Red Sox owner engaged

Red Sox owner John Henry is getting married again. Henry, whose divorce from his second wife, Peggy, was finalized last year, proposed to Linda Pizzuti (inset) in New York, and the pair is planning to get married in June. "We are happily engaged," the raven-haired bride-to-be confirmed in a text message to us yesterday. It will be the first marriage for Pizzuti, who has been dating the millionaire businessman since she was introduced to him last summer at Alibi, the bar at the Liberty Hotel. Henry, the 59-year-old founder of the Boca Raton-based investment firm John W. Henry & Co., has one daughter from his 14-year marriage to Peggy. He was also married once before. Pizzuti, 30, is from Lynnfield, and she and her family are in the real estate development business. She's been a near-constant companion of the Sox owner in recent months, traveling with him to Europe and hosting parties on his 164-foot yacht. Presumably the couple will eventually move to the Brookline estate that Henry purchased two years ago for $16 million - that is, when he's done working on it. The red brick Georgian Revival mansion had seven bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, but Henry was apparently unsatisfied and won approval last May to tear it down and rebuild.

Actress Renée Zellweger is this year's Woman of the Year, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals folks announced yesterday. Like her most recent predecessors - Charlize Theron, Scarlett Johansson, and Halle Berry - the Texas-born actress will be feted by the drama club's drag queens in the streets of Cambridge in a no-doubt chilly celebration planned for Thursday. After the parade, Zellweger will be roasted by the Hasty men and presented with her Pudding Pot at the newly renovated New College Theatre. The "Bridget Jones's Diary" star, who we'll claim as an honorary New Englander since she has a house and lots of friends in Connecticut, also has a new romantic comedy in theaters. She stars in "New in Town," with Harry Connick Jr. The Hasty's Man of the Year celebration is planned for Feb. 13, but the recipient won't be revealed until next week. Christopher Walken was honored last year.

Pride-of-Hyde Park Sox pitcher Manny Delcarmen joined Jackie Robinson impersonator Gregory Gibson Kenney at an educational program for 150 Boston kids at Fenway yesterday. The Seventh Annual Celebration of the Life of Jackie Robinson also featured a talk by former Sox outfielder and current player development consultant Tommy Harper. Quincy native Ted Spencer, chief curator of the Hall of Fame, also showed the kids Robinson's new Hall of Fame plaque.

Tiffany Ortiz, wife of Big Papi, and RISD grad Jeffrey Beers came out for a party at Bond, the new restaurant and lounge at the Langham Boston hotel. Beers, who designed the venue, is also fresh off projects in Miami and Dubais.

The crew from NECN was the face of a daylong blood drive Thursday at the American Red Cross offices in Dedham. "TV Diner" producer Jenny Johnson and host Billy Costa, videographer John Hammann, meteorologist Matt Noyes, "The Secret Life of Animals" host Vicki Croke, and reporter Latoyia Edwards spent the day doing live updates from the event, which drew 2,167 pints of donated blood from donors. Munchies were cooked up by Taranta owner Jose Duarte, and Beacon Hill Hotel and Bistro owners Peter and Cecilia Rait.

It's not every day Denise Hajjar is called upon to solve an opera diva costume emergency. But that's what soprano Barbara Frittoli asked of the designer, who owns a shop in the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel. The star, in town to perform with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, came in Thursday looking for a wrap to distinguish her black gown from those of the other singers on stage, Hajjar said. "She needed to stand out; she needed a phenomenal silk taffeta to wrap her black gown. She'd looked all over town and she couldn't find one." No problem: Hajjar dashed out to her South End studio and quickly whipped up something in a burgundy iridescent. Hajjar also recently created a sapphire blue silk crepe inauguration gown for the first lady of Tennessee (and Great Barrington native) Andrea Conte.

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