Tuesday July 21, 2009

Emma Watson will be attending Brown University in Providence, R.I., she has confirmed.

Speaking to Paste magazine, the actress, 19, revealed that she’ll be reading literature at the prestigious establishment.

“I am [going to university in the Fall] — to Brown, which is an Ivy League establishment in the U.S.A. I’ve got a place there to read literature,” she said.

Ever since Watson went on a tour of Ivy League schools in October, speculation has circulated about where she was going to college. Rumors included Yale and Cambridge, and Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper recently linked her to Columbia University.

Watson — who can currently be seen starring in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — recently joked that she keeps her boyfriend, Jay Barrymore, locked in a cupboard.

“I have a boyfriend who I hide,” she said. “He’s locked in my cupboard at home. I try and keep my work separate from my private life so that’s the best place for him.”

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