According to Hollingsworth, baby No. 2 was a big “surprise,” but he and his wife “couldn’t be happier about our growing family.”
“We were traveling to Paris for a friend’s wedding and then we took a family vacation through Tuscany. As you can imagine, there were some romantic nights and, well, I might have to take responsibility for this one,” he told ET.
The two are already parents to son Hemingway, who was born in July 2016. “I love Hemingway so much and I couldn’t wait to have another,” the actor gushed.
The couple is expecting their little one in March, but staying tight-lipped on baby names for now.
“I’ve got this character I do called Tyrone, who’s a
toothless dinosaur from London. I get to be a goofy with him and he thinks it’s
really funny, which is great,” gushed Hollingsworth at Debbie Durkin’s EcoLuxe Luxury Lounge
celebrating “Christmas in September” in Los Angeles recently. “It’s
the best thing to see him smile and laugh.”
“And he’s just been a really great baby. We took him to Catalina Island on a yacht and he was the best. He had his nautical outfit on and was up on the top deck with the wind blowing through his hair, loving it. He’s already a little sailor!”
Apart from 4 a.m. diaper changes, Hollingsworth says the hardest part of becoming a father has been leaving Hemingway to go to work, but Nila FaceTimes with him and sends him photos throughout the day.
Little Hemingway, who calmly watched on as his parents chatted to ET at the pre-Emmys event, also made his first visit to the Code Black set, where he was “mobbed by everyone,” on his dad’s recent 32nd birthday.
Although season two of Code Black, on which Hollingsworth plays Dr. Mario Savetti, is keeping the new dad busy, he looks forward to rushing home and seeing his son’s face every night and has become an expert at putting him to sleep.
“It hasn’t been easy, but any time we feel tired or stressed, he smiles and everything’s OK again,” says the Canadian star. “And I somehow have the magic touch — whenever he lies on my chest, he falls asleep. We have all the gadgets you buy to help put the baby to sleep, like the mamaRoo, but I’m the ‘dadaRoo’ — works 100% of the time!”
Hollingsworth adds that being a dad has been incredibly “fulfilling” and changed his priorities in life.
