Carolyn Robertson
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2015 is shaping up to be a very big year for Benedict Cumberbatch.
The British-born star recently announced his engagement to director and actress Sophie Hunter, he's garnering plenty of award season buzz for his role in The Imitation Game and now it's been confirmed that he's going be be a dad!
"They're over the moon," says a source close to the expectant parents, with Benedict's rep also confirming the happy news.
They're not the only ones. The 38-year-old actor, who seems to have taken up the title of everyone's imaginary boyfriend these days, recently admitted that he was feeling the pressure to start a family. “Oh, my God. Well, my mother is also waiting for Cumberbabies," he revealed.
It's unlikely we'll be hearing any Hollywood-esque baby names from Benedict and Sophie, who sweetly announced their engagement in a low-key way, posting the news in the births, deaths and marriages column of The Times.
The Golden Globe-nominee has said he tried unsuccessfully to convince his agents that he should change his own unusual last name: “I was going to be Benedict Carlton. I said, ‘[Cumberbatch] sounds a bit like a fart in the bath. It’s clumsy.... When people started suggesting I’d made it up, I was like, ‘Well thank you for crediting me with that much imagination. I don’t think I could possibly make up a name as stupid as the one I was born with.'”
Congratulations to them on the baby on the way!
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