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Former Playboy model who used to live at Hugh Hefner's mansion now sleeps in £60 tent

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Updated 11:04 3 Oct 2024 GMT+1Published 17:17 2 Oct 2024 GMT+1

Former Playboy model who used to live at Hugh Hefner's mansion now sleeps in £60 tent

She was the first Brit to be Playboy's 'Model of the Year'

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Back in the day, the Playboy mansion seemed to ooze glitz, glam and, well, sex. While it might have been the case figuratively, Hugh Hefner’s pad was the opposite of pitching a tent on a farm. And yet, a former Playboy model who used to live there now sleeps in a £60 tent.

Louise Glover used to work in the classic British ‘lad mags’ like FHM, Bizarre and Loaded. The 41-year-old met Hef when she was 21 during a photoshoot in Los Angeles.

She went on to appear on the cover of Playboy Vixens and in 2006 became the first British model to be crowned ‘Model of the Year’ in Playboy Special Editions.

Glover in 2005. ( David Westing/Getty Images)
Glover in 2005. ( David Westing/Getty Images)

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But despite presenting gigs at the horse racing, things have taken a turn for Glover as she spoke to The Sun about having to sleep in a tent.

The beauty pageant star said rent had become so ‘impossible’ she’s been camping in her temporary home for over a month.

“I am trying to stay upbeat and make the most of my situation, but it is difficult,” she said. “I need to get myself out of this pickle soon. Things have to change before winter hits.”

Before this ‘pickle’, Glover had been paying £550 a month for a room in a shared property near Windsor, but her rent jumped up to £750.

Trying to get her personal training and dog walking businesses built up, she turned to putting up the tent at a camp site near Reading, where she sleeps in a sleeping bag on a double blow-up mattress.

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“I have two hot water bottles to sleep with at night,” she explained. “I make sure I am on a campsite so I am safe and I also have my car. My luck will change soon.”

She now runs a dog walking business. (Instagram/@louiseglover)
She now runs a dog walking business. (Instagram/@louiseglover)

There’s no denying it’s quite the jump from shacking up at Hefner’s mansion, where she said she had ‘the best time’.

“I didn’t even think about it that much at the time, but I was hanging out with the biggest names in the world,” Glover said. “I loved all the other Playboy models, we were like a family.

“I really liked Hugh, he was a total gentleman. The mansion was incredible.”

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Nowadays, she’s struggling to get the modelling work and refuses ‘to do anything pornographic’.

And while people have suggested she makes some cash on OnlyFans, she explained: “I would rather get my life together and live here, in this field. I don’t need to lower myself to that. I have morals and self-respect.”

Glover claims a homeless shelter said she wouldn’t be a priority and, as she doesn’t ‘like to rely on people’, she’s ‘starting from scratch’ with her tent.

Featured Image Credit: Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage/Robert Mora/Getty Images

Topics: UK News, Playboy, Hugh Hefner

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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