Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
>>648 No - if it's a girl it will be Jane Arthy Surname. No questions.
>>650 I might have to fight you for Michael K. Every article makes me love him a little more.
>>650 No. He is still mine.
I'm sorry but that swan pastry looks like something I'd come up with not something you'd get at a proper restaurant. That cream looks straight out of a can....like their love.
>>654 That's exactly what I was going to say! I understand that it's probably a fancy restaurant and that swan even may be really delicious, but honestly, it looks so unappetizing. It looks like something of my own making! Where I would take preproduced and prepackaged ordinary store cookies, try to arrange them in some semi-fancy shape and cover that entire creation with canned whipped cream. Yeah... So good.
Wanting a male perspective, I asked my husband if he had read about the THTS saga (since it has made the proper papers like the Guardian). He had. I asked him why he thought a 35 year old man with a proper career would make himself ridiculous. "Well, it's obvious, isn't it?" said my hubby. "He's in love."
Back in NYC and looking a tad tense: http://getfirstlook.com/photo/Rw9GtZ
>>657 My brother-in-law is clearly much more jaded than your hubby - he thinks the entire thing is a fabricated sham.
>>656 Not fair.
>>657 I'd say something similar. I'd go with that half lust/half love feeling that endorphins create in the honeymoon phrase of a relationship. And I know a thing or two about hormones and strange body chemicals at the moment!
I don't think it's love - and maybe your husband would have phrased it differently or changed the vocab if he knew that this relationship was in its infancy. But I do believe Mr. H has got a case of the heart-eyes fer sure. .
>>659 I think my hubby may quite like the idea of Swifty! He asked who TS was (he's old and uncool) so I tried to explain. He was all "ok objectively I see the appeal for TH" when I explained about the songs and the blonde hair and the being 25 and the millions and millions of dollars. But when I said she had a reputation for being uncool and liked cats and antiquing in New England he got really misty-eyed and said he was now jealous of TH!!!!
>>660 I'm not sure how far back you've read in the 250 or so messages we have managed to generate in the last 24 hours.
I think in addition to fancying her, he is also very much infatuated with her celebrity, and how it reflects on him - being seen as cool, the guy who brings his guitar to parties (duet time!), the guy who is DATING TAYLOR SWIFT LOOK EVERYBODY ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE WHO CALLED ME PUBEHEAD AT SCHOOL. Or so he hoped, though it hasn't quite shaped up like that so far.
What's your take on it all?
arriving back at his hotel in Soho on June 17, 2016 in New York City
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>>658 I would even say pretty pissed.
>>663 So he's not wearing the underwear again? I usually don't really pay attention to the Little Hiddles, but here..
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>>658 Fool, you don't need the gym. You've got a blonde exercise machine waiting back at her place. Stop wasting time before Oz!
If that's Soho (I can't tell without more background) the West Village and TS are only a few blocks away.
>>661 Anon, I get the feeling your husband may be older than you...and you keep him young. Misty eyed at antiquing!!
>>666 I think that is the Crosby Street Hotel. See the distinctive bench in photo 8 of M's pics? Now compare: https://www.oyster.com/new-york-city/hotels/crosby-street-hotel/photos/entrance-crosby-street-hotel-v575493/
>>665 or thinking about Tay Tay :))
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>>668 He's about to be 45. But he's always been a young fogey! It's the classics degree, cough cough! And yes, I am younger than that.
He's riding around in her car with her security detail. http://www.justjared.com/2016/06/17/tom-hiddleston-rides-taylor-swifts-car-to-new-york-city-gym/
I don't know if he's in love with her or her mega celebrity and her insane wealth. All the things he probably wishes he had.
>>670 Thinking about doing bae once he's done his crunches and squats 😆
>>672 Maybe - though JJ's facts aren't 100% in this article. He said this was TH arriving at the gym - it's actually picking up or dropping him off at his hotel.
>>662 I'm probably not going to get the chance to go back and read all those brilliant and probably spot on comments. What I know I got from E! News and the DM so you're all more up on it than I.
I think it's a real relationship. He wouldn't fly all over the place and stay at her place in RI for a week if it were fabricated. She is beautiful, tall, talented, wealthy - can I stop! - so what's not to be attracted to? She's probably fun too and since TH can sometimes be too serious and philosophical, it's probably nice to hang out with someone a little silly and fun. I think the staged photo op was the result of that attraction. She wanted it and he agreed. He's just as capable of doing stupid things because of attraction/lust/love/nookie.
I would love to see video footage of this encounter. From Torrilla's pics, qaz is dead right. He looks throughly pissed off. He's wearing his PurseGateGate face. But sometimes the footage tells a different story.
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>>676 I don't think anyone on here thinks it is a fabricated relationship. But there does seem to be a feeling among the troops that when he recently said "some things are sacred" he misspoke a la Hillary Clinton and in fact meant to say "some things are sacred except when my new bird of approx 1 week is soopa famous and will get me on the front cover of every newspaper in the world." I paraphrase.
Also a feeling of deja vu. Tom waited till the relationship was over before he made contact! Then he texted a lot! But it's only causal guys! They are taking it slow!!
>>678 Whoa! He is giving it some blue steel in these photos!!
>>675 I think he has pics of both. No smoothie = arriving at gym. Smoothie leaving gym and heading to hotel. What do you think?
>>681 Yes I think you are right, although the the impression JJ gives is that he is going from unspecified location to gym in Swift's car, ie from her home.
>>675 Either way, it's her car and her security detail. Tom is rich enough to arrange his own car and security at least. Maybe it's just me but he's giving me kept man vibes.
>>679 Yeah I don't think anyone thinks this is a fake relationship. But it's definitely one where we're seeing Tom shed his privacy privacy please privacy! mantra and making it all public. Which is exactly how Taylor dates. She dates in the public eye.
But i don't think it's going at all the way he envisioned it with how the media keeps making fun of him. The teenage puppy love story is just so not him. This whole thing clashes so much with how he's been so far. Maybe this new Tom is the real Tom.
In those last pics he looks like he just realised that this is his life now - riding in Taylor's car, flying Taylor's plane, and getting papped all the way.
I am just blabbering, of course - but yeah, it so clashes with his usual image. I guess, he will have to get used to it. For love.
I wonder if that brown envelope is full of clippings from the Guardian et al?
It's probably only now that he has had a chance to sit down with his laptop and have a proper look. Imagine reading all that about yourself. It's the first time he has ever been properly on the wrong side of the press, I think. From "hardworking talented bloke that everyone says is lovely" to "hungry famewhore/prize twerp" (basically the two options in the UK press). That has really got to hurt.
I think someone said they wanted the vid, has it been posted yet?
sorry - forgot to links. http://www.tmz.com/2016/06/17/tom-hiddleston-leaving-gym-taylor-swift/
I'd want to know how the photographers know it's her car. NYC has a bazillion black SUVs like that. At this point there may be more of those in the city than yellow cabs. Does it have unicorn license plates? Does 'her latest single play when you open the door? Cat hair everywhere?
Of course he is! He likes the attention. He's got a girlfriend who has what he most wants: celebrity and lots of money. He doesn't care if she has the mentality of a 16 year old girl (and dresses like one!) or if her music sucks. This is the real Tom - a fame-whore. And now he's Taylor Swift's property because she's paying for everything. He doesn't have the money to pay luxury cars with driver and security.
>>689 Wouldn't you be? Sure he's got to put up with some cameras but look at the payoff.
>>692 I was being sarcastic, I thought he looked miserable. Lol.
>>691 I wouldn't say he likes the attention or even craves it. Instead I'm going to say that he's willing to put up with it for the rewards.
I don't know TS from Eve but a 26-year-old who's made it so far in her profession and avoided the pitfalls that swallowed up people like Britney Spears and Amanda Bynes - that's no woman with the mentality of a 16-year-old. I think TS may have it together more than we think.
Yes he most certainly has the money to pay for a car and driver or have his PR people pay for it as it looks like he's doing some business in NYC. I've taken a similar car in NYC and using one for a day or more doesn't break the bank.
>>693 I was going to say. In that video he looks as hacked off as I've seen him. No word save for a "hey man" which I think was to a fan/bystander.
>>693 I think he looks fine. Just a dude walking down the street and keeping a straight face. He greets them but doesn't engage, perfectly normal behavior. He doesn't throw any punches!
>>695 Only one person in this relationship is acting like a 16 year old (he is currently in sulky mode). If the paps had caught TS she would have been impeccably dressed, smiled graciously and said nothing.
"A beautiful dinner somewhere lovely, with boat-loads of flowers, chocolates and champagne," he says. But he also has a more casual, yet equally lovely option. "It might also be nice to wrap up warm and sit on a roof somewhere, with a cup of hot soup and your girl, watch the planes come in over London and listen to the night.”
>>696 Really? I don't think so. Hacked off is when you give them a terse 'no comment' or a 'give me some room' or 'haven't you got anything better to do.' I think he's just got his poker face on - or his about to poker-her face. But Luke might have been on the earpiece reading the papers to him while he was on the treadmill. Imagine: those articles AND having to run. Screw that! It would piss anyone off.
I was wondering about the whole "how rich is Tom" thing recently. I am guessing he is on a par with, say, a partner in a top London law firm. Their net taxable is maybe £1m a year. I am sure he earns far more for some projects (I saw a VF thing which suggested for a $170m budget the star would get $8m - I reckon less for him as he is not yet A list - but still maybe $5m for SI). However that's not every project or every year, and he has a lot of overheads that a partner at a big firm wouldn't have to pay for - 15% to the agent, some for the publicist, the PA, the stylist, pension contributions etc. He is massively well off by the standards of the world at large but no way would he be in the private jet, multiple residences class like Swifty is.
>>699 Is that meant to them? He does seem to have a blue jacket on!
>>700 I just think he normally gives the paps a smile: http://www.celebitchy.com/403332/tom_hiddleston_wears_cowboy_boots_carries_a_guitar_at_airports_now/
Poker face I have only previously seen in the taxi with EO.
>>703 He even had a conversation with a pap a couple weeks ago in London. He avoided answering Bond questions but he was friendly and talked about filming Thor 3 in Australia.
>>701 That jet was her - no doubt. He didn't reach into the pockets for that. But he can manage a driver and SUV in NYC. If he is staying at a hotel, the concierge may even have deals with companies that provide the service at a reduced rate.
>>705 I have no doubt of that. And he's probably rich enough to travel first class everywhere even when the studio isn't paying, which takes a tidy chunk of cash. It's about £10k to travel to LA first class.
The fans who shot that video of Tom in her RI house the morning after the famous photos came out said that her security men all wear green shirts. The man who opens the SUV door to Tom is wearing a green shirt.
And I don't think he's staying in a hotel. He was probably there for a meeting with someone.
>>707 No, he's staying there. He leaves in his gym clothes, returns in his gym clothes, then leaves again in his regular clothes. Never carrying any bags, so the clothes must have been in the hotel.
We don't know these people. Maybe Tom likes his space? Remember after the EO pap walk she went back to her hotel and he went home?
>>704 But that was pre-TS. Nothing's going to be the same now. I think Bond and Thor are subjects he'd engage about but not TayTay.
>>709 Well I wouldn't expect him to talk about TS. He didn't talk about Bond either, but he gave the guy a smile and a "how are you doing" before saying he wouldn't answer. The paps outside the Ivy got a smile and a wave. This eyes straight ahead deadpan face we saw today is new - I guess when you're Mr. Swift that's how you do it.
>>685 judging by that face it's not going to last very long.
This is Tom all over. He gives it out (takes Jarthy to Wimbledon, PurseGateGate) he feeds the beast, and then he wishes he hasn't.
>>687 Where are our MANNERS? Hiddleswift, you will not destroy our welcoming board!!
Welcome, ??! Thank you for posting the video.
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We are a friendly bunch. We disagree - often enough - but we argue with humor and don't tend to get out knickers into a twist, too much. Any questions, just ask?
And welcome again!
>>712 Oh wow, thanks for the greeting! Friendly indeed. Will do with the questions should they arise. Thanks again :)
So how do we think this is going to play out? Is it gonna be forever? Or is it gonna go down in flames? After all this bad press, will Tom be able to shake it off? When they break up, will they never ever get back together?
>>714 It's looking like one of those really intense love affairs where you declare your love within a week, have mind blowing constant sex, spend every second together and then you're suddenly horrified and freak out when they move their toothbrush in.
Based on absolutely no evidence only conjecture I do wonder if they can establish a true and lasting friendship beyond the honeymoon phase. It would be a first for Swifty and TH's track record ain't great either.
As much as TS irks me I can really see them smuttymooning together for quite a while. That old fashioned, old monied English charm and romanticism will keep TS spreading her legs and purse wide open and her youthful joie de vivre, social hierarchy/ access to all the right people and parties and the buzz of nabbing the queen of shit pop must be such an ego boost for TH. He'll want to parade her on his arm publicly and that's how she likes to play it too. They're both showunicorns.
It's anyones guess how long it will take for the beer goggles too fall off. I say when they do, she'll find him rather dull and he'll realise there's not that much under the surface.
I predict a sighting in Blighty before he goes to Oz to meet the family.
>>715 I tried to incorporate as many Taylor Swift lyrics as I could into my stupid pointless post at >>714. Then I realized I am really only familiar with a few of her songs and it wasn't as funny as I thought it was going to be. But I posted it anyway. Ever have one of those days? I'm having one of those days.
>>716 Even if you had successfully incorporated all of her lyrics I wouldn't have recognised them! I tune out or leave the room when i hear her songs. Sorry for the ernest response to a joke, ha. I'm sure TS fans will find it funny
Congrats Anon.!
I'm only posting for you because like Mr.Swift representatives "I'm afraid I don't comment on the personal life of our child...client" With major stress on afraid as in "afraid of what I might say". Since I saw the news on the tv (yeah Mr Swift you made it to national news in my country) after months of not reading anything about him, I've been torn between laughter and disappointment.
There's speculation on CB about them recording a duet. Well, Tom's played Hank. I guess this will give him the opportunity to play Audrey too!
>>719 That comparison is probably more realistic vocally. OH SNAP!
I kid, he's not quite as bad as Audrey. ;)
Hey, anybody remember an interview a couple of months ago when Tom was asked about doing more Shakespeare and he said he hoped to have an announcement very soon? What happened to that?
>>721 There hasn't been anything more said about it, as far as I know.
Re TMZ video .. the gentleman doth protest too much. What was Tom expecting?
(and poor JA and Lizzie .. all those months and nary an acknowledgement in public other than "nothing to write home about" .. 14 or so days (if you follow the official script) and "girlfriend" ... it is very entertaining though..
>>718 Thank you, Coach! We're deliriously happy to the stage where we're going to get annoying soon. And I have fabulous hormone hair!
Don't be too disappointed with the man. He's just a man! Even Anon's husband seemed willing to pap stroll with TS for the promise of some antiquing!
>>724 Congrats Anon.! Are you getting the usual morning sickness or have you started craving weird foods yet? I couldn't handle any kind of animal proteins the whole time. Eggs, chicken, beef, just the smell made me throw up. And as soon as I have birth, I wanted a cheeseburger lol
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>>725 Thanks. 3ish months in and no cravings, no morning sickness - just great hair! I think I didn't realize at first because everything was situation normal - not sick, tired, etc. I thought Auntie Flow hadn't visited because of the stress of the wedding and my work trip.
I was going over some old posts here and clicked into TheoAnons. This post delighted me and maybe will delight Anon's husband. Have him take it, Anon, and let us know the score. I got a pathetic 14/20 and only because I know Ovid better than TS's songs.
http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146111616321/community-post-can-you-tell-the-difference
This was an amusing summary to help the TS fans get familiar with her new beau: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/102187891.html
Be sure to click on the 2 links for the headers at the top of the post. The comments are great and run the gamit.
"Wait, what’s that? We have a video of them dancing at the MetGala last month?!?!?
CLICK THE PLAY BUTTON! I NEED TO SEE THIS BEAUTIFUL MERGER OF TWO HUMANSWANS GENTLY GLIDING OVER THELAKE OF LIFE!
Oh God. Oh Godno. It’s like two overcooked lasagna noodles getting slapped together by the WHITEST chef in Italy. It looks like two cups of Chobani poured out onto a table in the middle of an earthquake. It’s like a HORRIBLE middle school interpretive dance that looks like a joke but is meant completely seriously."
Anyone know where they are now? It appears that now they have left the pap-infested Rhode Island and are back to the secluded safety of NYC they have completely disappeared, notwithstanding that every paparazzo in the world is now looking for them. Funny that.
>>731 It's anyone's guess where they are now but the odd thing about TH's little pap stroll to the gym and then to his mystery meeting in NY was that he popped into his old hotel to change clothes.
Must've moved his toothbrush in to Tay Tay's too soon.
Does anyone believe they were accidentally papped unaware on possibly the naffest date of all time? Are they the celebrity embodiment of The Notebook for realz?
Here's a fun little comment from the ONTD article:
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>>731 Taylor has been MIA since the private jet pics. When last seen Tom was being papped coming and going from his hotel, but that was the day before yesterday. I'm thinking there's no way we're going to be able to find any sightings on Twitter or Instagram anymore, unless someone wants to volunteer to spend their entire day combing through Swiddletomlorston tweets looking for something relevant.
>>732 No I am just being facetious (it's the same Anon, from my holiday wifi hence different ID). It's pretty obvious that when they don't want to be caught, they aren't.
The theoanons blog pointed out that the beach is several miles from TS's house. So it isn't a case of the pap hanging around her place hoping to spot her in the immediate vicinity. The pap was somehow in the right place at the right time, in an area where paps don't usually hang out. Bit of a coincidence - like the pics I posted earlier of Cumberbatch and his wife making out having stopped at exactly the petrol station that the pap happened to be at, with all his kit.
>>733 eeeew! Still, he was 16 I suppose. My now quite dim recollection of my teenage years is that kissing a 16 year old boy is like congress with an enthusiastic but inept octopus.
>>730 and now a new set of folks via ONTD and tumblr are finding out about all of the embarrassing Hiddleston nooks and crannies, the Banana In The Vag incident is the first one up, followed closely by MySpace posting with Mummy.
Here's a choice quotes at the end of this Guardian article ( pardon if it's already been posted): http://gu.com/p/4ykct/sbl
>>727 Heartfelt congratulations, Anon. Mine snuck up on me too. I nearly fainted when I found out.
>>733 >>735 Ha! He still doesn't strike me as much of a kisser. Hopefully he makes up for that with his digits.
My teenage experiences were quite dire ranging from the helicopter, a jackhammer to a complete face sucker. Can't tell you the relief it was to find a good kisser.
Seriously I do wonder if anyone on this forum (there's not many of us left) believes snog on a rock wasn't orchestrated.
Are we all cynics?
I don't think anyone seems to believe the relationship is entirely fake, just the snog on a rock bit, amirite?
>>736 Oh good lord, not that quote again. It's fake. Every time Tom is seen with a new woman that starts circulating again, usually just on tumblr and Twitter. I think this is the first time it's made it into an actual publication.
>>739 Is that one about sitting in the roof while the planes go over also fake? I never did find the receipts for that one. There are a whole load of other obviously fake ones about lurve which the TS dans on tumblr are now reblogging crazily. As evidenced by the BananaVag anecdote, the real Tom may be at times considerably more coarse!
>>738 I haven't yet become so cynical that I think he would participate in a wholly manufactured relationship. Insofar as one can tell anything from the Met Gala video he looked keen. And she's pretty, successful and 9 years his junior. That would probably be enough for most men for a genuine thing (not sure if this yet qualifies for the definition "relationship").
>>740 I seen to remember the quote about the rooftop being real, but old. The other fake one is the one about "this generation has lost the true meaning of romance" blah blah blah. I can't remember if that's part of the same gifset as the quote the Guardian used. It might be.
>>742 Should be seem not seen. I have to correct myself.
"The fact that it all started with a dance. I mean, who on earth gets together at a ball in this day and age? It’s like something out of Cinderella, or Dirty Dancing, without the abortion or the watermelon."
Did anyone post this? The third Guardian article in as many days. It's marginally kinder - though the caricature makes them both look 40! https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/19/tom-hiddlestone-taylor-swift-match-made-in-heaven-pr-stunt
More pictores on the rock
http://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Taylor-Swift-Tom-Hiddleston-Kissing-Pictures-June-2016-41689484#photo-41689484
They are taking the pictures with his phone.
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iphone 6s white with black case on it
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silver with black case