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| ANTM'S EVA MARCILLE ENGAGED TO HOUSE OF PAYNE COSTAR Blog |
It's official!
America's Next Top Model Season 3 winner Eva Marcille (formerly Eva Pigford) is engaged to her boyfriend Lance Gross
Surrounded by family and friends, the actor, 24, got down on bended knee and popped the question to his House of Payne costar, also 24, on Christmas Eve with a 3-carat Pave Cartier ring.
Check out beautiful engagement bling!
"I cried. It was totally unexpected. I'm still in shock," Marcille told Essence. "I could not even sleep because I was afraid that I might wake up from the most beautiful dream ever.
The pair met on the set of the Tyler Perry television series, but Marcille first spotted her fiance at an audition two years
ago.
"I'm proud to call Lance mine because I was in love with him before we ever met," she gushed to Essence. "He's my dream guy."
And the feeling is mutual.
"I knew the day I laid eyes on her because I just got that feeling," Gross echoed. "She took full control of my heart, and is the only woman that has ever made me feel that way, that’s how I knew she was special."
See other stars who landed their crush.
Marcille and Gross have not set a date, but are considering a summer ceremony in 2010.
Usmagazine
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| TYLER PERRY MAKES HISTORY – & OPRAH IS THERE! Blog |
History was made Saturday night, when Tyler Perry became the first African-American ever to launch his own major TV and film studio.
But that wasn't the only reason Will Smith was tipping his hat to Perry at the gala Atlanta event in the old Delta Airlines headquarters that now serve as Perry's studio.
"I admire most that he can be that tall and wear a white suit," said Smith, 40, never to waste a punch line. "I usually have to avoid white. At this height, you don't tend to look sexy in white suits, but he pulled it off." The same could be said when it came to Perry's impressive guest list, which brought out the top names from past and present Hollywood and other spheres of influence: Oprah Winfrey, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett, Jr., Holly Robinson Peete, Tracey Edmonds, music mogul L.A. Reid, singer John Legend, America's Next Top Model winner Eva Pigford, not to mention baseball legends Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds – among others.
And Oprah Cried"I spent 56 years making movies and this is the reward that I have that means the most to me," said Poitier, 81, the first African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar, for 1963's Lilies of the Field.
A New Orleans native with a troubled childhood, Perry, 39, credited all of his guests with inspiring his life. Of Winfrey, who attended the celebration with longtime beau Stedman Graham and best friend Gayle King, Perry said, "She owns her life. I am learning that. I never would have shown this to people a few years ago. I was embarrassed by the success."
Oprah Winfrey and Sidney Poitier Photo by: Rick Diamond / Getty
People
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