Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
The associate editor of Paper mag. They may have taken down the article but his tweets on them are comedy gold! I hope he tweets more!
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>>600 I don't think that's them. The woman has too much hair, and the man is too short and his calves are too muscular.
Also, here's some Michael K: http://dlisted.com/2016/06/28/woe-really-is-calvin-harris/
>>600 GASP! Actual one on one time? I thought she needed her bodyguards no matter what. They are reading our boards and all the comments across entertainment forums and boards. We should test them. Put up something that is ludicrous to the mind of an adult but absolutely appealing to a 15 yr old and see what pics come out next lol
>>602 I thought the same, but those Swifter accounts are so stanishly obsessed that I just figured they'd verified using their TS tracking satellite. You know they have one!
>>604 Hahaha, seriously. I just looked at it again and compared it with other pictures, and I'm positive it's not them. Even when she's wearing heels she's not that close to Tom's height. And that guy definitely isn't Tom.
>>605 The height thing is the only thing that doesn't click. She never goes above him in even her highest heels. Also I really don't believe she'd go anywhere with Tom without her bodyguards. I'm convinced she talks to them more than him and needs them around to fill in awkward gaps of silence whenever Tom goes off on a pretentious acting tangent.
>>606 Yes, and the woman looks to be wearing medium-height wedges at most. There was one photo from when they were visiting Tom's mother where I saw Taylor and thought, "oh, for once she's seeming natural and animated" and then I looked at who she was talking to and it was one of her bodyguards.
>>607 I know exactly which picture you're talking about. Based on her facial expression, I thought she was talking to the niece but nope, the little girl was in the back and it was the bodyguard. That one bodyguard of hers is really hot. I wonder if Tom gets insecure because of him...
Tom will be at SDCC btw. Will TayTay be there? Sitting next to him on the panel, holding his hand, fondling his neck and hair as she twists her arm into a pretzel? http://deadline.com/2016/06/tom-hiddleston-comiccon-kong-skull-island-warner-bros-legendary-1201780772/
They are being mocked so much. Apart from his and her stans, no one is in awe of this pairing. An agony aunt letter the Daily Mail cooked up for Tom http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3665020/Hiddy-s-cry-help-Tom-Hiddleston-s-romance-Taylor-Swift-moves-dizzying-speed-curiously-caught-camera-letter-private-star-send-agony-aunt.html
>>608 He must be sweating already. I wonder if Luke will put an embargo on all TayTo questions. Because if you've famewhored this much, why stop? Ask away, let's hear it from the horse's mouth how wonderful lighting speed true love is!
If there is an embargo - you know, for The Work to take center stage, TH will probably still be shitting a brick wondering what reporters, colleagues and fans will be thinking about him.
>>608 'He will return to the convention under another guise:' TS's boyfriend.
>>610 I'm still holding out hope that this will all be over by the time we get to Comic Con at the end of July. Please, God.
Or maybe that's just where he'll propose....
Or maybe that's just where he'll propose....
>>609 Jan Moir was the columnist who asked him to put his trousers back on. She seems to have a thing for TH...or at least she used to - common story really.
>>609 I'm okay with the public flogging. I want more. Much more. How else is he meant to learn? Did you play with fire? Did you get a 2nd degree burn? Lesson!
I'm going to make a great mother (sarcasm...shit...I need to start reading some books or something.).
>>610 There will be an embargo. Like how it was with Ben Affleck when he went to comic con during his very public cheating and divorce scandal. Maybe someone might try to sneak one in but I imagine it'll be shut down. I hope he shits bricks and sweats bullets through the whole thing though. I wanna see ripe pit stains because he's freaking out someone will ask him about her. I want her to be there too because omg Taylor at Comic Con. Can you imagine? Her fans all say she's a total geek need and a dork so she should fit right in.
>>615 Ah. She was very disappointed in him. Hey her disappointment is our entertainment. This TayTo wouldn't be as much fun without the daily floggings lol
>>612 You and me both. It's beyond cringe embarrassing now. But at the same time, I'm really enjoying the public reaming. Here's hoping the breakup will bring its own series of snark and drag.
>>619 Deepest apologies, sometimes my jaded knows no bounds. And the lovely couple does seem to enjoy the spectacle of it all.
http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/06/28/taylor-swift-tom-hiddleston-soulmates-dating/
Realising they had to come up with something unique in this pairing, welcome to 'soulmates'. When being in love and meeting the parents within 3 weeks just isn't enough...
It seems they have finally taken note of public demand and flown that helicopter to obscurity. Please, for all our sakes, stay there and don't post any photos.
Also 620 posts in less than a week. EPIC
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHOQoywght0/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHOQntpA4mo/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHOQZEdg8Wx/
Baby Jesus sees you in his house. He is not amused.
Captcha: pussice. WTF?
>>620 LOL. I hope they have fun wherever they've run off to, and give us a day of rest.
Hey, before they left, they went to Vatican City. Conda is making an appearance, and the Lady looks entranced. Or bored. I can't tell.
Anon. jinx!
>>621 Hollywood Life is such clickbait nonsense, but not as laughable as this line: They both feel like they have known each other for a hundred years.
>>621 You think? Just when I think they're going to call it a day and go to ground...up they pop like PR hungry whack-a-moles.
Spoke to soon. They are never leaving the public eye. It's like a Dorian Gray scenario where the mirror is the media
Soulmates. Alright. I've reached my limit with this fanfiction. Anything from now on is overkill. I know I know, it's all overkill but soulmates in 3 weeks is laaaammmeeee! I wonder what kind of influence this romance is having on Taylor's younger audience? Those poor young girls are getting such a warped view of what love and relationships are all about.
Are paparazzi not allowed inside the Vatican? Or will we see these released in about 4 hours from now in all these romantic whimsical glory because fan pics just can't capture their larger than life true love? God it's just so extra...
Tomorrow will be two weeks since their Big Debut. Can you believe it? Two weeks already, and they've only been photographed 3,019,224 times!
>>628 The number of photographs exceed the hours they've actually been together. Watch them celebrate their two week anniversary like they're 12. I wonder what Tom will gift her. Another gas station cup of stale coffee? So romantic!
https://twitter.
com/Atencio/status/748004775128612865
Ah, the public burning at the stake by the industry begins
>>630 Well with increased visibility through a stunt like this and all, it's not a surprise. Hope Mr. Hiddleston has thick skin. I was reading fans on tumblr making plans that at SDCC they'll ask all questions to Brie and other costars and completely ignore Tom, as in you want attention you're not getting any.
People are out to hurt...
we love you Jan Moir (words I thought I'd never say!).
I've seen too many paparazzi pics of Tom Hiddleston (ditto!).
>>621 "She (Taylor) texted her close friends and said, ‘I think I am in love and I never felt this way before!'” Was it sent to everyone in her address book? Did any of you get one? Am I being excluded?
PS I followed the Opinion Dominion when I saw it was back up. I will support any blog that TayTay's stans try to have shut down, in my present mood.
>>632 I know, it's a weird feeling, isn't it? It used to be such a treat when there was a new photo or a sighting, but now he's just everywhere, being Mister Fakey-Face PR Boyfriend. I tried to avoid it for a few days but it's impossible. You can't even look at normal respectable grown-up news publications without seeing it.
I love the Vatican pics. TS is wearing exactly the expression she was wearing in the first round of Aldeburgh beach pics when she is not aware she is being photographed - totally bored but trying to look intent and interested for the BF.
>>635 She has to at least try to look interested... after all, you never know when a fan with an Instagram account is nearby!
Lots more info in this article as her publicist continues in super overdrive mode. Apparently their bodyguard had problems at the barrier at the Colosseum as he was armed (what? Is that even legal in Europe?), and they are staying in a suite at the Hotel de Russie (I hate them). She is really pushing the boat out on this one, isn't she? http://www.people.com/people/mobile/article/0,,21015339,00.html
>>637 Wonder if she's making Tom sleep in the optional adjoining bedroom. It would explain his grumpy face.
>>637 BTW if the bodyguard was carrying a concealed weapon in the UK (which I bet he was as he could have got it into the UK on her plane) he was almost certainly breaking the law. Unless he had a shotgun down his trouser leg, it must have been a handgun, and it is illegal to own handguns in the UK. You also need a licence to carry a concealed weapon which I would guess he didn't have. Maybe y'all will laugh at me with your constitutional right to bear arms, but I disapprove of this more than anything I have read so far.
>>639 No laughs from me. If you're in another country, you respect that country's law. That's my opinion. Handguns illegal in the UK? Leave it home.
>>637 What a hit for <TH, that it's her fans who are gathered not his.
>>639 I think the same it's true in Italy, as in most European countries really, gun possession requires a licence (you need to pass an exam) and you need to tell the authority what kind of weapon you own. I don't know if the law is different for bodyguards though.
>>640 It's pointless anyway because if you kill or injure someone with an illegal weapon you will be the one who ends up in serious trouble.
There is no exemption in the UK for bodyguards. It would make the legislation pointless especially as private bodyguards are unregulated. I bet it's the same in Italy.
It's pathetic. Even the police in the UK are unarmed. What makes her a special snowflake?
Compare this Mirror article with the one at >>590. TS publicist got to them! https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/taylor-swift-tom-hiddleston-completely-8306045.amp?client=safari#
>>644 My favorite part is how the comments from their "sources" are literally just descriptions of the paparazzi photos.
I don't get it. Does she really need security, so much security?
>>646 I think she travels with more security than President Obama. So no, I highly doubt it. The entourage of bodyguards is part of the Spectacle.
Also, here's this rumor popping up again:
http://pagesix.com/2016/06/28/tom-hiddleston-might-be-using-taylor-swift-to-land-bond-role/
Calvin isn't taking this lying down. Are these the same as TMZ has or new? I don't know but enjoy the fako-fako pic of Taytay sitting on an inflatable swan with her toes pointed.
Also: would you rather be with TH in Rome or with CH on the yacht? I have always thought CH was a prize tit but I am thinking yacht parteeee at this point.
>>648 Oh give me the yacht with prize tits any day over a snooze cruise of major tourist sights!
I'm the kinda gal that travelled for 4yrs straight taking up every exciting last minute opportunity on the way. The sort of adventures people write novels about. I hardly saw any tourist sights but the experiences and friendships made along the way were incomparable.
These two seem to have had all the passion, spontaneity and joie de vivre sucked out of them and what remains is like watching a couple of mouldy peaches slowly roll downhill. THE THINGS I WOULD DO IN THEIR SITUATION!
>>609 Thing is in this article she makes it sound like TH is a poor victim of TS, instead he is a more than willing participant, because TS is being TS and she's not pointing any gun at his head, all his choices are his own. In fact I would say that while I get US media not falling for her usual routine, it is her usual routine. TH is the one that deserves all the snark for going along with press tour.
>>646 I'd say yes and no. She does need security, because very often pop idols have obsessive fans and very often it ends in tragedy, if I were her I'd also have bodyguards around.
However, while she didn't upped her security coming to Europe, it seems to be the same as in the US, it is too much, especially the guns. No pickpocket would ever approach her with those bodyguards and like Anon said the use of guns by her bodyguards would cause more problem to the bodyguards than the perpetrator.
https://www.the-pool.com/people/women-we-love/2016/26/marisa-bate-on-taylor-swift-and-tom-hiddleston
'my endorsement of Hiddleswift is akin to the Leave campaign pledging £350m a week to the NHS – it’s simply not true. No matter how much I hope it to be. I can’t, and won’t, get on board here – even as an ardent Tay loyalist, who stood by her through those holiday pictures, that Vogue interview, the time she took a Vogue photographer to her best friend’s wedding, her Victoria Secret’s appearance. ...
for the first time the mirage has cracked for me, I’ve seen behind the veil. I can – or I am allowing myself – to hear the whir of the PR machine.'
>>652 It never occurred to me that 30 years old women based their "moral, emotional and psychological philosophising" on TS's songs.
Since we still don't know where the Totay-Whirlwind-Tour will bring us, I remembered that TH once said in an interview that if he had the money he would have enjoyed cruising the Greek Islands.
>>653 I know some surprising Swifties in that agegroup. The normcore's embraced her a few years ago and suddenly she was being played at parties with no irony.
It is fascinating that the older Swifties are feeling duped much like the older Stoners.
Tumblr Swifties tracking her plane are saying it took off from Italy a couple of hours ago and it's headed towards Ireland, but not necessarily to stop there. (Who knows, maybe they'll stop in Paris.) More likely is that she's / they're headed back to Rhode Island where she throws an annual 4th of July party (this year on Saturday July 2nd).
New article about the romance. So much backtracking on timelines. So many dubious quotes from friends.
>>656 RI seems more likely if they are headed to Ireland to refuel.
So no Florence, no Venice. I should have expected that, when you visit the Vatican and instead of having a Stendhal Syndrome you look like they are draining life out of your body, clearly you want to go back to a life of inflatable slides.
>>658 Lol. I'm dreading any pics of him at her party.
I read this at theoanons, the brand for TS's purse in Italy was Elizabeth&James, that's the brand named after EO by the twins.
Jesus Mary and Joseph he got off lightly in the W Magazine spread.
Here is Sarah Paulson NSFW!!!
There's another anxious in pants photo of a man described as "Taylor Swift's latest paramour": http://www.wmagazine.com/people/celebrities/2016/06/hottest-tv-stars-tom-hiddleston-sarah-paulson/photos/slide/5
>>662 Not really, that particular photo of Sarah Paulson kinds of makes sense, and everyone else's photos are normal, Anthony MacKie, Damien Lewis, very normal photos. TH's were just plain ridiculous, especially the one with his legs open.
>>657 I LOVE this!!
1) TS is the kind of bee-yach who only starts texting her friends again once she breaks up with the last man.
2) The RI pap encounter "was the result of a very successful first date" - in RI!!! "He went up to her house in RI and the financial incentive to date her just bloomed pretty instantly" (I might have misquoted slightly there)
3) TS and Calvin "were already talking about breaking up." Ok.
4) "They were together all night [of the Met Gala]". Bit of a Freudian slip there, I think.
5) Even if all this is true Tom is still that creepy guy who calls you the day you break up with someone else.
6) I am never going on holiday to RI. That swan pastry looked shit and the joint closed at 9pm.
7) Nashville is "more private". Oh rly?
8) "They aren't boyfriend and girlfriend yet. but they're seeing each other". What the actual FUCK? Then what exactly have we been sold these last 2 weeks? I thought he was the One. Does TS mean by this, "the one who is boning me at the present nanosecond"
9) [tin hat on] Or is this last sentence confirmation that this is an extended summer shag with publicity benefits which NOBODY expects to go further?
>>664 10) [tin hat on] Or like we said earlier in the thread, they haven't had sex yet (which would be a waste of hotel rooms and jet fuel) but the PR is the sexiest thing of this Whirwind-Totay-Tour
From CB "So her plane has been tracked. They have left Rome. Plane made a stop for couple hours at London Luton Airport and now is enroute over Atlantic back to USA. So we’ll know soon if she dropped him off in London and returning alone to USA for 4th of July weekend or if he is still with her. Either way I’m sure the saga and snark will continue."
(I wish someone would post the damn link to the damn tumblr that posts this)
>>664 I think your no9 is interesting indeed, the narrative for what they're doing is all over the place. From the one and soulmates to not even dating.
No matter how you slice it, it's weird AF though. Who brings a fling home to the parents?
>>666 I'll dig for it, Couch. The message I posted in >>656 was reporting what they saw somewhere else on tumblr without mentioning the actual tumblr.
>>664 8) "They aren't boyfriend and girlfriend yet. but they're seeing each other" Labels aside, why post something so ambiguous? There's a time and place for leaving people guessing in PR-land, but this isn't it if they want to sell a romance hook-line-and-sinker.
>>666 haha sorry I wasn't referring to you of course, but the poster at CB, it's the second or third time I see someone there writing about a tumblr blog that has an insider that always tips them off on the plane whereabouts.
that was for >>668
>>665 Someone on tumblr had posted their take on TayTo earlier when this had all first started and she'd said they're not headed towards wedded bliss at all but they will do everything to make you think they are. The whole post was a good observation of how being in the spotlight right now with this public romance is benefitting both their images right now albeit that Tom's didn't really go as envisioned. And now after reading that US Weekly's "we're not together but we're seeing each other" response, I'm not gonna be surprised if she shows up to RI alone and Tom is seen in London alone followed by statements in tabloids that they had a good time but it wasn't the right time and that they continue to be friends and respect each other. I also won't be surprised if this is the last we see of Tom and Taylor together.
Setting the stage for the last act - The Breakup perhaps? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3663969/Relationship-expert-reveals-s-FAR-early-Tom-Hiddleston-introducing-Taylor-Swift-family-doom-relationship-like-did-Harry-Styles.html
We started out with body language experts who indicated tenderness and sincerity and long term potential. And now we have relationship experts predicting doom.
eyeroll
>>671 An early break-up won't improve TH's situation though (not that I think TS cares about his situation).
I think if that's going to happen they'll wait at least until August, when we'll get a long interview with TS on Vogue where she'll say that it was a whirlwind romance, but they both prioritize their careers and that inevitably the distance and the wrong moment (read: age gap) made it impossible for it to become anything more. But she'll always treasure this memorable experience, that enriched her as a person and allowed her to better understand what she wants from a relationship. She has nothing but affection for TH. The End.
They should hire me as PR.
>>673 Nothing will really improve his situation tbh It could worsen like how we're seeing him go from laughingstock to opportunist.
You forgot to add in the part about how she'll say this summer romance and double breakup with Calvin and then Tom have made her realize just how vulnerable being in love is and how it's really inspired her to get back into the studio and watch this space for new album release lol
>>673 I think you're right. He wouldn't have risked his reputation for something that would end so soon. It'll be another couple of months yet at least.
Or
WEDDING
I think this is an extended shagathon that both of them needed for various emotional reasons quite aside from publicity (read: rebound sex). I don't think TH was thinking straight or gave a crap about his reputation, or thought for 2 seconds about whether it was good for the relationship to go public on day 1. I think she was calculating as ever about using the relationship to row the career along, and said this is what we do about "getting it out there" - so he said yes. And he has been going back and forth about the advisability of that ever since, so some days: ThirstyMum!photos; and others: AngryTenseJawTom!photos.
Ok I am calling it - today will be our first pap or anecdote-free day (I don't recall pics on Swan Pastry day). Strangely the same day as they say they are not BF a and GF, despite having given the world that idea for the last fortnight. Is this the beginning of the climb down?
>>678 if as it seems they are headed back to NY or RI yes, we might have a day free of photos (somehow I think that if TH were back home in London someone would have spotted him)
If it was never going to last, it might also end just before SDCC, to avoid questions from journalists.
>>679 I reckon so. I think we will have a day off, but after that she will not be able to resist showing him off in RI or NYC now she has escaped from Rome and all those ghastly museums. Then I think it is a slide down to July 4 party and after that he will head off to Australia.
Here's the flipped image from W (why did they reverse it - makes his face look odd). I had missed the rather obvious cock outline: http://twh-news.tumblr.com/post/146655216891/some-more-tom-hiddleston-for-w-magazine-by-mona
Now these 2 I can totally buy that they are shagging, they actually feel happy to be together and who cares about the paps.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3665840/Jude-Law-43-t-eyes-gorgeous-girlfriend-Phillipa-Coan-30-soak-romance-Rome.html
Video from the Colosseum visit http://bananaofswift.tumblr.com/post/146664503250/taylor-and-tom-in-rome-062816
>>666 Trying to wade through TS's teen fanbase to look for the 'source' is exhausting. Jeez.
>>683 They seem happy and in love and normal. I also like how he totally owns his shortness and doesn't care she has heels on - I met him in a burger joint once and he was no taller than 5'6". He was with his kids and he was very sweet with them, and also very hot!
>>685 I had a look with tags like "Taylor Swift jet" and got nowhere. I imagine this is because the blog is aware that the source is doing something deeply illegal!
[whispers] I still want to know though!!
I just saw on theoanons a pic of EO really looking, as the blog put it, like she dodged a bullet. I still don't see the attraction that she had for TH (save I suppose that we know he likes much younger blondes who aren't readers and who have just broken up with someone, ha ha).
But I do feel guilty for jumping to the conclusion that she was the thirsty one. Everyone, but everyone, in the fandom assumed she leaked to US Weekly, that she was primarily responsible for the pap stroll and that she was full of it when she said she hated the paps, wouldn't buy a house in LA because they were so bad etc. I feel bad! TH really did a number on us and it may very well be that he wanted the publicity and she didn't. As Anon. said a while ago I am rally beginning to believe that TH and TS are perfect for each other in the sense that there is a special place in famewhore hell for them both.
It might be one of those secret password tumblrs that only the most hardcore of the Swifties have the password too. To hide the illegal activities. Or it's a secret blog because it's run by the interns from Taylor's PR team and they don't want anyone figuring it out lol
>>686 That's nice to hear, I read that he also had some personal problems in the past.
>>688 I do not, because I don't think it was the same situation. The PR leaks weren't very positive for TH after Hawaii and USWeekly was the mag with the exclusive about her engagement, plus her behaviour on papnight was rather strange. TH's PR stunt now doesn't change that. I think that EO, like JA before her tried to go public and TH not wanting a stable relationship stopped that. I think that's the reason why EO at TIFF flat out denied their relationship and gave him the cold shoulder. When he still wouldn't commit after Hawaii, we had articles dragging him (he was fooling with extras on set I think it said).
But I'm glad she decided he wasn't worth it.
Speaking of TH's ex gf, Susannah next year will be on American television with a tvshow whose name I don't remember, and I'm very happy for her.
>>688 I wouldn't feel too bad Anon. Olsen has her own games she plays with the paps and the media. It's not at insane control levels as Taylor but she's not averse to getting papped and leaking certain things when it fits her agenda. TH's thirst wasn't part of Olsen's game plan for what she's aiming for. And getting pegged as a cheater wasn't worth the effort when the movie was DOA and admitting a relationship publicly who's origins were shady when her ex had admitted how her breakup happened wouldn't have done Olsen any favors.
Taylor and Tom, he's the real thirsty one and Taylor is taking advantage of that for her benefit right now. He's the main joke and she's just Taylor being Taylor. Her tight control over her image and loyal to a fault fanbase makes it easy for her ride out the cheating whispers especially since her ex took the fall for dumping her. She's built a perfect victim identity and it's much easier for her to shake off any unsavory allegations or what have you thrown her way. She'll toss aside Tom once she's done with him. He's just a pawn to her.
It's all a game. Some play it with more subtlety and finesse whereas others prefer to do it out loud like Taylor and make it seem like it's all organic when it really isn't.
>>693 also true
>>692 The show's called 'The Great Indoors' - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5485566/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1
Also, all of Susannah's pictures are taken down from her IMDB page, save one group photo with the cast members of the new show. She's 3rd from the left.
As is beanup's page (devoid of pics)
>>666 Hmmm. A small plane like that needs to refuel before going back over the Atlantic - I did it once on a chartered NATO flight, Bern to Cork to Nov Scotia. But I guess refueling in London works as well as in Ireland.
>>671 I don't think the stop in London was TayTay dropping him off. He's on that plane. He's going to that 4th of July party...they are going to ruin Independence Day for me. He is IN this to WIN...whatever 'winning' entails.
>>682 Urgh. Why? Why? So many people in their right minds would have looked at these/ heard the concept and said 'fuck no.' Why did they say yes? Why?
And I don't buy people saying that these pics are colored by the TayTo fiasco, i.d., we would have be salivating over them if there'd been no TayTo. No. No. The Tayto fiasco is its own separate fiasco. These pics are shit irrespective of TayTo. I actually cringe when I see them.
>>698 They are independently awful irrespective of TayTo. He looks so sad and uncomfortable. He has such a great body but he is standing there like a little boy who has been bullied on his first day at boarding school (he probably was! W Mag has given him PTSD!). Even the Hiddleconda doesn't look its usual jaunty self.
