So it seems that George Clooney will soon be a married man, after asking new girlfriend Amal Alamuddin to be his wife.
The Gravity actor is widely reported today to have become recently engaged to the British lawyer, but as she is not a well-known celebritiy, you may be wondering who exactly she is.
Don't panic - conveniently we just so happen to have rounded up 10 facts about her below. Get crammin'.
Amal Alamuddin (Splash News)
1. She's an incredibly clever person; having studied at Oxford and graduated from the New York University School of Law.
2. She's fluet in French and Arabic.
3. She's 36-years-old.
4. She was born in Beirut.
5. Amal has a string of well-known clients - including Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
6. She's the legal advisor to the King of Bahrain. Casual.
7. She's a fully published author, and edited a book called The Law and Practice of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
8. She's the proud winner of the Jack J Katz Memorial Award; a prize awarded to a student who has demonstrated incredible things in law at NYU.
9. She made the cut on a list of the 21 hottest barristers in London by the popular Your Barrister Boyfriend blog on Tumblr.
10.She currently works for the Doughtry Street firm here in the UK.
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