full size Josh Duhamel Hits the Beach For a Jog on September 13, 2011
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Josh Duhamel is about to transform into a bonafide star.

It has been announced that Josh will star opposite Julianne Hough in Safe Haven, an upcoming film adaptation of the 2010 novel by sob-meister Nicholas Sparks. Translation: Get your hankies ready.

full size Julianne Hough at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards on May 20, 2012
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Josh has co-starred in the Transformers franchise but is best known for comedies like New Year's Eve and When in Rome, so this will finally be a chance for him to show off his acting chops in a serious romantic role. And true, Josh Duhamel is no Ryan Gosling — who starred in the 2004 adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' The Notebook — but who is?

According to the film's press release, Josh will play a small-town widower with two children and "dark secrets." Perhaps one of his dark secrets is that he spends his free time fighting robots that turn into cars?

 

Source: Movieline

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