Hef Liberates O'Day

(Photo: Splash News Online) Last October, Aubrey O'Day was kicked from TV's Making the Band girl group Danity Kane. Speculation was that her ousting was a ratings ploy by producer Sean Combs.

Regardless of the reasons, did that stop the 24 year-old singer? Nope! She's landed on her --well, let's just say she's doing okay. Hugh Hefner is giving her career a boost by putting her on the cover of the March issue of Playboy.

And, with less fabric, on the inside, too.

"The shoot was so liberating, it is very classy, simple and glamorous," O'Day is quoted in Tarts. "It's so glamorous, Hef was there and he loved it. My whole family came to watch, I have a very liberal and accepting family and there is very little judgment to have ever come out of my family."

Wonder if they brought a picnic basket.