The famously bad-tempered Alec Baldwin is getting hitched!  He proposed to his much-younger girlfriend, 28 year old yoga teacher Hilaria Thomas, last weekend on Long Island.

The New York Daily News reports that back in Manhattan on Monday, Thomas was seen wearing a stunner of a ring on her left hand.  An observer (a student of hers?) described the diamond as:

 “huge, very clear, perfect clarity, Cartier.”

The pair began dating in 2011, and their relationship became public news in September of that year.   This will be Thomas’ first marriage; Baldwin was famously married to Kim Basinger from 1993-2002.    Here’s hoping that he does better this time around.

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Congratulations are in order for actress Lake Bell and her tattoo artist beau Scott Campbell. The couple is engaged, says Bell’s rep.

The pair hooked up in 2011 when Campbell guest starred as himself on Bell’s HBO show How To Make It In America.

Friends say that it’s the right next step for these two lovebirds.  A source told E! Online:

“They’re absolutely thrilled about the engagement. They’re a wonderful couple who make each other very happy. Lake is beaming about it.”

Bell recently appeared in the thriller Black Rock, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

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Speculation about Olivier Martinez and Halle Berry‘s engagement have been swirling for weeks now, but  those are rumors no more.  Martinez confirmed the couple’s happy news at the opening of his swank new Miami restaurant Villa Azur.   He put is simply:

“Yes, of course it’s true.”

What is evidently not true is the claim by jeweler Gurhan that they were responsible for Berry’s stunning emerald engagement ring.   Martinez cleared that right up:

“There’s a jeweler taking credit for doing the ring and it’s a lie! They have nothing to do with this.”

The actual designer, he says, is Paris designer Robert Mazlo.

Official congratulations to the couple!

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Shortest engagement ever?   After announcing their engagement just a couple of weeks ago, Aretha Franklin and William “Willie” Wilkerson have already called it off.   They released the following statement today:

“Regretfully, To Our Friends and Supporters: Will and I have decided we were moving a little too fast, and there were a number of things that had not been thought through thoroughly.  There will be no wedding at this time.”

“We will not comment on it any further because of the very personal and sensitive nature of it. We appreciate all of the many well wishes from friends.”

The pair, who have been partners and friends for more than 20 years, had been planning to wed this summer.

You’ve got to wonder what happened here, but hopefully they’ll be able to remain friends.

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Two of the most gorgeous people on the planet are taking themselves off the singles market.

Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez are reportedly set to tie the knot according to the engagement ring designer.

Berry, 45, and Martinez, 46, met on the set of their film Dark Tides and have been dating for over a year.

Halle, who has two past marriages (baseball player David Justice and singer Eric Benet are her ex-husbands) has told pals she didn’t think she would marry again but Olivier changed her mind.

“Halle has found her true soulmate in Olivier and it’s only a matter of time before they tie the knot,” a friend of the  pair said.

“She’s madly in love and knows she wants to spend the rest of her life with him. Olivier has been the rock that Halle has never had in any of her relationships.”

Berry has a daughter, Nahla Rose, with her former boyfriend of 5 years, model Gabriel Aubry with whom she shares custody.

Olivier has dated Mira Sorvino and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. He was also singer Kylie Minogue‘s boyfriend while she underwent treatment for breast cancer.

A reported October wedding is in the works for the couple.

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Reports are circulating that Evan Rachel Wood and boyfriend Jamie Bell have become engaged but is it true?

Wood and Bell were photographed leaving The Hotel Cafe in Hollywood and the True Blood actress was seen wearing a sparkler on her ring finger that has websites assuming the couple has become engaged.

Bell, 25, was spotted shopping for engagement rings in Beverly Hills last month adding fuel to the speculation and US Weekly cites a source as confirming the duo’s new relationship status.

No official word from either actor’s reps but Wood has shot down the rumor in the past.

At the Ides of March premiere in November she was asked about a ring she wore on her engagement ring and she said it wasn’t what people assumed.

Sorry to disappoint, but I have been wearing that diamond on my left hand since I was 14,” she tweeted at the time. “It was my aunts. Any engagement rumor is false.”

The two met in 2005 on the set of Green Day‘s video “Wake Me Up (When September Ends)” and dated for a year before going their separate ways.

As for an engagement, whether it’s the same ring or a brand new one, no one is saying just yet, so for now it remains an unconfirmed rumor.

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Aaron Paul has cooked up a proposal to his girlfriend Lauren Parsekian.

The Breaking Bad actor popped the question to Parsekian in Paris on New Years Eve, according to a post on her Facebook page.

“Coming back home today with my fiance!!! NYE proposal in Paris,” she wrote.

“Couldn’t be more perfect. I’m so happy and excited and honored to share my life with the most amazing man on the planet.”

Paul, 32, won an Emmy for his portrayal of Jesse Pinkman, the troubled young man who starts a meth dealing partnership with his former chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston).

Parsekian co-founded and is president of the Kind Campaign, an organization dedicated to the idea and education that “brings awareness and healing to the negative and lasting effects of girl-against-girl “crime.”

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Miami Heat star LeBron James celebrated the New Year in a romantic style!  He proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Savannah Brinson, at a New Year’s Eve party in South Beach, Florida.  Guests included Queen Latifah, Chris Bosh, and the couple’s children, LeBron Jr. (7) and Bryce (4).

The intimate party at the Shelborne Hotel was hosted by James’ teammate Dwayne Wade and his girlfriend Gabrielle Union.

James and Brinson have dated since high school.

Congratulations!

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 The parade of holiday engagements continues!  Irish actor Chris O’Dowd is engaged to his girlfriend, British TV personality Dawn Porter.

The groom-to-be proposed on the couple’s vacation in Havelet Bay, Guernsey, an island in the English Channel, where Porter grew up.

They both Tweeted their good news.  O’Dowd joked:

“I’m so bored of all this happiness and sex. I’m getting married.”

Porter showed her own fine sense of humor, Tweeting:

“I guess he liked it, coz he put a ring on it. #engaged.”

O’Dowd was last seen in Bridesmaids, in which he played opposite Kristen Wiig.  He’ll next appear in This Is 40, a sequel to Knocked Up.

Congratulations!

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NBA legend Michael Jordan is engaged to his girlfriend of three years.  Yvette Prieto is a Cuban-American model who has been previously linked to Julio Iglesias, Jr. 

Jordan and Prieto, who got engaged over the Christmas weekend, have had a fairly low-key relationship, and have been living together since 2009.  No wedding date has been set.

(It was evidently THE holiday for models to get engaged:  swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen and singer John Legend also announced their engagement.)

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