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Baby joy for Brandon and Courtney

Published: 2:42PM Sunday August 12, 2012 Source: BANG Showbiz

Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford have welcomed their first child into the world.

The Superman Returns actor and his partner - who have been married since November 2007 - became parents to a boy, Leo James Routh, yesterday.

And Brandon can't stop looking at his newborn son, who weighs 8 lbs.

"We're in awe & we can't take our eyes off him," he told PEOPLE magazine.

The couple revealed in March that Courtney was expecting, and they found it hard to keep her pregnancy a secret after everyone on the set of his new series Partners kept asking him about it.

"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," he said at the time.

Courtney - who is known for her roles on True Blood and Parenthood - admitted she had used a number of excuses, such as food poisoning and flu, but they only worked "for so long".

"It started getting difficult to hide what was happening," she added.

"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."

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