This is kind of ridiculous.

First, we hear news that Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt will be appearing on HIMYM — they later confirmed that they would be appearing in a dream sequence as themselves. Then, it turns out that Kim Kardashian will be doing a guest spot, too. And now? The newly engaged Kendra Wilkinson is filming for the show today.

Are they really that hard-up for ratings?

And is anyone actually going to watch the show to see all these guest spots? They’ll all be on YouTube anyway.

Kendra Wilkinson’s engagement to Hank Baskett III, while reportedly endorsed by the Playboy mansion, seems to be, in actuality, quite a nightmare for everyone involved.

According to Ted Casablanca:

As you probably were aware, plans were already majorly in the works, with Hugh Hefner’s blessing, not to mention participation, for Kendra to leave GND for her own show. “It was supposed to be Kendra, sexy and single, out of the mansion, on her own,” said a source close to the deal.

But here’s what’s gone down:

Kendra’s engagement to Hank “caught Hef way off guard,” reveals the Girls Next Door type, who insists H2 was most displeased at the rush to the altar.

“All that you see now, with Hugh saying he’s going to give the bride away, that the wedding’s going to be at the mansion, it’s bull****,” piped the close Kendra chum, who believes Playboy’s put-on-the-spot positive spin won’t really come to pass. Only time and (call me jaded) potential ratings will tell.

Sources inside Wilkinson’s camp do not blame Kendra, they blame Hank: “[Baskett] completely jumped the gun,” insists a Wilkinson colleague. “He showed up with a camera crew and proposed to Kendra on top of the Space Needle; of course Kendra said yes, she’s absolutely thrilled!” (As you can see in the exclusive-to-the-Awful-Truth snap above.)

But not Hef. Nor are the folks who are trying to turn Kendra into the next viable Pam Anderson type, only without the sex tapes.

OMG.

Did anyone think that girl would make it thirty seconds without landing directly on top of a football player? Pretty much every single episode of GND consisted of Kendra finding a veiled way to say “I cannot wait until this shit is over and I can fuck football players.” I’m sorry, but this is not a shock to me.

All six puppies are now in one giant wrestling match. They are squealing and growling and rolling all over each other.

I may just spend the remainder of the day liveblogging puppy cam. Sorry if you wanted celebrity gossip. Celebrity gossip isn’t going anywhere, kids. But the puppies are here now.

Kendra Wilkinson is, in fact, engaged to Hank Baskett Jr., according to a statement from none other than … Hugh Hefner????

“I have given her my blessing and will be giving her away at a very special wedding ceremony at the Playboy Mansion this coming June,” Hefner said.

What. The. Fuck?

This whole business makes it seem like Kendra and Hef were never really in love in the first place!

My world is spinning, I tell you. Spinning like Hugh Hefner’s bed. I feel so betrayed.

You know, I was hanging out with one of my old-time druggie pals back in LA, and he was all like, “You know, sometimes, when I used to smoke crack — like, good crack — I’d have an orgasm. I’d just jizz all over myself, sitting there smoking crack. Without touching myself or anything. So now, porn is a trigger for me. I can’t watch porn because it makes me think of crack.” And I was like, “Woah, dude. That’s intense.”

I’ve never had that experience with anything before, but I think that as soon as one of these girls writes a heartfelt tell-all about the shit that went down behind the scenes with all this, I will just orgasm while reading it. No touching or anything. I’ll just have a full-blown orgasm, reading Beneath the Bunny: The Holly Madison Memoirs or whatever she decides to call it.

Hey, remember when Kendra first moved into the mansion and Holly was all like, “Fuck this stupid little bitch, wandering around like she owns the fucking place. This is my world. I built this.”?

Well, turnabout is fair play.

Fast-forward in this vid to the Kendra interview, where she basically starts talking about what ungrateful little whores the new Hef girlfriends are, and then decides to stop herself when her publicist starts giving her dirty looks.

You know what I cannot wait for?

The Kendra Wilkinson tell-all.

I know I should be excitedly reporting the news that Kendra Wilkinson has followed in Holly Madison’s footsteps and confirmed her break-up with Hef, but mostly I’m still slobbering over the fact that Kendra Wilkinson and Chelsea Handler had a conversation and it was videotaped.

I can’t imagine a better recipe for funny.

Also Chelsea Handler makes a joke about how black men have huge penises, and Kendra totally doesn’t get it.

Hey, remember back when Hugh Hefner wouldn’t let his girlfriends travel anywhere for more than a full day if he wasn’t with them? Like, they had to be by his side at all times. He ruled his harem with an iron fist, even if his penis wasn’t exactly as … er … hardcore.

Well, here’s Kendra Wilkinson (and some other Playmate) judging some two-bit bikini contest in the Bahamas on Saturday. And Saturday night? Was the Leather & Lace party at the mansion. The media-friendly Leather & Lace party. Which Kendra did not attend. Also conspicuously missing from Saturday night’s party? Bridget Marquardt.

Only Holly was there, reppin’ Team Golddigger.

Just a year or two ago, Hef never would have let this happen.

The times, they are a-changin’.

Oh and there are boobie close-ups in the thumbnails, because I love my hetero male readers, too.

Finally the members of Hef’s harem are weighing in — honestly — on the rumors that their menage-a-quatre is coming to a grinding halt.

Says Kendra in a new interview:

“There are lot of changes going on … people are going through changes. There’s a lot of rumors about me moving on, Holly moving on … it’s really sad. I mean, it’s only sad because Hef has to deal with it, and Hef gets really emotional because he really loves us. He is definitely a softie, so it’s really sad seeing him go through this stuff. [But] he keeps it cool, and he has a lot of girlfriends around now to keep him happy.”

Heh.

It’s like The Girls Next Door: The New Class. Everyone’s different except for Mr. Belding and Screech. Mr. Belding is clearly Hugh Hefner. Who’s the Screech of the Playboy mansion? I say Kendra’s little brother, the kid for whom the term “wigger” was invented. Let’s keep him around and make him a star. I just wanna see what happens.

“The reality is the girls and I are all together … Holly shares my bed on a nightly basis … Are there going to be changes in the relationships? I’m sure there are going to be. I think that in the future, the girls are going to, in time, be dating others and moving out of the mansion, and when that happens we will not be keeping it a secret.”

Hugh Hefner, on the recent rumors of Holly and Kendra dating other men.

You know what?

I believe the old man. And I haven’t run these cheating rumors on this site because I firmly believe they are bullshit.

None of these girls are dumb enough to be fooling around behind Hugh Hefner’s back. And he’s not going to allow it to look like that. If they were broken up, and the girls were seeing other people, Hef would have made an announcement about the break-up rather than allow people to speculate about his girlfriends cheating on him. I think all these rumors are total bullshit.