Russell Crowe plans to be baptised

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Russell Crowe has revealed that he will be baptised at the end of the year.

The actor will hold a private ceremony at the chapel he built for his 2003 wedding to Danielle Spencer on his estate in Coffs Harbour, Australia.

He said: "My mum and dad decided to let my brother and me make our own decisions about God when we got to the right age.

"I started thinking recently: 'If I believe it is important to baptise my kids, why not me?'"

Crowe, 43, has two sons with Spencer - three-year-old Charlie and one-year-old Tennyson.

He added: "It is consecrated and everything... Charlie was baptised there and when Tennyson gets baptised there, I will too."