Las Vegas Weekly

July 16, 2009 · 2:26 PM

Strip Scribbles: E! to record Hef and Shannon twins at Peepshow

By Robin Leach

Hugh Hefner and his six former and current Girls Next Door at his 83rd birthday pool party hosted by ex-girlfriend Holly Madison at the Palms Place pool. From left, Karissa and Kristina Shannon, Kendra Wilkinson, Bridget Marquardt, Hef, Holly Madison and Crystal Harris.

Photo: Denise Truscello/WireImage

Following up on our story yesterday of Hugh Hefner’s 19-year-old twin girlfriends Karissa and Kristina Shannon coming to Las Vegas for the weekend, Holly Madison has confirmed that the Girls Next Door TV crew will be filming Hef and the ladies at her Peepshow in Planet Hollywood over the weekend.

Holly says she intends to pull the Playboy king, her ex-boyfriend, out of the audience and up onstage for the pink-paint, handcuffed-to-bed number. I wonder if Hef’s favorite color is pink? It will be after the sexy scene!

*Over at the World Series of Poker in The Rio, two Las Vegas players have wound up in the final table of 9 for the right to play for the $8.5 million purse in November. Hometown poker pro Phil Ivey and player Jeff Shulman will do battle against seven others, including chip leader Darvin Moon, a logger from Maryland. It’s been a month of firsts for Darvin: his first plane ride, his first trip to Las Vegas and his first time playing in the WSOP. Beginner’s luck, anyone?!

*Our favorite hometown Dancing With the Stars professional Julianne Hough, who graduated from our Las Vegas Academy of Music, shines solo with her country music at Mandalay Bay Beach over Labor Day weekend. The two-time DWTS champion is now a Mercury Nashville recording artist working on her sophomore album following her first hit CD that shot up the charts while on tour this summer with George Strait. At this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards held here, Julianne was named Top New Female Vocalist.

*One of Jeff Beacher’s Oompa Loompas from Las Vegas, Donnie Davis, was detained while in Broward Mall in Florida promoting this weekend’s Beacher’s Madhouse shows at Seminole Coconut Creek. Donnie was with four other Oompa Loompas when mall security called for police backup because they did not have permission to promote on the premises. The quintet fled in different directions when cops arrived. Four vanished, but Donnie was apprehended. Hundreds of shoppers gathered and began screaming, “Let the Oompa Loompa go!” But Donnie was cuffed and taken to a nearby precinct, where Jeff bailed him out.

*Magician Penn Jillette’s producer wife Emily is the creator of the new improv Comedy Tarot Lounge starting next week at Town Square. Emily kindly invited me to be one of the first participants along with husband Penn, Luxor comedy headliner Carrot Top and author Neil Gaiman, but I’m out of town with family. Emily’s venture, which might wind up as a TV series, features tarot reading of a celebrity guest and then improv comedy from the revelations.

*Congratulations to Las Vegas native and New York Times bestselling author Vicki Petersson on her fourth paranormal novel City of Souls: the 4th Sign of the Zodiac. The struggle between Light vs. Shadow is played out behind the scenes right here in Sin City. Ten years ago, Vikki was a showgirl here who decided to trade in her sequins for a laptop. Scent of Shadows, Taste of Night and Touch of Twilight were bestsellers, and Vicki writes her novels at night nursing a martini and looking at the view of the Strip from her backyard for inspiration!

*If you ever wanted to appear in a MTV music video, today’s your chance. LMFAO is filming its “Shots” video today at Tao Beach in The Venetian starting at 10 a.m. until sunset. Video director and choreographer Fatima Robinson was at Tao hosting the club’s first Video Vamp contest. Local go-go girl favorite Candy was crowned the winner and will wind up in Fatima’s next video project.

*It’s difficult to believe that over the next 11 days, America will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first moon-landing Apollo 11 mission. Fremont Street Experience celebrates with 11 days of concerts, including headliners Jefferson Starship on Saturday and the Fifth Dimension the following Saturday. The One Giant Leap events will feature free nightly entertainment from California Dreaming, Venus Rising and Moro Rising, with a day-by-day screening of the moon landing. At Bauman Rare Books in the Palazzo, a group of rare space exploration books has been compiled and includes my friend Buzz Aldrin’s Teletype message of the safe touchdown, which he later signed and is valued at $4,800. Plus, six volumes of limited editions by astronauts Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Walter Shirr, Alan Shepherd, Deke Slayton, James Lovell, Frank Borman and Buzz. They are all autographed, and the set is $5,000.

Star surveillance

St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson enjoyed the signature rock shrimp , oysters Rockefeller and grilled Hawaiian swordfish with a side of lobster mashed potatoes at N9NE Steakhouse in the Palms. … Upstairs at Nove Italian, actor and I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Outta Here winner Lou Diamond Phillips ordered the bone-in rib eye, chicken parmesan, chicken marsala and Kobe short rib for his family after his WSOP exit, with cannolis and strawberry Carpaccio for dessert. He signed executive chef Geno Bernardo’s famous kitchen door before leaving. … Upstairs in The Playboy Club, rapper Sikk the Shocker had a VIP table with 10 in his entourage, while retired NBA player Daniel Majerle enjoyed black jack. … MMA fighters Frank Trigg, Chuck Liddell and Urija Faber relaxed at the Palms pool. … Al Harrington of the New York Knicks hung out with friends at Blush in the Wynn. … Five minutes after Jack Osbourne snuck into the Society Café at Steve Wynn’s Encore, incognito mom Sharon and dad Ozzy arrived by coincidence and shouted across the room for him to join them for breakfast -- and like a good son he did! Ozzy returned the same day there for dinner and ordering, for the fourth consecutive time, a chicken Caesar salad with French fries and posing happily for photos with other diners. However, Jack went off to N9NE Steakhouse for his evening meal of a dozen oysters, crab cocktail and the surf and turf with mushrooms. Afterwards, Jack and drummer and songwriter pal John Dolmayan took a VIP table at Moon. … Also at Moon were rockers Adelitas Way celebrating the release of their new album. We’ll have the photos of their special “listening” session next week. At a nearby table was pro skateboarder Shawn White. … After a two-week vacation, it’s nice to welcome back Donny & Marie Osmond to the Flamingo.

Tonight’s tips

Local magician Rick Thomas beings a run of shows with his tigers and six backup dancers in the Sahara. … Fremont Street Experience kicks off its 11-day celebration of man’s one giant leap 40 years ago with the day-by-day Apollo space achievement on the giant Viva Vision screen. … Four groups rock the House of Blues, with Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, White Chapel and Job for a Cowboy in Mandalay Bay. … Hip-hop duo LMFAO hosts their record release party at Tao in The Venetian. … And today’s NBA Summer Series games at Cox Pavilion and Thomas & Mack Center are Toronto vs. Milwaukee at 1 p.m., Houston vs. L.A. Lakers at 3, New Orleans vs. Golden State at 5, Oklahoma City vs. San Antonio at 5:30, Dallas vs. Cleveland at 7 and L.A. Clippers vs. Memphis at 7:30.

Tomorrow’s teases

Wheel of Fortune stars Pat Sajak and Vanna White arrive for a marathon three-week shoot of shows over a four-day weekend. … Sammy Hagar brings his first Cabo Wabo cantina to the Strip, and the Zero Gravity space flights are back for you to fly weightless as if on the moon!

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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