Thread to talk about actor Tom Hiddleston.
The lyrics!
http://heatst.com/entertainment/what-taylor-swift-is-really-getting-from-tom-hiddleston/
A great level- headed article. I think we are all on the same page
>>574 he's keeping his hands as if he were her dad walking her down the aisle
>>594 I think that might be Luke
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/cf1f2db536826e968d41950033e125fb?width=650
I wonder if he felt embarrassed at being a kept man and that's why they flew Quantas, arriving on her jet at his work place would have been even more humiliating.
>>602 "A guy wearing a tank top reading “I ♥ T.S.” appeared and wrapped his arms around her. Then he took three more pairs of fake arms out of a bag and wrapped them around her. “I think this should show the world how much I love you,” he crooned."
HIlarious
>>604 Someone (anonsy?) pointed out that her jet(s) can't accomodate that long of a trip.
>>601 I'm listening to the song right now on Spotify.
>>603 No I'm wrong it's not Luke
http://tswiftdaily.com/post/147070602142/taylor-and-tom-arrive-on-the-gold-coast-7816
>>607 how is it?
here she was telling him to LOOK happy
http://66.media.tumblr.com/f927bee0e50315cd40b90b0045abca1d/tumblr_o9yvugs4NW1vpofkio7_1280.jpg
>>606 It has been discussed at length on other blogs that celebs have private access at LAX- they are only seen when they want to be seen.
One of the newscasters in QLD mentioned that it is unheard of for celebs to be seen walking out of planes- they also have private gateways.
So this has been a double pap stroll (insert eyeroll).
Possibly even triple if you include Sydney... (eyes roll out of head)
>>603 I think you are right. Looks like Luke and in the video TH embraced him very warmly and it's the biggest smile we've seen on his face in a while
>>614 He would have been mocked yet again for being escorted to work in her private jet. This was the only way to save face while bringing his much more high profile gf along.
Their penthouse suite and hotel name has been flogged by the media so there will be no chill on the pap strolls. They don't even have to call their friendly photographer any more.
>>613 Hmm, I'm starting to smell 2 rats.
>>618 I love the photograph of the cheap plastic bin between the his and hers sinks!
It's a bit urban. Surely they could have found some nice house with a pool?
>>618,619 Hemsworth is staying at a house he got for himself and family. I think TayTo not renting a house might mean TH won't be on set for long.
The coverage of them getting off the plane was extraordinary. Does nothing newsworthy happen in Australia? What a load of sycophantic nonsense. "Seeing Taylor Swift is the bests thing that ever happened to me." Pffffffttt!!!!!
>>620 Or that she isn't. I find it hard to believe he will have a blink and you miss it role in filming. Even if they edit him out in post production I reckon they will want to get a decent amount of film in the can. On Thor 2 they added more in after pre screenings.
>>620 Peppers is a VERY non glam option for someone with their own private jet so yeah - either Marvel are paying for it or it's just for a short visit.
It would def have pool there somewhere..
As for the location - very appropriately located between the "Exhibition Centre" (HAH!) and the casino soo yeah. completely. totally private. not.
CH has three very young kids .. I imagine that they would go mad in an enclosed space for too long.
>>621 Aussie breakfast television at it's best (urgh) .. they get excited over anyone from "overseas" though I suspect that the "Tay Tay" header was a bit tongue in cheek with all and sundry having a good bts giggle off camera.
>>598 So I read this tumblr. I am glad there is someone out there with a different perspective.
I don't agree with this perspective either, though. Whether or not he calls himself a feminist, he doesn't owe his fandom to go out with a feminist (still less someone that writers at Jezebel consider to be adequately feminist and intersectional or whatever this week's buzzword is).
I also really don't think she's an "awful fucking human being" because she is a poor excuse for a feminist (which she is). If you think that is the pinnacle of awfulness, you also have the mentality of a 15 year old, and/or you are not reading the newspapers.
My beef with this is that:
(1) TH is an apparently intelligent and cultured 35-year old man with a formerly respected career making himself look stupid. He is fully entitled to do this if he wants but I find it embarrassing.
(2) TH has said on many occasions that he values his privacy, it's all about the work, we don't need or want to know about the man behind the performances etc. He has also repeatedly said that insofar as we do see the real him in interviews, he strives to be authentic. Everything he has shown us over the last few weeks suggests that this persona was a construct. TH appears prepared to use his private life for publicity - and in a remarkably calculated way. He and TS purport to be spontaneously demonstrative and in love, and the victims of press intrusion. But there are numerous pointers to large elements of these "pap" revelations (not all) being wholly orchestrated by them. Many celebs do this to some degree and I don't mind that if they are honest, or at least if they keep their mouths shut about it. But there is a particular feeling of betrayal that comes with the realisation that a persona which had authenticity at its heart turns out to have been a carefully constructed and calculated fake.
>>624 I'm sure it has a pool, though I can't see Hiddleswift mingling with the plebs to use it. I was thinking of the lovely house TH rented in Hawaii - very private with access to the beach and a pool. I kind of expected that for them, not some town centre penthouse in a high rise hotel.
>>625 Morning all. I think Anon , you have articulated almost precisely where I am at with everything.
Also agree, that Tumblr has gone bananas (should I be surprised, no, I guess not) I'm having to unfollow people at a rate of knots. I also fully concur that I will never, ever, ever (see what I did there), use a fucking "I ❤️ TH" hashtag.
As if he even cares! He's face deep in pop princess panties and could not care a jot if some tweenies and bored old ladies are defending his honour on Tumblr.
Also, she is wearing flats, why the hell does he have to hold her hand going up and down stairs. For a supposed strong, independent woman, she seems to enjoy looking feeble and clingy. AND her face looks like a squashed up chipmunk.
goes grumbling off to the kitchen for a caffeine fix
>>627 "face deep in pop princess panties" hahahahahaha!
There isn't much Tom love being expressed in the mainstream media. And it is noticeable that the "support" blogs on tumblr are either a small group whom we know of old, or a lot of blogs with names like "iluvtaylorandntomandiam12" whic I am guessing haven't been around that long.
I did see that cheers-mr-hiddleston, who has so many followers that she was asked to do some publicity by the ISTL producers, has gone very quiet. She posted a video blog in which she castigated people for saying they would boo him at ComicCon and pointed out that he still has a body of work which remains the same. But she also said that she had a view about some of what had gone down which she would never express, and that she felt someone was holding her rose tinted spectacles just out of view. If she thinks that, as one of his most loyal and well-known tumblr it's, it indicates to me that there is now a pretty fundamental problem in his fandom. (She seems to be a traditional Southern girl and I wonder if she has drawn the same conclusion about the timeline that Calvin/everyone else in the world did).
tumblrites
>>629 I also have a feeling, particularly at CB's, that his nannies posts under different names just to support the position that they are genuinely in love. I can't agree with the CB nannies so to me either this is a calculated PR and completely fake in terms of feelings and TH was always lying, or it's a documentary of some sort that backfired badly for him and now he's desperate to finish.
>>632 I'm noticing the nannies increasingly infiltrating all platforms now. It's a bit ridiculous.
No firefworks for TH
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHltQMRBlnK/
>>632 I still think it is both romance and showmance. TH has met someone he is keen on, and is willing to use it to boost his profile.
I don't personally think he faking the relationship, and I don't think he is faking his depth of feeling. As Anon. said at >>541, he gives the impression of always thinking this is the truest true love that ever was. He may be quite like TS in that respect.
But, like many genuine relationships, there are a number of motives at play, and fringe benefits to be had. I doubt he sees any dichotomy between True Love on the one hand and pimping it out for publicity on the other. People are usually quite good at kidding themselves that their own inconsistent actions are consistent. He is probably deeply wounded that his motives are being questioned.
>>634 He's there in his blazer in the background - probably stil clutching his wineglass. Someone gives him a hug at the end. Not her, I think.
>>633 Quite. After all, we are just commenting what they shove in our faces. And if it had been Cumberbatch or someone else doing this, you can bet they'll be writing very different things.
>>635 But if he is so besotted that he can't see what he's doing to his reputation he shouldn't look stressed or tensed. If he is tensed and stressed, then he isn't as besotted and he's aware of what's going on. It's either one or the other.
>>636 Yeah, I saw him, but it just made me laugh that he wasn't playing around with the fireworks.
Like in Rome, the penthouse has 3 bedrooms.
"Take It Off! Tom Hiddleston wears his navy blue quilted jacket AGAIN as his fans urge him to 'go shopping' while in Australia with new girlfriend Taylor Swift"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3680388/Tom-Hiddleston-wears-navy-blue-Ralph-Lauren-jacket-Australia-Taylor-Swift.html
"Trouble in paradise? Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston spotted looking grim faced"
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/1408323/taylor-swift-and-tom-hiddleston-spotted-looking-grim-faced/
'Christian mum compares Taylor Swift's vagina to 'ragged' ham baguette'
I doubt TH is sexting or calling EO, mainly because TS his glued to his ass, and I think EO it's a bit too smart to go near TH riht now.
>>639 One room for her extensive wardrobe and another for her pussy (cats)?
>>638 I don't think they're mutually exclusive. He can be stressed because he is besotted with a known stage 5 clinger with a failed string of short term romances knowing full well he is losing his standing and reputation in the industry and a lot of fans as a result. I'd be really tense
>>644 his glued *is glued
Tom took his new guitar to Australia :)))
>>648 Seriously? Is there a picture? Has TayTay broken it "accidentally" yet?
Anybody remember when Kaiser at CB was selling us daily THEO stories and openly deriding EO for denying they were a thing? http://www.celebitchy.com/446863/elizabeth_olsen_denies_dating_tom_hiddleston_people_can_think_what_they_want/
And then she told us that EO was knocked up: http://www.celebitchy.com/465503/elizabeth_olsen_is_still_with_tom_hiddleston_does_she_look_knocked_up_ha/
Well, today she says "I’ve been wondering this whole time about the Elizabeth Olsen stuff. It’s widely believed that Tom and Elizabeth did have something going at one point." HAHAHA. I was sufficiently irritated by this attack of amnesia to write a post calling her out. Which was very promptly deleted.
>>652 The commenters at Dlisted routinely mock her and her posts. That's all I need to know about her and CB. Re-write it here! Or at Dlisted!
Everyone needs to go read the TayTo posts at Dlisted. Some of the comments are spit take inducing. And you'll be supporting my baby's future step-daddy, Michael K!
Also, where the hell are our new round of pap pics? Certainly jet lag is no excuse when you need to whore out a relationship!
>>629 Interesting that a tumblr blog was asked to do promo for ISTL. That seems to suggest that Sony, and by extension Team Tom, are more than aware of their market. Then they must know, and Tom by extension, that certain parts of the kingdom are on fire while others are ash.
>>645 Agreed. He can be head over heels and miserable because the relationship is not being perceived as he would like it to be, or required him to pimp out his family or is having adverse affects on his professional life. I think we all know that a person can desperately want to be in a relationship and be happy in it even if it's not all together good for him/her.
>>648 She IS like the guitar. His latest obsession. And this one doesn't require a luggage tag or need to be carried, only constant guiding by the hand.
>>654 Agreed re causes of his gloom/stress. I don't see it as inconsistent with true lurve. It's that the PR rollout isn't going as well as expected, or that he has started to realise life for him is now "We lav yooooo Taylor!".
And maybe it is that he is upset about the articles he has read (I bet he has read some!). I can't begin to imagine how you must feel if you are in a real relationship and are told repeatedly that it is a fake, or you're doing it as a performance video. Or that you look like balding Uncle Hiddles going down the water slide, or are having a mid life crisis, or are a total loser for wearing that shirt. Even if people are thinking these things and even if they are true, in ordinary life they don't usually come out and say them (or - not in England, anyway). You get to make your mistakes and people laugh behind your back. Then your friends are nice to you when you return to your senses. He's been surrounded by the bullies and teased mercilessly for wearing his silly shirt. No wonder he looks miserable.
PS I know I have been complicit. I have criticised the shirt and drawn attention to his baldness. I do actually hope he doesn't read this board (seems unlikely, but a month ago so did the pap stroll with his mother!). Would I say the stuff I have said in print, or to his face if I met him? No.
>>656 Will you raise my child because I see that you have a lot more sympathy than I? This little one is going to need to get used to tough love.
I'm a real actions ==> consequences sort of girl. Actions were taken, consequences resulted. Sure he's not happy about the consequences, but they are a result of his actions, maybe 'their' actions. I understand the made rush of love; it does make people stupid, very stupid. So I get the foolish things he's done. I've mocked and will continue to mock him, but I understand the actions. Where my sympathy (it can't really be empathy in this situation) opens the door and rolls out of the moving car is with the publicity and OTT of it all. People are calling it fake because it looks fake: the timeline, the staged pics, the crazy 'meet the mother' and 'walk along every beach within 20 miles' nonsense. The Rome adventure was eye roll city for me. The kissing at the Colosseum, the fact that they were there for about two days (just enough time to have a few meals...and get papped kissing at the Colosseum!!). It's not what you'd call the holiday of a couple in genuine love. It wasn't even like a normal mini-break! The shirt: for love, for irony, for shits and giggles - it was not a good idea.
These actions opened him up to ridicule. Each one was an invitation that most people, especially titchy journalists who don't like being manipulated, couldn't refuse.
>>657 Hit it on the head. The hunger for wanting to spotlight their relationship is too transparent. Yday's live steaming of their arrival in Australia like they're the Pope was the cherry on top of how obnoxious all this has become. I really don't get why it had to be THIS overboard and extreme.
CORRECTION - I got it before but I don't get it why now. Did arriving in Australia have to be such a fanfare? You're coming there for work, not attend the next Genova convention.
The more media and public backlashes against them, the more overboard they go. At this rate, I really won't be surprised if they announce their engagement by the end of this weekend. Tbh, I'm expecting it now.
I hang my head for being a softie. I know they have opened themselves up to this by being idiots and/or thirsty. Doesn't mean the criticism doesn't sting, and I do feel the punishment may be out of proportion to some of the crimes.
I must be getting this from Mr Anon. After I had explained who Calvin Harris was (bless!) I explained the dubious timeline. From his geriatric brain he managed total recall of my own one dubious overlap (long before him). Thank you, dear. I said it was shady to hit on a girl who just broke up with someone. "You had been single less than a month when I hit on you" he replied. "If the girl you like is worth having, chances are if you wait 6 months she won't be single."
I think he still has dreams of staging the Intervention.
>>629 >>654 I never knew that about her. I knew about here blog but never followed her. Now that you mentioned it I am wondering if they would use another Tumblr as eyes-and-ears-to-the-ground for what's going on now. One of them seems to be going out of her way to control the narrative and overreacting to some of the negative comments in a way that is not emotional fangirling (unless she's related to him) but more like stern headmistress - like her job depends on it. She's a smart one.
>>660 No Classicist has a geriatric brain!! We observe all things and remember all things...unless we're pregnant. Then we can't remember a damn thing.
Please post pic of Mr. Anon dancing to Calvin's latest release. We need this in these difficult and unsteady times!
>>661 I think we may know this stern headmistress. Is she madly intelligent?
>>660 Anon: when I was pregnant I swear I had just one brain cell left, and it was keeping me alive. Vocabulary vanished and I was reduced to pointing and grunting at things. And I referred to everything as 'thing.'
For reasons I do not understand she is hand in glove with Our Lady of the Scratches Question. She isn't mad like that one but she sure is smarting from some of the insane stuff that's been going on recently in the fandom.
>>666 That basically describes how I am in court all the time. I have more than once had to refer to "my client" when I had a momentary brain failure and could not recall their name or whether they were claimant or defendant. I once caused smoke to come out of a leader's ears when I referred in conference to "that case about the thing with the thing."
>>662 Do you remember those pics of TH dad dancing at Selena Gomez? Now imagine TH is wearing his 4 July blazer and slacks combo. Add three more inches, a lot more hair and a bit of a tummy and you are looking at Mr Anon getting his groove on.
>>666 Oh my God! Yes. I have the vocab of a 5-year-old. Everything is THING, including some verbs and adjectives. I didn't believe baby brain was a thing, but it is. Writing papers is taking 3x as long as usual. And sometimes I swear my husband looks at me after I've said something stupid and thinks, I can't believe I knocked this dullard up!
>>667 If we get an engagement and wedding, will that be her breaking point? Or is she selling the I'm As Much About The Work As TH bill of goods and sticking to it come what may?
>>669 I just orgasmed. ;)
Some reduxed info about him to create a positive narrative story: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2016/07/08/tom-hiddleston-more-than-just-taylor-swifts-boyfriend.html
>>667 So it sounds like we have a consensus. I'm going to go watch cheers's video now.
"A source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY that Taylor intends to glue herself to Tom’s side while they’re in Australia. “Taylor is going to use the time to see what it feels like living with Tom. She is treating it all like a honeymoon and is very excited to get to know him even more then she already does,” the insider shares.
HAHAHAHAHAAHABUNNYHAHAHAHAHAHBOILERLOLOLOLOL
On what planet is that healthy?
http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/07/08/taylor-swift-supports-tom-hiddleston-australia-trial-honeymoon/
>>674 HL is clickbait, but in their defense, they're just going on her previous behavior. She glues herself to most boyfriends.
>>670 Not sure. Her principal focus at the moment is partly "he owes you nothing" (not even refraining from peddling crap about authenticity and privacy). It's partly defending him from accusations of pimping out mother, family etc.
She now accepts that the RI pics were staged but is valiantly saying that the paps caught up with them at Stanstead Airport and followed them to the petrol station then to Aldeburgh, where TH, under duress, gave them what they wanted. I was feeling bitchy so I looked it up: Stanstead is known to plane spotters for being one of the worst because there's no good place to photograph the planes. To get that close I reckon you have to be invited airside. As for the journey from there to Aldeburgh - it would be very difficult to tail someone if they didn't want to be tailed. They are mostly multi carriageway roads with 70mph speed limits. And the paps in the UK are nowhere near as hardcore as they are in LA. They aren't accustomed to doing that kind of thing. I mean, did you see the picture of them in Aldeburgh? They're about as athletic as a heap of rocks.
>>675 She has the eyes of a crazy person.
She's going to be there the whole shoot? He is a dead man walking. She'll be frog marching him to Cartier before Christmas.
>>667 Also, the very intelligent one has some man muscle who's not afraid to use all caps to get her point across.
Okay I'll stop now.
>>671 This seems like it could very well be coming from his camp. Their back catalogue coverage of TayTo is fairly sparse and mostly without rancor, so a friendly space to pitch Tom the Thespian. I don't know 'The Toronto Star' from an actual star,, but isn't our stern headmistress from Canada...hmmmmm.
It is redux, and I think from only one source - which, of course, I can't remember. But I've read this, in some form, before.
My favorite: 'But a dalliance with Swift certainly won’t hurt his reputation.' Is this Luke's 'from your media mouth to God's ear' moment?
>>677 A lot of people are thinking that she'll go back with him when he goes to Comic-Con and then stay in the US. But these are the same people who thought that he'd go to Oz alone. I wouldn't put it past her to stay for the whole shoot. This is her MO in previous relationships. She likes to be near.
Her birthday is in December...just saying. Something small and boxed could find its way under the Chrissy tree.
cheers-mr-hiddleston.tumblr.com/ is gone.
>>684 No she's still here: http://cheers-mrhiddleston.tumblr.com
I think I added one hyphen too many into her name - sorry!
>>683 They didn't pay CMH anything apart from some free merchandise I think. It's all the honour.
I doubt that our friend is TH's eyes and ears in tumblr land. I think she has always been a nanny and a smarty pants.
>>682 I may have baby brain, but I could be turning into a psychic! How convenient. And obvious?
>>685 Cheers is around, but the THEO blog is properly gone. Sad as I was still making my way through her posts.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHoITvYhA0F Looks like there may be an interview coming.
So heading up to a mansion after spending a night or two in a hotel. Sad face at the one TH fan!!
All the pap attention he wants now - and they don't even need to call them. There must not be a lot going on on the GC because reporters are actually camped outside the hotel.
Out jogging: https://www.instagram.com/p/BHoITvYhA0F/
Met a young fan: http://recklesstreacherous.tumblr.com/post/147124386086/bella-terlich-11-year-old-right-from-the
And on a plane (no idea when but he looks like he just woke up): https://www.instagram.com/p/BHn43AljHHC
>>695 I guess it's overwhelming for an 11-year-old to meet someone famous. But is she crying because she touched someone who's touched TS or because she's an actual fan of TH?
>>694 As my grandpa would say, he looks like 'a pig in shit' with all those fans and cameras surrounding him. But then he always was good with fans. It's strange that I now think of those scenes in terms of his desperate need for attention rather than his kindness toward fans. I need to work on that.
I think that airplane pic is old.
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>>696 I figured it looked like it was around the time he was filming ISTL, towards the beginning
Torrilla has some pics of him running on the beach. The thought of running anywhere makes me sweat, but it does look like a beautiful beach.
The DM gives and takes away. He's muscly in the first article, and 'Taylor Swift's beau Tom' in the next.
