Hugh Hefner has dumped two of his three “girlfriends”. He “let go” of the 20-year-old Shannon twins, Kristina and Karissa, who have been “with” Hef for about a year. They aren’t going to be thrown out with the trash, though – Hef is allowing them to move into the Playmate House, which I think is a separate residence than the Playboy Mansion…? The Huffington Post has more… Hef announced the whole thing on his Twitter… because Hef tweets (how did I not know this?):

Hugh Hefner, 83, is down 2/3 of his girlfriends.

Late Tuesday Hefner tweeted that, “The Shannon Twins are growing up. They’re moving to the Playmate House with my blessing so they will be free to do other things.”

Kristina and Karissa Shannon, known as ‘The Shannon Twins,’ are 20 and have been dating the aging Playboy mogul for over a year.

They tweeted, “Were looking forward to moving to the Playmate House, But we still love Hef & want to remain close.”

This means he is down to just one live-in girlfriend, December 2009 playmate Crystal Harris.

[From Huffington Post]

E! News actually got an interview with Hef, and he explained the situation in a bit more detail… apparently, he’s getting more serious about the other girlfriend, Crystal Harris, and “the twins” want to travel and get away from checking in with Grandpa every two hours:

Hef explains that while his relationship with girlfriend Crystal Harris has been getting “more serious,” the twins have expressed a lot of interest in doing more Playmate-related promotional work for the company…

“They’ve been hanging out with a lot of the other Playmates and they see these girls traveling across the country to do promotion,” he said. “They would like to be doing that, too.”

In fact, Hefner, 83, said he was the one who initially suggested the move, which will take place within the next couple of weeks. “When they thought about it, they thought it was a good idea,” he said, adding, “They will now be friends, but they won’t be defined as the girlfriends.”

As serious as things may be with 23-year-old Crystal, Hef says we shouldn’t start listening for wedding bells. “I haven’t had a lot of luck with marriage,” he said. “I don’t have a good track record and I don’t want to screw this one up.”

The twins’ departure doesn’t mean the end of Girls Next Door.

Hef says if his hit E! reality series gets picked up for another season, we’ll not only see some of the twins work with the Playmates, but of course, “how my relationships are changing romantically and how that relates to Crystal.”

[From E! News]

Okay, I have a confession: I actually like Hef. And I think even though he’s an old fool for all of these girlfriends and stuff, I like that he’s not throwing them out, that he’s still looking out for them and helping them. Hef treats women better than many, many men. You just have to know what you’re getting into with him. Like, you have to monitor his prescriptions and don’t interrupt his naps.

Spoilers for 1st episode below
Hugh Hefner officially introduced his latest trio of girlfriends on the season opener of “The Girls Next Door,” which aired last night on E! Hef’s last set of women, Holly, Bridget and Kendra, all left to pursue careers at about the same time last year. Hef seems to have hastily replaced them with this latest set of very young women, who seemed incredibly bland and uninteresting when compared to the last three. (Remember that 1996 movie Multiplicity, in which Michael Keaton cloned himself and the copies turned out to be dumber cardboard cutouts? It was like that.)

The twins: one bland personality between the two of them
Hef’s new girls are 23 year-old former college student Crystal Harris (it’s unclear from the show whether she graduated) and 20 year-old convicted felon Floridian twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon. Like their predecessors, they all seem good natured and genuinely friendly. You don’t sense that there’s any cattiness or competition between them and they seem fond of each other. Unfortunately you also get the impression that they wouldn’t have much to compete over.

The most interesting thing about the twins is that they complete each other’s sentences and seem to be on the same dull wavelength. That gets old within a couple of minutes, and we were left with riveting scenes of them exercising, dyeing their little white dogs, Dolce and Chanel, pink, and frolicking naked while washing one of Hef’s classic cars for a video shoot. The twins said they ended up moving in after receiving a letter from Hef three weeks after they met him. Hef’s letter said he liked them and wanted them to be girlfriends. “We’ve been here ever since, we haven’t left.”

One of the twins explained their simple identity. “Our personality is together. Like, if I’m alone, I don’t have my full personality without her.” Crystal also explained that she doesn’t think of the twins as separate people and that “I do consider the twins one person, because they eat the same thing, they sleep in the same bed, they wear all the same clothes. They kind of have a ‘don’t care’ attitude. People either love them or they hate them. And they’re fine with that.” That pretty much sums up the twins. I don’t think they’re all that polarizing, though, because that would mean that you have to really care either way. Again, they did seem to be nice enough, and were super friendly in a scene where they signed autographs on their Playboy issues. (They even signed an issue and posed with a young boy who wasn’t yet in his teens and probably shouldn’t have access to Playboy.)

Crystal: loves Hef for his personality, likes to scrapbook
Crystal had more personality than both of the twins put together, but that’s not saying much. She seems like a good person and you could tell that she really cares for Hef. She does seem kind of awed at the lifestyle, and explained that she moved in after dating Hef for a month and that when he asked her to be a girlfriend she “got all my clothes into trash bags” and moved in. Crystal’s interests also include exercising and scrapbooking for Hef, for which she’s paid $10 an hour. “I have a regular job, I make $10 per hour in the scrapbook room. I’m not the new Holly, Holly’s the old me.”

Along with cataloging Hef’s memories, Crystal also posts message from the 83 year-old Playboy founder on Twitter. In one scene she lounges with him on a bed while she shows him their Twitter account on her iPhone. I swear she’s yelling so that he can hear her, and the scene really highlights their age difference. Crystal yells to Hef “I looked on your Twitter this morning and you have 73,000 people following you.”

Hef then tries to make a joke about it that just falls flat. “I knew there was something weird going on, I looked over my shoulder and I saw all these people following me. Creepy.” With that Crystal giggles hysterically.

Crystal explained that she likes Hef for his sense of humor and doesn’t consider the age “I never thought I’d fall for a man that is Hef’s age. Day to day life, I don’t notice his age, it isn’t a factor for me. The thing that made me fall in love with Hef is his sense of humor. I just fall in love with him more and more each day.”

Hef is probably only sleeping with Crystal
I don’t think that Hef is romantically involved with the twins, although it’s of course possible. While giving him a hug during their naked video shoot, they both angled their hips back so that they weren’t hugging him full on. There weren’t any scenes of the twins looking intimate with Hef at all. They said that he’s a great guy, though. “We love Hef. He’s smart, he’s outgoing, he’s down to earth. Hef’s a good boyfriend.”

The end of the episode was a trip to Vegas where the twins had their Playboy signing and met up with Hef’s ex girlfriend Holly at the wax museum. Holly tricked them by telling them ahead of time that they would see a wax figure of comic Carrot Top which farted when you pulled its finger. The real Carrot Top was there and they couldn’t tell the difference. Preview scenes from next week promise some drama as new head girlfriend Crystal meets Holly for the first time.

Now that I’ve been introduced to Hef’s new girlfriends, I don’t think I’ll be making many repeat visits. The last set of women all had outside interests and distinct personalities. These three just seem to be in the mansion for the company and eye candy, and frankly it’s not that entertaining. At least Hef has some companions in his old age.

Photos are from 7/17 (twins in bikinis at signing), 9/18 (fundraising for LA AIDs walk) and 10/12 (the twins’ 20th birthday at Kress restaurant in LA). Credit: WENN.com

Someday I plan on publishing a novel. I’ve been working on it off and on for five years and completely scrapped it a few months ago and started from scratch. While I generally try to focus on the research and the writing, once in a while I can’t help but imagine what it’d be like to do a reading and have people actually ask me to sign my book.

And while I’ve never really taken the time to imagine what I’m wearing when this pretend interaction happens, I’m pretty sure I’ve always got clothes on. If I didn’t, it’d be more like one of those naked dreams. But I’m reasonably confident that clothing is involved, because I never imagine anyone in the audience screaming.

Sadly… or not, depending on your opinion… the same can’t be said for Hugh Hefner’s 19-year-old twin girlfriends Karissa and Kristina Shannon. Now before you panic, let me clarify that they did not publish a book. Though in this day and age when Lauren Conrad tops the New York Times’ Best Seller List, I can see why that’d be a legitimate fear.

The twins were doing an autograph signing for Playboy’s July/August double issue, in which they are the Playmates of the Month. And it wasn’t at a Barnes & Noble or a musty old bookstore like in my own fantasy (just to clarify, my fantasy book reading, not my fantasies about the jailbird twins), but rather the Playboy Store in Las Vegas. Worried that they might appear too formal if they showed up in the matching pantsuits they’d originally chosen, the twins instead decided to wear just teeny tiny bikinis.

And while I’d love to mock, you know the saying: “dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” And in all fairness, the twins are doing both. As are their twins.

Giggle.

Images thanks to PR Photos.com.

I have a feminist confession – I really like Hugh Hefner. I think he’s done a lot for women’s rights, reproductive rights and for the first amendment. I don’t think Hef is a misogynist in any way – to me, Hef always seemed like he preferred the company of women. Shamefully, I used to watch “The Girls Next Door” and if you watch how Hef used to interact with his girlfriends (Kendra, Bridget and Holly), he tended to treat them like they were his daughters. All of that being said, I do think Hef is totally senile at this point. The man is 83 years old. It’s totally okay for him to just spend his days reading the newspaper and feeding ducks or whatever. He doesn’t need the multiple blonde girlfriends. But I suppose I could give Hef credit for trying to keep up the Playboy lifestyle while he’s still relatively cognizant.

Hef was recently interviewed by Fox News, and Hef admitted that he can’t tell his twin blonde girlfriends apart. My follow-up question would have been “Do you even care enough to tell them apart?” Hugh also confirms that rumor that Brett Ratner is going to do a movie about Hef’s early years. And Hef even knows who he wants to play “The Young Hef”… none other than Robert Downey Jr.

Hugh Hefner has been blessed with three new very gorgeous blonde beauties — two of which are twins. But despite his romantic relationship with 19-year-olds Karissa and Kristina Shannon, the men’s magazine mogul admitted at the recent Playmate of the Year party at The Palms in Sin City that he still can’t really tell them apart.

“I have one little trick, one has a little mark,” Hef said, motioning to his neck. “Other than that, I don’t know.”

The 83-year-old — who is no doubt living a life beyond most male’s wildest dreams — is also getting ready to see his trials and tribulations on the big screen in an upcoming Brett Ratner flick. And who does Hef want to play him?

“Robert Downey Jr. and I have talked about it, it’s a very real possibility,” Hef added. “Downey’s a marvelous actor, I would be honored.”

We caught up with the ultimate Playboy (and his three leading ladies of course) again last week at AFI’s Tribute to Michael Douglas where he was glowing about former flame Kendra Wilkinson’s recent pregnancy news.

“Kendra is going to be a good mommy, she’s growing up and Hank is going to be a very good influence on her. They are an ideal couple,” Hef said. “I’m sure the baby will end up at the Mansion. We do have (lots of little bunnies). We have a lot of friends and second generation Playmates, so there are a lot of kids around the Mansion these days.”

[From Fox News Pop Tarts]

Okay, the part where Hef is talking about second-generation bunnies is a little gross. But I think he means that bunnies are welcome to bring their kids to the mansion, right? Not that Playboy does a lot of mother-daughter bunny photo spreads? Because that’s gross.

I really hope Robert Downey Jr. gets cast as the young Hef, because that would be brilliant. There is even a likeness, and Downey has a somewhat small-to-medium build, much like Hef. Plus, Downey has the attitude! Awesome casting.

Karissa Shannon, Kristina Shannon, Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris are shown on 6/11/09. Credit: WENN.com

Radar Online has a new interview with Hugh Hefner on the red carpet at a Playboy benefit for US troops he held on Saturday at his mansion. It’s pretty clear that 83 year-old Hef had a few Jack and cokes before the event because his eyes are half-closed and he’s slurring and kind of slow answering questions. Crystal Harris, his new number one girlfriend, had to repeat some things to him louder so he could figure out what the reporters were asking. At one point he was asked if he’s ever considered putting Lindsay Lohan in the magazine, something he was previously rumored to have offered the actress. He had to have her name repeated three times before he realized who she was, but after the lightbulb clicked on he said “sure” she could pose for Playboy:

RadarOnline.com spoke with Hefner, as well as his blonde twin bookends Karissa and Kristina Shannon, where he took a moment to ponder past and future playmates.

“Very special lady,” Hefner said, reflecting on his relationship wit cancer-battling Farrah Fawcett.

“She appeared in the magazine first in the 1970s and, I think, almost every decade since,” said Hefner.

When asked about potential new playmates, one troubled actress didn’t even register to the 83-year-old.

When asked if Lindsay Lohan could make the cut for Playboy, her name had to be repeated several times before Hefner even realized who she was!

Fear not, Lindsay. Once it dawned on him, Hefner seemed open to the idea.

[From Radaronline.com]

Poor Hef, he doesn’t look to be doing too well. The fact that he forgot Lohan’s name is more a reflection on his age and whatever he was on than Lindsay’s fading star. Lohan might not be too keen to take Hef up on his offer. Although it was rumored that she previously turned down a $700,000 offer to pose in the men’s magazine, Lohan’s mother Dina denied the offer was ever on the table. What’s more is that Lindsay has landed an actual role in a film, so she may want to concentrate on that for a while and not remind us that she’s usually willing to get naked for art’s sake.

Hugh Hefner is shown above with Crystal Harris, Kristina Shannon and Karissa Shannon on 5/16/09. Lindsay Lohan is shown below on 5/11/09. Credit: WENN.com

Hefner with newer, younger Crystal Harris
Yesterday the news came out that Hugh Hefner supposedly said in an interview to be published in the upcoming issue of LA Confidential Magazine that he missed his old girlfriend Holly Madison and wanted her back. He also semi-dissed his new relationship with now 23 year old co-ed Crystal Harris and said “How serious, and intimate… that works out to be, [with Crystal] well we’ll have to wait and see.” Hefner’s other two new girlfriends are semi-scary 19 year-old belly-baring bottle blonde twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon. The thought of him getting up to anything with those two is just too creepy to bear.

In a new statement to E! News, 83 year-old Hefner calls it “bizarre” that he would want Holly back. I’ve e-mailed LA Confidential to confirm that they have those quotes from Hefner because it’s hard to tell if Hefner is saying that he never gave that interview and that those quotes are made up. The first impression I have is that he’s trying to backtrack here. He says that he wouldn’t trade Crystal for anyone and that it was just her birthday and this news is upsetting to her. Look – he even bought her a puppy:

Hugh Hefner is not sitting in the Playboy Mansion pining away for former girlfriend Holly Madison.
Hef came to me today to clear up new reports that claim—he says, falsely—that he’s trying to win Madison back because she is the true love of his life. “The notion that I would want her back as a girlfriend is bizarre,” he said.

Holly is a good friend, but nothing more, he said.

Besides, he’s got his new girls in his life…

“I am now in one of the best relationships in memory with Crystal Harris and the twins,” he said. “I’m not going to screw it up with former girlfriends.”

Shortly after the 83-year-old Playboy mogul and The Girls Next Door (Holly, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt) broke up, he quickly began seeing Harris and 19-year-old sisters Karissa and Kristine Shannon.
“I would not trade Crystal Harris for anybody in the else in the world,” he swooned. “And then this thing comes out and today is Crystal’s birthday…It’s ridiculous.”

Hopefully, Hef’s birthday present made her feel better. “I got her a puppy,” he said. “It’s an English Spaniel. It’s absolutely wonderful. We’ve been trying to come up with a name for it.”

[From E! Online's Marc Malkin]

It’s possible he gave that interview weeks ago when he was actually pining for Holly and before things started to pick up with Harris. Maybe he had just met Harris and that’s why he wasn’t all gung-ho about the relationship yet. That’s cute that he bought her a puppy! I doubt she’ll have 1/2 the personality of any of Hef’s last three girlfriends but adding a cute pet into the mix can only help The Girls Next Door.

Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris are shown at Aubrey O’Day’s birthday party on 2/12/09. They’re also shown with the twins on 3/21/09. Credit: WENN.com

Hugh and Holly on 8/28/08. Credit: WENN.com
Hugh Hefner’s new trio of barely-legal blondes must not be intellectually or emotionally stimulating enough for the geriatric bachelor. The 83 year old is still pining for lost love Holly Madison, who he called “The love of my life” in a recent interview:

It has been several months since Hugh Hefner and his former flame Holly Madison went their separate ways, but it seems the 83-year-old men’s magazine mogul still has super strong feelings for the 29-year-old pin-up. Hef told Jason Binn, editorial director of Niche Magazine’s Los Angeles Confidential, in his debut issue that he’d welcome Madison back with open arms because she is still the “love of his life.”

So where does that leave things with his new top squeeze Crystal Harris?

“How serious, and intimate, and important that works out to be, well we’ll have to wait and see because it’s only a couple months old,” Hef said in the upcoming issue, which hits the stands on May 1.

So even though Hef’s heart is still hoping for Holly, it doesn’t look like a reunion will happen any time soon.

“I loved my time at the mansion and think the world of Hef,” Madison told Tarts in response. “There comes a time in everyone’s life where they need to go their own way.”

And although Mr. Hefner still considers himself the ultimate playboy and has lived (and continues to live) a life beyond what most men could even dream about, he has two prominent regrets — his two marriages (the first to Mildred Williams in 1949 and then to Playmate Kimberly Conrad in 1989 — to whom he’s still married) and taking his empire public.

“I think the company would have been more closer to home if it had remained a private corporation,” Hef admitted.

[From Fox News]

Doesn’t it sound like Hef isn’t getting any from Crystal? He said “How serious, and intimate… that works out to be, [with Crystal] well we’ll have to wait and see.” She’s a 22 year-old San Diego State co-ed and in the only interview I’ve seen with her she came across as vapid and kind of dumb. I assumed she was the one keeping Hef company as the alternative, his two 19 year-old ex con twin “girlfriends”, conjure up all sorts of unsettling images when you let your mind go there. It looks like all of Hef’s arm candy is just for show this time around. No wonder he misses the girlfriend who stood by him for so long, but she’s moved on to other things. In an interview with In Touch last October after the split, Holly made it clear that she’ll never be with another man that much older and that she’s not going to reconcile with Hef. You can tell from her statement here that she wouldn’t consider it, either, as she said “There comes a time in everyone’s life where they need to go their own way.”

Hef saw Holly for the first time since their split at his birthday party earlier this month. She was cordial but mentioned that she was there for the sake of their reality show. It’s kind of sad for Hef that he’s still chasing super young tail at that age and missing the one that got away.

Hugh Hefner is shown below with his new girlfriends on 3/21/09. Holly Madison is shown at US Weekly’s Hot Hollywood party on 4/22/09. Credit: WENN.com

Hugh Hefner’s three ex-girlfriends all showed up to help the aging men’s magazine magnate celebrate his 83rd birthday this weekend in Las Vegas. His former number one girlfriend, Holly Madison, confirmed that she hasn’t seen Hef since their split, and also added a little detail that made it seem like obligations to her reality show also motivated her appearance. Madison said that it was her “first time filming ‘Girls Next Door’ as a single lady,” so I guess we know why she showed up. Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt were also there with their boyfriends:

The American Country Music Awards certainly brought a lot of extra buzz to Las Vegas over the weekend, but what really had temperatures soaring was Hugh Hefner’s 83rd Birthday at the Palms Resort & Casino. The festivities kicked off Saturday afternoon with a Palms Place pool party, hosted by (wait for it) Hef’s former flame, Holly Madison.

“I haven’t seen him since I left the mansion,” Madison told Tarts before his arrival. “And it is my first time filming “Girls Next Door” as a single lady so that’s exciting.”

But Madison wasn’t the only ex girlfriend who came to celebrate the special day, surprisingly Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt also strutted in (with their new lovers) to help Hef and his three new leading ladies Crystal Harris, Karissa Shannon & Kristina Shannon spice up Sin City and the birthday boy couldn’t have been more beside himself.

“As you can tell I am very, very happy. To celebrate my birthday with new girlfriends and former girlfriends is perfect, its wonderful,” he said. “I’ve had a life well-lived with so much satisfaction, I enjoy just looking back.”

(Speaking of which, we couldn’t help but keep a close eye on how the new and the old bonded and while chances are they probably aren’t necessarily BFFs, things appeared to be very civil and no claws came out!)

However when we asked what Madison missed most about mansion life her response was a love affair of a different kind.

“The zoo, the mansion has a fantastic zoo with birds and monkeys — I used to work in the zoo a lot and was really close to the zoo staff,” she said. “I fancied myself as an amateur zoologist.”

[From FoxNews]

Holly was the third contestant voted off “Dancing with the Stars” this season on March 31 in a double elimination. She told Fox that she’s ruled out appearing nude again and that her next career move is a reality show she’s developing “about me and my friends here in Vegas.”

There are also some quotes from Kendra, who said she won’t do another nude spread unless her fiance shoots it for her. Bridget Marquardt provided some sexy entertainment by singing happy birthday to Hef Marilyn-style. Last year Pamela Anderson came in topless to serve Hefner his birthday cake.

Interesting that the article barely mentions the new trio of bland way too-young girlfriends, 19 year-old toker twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, and 22 year-old San Diego State coed Crystal Harris. People don’t know them yet so there’s not much interest in them, but they’re also incredibly boring compared to Hef’s last three girlfriends. In an E! interview I saw of them all in January, Crystal seemed kind of dumb while the twins just sat there giggling idiotically. No wonder the reality show will continue to feature Holly, Bridget and Kendra. There’s only so much mileage they can get out of the “creepy old dude with barely legal girlfriends” angle.

Hugh, Bridget and Kendra are shown at a party for Bridget’s show “Bridget’s sexiest beaches” on 3/11/09. Credit: Mavrixonline. He is shown with his current girlfriends on 3/21/09. Credit: WENN.com. The exes are also shown in September, 2008, Credit: PRPhotos

Hugh Hefner, 82, and his official three new girlfriends, 19 year-old twin sisters Karissa and Kristina Shannon, and 22 year-old San Diego State coed Crystal Harris, sat down for an interview with E!. Throughout the interview, the Playboy patriarch had his arms across all three of the young women’s laps, rubbing and caressing a knee on each side.

Despite the age difference, Hef and his last girlfriend triangle kind of made sense to me, probably because we had a chance to get used to Holly, Bridget and Kendra and they stuck around for years. They had strong, likable personalities and you could see they genuinely cared for Hef. These girls just seem too young and opportunistic and the creepiness factor is about ten fold considering that Hef is probably getting busy with all three of them instead of just Holly. Plus they’re kind of boring. Crystal is nice and seems like the “smarter” one, but she’s the only one who talked and she’s not that interesting. The twins just sat there smiling and laughing too loudly at points.

On why he got new girlfriends
Well, the old ones all left

On how he met the twins
They were already scheduled to be playmates and I had met them, and I heard a rumor that they were interested in being girlfriends. So I dropped them a note and said if they were serious… we would talk about it. They showed up about two weeks after I hit that speedbump and knew that I was going to be separating from Holly.

On the twins felony record
They arrived with a reputation supposedly of bad girls from Florida. If they were bad girls they wouldn’t be here. They’re very nice girls.

Crystal on how she learned she was becoming a girlfriend
Hef asked me to be a girlfriend after we were hanging out for a little over a month. I didn’t hesitate, I just got all my stuff and moved on in.

On meeting co-ed Crystal
I met her at a Halloween party.

Crystal on sharing Hef
It works out pretty well, we all bring different aspects to the relationship… they’re the party ones, I’m the sturdier [one].

Crystal on meeting the last girlfriends
I met Bridget and Kendra, but I never met Holly… I really like Kendra, and her fiance’s really nice.

On if Holly ever had a chance to marry him
If the time frame had been different, she had a very good chance… It has to do with timing. I’ve been married twice, those were not the happiest times of my lives.

[Transcribed from Hefner's interview with E!, video above]

The most telling part of this interview comes at the end when Hef explains that he lost his last girlfriends because they started to grow and branch out in their careers. It makes sense that he’d pick much younger women because they’re more dependent on him and will presumably stick around for a while.

On the biggest difference between these women and his last set of girlfriends
Well they’re younger, and remember the other relationships… I was at 7 or 8 years, so we’d been together a long time. The girls had become celebrities. The girls had their own particular interests and career aspirations and I think the pursuit of all that kind of separated us in terms of where the relationships were to begin with.

This is the beginning again. There’s nothing more exciting than the beginning of a romantic relationship, and this is the best.

In November, a picture came out of Hefner making out with an unknown blond woman at his Halloween party. It’s either one of the twins or Crystal, it’s hard to tell. Either way, it doesn’t seem like it’s all for show and there’s definitely some kind of “romance” involved.

Overall I got the impression that the Girls Next Door 2.0 are younger, blander replacements that make Hef happy by serving as eye candy and doing their duties in the bedroom. It’s kind of what everyone assumed about the last women at first, but the public warmed up to them, partly because we weren’t confronted with the sex factor and could kind of push that to the back of our minds once we got to know them through the show. We’ll have to see if these younger women are capable of winning people over, but maybe they don’t have to and people will watch the new Girls Next Door just because it’s an 82 year-old guy doing the deed with women young enough to be his great granddaughters. That’s interesting in a trainwreck way, even if the women are not.