Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
>>197 Really? Well, take it as a compliment, at least it wasn't twisted into something else, and it was a good comment. But I saw a few poster at CB using the "anon" or "Anon" username so that maybe wasn't stolen.
The THEO blog is off the train too.
>>197 Ugh, that sucks with the no credit. But it is really good info, so I can see why they nicked it.
>>199 Oh, um. Nevermind then lols. Gonna agree with >>198 and yourself on that one then. Sometimes, you just need a smoke and this looks like entire days comprised of nothing but those moments.
>>201 I saw the THEO post and was like shit, it's bad when the person running the gossip site is just like #nope.
The pregnancy theory doesn't make sense. She was in a relationship with Calvin for 15 months, they surely had a normal sex life and she was probably on the pill or other contraceptive method. Even if she was indeed pregnant, how could they know for sure the baby was Tom's and not Calvin's (unless she didn't have sex with Calvin)?
I have a different theory: their Met dance-off was such a success worldwide with everybody saying "aw, look how adorable they look!" that they thought they would get a similar reaction if they started dating. But the general reaction was negative and even serious newspapers like the Guardian called them fake and started mocking them. Even Taylor's fans were calling her a slut. Her PR team quickly came up with a plan to convince everyone that the relationship was real and serious and that could only be achieved if their respective parents were involved.
>>199 >>200. Yes he did say flat out "I don't smoke" in response to a direct question. So, as CB sometimes says, he opened his mouth and spoke lies. I do not think TS is a smoker and he has taken it (back) up since they've been together. She really doesn't look the type. I think he has been a smoker all along and he pretends not to be. I can't see what else that thing in his pocket is.
I just read theoanons' post. She seemed like us - funny and a bit snarky, with the odd tinhat theory, but basically a fan of Tom and definitely not there to rain down hate on him or any GF. She has really tried to say over the past fortnight - it's genuine and the publicity circus is just what all celebs do one way or another.
So if she is off the reservation and now thinks he is a thirsty desperate famewhore, then - he really is.
Come and hang out with us, theoanons! You seem nice! Work through your trauma with fellow-sufferers!!
Hi-- I had an experience with a family member who had a miscarriage after a plane trip Across the country, while she was in the first trimester. No flying is allowed for a woman in the first trimester, so no pregnancy b/C TS been all over the place. Plus, she's been drinking hard core at the restaurants (wine with swan pastries, and reports of multiple cocktails w holly Williams and espresso, and no caffeine allowed during pregnancy either.)
I personally think that Taylor may have been pregnant with CH, and decided not to have the baby. And this whistle stop tour, not to say TS and TH aren't very infatuated, is the only way to establish that the rock formation paps weren't a terrible idea. No one, not even TS, wants to be perceived as a liar. And if TH is a smoker, yes he lied which is awful, but this is a darn stressful situation on all accounts. And you can't smoke near a pregnant woman either, btw. due to second hand cancer.
She's still wearing that ring even in the new photos from this morning at the beach. It really looks like an engagement ring.
Every damned day? Really?
RE: New Photos http://belleswift17.tumblr.com/post/146455504959 link from ONTD comments
With his mother again, and the paps. Is this an attempt to shut down the UK press? We sell our romance but you stop writing mean things about poor TH?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHFRYAABXH_/
We didn't go to Aldeburgh but apparently it is now crawling with paps, according to owners of a boutique that has a branch there as well as the one we went to in Southwold. All the staff know his mother as she shops at the Southwold branch. FWIW they all think TH is gay! (Not I think having brazenly asked mum, just what they think having met him).
Is this Tom's brother-in-law, Emma's husband?
https://twitter. com/taylorsnextsong/status/746739683086970880
This is Emma's husband isn't he?
http://belleswift17.tumblr.com/post/146458053379/tom-and-a-friend-out-in-suffolk-saturday-morning
There are going to be pics with his niece too at this point?
Then Oxford, Wimbledon, G&W, what else?
Is that guy he's with a relative? They look pretty similar about the brow.
I know he has half siblings from his father's second marriage that he never, ever mentions in the press. From mum's side too? Or a cousin?
>>214 that's Emma's husband, for sure.
>>213 So she picked someone who has a family resemblance! Ha ha. Happens quite frequently I guess.
The whole clan is gathering...
>>217 engagement party?
They look like balls of some sort rather than balloons.
Not balloons. Tennis balls for children.
So there will a family reunion this weekend at his mom's to meet Taylor. Maybe there will be a wedding announcement.
>>214 His dad has more kids? I didn't even know he had remarried. Interesting.
>>214 His father married again? I didn't know that.
It does look like the whole family is gathering. For an engagement party? Not if they want us to buy this at all. If they spring an engagement on us this soon there's only one thing people will be talking about: timeline!! They will try to sell the 2 week whirlwind courtship ( love, romance, he's the one) but people will talk about when this pairing really paired up. Because even arranged marriages take longer to negotiate than 2 weeks. It might just be people online but with how the mainstream media seem to be treating them, I don't think it will just be CB and DListed pulling them out on the carpet for a good talking to
Loving the phone pic on theoanons's tumblr.
Gay - I would have said no before but now I'm not so sure because this relationship looks cooked up in a science lab? Famewhore - would have said no, but not now.
>>214,222,223 caught in the enigma of the balls I missed the detail: his father remarried and had other children?
>>223 Me too, I would never have said he's gay and famewhore but now everything seems possible.
Forgot to say. I'm starting to think they deserve each other in a very deep and meaningful way. The hunger for fame, the tendency to manipulate, the shallow surface, the eagerness to use anything and everything for publicity. It makes me wish for an engagement and wedding so that we can watch it all crash and burn in 3-4 years. (Hoping baby doesn't absorb my bitchiness)
I think he's been this hungry for fame all along but never had the chance for a true PR-filled life and romance. Now that TS is around, he is grabbing the opportunity with both hands. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
This comment from CB:
"WOW. HE. DRAGGED. OUT. HIS. MOTHER.
I have yet to see him pose with any of his parents and/or family members at a movie premier and yet we get these gems."
>>226 I also want to see this crash and burn (waves to baby I know she/he can see me)
Established that TH is doing this at 99,99% for PR purposes, the remaning 0,01% would be for maybe infatuation/beard/the nerd who never scored. Let's say that in a few weeks TS is bored, she doesn't want to adjust her clothes to his anymore (I respect the dedication she has, modelling herself after the guy she is with) and she dumps him.
What is TH left with?
A bad PR job that brought bad results
A reputation in pieces
A new waves of jokes at his expenses as a 35 years old who fell for TS's games involving his family in the process.
Did I leave something out?
Part of another interesting comment from CB:
"I don’t usually jump on the pregnancy bandwagon, but I think Taylor might be pregnant. Something looks different about her. And if she is, I can only say, well played, Mr Hiddleston! The English upper classes have never turned up their noses at rich women, and his child would be heir to $280 million and counting. Well played indeed."
I think he's in it for the money. That's why his mother is so happy. Without her millions, Taylor Swift would just be a slut not worthy of her son.
>>223>>224 I will have to find the receipts for that. I am sure I read about his father and the half siblings when I first joined the fandom and noodled around looking at old interviews.
The mother's remarriage - or not - I know nothing about. That was speculation as to who this ginger bloke might be. She is wearing a wedding and engagement ring but a certain sort of English lady does even after the divorce. The house in Aldeburgh, bought within the last 5 years, cost £2m. Unless Papa H is utterly utterly loaded that would have been a very large divorce settlement especially considering they split back in 1994. I assumed second marriage possibly. I suppose TH could have bought it but given that his own property cost a couple of million I thought that unlikely. He isn't so big bucks yet that he could afford to buy several properties at that level.
"Swift is set to meet his brothers on Saturday, June 25"
his brothers? lol
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/taylor-swift-tom-hiddlestons-trip-to-england-dinner-with-mom-w211264
>>232 The real story appears to be that his sisters have had sex changes.
He has brothers now? Lol
My genuine question is when are they finding time to bang in all jet hopping? They are photographed going out and about so much. You can't peddle The One and "couldn't their hands to themselves" and give them zero downtime where they're getting it on. Maybe they really are bearding for each other.
{also waves to baby} I think baby will need a healthy dose of scepticism and snark to deal with a world in which TayTo is a thing.
1) Timeline beggars belief if there is an engagement this weekend. I will take off my (tin)hat to those who said it had been going on for some time because I just do not accept that TH of all people would commit to marriage after 2 weeks. If they met at the Met Gala and shagged then I suppose we are approaching 2 months. Even so....
2) Unless she's pregnant. This brings me back to TH being an idiot, except now I can put my finger on exactly why.
4) if she is I want to see the timeline on that. What's the betting she will mysteriously disappear and the date of the birth will be the only thing in this whole damn relationship she doesn't put out there.
>>229 After all this -- and there will be an 'after' - he gives up acting in lead and supporting roles and goes into stunts - because he was born for stunts.
>>226 Also yes to this. They seem to be an appropriate match for one another.
Has Tom been waiting all his acting life for a relationship that was worth pimping out for publicity? Was he in fact in a relationship with JArthy for a year but never admitted it because there was nothing in it for him? I bet he did tell that Elle journalist that she was his GF and she assumed it was no secret and mentioned it. Then he realised very suddenly that his relationship wasn't helping him with his internet fanbase so he kicked poor old Jane back in the closet.
Was he responsible for the USW article about THEO and PurseGateGate, when he thought he had a romance that might buy him Oscar glory? It would certainly explain her otherwise mystifyingly bad reaction to the paps. Then when ISTL bombs EO is back in the closet too.
I think he is gagging for this - the attention, the column inches, the lifestyle and his perception of himself as the stud who got Swifty.
By the way, the beach where they were depicted is very flat and long with no cliffs or dunes and nowhere to hide. They may not have called the horde of paps who descended on Aldeburgh after the photos from the first lot. But they are complicit in these photos too. At the very least they are fully aware that they are being photographed.
I've changed my mind about the pregnancy theory. It might be true.
His mother may be happy with Taylor's millions but it may also be because of the pregnancy news.
Also, when you're dating someone new, you feel a bit insecure but Tom looks very sure of himself and is acting as if he owns her cars and HER. It's almost as is he was sure nothing can take her from him, as if she's the one who needs him desperately.
>>240 Sorry it is Martin - still worth it. Michael K is presumably lying in a darkened room with a wet towel over his eyes. I know how he feels.
>>240 Heartbreakingly, that is Martin - the weekend guy at DLIsted. He's okay, but not as good as Michael K - my child's future godfather.
>>237 I think you nailed it re: JArthy. And I could absolutely see this version re: THEO PurseGate. And now I think that he definitely sees himself as the stud who is worthy of only the best, and the best in his opinion, as it turns out, is a multimillionaire mega-famous music/movie/other A-list star, no less.
P.S. I am still lurking and agreeing with pretty much everything all of you say, just a bit speechless myself, lol. I certainly did not expect the pap stroll with his mum.
Now I want a ridiculously cheesy wedding with carriages, doves, white horses, prom king and queen crowns, TH pushing TS's cats down the aisle in a stroller, her squad in matching bridesmaids' dresses, etc., etc., and then I want to never hear from them again. Meh.
>>240 This is so good! Please tell me that DListed is a very famous site and Tom Hiddleston will read that.
I would believe almost anything right now including a whoops baby. Only two things make me think this is not a pregnancy:
1) TS strikes me as a girl who has PLANS. Mistakes don't happen in Taylorworld, especially with legions of tweeny fans and their churchgoing moms to think about. Extramarital pregnancy combined with a very unfortunate cheaty overlap are so off the wall for someone who controls her image so fanatically. And even if she does vanish for a few months she will struggle to make the maths right. If she shows up with a full term baby in 6 months time nobody will remember the story of the whirlwind courtship we are currently being spun.
2) Call me a devotee of stereotype but 99.99% of men don't want to get their GF up the duff in the first few months of a relationship, no matter how infatuated they are and no matter how much they want kids in the abstract. They like to feel they are making a choice. The whoops baby dad looks a lot more hangdog than TH in these pics (exhibit A: step forward, Mr Cumberbatch).
I think we are possibly searching for a plausible explanation because this is so nuts compared to how TH claimed he was. If we throw everything he said about the ephemeral nature of fame and his privacy in the bin, and start as if we didn't know him, we would just say, TayTay is a hungry famewhore who uses every relationship for $$ more than the last, and she has totally found her match.
>>236 LOL
>>237,244 Maybe that was the way with all his past relationships, a lot of PR and no sex. Do you remember Susannah's reply on fb when she denied she was married? Her friend told her "then fuck" and she said "Fuck yeah". Then Sian who was so besotted with TH she didn't dare asking for anything more than tail after him. JA who thought she hit the jackpot except the guy was always away and busy with his work. EO who probably thought she met a great guy, but no, PR and laser tag - I'm still not convinced about PurseGate because he looked too pissed, but it could be he thought she exaggerated it.
>>244 Hey qaz, nice to see you! I apologise unreservedly for Brexit. Also to anyone else on the board who is European and thinking WTF (M I think!)
>>246 nods in agreement.
I miss the days when we were content to make fun of his clothes. I laugh so much at TS only wearing flats now because she needs to look simple, when with Harris it was all high heels.
>>248 Those were such unexpected results, and a sad morning, I won't lie. But hey, you definitely have nothing to apologise for! Everything will work out, one way or another. You hold on there, too :)
I am copy and pasting this from CB because it struck me as really rather perceptive:
"Not only a high profile match, but also a super-rich wife. I think Tom is gunning for that. I had something of a ‘d’oh’ moment earlier when I realized that OF COURSE he’s aiming high in the marriage market. I wonder how I missed it before: he fits the type exactly. Since his schooldays he’s been living the somewhat uncertain life of the English gentleman who doesn’t have quite the money and the status to fit in with his Etonian peers. He has the image of the aristocrat, but he isn’t really an aristocrat. His family is wealthy, but not rich enough for a lavish lifestyle.
I do think he’s in love, but love isn’t always blind. Taylor is perfect for him – not only in terms of the fame game, but also money and status, on top of being beautiful and (presumably) fun. Money and status aren’t necessarily something he seeks consciously. I’ve seen it before in similar circles. When you subconsciously crave something, you’re more likely to fall in love with it when you meet it in an attractive package. His sister married up in terms of social standing, too.
I think the engagement is coming much sooner than Dec."
hum... I wonder where this ex-girlfriend is coming from... and why.
>>252 To combat the 'Is Tom Hiddleston gay?' google searches?
He's played with the fame and notoriety fire and now he's likely to get burned. The people who couldn't be bothered to share or sell stories about him are going to come out of the woodwork.
>>251 Well, first he needs to convince TS to marry him, second TS will come with a prenup. If he manages to be cast in film for great money he won't need to marry into it, and I think the man is enough of a showoff to want to be considered rich of his own.
Look at these 2 side-by-side pictures of Taylor Swift, one from the Met Gala and the other from this week. Her face is rounder and fatter in the second one. Her whole body is fatter.
I forgot to include the link to the photos:
https://twitter. com/news8magazine/status/746805774261846017
I'm not saying she's definitely not pregnant because honestly at this point nothing would surprise me, but I think the slightly different angle of her head and the makeup are what's causing the difference. Plus celebrities are notorious for doing cleanses, detoxes, laxatives, and all kinds of other weird things leading up to big red carpet events so they look their thinnest, and I doubt Taylor's an exception.
I really don't think she's pregnant. She was drinking white wine in that Rhode Island tea room report. She can't be that careless. I think it's all a lot simpler.
This is really fast paced almost like they are on a time table. I believe this is all scripted and to be over by mid July to early August, during the time period he's going to be working.
It's her story mostly. She wants to look good in the media, more specifically she wants to look good for her fans. Her breakup and Kanye controversy left her looking not so great. Tom and her probably were flirting post breakup or mid breakup and she decides why not and he thinks yeah we got great response after the MET gala they'll love us. She may or may not also have the ulterior motive of pissing off her ex. Tom realizes along with banging a hot young woman, he'll also benefit from visibility if his name is attached with Taylor's, and he's fine with her publicizing it. However the response isn't that great for Tom and they realized well it's fun but it ain't gonna last at this rate because their careers matter to both first so they're fast tracking it all to give a fairytale scenario to Taylor's younger fans but to any adult it's a classic Taylor being Taylor and rebounding, no harm no foul. Tom has always said its hard for him to do relationships properly because of his work ethic so he's got a built in out that it was good but unfortunately work took its toll on us but we continue to be friends who respect each other. We're already seeing US mag peddle his id make a bad boyfriend story. And Taylor's fans are supportive because TayTay will find love again and Tom will get back the part of the fanbase that's willing to forgive.
That's my story and unless some really INSANE development happens like she starts showing a pregnancy belly tomm, I'm sticking to it.
>>252 I loved the shade in this story! First time ever the Sun has preferred a brainy non famous brunette to a blonde famous airhead.
They also found the shade for this one - having had a pick of 2,000 photos of TS thinking "this beach is bullshit. The weather is bullshit. His mom is really boring and my mom is thinner and has a Louis Vuitton purse."
I go out for a massive bender and come home to MORE PAP STROLLS.
Oh stahp puleeze
Why does Tay Tay's face look like mine will in a few hours when I suddenly regret my recent life choices, am incapable of dealing with present trauma and stifling the need to vomit? At least I will have memories of a night of pure hedonistic joy and laughter, she looks like she sat on a pole and swivelled while making a mental shopping list.
She does look chunkier (shameless body shaming).
I can't quite comprehend why she would want to go through all this famewhoring, potential marriage and a life with a family that bores her to death for a Hiddlespawn conceived on a first fuck.
I'm also thinking of migrating to the datalounge TH is ghey board (in lurk mode 'cause they scare me)
>>261 If you do go over to datalounge, you have to come back here and tell us if they come up with anything noteworthy. A bunch of them think Tom slept with Kenneth Branagh.
>>262 Well, I saw an interview during his recent US promo tour in which the interviewer was talking about the importance of Branagh in his career and Tom's lip twitched visibly when Branagh's name was mentioned. It might just have been because he's aware of the rumour or because the rumour is true.
Well everyone, it's been hours (HOURS! I can hardly believe it!) since the last paparazzi photo essay about the Romance of the Century. Shall we start betting on what their next totally-not-staged appearance will be?
>>265 Are we sure they won't burst into flames if they try to walk through the door? Will they reserve a special pew for her bodyguards and paparazzi?
Yup! I was gonna say church too. And then brunch with the whole family including Tom's "brothers" and pics of Taylor playing with his niece. Or someone's kid. Expect perfect shots that look like movie stills. I really hope they don't drag someone's child, especially not his niece, into these thirsty pics. This is becoming so over the top. Why does Taylor Swift do this? I watched the Harry Styles and Kennedy kid romance unfold and it was more or less the same. Especially the Kennedy kid. But it wasn't this fast.
>>267 I think she did the "meet the families" thing after only a few weeks with Harry Styles, didn't she?
>>268 Yeah but no pictures. Just tabloids leaks about it. She got papped with Harry more towards the end of their relationship. Literally last month before the breakup.
Getting papped at this level, it was the Kennedy kid where almost every activity she did with him was papped including going to church with him and his family and then visiting his mom's grave who had committed suicide earlier that year. Even if the mom has passed away, Taylor will visit her. Shows commitment!
Small question, anyone else read the opinion dominion on tumblr? It seems to be gone now and I was wondering if something was said or if that just.. happens?
>>270 A bunch of fans reported her to tumblr staff for "invasion of privacy" or some nonsense and got her deleted because they didn't like what she was saying.
>>269 Thanks. I've never followed her too closely, but I do remember the Connor Kennedy relationship being pretty crazy. The paparazzi visit to the mom's grave annoyed me.
>>261 >>262 On datalounge they think he's ugly and fake; even though some of them love his body, they're a superficial lot. I lurk there, did a search on his name and there was no real new gossip, only threads regarding the Bond race. There were 2 or 3 old threads from the Coriolanus days that maxed out at 600 comments due to an influx of fans from LSA and CB who were blasted by the DL regulars. They don't like women there, no surprise, especially straight ones. So i continue to lurk.
>>270 I just discovered that site yesterday. Format-wise, it seemed no different than any other anon ask / reply site, plus she wasn't nasty to them like the bike.
>>271 That absolutely sucks, I liked that one. Though I'm not hip on where all the gossip or news comes from. I only knew about that one, THEO, and from theo -- here. Lol
Thanks for the info Anonsy. :)
>>264 At Wimbledon on Monday, maybe a glimpse today in London pulling into his gated driveway. No pap with his father.
Regarding The Opinion Dominion, I just remembered, a couple of hours before tumblr pulled it, she posted a very long submission from an anon about TS's history with the press - not just dating, celebrity feuds, problematic quotes, shady things she allegedly did. That's probably what broke it.
>>260 she does look bored and I love the Sun for the shade
>>277 The opening match features the reigning champion and is high profile - but bad tennis as they are usually playing some poor unseeded player whom they demolish. My guess would be the middle Saturday.
I guess church today - it's round the corner from the mother's house so a nice excuse for a stroll, ha ha. Possibly dinner at a local restaurant tonight then back to London on Monday.
I wonder if she will stay in a hotel - he didn't stay at hers, remember, and also the mancave is probably not up to her exacting standards. Or many women's exacting standards. This is a man who bought furniture along with the house.
This is a good one - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/could-tom-hiddlestons-bond-ambition-backfire/
A subtle "please calm down with your circus thank you you have the talent calm down this is embarrassing"
>>278 They probably will do church, won't they. I guess after you exploit your mother, exploiting Jesus is the next logical step.
I'm going to go with hotel, since he stayed in a hotel in NYC and Lizzie stayed in a hotel last summer when they were doing their thing. Besides, I don't think he has enough guest rooms for all her bodyguards and photographers.
>>278 The finals will be after Thor starts filming so I thought they might catch what they can when they can, starting this week. We'll have to wait and see.
Remember that look on Jarthy's face when she was leaving the G&W in those shots from a month ago? I wonder if he told her about Tay - JA looked like she was in shock. (just kidding)
>>279 If he knew he was still seriously in the running for Bond, would he still bave agreed to this high profile relationship? Someone said earlier in this thread that he probably found out he lost the role and said fuck it, I do what I want now.
>>282 Maybe they told him he lost the role because he wasn't high profile enough, and he snapped. "You want high profile? I'LL SHOW YOU HIGH PROFILE!!!"
>>279 I have no access to the article. It's subscribers only. :(
>>284 Don't worry their paywall is terrible. You get 5 free articles a week and then they try to block you. But if you clear your history or switch to a different device it should be fine.
That article in >>279 suggests the underwear pics helped his profile more than Hiddleswift paps; he should proceed with caution.
>>285 Hopefully mom spoke (or slapped) some sense into him / them. The dour looks on the beach aren't for nothing.
My capcha: exarth
>>284 Clear your history and it should let you access. I'm not a subscriber and I can access it. All in all though it's basically advising him to cool it with the Taylor circus and just keep doing what he was doing before career wise and stick to his previous philosophy of discretion because being a scandal or something else unsavory may come to light with all this extra high profile coverage.
>>285 where little hiddles his is ego or his PR, because they spent more time on planes and papstrolling than in bed.
Funny thing, this isn't even helping his self-esteem or in confidence.
He never used to have any problem at being photographed with his eyeglasses, now as soon as he is in public he is holding them in his hand. And he is smoking.
>>280 but I presume she is staying at his mother's house right now, are the bodyguards there as well?
>>291 I guess we can't really know, can we? Since the photographers have their scheduled photo ops, maybe after the first day they were told "no more pictures of Taylor and her people coming or going."
Someone on the DM Suffolk article commented that they saw Tom and Taylor on their way to see Lionel Richie at the Colchester stadium last night. I guess that's where the next pap shots might come from.
Also Glastonbury is happening. They might hit that. He's gone to it before during the JArthy era.
>>289 I created an account but it still ask for my credit card details. If I get 30 days free, why do they ask for my credit card details? I don't want to give them that information.
>>294 Lionel Richie in Colchester (not the sexiest city in the UK). If someone took me on this date I would dump them immediately.
>>296 I think they want to start billing you as soon as the 30 days is up, in the hope you will forget to cancel. It's easier to clear the history I think. PS you can surf as much as you like on an iPhone without hitting the paywall. They seem to have decided that they don't care about you squinting at a tiny screen for free.
>>297 this is was clearly his choice (are we sure he is 35 and not older?Lionel Richie!) as revenge for Selena Gomez.
"perfect cookie cutter leading men like Tom Cruise"
What?! Tom Cruise has no shoulders!