Thread to talk about actor Tom Hiddleston.
Th only thing I can think is it happened at around the time he started following her on Twitter - but that doesn't work as he was still in Vietnam.
I think it actually was at the Met Gala. She was still with CH then, even if there had been trouble in paradise that nobody knew of - so a one night stand allegation would have hurt her. And the perfect Disney prince. She then went on a Caribbean holiday with CH in May - hence the sneaking away while in a hotel lyric. Possibly she went because she wanted to try to make it work with him after the one night stand.
It could've all been emotional infidelity. The lyrics say how she calls to say she's in hell. You know she can hide her meeting up with Tom easily. She sat on that cozy MET pic until June 15 so she can keep incriminating stuff quiet. I'm sure the tabloids will start piecing it altogether for us now. I'm waiting for some shady cheating pics to come out. Maybe the Sun has them since they got the RI beach date exclusive.
Unless, unless... (puts on tinfoil hat) they first met in Nashville when he was filming ISTL and made a connection then and were texting etc?
Crazy I know, but nothing would surprise me anymore.
Or maybe were introduced through Rodney when he was doing ISTL promo? Hmmmmmmmm.
>>501 yes, it's the only explanation.
However, I don't get how he could have been so stupid to think that a rumour of a ONS would have been more difficult to present to the public (we all assume he has sex!). This fake/forced relationship destroyed everything for him and now the ONS will look even worse.
John Newman’s Latest Calvin Harris Collab Is Called “Olé” & It’s Out This Week
http://www.idolator.com/7639178/calvin-harris-john-newman-ole-new-song
You know if it was emotional infidelity, that would explain their awkward body language and their terrible kisses and the off aim and target. Like >>495 said the MET dance off could have been a PR test to see how the public would respond to the two of them together.
I don't think they'd take such a risk for a one night stand. The one night stand could've been easily buried. The Sun probably had proof of their long standing infidelity. That would damage their images way more than a one night stand.
I've never followed TSs movements but I'm sure if some Swifties did a timeline of her locations this year there would be many crossovers.
>>503 There's the Rodney connection and of course the granddaughter connection (perhaps that lunch was a reunion as opposed to a meet my new gf lunch- it was a strange choice of double date).
No wonder they pap strolled LAX. She once again has succeeded in flooding the media with inane articles about their twinsie love
I hope the media drag out some evidence but I doubt they will be able to overturn any. That Swift machine is thorough.
I am expecting a pap stroll to coincide with the singles' release
>>506 There's no way Calvin would write a cheating song about emotional infidelity so that leaves us with a ons at the Met or a longer connection. Considering the pace at which this has been moving and the degree of try- hard to paint them vanilla I'm placing my bet on a longer infidelity
>>503 >>507 That could've happened. Oh the possibilities!
I don't think her pap stroll flooding is going to work anymore. The press is getting sick of the monopoly on the pap pics and the public is erring bored of these two and their teeny bopper love. This is a much juicier story. One where paps will be descending like a storm upon the Thor set to hound Tom and they'll be after Taylor. She can't just call her favorite paps anymore and expect pretty shots. We're going to see some serious unwanted paparazzi action go down. Now I wonder how Marvel will feel about unwanted paparazzi hanging about their sets.
Oh TS, didn't EO allegedly chase after TH to an island while he was working, after she broke up with her fiancé to see him, only just last summer. TS has a lot more power that TH, and she's set up this "relationship", but I still see this whole thing unraveling due to how this couple got together. TH looks pretty stressed in the face. TS seems like she's on cruise control. Maybe this is why Ryan had that weird face on the couple's porch photo.
>>508 It's definitely longer. Because something must have made Tom and Taylor confidently believe their couple would be met with adoration and that's why they did their overdrive world tour. The MET dance off could've definitely been a test to gauge how the public would react to Tom and Taylor together, and it was a positive reaction. Yet when the actual unveiling happened, it wasn't the same reaction at all and just got worse and worse.
Yep, I'm definitely feeling now like the Met was a 'test the waters' type thing. If they've been emotionally connected for a while before that, then this sudden love-fest makes much more sense, if they've been a couple, even if not yet physically, for a good while before the pap pics came out.
Well we all knew there was a scandal behind this aggressive, out of character, absurd and incomplete fairytale romance. It all makes sense now. Except for the inability to convincingly connect as lovers in the photos.... what's with that guys?
All I've got to say is: earn that money, Luke! Earn that money, Tree.
This is so good, I don't even know what we all did to deserve this level of awesome.
I was laughing so hard when I read the first posts that my husband told me to stop because he was worried about the little zygot getting whiplash. Which I don't think can actually happen - he's got a medical degree and can make shit up to frighten me into line.
http://www.wetpaint.com/diplo-taylor-swift-brief-history-feud-1378503/
Dj Diplo on Swift:
“She has like 40 million Twitter fans," he continued. "Forty million! Yeah. It's crazy. I'm a fan though. Her powers — she's big. She's strong, bro. Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And she's definitely, there's definitely scary stuff going on. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life."
>>506 I said one night stand. I meant that in the sense that they might have felt a connection and slept together in the night of the Met Gala. I'd call that a ONS rather than an affair because it's a spur of the moment, possibly one off thing. But I kind of assumed that afterwards she was on the one hand not ending the relationship with CH but on the other hand not cutting all ties with TH and texting him or something. Then it develops into something more and she dumps CH - worth the PR rollout to hide its murky origins.
I'm not expressing myself well here!
>>518 Harris must have known though, I think once he saw the Met video he knew what she was going to do, even if they went on holiday together.
Well I guess all our tin hats were in order. Way to go, team 'What the hell is this shit, I'm not taking anything at face value!' You all sniffed bullshit and weren't exactly buying what they were selling.
Strange that any goodwill they might have had in this situation, with the media and certain segments of their fan bases, was slashed and burned by their manipulation of the media in order to cover up this very situation. Maybe Tom is teaching her about irony!
Now, I'm off to buy a Calvin Harris download! Never thought I'd say that!
Also, Team Calvin for giving these two idiots a box about the ears. Even if it doesn't get traction, he didn't take it lying down!
Do they have to go The Full Bragelina to make it out with some shred of dignity, goodwill, etc - if the cheating story takes hold? Are we talking kids, adoptions, etc. It's not the same situation, TS and CH weren't married, and TH is no Angelina Jolie, but this is the closest parallel I can think of.
And are they capable of going the full Brangelina? Are they that suited to one another to make a long haul of it?
>>523 TS I don't know nor care, I think her fans are obsessive enough to sustain her even through a scandal.
If TH want to salvage anything at all, he'd call quits now, because a cheating means that there was never anything true to this, that he behaved like a coward - the nannies will either try to say that it's not like it was fake, but that TH tried to see if they could be a couple. That or they'll blame it all on TS.
>>523 I think they're giving it a go but both Brad and Angelina had a solid history of long term relationships. It will be a miracle for one of TayTo, let alone both, to go the distance. I can't imagine making to 26 with 15months being the milestone of your longest relationship (and most of that was apart). No wonder she's so desperate for love. If TH can suppress his ego, his 'it's all about the werk', his lone ranger and what looks to be a bit of a temper and she can stop clinging tenaciously to his buttox then perhaps we have a winner.
A quick glance a twitter tells me TS has bought the media. It is flooded with hyperbolic inane articles declaring their true love. The fail and a few other publications have picked up the cheating story but it's not visible amongst the diatribe.
We'll see come the release on Friday but my bet is she will pull another Swiftie: Pregnancy/ Engagement
On a bit of a tangent but I was thinking earlier about them being on a double date with Gigi and Zayn. I mean, WTAF would they talk about. Thomas William Hiddleston and Zayn ex of 1D. Mind boggling and I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry thinking about it.
Was this posted? If so sorry.
"Tom is already tired of Taylor’s PDA photos"
http://pagesix.com/2016/07/06/tom-is-already-tired-of-taylors-pda-photos/
3 hours?!
>>526 Have patience! This is precisely the story the media has been looking for to make sense of Hiddleswift. They'll find it. Especially if the DM has it already.
>>528 The video suggested they spent about 2 minutes in the water, then she frogmarched them back to the house. I did like the detail about him sneaking off for a beer, though!
Nice detail from a CB comment - he only put his arm on TS at LAX after someone shouted was the relationship was faked.
>>529 Ta daa. It has hit the broadsheets in the UK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/calvin-harris-to-release-song-about-taylor-swift-cheating/
In the Fail too. (Not a broadsheet, granted)
The Guardian! 4th article, right?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2016/jul/07/hiddleswift-hoax-taylor-swift-tom-hiddleston?CMP=twt_gu
>>533 Yep! This just became more interesting. I'm over my strop from this morning and am gleefully awaiting the next update.
And the thing Taylor most wants us to know about the last few weeks is: she absotively posilutely did not get a boob job. Ok.
He's loving the attention.
Both the Telegraph and the Guardian.
I'm laughing at the Swifties saying how Calvin needs to let it go already. But it's all applause for Taylor Swift who writes album after album lambasting her exes. They're actually saying she would never do something this tacky. She puts the exes initials next to the lyrics in the albums and talks about the exes in her interviews.
You think they're going to do an engagement now to try to bury the cheating allegations once Calvin's track comes out? It comes out tomm. Will they do the whole "he proposed to me on the plane!" I wouldn't be surprised at this rate but it'd be terribly obvious and no one will buy it.
>>539 I would not blink an eye now at a quickie wedding on a tropical island somewhere down under. Chris H's kids as flowergirls / page boys. "We realised it was true love and didn't want to wait to begin our lives together" style storyline.
>>540 I don't think even TH is famewhorey enough for an actual quickie wedding. He may be in the truest love that's ever been (you just know that's how he thinks about love) but I believe his parents' divorce screwed him up enough that he wouldn't get married after only 2ish months of starting a relationship - even if it was the greatest love that had ever been.
Would he get engaged? Yes. Real or fake engagement? Doesn't matter - he'd do it either way. If he's willing to put that t-shirt on, he's willing to put a ring on her.
How did we get here?
From the latest Dlisted article: 'I've heard (from commenters here, mostly) that he's incredibly impulsive and has a habit of doing things, PR wise, that are incredibly stupid and which his people have to dig him out of.'
Truer words have never been typed. Until now it's been silly, cringey impulsive acts. And they've been isolated. Now they're no longer isolated but very well publicized. And they've grown in size.
http://dlisted.com/2016/07/07/taylor-swift-and-tom-hiddleston-get-matchy-matchy-at-lax/#more-222977
Didn't Chris Hemsworth and his wife get married within a week of meeting in a down under private ceremony? And now Tom and Taylor will be hanging out with them. Combined with what >>542 has said about his impulsive actions, he just may go ahead and do something really hasty and dumb. HOWEVER, I don't think Taylor's parents will be okay with it. They'll put a stop to the wedding because their daughter is 15 yrs old mentally and is worth $280 mil.
>>543 I don't know if it was a week, but it was quickly. That I put down to CH not being the sharpest tool in the shed, and EP being a very focused woman. She did, after all, manage to get Brody to buy her a castle.
Laughing at the 15-year-old with a quarter mil in the bank!!
What her parents must think! I know that parents often have rose colored glasses when it comes to their children, but they must just roll their eyes sometimes when she brings home the next 'The One.'
Elsa was also pregnant when she and CH tied the knot, btw. And TS definitely had wine in her had wind in her glass while she was doing the sing along with Ed Sheeran at the party, so no worries there, hopefully.
I wonder if TH will still get the Emmy nomination? And if so, or if, not will TS spend the entire summer with him in Australia, or just till Comic Con. So many possibilities. And will they do a pap walk on Friday when CH releases the cheating song to distract us?
We'll definitely get something Tom and Taylor in Oz tomm. It very well could be something with the Hemsworths or the Ruffalos. I feel like it'll be something with the castmates. Just to show how much everyone loves Taylor and how everyone sees how happy Tom is because she's in his life now. It'll be heavily focused on her as usual.
>>546 I hope it's with a koala or a boomerang - not the cast members. Could be that they'll hold back on the airport arrival pics - like they did with the pics at Stansted and release them at the perfect time to suck attention away from CH.
When I read the lyrics of the new Calvin Harris song, I thought I was reading some sms, especially the part where he says that he saw online she was being a good girl and vacationing with her boyfriend.
Maybe Calvin checked Taylor's iphone and found the sms that Tom sent her.
>>547 They could but I don't know if that'll be enough anymore. I mean for her fans sure but cheating gossip about Taylor Swift along with a song from the jilted ex will sell more clicks. I think the world has more Taylor haters now Swifties lol I would hope the tabs follow the Calvin thing more and I really hope Calvin doesn't let down like Kanye did. We all expected the tape Kanye! Not a wax nude doll!
They're landing in Sydney. The local news station has video of the plane: https://twitter
.com/7NewsSydney/status/751163564895809536
So they landed there rather than Brisbane (closer to the set). Get ready for more paps.
Thought this was interesting, if it's true: http://theopiniondominion.tumblr.com/post/147060149305/ill-make-this-short-person-in-ri-was-walking
The Tayto has landed!
https://twitter. com/sunriseon7/status/751172107673886720
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHk5PAhALTv - orientation is off, and you'll want to listen with the sound down. Trust me.
Oh my god...okay this is really over the top. They covered her plane landing? What the hell? What is she some diplomat here for a summit? Wow. The levels of obnoxiousness is just insane. It's like a scripted reality show without it being an actual reality show.
That was QUICK! They'll need to do something else tonight/tomorrow to distract from Calvin.
>>554 I'm no longer blaming the media. Their PR is driving this monster truck the wrong way down a one way street.
I know the 'stans' will say that they're being hunted, legit papped, planes are being tracked, etc. No, just no. I've come to the conclusion that their people are tipping media outlets off.
"We lav yooo Taylor! We lav yoooo Taylor!"
Repeat ad nauseam. Or at least until Tom throws up because nobody mentioned him.
She was wearing that cat that ate the canary smile. He looked less than thrilled.
>>551 I saw this some place else - can't remember. It had a more specific source when I first came across it. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if it were real. This relationship is being managed, as she seems - as I said - to be wearing the PR trousers.
Those LAX airport pics make me think that the sex is not only bad, but disgruntled verging on resentful. Let's hope they are more relaxed and happier when alone.
>>557 I did warn you!!! TH probably has to parrot that sort of adoration between the sheets.
>>558 I read it the way you did - not that there is no relationship, but that she is telling him how she wants to get it out there in the press. I would 100% believe that. Thank god it possibly indicates he has some doubt about the process.
Why the LAX pics particularly?
>>559 It's worse than being the Duke of Edinburgh. At least sacrificing your life to be the consort to a head of state has some dignity. Also the Queen travels wth less security.
For the first pic. I know they've just gotten off of a long flight, so he's not really 'trying' and I'm not going to psychoanalyze this relationship by a few pics, but...she manages a smile for the photogs, doesn't she?
>>560 He just looked red and sweaty and miserable. And I know he has a 'pap face' which is meant to be very poker, but he almost looked like he was heading for the gallows and not heading off to enjoy first class with his sweetheart.
I'm reading too much into it. I'm going to just sit back and enjoy the next papventure.
>>560 I meant 'real' as in the info was real. I'm still in the 'real relationship' camp. Especially now that we have a different, more cheaty timeline!
>>562 I think he has been wearing something other than his game face for the paps ever since that day he was papped in NYC coming back from the gym. That was his first encounter with paparazzi in the wild since the story broke. I thought he looked very tense and not at all like someone in the first blush of love, even someone who has been caught in what he thought was a private moment.
Remember that Xmas 14 trip home after he finished filming ISTL? He was papped at LAX and he was all smiles, even though he was being asked about the Sony leaks or some crap. http://www.celebitchy.com/403332/tom_hiddleston_wears_cowboy_boots_carries_a_guitar_at_airports_now/
Ok he was going home for Christmas on that occasion, but isn't he heading off to paradise with the woman he ❤️s?
I wonder if she'll make him IG official on her account tomorrow. She could post the pic JUST as CH's song is released. I wouldn't put it past her.
>>563 No, I think you're right. I've been seeing that face for a while, is all.
Remember also his arrival in Vietnam? Look at his little face! Except for Pursegate this man didn't have a pap game face until - well, until he started playing games with the paps.
>>565 Maybe it's just me, but if I were caught up in this circus, I'd be thinking less about arriving in paradise with my new love, and more about having to look men and women I respected in the eye: CH, MR, CB. Because while it's a real romance, it's also a PRmance, and I think his colleagues will recognize that aspect. But I was raised in a good, old fashioned shame culture that doesn't exist much anymore. And TH seems to have lost all sense of shame, so I could be wrong.
A propos of nothing, tumblr has become quite unplayable. Blogs I formerly thought were relatively normal are trawling the net for pictures of him with SF and posting them with captions like "Look, Tom shows emotion with a woman in public simultaneously with turning in a brilliant performance in The Avengers!"
Or a pic of Portia de Rossi wearing a t shirt that says "I love my wife" - with the caption "oh look, Portia de Rossi ruined her career!" Whereas she has actually just won an Oscar for her career-defining part in.....oh wait.
The nadir, though, was an old Twitter pic of Patrick Stewart wearing a lobster costume and lying in the bath. Very sweet - I think his wife took it on Halloween or something. Some prize moron had reblogged it with the comment "How dare you complain about Tom wearing an I❤️TS t shirt".....
>>542 Interesting;that DListed quote lends credence to some historical anon comments on TOBY, the kind of random things people say they've heard about (friend of a friend) but without pics, cannot back up. Including the sighting on TOD of Miss Tiny Brunette PhD.
>>569 It's hard to admit that something you placed great stock in, is in fact completely different from what you originally thought, so you have to defend it desperately. It's like anonsy said, there are stages. Those people/blogs are grasping at straws and firmly planted in the 'denial' stage. They'll probably never leave it. So it doesn't occur to them that all those examples you mentioned don't apply to Tayto.
Do you think he packed the shirt? Do you think he has to wear it during sexy times? Do you think afterwards, while she goes off to Skype with her cats, he silently sobs into it?
God, looking at those pics of him in Vietnam has almost brought a tear to my eye. He was so sweet - full of smiles and so clearly having a wonderful time with his life.
Now he looks so damn unhappy for so much of the time. Can that all be down to press intrusion and people writing snarky articles? If everything in the garden was lovely, would he care two hoots?
I know I bitch about dear Amal being a thirsty talentless famewhore and possible beard. But she and Clooney got as much attention as this, if not more, when they went public, and yet I have never seen a pic with either of them looking this glum.
And they arrive in Sydney: https://www.instagram.com/p/BHk4DccDqTA/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHk_EfrDWCo I think this was the moment someone shouted that they loved her!
A smile...for a fan. This is nice! https://www.instagram.com/p/BHk9jgQA-z9
>>573 The caption: OMG! Same airplane with @taylorswift and her boyfriend from #LAX to #SYD
What's missing from this caption?
>>571 hahaha! He probably does wear it during sexy times because looking at "I ❤️ T. S" is the only she gets turned on and can come.
>>570 Did TOD have brunette PhD sightings too? For some reason the final posts on the THEO blog made me believe that this restaurant sighting was real. I can't say exactly why, just feel it in my waters!
>>578 'And....um....ehhh....Taylor's boyfriend! Yeah, we love you too.'
>>577 He probably lives with it by thinking of that episode in Plutarch where Cleopatra emasculates Antony by dressing him up in her clothes.
>>577 Taylor probably only comes when she's rubbing herself up against one of her Grammys.
>>569 I hear you about the Tomblr blogs. Some of the Tomfaithful are getting really obsessively patriotic defending the relationship they're starting to sound like they're trolling. I want to mention names, but I'll refrain.
>>579 ack sorry Anon. I meant THEO, not TOD.
I wonder if NW3 (who's back and low key posting) has seen this elusive student.
>>583 It's the terrible logic of the whataboutism that I can't bear. Say you love them, that you believe it's not a showmance, that you don't believe the pics are staged, fine - you're entitled to express your opinion on your blog. But don't run around screaming "what about Patrick Stewart in his lobster costume". Please.
I'm also never using the fucking hashtag I❤️TH.
Ok, rant over. Apologies for the language (I am British!).
>>572 I think he was happy arriving in Vietnam. I think THEO may have still been a thing, only CP had had less-than-stellar reviews and box office. ISTL had been dicked over on the FF circuit, but there was hope for the general public with the promo push. HR was on the horizon. And the Kong crew were really achieving 'squad goals' but without the micro-management of his recent social activities.
Life is a little more complicated now.
>>587 But this is meant to be the love of his life. The woman he introduced to his mother after a week (maybe longer!). The woman he has gone public for.
>>581 Oh God! No, not Plutarch - don't bring Plutarch into this!! But at least Cleo had someone plant the fish on the end of Antony's line all the way up and down the Nile. Where are TH's fish, Tay-Tay? Where are HIS fish.
>>587 He was happy - he's a human Labrador puppy and his new gf is the type to carry lapdogs, or put one on a leash if they're too heavy.
Now tumblr is using the fan photo from >>575 to say that he's/they're so happy! Yikes.
>>585 The whataboutism is coming from some of the bullies. You missed a grand flouncing earlier in the week....
>>589 Exactly my point. Her fish, her river, her rod.
Except that a day in Tay's embraces past would seem like about 1,000,000,000 years.
>>582 HA!!!! Or when having sex to a barrage of exploding flash bulbs.
>>584 We'd have to assume that NW3 is actually in residence in NW3, which has always been unclear.
>>588 I know. I know. But I think that meeting was meant to lend legitimacy to something that didn't yet have true legitimacy. I'm going to give the hopeless romantic the benefit of the doubt and say that ONE of his end games is happily ever after. That's the point of most relationships. But I think there are other end games for these two beyond happily ever after, and those end games are responsible for the public nature of the relationship and the speed of its milestones.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHlBwnCDNgc I'm hoping their security got over zealous and over a few people in this golf cart, and they'll have to do a Depp/Heard style apology to the people of Australia.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHlG7RRBd2z This, along with the beach/rock climb pics, prove that TS cannot maneuver stairs on her own.
And so it begins. Urban answers very diplomatically and the interviewer moves on when he senses Urban doesn't give a shit, but if others don't handle it as well, the next few weeks/months (please, no!) are going to continue this relationship's track record of cringe.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHlQLwPjlgU
Tayto has landed...for a second time. Was it Olly that got a hug at the car? And then a handshake from Tay.
>>592 Among others; she has a small but loyal fan club.
>>597 Video is too grainy for me to tell. I hope it is, so he can talk to someone who's grounded.
An excellent screed with useful links to make the argument: http://i-do-not-fangirl-i-fanwoman. tumblr.com/post/147059084682/preaching-to-the-choir
We all knew this but looking at the picture of this photographer I realised he looks remarkably similar to the pap photographer who tweeted a thankyou to THs favorite cafe in Suffolk in the midst of the shameful parade of the family Hiddles. I can't for the life of me find that tweet but I wouldn't be surprised if his trajectory followed them to RI (perhaps even Rome)
>>597 Looks far too skinny to be Olly, and just not hairy enough
I love Time! Let's see her get this pulled like she did with Paper mag http://time.com/4395849/taylor-swift-photographer/?xid=tcoshare
