Las Vegas Weekly

October 8, 2009 · 1:57 PM

Strip Scribbles: Holly Madison ready to begin shooting Planet Holly

By Robin Leach

Holly Madison and Laura Croft.

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Peepshow star Holly Madison is ready for lights, camera and action when shooting starts Monday on her new VH1 reality TV series Planet Holly. Holly, who stars and serves as an executive producer on the series, also will be seen Sunday night on the two-night premiere of ex Hugh Hefner’s The Girls Next Door on E! I’ll be on the set with Holly one day next week filming a guest appearance, so we’ll have a report for VDLX.

Meantime, last night Holly and her Peepshow cast mates, including Josh Strickland, and her best gal pal Laura Croft dressed up for our annual nightclubs’ Prom Night party. Festivities were at Wet Republic in MGM Grand, and Holly was nominated for Prom Queen.

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Holly Madison dances with Peepshow co-star Josh Strickland.

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Holly Madison dances with Peepshow co-star Josh Strickland.

However, the crown and title went to our Las Vegas Weekly colleague Xania Woodman, who had lost her five previous nominations. Congratulations to a well-deserved Xania, and also the Prom Princess, Shannon Kelly of Tiffany Master’s Cabana Candy group that also is about to be filmed as a new reality show.

If you want to get up close to Holly at 6: 45 p.m. tomorrow, she will serve as the official keg tapper at the Oktoberfest celebrations at Hofbrauhaus.

*Sexy Carmen Electra kicks off another run guest in Crazy Horse Paris at MGM tonight through Oct. 17. She’s added solo dances to the beautiful striptease cabaret production -- as if we needed an excuse to reprise the photos of her last visit here. Click HERE and HERE for our previous coverage, which includes a photo gallery of 64(!) shots.

*I chatted last night at The Venetian with the glamorous Vanessa Minnillo, who told me that she and Face of Vegas co-hosts Carson Kressley and Beth Ostrosky, Howard Stern’s wife, will this weekend wrap their ABC reality show set for January broadcast. I tried to apologize to Vanessa for unintentionally kicking up a controversy about a diamond ring on her finger when she attended a recent charity event at the Palazzo. I’d written very innocently that one day, she hoped to have one of her own! That harmless item was tied to the fact that she and beau Nick Lachey were going through a little off-on-and-off again with their romance.

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Vanessa Minnillo and Chazz Palminteri at Lavo in the Palazzo.

Regrettably, Hollywood bloggers and Internet gossip sites seized on my exclusive and twisted it into a series of attacks on the couple. Totally unfair and out of all truth and context! I knew Vanessa was hurt by what they’d all said as a result of what I’d written. I had to apologize. She accepted and said: “It wasn’t your fault or your doing. You wrote nice things, and they twisted it. It makes you worried about what you can say today without things being twisted so far from the truth.”

Vanessa was sweet and gracious and could not have been nicer about the situation. I’m happy for her that she and Nick are back together and that the ring incident hasn’t marred their affection and future. The couple has been inseparable the past few weekends hanging out at the Palazzo while she’s here filming. I’m not going to say anymore in case it gets twisted yet again!

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Mike Tyson is flanked by Human Nature.

Star surveillance

Mike Tyson and his wife Kiki were singing, dancing and cheering for the four Down Under guys who make up Human Nature in Imperial Palace. … Rapper Coolio was quite happy to watch hip-hop royals Naughty by Nature at their performance at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Planet Hollywood’s Miracle Mile. Then he joined the “Hip Hop Hooray” group onstage for several songs of his own.

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Naughty by Nature performs at Hawaiian Tropic Zone inside Planet Hollywood's Miracle Mile Shops.

Photo: J. Ludwig/NightVissions

Coolio at Hawaiian Tropic Zone inside Planet Hollywood's Miracle Mile Shops.

Actor Chazz Palminteri has enjoyed the Italian specialties at Lavo in the Palazzo numerous times the past few weeks -- in fact, twice this week already. So no surprise his opening night party after premiering A Bronx Tale would be held there, too! (Click HERE for our story and photo gallery posted this morning.) In addition to drinking tea with honey to sooth his pipes after commanding the stage nonstop for 85 minutes, Chazz selected chicken Marsala as his late-night snack. He chatted with former New Yorker Matt Johnson, who owns Sushi Samba at the Palazzo and its sister locations in New York, Chicago and Miami. Turns out that during his lean days, Chazz had worked as a doorman-bouncer at Manhattan’s infamous Limelight Club, where Matt worked, too! Another interesting note from last night’s premiere is that poker player Phil Ivey, who has won seven WSOP bracelets in making the final table a record eight times, is one of A Bronx Tale’s associate producers. DJ Tiesto also was in the nightclub after the premiere party turned into the weekly Label Junkie party.

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Sushi Samba owner Matt Johnson and Chazz Palminteri.

Tonight’s tips

All day long, the busy folks at the Barrett-Jackson Auction have been displaying the autos on the block and other memorabilia, but now it’s time to party. The official launch party for the world’s greatest collector car auction is set for Blush at the Wynn with celebs and auto fans on hand. … It’s the premiere night with media gathered at Planet Hollywood for America’s Got Talent Live! with host Jerry Springer, country singer Kevin Skinner and opera singer Barbara Padilla.

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Linkin Park and Dead by Sunrise frontman Chester Bennington.

Tomorrow’s teases

Vince Neil tells of his plans for Motley Crue’s 30th anniversary and his new solo album. We also have photo galleries of the sexy Deadly Seven, former Strip showgirls turned skin-baring punk rockers, and Dead by Sunrise, Chester Bennington’s new side project away from Linkin Park. Plus, we go on an Easy Rider movie premiere and saddle up with the Bike Fest riders.

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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