Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes Engaged
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Actor Tom Cruise (search) said he and girlfriend Katie Holmes (search) are engaged, after he popped the question early Friday morning atop the Eiffel Tower (search).
Cruise, speaking at a Paris news conference with Holmes, said: "Yes, I proposed to her."
The couple often shared smiles and blushes as Cruise turned to look at her, with a massive diamond ring on her finger.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"It was early this morning at the Eiffel Tower, so I haven't slept at all," he said. "Today is a magnificent day for me, I'm engaged to a magnificent woman."
Asked why he chose the famed Paris landmark, he said: "I've never been to the Eiffel Tower. It's Paris, it's a beautiful city, it's very romantic."
Cruise said no date for a wedding has been set: "We haven't discussed that — one step at a time," he said. "Let's see. We're not sure."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Cruise, 42, was in Paris to promote the French release of the Steven Spielberg (search) film "War of the Worlds" next month. He and 26-year-old Holmes went public with their romantic relationship in April.
Holmes did not speak to reporters, but at one point, Cruise whispered to her: "Are you OK?" Afterward, the two hurried into a car before leaving for a promotional event in Marseilles, southern France.
"I wish them the happiest marriage that anyone has ever had," said Dakota Fanning, the child actress who co-stars with Cruise in the film. She sat next to Holmes during the news conference.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Cruise and Holmes have faced repeated rumors of marriage. The relationship started after Cruise split from actress Penelope Cruz (search), and Holmes and actor Chris Klein called off their long-standing engagement.
While in Berlin two days ago, Cruise dismissed speculation by tabloid newspapers and celebrity gossip columns that their relationship is a stunt to promote their new movies.
Holmes was in London earlier this week to promote her new film, "Batman Begins." She had also dismissed accusations that the couple had staged a relationship for publicity.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Holmes said then that she was embracing Scientology (search) — Cruise's religion. The former star of television's "Dawson's Creek" grew up with a poster of Cruise on her bedroom wall and has said she grew up wanting to marry him.