Orlando Bloom 'enjoying new role as father'

Orlando Bloom has spoken out about how much he is enjoying fatherhood, after his wife Miranda Kerr gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy called Flynn, in January.

The 34-year-old said that he is loving every minute of being with his son, and sees fatherhood as being the new "big role" in his life.

"It's great, I love it," Bloom told Lorraine Kelly on a recent episode of Lorraine. "I've been bathing with him a lot recently, it's been really cute. It's a really nice little moment."

Bloom also admitted that although he is now beginning to feel comfortable as a father, it can be more difficult for men to realise the reality of becoming a parent.

"It's mad because as a women you carry the baby for nine months so you've very conscious that you have a little one inside you," he explained. "But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there."

It was recently reported that Bloom was close to working out a deal to reprise his iconic role as Legolas the Elf in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.

The actor will next star as the Duke of Buckingham in a remake of The Three Musketeers, which is due for release in the US and UK on October 14.