Las Vegas Weekly

November 3, 2008 · 10:05 AM

Being a couple is ‘a great feeling,’ Angel and Madison say

By Robin Leach

Criss and Holly.

Photo: Scott Doctor

“We’re having fun” is how Mindfreak magician Criss Angel and new Playboy gal pal Holly Madison explained their weekend string of dates after the premiere of his new Cirque du Soleil show Believe at the Luxor. “We are a couple, and things are really good. Neither of us knows where this is going, but it’s just a great feeling.”

They were inseparable all weekend long and toured the “Screamers” haunted maze on the Brooklyn Bridge at New York-New York, which we reported first yesterday. Now I can tell you exclusively that the couple turned up for pancakes and eggs at an off-Strip IHOP and also ate at the new Tequilas & Taco restaurant at his Luxor hotel headquarters.

I also can exclusively reveal that although Criss drove her to the airport yesterday morning, Holly will return here tomorrow night from Hollywood to spend more time with the magic master on his two dark, off-show days -- Wednesday and Thursday.

“It’s a real romance” one good friend told me. “I think they have fallen in love with each other already. They’ve said they are definitely boyfriend and girlfriend. We’ve never seen him quite like this with anybody else before. She’s great for him, and the timing is perfect for them. They just fit so comfortably together. It’s like it was meant to be.”

While Holly is waiting for her new Hollywood loft to be completed since she has moved out of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion, she will be staying with Criss at the Luxor. Bridget Marquardt, her co-star on The Girls Next Door, said last week while visiting Vegas: “Holly has moved out. Kendra has also moved out, and I don’t know how much longer I’ll be there. “

Holly, who hosted a Palms Playboy Club party with Bridget, added: “I want to make the loft the best bachelorette pad possible -- complete with a fireman pole that I couldn’t get Hef to put in the mansion. You can’t live in the loft now -- nothing is done to it yet. It’s still in the cardboard boxes, but we’re working on it. Hopefully it will all be finished before the holidays.”

Our Luxe Life spies and camera crews will keep watch when Holly gets back tomorrow. She and Criss will celebrate some good news about how she’ll be in Vegas even more in the months to come, but I can’t tell you even though I know the details about it just yet but can promise we will have all those details before anybody else!

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