You should’ve seen Hef do the rope routine. (Photos by Ethan Miller)

Saturday’s Peepshow audience got to see Hef on stage Saturday night, because nothing spices up your show full of nubile, cavorting topless girls like an octogenarian. Hef was at the Planet Hollywood Resort show to catch Holly Madison in her role as Bo Peep, bringing his girlfriends backstage to see Madison’s dressing room where Hef painted a sheep on her wall.

Because of the Little Bo Peep thing. Why the sheep had giant, fake cans, we’ll never know. Hef’s girlfriends and longtime personal assistant Mary O’Connor painted sheep as well.

By Jason Scavone

Please, if there’s a God, let him go dressed like this.

So, Hugh Hefner is going to bring his new girlfriends, twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon to Peepshow tomorrow night to see his former girlfriend, Holly Madison. We’d say the likelihood of a three-way catfight breaking out is extremely slim, it would make for spectacular Girls Next Door footage. Hef should be all like “Wow, Holly, the twins said you looked fat in your costume, but I don’t see it at all” and then just sit back and let things take care of themselves.

The twins will be signing outside The Pearl from 1 to 4 p.m. tomorrow and will host at the 10:30 p.m. Playboy Comedy Club at the Palms’ Key West Showroom where Hef is expected to attend for MadTV’s Bobby Lee and Comedy Central’s Skyler Stone.

By Jason Scavone

What can we say? The man has impeccable taste. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

Ida Ljungqvist is your 50th Playmate of the Year. Her boobs alone should win 51 and 52. We can skip straight to 53 next year. The first-ever African-born playmate was named the winner Saturday at the Palms and for her effort wins $100,000, an ’09 Mazda 6 and an engraved bottle of Patron Platinum. So essentially, Hugh Hefner has equipped this girl to get hammered, take a spin, then pay for the legal fees that go with the DUI. Always thinking ahead, that Hef.

Playmate of the Year 2001 Brande Roderick hosted the event with Palms owner George Maloof, while guests included Jeff Garcia, Michael Andretti, Deron Williams of the Utah Jazz, more than 50 playmates and Holly Madison, who looked like she wrestled an ostrich to the ground just before the event to wear its pelt as a skirt.

After the announcement, the party moved to the Playboy Club where Dennis Rodman joined the group, which included Hef and new gal Crystal Harris. Just what Ljungqvist needed — not more than a few hours into her reign as Playmate of the Year and Rodman is already hanging around. Kato Kaelin was also in the club, but stuck to playing blackjack. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Seriously, we love this picture so much.

Hugh Hefner is in town tomorrow to name the 50th Playmate of the Year, the first time he won’t have announced the winner at the Playboy Mansion. He’s going to have dozens of playmates on hand for the closed-to-the-public announcement, and the afterparty is set for the Playboy Club inside the Palms with Hef and the newly minted PMOY. We just hope this year’s winner isn’t Canadian. Jayde Nicole’s maple-leafed reign of terror last year was a crushing blow for America, and probably why the economy taned.

By Jason Scavone

We suspect Hef will land on his feet.

Via Scandalist, Holly Madison is moving out of the Playboy Mansion and breaking up with Hugh Hefner according to an anonymous Mansion insider. Madison was spotted last weekend cozying up to Criss Angel at CatHouse inside Luxor.

Not only that, but with Birdget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson supposedly on their way out (but not to an Olive Garden near you), Hef is reported to be casting for replacements. We suggest this time around, though, he gets a sassy brunette, a sporty blonde and a sensitive brunette who he can lead in a series of private investigations.

By Jason Scavone

And then there were two?

According to our friends over at Hollywire, Kendra Wilkinson could be on her way out of the Playboy Mansion. It would be tragic for Hef to have to cut down to two girlfriends, but the website said a spokesman for Hefner denied the rift.

We’re going to be launching Season 5 of The Girls Next Door in the fall and everyone’s happy and having a good time.”

Could be tough times for Hef, as Holly Madison has the marriage bug and he says nothing doing. Somehow, though, we think the old boy will land on his feet.

By Jason Scavone

Hugh Hefner, dropping the first two verses of Public Enemy’s “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos.”

Surrounded by a sea of girls in leopard print, girls in devil horns, girls in low-cut dresses and girls with big fake rings (sometimes all of which were on the same chick), entrepreneur, lothario, mogul and man to whom we all owe a lifetime debt of gratitude for, at the very least, making it OK to wear pajamas to work, Hugh Hefner celebrated his 82nd birthday a few days early at The Palms’ Playboy Club and Moon Saturday night.

Surrounded by video screens looping montages of Playboy covers, playmates and pictures of himself through the years, Hef accepted birthday wishes from casino owner George Maloof and the dedication of the Hef’s Place table, which is suitable for entertaining guests and luring women who will dance half-naked on it, but should not, under any circumstances, be used for actually consummating your relationship with three blondes. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

You’d have an uncontrollable grin on your face, too.

We’re not exactly sure who the coolest man on the planet is, but there are only two choices: Keith Richards or Hugh Hefner. Whoever the next closest guy is, whether it’s Clooney or Depp or Jack White or Ben Stein, the distance from them to Richards or Hefner is somewhere north of the distance from your living room to Saturn.

His Keefness has the Shine a Light debut this weekend, where you can go see his craggy face 15 feet tall on IMAX at The Palms or Red Rock Resort. (We can’t wait.)

Hef, on the other hand, will be celebrating his 82nd birthday at The Palms Saturday night. Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson join Hef at the Playboy Club at 8 p.m. before the party moves to Moon at 10:30 p.m. for cake. And boobs, we’re guessing. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone