ET sat down with Hugh Hefner and his fiancée Crystal Harris at the Playboy Mansion for the dish on their wedding, their 60-year-age gap, and whether or not they plan on having kids, all for a new interview to air tonight, January 3rd.

Hugh and Crystal tell ET they’re eyeing a summer wedding at the Mansion, an “intimate” ceremony with close friends and family — “no big, blow-out affair,” Hef says. “Giving it another chance after a couple of failed marriages is an adventure, but it’s something that I’m committed to,” the Playboy mogul says.

But what about that big age gap between 84-year-old Hef and 24-year-old Crystal? Is it problematic? “I don’t notice the age difference with Hef at all,” Crystal says. “If anything I have to keep up with him”. Speaking of keeping up, when asked if he is still sexually active, Hugh says, “I’m doing my best. Dancin’ as fast as I can.”

Which begs the question: Does Hef want more children? “Well, we’ll see. That’s not part of the big plan,” he says.

One thing that’s not in question: Hef’s love for his Playmate bride-to-be. “She’s a beautiful human being inside and out; a woman with real character and humor,” he says. “We’re really devoted to each other. I think that the relationship is the center of both our lives.”

She doesn’t notice the age difference? HA! That’s impossible! How would she not notice a 60-year-difference!

PS: That is an awkward photo! Looks like she’s posing with her fiance on the right – and Hugh could be her grandfather!

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Hugh Hefner, 84, is engaged to Crystal Harris, his 24-year-old girlfriend and Playmate, a Playboy rep confirms to UsMagazine.com.

Hefner first Tweeted about it on Sunday. “When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears,” the Girls Next Door star wrote. “This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory…I got what I was hoping for for Christmas…Crystal’s love.”

To make his news absolutely clear, the mogul then added: “Yes, the ring I gave Crystal is an engagement ring. I didn’t mean to make a mystery out of it. A very merry Christmas to all.”

It will be the third marriage for famous bachelor Hefner. He wed first wife Mildred in 1949 (they have grown children Christie, 58, and David, 55) before divorcing in 1959. In 1989, he walked down the aisle with Playmate of the Year Kimberley Conrad, and they went on to have sons Marston, 10, and Cooper, 9. The duo’s divorce was finalized last year.

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Hugh Hefner is proposing to save the publishing empire, Playboy, that he started, by purchasing up all of the remaining stock shares in the company.

Reportedly, there have been rumors that Playboy is failing, due to down-sizing reports and layoffs.

Contact Music reports:

The announcement sparked reports Hefner would sell his stock in the racy magazine, but the 84-year-old mogul has instead proposed to pay $5.50 per share for those he doesn’t already own in a deal with private equity firm Rizvi Traverse Management LLC. The move would take the company private, reports the New York Times.

However, Hefner’s proposal still has to be approved by company board members before he can move forward with the purchase.

Good luck Hef! He saved the Hollywood sign and I’m sure he can do this, too!

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He watched Daddy play in the Super Bowl. Now, baby Hank Baskett IV is off to meet Mommy’s famous ex at the Playboy Mansion.

Continuing his busy first few months of life, baby Baskett will get to meet Hugh Hefner, the legendary Playboy founder, on Monday during a trip with mom Kendra Wilkinson to the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.

“Lil Hank gets to meet him today!! So excited!” Wilkinson tweeted on Monday morning.

Wilkinson lived at the mansion as one of Hefner’s girlfriends from 2004 until 2009. Much of her life there was documented in the E! reality show The Girls Next Door.

Wilkinson, 24, and Hefner, 83, split amicably when Wilkinson met the NFL player Hank Baskett. She gave birth to baby Hank in December.

When Hefner learned last June that Wilkinson was pregnant, he told People he was happy for her, and said of Baskett: “I think he’s a good guy and they’ll be good for one another.”

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To those familiar with life inside the Playboy Mansion, it doesn’t come as a big surprise today when it was announced that Hugh Hefner’s now-ex-girlfriends, twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon, had decided to move out of the Hef’s legendary playpen.

“You have to consider that these girls are only 20 years old,” a source tells OK!. “The twins were there for the ride. They just care about themselves.”

Hefner said he initially suggested the move, which is expected to be within the next couple of weeks, and that Kristina and Karissa will now be “friends” as opposed to having the official title of “girlfriends.”

One of the reasons — and possibly a clear indicator — for the twins’ departure from the famous Holmby Hills home was their relationship to the 83-year-old nudie magazine mogul.

According to the source, “it was not a secret the twins were sleeping around” while living under Hef’s roof.

“From what I heard, the twins were not sleeping with Hef,” the source continues. “And Hef didn’t really seem to care. He would let them get away with murder. They did whatever they wanted.”

This leaves Hef alone with his main girlfriend, 23-year-old Crystal Harris, and if the E! reality show The Girls Next Door gets picked up for a seventh season, the twins will still be a part of the series.

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How can Hugh Hefner tell 19-year-old twin girlfriends Karissa and Kristina Shannon apart?

At Monday’s Sports Dream Celebrity Poker and Pool Party in L.A., he pointed to a mole on Karissa’s neck.

“That’s it!” he told Usmagazine.com at the event. His third girlfriend Crystal Harris also “can tell the difference between [Karissa and Kristina] and they can tell the difference because they know the other one is not her!”

Hefner, 83, also confirmed another season of E!’s Girls Next Door is in the works – with his new lady loves.

“Oh, yes! You are looking at part of the cast here,” he said, pointing to his girlfriends. “We are going to have a lot of fun.”

What can viewers expect?

“Fun and games!” he told Us. “They will be going to Las Vegas on Friday and we will be joining them on Saturday.” (He added that they plan to watch ex Holly Madison in the Vegas show, PEEPSHOW.)

As for his other ex, the pregnant Kendra Wilkinson — who wed June 27 at the Playboy Mansion?

“I think she will be a good mom,” Hef told Us, “because she is a good lady.”

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“I am in perfect health,” he tells E! exclusively. “I’m in very good shape and feeling very good.”

So what’s all this fuss about his well-being?

Fox News reported earlier today that Hef “looked far from his normally alert and healthy self” during a supposed brief appearance at Saturday’s Kandykaneland Masquerade Ball at the Playboy Mansion with new girlfriends Crystal Harris and 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon.

Hef said he was at the party the entire night and kept going till about 4:30 in the morning. “And then I was up in the morning, played backgammon during the afternoon with a buddy before we watched the final episode of The Girls Next Door.”

As for the claim that the split from his Girls Next Door Holly, Kendra and Bridget took a toll on him, the Energizer Bunny Hefner said he’s doing better than fine.

“If there was any kind of emotional or physical impact from that, it was back in last summer and fall,” he said. “But the recovery, thanks to the twins and to Crystal, has been really remarkable.”

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