TV hunk Jesse Metcalfe is engaged to his longtime girlfriend Cara Santana, according to reports.

The pair has been dating for five years and now the former Desperate Housewives star has asked the aspiring actress to be his wife, reports Us Weekly.

A source tells the magazine, "They have been dating for four to five years and living together for at least three."

Metcalfe, who is set to appear in the reboot of hit 1980s show Dallas, previously dated Northern Irish singer Nadine Coyle.