Jenny McCarthy Dating Donnie Wahlberg 
 
 In a coupling you only thought possible in a nostalgic 1990s-era dream, Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg are dating, PEOPLE has learned – even if they are taking things Step by Step.Steamy sparks flew between them in late March when New Kids on the Block and Blue Bloods star Wahlberg, 43, made an innuendo-filled appearance on her self-titled VH1 talk show.The duo provocatively sucked on red lollipops while McCarthy, 40, asked "Do you talk dirty while you're having sex?""I do," he replied."You do – but some guys do it wrong," she replied."Yeah, I don't do it wrong," he said seductively, as McCarthy looked as though she needed some air.McCarthy referenced the red-hot appearance in a blog she posted in advance of the episode on Chicago Splash."Let’s just say we visually give 50 Shades of Grey a run for its money," she writes. "It gets steamy. I mean like really steamy. Being turned on by a guy is always fun but to have it legitimately happen to you on TV is to be turned back into a 12-year-old. By the time we get into the groundbreaking interview, my face turns fifty shades of RED."In April – several weeks after Wahlberg's appearance, McCarthy told PEOPLE , "I'm hoping to meet some [eligible bachelors] on my talk show, after fellow talk show host Chelsea Handler suggested she book guests she would like to date.At the time, McCarthy said she was still single, but looking."I miss the romance," she said. "I miss the cuddling.How long the relationship will last is anyone's guess, especially because Wahlberg's schedule is about to get extra jam-packed.On Friday night, he Tweeted "Heard #BlueBloods is on right now! Reminds me, I start shooting again in a week! While still touring! Thats when 3 hours of sleep becomes 1."Wahlberg has two sons from his nine-year marriage to Kim Fey, which ended in divorce in 2008.McCarthy has one son, Evan, from a previous relationship. She also famously dated Jim Carrey for five years, but that ended in 2010 ||||| MESQUITE — Petra Ruiz called her husband on FaceTime and put her phone in the cup holder of her Yukon. 
 
 She was on her way home from a hair salon. They talked about what was for dinner, but not about the weather. 
 
 Then she screamed. The screen on Ruben Porras’ phone went dark. The call dropped. 
 
 He used a Find My Friends app to find her location. He rushed to Interstate 30. Police cars were everywhere. Roads were blocked. 
 
 He parked his car and ran. 
 
 “I was just hoping she was still alive,” said Porras, 31. 
 
 After about a mile or so, he spotted what was left of her Yukon. He saw her inside. He grabbed her hand and tried to talk to her. 
 
 “She wasn’t responding,” Porras said. “She had no pulse. She was gone.” 
 
 Ruiz, 27, was one of 11 people killed in Saturday’s storms. The tornado had tossed her SUV off an overpass, Porras said. 
 
 One of six siblings, Ruiz had four children of her own — Jasmine, 9; Michael, 7; Angela, 6; and Camila, 2. 
 
 She was a simple woman “with expensive tastes,” Porras said, laughing. The day before the wreck, he got her Versace perfume, a stocking full of makeup, a Michael Kors bag and a Bluetooth headphone set for Christmas. 
 
 But, he said, she didn’t need all that. 
 
 “I could bring her a chocolate, and that would make her happy,” he said. “But she spoiled me, and I spoiled her back.” 
 
 Ruiz met Porras online when she was 15 and known as “imatxhoney214” on AOL. He was a poor kid in East Dallas. She was a chess-playing, bossy Pleasant Grove girl, the second-oldest child in a big family. 
 
 The two stayed up late into the night, talking “about everything.” They eventually switched to phones, but she could only talk to him after 9 p.m. to avoid outrageous cellphone bills and angry parents. 
 
 The couple’s first date came later. His brother dropped him off at the movie theater to see Freddy vs. Jason. 
 
 He said about 20 of her relatives and friends came with her. 
 
 “They were trying to scare me,” Porras said. “But I stuck around.” 
 
 By the next date, the posse shrank to 10. A year later they married. 
 
 One of the men who consoled him in his living room Sunday was among those who had been “breathing down” his neck at the theater. 
 
 The couple worked together for the last three years as paralegals at Dallas attorney Glenn Tucker’s office. Ruiz brought his wife breakfast all the time — Fuel City tacos or Subway, she wasn’t picky. They ate lunch together every day. 
 
 And she took care of him. She even bought him remote-control cars and the Hot Wheels that he had never had. 
 
 “She said, ‘You know what? You don’t have to worry about that now. Whatever you didn’t have as a kid, you get now, plus more,’” Porras said. 
 
 Porras “loved her to death.” He had his wife’s name tattooed on his left arm. She had his on her shoulder. 
 
 They planned to grow old together. 
 
 “I always told her, ‘We’re going to be two old-a– people, sitting back, fishing,’” he said. “She didn’t much like the fishing part. But she liked the sitting out by the lake part.” 
 
 Ruiz’s big family surrounded him and the children Sunday. He cried often, but managed a few laughs as they talked about the past. 
 
 “She was always happy,” he said. 
 
 But he blamed himself for letting her go out and not being more careful. He wasn’t holding up well, he said. 
 
 “I’m really not. But I’ve got to show strength for these children. I’m going to have to fulfill whatever she wanted for them. … I’m not going to let her down.” 
 
 Then he turned to his daughter and said, “We’re going to make Mommy proud.”
– It hasn’t been the best of summers for Jenny McCarthy: First the vocal anti-vaxxer was unceremoniously dumped from The View, then she was accused of slamming cousin Melissa McCarthy’s weight—a rumor that the blonder McCarthy denied to People. Now Jenny says her own 12-year-old son called the cops on her for a decidedly 21st-century crime: texting and driving. ABC News reports that McCarthy made the reveal about her "rule follower" son, Evan, on her Sirius radio show Dirty, Sexy, Funny. "He called the police on me and said, 'My mom is texting and driving right now.' True story!" She confesses that she chucked his phone out the car window, and says Evan called 911 one other time on her when she went outside for a smoke and he couldn’t find her. "My mom abandoned me," McCarthy says he told the dispatcher. Hope Evan’s OK with his mom marrying Donnie Wahlberg. (For more on texting and driving, click here.)