Holly Madison and Zak Bagans are officially done.
While speaking to her Girls Next Level podcast cohost Bridget Marquardt this week about the recent death of her close friend Luke “The Dingo” Trembath, Madison, 45, revealed that she and the Ghost Adventures host, 47, are no longer a couple.
“And then the day after that, Zak and I broke up for good, for good,” Madison said. “I know we’ve been very off and on, you guys are probably like, ‘You guys broke up last spring, right?’ ”
Marquardt agreed about the former couple’s back and forth, adding, “‘Are they together? Are they not together?’ We’re just like, ‘Who knows?’”
“Very off and on,” Madison admitted.
She continued, “Yeah, it was very off and on for the course of the like five-and-a-half years we were together. We were very off and on for the past year, very much. So we broke up and I mean unfollowed on social media, which we’ve never unfollowed each other before through all the breakups.”
“That’s when you know it’s serious,” Marquardt said.
PEOPLE confirmed that the former Girls Next Door star and Bagans had begun dating in June 2019 following her divorce from Electric Daisy Carnival founder Pasquale Rotella.
Marquardt and Pasquale, 50, are parents to two kids, daughter Rainbow and son Forest, born in March 2013 and August 2016, respectively.
In March 2024, the best-selling author star spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about how she and Bagans developed a deeper connection after she was diagnosed with autism at the age of 42.
“I look back and I just see how I used to have so much trouble connecting with people. I think that played into some of the decisions I made,” Madison told PEOPLE. ”Feeling like I connected with certain people easier and thinking, ‘Oh, this must be meant to be because I never connected with anyone before,’ kind of a thing, when really, I think it was just being on the spectrum was a difficulty for me.”
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She added that Bagans was supportive of her autism diagnosis.
“I’m lucky enough to be dating somebody who just has always kind of understood me and accepts me for who I am, so getting the diagnosis wasn’t super shocking to him,” the former Playboy model said. “I am lucky that I haven’t had a ton of trouble in recent relationships as far as feeling an intimate emotional connection with somebody.”
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