Nicholas Hoult, the actor who played an insecure teen who sang “Killing Me Softly” at his school talent show with Hugh Grant’s help in the 2002 classic About a Boy and grew up to be a superhero movie hunk who fucked Colin Firth in a terrible Tom Ford movie and briefly dated Jennifer Lawrence in real life, is now a dad.
Had this baby—whose mother is a model named Bryana Holly (who reportedly dated Leo DiCaprio in 2014)—been covered in the celebrity press with headlines like “Nicholas Hoult’s Girlfriend Bryana Holly Gives Birth to Their First Child,” I would have included it at the bottom of a morning Dirt Bag post. Nicholas Hoult? Some girlfriend I’ve never heard of? Who cares. Plop ‘em in. Give them 10 words. But of all the coverage of this newborn child, these were the headlines that caught my eye: