Ellen DeGeneres congratulates Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling on 'most beautiful baby ever'

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The US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has tweeted her congratulations to Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling for the baby the couple are rumoured to be expecting.

She appears to confirm Mendes's pregnancy, which has been rumoured since OK magazine in the US reported – via "an insider" – that she is seven months along. Mendes and Gosling have both appeared on DeGeneres's chat show, the former earlier this year where she debunked earlier pregnancy rumours that surfaced after she avoided an airport scanner.

Mendes met Gosling on the set of Derek Cianfrance's gritty thriller The Place Beyond the Pines, and has since featured in Gosling's directorial debut, Lost River, which premiered at Cannes this year. Set in an American city gone to seed at some vague point in the future, and following the struggles of its people to try and turn their lives for the better, Mendes plays a performer at a fetish club. "It's actually the most beautiful experience I've ever had working on a film," she said of the filming. "He really created the most beautiful, collaborative, creative atmosphere on set. I know I'm biased but I don't think it's just coming from me, he's the best."

It didn't quite have the same response from critics, who generally found it lacking, though the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw admitted an admiration for its "energy and appetite. There is a delirious buzz to the drama. It is often ridiculous and fatuous but often ingenious."

Mendes has no upcoming projects listed, but Gosling is appearing in a musical drama from Terrence Malick, and is to produce – and possibly star in – a biopic of legendary Hollywood choreographer Busby Berkeley. He has said in the past that he would quit acting if fatherhood loomed, saying to E! in 2011: “I’d like to be making babies but I’m not, so I’m making movies. When someone comes along, I don’t think I’ll be able to do both and I’m fine with that... I’ll make movies until I make babies.”