2:06pm UK, Wednesday January 07, 2004

Now that Britney Spears is a single woman again, she already has at least one potential beau: Hugh Hefner.

The 77-year-old Playboy founder said he's interested in adding the pop singer to his bevy of beautiful blonde girlfriends.

Hefner has his eye on Britney

"Britney would make a great girlfriend," Hefner told Us Weekly magazine.

"Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now," he said.

"I think it's related to those early movies that had such a great influence on me when I was a kid."

Hefner said he'd also like to see the 22-year-old Spears appear as a Playmate, as well as Catherine Zeta-Jones.

"They really epitomise the type of beauty that we like in the magazine," he said.

Spears got married in an impromptu Las Vegas ceremony on Saturday, then filed for an annulment 55 hours later.

The groom, Jason Allen Alexander, is a childhood friend. The pair have since described the nuptials as a "joke gone too far".