Hugh Hefner to sack Playboy bunnies amid financial crisis

[DogPoundPup]

Tycoon Hugh Hefner has been advised to cut back on staff at his multi-million dollar glamour empire as it struggles to cope during the global economic turmoil.

The 83-year-old has been told to lay off some of his staff at his Los Angeles and New York offices as soon as this month or go bankrupt.

The company has recently seen shares fall from £6.20 to £1.55.

An insider at the company told the Daily Star that bosses had been aware of the worsening situation for "a while".

"Only the top brass has known for a while how bad things have been for Hef recently."

Spokeswoman Elizabeth Austin would not confirm the sackings, saying: "It is our policy not to comment on corporate matters such as employee issues."

The news will be another blow to Hefner who recently discovered that two of his "bunnies" may have been cheating on him.

Holly Madison, who has previously been named as Hefner's "No.1" girlfriend, is alleged to have had an affair with magician Criss Angel and another bunny, Kendra Wilkinson, is reportedly dating football star Hank Baskett.

Playboy spokesman Rob Hillburger denied the rumours, saying: "The rumours that Holly left Hef for Criss Angel are not true. Holly and Kendra are all still living at the Mansion."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3077911/Hugh-Hefner-to-sack-Playboy-bunnies-amid-financial-crisis.html

A McHugh McHefner whose day has gone and went? :shrug:

[Lerkfish]

1. hm. *tries to come up with rationalization for wife for hiring new babysitter*

:)

just kidding, folks.

hon?

hon?

WHACK


ummph....

[JHB]

2. Hasn't he been sacking them since the very beginning?

...asks the Yank who innocently pretends he doesn't know what "sack" means in the Queen's English...

[DogPoundPup]

6. : )

:rofl:

[SteveM]

24. Yeah, didn't he set the NFL record for sacks? (nt)

[mrreowwr_kittty]

3. No fool like an old fool.

The bunnies are "cheating on" their decrepit 83 year old lecherous keeper. Imagine that. :eyes:

[DogPoundPup]

8. : ) : ) : )

:rofl:

[arcadian]

15. I would think that would be encouraged.

I mean, he's already banged them, time to move o to the next 18year old from Kansas with chest implants that he bought for them.

[Turbineguy]

4. He could save some money

by switching to a discount pharmacy for those Viagra tablets.:evilgrin:

[Junkdrawer]

5. Cue up "You Can't Hide Those Lying Eyes"...

:rofl:

[Dorian Gray]

7. Can you cheat on someone

if your "relationship" is actually a business deal that has little to do with feelings, sex, or anything else?

[dhpgetsit]

9. Somehow, I think the bunnies are going to make out OK.

So to speak...

[rug]

10. Final proof of the collapse.

[cherokeeprogressive]

11. All he has to do...

is promise an earthshattering expose of sexual hypocricy with rethugs at the center and DU would be there buying his product, therefore bailing him out, and calling him a hero of the left. Just like Larry Flynt.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

12. This will be an Ebay auction to remember...n/t

[Ezlivin]

13. Sub Prime Meat Market - All T&A Half Off!

We've got to move these old playmates...

[DS1]

14. They might as well simply drop down to one model shoot per issue

Playboy can never compete with Internet porn, even soft-core. Stack it full of good reporting and make the skin an afterthought.

[pokerfan]

21. Playboy is beset on all sides

Originally it was just Penthouse and Hustler, then soon there were dozens of more explicit mags.

Amateur videos have hedged in on Playboy's so-called girl-next-door brand as if anorexic models with a couple of implanted chest cantaloupes is anyone's idea a "girl next door."

The Girls Gone Wild franchise has honed in on Hef's drunken college girls theme.

FHM, Stuff and Maxim are competing on the lifestyle magazine front.

And then there's the internet which I understand has free porn on it. Somewhere.

I'm frankly surprised that Playboy has lasted this long. I think it's running on inertia.

[Winterblues]

16. I thought Hugh's daughter was the one running the Playboy enterprise..

I don't think Hugh has anything at all to do with it any longer...

[Sheets of Easter]

17. In other news, silicon futures plummet...

[uppityperson]

18. Headline made me laugh, thought it would be Borowitz or the Onion.

"sack" being the operative funny term.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. What a mensche.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

20. burn baby burn

[entanglement]

22. Playboy has been displaced by far more exploitative and dehumanizing kinds of pornography

[Freddie Stubbs]

25. Rumor has it that you can find this stuff on the Internet

;)

Which may explain why Hefner's 20th Century business model is going the way of Pan Am Airways.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

27. It all comes from the same place

Playboy was the 1st to legitimize "soft" porn, by mainstreaming it in a "sophisticated" package. (more lipstick on a pig)

[Arugula Latte]

23. "Cheating" on Hef ???

Is it even technically possible to "cheat" on Hef? This guy expects monogamy from his females?! Is he kidding? :rofl:

[Runcible Spoon]

26. good. he helped create/perpetuate that disgusting fake everything aesthetic

I'm not old enough to remember when there were real beauties in Playboy, but I've been told by nostalgic old curmudgeons that there were. What happened with peroxide and silicone in the 80s and beyond is just sad.

[Toucano]

28. Agreed.

Tits are not supposed to look like cantaloupes.