Zoe instructed MailOnline: “I loved Kelly to bits and, when I moved into the Mansion, Hef asked me if I knew her.

“I instructed him, ‘Yes, we’re good mates, we used to go to castings collectively.’

“I invited her over a few times and Kelly did seem keen at first, but then she told me she didn’t want to get involved.

“I feel it was as a result of she was in a relationship and her company talked her out of getting in that path. She was attempting to keep up a very good status for her profession.

“Also, she might have seen the backlash Katie Price got after modelling for Playboy and thought, I’m not going to do it.”

Zoe thinks not solely would Kelly have been “perfect” for Playboy, she even believes Hefner – who died in 2017 aged 91 – would have wished to marry her.

She mentioned: “But I have always wondered why she didn’t go down that path. She would have been perfect for Playboy and moving to the States would have been a big boost for her career.

“She would have stood out as a brunette at a time when there was a little bit of a blonde invasion with Pamela Anderson and Anna Nicole Smith.

“Hef would have loved Kelly over and, knowing him as I do, I’m sure he would have married her. She was the polar opposite of what he had at the Mansion, which was all blonde hair and big t**s.”

The ‘From Britain to Bunny’ writer – who lived within the Mansion for 3 years and have become Hefner’s quantity two girlfriend till she was pressured to depart in 2004 after falling out with one other of his lovers, Holly Madison – additionally revealed her former lover was “obsessed” with Katie Price and wished her to maneuver into his home too.

She mentioned: “Hef loved Katie, he was obsessed with her. He wanted her to move in permanently and be his girlfriend, but she had just had Harvey so she couldn’t.

“She is of course outspoken and by no means shy and when she’s had a few drinks it will get instances 10.

“I don’t remember much from her visits because we would party hard whenever she was there.”