NEW PLAYMATE OF THE YEAR ARRIVES AT THE PALMS
Meet Playboy’s new Playmate of the Year: gorgeous 22-year-old Jayde Nicole, the first Canadian in 30 years to be selected.
Hugh Hefner introduced her for the first time yesterday at his Playboy Mansion when he made the official announcement and today, less than 24 hours later she arrives here in Vegas on her first assignment.
Palms owner, George Maloof will welcome her at noon to kick off his Ditch Friday’s summer pool party season.
Jayde, who will be at the Palms for 6 hours today was the Miss January 2007 contestant. She comes from the tiny Northern Ontario town of Port Perry on Lake Scugog and it doesn’t yet have a movie theater or shopping mall! This will be her first ever visit to Vegas.
She told Playboy yesterday: “I definitely remember my first Playboy Halloween party. I was kind of naive before I was in Playboy. I had never seen a Playboy magazine, I obviously had heard of Playboy and the Mansion. I didn’t have an idea of what it was going to be like. I was an ice queen. I was wearing a full dress to the ground. It was a strapless, big poofy dress. I was the most dressed person there. Probably an hour or so into the party I went back and changed into a white crystal lingerie piece, because I felt so out of place.”
“It’s so hard when I try and look ahead, because I feel like if you would have asked me two years ago where I would be right now, I wouldn’t be standing in the Playboy Mansion. I know that I want to be doing something that has to do with health and fitness and wellness. I hope to be in the same field, still traveling, still enjoying my job. I don’t want to be sitting behind a desk.
“It’s crazy. Everyone’s been saying ‘I hope you win,’ but I’ve said, “You know what? I’m Canadian, so there’s no way, we haven’t won Playmate of the Year in 30 years. So, it made it a much greater shock. And I feel it’s a little bit more responsibility, because I’m not just representing Playboy here in the U.S., but I’m going to be representing my whole country.”