Just think, it was less than five months ago that I was really, really worried that Alice Eve was banging Benedict Cumberbatch. And now here we are! Alice Even confirmed her engagement to her “high school sweetheart” yesterday. I think that’s an American way of saying it, “high school sweetheart”. What do they say in Britain? “Prep school chum” or something? Anyway, Alice met Alex Cowper-Smith when they were teenagers and they dated for a while, broke up, dated other people for years and then got back together last year. And now they’re getting married.
Alice Eve is engaged! The Star Trek Into Darkness actress, 32, plans to marry U.K. financier Alex Cowper-Smith, her reps confirm to PEOPLE.
The pair first dated as teenagers while attending the Westminster School in London.
Later, Eve dated poet Adam O’Riordan – the pair met while both were college students at Oxford – but they eventually split in 2012, according to U.K. reports.
Eve began her acting career in her native England and first gained fame among American audiences in the 2009 film Crossing Over, starring alongside Harrison Ford and Ashley Judd.
She has also appeared in She’s Out of My League, Entourage and Sex and the City 2 – as Charlotte York’s intimidatingly sexy British nanny.
She dated a “poet”?! Like, that was his career? Yikes. No disrespect to all of the professional poets out there (because of course you’re reading Celebitchy!!), but “dating a poet” is something that you can only really do in college. Beyond that, you need to stop dating poets. CoughAmberHeardCOUGH. Anyway, it’s good to see that Alice didn’t want to tie herself down long-term to a poet (although it sounds like they were together for like nine years). At the end of the day, she ended up with a “financier” which basically means he’s wealthy and probably sort of boring. This happened quickly too – when she was promoting Star Trek Into Darkness last summer, she kept telling people she was single. Well, at least it’s not a poet. Or Benedict Cumberbatch. I approve.
Also: I swear, I wasn’t actively looking for her most bitch-faced photos, these were just some of the newest photos we had of her.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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