Magician Criss Angel has been using some verbal sleight of hand when talking about whether Cameron Diaz is his girlfriend.

After a New York City stunt on Monday in which he escaped from a concrete block suspended over Times Square, Angel, 39, told the crowd, “I’d like to dedicate this to my girl Trouble, a.k.a Cameron. I love you, baby.”

But back in Las Vegas Tuesday at a viewing party for the third season premiere of his show Mindfreak, Angel told PEOPLE: “I just said that because everyone was hounding me about it and at the end of the day I got it out there, so my professional life is there, my personal life is here.”

So is the romance real or an illusion?

“She’s an amazing person,” Angel says, “and I wish her the best with her Shrek tour right now, and I’m not going to discuss Cameron anymore.” (Diaz, 34, did not join Angel at the viewing party – she is in Europe promoting Shrek the Third.)

The two met last month in Las Vegas at the VH1 Rock Honors show and were later seen catching a Cirque du Soleil show. And on May 18, Diaz jetted to Vegas for a romantic rendezvous that included snuggling through dinner at Social House, then slow dancing at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s Body English.

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