Russell Crowe (who won an Oscar for his role in the 2000 film “Gladiator”) and his wife, Danielle Spencer, are adjusting to life with two boys today. Reports say Spencer gave birth to Tennyson Spencer Crowe in an Australian hospital Friday. (The couple says they will call the baby “Tenny.”) He weighed in at 8 pounds and joins his two-and-a-half-year-old brother Charles Spencer Crowe.
It was just six months ago that Crowe broke the news that the couple was expecting a new addition to their family. And, in March I (along with millions of others) watched as the Academy-Award winning actor told “Tonight Show” host, Jay Leno that the bay was in fact a boy. “Just for you, Charlie is going to have a brother,” a beaming Crowe told Leno.
But that’s not all Crowe revealed that night. He also went into detail about how Charles knew “the baby is in Mommy’s tummy and knows that he was a baby once and there’s another baby coming along.” Crowe also shared a cute anecdote about how he and his wife asked young Charles what he wanted to name his new brother: “His first option was Pumpkinhead. But then the next day, he revised it and he changed it to Stinky.”
Crowe also told Leno that he planned to be in the delivery room with a video camera during the delivery of baby number two, but so far there has been no confirmation that actually occurred, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. It seems that despite a recent run in with the law (last year Crowe was arrested and charged for throwing a telephone at an employee of the Manhattan hotel where he was staying), reports say that burly actor loves being a dad and friends of the couple say that Crowe was “very attentive and sympathetic and sensitive to Danielle” throughout her pregnancy.
Crowe and Spencer married in April 2003 at the Oscar winner’s Australian ranch.