Hugh Hefner engaged to 24-year-old girlfriend Crystal Harris

He may be 84, but age isn’t getting in the Playboy tycoon’s way when it comes to love.  Hugh Hefner took to his Twitter to share the happy news that he proposed to his 24-year-old girlfriend Crystal Harris on Christmas Eve.

The twice-married lothario started dating former psychology student Crystal at the beginning of 2009, when he was also dating identical glamor models Kristina and Karissa Shannon, but he ended his relationship with the twins a year later and has since been committed to his soon-to-be wife.

So, how did Hugh pop the question? The couple cosied up to watch The Tourist, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, and then they got down to opening their presents.

“After the movie tonight, Crytal & I exchanged gifts. I gave Crystal a ring. A truly memorable Christmas Eve,” Hef said.

And if that message wasn’t clear enough, he later tweeted: “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.”

Hef has two children, Christie, 58, and David, 55, from his first marriage to Mildred Williams in 1949, which lasted for 10 years. In 1989 he tied the knot with Playboy Playmate Kimberley Conrad and together they have two sons, Marston Glenn, 20, and Cooper Bradford, 19. Hef filed for divorce in 2000 citing “irreconcilable differences”, although the divorce was only finalised this year.

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Kendra Wilkinson tells of underage drug habit

The release of Kendra Wilkinson’s new book ‘Sliding Into Home’ tells the reality TV star’s battle with a myriad of drugs. While she says he is happy with her current life – as wife to pro footballer player Hank Baskett and mother to her baby boy Hank Jr – the former Playboy model and ex girlfriend of Hugh Hefner admits to battling with drugs like crystal meth when she was underage.

“It’s been an uphill battle,” NY Daily News quotes her as saying. “And while life is great … before I can talk about the best of times, I need to tell you about the worst.”

In her book she candidly explains her partying lifestyle, her work as a stripper and her bout with drugs that began at the age of 13, shortly after her father left.

“The drugs and everything, that’s what found me and accepted me, but it wasn’t me,” CBS quotes her as saying. “I am that tomboy, I am that kid, that girl that loves sports. That wasn’t me so I grew out of that real fast.”

Working as an underage stripper while doing drugs is something Kendra justifies with remaining “a good person”, and claims she wasn’t a “druggie stripper”.

A near-death-experience with cocaine one night reportedly led Kendra to realize it was time to stop with the drugs.

“I was bleeding from every hole in my body, and I really thought I was going to die that night. But you know what, I survived, and I swear it was a couple of days after that that I had an epiphany. I just stopped drugs, stopped smoking cigarettes, stopped everything, and went home.”

Kendra has previously opened up about her bout with depression, suicidal thoughts, and admission into the psych ward.

According to the NY Daily News, Kendra checked into a psych ward at the age of 15 after suffering from suicidal thoughts. She was also cutting herself during this time.

“I had so much pain that I just wanted to die,” she said. “It wasn’t that I was trying to die, it was that the pain took away from my pain inside.”

Kendra, who is now 25 and the star of her own reality show ‘Kendra’, says she is exactly where she wants to be in life right now, and that the bad times are in her past.

“I have been through a lot and have gotten through it,” she said on ‘Today’. “I’m safe. I’m home. I am where I always wanted to be.”