USA: FILM STARS CATHERINE ZETA JONES AND MICHAEL DOUGLAS ANNOUNCE THEIR ENGAGEMENT ON THE INTERNET

Record ID: 388782

  • Title: USA: FILM STARS CATHERINE ZETA JONES AND MICHAEL DOUGLAS ANNOUNCE THEIR ENGAGEMENT ON THE INTERNET
  • Date: 6th January 2000
  • Summary: CANNES, SOUTH FRANCE, (MAY 14, 1999) (REUTERS) ZETA JONES WITH ENTRAPMENT CO-STAR SEAN CONNERY ZETA JONES WITH CONNERY AT ENTRAPMENT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) SEAN CONNERY TALKING ABOUT KISSING ZETA JONES: "It's a tough job, somebody has to do it. She is a great kisser."
  • Embargoed: 21st January 2000 12:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, EDINBURGH AND ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND, UK, CANNES, SOUTH FRANCE, AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: General,People
  • Reuters ID: LVA93N5ZB5UPSX0XQ59SKRDYQBF7
  • Story Text: Hollywood star Michael Douglas took to the Internet Thursday to announce his engagement to the raven-haired Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones.In a news letter Douglas told fans that he planned to marry Zeta Jones sometime this year, however no date has been set.
    Actor Michael Douglas and Welsh-born actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, whose romance has become the stuff of British tabloids, said Wednesday they were engaged to be married.
    Douglas proposed to the 30-year-old raven-haired Zeta-Jones at his home in the exclusive ski resort of Aspen, Colorado, on New Year's Eve, and she accepted.Douglas told fans the news in a statement on the internet at www.michaeldouglas.com.The veteran actor said: "we plan to marry sometime this year.However no date has been set.Check my website in the future and you'll be among the first to know."
    The couple had denied persistent reports they were engaged and then gone on the defensive over Christmas against claims their love match was on the rocks.
    They were rumoured to have parted.Instead, in an elaborate ruse to put reporters off the trail, he joined her family for a celebration meal near her home village of Mumbles in South Wales.
    The two are a quarter of a century apart in age, but have the same birthday -- September 25.They shared his 55th and her 30th last year with a celebrity bash at a New York nightclub.
    The couple met at the Deauville Film Festival in France in 1998 and have been dating since March 1999.
    Douglas, the son of actor Kirk Douglas and star of "Basic Instinct," "Falling Down" and "The American President,"
    was married for 18 years to Diandra.They have one son.
    Zeta Jones, who rose to fame in Britain in the television drama "The Darling Buds of May", starred opposite Antonio Banderas in "The Mask of Zorro" and with Sean Connery in the action thriller "Entrapment."
    In a news conference during the Cannes film festival last May, Connery praised Zeta Jones' on screen kissing talents.And you can be sure that Douglas agrees with him.
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