Holly Madison 'makes up weird excuses' with her kids about why she's famous
Holly Madison is "still making up weird excuses" for her children about her fame.
The 45-year-old star - who rose to fame on 'Girls Next Door', the reality show focused on the lives of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends at the Playboy Mansion - admitted she is yet to tell her kids the full story about why she still gets recognised in public.
Holly - who has daughter Rainbow, 12, and son Forest, eight, with her ex Pasquale Rotella - told E! News: "I don't know, I'm still making up weird excuses. I'm like, 'Oh I just do YouTube' or whatever.
"It's weird because kids that age, they have no idea what Playboy is, because it just doesn't exist the way it used to.
"People always ask me, 'How are you gonna talk to them about it?' I have no idea. I will cross that bridge when I get there."
The TV personality - who starred on the show between 2005 and 2009 - insisted the programme feels like a snapshot in time.
Speaking 20 years after its launch, she added: "I feel so old! I guess that's a life time ago, it's so crazy.
"I always say it's the one show you can't reboot, because it was like catching this little cult bubble in real time."
Holly has been doing her own rewatch of the series, and she explained everyone can take it one of two ways.
She explained: "You can watch it two different ways. You can watch it for all the eye candy like you did the first time it came out.
"Or, you can watch it knowing all the stuff that's going on behind the scenes and that adds a whole other layer."
Meanwhile, Holly admitted while she isn't ruling out a return to reality TV in some form, she has some strict parameters.
She said: "I don't know. I always say, I wouldn't do anything about my person life.
"I was asked to do the first season of Traitors and I turned it down because I didn't know what it was.
"I just thought they were calling me a traitor and I was like, 'no.' "
Now, she would reconsider, and even thinks she'd thrive in the castle.
She quipped: "I have a good poker face."
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