Penelope Cruz, Bardem, Sex star Noth 'engaged'

Latina siren

Penelope Cruz

and actor

Javier Bardem

are 'secretly' engaged, according to online reports.

Spain's hottest exports, who began dating in 2007, are believed to be planning on skipping down the proverbial aisle in the next few months.

Bardem, 40, reportedly popped the question during a recent break, and has announced his intention to wed the

Vicky Christina Barcelona

star to their friends.

"They're telling friends they will get married," a snitch close to the couple, who reportedly heard the news first-hand, revealed to the

New York Daily News

.

"They tried to keep it very private and quiet," another snitch tells Usmagazine.com.

Pregnant

Cruz has been busy battling pregnancy rumours of late. Tongues began wagging that the Oscar-winning star was four months pregnant  after she was snapped sporting what some construe as

a demonstrable baby bump

.

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

To add fuel to the pregnancy rumour fire, the hot couple was also snapped leaving the Hospital Ruber Internacional (where the

Beckham

's son

Cruz

was born) in Madrid last month. But a skeptical snitch close to the pair says there won't be the pitter-patter of tiny feet in the Bardem household anytime soon.

"They say the pregnancy stories aren't true," says the mole.

Reps for both stars declined to comment.

Gossip regarding Cruz's rumoured engagement comes hot on the heels of her seeming ambivalence towards marriage.

In a bid to throw gossips off the wedding trail, Cruz told

Psychology Today

in August: "I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children."

Mind you, after dating

Tom Cruise

, who can blame her for breaking out in hives at the mere thought of marriage. Bet she looks at

fembot Katie Holmes

and thanks her lucky stars that she narrowly escaped being Mrs. Tiny Tom.

She added: "When I [have children], I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life."

And of Bardem, whom she first met and fell for on the set of 1992 flick

Jamon, Jamon

, she said, "He's a wonderful man, a great actor." Indeed he is.

Congrats, guys.

More question popping

And before we thumb it out of the land of unicorns and rainbows, we have another engagement announcement to make...

Sex and The City

hunk

Chris Noth

has finally confirmed that he's engaged to longtime girlfriend, actress

Tara Wilson

.

See, the last time we brought this up it was just pure, idle gossip. Now it's kosher. Apparently.

Yes, ladies, Noth, who plays commitment-phobe

Mr Big

in the seminal series, is finally off the shelf.

Barely a month after he denied the betrothal, Noth, 54, confirmed the happy news to TV show

Entertainment Tonight Canada

yesterday.

The news was posted on the programme's

Twitter page

, saying:"Chris Noth just told us exclusively that he and girlfriend Tara Lynn Wilson are now officially engaged."

The happy couple met when Wilson, 27, worked at Noth's New York City bar, the Cutting Room. They also have a son together,

Orion Christopher Noth

, born in January 2008.

Noth is currently filming the sequel to the

Sex and The City

movie with

Sarah Jessica Parker

and the Manhattan ladies. He's also working on a new TV drama,

The Good Wife

.

No comment as yet from Noth's rep.

Sneak peek

When we heard that

Michael Bay

was planning on getting his

Transformers

mitts all over a re-make of 80s horror flick

A Nightmare On Elm Street

, our reaction was tepid to say the least.

It's a fairly reasonable reaction. If it ain't broke, why fix it?

But if the trailer for the re-make, sorry, 're-imagining', is anything to go by, we might not be in for a plate of free range turkey after all.

Video: A Nightmare on Elm Street Trailer

Babs is back

Barbra Streisand

is officially back after a hiatus, brought on, according to snitches, by crippling stage fright.

Reports say the singer, 67, decided to come out of the wilderness and end her singing retirement because she's determined to combat her fear of performing on stage.

It's widely know that the diva has been terrified of performing after she forgot the lyrics to one of her songs while performing in New York's Central Park in the 1980s. And the star says she didn't "perform again until they'd invented teleprompters".

But the lady's back with a bang and a shiny new album,

Love Is The Answer

. And we've got exclusive footage of Babs herself performing her songs off the long player...live

Still on the comeback trail...we look to you,

Whitney Houston

. Try as she might, there's just no denying that years of drug abuse has ravaged her vocal chords.

Here she be performing on German TV show

Wetten Das

Regardless, it's good to have you back amongst the living, babe.

Skint

Courtney Love

has reportedly told pals that she's down to her last $120. Sources say she's hit rock bottom and can't even afford to feed her daughter

Frances Bean

, 17.

Love, currently crashing at a New York hotel (she can't be that hard up), supposedly texted a mate and said: "I'm f***** now dude. I have 120 bucks, my kid hasn't had a decent meal and I'm getting evicted," according to

The Sun

.

Sorry

David Letterman

has apologised on air to his wife,

Regina Lasko

, over his recent revelation that he had sexual relationships with staff members.

Opening his show last night, he said: "She has been horribly hurt by my behaviour, and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it's your responsibility, you try to fix it.

"At that point, there's only two things that can happen - either you're going to make some progress and get it fixed, or you're going to fall short and perhaps not get it fixed. So let me tell you folks, I got my work cut out for me."

We can imagine this is but one of many apologies Latterman's made to his wife over the past week. But as contrite as he may be, does he deserve her forgiveness?

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