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Diamonds are a man's best friend?: Johnny Depp flashes diamond engagement ringActor reveals he is set to wed Amber Heard by showing off new jewelleryUS actor Johnny Depp (L) and US actress Amber Heard (R) pose as they arrive for the European Premiere of their latest film 'The Rum Diary' in Kensington district in London on November 3, 2011.Max Nash/AFP/Getty

Johnny Depp has confirmed his engagement to Amber Heard by the unconventional method of wearing a "chick's ring" on his ring finger.

The 50-year-old actor - laughed and showed off a diamond on his ring finger when quizzed as to whether he and girlfriend Amber Heard are planning to marry.

Asked if they are engaged, he lifted his hand to show the ring and said: "The fact that I'm wearing a chick's ring on my finger is probably a dead giveaway. Not very subtle."

However, Johnny - who has children Lily-Rose, 14. and Jack, 11, with ex-partner Vanessa Paradis - will be leave planning their nuptials to the 27-year-old actress.

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Speaking in Beijing during a promotional tour for his new movie Transcendence, he said: "I think that I would be better at making women's shoes than I would be at wedding planning, I can't plan anything. I'm really bad at that stuff."

Johnny and Amber were first reported to be engaged in January, and it has been claimed the actor proposed to his Rum Diary co-star just before Christmas.

A source said recently: "It happened on Christmas Eve. Amber really took her time to make up her mind."

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"She turned him down before...she said yes. So she waited and was thinking about it for a long time."

The pair met while filming The Rum Diary together in Puerto Rico in 2009.