Congratulations are in order to Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, boasts a confident US Magazine:

The fiercely private couple is still playing coy about whether or not they're dating. But, take it from us, they are in fact engaged.

Rumors that they might be betrothed have been floating around since April. Not true then. True now.

"They're telling friends they will get married," says a pal, who heard the news directly from one of them. [US Magazine]

Despite paparazi pictures showing the two leaving an OB/GYN clinic in Madrid last month, this—allegedly—will be no shotgun wedding. "They say the pregnancy stories aren't true," … Read More

Move over Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, a new meeting of phenomenally hot celebrity DNA has got the gossip tongues wagging. Pregnancy rumors have been hounding actress Penelope Cruz for months now.

Yesterday, JustJared.com came forward with a source who can confirm that Cruz indeed has an empanada in the oven with longtime lover Javier Bardem.

"Penelope is about four months pregnant," the source says. "She's really healthy now and will be a great mother."

As further evidence, the Oscar-winning actress has been looking a little plumper than usual and according to Life & Style, recently quit smoking. While the latter could … Read More

Here's a quick rundown of what didn't make this week's Celebrity Love Blog but is just too juicy to miss.

Ryan O'Neil finally wants to marry Farrah Fawcett after 30 years. [The Insider]

Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford will adopt a baby girl bringing their grand total to 6. [Star magazine]

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem might be engaged. They might also be the most gorgeous couple ever. [Celebitchy]

Katy Perry doesn't like being single anymore. [Us Weekly]

" I live this fantastic life, full of all these magical things, and at the end of the … Read More

Sharply contrasting with the weekend's grotesquely tacky Speidi nuptials (seriously: SKYWRITING?), Salma Hayek and French billionaire François-Henri Pinault exchanged vows at Venice's Teatro La Fenice opera house on Saturday. This was their second time getting hitched; they first wed in a small Valentine's Day ceremony in Paris.

The festivities included a masked ball–themed rehearsal on Friday night (question: Is it a rehearsal if it requires guests to have already learned the choreography? Discuss), guests arriving at the wedding by gondola, and a farewell brunch on Sunday. The famous folks celebrating the blessed event included Hayek's bestie, Penélope … Read More

Close on the heels of Salma Hayek's emphatic denial last week to People magazine in which she squashed rumors of a second, very lavish wedding that she was reportedly planning in Italy, comes the news that it may be happening after all. People magazine is now reporting that Hayek and her billionaire husband Francois-Henri Pinault are busy planning for what could very well turn out to be a multi-million dollar wedding in Venice this weekend.

Hayek married Francois-Henri, her on-again-off again boyfriend and baby daddy (with whom she has a daughter, Valentina) in an ultra low-key civil … Read More

Sure, Javier Bardem was not at the Academy Awards to see girl Penelope Cruz become the first lady Spaniard to win an Oscar. But what business is it of yours, friendo? Sometimes couples support each other in other ways; Like having a hot menage with a busty, diminutive American or flipping a coin to decide if you'll go to the Oscars or shoot her in the head with an air-compressed piston. We Americans can't be expected to understand what goes through the minds of good-looking Spanish people. They eat dinner at 10 PM and sometimes take naps in … Read More

Romance ruled at this morning's announcement of the 2009 Golden Globe awards. Frost/Nixon was the only nominee for Best Mostion Picture - Drama that didn't address complex relationships or love stories (unless you count Nixon's love of himself and then it's 5 for 5). Hollywood always turns inward when award seasons roles around, but this year we've been treated to some truly moving portrayals of relationships starting, working, and ending. Yes, we're consumed with America's financial crisis and the on-going soap opera that is politics, but love and relationships are the constant themes that we return to year … Read More

According to the San Francisco Gate, actor and knee-weakener Benicio Del Toro had a nice, intimate dinner with Catherine Keener at the Green Door in LA the other night. Onlookers said that he was up in her grill in typically Del Toro steeze. He whispered something that she paid close attention to. It was probably something to the effect of, "There is a burning ember in your skirt that only the passion from my trouser hose can extinguish. It loses its charm when translated to English." Or they were just talking shop.

Catherine Keener was divorced from … Read More

This year’s Oscar-nominated films are ripe with romance. In anticipation for Sunday’s big show, let’s review relationship advice gleaned from a few of the contenders:

1. Don’t let your husband steal drug money. Of course without this event, there’d be no Best Picture-nominated No Country for Old Men. Still, I certainly wouldn’t want Best Supporting Actor nominee Javier Bardem’s creepy character, Chigurh, trailing me or my kin.

2. Speak your mind. This one’s thank to Juno and the unfiltered honesty that flows from the title character’s adolescent tongue (played by Best Actress nominee Ellen Page). … Read More