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The former Dawson's Creek actor took to his Twitter account to announce that wife Kimberly Brook gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday.
"Had the blessing of becoming a father over the weekend... Couldn't come close to describing this bliss even if I had 140 million characters," he wrote.
"Olivia Van Der Beek, born 9/25. I apologise in advance for any obnoxiously precious new-dad tweets that may follow. I'm under her spell..."
He later joked: "If I watch football w/ my daughter now, she'll like the sounds of the NFL & want to watch it w/ me when she's older. (sic)"
Van Der Beek and Brook married last month. Olivia is their first child together.
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