When fantasy becomes reality! Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana are 'totally dating' just months after their on-screen hook up

By Sarah Bull

Last updated at 8:23 AM on 30th December 2011

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She became the envy of millions of women worldwide when photographs emerged of her locking lips with Bradley Cooper for upcoming movie The Words earlier this year.

And Zoe Saldana better get used to being the focus of the actor's jealous female fans, as it has now been claimed the pair have become more than just friends following their celluloid hook up in June.

A source has claimed the pair have started to tell their friends and family that they are in a relationship, and were planning to spend the holidays together on a skiing break in the Rockies.

Fantasy becomes reality: Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana are rumoured to be dating after they filmed scenes for upcoming movie The Words earlier this year

The source told E! News: 'They are totally dating.'

The claims come just months after the pair first sparked rumours they had taken their friendship to the next level following a picture of the couple together at a New York nightclub.

At the time, a representative for Avatar actress Saldana denied the claims.

The rumoured relationship comes just a month after Saldana and fiancé Keith Britton announced they had amicably split after 11 years together.

Smitten: The pair had looked very comfortable as they shot the scenes in June

The pair had revealed their engagement in June 2010 when Saldana said she felt entrepreneur Britton was the only person who knew 'the real Zoe.'

She had previously said of Britton: 'I feel like the partners that stay at home, they have their lives, but they’re the ones that are living with the real you.

'I think that they need to be recognised, every now and then, every 10 years, just come out in public - put him on the spot and just say thank you.

Going public: The couple are said to have told their friends and family that they are in a relationship

'He’s a very independent soul. He understands what I do, but this is not what he fell in love with and that’s what I love.'

Meanwhile, Cooper, who was voted People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive earlier this year, has recently been linked to French actress Melanie Laurent following a rumoured dalliance with Jennifer Lopez.