The television show "Entertainment Tonight" has won the rights to the planned May wedding of Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade pupil Vili Fualaau, the father of her two youngest children.

ET and its sister show, "The Insider," planned to begin offering the first in a series of interviews with the couple Thursday. The date and location of the wedding have not yet been disclosed.

Letourneau, 43, served 7 1/2 years in prison after she was convicted of raping Fualaau, 22. She was released last August. The couple first met when he was in second grade. Their relationship became sexual when he was 12 and she was a 34-year-old married mother of four and an elementary school teacher.

The couple's two daughters - 7-year-old Audrey and 6-year-old Alexis - will be flower girls, Fualaau told ET. "We're excited to have as many family members involved as possible," Letourneau said, suggesting "special roles" for her two sons and two daughters from her previous marriage. Fualaau said he proposed to Letourneau "seven or eight years ago." "She's the same person I fell in love with a long time ago," he said.

--I'm just not sure what to say about this one.

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Posted by Lawren at April 29, 2005 07:38 AM

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This is just gross. A rapist is marrying her victim. And the cult of the celebrity mentality of ET just makes it worse.

Says: jasper at April 29, 2005 07:58 AM

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Not just a rapist, but a child molester.

That's just nasty.

Says: at April 29, 2005 08:06 AM

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Oops, sorry. I forgot to put my name on the previous comment.

Need. More. Caffeine.

Says: rita at April 29, 2005 08:07 AM

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Disturbing.

Says: Ranto at April 29, 2005 07:41 PM

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IF IT HAD BEEN A MAN INSTEAD OF A WOMAN, HE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A SLAP ON THE HAND,NINETY DAYS IN JAIL AND CONGRADULATED BY ALL OF MALE FRIENDS!!!!!

Says: KAREN ROSE at October 31, 2005 07:29 AM

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