One of President Bush’s twin daughters, Jenna, 24, got engaged on Wednesday. Her boyfriend of nearly two years, Henry Hager, 28, popped the question. Hager is a former White House aide and worked for Bush’s re-election campaign under Karl Rove. Good to see they’re keeping the conservatism in the family. Jenna is the less pretty/more drinking/less intelligent/ of Bush’s twins. She is said to take after her father.

“Jenna Bush, one of President Bush’s twin daughters, is engaged to be married to her long-time boyfriend, Henry Hager, the White House announced Thursday.

“No wedding date has been set for Jenna’s wedding to Hager, said Sally McDonough, press secretary for first lady Laura Bush. The two were engaged on Wednesday.

“Hager, who is attending the University of Virginia School of Business, has been a White House aide and worked on Bush’s re-election campaign. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hager of Richmond, Va. The groom-to-be’s father is a former lieutenant governor in Virginia and former director of Virginia’s Office of Commonwealth Preparedness.

“The younger Hager has been dating Jenna, 25, for several years, and is often seen with her at family Bush functions and formal events, such as a White House dinner in November 2005 in honor of Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.”

[From the Associated Press]

Shunning the family’s long preference for Ivy League schools, Jenna attended the University of Texas at Austin – supposedly because, even as a president’s daughter, she couldn’t get in to his alma matter. Jenna also takes after her father, having two arrests related to underage drinking in April 2001 and trying to use a fake ID to buy alcohol in May of 2001. She pleaded no contest to both. Jenna has reformed a bit since graduating from college. She’s worked in the Washington DC public school system, written a book (I would assume it’s ghostwritten, but who knows) and worked for UNICEF. According to Wikipedia “She is currently teaching at a shelter several days a week as part of an internship for UNICEF’s Educational Policy Department in Latin America, specifically in Panama.”

Jenna came in at a respectable 17th in FHM’s “Most eligible Bachelorette” competition. The criteria included wealth and looks. I would have found this all a lot more interesting if she was marrying someone with a little more kick to him than Karl Rove’s former employee. I know the Bush twins have rebelled a bit in their own way, but wouldn’t that have been a lot better?

Picture note by JayBird: Header image is Jenna Bush at Book Expo 2007 in February. Image thanks to WENN.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and her boyfriend, Scottish actor Ross McCall, have been dating for over a year and a half and are spotted out together frequently. Now Star Magazine reports that they’ve given each other promise rings, and that they may marry next year:

Things are going so well for Jennifer Love Hewitt, 28, and her beau… Scott actor Ross McCall, 31, that the lovebirds have given each other promise rings!

“They are very, very [much] in love,” a pal close to the Ghost Whisperer star tells Star. “They’re glued at the hip, do everything together, even live together.”

Ross has cleared another important hurdle: winning over mom Pat! “Her mother, who is a very strong force in Jennifer’s life, approves of Ross and wants Jennifer to settle down,” says the pal. Expect a summer 2008 wedding in the beautiful gardens of the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel.

[From Star Magazine print edition, August 20, 2007]

It sounds like all the “source” told Star was that they’ve exchanged rings, that Jennifer’s mom likes Ross, and that they do everything together. That bit at the end about a summer 2008 wedding could just be something they tacked on, but it might be true.

Jennifer Love Hewitt comes off as a genuinely kind person, and I was trying to think if she’s ever dated a real jerk because Ross McCall seems like he would make a great husband. There are some women who always choose the best guys. You know the type of person I’m talking about - she’s super nice and is never without a doting boyfriend. (I dated a lot of jerks before I met my husband, but I guess that’s a good thing or I might have been stuck with someone else instead of him.)

Then I remembered that Jennifer dated Wilmer Valderamma, or at least he claimed on Howard Stern that he dated her. She said they were just friends and laughed off his boasts, saying “I was told, like, that we had all these very steamy encounters, and I was like, really! Well, I would have loved to have been there!”

According to nndb.com, her other boyfriends have included Joey Lawrence in 1996, Will Friedle from 1996-97, Carson Daly fro 1997-99, and John Mayer in 2002. I never heard that about John Mayer and Jennifer, but he wasn’t really on my radar at that point.

She’s also very close to her mom and lived with her up until at least 2002, when she was 23. She told Rolling Stone “I like the fact that my mom and I need each other, and I like the fact that I’m only going to get one life with her and I’ll never have to look back and say, ‘Gosh, I wish my mom and I could have done that.’” [From EOnline]

Maybe she never rebelled and that’s part of the way she avoided dating jerks. I’m still not sure she dodged that Wilmer Valderrama bullet, although she handled his big mouth pretty well.

I would love to see Jennifer Love Hewitt have children as she seems like she’d make a great mom, not that you have to be married to do that.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ross McCall on show on 7/22/07 at the debut game of Beckam’s LA Galaxy. Thanks to Splash News for this pic.

Angie Everhart, the tall red-headed model best known for being a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and appearing in some B action movies I guess, is now inexplicably engaged to Joe Pesci. She also was engaged briefly to Sylvester Stallone, and dated Prince Albert of Monaco and Howard Stern. She called Howard Stern the “best sex she’s ever had.” I know her from a couple episodes of “Celebrity Mole” I watched in 2004, also starring a pre-DUI Tracey Gold and Dennis Rodman. [Details from Wikipedia]

Everhart’s last relationship was with the Duke of York Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson’s ex, and there was even some speculation that she could be the next Duchess of York. That relationship must be over now because the 5′10″ tall Angie, 37, and 64 year-old 5′4″ Pesci are said to be engaged after being friends for seven years.

[Joe and Angie] were on a weekend getaway in Atlantic City in early July when the goodfella gave her the thrill of her life. He proposed by getting on one knee - and placing a stunning 8-carat diamond ring on her finger.

Now the couple is looking forward to a spring wedding. “Love blossomed after a seven-year friendship, and finally Joe said: ‘What are we waitin’ on? Let’s do it!” an insider told the Enquirer.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, August 6, 2007]

This will be the fourth marriage for Pesci, and the second for Everhart.

The Enquirer says that Angie and Joe have a lot of fun together and enjoy golfing and just hanging out. Angie is said to have helped Joe get through a rough time when his third wife was accused and eventually acquitted of attempted murder of the guy she married after she split with Joe. They are said to be planning a spring wedding.

These two do not look like they belong together, but there’s something acceptable in our society about an older unattractive dude with a hot younger woman. It all has to do with fertility and access to resources or something. When you see the occasional older woman with a younger guy, like Ashton and Demi or Halle and Gabriel, the age difference isn’t that great and the woman is invariably gorgeous. To balance out the equation, you would need to see a little old lady with a hot younger guy, like Dr. Ruth and Leonardo DiCaprio or Rhea Perlman and Keanu Reeves. That’s never going to happen, so instead you get old dudes that look like they hit the jackpot, and younger women who feel the same.

Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds got engaged this past weekend. No articles are bothering to mention how he asked her, just that her ring is really, really big. Eight carats big. Why is old lady sized jewelry trendy again? I looked it up, and it turns out that’s about the size of a rib eye steak. Sexy.

“ET has learned that EDDIE MURPHY and his girlfriend of 10 months, TRACEY EDMONDS, are engaged!

According to OK! magazine, the 46-year-old ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Shrek the Third’ star proposed on July 25 with a “massive,” roughly 8-carat CARTIER yellow diamond engagement ring.

A friend of the couple says, “They’re very adorable together, very happy,” adding that they plan to tie the knot before the end of the year with a private wedding: “something low-key and romantic.””

[From Entertainment Tonight Online]

TMZ pointed out that Eddie Murphy’s first wedding to Nicole Mitchell in 1993 was on Forbes top ten most expensive celebrity weddings, clocking in at $1.5 million. They obviously have something a little more understated planned the second time around, which I think is classy. Ironic, since I wouldn’t call an 8 carat ring understated, but whatever.

Murphy and Edmonds are going to have quite the bustling house. Eddie has five kids from his twelve year marriage, and one new daughter with Scary Spice Melanie Brown. Tracey has two sons from her thirteen year marriage to Babyface. Eight kids are a lot of little feet running around the house. I’ve always heard that Eddie is a control freak. I kind of imagine that his kids live in his house kind of like the Von Trapp children in the “Sound of Music” - responding to whistles and marching around in concentric circles. And something tells me Tracey wouldn’t really object. She just has that passive doe-eyed expression too often.

Nope, not really. Rumours have been circulating that Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy got down on bended knee at the LiveEarth concert, prompted by Ashlee’s rumoured pregnancy, and Ashlee happily accepted.

But, while Ashlee may not seem as high maintenance as her sister Jessica, I still think she’d like to be proposed to in a more romantic setting. Somewhere significantly more private, not thirty seconds before her boyfriend is going on stage with his band. Maybe when he’s in front of the LiveEarth TV audience, but definitely not backstage next to the rider full of pringles and beer.

Ashlee actually describes herself as single in the June 2007 issue of Cosmopolitan, so maybe she are Pete are more a couple of the fuck buddy variety. After all, she hasn’t made a public vow of virginity. Still, I can just see papa Joe Simpson rubbing his palms together in glee at the concept of another Simpson baby to exploit and contribute to his bank balance.

The ‘Just Divorced’ sign is barely out of his car window, and Charlie Sheen is engaged to…er, some chick I’ve never heard of actually. Her name’s Brooke Mueller ands he’s a real estate investor. In New Zealand that’s code for unemployed but has a lot of cash, particularly when it’s someone else’s cash. Now she also has a $500,000 engagement ring.

Denise Richards has allegedly welcomed the idea, being nice to the future stepmother to her children.

I have my reservations about this marriage lasting. Here are ten reasons not to marry Charlie Sheen.

1. Shot his former girlfriend Kelly Preston. Sure, this was an accident and she only suffered minor injuries, but not unreasonably the relationship didn’t last very long after this.

2. His name is on Heidi Fleiss’ client list. Even if it was many years ago, antibiotics don’t cure everything!! He was with 27 of her girls, he admitted in court.

3. Marriage to Donna Peele only lasted a year, and this will be his third marriage coming.

4. Used to date adult film stars Heather Hunter and Ginger Lynn Allen. Admittedly not at the same time, but remember what I said about antibiotics? It applies to penicillin too.

5. In his last divorce Denise Richards stated that she feared for her safety, that Charlie was abusive, had a gambling addiction and visited prostitutes. He denies this, and is Denise Richards a reliable source of information?

6. He is Maxim’s no. 2 on their living legends of sex list. He has allegedly slept with 5,000 women, but came in second to an Italian hotel porter named Umberto Billo. The hotel porter had slept with 8,000 women, and was fired for being too tired to perform his hotel duties.

7. Charlie is a drug user and alcoholic, but clean and sober since 1998. Unless you believe Denise Richards, who claims that he’s addicted to prescription painkillers he bought on the internet. He did go to mega-trendy Promises rehab though.

9. You would need to watch Two And A Half Men during the marriage.

10. Daughter, Sam, was born during the production of Scary Movie 3. Since the movie’s initials are “SM,” he and wife Denise Richards wanted a name with those two letters in it. Strange?

Sources: Wikipedia, IMDB.

I’m sure you could find more dirt on poor Charlie, but I’m actually starting to feel a little sorry for him. In a stay-the-hell-away-from-my-daughter kind of way. Anyway, he’s getting married. Congratulations Charlie and Brooke.

Update by Celebitchy I was initially confused by this, because I thought this chick’s last name was Wolofsky. It turns out she goes by three names, Mueller, Wolofsky and Allen, at least according to iVillage’s Daily Blabber.

Picture of Charlie and Brooke is from June 3rd, thanks to SplashNews. Do you think she’s pregnant or just voluptuous?

Nick Lachey has moved on in style after his high-profile divorce from ditsy singer Jessica Simpson. There are reports that he is engaged to his girlfriend, MTV’s Total Request Live hostess Vanessa Minnillo, and that the cute couple plans to tie the knot this April.

Speculation is that they’ll marry in Mexico, where they shared a romantic vacation together last June. There’s a quote from someone who’s supposedly close them who claims that Nick wants a low profile wedding, because he and Jessica had a huge ceremony and reception and that didn’t work out so well:

“They’re moving forward with plans for an April wedding,” a close friend told The Enquirer.

The engagement comes slightly more than a year after Nick, 33, and Jessica Simpson announced their split. Now Nick and Vanessa are mulling destinations for their wedding and honemoon, disclosed a friend.

“Since they both love Baja, Mexico, it will probably happen south of the border, where the first fell in love.”

[From The National Enquirer print edition, January 29, 2007]

The article says that Nick is urging 26 year-old Vanessa to design the kind of engagement ring she wants and says they’ve seen a jeweler who is working on it.

That’s good news for Nick and is sure to be depressing for Jessica. Nick’s ex doesn’t seem to be in a new relationship apart from a dalliance with John Mayer, who only seems to throw her a bone when he feels like it. There were rumors that Jessica was drunk dialing Nick last year and that she was prank-calling Kirsten Cavalleri back when Nick was dating her.

There’s a story that Jessica is taking secret cooking lessons and will attempt to make John Mayer a romantic dinner before he goes on tour around Valentine’s day. From what I remember of Newlyweds, she could use some help in the kitchen. This news seems to be based on an earlier report that Jessica received the cooking lessons as a gift from someone who worked for her, so if it’s true that she showed up for them, it’s not like it was her idea.

Still, maybe Jessica has some time left before her ex ties the knot again, and doesn’t have to be so eager to latch on to a new guy. Lachey said just a short while ago that he and Minnillo “are not dealing with marriage yet.”

Damn, it’s obvious who this is about, and it makes me feel all sad inside.

From The NY Daily News

Which recently announced engagement between TV co-stars will come as a surprise to his Aussie boyfriend? Crikey!

That’s just cruel. The only engagement between co-stars that’s been announced recently is between House’s Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer, and Spencer is Australian so it’s obviously about him. I never got the gay vibe from him, but that’s what these blind items are for - so they can insinuate things about people without getting into trouble. I’m not buying it.

What do you guys think - is Dr. Chase gay? There goes another hot TV doctor dissapointing straight women everywhere.

I didn’t even know these two cuties were dating, but Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer, who play young doctors on the excellent Fox series House are engaged. My husband loves that show and is always quoting House.

Actress Jennifer Morrison and actor Jesse Spencer, who costar on FOX’s hit medical drama House, became engaged over the holidays in Paris, PEOPLE has learned.

Morrison, 27, who plays Dr. Allison Cameron, and Spencer, also 27, who portays Dr. Robert Chase, met while filming the pilot for the series, which debuted in 2004.

Jennifer Morrison was born in Chicago and got her start as a child model appearing in catalogs and commercials. Jesse Spencer is Australian like his character Dr. Chase on House. He started out in the popular Australian soap Neighbours. His father, two brothers, and sister are all doctors in Australia, which must give him a lot of insight into his character. Wikipedia claims that his family members watch House and enjoy trying to figure out the rare medical conditions before they’re diagnosed on the show.

Congratulations to Morrison and Spencer. They make such a cute couple and every time I watch the show I’ll now be looking for little signs that they’re being flirty with each other.

Halle Berry has made no secret of the fact that she wants children and will adopt if it doesn’t happen for her naturally. Hollyscoop has an exclusive that claims that Berry is pregnant, which might also explain the ring she was seen out with on her wedding finger recently.

Hollyscoop has learned exclusively through sources that actress Halle Berry might be expecting a visit from the stork. The actress has been spotted wearing baggy tops and sporting what some believe is a baby bump. She has been extra cautious to cover her tummy from the photogs in recent weeks.

The 40 year old actress is currently dating Canadian supermodel Gabriel Aubry, who is nine years her junior. The couple met at a Versace photoshoot. After six months with Aubry, she stated in an interview “I’m really happy in my personal life, which is a novelty to me. You know I’m not the girl that has the best relationships”.

Berry recently revealed to TV show Extra that she wants to have children and if she cant biologically than she would adopt. Halle did also mention, “I will definitely adopt. And I probably will adopt even if it does happen naturally”.

It’s not too far of a leap to think that Berry is pregnant given her statements and the fact that she’s been wearing floaty tops. It wouldn’t be the first time that a false pregnancy alert went out for Berry, and only time will tell if this one is true.

I recently saw some pictures of Berry in a bikini where she looked pretty skinny. I’m not sure if the pictures were new, but I’m not buying the pregnancy rumors yet.

Meanwhile another story has surfaced that lends some weight to the rumor that Halle is planning a wedding. She was seen out at an exclusive pastry shop looking at Wedding cakes and asking questions about how far in advance she needed to place an order.

These pictures of Halle Berry and her boyfriend Gabriel Aubry were taken in mid November and were found on Halle-Berry.org. She sure didn’t look pregnant back then.