Now might be a good time for Cameron Diaz to say "abracadabra" and make her rumored romance with Criss Angel disappear.

Why?

Because the limp-locked illusionist, 39, can't seem to stop conjuring up headlines as he fawns over the leggy actress, 34, whom he's reportedly been snuggling up to for several weeks.

On Monday, moments before Angel kicked off his latest stunt, which involved escaping from a concrete-encased cube suspended above Times Square, he declared (via Us Weekly), "This is dedicated to my new girl. You know who you are. I'll be thinking of you."

Alas, coyness is not his strong suit.

When Angel emerged from the box 24 hours later, he announced to the cheering crowd, "I'd like to dedicate this escape to my girl 'Trouble,' aka Cameron."

Then, before the collective shudder that surely followed this cheesy overshare had passed, he not so deftly dropped this anvil-laden doozy: "I love you, baby. Have a safe trip to Europe for your 'Shrek' tour."

Subtle.

This public proclamation of affection was quite a change from his Diaz stance from days before, when he self-deprecatingly bobbed and weaved to reporters, "It's just kind of funny to me, because Cameron Diaz is one of the most, I think, one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood, you know, talented, has done a million movies ... take a look at me. Do you really think she's interested in me?"

It didn't take long for Criss, who is promoting the new season of his series "Mindfreak," to reconsider his shout-out, and he quickly placed the blame for his cringe-inducing candor where it belonged: on the media.

"I just said that because everyone was hounding me about it and at the end of the day I got it out there, so my professional life is there, my personal life is here," he explains to People.

When asked whether there's any magic happening with Cameron, who tended to keep her four-year romance with Justin Timberlake out of the public eye, the perma-stubbled prestidigitator showed off a few new PR tricks.

"She's an amazing person," he tells the magazine, "and I wish her the best with her 'Shrek' tour right now, and I'm not going to discuss Cameron anymore."

Diaz, for her part, remains typically tight-lipped, although she appears to be making the most of her solo time in Europe.

People reports that in between stumping for "Shrek the Third" in Paris, she visited Versailles, the Tuileries Gardens and the Musée d'Orsay, where she got a private, after-hours tour.

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