First Demi Moore married someone much younger, and now her ex-husband, Bruce Willis, has followed suit, by marrying a lingerie model 24 years his junior.

The Die Hard star celebrated his 54th birthday by marrying his British girlfriend, Emma Heming, at the weekend.

Ms Heming, 30, who was born in Malta and raised in North London, is a Victoria’s Secret underwear model who was last year named as the new face of La Senza lingerie.

The couple, who met through mutual friends a year ago, wed at Willis’s home in Parrot Cay in the Turks & Caicos Islands on Saturday. According to the Hollywood star’s publicist, they plan to have a civil ceremony when they return to California.

BACKGROUND

• Die Hard 4.0 - Sunday Times review

• Die Hard 4.0

• Holding out for a hero

• Bruce Willis comes out fighting for Iraq’s forgotten GI heroes

• Forget the cape. I’m a real action hero

On the Move: Bruce Willis

The action movie legend says that when he's not playing tough nuts on the big screen he loves to drive American muscle cars

Related Internet Links

• 2007 London Film Festival coverage

• Times Online Film Trailers

Related Links

• On the Move: Bruce Willis

• Return of the Demi goddess

• Rumer has it

It is Willis’s second trip down the aisle: he was married for 13 years to Moore, but they split amicably in 2000. Moore, 46, is now married to actor Ashton Kutcher, who, at 31, is just four months older than Willis’s new wife.

Confused? The extended Willis-Moore-Kutcher-Heming clan don’t seem to care.

Moore and Kutcher, who married in 2005, were guests at Willis and Heming’s wedding, along with Moore and Willis’s three daughters, Rumer, 20, Scout, 17, and Tallulah Belle, 14. Madonna was also reported to be there.

Kutcher even went so far as post a cheeky picture of his wife on the Twitter social networking website during his visit, although probably not the kind of photo that Moore, or Willis, for that matter, had imagined would be uploaded on the internet.

Under the headline: “Shh don't tell wifey”, Kutcher, the host of the prank show Punk’d and many a teen comedy movie, uploaded a photo of a barely dressed Moore bending over.

Kutcher, who recently caused an uproar over his Tweets about his noisy neighbours, wrote: "Watching my wife steam my suit while wearing a bikini. I love God!"

Willis and Moore have long maintained a strong friendship and consider each other, and each other’s partners, as extended family. They are regularly photographed together on the red carpet with their children.

When asked about his relationship with his ex-wife in 2007, Willis told a US television network that they always put their three daughters first.

"A lot of people have a hard time letting go of the things that can end a relationship, but we've managed to put the kids first," he said. "Here's the trick: try not to take your time on earth for granted ... Death waits for us all. The only answer is to get out there and live each day.”

Explore Film

• Film Reviews

• Trailers

• DVD

• London Film Festival

Editor's choice

• The 100 Best Films of the Decade
• 70 facts you didn't know about Marvel
• The 50 Biggest Movies Of 2010