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During their interviews this past weekend for the action comedy Charlie's Angels, Barrymore and Green casually mentioned they were secretly married.
Green was the first to drop the news in a few of his television interviews and later, during one of her press conferences, Barrymore also claimed they had been married in Cleveland.
'A JOKE'
Nancy Juvonen, who co-produced Charlie's Angels with Barrymore and has been the actress's friend for more than a decade, insists the marriage remark "is a joke."
"They're having you on. There is no truth to the rumour. If they had been married, I'd be among the first to know."
Since the story was reported both actors' publicists have been besieged by calls.
"I just don't know anything about this whole thing," says Eddie Michaels, Barrymore's personal publicist.
"This past weekend with the L.A. premiere of Charlie's Angels and the news conferences everything was swirling around and getting crazy.
"I know it sounds strange for me to say but there's been a lot of stuff going on with Drew and Tom so I just don't know for certain if this is true or not."
Green's publicist Marleah Leslie says she is "unable to contact Tom for a confirmation or denial because he is in New York on the set of his new movie Freddy Got Fingered (which he directs and stars in).
"I really don't know anything it."
Barrymore and Green are certainly not above trying to create a false scandal.
In Charlie's Angels, Green plays Barrymore's boyfriend. It took just a few days for life to imitate art.
"Tom was not my fiance when we hired him for Charlie's Angels but we began dating almost instantly," says Barrymore, who hired her former boyfriend Luke Wilson to play Cameron Diaz's boyfriend in Charlie's Angels.
"I love Tom's wonderful, wicked sense of humour. It's a big part of what drew me to him."
It didn't take Barrymore long to emulate her beau's wicked ways.
For one scene in Charlie's Angels, Barrymore and Diaz disguise themselves as men. For both women it proved to be a remarkably convincing disguise.
Diaz recalls "the crew said I looked like Brad Pitt but it was Drew who really looked like a man."
KISSED A NUN
Barrymore says one day when she was in full drag she called Green so they could play a public prank and possibly cause a media frenzy.
"I told him to meet me at (a bar) for dinner. We were going to make it look as if Tom was having an intimate dinner with a man."
Ever the supreme prankster, Green arrived in a nun's habit, blond wig and red lipstick.
"It was hysterical. Tom and I were making out at the bar. We knew we were freaks and that was the real fun."
Diaz disagrees.
"The best thing about the whole incident was no one in the restaurant was freaked. They knew already who they were because nobody except Drew and Tom would do that."