'Sherlock' Star Benedict Cumberbatch, Fiancee Sophie Hunter Expecting Couple's First Baby: Better Luck Next Time 'Cumberbitches'?

Sherlock and The Imitation Game star Benedict Cumberbatch's fiancee Sophie Hunter is reportedly expecting the couple's first baby only two months after the pair announced their engagement in the most delightfully formal way possible. Better luck next time 'Cumberbitches'? You'll just have to console yourself with your blu-ray copies of Star Trek: Into Darkness and his likely Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.

As The New York Post's Page Six report, a rep for Cumberbatch and Hunter told the paper "I am delighted to confirm that Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter are expecting their first child. They are both over the moon."

Page Six — who first reported the news — also added that "the low-key couple," are now "planning to marry sooner than expected, in the next few months."

They also say that Cumberbatch is "delighted and excited about becoming a dad." Aww. Nice one Cumby!

As US Weekly point out, the couple's baby news has emerged only a few months after their very secret squirrel engagement, which was announced in The Times in very formal fashion under 'Forthcoming marriages'.

"Mr B.T. Cumberbatch and Miss S.I. Hunter," their announcement read, "The engagement is announced between Benedict, son of Wanda and Timothy Cumberbatch of London, and Sophie, daughter of Katharine Hunter of Edinburgh and Charles Hunter of London."

How damn delightful is that! It's sweeter than a scone with butter and strawberry jam given to you by an English matron named Mary, that's how delightful it is.

Cumberbatch has just had one of the busiest twelve months imaginable, starring in not only Sherlock last year, but was also nominated for a Golden Globe and SAG award for his role as Turing in The Imitation Game, and, as the WSJ point out, wrapped The Hollow Crown, "a three-part BBC series featuring Shakespeare's Henry VI and Richard III plays, in which Cumberbatch plays the bitter, ruthless Richard III." He also appeared in The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies as both the dragon Smaug and dark lord Sauron, and as 'Classified' in The Penguins of Madagascar. He was also, as MStars News reported, announced as the lead in Marvel's upcoming Dr Strange movie as the titular character, Dr Stephen Strange, which is out in 2016.

As he told the Wall Street Journal, the way he deal with the fear of bringing a "really iconic, well-known character to the screen," like "one of the most famous Shakespearean texts of all time," or learning a "telephone directory of lines for Sherlock," and creating "Doctor Strange from what we know into something cinematic" is to realize "you're not alone, and that is the best way to treat all fear."

Well, it's either that or loads of cocaine and booze (*coughRobertDowneyJrcough*), so, y'know. Well played, Benedict.