Brad PittBrad PittIt's been a fair while since we've seen Mr Brad Pitt looking quite so chipper.

But just a week after announcing his impending fatherhood, he's been spotted out in West Hollywood with a huge grin.

Perhaps he's relieved he can at last revel in his domestic bliss now the world's media is taking it for granted that he and Angelina Jolie are in fact a couple... what with her being with child and all that.

Or perhaps he's just so over-excited at the prospect of being a daddy, that his slightly sullen look of 2005 is definitely a thing of the past.

Instead, as he bumped into a friend outside the Chateau Marmont hotel, he was the very picture of glee.

Angelina Jolie with the bumpAngelina Jolie and her bumpDressed in leathers, he chatted to the female buddy before jumping back on his big bike and zooming off.

What with his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston looking chirpy at the Sundance Film Festival last week, and the recent photos of a blossoming Angelina and bump - has the aftermath of one of the biggest break-ups in Tinseltown turned out just fine... at last?