Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
A fawning publicist-written "article" from Gossip Cop, via Theoanons: http://www.gossipcop.com/taylor-swift-making-calvin-harris-jealous-tom-hiddleston-revenge-romance/
However it includes this: "As for the public pictures [in RI], that was the most efficient way of letting the public know Swift and Hiddleston are now dating. It was also easier for getting the message out than having to hide their new relatipnship, and be chased by papaprazzi until their romance was discovered."
So yeah, a backhanded admission that these were totally staged. Like we didn't know already. The not subsequently being chased by paparazzi didn't work so well.
>>401 Whenever I read anything on Gossip Cop, I end up rolling my eyes the entire time. They seem to me to always be either making their stories up as they go along, or relaying some bullshit handed to them by someone's team.
>>402 I totally agree. I think this is the line they are relaying via TS's team - they wouldn't otherwise make a claim that approached suggesting that the pics were staged. I think it's a case of TS's publicist being forced to admit this as everyone knows, and trying to spin it positively. We only did this to PREVENT press intrusion, guys.
>>401 lol that's great they let the public know but now that we're all well aware, what is the point of the daily pap strolls? Can't they just date and get to know each other and their friends and families quietly?
Taylor can obviously hold back pictures and videos because she held back an official MET pic of her and Tom dancing quite cozy and then the videos of Tom arriving at the after party in Taylor's car with her guards and then leaving with Taylor in her car. All this forced staged publicity of her and Tom out and about so happy enjoying such great family time is so unnecessarily extra eyeroll And they are going to be so extra at Wimbledon too.
Obviously the majority if not all these photos were staged- they were intentionally visible. Yes there's more paps around now but they have enough security to manage to stay out of the firing line. Wide open beach: 'Oh no, how could they intrude in this private moment.'
I can't believe there's idiot fans crying 'guys, give them privacy. That's all they want.'
It just occurred to me this is likely to last far beyond my reasonable tolerance for bs. We are talking about the actor who goes above and beyond duty to flog dead horses. He will enthusiastically promote and gush over projects that have completely tanked with his hopes and dreams lying in tatters at his feet. He can't let this mess go now. He'll play the perfect bf and go down with the sinking ship to the sound exploding fangirl hearts.
>>406 Agreed - but her face says that she might not! She seems to have no compunction about kicking her boyfriends to the kerb the minute they stop being satisfactory.
Comment on CB from someone who tried to track TS's private plane. You can't. It's made private by request of owner. The most that Swift"s fans can get is notification from plane spotters who see the tail number once it has landed - I bet there's a site where they go to post this stuff! But not in time for the paps to see unless they have been tipped off or are hanging around the airport on spec (unlikely).
Possible role in Much Ado, directed by Branagh: http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/kenneth-branagh-wallander-emmys-last-season-1201699558/
>>409 Branagh said something similar before didn't he? Either way it won't happen before 2017, possibly well into 2017, with the possibility he's also in the Infinity War films and Kong's promotion.
2 weeks ago this would have been more exciting...
http://www.look.co.uk/news/tom-hiddleston-taylor-swift-mum
Hahahha no wonder the sour faces:
'Tom's mum was very excited about Taylor coming to visit at the weekend', an insider told LOOK exclusively. 'But she had one rule - she said she was 100% putting them up in separate rooms!'
or maybe that's how they're trying to account for the sour faces in hindsight
>>412 hahaha I was also wondering is TS is clearing the table and helping out cooking.
>>413 I bet mum's testing them to see if their relationship has any depth beyond a sexual connection. Clever mum.
Can you imagine Tay trying to wash a dish.
Nothing new mentioned, but I did find it fairly humorous.
Side note - where does this 24 hour thing keep coming from? I know I've seen it before, they seem to have been in the UK quite a bit longer than 24 but it's still being mentioned.
>>415 it's like one of us wrote this article! Variety is not falling for their PR and is making fun. Ouch.
>>416 There is a bit of a sizzle isn't there? >.< Perhaps the chilly weather over there will cool the burn.
Variety is definitely NOT having it though.
>>414 I want to see Tay being made to cook lunch on the inevitable Aga. Even British women have failed this test.
>>418 I googled it, is it really that difficult to use?
>>419 They're a nightmare. They are on 24/7 and throw out a lot of heat which is why they are popular with people who live in big draughty farmhouses. They have 2 or more ovens but they are each at fixed temperatures, so they are very unresponsive. One low, one high etc. And the hot plates are the same - one low, one high. And if you use them too much the ovens start to cool down! They were designed in the 1930s and it shows.
>>420 Goodness, they ARE a nightmare! Why people still buy them?
>>421 They are the posh thing to have - and like I said, if you live in a big draughty old house in the countryside they keep the whole house warm. They also have a lifespan of 40 years so it's not uncommon to buy a Josue that has one in.
A house, even!
Aaaaaand today: they are in Italy: http://hiddleswifts.tumblr.com/post/146558926447/bronteford-just-a-day-at-the-colosseum-with-tay
Her jugs look enormous in this one. I wonder if she is up the duff. http://booksandcatslover.tumblr.com/post/146558772976/taytaylove13-taylor-and-tom-just-spotted-in
>>425 with all the drinking I'm still iffy, so I'd go with a padded bra or more flesh on her bones (I doubt she would have had the time for another plastic surgery).
>>425 I notice that she looks happy the fan took a photo he looks horrified, because he turned around at the last moment. Does TS have a radar for cameras?
someone joked on IMDB that this is the Hiddleswift tour but now it's really is beginning to feel like one. Next stop Paris! And a proposal there.
btw, the fact that they could leave the UK and land in Rome without any fuss once again confirms that the photos at the airport in England were tipped.
At least these aren't full blown pap pics this time. Or maybe those will be released later lol
They certainly are not there in incognito, I see staff from the Colosseum following them around.
Well, Taylor sure looks relieved to be away from Mama Hiddleston.
We are continuing the whistle stop tour of what is in their respective brains: her, "classy" swan pastries and Selena Gomez. Him: traditional England and classical culchah. I guess this is the bit where he tries to convince himself that her tiny peanut brain can embrace everything he most holds dear.
>>427 I said it before - she matches Amal Clooney in her ability to spot a camera from a mile away and mug for it. I saw a hilarious clip of Amal in court (!!!!) in Egypt doing exactly this. She was defending some poor journalist who had been imprisoned by the regime and all she could do was give the camera the full Princess Di.
PS do you think the bodyguards stand round the bed while they screw?
>>434 I totally do, probably they got a rest when they were at Mrs Hiddleston's because ToTay were in separate room.
>>435 Taylor probably has learned after being followed by paps for ?12 years.
Amal I suspect needed no encouragement. Before she met Clooney she was a completely unknown very junior barrister with distinctly average academics, and a few juicy cases on her CV in which she had been 5th junior (chair). When she got with him she hired a publicist (not a frequent accessory in legal London) and rewrote herself as an "internationally renowned human rights lawyer". (OT rant, but I am speaking absolutely first hand here).
>>437 Well, it might be OT but I for one I'm glad to hear it, I read a couple of posts about her at CB when they got married and I was mystified by why people would think she was internationally acclaimed when nobody had ever heard of her.
I know I said I don't think she'll ever marry him (he's not rich or A-list or youthful enough), but if the next stop is Venice, we might have to start to look for a new ring on her hand.
Lainey has a funny post, shading TH as is right and proper (sorry for the snark, but I think I'm reaching the point where I want to slap him as soon as I see his face)
http://www.laineygossip.com/Taylor-Swift-and-Tom-Hiddleston-in-England-to-meet-Toms-mother-and-family/44256?celebrityId=21222
>>438 The starting point is how many human rights lawyers can you name? Lawyers basically aren't world famous unless they happen to defend OJ or marry a movie star. Nor are they usually even internationally renowned within the profession. Their reputation will be within their own jurisdiction where they work (even human rights lawyers who appear in international courts will do the majority of their work in their own jurisdiction). So the internationally renowned stuff is bullshit right out of the gate.
The second part is that AC got a 2:1 from a not very good college in Oxford University, having spent her time driving around in the Jeep her parents bought her and hanging with the other trust fund kids. On that cv her now chambers Doughty Street wouldn't have given her the time of day.
So she went to NYC and started doing internships - commendable, but also only affordable to her because her parents are loaded. After a while she got a job in a NY firm, and started moving towards human rights law.
Fast forward to 2010 when she gave a talk at Doughty Street and the head of chambers was so immediately smitten he offered her an "extraordinary pupillage." Also known as a pupillage she didn't have to compete for on merit with all the other applicants, and, I hear, a major source of embarrassment to some at DS. It is a very right-on set and is meant to be all over the equality of opportunity stuff. She then got tenancy and did a bunch of cases where, as I said, she was the most junior of a team of barristers. They sound great on the cv but what they actually mean is that someone called DS and hired the QC and maybe the first junior, and then said "give us another 2 bodies". It says nothing about her reputation personally. She was not and still is not recommended in the legal directories as a leading practitioner in her field.
At that point she met GC and the rest, as they say, is history.
>>439 Not 100% convinced Lainey has looked at all the pics. He didn't look into it in the pics yesterday.
found this at CB
"@fiddlefaddle, I don’t know how they do it, but I’ve stumbled on a Swift blog that gets flight path data for Taylor’s jet from an anonymous submitter – they’ve been right every time so far and pegged the jet headed for Italy hours before the photos appeared. Someone is able to access the info."
I leave it those of you on tumblr to find this blog, so we can prepare properly for our next press tour stop.
So. No stop at his house in London (that we saw), no stop at Wimbledon, no trip to the Serpentine Summer Party, no Romeo and Juliet play with Kenneth Branagh in London, no dinners out in Mayfair? What does it all mean? Deliciously confused! Is this just a romantic whirlwind travel tour for fun? Or just a random choice? Is London to remain untarnished of this romance? And why would he endanger his family's personal privacy, but not his own personal space in the city? Blah?
Hopefully, the multiple drinking incidents indicate that she is not expecting. And TH already went to Rome with his college gf where it looked like a "Fellini film!" Weird. And why aren't they just off the grid on a private Greek island away from all of us? They've spent more time traveling and getting photos taken then getting to know each other. What does it all mean?
I feel like they're putting on a show. The more stuff comes out everyday, the less it looks like a genuine relationship to me. The way they pick very public spots, the way the paps are always there if it's a private or off the grid spot, the way the tabloids put out written pieces with the pics, it's all too manufactured and controlled. I don't know the point of it. Maybe to make Calvin jealous? Maybe to make herself look amazing? Maybe Tom thought it would up his image but he's just getting reamed everywhere.
>>442 I think he looked less than happy in yday's pics because he may have realized he's crossing a line and how unbalanced the family aspect between him and Taylor is. She didn't let her family get papped the way she let Tom's family. She's kept her family safe in her IG but his family who had been kept safe and away has now just been revealed to the entire world including where they live and everything. And his family doesn't have the round the clock security that Taylor can afford to give hers. That may be it. But now he's back to his happy form because the family part is over.
I just know that if I spent so much time in queue under the sun to enter the Colosseum just to be forced by her security to give them room, I'd be immensely pissed.
>>445 or maybe TS scolded him for his poor performance, I mean TH knew very well that bringing paps to his family would have meant full exposure in the UK.
And here she is again, mugging for the camera: http://ericajkatie.tumblr.com/post/146564552055/look-at-her
>>446 That death glare of hers from the family outing pics was her warning to get it together lol Tom strikes me as after the fact guy. He does it and then realizes with revulsion that it wasn't what he thought it was. Like ISTL.
>>440 I have it on very good authority that Cloony is gay (or at least very bi). He had young boys regularly visiting him in his holiday house before he was married. His relationships were all staged as a cover.
This public love tour is shameful. So many secluded and private places they could go and they choose the COLOSSEUM.
>>451 hahaha. I have heard (not directly but via someone who is mates with someone at Doughty Street) that the marriage is a purely business arrangement. I am guessing that you heard it from the other side via industry contacts. That tends to make me think it is totally true.
>>445 I don't think they're having sex yet. I think she's holding out and that's why he's working so hard to please. As opposed to the theory that they're both in the SEX honeymoon phase. Or else we'd never see them.
>>452 From 3 different industry contacts, one of whom used to be his chef. I'm waiting with bated breath for the TH goss now. He's never been important enough for anyone to gossip before. It's only a matter of time before tongues start to wag. I wouldn't be surprised if the story is similar after this ludicrous public charade.
>>453 I read she is saving herself for marriage, which is why so many relationships only last 3 months. Would also explain why she is able to move on so rapidly. Hard to explain to a virgin how much sex has the potential to deepen intimacy and love.
>>449 he looks so full of enthusiasm...
>>451,452 the business arrangement part isn't even so covert, a tarot reader would be able to tell that. The rest I have no trouble believing that either.
>>453 with all the time they are spending on a plane/car/Mrs. Hiddleston's and those photos completely deprived of any passion or lust, I'm seriously starting to think that might be the case.
>>456 you mean they have just been holding hands? Not even dry-humping? How did Calvin Harris resist for over a year?!
I don't buy her as a prude.
They are not sexed up enough to be a new couple so either this is all showmance (highly likely), they've been dating a lot longer than we are led to believe or they're both shit in bed
>>459 Bu he was on a different continent and she was on holiday with Calvin Harris in May. TH flew back to London right after the Wizard Convention. So I'd go with the other 2 or she is a prude, after all this is a girl who lives in her own fantasy world, when she started dating the Kennedy boy she also started dressing in as if she were in the '60s or something.
>>455 I heard he went everywhere with his Brazilian hairdresser. Such a shame he won't come out. It's not like it has harmed Ian McKellen's career (and Clooney could dream of a hit like X Men).
TH - I go back and forth on whether he is gay. My current theory is he isn't, but also that he isn't the one night stand horn dog that the bycycle would have us believe, and that there are long period when he doesn't get much. There was a long dry spell after SF (ended early 2012 I think), with not a hint of anything before JA in mid 2013. Then a dry spell while filming CP and she wasn't on hand. A brief interlude for BB and another dry spell filming HR (lots of fans on set and not a hint that she visited him, or that he shagged around). Then EO from ??October 14, but we know they were apart a lot more than they were together. I don't think he has been getting laid a lot - unlike say Chris Evans, who just reeks of sex and I bet has honed everything he can get his hands on.
>>461 I was always sure he was hetero, even in these days of doubts I still think so. I agree with you that he doesn't get much (that's useful for his current situation).
>>460 I can't see how they could have got together earlier than SI wrapped in Vietnam, which was - when? Middle of March? TS was vacationing with CH from the middle of March and telling everyone he was the one now it had been a year. Surely she was still genuinely with him at that point - and since we now know that a TS fan tracks her jet there was no chance of a secret trio to Oz or Vietnam.
Maybe they met while TH was doing the press tour from hell, but again he was accounted for during a lot of that time - doing ISTL press at every radio station in the Midwest.
>>459 How common are the showmances do you think? As an industry insider? I guess most non industry people think ti is such a weird idea that they think, well it must be true.
PS I don't mean lavender marriages - they I feel are not totally uncommon inside or outside the industry, and that people are more ready to believe that a woman might settle for companionship with a gay guy and/or that a gay man might want kids.
>>464 Exactly. At the best they may have started talking to each other when TH followed her back on twitter in March. But if we are speaking about a meeting in person, I think that happened the first time at Wintour's dinner.
PPS I think there is a real prospect that TH isn't great in bed - just a gut feeling I have that goes along with my dry spell theory and my uncool at college theory.
PPPS I thought the body language on the beach in RI was pretty juvenile (the koala hug). Isn't that the body language of a 20 year old man who hasn't managed to score the home run yet, but desperately wants to? If she's not a career virgin I bet she is holding out.
He gets to let go of her hand to tuck in his shirt - but that's it! https://www.instagram.com/p/BHK-2qmhiSM
These seem more professional in nature so maybe her people https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLANmYDBix/
>>456 I worked with a celeb in a lavender marriage last week. She loves her gay husband and he's a great father to her son. Seemed ideal. Most others I work with date normal people and they're really happy and find it grounding to have a partner who's not in the biz. The double celeb couples I have met are very private and keep to themselves. That's why I majorly side eye pap- whore double dating. It's Kardashian.
>>449 Oh Lord. I want this picture EVERYWHERE. I'm going to start a million blogs and this will be the only pic I ever post.
Where's the hand holding? Where's the gazing deep into her eyes? Where's the Latin love poetry?
Every set of pictures removes me more from believing in this shit show.
>>470 So what do you think this is? Double lavender? Single lavender? Heterosexual showmances? Or relationship with showmances benefits? So many options!
Why does she always looks so submissive with her boyfriends? She always has that expression of "oh I'm so fragile. I need daddy to take me by the hand and take care of me." The daddy being the boyfriend, of course. It's probably to make them feel good, but it's pretty stupid.
>>472 I've no idea. Obviously they're aggressively marketing whatever it is to cover/ smother something and for this level of whoring it must be something big.
>>471 I am in love with this picture. The stans on tumblr are going "but everyone checks their phone sometimes" - delusional. Having actually been on a crazy holiday with the love of my life to Venice 3 weeks into our relationship I can say that we didn't look like that, ever. We did a lot of sightseeing, we went to some great restaurants, and we spent a lot of time naked. When we were out and about and clothed, I recall snogging in restaurants while the waiters waited patiently to put down our food.
>>469 I think she's had breast augmentation. It's fine, I'm not slighting her for that. It's her money and her body. But if you look at the tight red crop top she wore to the concert - I can't see bra lines, strap or band. And it's pretty low, but no cup tops are visible. Maybe only TS can buy magical bras that make her look like she's gone from an A cup to a C cup, but I don't think that's the case.
>>476 I am guessing before the split with CH. they look more or less the same size here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3494330/Bikini-clad-Taylor-Swift-Calvin-Harris-share-passionate-kiss-romantic-beach-holiday-celebrating-one-year-together.html
Well. Now I see why the articles kept mentioning that it would be a very brief visit to England. I would ask how they knew, but fuck it. This is 100% "real" so I'll guess they have a freshly waxed crystal ball.
>>475 I think the next album may have a song about a guy who loves his phone more than his girlfriend. And if you think of it, they've travelled so much so that TS has a variety of locations in which to set the songs: the beach, Nashville, mom's house, Italy, the next stop.
>>477 I think people were speculating after. Say at some time after the Met ball. Here she is at the end of May.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that red crop top made her look braless and super busty.
And that was in middle March! She was so in love with Calvin, sharing photos of their love on social media and less than 2 months later she was already flirting with Tom.
I really can't understand this.
>>480 they look pretty much the same here to me: http://m.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/hollywood-taylor-swift-calvin-harris-breakup-332360?utm_source=https://www.google.co.uk/
>>481 She knew Calvin's contract was almost up and she needed to line up her next "boyfriend"?
For the second pic. http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/wendy-williams-accuses-taylor-swift-8297207
I understand pictures can be misleading. But it's ones like these that move me away from 'real relationship,' or at least from the sort of real relationship that requires you to 'meet the folks.' They should have just stopped after Nashville. I believed this was REAL attraction, lust, rebound - whatever - up until the pap-filled trip to the UK. I'm starting to think that the presence of his family isn't because it's true love or even because of her wacky relationship timeline. I'm starting to think it's just another selling point for this relationship. It must be real - I took her home to meet my mother.
I hate them more.
On the other hand, I love Tom Hiddleston's father like he's my second father. I'm sure they would have liked a trip to see daddy Hiddleston as well. I doubt TH even asked him, but I'd have liked to hear the reaction had he.
>>482 That's from 2015, isn't it? Most were suggesting May of this year.
>>485 she's with Calvin. They look fake because you can see he flying my saucer line round the inner edge. That's all I got.
>>484 Yesterday's pap stroll certainly revealed something. TH is not quite such a good actor as he thinks because his face was saying a lot he didn't intend it to in a lot of pictures. I think enough pics that we can say it wasn't for a split second. Her face staring at him over the car door also said a lot.
I lean towards it being a genuine thing that started to go sour at that moment. He's probably acted out that romantic beach walk in his head a dozen times. The reality is a GF wearing a bitch expression she learned from her cats, watched by every pap in Britain, with a side order of her security and the police.
One more random thought. Rome is in one sense the perfect second date. TH may be a shameless famewhore who has pimped out the entire distaff side of his family for a ride in a private jet, BUT he is also still a highly educated, cultured man with a genuine interest in art and literature. How will be enjoy a holiday in Rome with TS?
I went to Rome on honeymoon and I was therefore already fully committed, but I was made to go to the Forum for 4 hours to look at rocks and listen to stories about the rocks, of which there are a lot. Ther were times when I thought I wasn't going to make it, you know? Imagine his ability to drone on pompously combined with her lack of higher education and devotion to pop culture. I want to see both their faces while he is dragging her round the Capitoline Museums.
>>487 Since they're pushing such an aggressive fairytale narrative, them having an affair after meeting at MET could be true. It was all hot and sexy delicious fun until they went public and the manufactured story orchestration began. The whole thing could be losing its sheen for him now that he has to live this daily with her instead of fun stolen moments in an affair.
If Time magazine hates them, everyone hates them. http://time.com/4384106/taylor-swift-tom-hiddleston-photos-beach/
True love and grandkids! http://m.eonline.com/news/776108/taylor-swift-told-her-friends-she-thinks-she-s-in-love-with-tom-hiddleston
Should we get ready for a proposal in Paris? Eiffel Tower in the back?
>>488 Do you know the opposite of distaff? Do you?
Husband refused Rome as a honeymoon destination. We'd taken a trip there in 2013 and I had treated him to the same delights your husband offered you. He said not again. So we went to Bora Bora...NO, not really.
TH would probably start to bore your husband...she's got NO chance.
>>492 I like how they capitalize 'Her' in one of the sentences. That probably came right from the publicist.
It sounds like a romance summary typed by a monkey: He makes her feel safe, he is romantic and charming.
She's enjoying the 'quality time' they are having. Yeah, okay.
>>496 I laughed reading the line about how attentive he is after seeing that fan picture of him staring at his phone in the restaurant.
>>492 Also, nice use of the ONE pic from beach stroll #2 where he is actually smiling.
'Last minute trip'...with her security requirements. Again, yeah, okay.
I just tried to give them the Bennifer of the doubt and come up with an authentic storyline and failed.
How can you possibly explain 'TayTo so in love. So candid. So genuine.'