Between Two Salads: Holly Madison talks Playboy Mansion and Finding Herself on Social Media

The 2020 pandemic lockdown seemed to intensify what was already a growing trend across the social media landscape: nostalgia for early aughts pop culture and media. ‪@OfficialHollyMadison‬ is an icon of a golden era of reality TV due to her starring role on the E! reality series, Girls Next Door (which famously followed the goings-ons of The Playboy Mansion). Girls Next Door was a notable precursor to Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which is why it's no surprise that the Kardashian_kolloquium community has shown a special interest in Holly's influence on pop culture.
From the start, Holly has been a self-styled starlet, and she isn't just a figure of some fabled past. She established a presence across multiple mediums over the course of her creative, enduring career - from stage, to books, to the creation of a beloved space on TikTok.
We were so excited to sit down with a true self-made woman, whose firsthand experiences in the ever-evolving new media landscape has resulted in nothing less than true expertise.

Skip Ahead:
1:10 Holly Madison is an Icon of a Golden Era
2:30 Holly Reflects on Girls Next Door
4:45 The Creation of Holly Madison
8:25 Holly Madison Takes L.A.
11:27 The Era of Reality T.V.
12:15 Girls Next Door as a precursor to The Kardashians
12:55 What Is It Really Like To Be a Reality T.V. Star?
15:30 Why Holly Madison envies the Kardashians
16:25 Connecting Through Cameos
17:57 How Real is Reality T.V. Really?
20:00 A Behind The Scenes Peek of The Peepshow
22:40 Holly’s Love for Las Vegas
26:11 Holly Finds True Confidence at age 42
28:10 The Reality T.V. to TikTok Pipeline
28:20 Holly’s book, Down The Rabbit Hole
29:05 What It’s Like to Write a Memoir
30:20 Setting the Record Straight Through Storytelling
33:10 Social Media & Early 2000’s Nostalgia
36:03 SPECIAL SEGMENT: Making Holly Madison’s Mom’s Cookies
40:00 LIGHTNING ROUND WITH HOLLY MADISON

Filmed at: Awe Inspired Studios, Culver City, CA. Check out Awe Inspired Jewelry: https://aweinspired.com/ and IG: @aweinspired_

To keep up with Between Two Salads, follow @kardashian_kolloquium on ig and tiktok and @superlestela on ig