Wedding's Off for Hugh Hefner: 'Crystal Has Had a Change of Heart' 
 
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 The third time was anything but a charm for Hugh Hefner, whose wedding to Crystal Harris has been called off. "The wedding is off," Hefner 
 
 
 
 Multiple sources told the site that Harris moved her things out of the mansion and that the wedding, set for Saturday June 18, was canceled. It would have been Hefner's third marriage. The third time was anything but a charm for Hugh Hefner, whose wedding to Crystal Harris has been called off. "The wedding is off," Hefner glumly told his Twitter followers Tuesday. "Crystal has had a change of heart." According to TMZ , the 25-year-old model left the Playboy Mansion over the weekend after having a fight with the publishing mogul, 60 years her senior.Multiple sources told the site that Harris moved her things out of the mansion and that the wedding, set for Saturday June 18, was canceled. It would have been Hefner's third marriage. 
 
 Harris, who earlier in the day promoted a comedic video that revolves around her relationship, released a statement on her website to explain her decision."After much deep reflection and thought I have decided to end my engagement with Hef," she wrote. "I have the utmost respect for Hef and wish him the best going forward. I hope the media will give each of us the privacy we deserve during this time."Hefner didn't hint at any domestic disruptions on Saturday when he tweeted to a fan in England the details of the wedding. "The wedding is next Saturday (June 18)," he wrote. "And airs on Lifetime on July 13." He was also a major presence at the Playboy Jazz Festival, where he was spotted on Saturday with Harris on the festival grounds.Harris has not been silent on Twitter either, but has focused her words on promoting a new single, 'Club Queen.' On Monday -- that's after she left him, according to TMZ -- Hefner helped his fiancee promote her music career with another tweet to his 638,000 followers.Hefner, 85, and Harris, 25, began dating in January 2009 and became engaged around Christmas. The blond bombshell was slated to wear a pink wedding gown when she walked down the aisle in the backyard of the Playboy Mansion and, according to the couple, the nuptials were to be a colorful affair not unlike a "garden party." About 300 people were invited.One of Hefner's former girlfriends, Holly Madison, expressed concern early on in the engagement that the couple was moving too fast and that Harris could potentially hurt her ex-beau."I think it's possible Crystal could break Hef's heart," Madison said. "They could end up divorcing, and she could take half his money."Hef was previously married to Mildred Williams and Kimberly Conrad.Harris lampooned the 60-year age gap with Hefner in a Funny or Die video released just today. In it, she promotes the 'The Playboy App' for smartphones that will make you "knowledgeable about things older people are interested in, which is helpful when you're dating Hugh Hefner." She sent a link to the video to her 175,000 Twitter followers, even though she had already left Hefner. ||||| Kevin Winter / Getty Images 
 
 As everyone has heard by now, Hugh Hefner proposed to girlfriend Crystal Harris on Christmas Eve. 
 
 Now, I've got the whole scoop for you. I just got off the phone with Crystal and this is what she had to say... 
 
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 The Playboy boss, 84, proposed to the 24-year-old aspiring singer while they were opening presents at the Mansion. The ring was in a Little Mermaid music box. Hef wound it up and had Crystal open it. He didn't say, "Will you marry me?" Instead, he said, "I hope it fits." (FYI: It didn't. It was a little too big but it has been resized and she is wearing it now.) 
 
 Crystal says she knew it was coming because they had talked about getting married. She even designed the ring with Hef's longtime secretary Mary O'Connor. "I picked out the diamond with Mary," Crystal said. "It all happened so fast and we're happy. Nothing's changed. Everything is the same." 
 
 It's a round diamond, a little over three karats and is on a platinum setting with diamonds that go around the whole band. Crystal tweeted a pic of the ring last night. 
 
 They are hoping for a summer wedding. She wants something small and intimate with "close friends and family." Crystal wants to design her own dress. And, yes, the big day will take place at the Mansion. 
 
 Crystal also says they have no plans to start a family. "I've never really been the wanting children type," Crystal said. "I just have a bunch of different projects I'm working on and that's fun for me so that's what I'm going to do." 
 
 As for family reaction, she said, "Both my parents are super supportive of everything and whatever makes Hef and I happy makes them happy. I couldn't be happier." 
 
 What about a prenup? "Whatever Hef wants me to do," Crystal said. "I'm happy. I have the singing thing going for me and other things so whatever he wants. I don't know anything about that stuff. I don't care. Whatever." 
 
 Bridget Marquardt sent the happy couple a box of Sprinkles cupcakes to toast the big news. Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett tweeted her congratulations. As for Holly Madison, she seems okay with the engagement, too. "Holly is coming to the Mansion on Wednesday to film a segment for her show, so it will be nice to see her," Crystal said. "I love all three of them. They're so sweet to me. They're all good girls." ||||| Crystal Harris: 'It Was All Happening Too Fast' 
 
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 Call it whatever you like -- cold feet, a fame-seeking strategy or a genuine reevaluation of a relationship -- but according to Crystal Harris, ditching fiance, Hugh Hefner nearly at the altar was the 'right thing to do.' 
 
 
 
 "It was mutual between Hef and I," Harris told Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show. "There was no fight, we sat down and we talked about it." 
 
 With the Playboy Mansion backyard wedding just days away, Harris, 25, credits the intense media pressure surrounding the nuptials for her last minute decision to ditch the 85-year-old Lothario altogether."For a while I've been having second thoughts about everything," Harris said of her decision. "I haven't really been at peace with myself lately. I don't think it was really fair to him."But according to Harris, although Hefner was on the receiving end of the breakup, it was not his initial idea to even get married."He was just doing this wedding for me, he though that's what I wanted," she said. "We're both relieved."Although we doubt that 'relief' would be the original Playboy's name-that-emotion of choice, Hefner did tweet that Harris' timing could have been worse: "The breakup is a heart breaker, but better now than after the marriage."Upon news of the nixed nuptials, Lifetime was forced to cancel a two-hour documentary spot that was to let viewers share in the big day, according to The Hollywood Reporter . The added pressure of not only being Mrs. Hefner but also having her big day filmed may have been what pushed the bride-to-be over the edge."They were gonna air a show on it. It was all happening too fast for me."A pace that many thought may have led Harris astray -- soon after the wedding was called off, reports that Harris was romancing another man behind Hefner's back caught wind. But according to the bombshell, there was never anyone else. And it was exactly that polygamous lifestyle that turned her off of the idea of a 'Playboy marriage.'"Hef's lifestyle isn't the most normal lifestyle," she said. "This isn't the lifestyle for me, multiple girls all around, it's not the lifestyle I wanted."Although Harris' revelation seems a little late in the making, according to the playmate, she and Hefner will remain on good terms."I feel happy and at peace that everything will be OK," she said. "I respect him more than anything, and we're still going to be really close."Hefner has been quite vocal following the breakup, taking to his Twitter account to lay down the law when it comes to publications misrepresenting the breakup as well as to make light of his newly single status."Since we're not getting married on Saturday, I've scheduled a movie: "Runaway Bride." Seems appropriate," Hefner jokingly tweeted after previously having confirmed the couple's split via the social networking site.And although Harris and Hefner will not be tying the knot this Saturday in front of 300 of their closest friends and family, they will be introduced as man and wife on Friday -- Harris' 'Mrs. Hefner' July Playboy cover went to press before Harris and Hefner called it quits.The cover boasts a mostly nude Harris sporting Hugh Hefner 's signature smoking jacket, captain's hat and pipe. The cover will hit newsstands with the headline, 'America's Princess: Introducing Mrs. Crystal Hefner.'In the end, it looks like Hefner will be short one princess but we have no doubt that there are more than a few royal Playboy hopefuls willing to step up to the plate. ||||| If your New Year's resolution was to find more reasons to believe in true love, you'll be thrilled to hear that two of the most romantic public figures in entertainment history have put aside their differences and acknowledged the truth that they are soul mates and meant to be together forever. For richer or ... well, richer. In sickness and in health. Until his death -- which, look, I'm not saying it's going to happen soon, but the odds aren't on his side here -- does them part. I am of course talking about Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris, who got married at the Playboy mansion on New Year's Eve. 
 
 Oh, some might scoff at the fact that he's 86 and she's 26. Some might mention the cruel words about his sexual performance that Harris once confided on Howard Stern's radio show. But it's so incredibly obvious these two are the real deal, despite the bumpy road that led them to the altar. 
 
 Hefner and Harris had marriage plans before, but like many young/ancient couples, things fell apart at the last minute. Five days before their lavishly-planned June 2011 garden party wedding before 300 guests, Hefner's blonde Playboy Playmate of the Month for December 2009 had what he described as a "change of heart." 
 
 At the time, Harris released her own statement, begging for the ex-couple to be left alone: 
 
 After much deep reflection and thought I have decided to end my engagement with Hef. I hope the media will give each of us the privacy we deserve during this time. 
 
 Interestingly, just days after her statement, a Funny or Die video was released in which Harris not only oh-so-cleverly lampooned the 60-year age gap between her and Hef, she proved her talented skills as a comedic actress, which are impressive indeed and not at all robotic and lifeless. 
 
 In a tragic turn for Playboy magazine, the "Marrying Hef" issue Harris had posed for had to be altered at the last moment with a strategically-placed "Runaway Bride" sticker. 
 
 But perhaps the biggest challenge of all for the couple lay in Hef's sexual abilities, which Crystal Harris told Howard Stern left something to be desired. Specifically, she said the sex “lasted like two seconds," and added, 
 
 Then I was just over it. I couldn’t even stay another couple days ... I couldn’t do it. I was like, ‘Ahhh.’ I just, like, walked away. 
 
 Thankfully for all of us who were rooting for these crazy kids to make it, she eventually walked right back into his loving embrace. After, presumably, convincing herself that marrying an 86-year-old multi-millionaire was probably worth a sub-par sex life. 
 
 As she wrote on Twitter this week, 
 
 Today is the day I become Mrs. Hugh Hefner. Feeling very happy, lucky, and blessed. 
 
 Indeed, Mrs. Hefner. Enjoy your wonderfully romantic, 100 percent sincere marriage for as long as it lasts! I'm sure you're hoping that won't be too many more years. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The bride wore a "mermaid" gown. The groom wore a tux, but quickly changed to his trademark pajamas because it was night-night time. 
 
 
 
 What do you think of this celebrity marriage? Is there any chance there are ANY real feelings involved? 
 
 
 
 
 
 Image via Hugh Hefner/Twitter, Playboy
– Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner didn't tie the knot yesterday, and they didn't mope, either. Hef took to Twitter to share his chin-up attitude: "This was going to be my wedding day, but life is full of surprises," the 85-year-old wrote. "After all is said & done, staying single is probably for the best." Single, however, is not code for "alone." Perez Hilton reports that exes Karissa and Kristina Shannon (yep, twins) have already moved back into the mansion, which they left a year and a half ago. And TMZ reports that Hef has been cozying up to Miss January 2011. And how did the runaway bride spend her day? Hanging poolside in Las Vegas in a teeny bikini and high heels with a group of friends, one of which was Heidi Montag. But do we detect a hint of sadness in Hugh's voice? A series of tweets posted in rapid succession this afternoon sound a little down. An example: "The Sunday night Mansion movie is Elle Fanning, Amanda Michalka & Kyle Chandler in JJ Abrams' Super 8. Life goes on."