>>622 I don't think it is just little Hiddles. I'd find that easier to deal with. After all, he's 35 and it must be the pits to be the internet's sexiest man and still not be getting laid. If he's screwing around and having fun, even with an empty vessel, then good on him.

It's the conscious element of all this that I think is a low blow. Playing the media game, wanting the column inches, wanting us all to know that he is the guy who is shagging TS. Not being the guy he said he was a mere 2 months ago (anybody remember the "some things are sacred" interview?). Either he really is crazy in love and it's all gone out the window and he's like Tom on Ophra's sofa. Or - more likely - he doesn't want prying save on his terms; but when it suits him to shill his private life for publicity reasons, he will do it.

And I get that. If you want to be super famous then that may be what you have to do. I recall Cumberbatch posing after the Oscars for some amazingly staged shots at a petrol station. He was snogging Sophie Hunter while actually using the petrol pump. They make these shots look almost natural. But if that's the world you live in at least be honest. Or shut up about your privacy and your authenticity.