'Star Trek's' Ryan Boldly Goes Into Engagement

Zap2It.com | July 17, 2006

Jeri Ryan

Actress plans to get hitched in France

Seven of Nine has found The One.

Former "Star Trek: Voyager" star Jeri Ryan is engaged to her business partner and boyfriend, French chef Christopher Eme, report news sources.

Ryan crushed the romantic hopes of fanboys worldwide when she announced her engagement during the Television Critics Association press tour to promote her new TV series "Shark."

Eme, who's the head chef of the West Hollywood restaurant Ortolan, where he's partners with Ryan, set up an elaborate romantic scene for the proposal.

"He brought me home, covered my eyes and took me up to the bedroom," she recalls. "He had candles lit everywhere and champagne on ice. He had gotten this huge canvas and painted it with words that said in French 'And you come with me forever.'"

A photo of the couple graced the bottom of the canvas with the words "Toi et Moi" ("You and Me").

Ryan, 38, adds that nuptials are likely to take place in the Loire Valley of France in June, around the time of the rugby World Cup in Paris.

The couple's restaurant appeared in an episode of the legal drama "Boston Legal." Ryan was also seen in the "Iron Chef America" audience when Eme competed on the show. Her other TV credits include "Boston Public," "Two and a Half Men" and "The O.C."

Ryan has a child, Alex, with ex-husband Jack Ryan, who dropped out of 2004's senatorial race in Illinois when details of their divorce proceedings were made public. In the records, Jeri Ryan alleges that her ex coerced her to attend sex clubs in three different cities.