Jim Toth

Jim Toth, (AFP) – Oscar actress Reese Witherspoon is engaged to Hollywood agent Jim Toth, the latest in a series of holiday commitments, People magazine.

Witherspoon, 34, who won an Oscar in 2006 for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in the Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line”, began quietly dating 40 years, Toth last January, according to People.

She is now starring in the romantic comedy “How Do You Know” alongside Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson.

Witherspoon representatives did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation.

The actress was previously married to actor Ryan Phillippe, whom she had two children, now 11 and seven years before separating in 2006.

The news follows a series of announcements of celebrities, including reports that the “Black Swan” actress Natalie Portman is engaged to and pregnant women with the French dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied.

The 84-year-old Play boy magnate Hugh Hefner has also recently proposed – the girlfriend Crystal Harris, a former Playmate of 60 months his junior year.

Other celebrities have welcomed new additions to their families during the holidays, including Canadian-born singer and songwriter Alanis Morissette, who gave birth to her first child, a boy, on Christmas Day.

British pop superstar Elton John and his partner David Furnish also became the proud parents of a baby boy, born on Christmas Day to a surrogate mother in California.

But all was not gay in Hollywood during the holidays.

Hollywood A-listers Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds filed for divorce before Christmas, citing irreconcilable differences.

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