Josh Duhamel Gossip

At last! Josh Duhamel and Fergie are engaged!

The actor's publicist, Ruth Bernstein, said her client recently popped the question to the Black Eyed Peas singer, whose debut solo album, The Dutchess, is one of 2007's biggest selling records. No further details were released.

Fergie and Josh Duhamel have been the subject of engagement rumors for over a year. The pair, which is currently vacationing near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, were seen looking at a ranch in California that is often rented for weddings.

The engagement news was first reported by celebrity news site TMZ.

If Fergie is The Dutchess, is Josh Duhamel the Duke?

Duhamel, 35, told Best Life magazine in a recent interview that he's been dating Fergie, 32 for three years and that they recently bought a house together.

Duhamel is the star of NBC's Las Vegas and the action movie Transformers.

Fergie, whose real name is Stacy Ann Ferguson, is a member of the Black Eyed Peas. Her hit song "Big Girls Don't Cry" from The Dutchess has been nominated for a Grammy award in the best female pop vocal category.

Longtime couple Fergie and Josh Duhamel have already revealed they keep their romance hot with karaoke and fishing. But that's not all they do together. Now you can add sexy dancing to that list - only he's doing the dancing. Sorry guys.

"He just dances for me in private, in some very interesting outfits," the 32-year-old "London Bridge" singer reveals to Playboy in an interview in its May issue. "He bought me these amazing boots at the Hustler store. They're thigh-high patent leather with a big long zipper. They're hard to get on, but it's worth it."

Does Fergie (real name Stacy Ferguson) make Josh Duhamel dance to her music?

"Make him? He wants to. He likes dancing. I slow dance with him, but I have to stand on his feet because I'm too short. Luckily I took ballet, so I know how to stand en pointe."

The couple have been dating since 2004, though they first met in Duhamel's mind.

"I had read in a magazine that he had a naughty dream about me," Fergie says. "All my friends knew about him because he had been a soap-opera star. I'm not into soap operas, but they told me, 'You gotta go out with him. Do it for the group. Take one for the team.'

"Time went by, and I saw on the schedule that we were taping a show called Las Vegas, and I thought, Is this the show he's on? We met, and I said, 'I read you had a dream about me.' He said yeah, and I asked, 'Was it good?' He said it was. So we hit it off."

The Black Eyed Peas singer (along with will.i.am and our man Taboo) also hit it off with audiences on her first solo effort, last year's The Duchess.

"Next time I might do a reggae or hip-hop album," the former crystal meth addict says. "But for this album I wanted to get really personal with the audience."

Speaking of which, what about that 2005 photo from a San Diego concert in which it looks like she wet her pants onstage?

"Embarrassment," she says. "Everyone told me not to talk about it, but I wanted to call people and tell them what had happened. I was advised not to, and I didn't for a while. Now I'm just honest about it. It's embarrassing, but you just have to let it go at some point."

Sort of like Paris Hilton's pussy. We've all seen it by now, so just let it go, will you guys? Seriously, it's getting kind of old.

Let's set the record straight. They're not engaged, but they're going strong.

The Black Eyed Peas front-woman / hit solo artist and the Las Vegas star / Johnny Knoxville look-alike say the secret to a happy relationship is...

Fishing, cooking and karaoke.

"We always do quirky romantic things," Fergie told People. "It's not just Valentine's Day. Like we went to Cabo San Lucas, and we took a cooking class and we went fishing for marlin and mahi mahi. We sing karaoke. At Josh's house, he has a karaoke machine."

Apparently, Josh Duhamel isn't half bad.

"Sometimes we'll sing really corny duets together when a couple of our friends are over," says the "London Bridge" singer of her man.

"He does 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' which is amazing. You've never seen anything like it. He gets into it. He's pretty good. He's better than you would think!"

Duhamel, who is about to wrap the fourth season of Las Vegas, said they're figuring out how to avoid the pitfalls of a high-profile relationship (listen up, Britney Spears).

"We just genuinely love each other," he said. "We stay out of the spotlight as much as we can. So many times people are too in the spotlight, which puts too much pressure on things."

That doesn't mean they don't pay attention to what the media is saying about them. Last week, Fergie denied reports - again - that she and Josh are getting married.

"We get a kick out of it," Fergie told People. "Every other week, we hear we're engaged."

At the 5th Annual Cadillac Super Bowl Grand Prix, where stars raced go-karts for charity, Duhamel, last year's defending champion, was excited about taking on Fergie, who was racing for the first time.

"I'm looking forward to beating my girlfriend," he said. "She's been talking smack all week. She wants a trophy of her own."

"I'm just hoping my natural abilities will come into fruition during the race," Fergie joked. "We get a little competitive sometimes. We had a lasagna cook-off one time and basically I was the better bluffer. He won the contest because mine ended up soggy."

Unfortunately for the "Fergalicious" singer, she was defeated in the first round of the three-round race, which also included Nick Lachey, Queen Latifah, Paul Rudd, Terrence Howard, Venus Williams, Melina Kanakaredes and Matt Leinart.

Lachey, who finished second was there without his girlfriend, Vanessa Minnillo.

"She bailed on me," he joked. "She doesn't want to see me get thrown into a bail of hay."

For a time, she was hooked on crystal meth. Now, she's simply addicted to love - and possibly willing to commit to her man forever.

But Stacy Ferguson, better known as Fergie, is trying to keep her engagement a secret by hiding her ring in her handbag when she's out in public.

That's according to recent tabloid reports, which say the Black Eyed Peas singer and current solo artist accepted boyfriend Josh Duhamel's marriage proposal just before Christmas, but doesn't want to make the news public until they have set a wedding date.

Life & Style magazine claims Fergie Ferg was showing off a four-carat diamond engagement ring at a pre-Christmas party at film producer Michael Bay's home on December 15 - but has kept it hidden ever since.

This isn't quite up there with the engagement rumors swirling around Paris Hilton and Stavros Niarchos, but it's still the subject of tabloid fascination.

Duhamel's representatives have denied the engagement news, but a friend of the couple tells Life & Style magazine that she can't wait for her London Bridge to go down... or something:

"They don't want to announce the engagement until they set a wedding date, but Fergie can't wait to marry Josh."

Sources suggest the couple is considering a European wedding next summer. An insider says, "She wants a big, formal wedding."

How appropriate for a woman calling herself The Duchess.

And really, who wouldn't want to marry Josh Duhamel. If you're unfamiliar with this gentleman, he's probably best known for the following things:

• Starring on NBC's hit series Las Vegas
• Looking a lot like Jackass star Johnny Knoxville
• Not bringing much to the table in terms of acting talent
• Being hot enough to inspire a man-crush from a straight guy

At T.H. Gossip, thinking up Celebrity Look-Alikes is one of our favorite pastimes. Another is thinking of new synonyms for "slut" when writing blogs about the luscious Lindsay Lohan, a.k.a., The Hollywood Harlot.

But we're here once again to talk about the former. Our dead-ringer pairs run the gamut from the virtually indistinguishable (Will Ferrell and Chad Smith) to the eerily similar (Suri Cruise and Bjork) to the absurdly inaccurate, yet still funny (Tom Cruise and Kim Jong Il).

This one falls into the first of those three categories. If Las Vegas star Josh Duhamel (right), appeared on Jackass as a body double for the insane stuntman and actor, Johnny Knoxville, would anyone be the wiser? At least before his group of rowdies poured hot sauce down his pants or pushed him off a pier in a shopping cart?