear on the cover of Playboy Vixens.
And in 2006, the beauty pageant star became the first British model to earn the title of ‘Model of the Year’ in Playboy Special Editions.
But things took a turn for Glover earlier this year when she resorted to having to pitch up in a tent, making it her temporary home for over a month now.
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Louise Glover is now living in a tent (David Westing/Getty Images)
And while she struggles with rising rent prices amid trying to build up her own businesses, it all seems like a far cry from the days in Hef’s mansion.
Described as the ‘British Carmen Electra’ by the multi-millionaire, she’d stay at the notorious Playboy home between jetting about to parties and photoshoots.
She described living there as ‘the best time’ and ‘like another world’.
“I didn’t even think about it that much at the time, but I was hanging out with the biggest names in the world,” Glover told The Sun. “I loved all the other Playboy models, we were like a family. I really liked Hugh, he was a total gentleman.”
The glamour model, who recently had presenting gigs at the horse racing, described the mansion as ‘incredible’, pointing out the place even had a ‘zoo’.
“Everything was pink and had the Playboy Bunny logo on it,” she added.
“We had these wild parties. I once got my body painted and we all danced around Snoop Dogg as he performed on stage at the house.”
She now runs a dog walking business (Instagram/@louiseglover)
Glover eventually ended up going into fitness and lifestyle and travelled to Dubai last year to launch her personal training classes alongside doing promo work for Formula One and rugby.
But she struggled to build a solid client base so came back to the UK.
Now working on a dog walking business alongside personal training, she got into a ‘pickle’ when her Windsor landlord hiked the monthly room price up to £750 from £550.
“I have two hot water bottles to sleep with at night,” she explained. “I make sure I am on a campsite so I am safe and I also have my car. My luck will change soon.”
Featured Image Credit: Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage/@louiseglover/Instagram
Topics: Playboy, Hugh Hefner, Lifestyle
A former ‘Bunny’ has revealed the horrifying reality of living in the Playboy mansion.
While celebrities from the likes of Mike Tyson and Jack Nicholson to Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio would head over to Hugh Hefner’s house for the infamous parties, the bloke of course had a set of women living there.
The Girls Next Door reality series gave fans an insight into life there, with the Bunnies shacked up under one roof alongside the millionaire’s wife and girlfriends.
Let’s be honest, when most of us think of what it must be like to live in the Playboy mansion, there’s a few key things that come to mind: glamour, money and well, sex. But as many of the old Bunnies open up about their time there, it turns out it was pretty ‘grubby’.
Izabella St. James said the house wasn’t so clean – by any meaning of the word. (Rich Polk/WireImage)
Izabella St. James previously wrote a tell-all memoir about her time at the Los Angeles mansion, called Bunny Tales, as she revealed: “We all did our best to decorate our rooms and make them homely, but the mattresses on our beds were disgusting – old, worn and stained.”
She explained that Hef ‘eventually’ gave them permission to have their rooms painted and re-carpeted.
“He liked the girlfriends’ rooms to look very girly, all white carpet and pink walls,” the magazine publisher’s former girlfriend added.
“Hef was used to dirty carpets. The one in his bedroom had not been changed for years, and things became significantly worse when Holly Madison moved into his room with him as Girlfriend No. 1 soon after I moved in, bringing her two dogs.”
St. James claimed the dogs weren’t house trained and would just ‘do their business’ on the carpet.
Hefner, Madison and St. James. (Denise Truscello/WireImage)
“Late at night, if any of us visited Hef’s bedroom, we’d almost always end up standing in dog mess,” she said.
Yeah, not quite the Playboy glamour you’d probably imagine.
And she really went in as the former model continued: “Everything in the Mansion felt old and stale, and Archie the house dog would regularly relieve himself on the hallway curtains, adding a powerful whiff of urine to the general scent of decay.”
Former model Jenna Bentley, who lived there for a year, previously revealed some of the strict rules for the Playboy Mansion (seems the dogs had it a little more relaxed).
She explained that the women had a 9pm curfew and if you missed it, you were apparently sleeping in the garden.
Well, maybe that was cleaner than the carpets.
Featured Image Credit: Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic/Denise Truscello/WireImage
Topics: Playboy, Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner would insist Playboy bunnies used baby oil as lube when having sex, a former girlfriend has claimed.
Holly Madison moved into the Playboy Mansion when she was 21 and soon became Hefner’s ‘number one girlfriend’, with their relationship lasting seven years.
In recent years, she has lifted the lid on her time with Playboy founder Hefner, who died in 2017, aged 91.
Speaking on her Girls Next Level podcast – which she hosts alongside another of Hefner’s former girlfriends, Bridget Marquardt – Madison said Hef’s obsession with baby oil led to yeast infections.
The 42-year-old said: “Hef would use baby oil as lube. I do not recommend this. It is an infection waiting to happen.
“It’s disgusting. I don’t know what his hang-up was with it.
“It took it to the point where I was constantly irritated by this baby oil because it throws off your pH, so you’re constantly going to have yeast infections.”
She continued: “I remember talking to the gynaecologist about it and then telling Hef, ‘You need to stop using baby oil. I can’t use it,’ and even telling him the gynaecologist agreed with me, and he would argue with me and be like, ‘Well people use baby oil on babies.’
“And I’m like, ‘Yeah, on their skin. Not internally. You’re not supposed to put it there.'”
Even after making it clear that she didn’t want him to use it, Madison said Hefner would continue to apply it without her permission.
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She recalled: “It got to the point where I would refuse to use it, but then other people would tell me that he would – in the bedroom – put it on his hand and then put it on me when my back was turned and I didn’t know he was doing it.
“It was so foul and so non-consensual and so gross. I had forgotten about that for the longest time but I was reminded of it for some reason and it made me angry all over again.”
As you can probably imagine then, sex with Hef was not something the bunnies looked forward to.
“We thought of it as a chore that we had to do or else we’ll get kicked out of the house,” Madison said. “And everybody just wanted to make it go by as quickly as possible.”
The mum-of-two previously opened up about her ‘traumatic’ experience having sex with Hef for the first time.
“I was wasted,” she recalled on the Power: Hugh Hefner podcast in December.
“He was literally pushed on top of me. And after it happened, I was just mortified and embarrassed, and it had way more of an emotional impact on me than I thought it would.”
