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Kidman to Marry Country Music Star

Tom Cruise`s ex-wife and the Oscar-winning actress, Nicole Kidman, was recently engaged to a country music star named Keith Urban. The announcement came this week from Urban`s representative. This conformation brings months of speculation to an end. The couple met in January 2005 during an awards dinner held by the Australian government in Los Angeles honoring the two.

A spokeswoman for the actress added only, "I`ll leave that confirmation to Urabn`s spokesman. That`s the old-fashioned, traditional way of announcing such things." People magazine reported earlier that Kidman had revealed her engagement to the publication in an interview Monday while discussing a weekend gala event she hosted in New York, accompanied by Urban.

"He`s actually my fianc?," Kidman, an Academy Award winner for her role in the 2002 film "The Hours," was quoted as saying. "I wouldn`t be bringing my boyfriend." People said Kidman was photographed in November wearing a ring on her wedding finger while walking arm-in-arm with Urban in Boston. Kidman, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women, ended her 10-year marriage to Cruise in 2001. The couple have two adopted children.