Alicia Keys and music man Swizz Beatz announced in May that they were engaged and expecting. The couple had the unborn child blessed in a Zulu ceremony in South Africa. And Egypt Daoud Dean was born in October.
Natalie Portman picked French dancer - and Black Swan costar - Benjamin Millepied to marry. (They're also expecting a baby.)
LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian proved adultery can lead to happiness after all. The couple, who earlier in the year helped break up each other's marriages (to Dean Sheremet and Brandi Glanville, respectively, if not respectably), became engaged over the holidays.
Even that octogenarian satyr Hugh Hefner did the knee-drop, proposing on Christmas Eve to Playmate Crystal Harris. Guess the twice-divorced Hugh, 84, finally has found someone equal to his emotional maturity: Harris is 60 years younger. Will he perform a rare - and, for many of our readers, quite unthinkable - feat and sire a child? We shudder to think. Actor Tony Randall was a dad at 78. Novelist Saul Bellow was a dad at 84 . . . hey, who knows?
Bottling her love
The year's most passionate affair wasn't between a man and a woman - or two men, or two women - but between former Disney sweetie
Lindsay Lohan and the bottle. Of booze or pills, take your pick. The year began with hope, as LiLo, 24, tweeted she'd said goodbye to all "the bad people, habits, and negative energy." Two rehabs and a jail sentence - for parole violation, of all things! - later, LiLo's future is looking a little sketchy.
Love, hard-core
