This Article is From Mar 15, 2012

Brandon Routh to welcome first child in summer

Brandon Routh to welcome first child in summer

Highlights

  • Superman Returns star Brandon Routh and his wife of four years, Courtney Ford, are expecting their first child together.
  • The 32-year-old actor and his wife chose to keep the news a secret in the beginning of her pregnancy, but found it difficult to do, reported People magazine.
  • "It's been so hard keeping the news to ourselves. Everyone on set keeps asking, 'Do you have kids?' and I've had to say, 'Well ... not yet!' It's the truth. The baby hasn't been born yet," said the actor, who is working on the CBS pilot Partners.
  • Ford had an even bigger problem during the filming of her six-episode arc for Parenthood.
  • "It started getting difficult to hide what was happening. Flu and food poisoning excuses only work for so long, and by the last episode I could no longer button my pants! I just tried to joke that I had a big lunch," she said.
  • Routh and Ford first met at Lucky Strike in Los Angeles, where he was working as a bartender, at the rehearsal dinner for her brother's wedding.
  • He proposed to her with a sparkler from jeweller Neil Lane in August 2006 while he was in the midst of the Superman Returns press tour.
  • They tied the knot at El Capitan Ranch in Santa Barbara on November 24, 2007.
Los Angeles: Superman Returns star Brandon Routh and his wife of four years, Courtney Ford, are expecting their first child together.

The 32-year-old actor and his wife chose to keep the news a secret in the beginning of her pregnancy, but found itdifficult to do, reported People magazine.

"It's been so hard keeping the news to ourselves. Everyone on set keeps asking, 'Do you have kids?' and I've hadto say, 'Well not yet!' It's the truth. The baby hasn't been born yet," said the actor, who is working on the CBS pilot Partners.

Ford had an even bigger problem during the filming of her six-episode arc for Parenthood.

"It started getting difficult to hide what was happening. Flu and food poisoning excuses only work for so long, and bythe last episode I could no longer button my pants! I just tried to joke that I had a big lunch," she said.

Routh and Ford first met at Lucky Strike in Los Angeles, where he was working as a bartender, at the rehearsal dinnerfor her brother's wedding.

He proposed to her with a sparkler from jeweller Neil Lane in August 2006 while he was in the midst of the Superman Returns press tour.

They tied the knot at El Capitan Ranch in Santa Barbara on November 24, 2007.
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