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Wedding bells for Naomi Watts?

The Sun-Herald | Updated: 2007-01-24 14:51

Wedding bells for Naomi Watts?

Watts and Schreiber at the G'Day USA gala dinner.

Naomi Watts is head over heels in love with her actor boyfriend, Liev Schreiber, to the point where friends are speculating the couple is planning to marry and start a family.

Watts, 38, who attended the G'Day USA event in Los Angeles with Schreiber, left the room abuzz after giving a speech at the function in which she was openly emotional about her love for him.

"She spoke about him in her speech, choking back tears and saying how much she values him in her life," a source from the US revealed. "He was also very gracious as Aussies were crowding around her table asking to get photos taken with her. He even took some of the photos for her fans, which was a nice touch."

The couple, who met in mid-2005, reportedly had a few difficulties last year, but their relationship has bloomed to the point where Watts is seriously considering starting a family.

Even the Australian consul-general, Innes Willox (who attended the US event), was getting in the spirit of celebrity speculation, questioning whether Watts and Schreiber could go one step further than Nicole Kidman, who first met Keith Urban at a similar G'Day LA event.

"Maybe we could have gone a step better than just a meeting - maybe a proposal," he told our source, referring to the obvious glow between Watts and Schreiber.

Watts, who provided invaluable support to Kidman during Urban's stint in rehab, has just returned to the US from London where she was filming Eastern Promises with Viggo Mortensen.

Schreiber has just scored a recurring role in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation but he also appears in the coming film The Painted Veil alongside Watts and Edward Norton.