Welcome back to girls next level everybody. We have a super exciting episode today because we actually have a producer from season one of the show here to answer some of the questions

We've had for so long. I'm super excited about this like I texted you and I said I'm giddy over this.

Yeah, oh my god. Don't be me nervous. I'm a little nervous and I lie.

It's gonna be so fun. Do you want to introduce yourself and tell the audience what your job title was and what that means for

somebody who's never been in television? Yeah, I'm Jennifer Colbert. I was at the time the senior producer for Girls Next Door. I did the first season and what that title meant for me was in unscripted.

There's our titles are a little more flexible than in the TV film world, but for me it meant I was in charge of overseeing what's called field, which was you ladies.

So I was out with the cameras and I was I often did the interviews, not all of them 100% but I was in charge of making sure we were getting what we needed that the cameras were capturing what we wanted and that I was tracking the stories of what was going on so that we could make sure we asked all the right questions in interview.

And how long did you work on the show? I did the first eight episodes. So the first we was the first season at the time. There were I think you guys got picked up for like six more after that.

Yes, seven more. Seven more. Yeah, so at the time it was called it was just season one and then you got a second, but they call cycles. It was like a one A or one B. Right. So you were there during the formative years. Yeah, I mean, I like to think it was it was an interesting time because we were all you ladies and I were all in a bubble.

We didn't know first seasons of shows are always fascinating because the talent has no idea what's going to come, especially we had no idea it was going to be the show it became like we hope we're hopeful and everyone is, but you know, I was I think I was with you guys when you saw the billboard for the first time. Yeah, and you know, you just never know if it's going to be a huge hit or if it's going to be something no one has ever seen.

So that first however long I was there for three months, we're all in a bubble together because there's no episodes. It's just we're filming we're figuring it out. There's no feedback. No, we're just trying to catch us catch can. You ladies are learning to trust me. I'm trying to learn to trust you and figure out what's real. What isn't we came in with preconceived notions. I'm sure you ladies had preconceived notions of what our intentions were and you know, I I tell everybody to this day.

That I thought I knew who you were until I met you all and you were absolutely not what I had expected. There was, you know, you were all very aware of the difference between the worlds that you were in. Like you knew there was going to be a life outside of half, but you all had a your own path you were on within the relationship and within the show. And and then there were places where, you know, you were concerned about us being and what it would be and what kind of show we were creating. Yeah. I'm curious how you got hired for something like this.

So Brian O'Donnell who was a co-ep and I had done my big fat obnoxious fiance together. And so he called me and he's like, I'm on this crazy show. It's going to be about half and his girlfriends. It's called Girls Next Door. It's going to have comedic elements to it. It's going to be super fun for E and he knew he needed women. And I my favorite thing about my job is to be immersed in these worlds.

This is probably going to be my only opportunity to be at the playboy mansion to meet, you know, you ladies. So I was like, let's, let's see behind the curtain. Yeah.

So that's how it came about. So you weren't around for the pilot at all? No. Okay, because that had already been filmed way before. Yeah. Tell us a little bit about your background before you got to the show. Like what was your path into the industry and what kind of stuff did you work on before? Yeah. So I went to school to be a broadcast journalist. I was going to be the next Katie Kirk and then quickly realized I didn't want to be on camera.

That I enjoyed it a lot more behind camera. So I was a broadcast journalist major at Ohio University. Didn't internship at E. And by the time I came back after graduation, you know, the supervising producers and like the middle range people that I had met as an intern were now bosses. And so I got hired in live events to work with Joe and Melissa Rivers, which was a amazing first job out of college, 80 at 21, 22 year old girl on the red carpet.

Working with this insane, the amazing talent. And I did that for a while. And then this little industry called reality TV was blowing up. And I had a friend who was like, you got to get out of, you got to get out of there. You got to get out of E come, come do some stuff with us. So I did married by America was my first unscripted TV show, which was a show on Fox where the audience engaged to strangers. And then we followed them for five weeks. Two couples made it two.

Made it to the end, but didn't actually get married. And one of our one of them was a couple I was following the whole time. And then from there, it was just unscripted job after unscripted job. I did Pimp my ride. I've done the hills. I've done girls next door. This is sort of my big. Honestly, this is like the three biggest shows on my, I would say at my resume. Yeah.

Awesome. That's so cool. What were your you said you came in with like preconceived ideas of like who we were or what the show was going to be instead of tell us what that was.

I thought you would all be dumplings. I thought you'd be slutty. And I thought there would be a lot more salaciousness and sex and like nakedness all over the mansion. You know, I thought you'd just walk in and see people have sex everywhere.

And I was very pleasantly surprised to like realize how intelligent you all were that part of it was a bit of a character you would play and part of it was, you know, knowing where you came from and that you all sort of had a plan for what this period of your life was going to be.

It was very interesting time because this is way before me too. This is a period where playboy was kind of an actually in a slump. I think and this show and you ladies kind of brought it back into pop culture relevance and

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