Liev Schreiber confirms Watts' pregnancy

By Stone Martindale Feb 27, 2007, 22:02 GMT

Actor Liev Schreiber has confirmed his girlfriend Naomi Watts is pregnant with their child.  Sydneyinsider reports that Watts had a revealing baby bump as she walked the Oscar red carpet this week, Schreiber ended the speculation last night during an interview on Conan O'Brien's Late Night talk show.

"I'm going to be a dad," Schreiber said during a guest spot. "It's very exciting."

Schreiber, 39, and Naomi Watts, 38, fell for each other while shooting the film, "The Painted Veil," back in 2005.

San Francisco native Schreiber was not able to attend the Academy Awards with Watts, as he was performing in the new Broadway play, "Talk Radio," at Manhattan's Lonacre Theatre.

Schreiber joked with Conan. "You can take a complete wallflower, quiet girl, and you get them pregnant and suddenly they want to go out all the time and party...so, I gave her grief about going to the Oscars.

Schreiber is deferring to Watts in all things baby related. "Everything that I try to do in service of her or the coming baby is wrong. I really don't even go to my house much anymore.".

Schreiber also had the audience in stitches as he recounted the four episode guest appearances on the series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and how the show's fans and bloggers gave him a hard time, some fans calling him creepy and ugly.

"It was really awful because I don't really think I am," Schreiber said. "I don't listen to that. Citing his "hot" girlfriend Naomi, he said: "You can't be creepy and ugly and have a hot girlfriend."