Ethan Hawke seems to have put one over on the gossip press.

The personable actor, a familiar sight on the streets of downtown New York, had been widely assumed to be single.

But it turns out he's been with the woman who used to be his children's nanny — when he was married to Uma Thurman — for two years!

"They are incredibly in love," one friend of Hawke's told us.

A second pal said: "Yes, they've been keeping a lid on this for some time."

According to our first source, the former nanny, Ryan, contacted Ethan about a year after the split from Uma to confess her feelings.

"She had nothing to do with the divorce, and they started seeing each other after she was no longer the children's nanny," says the friend.
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