Las Vegas Weekly

December 7, 2009 · 3:22 PM

Photo Gallery: Holly Madison’s early birthday includes strong ratings

By Robin Leach

Laura Croft, Holly Madison and Josh Strickland.

Photo: TVT

Blonde beauty Holly Madison premiered her E! Entertainment reality TV series Holly’s World last night, and early this morning, the ratings proved that she’s the knockout queen. E! Entertainment reported that Holly had delivered the network’s highest-rated show of the week.

I joined Holly, her gal pals and the cast of her Peepshow at Planet Hollywood last night to watch the private screening, and here are the exclusive photos. It’s all about Holly deciding to tackle our Merry Mayor of Mirth Oscar Goodman on some of the Strip’s traffic tie-ups. Click HERE and HERE for two clips posted online.

Holly comes off as a real confident professional and comedienne. The show is cute, funny, filled with eye candy and has a great story line of her taking over City Hall and then the world. She has her army of gorgeous gal pals enlisted for the battle, and talk show host Jerry Springer, Oscar and yours truly make cameo appearances as she starts her conquest of Sin City. Watching her get dressed in her underwear and business suit for a visit to the Mayor’s Office is worth the price of admission alone for the fast-moving half-hour.

Holly has a hiatus from Peepshow next month to plan February and March filming for the series, which she’ll juggle simultaneously. The episodes start airing in May after the new season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. She’s told me to be prepared to make a weekly appearance. Las Vegas looks great on Holly’s World, and the series is fabulous for our city.

I sat alongside Holly as she watched the show, and she said: “I can’t tell you how happy I am with it. It’s far more than I dreamed possible. Everybody did such a great job. This is awesome, and we kept it sexy, as well as showing female empowerment. For me, this is the best birthday present!”

Holly’s birthday is on Dec. 23, but her celebration weekend kicked off with a party for her at Jet in The Mirage. Holly showed up with gal pal Laura Croft, who was a Miss Playboy beauty last year.

Holly also kicked off her Holly Jolly Toy Drive this weekend by visiting the Hard Rock Cafe collection point on the Strip. The U.S. Marines helped collect donations and boxing legend Mike Tyson and wife Lakiha Spicer stopped by with a donation. Our local radio station sponsor KOMP 92.3 broadcast live and hosted a concert featuring The Day After, Atlas Takes Aim, Aiming for Zero, Searchlight and MP & CO. Representatives of Cadillac Las Vegas West also showed up to support Holly with an Escalade full of toys they’d collected.

Holly told me: “We got off to an unbelievably great start with hundreds of toys being donated. It was awesome. I’m going to do six more of these personal appearance donation drives before my birthday. I’m also going shopping myself to buy toys with my girl posse that we’ll donate each time. I know this is going to be a great success now thanks to everybody’s generosity.”

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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