Las Vegas Weekly

April 22, 2010 · 11:51 AM

Exclusive photos: Star-studded Holly Madison housewarming

By Robin Leach

Holly Madison's housewarming party on April 21, 2010.

Photo: TVT

It was a star-studded housewarming party for Holly Madison’s new Barbie-themed home, and Vegas DeLuxe had the exclusive photos when gal pal Bridget Marquardt dropped in along with Strip stars Carrot Top and Human Nature.

Holly’s pals and castmates from her hit Peepshow at Planet Hollywood and the new E! reality TV series Holly’s World, including Josh Strickland from the topless cabaret revue and Laura Croft from the TV show, were all there for the fun festivities.

Arrivals started yesterday at 3 p.m., and the party went past midnight with skinny-dipping in Holly’s poolside Jacuzzi. As a former Hooters girl working in Santa Monica, Calif., before she was discovered by Playboy, Holly had Hooters waitresses serving up barbecue to go along with the junk food.

Holly’s four-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot home includes a movie screening theater, and she selected Shelley Long’s Troop Beverly Hills for her first-night viewing party. I appeared in that film many years ago, so there were howls of laughter over my olden-days long hair when the flick rolled!

The home also has a huge swimming pool with a waterfall and slide and a fire pit. Holly had thrown sealed espresso shot glasses into the pool to add to the fun for those willing to jump in for drinks!

Loyal Vegas DeLuxe readers know Holly’s love of animals and helping out at veterinary shelters and rescue animal operations here in the Las Vegas valley. She decided to have some of the abandoned and exotic pets at her party as an “ed-zoo-cational” experience. Sure enough, even her dog Napoleon was curious about a long-snouted raccoon! And the four Down Under guys from Human Nature at Imperial Palace felt right at home with the baby kangaroos.

Former The Girls Next Door star and BFF Bridget surprised Holly and brought a unique garden House of Gnomes gift basket. Holly promptly went out into the front garden to plant the gnome in the center of her ponds.

Luxor headliner comedian Carrot Top brought a giant portrait of himself for her to hang on the bare wall inside the foyer, and another guest surprised Holly with a handmade portrait of her from sand, which took her three months to make.

Incredibly, some of the brand new furniture arrived right in the middle of the party, and Holly decided that she would help assemble the new dining room table so that guests could sit for dinner. Holly’s first Las Vegas home comes on the heels of the first anniversary of Peepshow, as Vegas DeLuxe reported yesterday.

Holly told me: “I searched for a long time to find this home. It has everything I wanted. It will be Barbie’s palace when I finish decorating it all. I wanted a pink and silver Barbie theme for the party. I thought it would be fun to remember my days at Hooters and serve up spicy chicken wings and fried pickles with hot dogs and hamburgers. I just wanted the housewarming to be as much crazy fun as possible, and everybody certainly enjoyed themselves.

“I also wanted it to be educational and promote the message of caring for our animals. So many exotic animals have been abandoned here in homes affected by the mortgage crisis. People have just fled leaving their animals behind. I’ve been working on some of the rescues.”

Holly told me that she’s on schedule with The Showgirl Next Door, her debut book about her life in Las Vegas. She says she’s on target to complete it within the next 60 days for publication in the fall at the same time as her calendar, shot on location in Mexico, will go on sale. I also can reveal exclusively that Holly is in preliminary talks about her debut as a singer with a new record project!

Four E! Entertainment cameras from Holly’s World rolled on all the wild and crazy fun, and it will be edited into an episode when the new series begins in June.

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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