True Blood's Joe Manganiello Is Engaged

Sorry ladies, Joe Manganiello is off the market.


While on vacation in Italy the True Blood heartthrob, 33, popped the question to his girlfriend, actress/model Audra Marie, his rep tells PEOPLE.

Manganiello, who plays werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO drama, and Marie met at a 2009 Super Bowl party, but it was anything but love at first sight. "She wouldn't go out with me for six months," Manganiello told PEOPLE in September. "We started dating a few months before I got cast [on True Blood]."

Manganiello says Marie is "a great dresser. She's gorgeous, and she's tall. And she's sweet ... nice. And she makes crazy English breakfasts." Marie, meanwhile, says her man’s most appealing qualities are his "sense of humor, his work ethic and how humble he is with everything that has gone on." The pair have not yet set a wedding date.

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True Blood Trio Naked on Rolling Stone Cover

Bleeding love!
True Blood's love triangle of Sooki (Anna Paquin), Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skaarsgard) bare all on the new cover of Rolling Stone, out this week.


Covered in gobs of fake blood, Paquin, her real-life fiance Moyer and Skaarsgard get completely naked -- and reveal secrets from the HBO smash -- for the mag.
Moyer offers up an elaborate theory on what makes vampires -- from True Blood, the Twilight Saga and elsewhere -- so attractive.


"If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn't one before," the actor says. (See behind-the-scenes pics from their cover shoot) "It's a de-virginization...creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there's something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that's pretty sexy."
He adds, laughing: "Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?"