Freddie Prinze Jr. -News Article

Buffy scared to wed Prinze Charming
Tuesday March 26, 2001-2020
Source: Star Magazine

Just weeks after moving in with her fiance, teen heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr., the actress who plays one of TV's toughest chicks may be getting a bad case of cold feet.

"I don't want to end up like Tom Green and Drew Barrymore," Sarah Michelle Gellar - the ruthless vampire slayer Buffy on the UPN network's most popular series - told a friend.

Gellar, who did a character's voice with Charlie's Angels star Barrymore on Disney's Hercules cartoon in 1998, watched Barrymore and comedian Green be happy together for nearly a year and a half of dating. But then, barely five months after tying the knot, Green filed for divorce.

Suddenly, Gellar stopped gushing to friends about beau Prinze, best known for his appearances in the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies.

Worse, she compares her coupling with Drew's.

"I was shocked when Sarah said that," a Gellar confidant told Confidential.

"She was never shy about her relationship with Freddie. She always talked about him. Now it's like: 'Well, I don't want to end up like Drew.' Sarah would feel shackled by marriage."

Gellar, meanwhile, still has revealed no wedding date, although the two have been engaged for a year and dating for two.

"She has taken to not answering when you ask her about him," the source said. "She doesn't have a clear idea of when they're getting married. And she doesn't even talk much about the movie they just made together."

Gellar, 24, and Prinze, 26, are sharing top billing in the upcoming movie adaptation of the popular cartoon Scooby-Doo, due out in June.

Prinze, meanwhile, remains smitten with the thin blonde bombshell.

On the same day Gellar was making those comments, another source in L.A. heard Prinze tell buddies he couldn't go out drinking with them because his "girl" was taking him out for dinner.

Still, Gellar's hesitations come in the wake of Star's recent scoop that Prinze wants an at-home wife and a family like, right now. Gellar, meanwhile, is driving a stake through Prinze's hopes. She wants to continue furthering her career. "She isn't herself these days," her confidant said. "The good news is: She's still wearing the engagement rock he bought her."