E! Entertainment Television has ordered a third season of the reality series “The Girls Next Door,” which follows the lives of Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson at the Playboy Mansion, home of their boyfriend Hugh Hefner. The tagline of the show is, “You call it fantasy, they call it home.”

The third season is set for a 2007 spring premiere. The second season audience is up nearly 30% over the first season and attracting more than twice as many viewers as E!’s total-day average. To celebrate the launch of the second season, a nude pictorial of the threesome was published in the September 2006 issue of Playboy magazine. The front and back covers feature a simultaneous photograph of the nude trio from their front and back sides. Too bad Superman never used his powers for that trick.

I saw Hef with his three hotties on “Ellen” the other day while sitting in the dentist chair. My mind kept racing between thoughts of Hef (“Luckiest man alive”) and the threesome (“What are they thinking? That dude is ancient!”) and the dentist (“Why does he have to wear such stinky aftershave?”)

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