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Holly Madison and Zak Bagans person officially called it quits.
Despite their on-again, off-again past, the Girls Next Door alum confirmed that her narration with the Ghost Adventures big is completely over.
“Zak and I broke up for good, for good,” Holly said connected the March 24 occurrence of her and Bridget Marquardt’s Girls Next Level podcast. “I cognize we’ve been precise disconnected and on, you guys are astir apt like, ‘You guys broke up past spring, right?’”
But it turns out, it was lone past period that the pair—who archetypal sparked romance rumors erstwhile the erstwhile Playboy Bunny visited Zak astatine his Sin City-based Haunted Museum successful 2019—decided to sever ties completely.
“It was disconnected and connected implicit the people of the similar five-and-a-half years,” Holly continued. “We were unneurotic but very disconnected and connected implicit the past year—very, precise much. So we broke up, and I mean unfollowed connected societal media, which we’ve ne'er unfollowed each different earlier done each the breakups.”
Emphasizing the gravity of their divided this clip around, Bridget added, “That’s erstwhile you cognize it’s serious.”
Six years ago, Holly’s budding romance with the paranormal investigator marked her archetypal nationalist narration since finalizing her divorcement from Insomniac Events laminitis Pasquale Rotella—with whom she shares kids Rainbow, 12, and Forest, 7—a fewer months before.
And though their travel wasn’t without its bumps successful the road, the Down the Rabbit Hole writer antecedently expressed however grateful she was for Zak’s emotion and enactment amid receiving her autism diagnosis successful 2023.
“I'm fortunate capable to beryllium dating idiosyncratic who conscionable has ever benignant of understood maine and accepts maine for who I am, truthful getting the diagnosis wasn't ace shocking to him,” Holly told People successful 2024. “I americium fortunate that I haven't had a ton of occupation successful caller relationships arsenic acold arsenic feeling an intimate affectional transportation with somebody.”
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Indeed, Holly was known successful the aboriginal aughts arsenic the erstwhile caput woman of precocious Playboy laminitis Hugh Hefner, who died of earthy causes successful 2017. But since their 2008 breakup, she has opened up astir their unconventional relationship and her clip successful the Playboy Mansion.
"It was unusual due to the fact that aft I near the relationship, I was truthful ammunition shocked due to the fact that I realized that this imaginativeness I'd had of him the full clip arsenic this astonishing idiosyncratic was conscionable benignant of thing I had wished for and benignant of made up successful my ain head," Holly told E! News successful 2023. "And I realized the idiosyncratic I was looking astatine was truly a stranger. So, I ne'er truly had immoderate tendency to accidental thing to him."
"I knew determination was problems successful the narration the full time, and, obviously, ace immense reddish flags," she continued. "But determination was besides the different broadside of the narration wherever we were truly adjacent and helium would archer maine each these affirmative things, truthful I ever hoped that things would change."
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Holly Madison & Zak Bagans
The Girls Next Door alum confirmed that she and the Ghost Adventures big officially called it quits aft 6 years together.
“Zak and I broke up for good, for good,” Holly said connected the March 24 occurrence of her Girls Next Level podcast. “I cognize we’ve been precise disconnected and on, you guys are astir apt like, ‘You guys broke up past spring, right?’”
“It was disconnected and connected implicit the people of the similar five-and-a-half years,” she continued. “We were unneurotic but veryoff and connected implicit the past year—very, precise much. So we broke up, and I mean unfollowed connected societal media, which we’ve ne'er unfollowed each different earlier done each the breakups.”
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