Jordan Strauss/Invision/APIt's not like we have any doubt Benedict Cumberbatch is going to be an awesome dad.
But it's nice to know his friends think so, too.
"If he puts the same amount of dedication and love into raising his child as he does into his work, he is going to be the greatest dad of all time," Cumberbatch's The Imitation Game co-star Allen Leech recently told me.
Cumberbatch and his fiancée Sophie Hunter, announced on Jan. 7 that she was pregnant with their first child. "I am delighted to confirm that Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter are expecting their first child. They are both over the moon," the actor's rep said in a statement.
Leech said he and Cumberbatch celebrated his impending fatherhood shortly after the news broke.
"I saw him and we had a little celebration," he said. "I think we celebrated with a margarita...I don't know why we had margaritas. I suppose we sampled everything else on the menu."
Salt or no salt?
"Salt," Leech said. "The whole thing was covered in salt."
The Sherlock actor and his theater actress and director wife-to-be announced their engagement in early November via a paid-for announcement in The Times newspaper's classified section. The announcement named his parents, Wanda and Timothy, and hers, Katharine and Charles.
Cumberbatch is keeping pregnancy details under wraps. When we asked how he was preparing for parenthood at the Golden Globes, he simply said, "Oh, you know, the usual ways."