Hager Twins: A Twins Peek At The HEE-HAW Hotties
Hay now! (Image via Playgirl) Remember the Hager Twins of Hee-Haw fame? Did you know they were Playgirl's second-ever celeb nudes? (They were nude, the photo demurely covered their privates.) Even before the iconic mag's official premier issue, they shucked their skivvies for a rather racy pose in the second test issue in 1973 — an incredible 50 years ago.
I researched and wrote an exhaustive oral history of Playgirl, but I never really found a satisfying explanation for why two test issues with zero mention of founding editor Douglas Lambert existed.
It's as if Lambert started with issue 3, called it issue 1 and everyone just went with it. Don't look to Minx for hints — that series is all about mythologizing the already very interesting history of Playgirl, without calling it Playgirl.
The Hagers were devilish in general — check out their, er, provocative performance of this song about pizza. Um, “give me that 16-incher?!” Their big shot at acting stardom came in the TV movie Twin Detectives, in which they co-starred with ...
