Naomi Watts is going to be a mom
So what’s wrong with a press release? And being pregnant?
Lotsa, especially if you are an actor and a celebrity and you are trying to keep the secret as hard as you can.
For months 39-year-old British-Australian actress Naomi Watts, who’s currently wrapping up the Austrian-German film remake “Funny Games” with auteur Michael Haneke, neither confirmed nor denied the rumoured pregnancy.
But a slip in an Escada press release just told a different story, in fact, a very big one, the laber Naomi wore on Sunday’s Oscars. The lemon-coloured, empire waist gown with a maroon sash slightly revealed an obvious baby bump.
“The Escada gown set off her most precious new asset–the baby she is expecting with longtime boyfriend Liev Schreiber,” it read.
The pair didn’t have any choice but to confirm the pregnancy. So the day after the Oscars actor Liev Schreiber admitted the news on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “Yes, I’m going to be a dad. Very exciting.”
The actor also told the host that he mocked Naomi for going to the Oscars as she’s “normally a wallflower.”
It would be the first child for the actress. The couple has been dating for almost two years after Naomi ended a longtime affair with actor and fellow Australian Heath Ledger, who basically is now a father too and 11 years her junior.
The new situation explains the sparkle in her eyes. The couple recently appeared on the film “The Painted Veil,” based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Naomi portrayed a bored English wife trapped in a threesome affair between her husband and a lover.
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