S3E8: PMOY… Not | The Girls Next Door Recap: Meet the 4 Finalists & Who Really Chose the Winner?

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of MORE Girls Next Door, Megan recaps “PMOY… Not,” where Monica Leigh, Janine Habeck, Alison Waite and Sara Jean Underwood compete for one of Playboy’s biggest honors: Playmate of the Year.But while The Girls Next Door promises to introduce us to the women competing for the crown, we somehow finish the episode knowing surprisingly little about them. So Megan is filling in the blanks with a deeper look at all four finalists, how they found their way to Playboy, what made each woman stand out—and where life took them after the Mansion.Megan breaks down:How Playboy actually selected its Playmate of the YearWhy Hef ultimately held the deciding voteWho Monica Leigh, Janine Habeck, Alison Waite and Sara Underwood really wereThe surprising careers and backgrounds the original episode barely exploredWhy some Playboy fans still believe Alison should have wonSara Underwood’s emotional reaction to learning she’d been chosenWhere all four PMOY finalists are nearly twenty years laterPlus: a Y2K deep dive into 2007, when American Idol had America treating reality TV competitions like professional sports, “America got it wrong” was practically part of the national vocabulary, and 17-year-old Jordin Sparks was on her way to becoming the show’s youngest winner.Connect with Host HereSupport the show