Eva Longoria and NBA star Tony Parker are engaged, People has confirmed.

“Eva and Tony are officially engaged,” Longoria’s rep, Liza Anderson, tells People exclusively. “The couple have never been happier.”

Longoria, 31, and the French-born Parker, 24, a point guard for the San Antonio Spurs, met in November 2004. Though they played coy at first, by August 2005, the Desperate Housewives star confirmed they were a couple, asking People rhetorically, “What’s not to like?”

The pair weathered a brief split in September but quickly rekindled their relationship in Paris. The couple took in the sights, partied at the VIP Room and dined at the famed Le Coupe-Chou in the City of Light.

Longoria told People in April she is happiest when in a relationship – and said she expects to stay with Parker “forever.”

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Eva Longoria looked great as usual as she went shopping in Beverly Hills yesterday afternoon.

Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria and Lance Armstrong got pretty cozy when they attended the Cardiac Foundation Fund raising Gala on Tuesday night. I didn’t even know these two knew each other. They do look pretty cute, don’t they?

Eva Longoria is shooting down rumors that she plans to star as Beyonce Knowles’s lover in a new movie.

“Stop the madness” Longoria tells PEOPLE exclusively about the false reports that she and Knowles will play a couple in an adaptation of Sarah Waters’s love story Tipping the Velvet. “Believe me, I would love to work with Beyonce one day. She’s so talented. But this is definitely not something we are doing together. It’s completely and absolutely not true.”

Longoria says the rumor, which she has seen repeated on numerous Web sites and even on television, started about a week ago – before she had ever even met Knowles. Many of the false reports also alleged that Sofia Coppola had been tapped to direct the film.

“Beyonce and I just did the L’Oreal event a couple of days ago and we were like, ‘What is the deal?’” Longoria tells PEOPLE. “What makes me crazy is that there are quotes out there, quotes from me saying it’s true. But in fact it’s not true. And (there are) quotes of Beyonce saying it’s about time we had a female Brokeback Mountain. And we’re like, we never said that.”

Lawyers for the actress are trying to track down the original source of the rumor, but so far have not been able to locate it, according to the Desperate Housewives star.

A spokesperson for Knowles also confirmed that the rumors are false, telling PEOPLE: “This is not happening. We’ve never heard of this film.”

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Eva Longoria says she toyed with the idea of running for political office – until she imagined the campaign TV ads confusing her with her role as fiery seductress Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives, she told a group of Latino leaders in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.

“I’m here today to announce my candidacy for president. … Oh, wrong speech! In the last two years, I’ve had an affair with the gardener and a teenager, I’ve faked a paternity test, my husband went to prison, and I threw him out of a window,” the actress said. “I would probably win in California.”

At the luncheon, Longoria, 31, stressed the importance of supporting arts programs that feature Latino actors. Not that she’s pushing “diversity requirements,” she noted.

The actress, who’s a longtime friend of Dancing with the Stars runner-up Mario Lopez, told PEOPLE: “They didn’t pick him because he was Latin and they needed to fulfill a diversity requirement. They picked him because he’s a good dancer.”

Longoria has been active in politics, including the 2004 presidential race, during which she helped to educate Latino leaders about candidates, participated in a bus tour and met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The actress said she remains informed about immigration, education, health care, and employment issues.

And Desperate Housewives pretty much runs the gamut of American politics. “I think everybody on Wisteria Lane has the money of a Republican, but the sex life of a Democrat so it’s a really political show,” Longoria cracked.

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Teri Hatcher confirms that she is dating Eva Longoria’s ex-boyfriend, director Stephen Kay, in a story Extra is set to air Friday. The two met through a mutual friend.

And Longoria, who is currently in a relationship with basketball star Tony Parker, has given her Desperate Housewives costar her blessing. “Eva and Tony have never been happier together, and Eva wishes the same happiness for Teri,” her publicist, Liza Anderson, said in a statement.

Longoria and Kay were linked in 2004, and he directed her in a television movie, The Dead Will Tell. His other directing credits include the horror flick Boogeyman and an episode of the television show Friday Night Lights.

In March, Hatcher was photographed kissing Ryan Seacrest, but the actress revealed on The Oprah Winfrey Show that the romance did not develop after he called her and said, “I don’t think I can do this with you.”

Longoria began dating Parker in 2005 and has described their first meeting – in the San Antonio Spurs’ locker room – as lust at first sight.

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