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Holly Madison Says She’s Open to Talking to Kendra Wilkinson After 14-Year Rift

Madison says tabloid attention and producer-driven competition widened the split and left the former co-stars out of touch.

Overview

  • Madison told E!'s Hot Goss on Thursday that she and Kendra Wilkinson still do not speak but that she is “not opposed” to reconnecting.
  • She traced the falling out to about 2012 and described roughly 14 years of limited contact since their time on The Girls Next Door.
  • Madison singled out tabloid cycles as a force that amplified disputes and said a shared producer, identified as Kevin Burns, tried to pit them against one another.
  • The public record shows Wilkinson has made sharp comments in past years — including criticism tied to Madison’s 2015 memoir and later remarks that she had moved on to focus on family.
  • The dispute grew from their shared rise at the Playboy Mansion and competing spinoff shows, a dynamic that reporters and the women say helps explain how private tensions became long-running public drama.