Vince Vaughn gushes about Calgary fiancee

CALGARY - On Thursday morning, movie star Vince Vaughn slid his lanky frame into the stool beside Regis Philbin, and, with his trademark motor-mouth banter, talked up his new movie Couples Retreat for an appreciative television audience.
The crowd ate it up. Why? Because Vaughn's a charming guy. And because he talked about himself as a former swinging bachelor happy to be tamed by a down-home rural Alberta girl.
It was among the first times he had said anything about his new fiancee, former Calgarian Kyla Weber. They met through mutual friends, he said, and courted her by phone and e-mail.
"She is not an actress. She's a civilian, which is good," Vaughn said. "She was a real estate agent in Canada."
It wasn't much, but after dating for a year and a half, those comments were about as revealing as you can get for Vaughn. Since the couple began dating in spring 2008 they have been almost invisible to the tabloid media.
They have been photographed less than a dozen times, which seems next to impossible in celeb-obsessed Hollywood. With the support of a tight community of friends and family--from rural Alberta to downtown Los Angeles --the couple has stayed almost entirely out of the spotlight.
But now that Vaughn has a movie about relationships to sell, we are getting our first "official" look at the couple, and a glimpse into how the image-building Hollywood publicity machine operates.
It's not often that a girl from rural Alberta makes the leap into the high life of Los Angeles with a funny, likable A-list star like Vaughn. Weber, 29, was raised on a farm in Blackie, where the population is about 400. She is the eldest of three siblings--both brothers live in a small community outside Calgary. Before meeting Vaughn, Weber worked as a real estate agent out of a Royal LePage office on Elbow Drive, where she returned following her March engagement to Vaughn and gave her former colleagues a peek at the ring. People who know her say she is "thoughtful" and "sweet," "smart" and "funny," and no one was surprised she had hooked up with Vaughn.
Beyond that, however, she remains a bit of a mystery to the public. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about her is the how tight-lipped her friends and family have remained. If you discount acquaintances, colleagues and people who haven't seen her for 15 years, virtually nobody will speak about Weber (pronounced We-ber) or Vaughn. Actually, one person did tell the Herald a bit about her, but she called back and asked to retract her comments. How's that for small-town Alberta loyalty?
There were more than 100 people at both the wedding in Los Angeles and the reception in Canada where Vaughn and Weber first met, yet not a single photo of the twosome at the event has surfaced. In this world of photos-for-money celebrity chasing it is rare to find that kind of dedication to privacy.
"They are very private people," said Rosemary Weber, Kyla's kind-hearted mother. "They have asked us not to talk to the media."
Calgary seems ready to embrace the couple, if only they'd let us. Even those with brief encounters gush about them, such as Calgary's Grace Johnson, 19, who rented the couple a canoe while working at the boat house of Chateau Lake Louise during the summer of 2008, gush.
"(Vaughn) came down with what looked like family and close friends and they rented two or three canoes. And he kind of joked with the girls about getting a discount because he's Vince Vaughn," Johnson, says. "He came back after about an hour, said thank you and gave us a really good tip--people don't usually tip."
Vaughn appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly, and talked to MTV and the Los Angeles Times. He told O magazine he is ready to settle down with his new-found love. "It's the first time that I really want to have kids," he told People.
We might want to get used to celebrating our own Hollywood couple from afar, says paparazzo Louis D of Central Image Agency.
"There are people like Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro that live a normal life and if you don't do any of that stuff--the talk shows and any of that other stuff that makes you a public figure," Louis D said.
"If they don't want you to take a picture, trust me, you will not get it--ever." Source www.calgaryherald.com