While scanning the News.com.au website I came across this article
Housewife to wed
From: Reuters From correspondents in Los Angeles
August 20, 2005
ACTRESS Marcia Cross, a star of the hit TV show Desperate Housewives, is headed for real-life matrimony with her stockbroker boyfriend Tom Mahoney.
Her publicist, Heidi Slan, was quoted on the Us Weekly magazine website as saying Cross, 43, and Mahoney, 47, became engaged last weekend, but she added, "the happy couple have not set a date for the wedding yet".
The red-haired actress, who earned an Emmy nomination for her role as the perfectionist homemaker Bree Van de Kamp on Desperate Housewives, began dating Mahoney about six months ago. They recently holidayed together in Europe and Aspen, Colorado, the magazine said.
Neither has been married before.
Desperate Housewives ranks as the most watched new series on television this year. The show has garnered 15 Emmy nominations in all, including a bid for best comedy.
Cross's character - Wisteria Lane's newly widowed Bree Van de Kamp - has been described in a TV network news releases as "Martha Stewart on steroids".
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The second half of the article was about another actress Jenny McCarthy