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YOUNG HOLLYWOOD IN LOVE
By Diane Clehane

Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly

CHEMICAL REACTION The attraction was instant when Dark Angel co-stars Jessica Alba, 20, and Michael Weatherly, 33, met last year at their audition for the Fox series. As Angel co-creator James Cameron told Entertainment Tonight recently, "There was definitely a chemistry [between them], so it was not a huge surprise to me when their relationship manifested itself halfway through the season."

IT'S OFFICIAL Weatherly, who is divorced from actress Amelia Heinle (Loving), presented Alba with a ring in May. Shortly after announcing their engagement, Alba showed off her dazzling diamond to ET while Weatherly joked, "That's the one we travel with, the other one is in Switzerland."

LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE Earlier this year Weatherly revealed his feelings about his co-star to TV Guide: "Jessica is large and in charge. She knows what she wants — from the scene, from the show, from the people in her life... It's obvious I'm crazy about her, isn't it?" Says Alba, "I'm just so happy I found an amazing man, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to me."

WEDDING BELLE The laid-back Weatherly isn't likely to be the one making the decisions about the couple's impending nuptials (no date has been announced). He's happy to let his bride-to-be manage the details. "I'm not usually allowed to order in a restaurant," he once quipped, adding that Alba — whose style has earned her raves on the red carpet — also saved him from being a fashion emergency: "Sometimes I'm allowed to get socks and underwear and stuff; that's the limit of my responsibility."


Wedding date with an Angel: Alba and Weatherly

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The real reason Dark Angel siren Jessica Alba refuses to discuss her relationship with leading man and fiancé Michael Weatherly.

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Why James Cameron is putting Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly's Dark Angel romance "under siege."

Jessica Alba may play a genetically enhanced supervixen on Dark Angel, but she feels a little more vulnerable than that in real life. As the rising starlet has learned, giving up her privacy is a lot tougher than taking on TV baddies — especially when it comes to her romance with fiancé and Dark Angel co-star Michael Weatherly.

"I just won't talk about us," Alba says firmly. "I know the media will dive into your personal life as much as you allow them to." Feeling she's damned if she does or doesn't dish, the actress simply throws up her hands. "If celebrities don't want to talk about something," she points out, "then the made-up stories are everywhere. In the end, you just have to say to yourself, 'It's not brain surgery, it's just entertainment. Nobody's dying here.'"

By all accounts, Weatherly (who has a five-year-old son with ex-wife and former Loving co-star Amelia Heinle) and Alba were successful in keeping their May-September relationship hush-hush for quite a while. But with the secret out, Dark Angel's Oscar-winning executive producer, James Cameron, concedes that viewers will likely view the couple's blossoming on-screen love affair in a whole new light. "There's definitely an alchemy between the real world and the television world that has to be acknowledged," the Titanic helmer says. "But I don't think you become a slave to it."

As proof, Cameron reveals that the sexy crusaders — who declared their love for one another in May's season finale — won't be following their portrayers down the aisle anytime soon. "Once people think their relationship is resolved, interest is going to wane. [So] we've created an obstacle for them," he teases. "We want to put their relationship under siege."