Jenny McCarthy has revealed the explanation why she didn’t take part in A&E’s documentary exposé concerning the Playboy mansion.
The 49-year-old former Playmate admitted on the #NoFilter with Zack Peter podcast that she was not solely requested to be interviewed in “Secrets and techniques of Playboy,” however requested to host it. McCarthy claimed she lastly declined the invitation on their sixth request.
“I didn’t have the identical experiences, so I wasn’t going to join a paycheck and be salacious once I didn’t expertise these issues,” she reasoned.
“The Masked Singer” choose first posed as Playmate of the Month for the journal in 1993, was named Playmate of the 12 months in 1994 and appeared within the publication sporadically by 2012.
“And listening to their tales, my coronary heart broke for lots of those ladies,” McCarthy stated.
Former Playboy Bunnies — together with “Women Subsequent Door” star and Hugh Hefner’s estranged fiancé Holly Madison — have lately spoken up about mistreatment and misconduct beneath Playboy’s watch.
Madison even known as “hell”-sex with Hefner a “chore” on her new podcast, “Women Subsequent Degree” — which she hosts with fellow “Subsequent Door” star Bridget Marquardt — and stated the ladies tried to get by the intimacy “as shortly as attainable.”
“I’m so grateful that once I was there, Hef was married [to Kimberly Conrad] and it was sort of run like a strict dormitory,” McCarthy continued on Peter’s podcast. “Like, we weren’t even allowed close to Hef or round the home. It was virtually like Catholic faculty, to be sincere.”
“There have been no orgies or huge events occurring,” she claimed. “So I believe I went in there in a window of time that was sort of secure for me. However listening to a few of these women’ tales was actually tough.”
Throughout the podcast, McCarthy additionally dominated her one-season co-hosting stint on “The View” as her hardest job ever.
She was introduced onto the present in 2013 when co-host Elisabeth Hassleback and Pleasure Behar had been fired for “being too polarizing,” McCarthy recalled. Executives needed to stray away from creator Barbra Walters’ political bits and lean into extra pop culture-based discussions.

“They had been like, we need to clean up, we would like somebody to do mild, popular culture, fluffy,” McCarthy remembered. “I’m fluff.”
“I don’t need to be a fighter … I’m not gonna die on a hill for a politician or a pop star’s campaign, there’s far more essential issues in life than to battle about each single factor that is occurring on the planet,” she reasoned her short-lived presence on the present.
McCarthy has beforehand divulged that Walters had made her time on the present “depressing,” in her 2019 interview for the tell-all guide “Women Who Punch” by leisure journalist Ramin Setoodeh. When requested if she’d wish to make clear these statements, McCarthy caught to her authentic statements — including that she considerably sympathized with the veteran broadcaster’s surly demeanor.
“I knew what I used to be stepping into. I want there was a bit of bit extra context, however I knew precisely what I used to be saying,” she responded. “I really feel like they made it seem to be I used to be being too arduous on Barbara, when actually I’ve probably the most compassion for her. Like, I like Barbara. Like, she was my lady.”

“Was I terrified of her? Heck yeah! Who wouldn’t be, you recognize? She’s yelled at me quite a few instances. However with Barbara a minimum of you recognize what you had been getting,” she continued. “It got here from, like, I don’t know the best way to say this, a tragic place. I felt compassion for it. Whereas, different issues that occurred at ‘The View’ had been simply darkish.”
McCarthy went on to say that she “had some nice instances with Whoopi” Goldberg, however seen that the “Sister Act” star wasn’t one to share the highlight.
“I simply noticed the dynamic of Barbara being her final yr and Barbara wanting to guide for some issues and I felt unhealthy as a result of Whoopi didn’t need to surrender that seat,” she added, “and I believed, ‘You’re going to be right here a very long time, give it to Barbara.’ ”
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