Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
By the way, regulars, all the posts on the previous thread from 978 onwards under the name "Anon" are not me.
New person posting - please choose another name. Thanks.
What will tomorrow bring? More restaurant meal time PDAs in front of windows? Or will we get shots of TayTo out and about and dining with her parents? If THAT is put on display for the paps then that is really out there. Stuff like that is privately done. Is Tom getting any say in this or he's just happy to go along for the ride since he's just too smitten?
>>2 if she is who I think she is, she really has a thing for using your name :)
>>4 Yes I know exactly who she is and it really fucks me off. New lurkers sometimes use my name by mistake - but they don't pop up and start posting great long screeds like they have been here for months and know everyone.
Hello. Anon, I am sorry that I used your name. It will not happen again. I was lurking, and I just picked it as short for anonymous without thinking! I'm sorry for intruding. I didn't mean anything by it. Please forgive me. I would have apologized sooner, but the thread closed. Anonon, thank you for telling me to calm my tits. I was freaking out! You called it right. My fault for everything.
>>6 Yes it's our regular Lex/Firenbrenie/whatever she is calling herself now. You'll notice that although she says (for the moment) she has nothing bad to say about TS that the subtext of her posts is how he looked dead in the eyes, it was all for show and it won't last long AT ALL. I did say I thought he looked besotted and it would probably last 6-9 months!
>>9 Ouch! Get well soon!!
I have just woken to the news that Britain voted out, so I too require painkillers and alcohol for breakfast. There is a hilarious post on theoanons suggesting that this is All Tom's Fault because he followed a Remain account, leading thousands of disappointed fans to vote Brexit...!!!!
PS I think the double date photo is from the same day as Romantic Streakhouse Dinner With Only 4 Bodyguards. TS is wearing the same outfit.
>>11
Is that two or three dates that day then? I get lost. Good god at the hand holding though, lol. I think I would possibly stab someone trying to hold my hand through dinner, but I'm a bit possessive of my food.
Um, I'm really a new lurker. Not any of those other people, honest! But I'm not sure how to prove that. And I really am sorry about using the Anon name! I've actually never posted on anything before.
Also, for the record, I do think TS is very accomplished woman. She is a philanthropist, and she is a great role model for young girls, much better than some of the other pop singers in the industry who sing half dressed, fall out of nightclubs, etc.
I really just find the whole TH romance to be a confusing surprise, given his previously completely private persona. Its a volte face for his image. Maybe TS is his dream woman, as we can't know 360 degrees about TH's full personality from his interviews. Anyway, it's lovely to chat with all of you.
>>10 Thankyou and yes this news is disappointing but not half as crushing as the possibility of the combination of having Trump for president. That's when you'll find me setting up camp outside the bottle shop. At some point I will find a way to blame TayTo for world demise, it's been in front of our eyes from the beginning (cue Illuminati posts). #catchpa 'deathe'
>>14 I think this and Trump's nomination come from the same disillusionment with the centre, and mistrust of mainstream politicians. Both major policitcal parties in England and Wales (plus the SNP in Scotland, which won a landslide north of the border at the last election) were in favour of Remain - yet the British gave them a big fat raspberry. The mainstream really needs to address this anti-establishment view that the "outsider" (aka the person with seemingly no qualifications for high political office) is somehow "more authentic" more honest and a more appropriate candidate.
>>12 I think two. A lunch date with that couple (Rodney's daughter? Hank's granddaughter?) then a dinner date a deux.
I was lol-int at the pic where she is mauling him and drinking her juice at the same time. But he is dating genuine Nashville royalty so he is presumably up for it.
I was reading back the comments last night. I do actually still think this is a warp speed romance from a meeting at the Met Gala (and maybe getting it on that night). It's an easy theory because one doesn't have to find space in the chronology for them to have met and been texting/screwing for a while before May. And she would still need a PR cover up because she shacked up with someone new the day she met him at a drunken party - in some ways that sounds worse than meeting someone in say March or April, getting close then realising you preferred them to your current lover.
Everyone seems to be saying that TT must have been a thing for longer than May 2 because they look like an established couple in these pics. I am not sure I agree. They are all over each other but that is consistent with TS always behaving like a 15 year old girl in her relationships. As for him - he is enjoying a break from filming or publicity tours for the first time in ages, and has spent maybe the last 12 days in her company 24/7. Things get intense pretty quickly in that environment. To me he looks like a man who has spent the last 12 days shagging constantly and consequently can't keep his paws off her. When I was this far into my relationship with my husband (or maybe a week more) we were on a plane to Venice and we probably didn't look much different in terms of body language. Brand new novelty relationship, infatuation and sex haze is what I see in these pics.
>>16 I don't call it dating when you are dick storming each other EVERY SINGLE NIGHT and in essence living together for weeks on end. That's warp speed living together. Which I must admit I have done. More than once. Then I always make them to take a short hike with their toothbrush to give me some space 'cause goddamit I can't breathe.
But each to their own..
>>17 Jinx on warp speed.
Venice would seal the deal, such a beautiful city.
I agree there's a chance it could all just be new and exciting and they just want to introduce their new love to friends and family.
What seems so out of place with it all though is that they are so public. Every day. Twice a day now. No-one can persuade me those beach shots weren't staged so why would anything else they do in the public eye be genuine?
If I was newly in love and owned a jet plane I would be so remote right now. Deeply nakedly remote. Why are they still here?
>>17 Meeting in March or April and then getting close would imply a deeper connection. They are essentially living together right now and may have been since her breakup. I don't see how having this public relationship with Taylor is serving Tom any benefit. If it wasn't in the public eye this much then I'd believe there may be deeper feelings at work but it all seem infatuation and list driven at the cost of his image and career. A fast and heavy summer fling that's public because Taylor insists and that's her MO?
Has there ever been a celebrity relationship like this one? Heavily in the media spotlight and the couple this loved up at this level in this short amount of time with talk of settling down? Apart from Bennifer 1.0.
Lust not list driven. Actually if it's all for PR then it could be list driven lol
>>17 I also don't think they met sooner than the dinner at Wintour's, but I do think that TS decided that night he was going to be her next and used the Met Gala to make him know her interest for him. They also likely stayed in contact the whole month of May.
Some light entertainment thanks to Calvin who I am realising has an incredible sense of humor. He just keeps delivering. The references to leg day (hi Hiddles) while doing nothing, The petty bitchy instagram comments. I usually cringe at social media slinging matches but this is giving me so much joy. Calvin you big bitch.
It could also be that as a "permanent escapee from emotional entanglement" he understood that he couldn't go on like that if he wanted one day a stable relationship and TS just showed at the right moment, being with TS means being forced to be public with your romance and not being in control, likely he knows it won't last and that's great too, fling like feelings and paps to shock himself to go out there again. As for his career, if we want to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he didn't throw his intelligence away, maybe he knew it would look bad and his reputation would take a hit, but decided to prioritize his future love life over his career.
Too corny? Too lenient toward the boy?
Maybe he just read Alain Botton's new book and thought "Well if we all marry the wrong person, I might as well get some bad PR out of it"
>>23 I find him funny too. I don't think his career or his rep took any hit from this break-up, his new video with Rihanna is the, as they say, shit!
>>10 I did not expected this result, I thought it'd be close, and it was, but the other way around.
I did not see this, he's already trying to take over and show he's in charge. He was driving the SUV.
http://ww4.sinaimg.cn/bmiddle/80336770gw1f565fy7370j22ap1lr7sp.jpg
Never mind what I wrote, the guy totally think this is it. Maybe they will get married.
>>27 He was driving in the jet pics too post Rhode Island. You can see him sitting in the driver's seat in one of the pics. Lol maybe he feels like this is the least he can do since it's essentially all her homes, cars, plane, everything he's using.
I told you they will get married soon. She's giving him a tour of all the mansions and all the properties that will be his after the marriage. She knows that the money (her money)is the only way to his heart. She bought him.
>>24 You nearly had me until 'prioritise his future love life over his career.'
Nevah! Although his career is in a bit of a swamp it would seem and his love life is the biggest news story of the week.
Do you think he didn't consider the career/ profile boost before delving in? Do you think that has nothing to do with the fact they are 'discreetly' pap walking daily and maintaining front page credentials for this extended period?
>>29 lol at the dowry tour
Maybe they are well suited. She is a homebody kind of, with the cooking, baking, scrabble, etc. Which could be a match for 30ish yr old guy. Calvin also used to drive her around though, so maybe it's a guy control thing.
>>23 Calvin is as shallow and pathetic as TayTay about living his life and relationships through Instagram. But if you are going to be shallow and pathetic and live your life through Instagram then do it better than everyone else!! Calvin is poking TH in the eye with everything he posts. Better legs, bigger package and he owns that speedo photo. That's how to pose in your pants and not look ridiculous.
>>29 Taylor as Tom's Christian Grey lol He's in love with the idea of being a part of Nashville royalty. This could very well be a fairytale come true for him. Taylor is Tom's Princess Charming and he's working lad from Britian come to US to make a name for himself.
The Hiddleston fandom might implode if these two get engaged by the end of this weekend.
>>30 I did say it was a bit corny! ;)
But there hasn't been a career and profile boost here, he is not acquiring millions and millions of new fans, he pissed off journalists/critics/fans and as long as he is with her he's TS's bf, nothing more. So love (and excellent sex I hope) present and future is more reasonable.
I'm discovering that the idea that TS is gay comes directly from her fans who ship her heavily with KarlieKloss (they call the pair Kaylor) because they made out at a concert (they call that the kissgate.
>>18 >>19 I think he will have a let down at some point when he needs his space. Not for a while, but it will come.
It is possible that this may be how Tom is in a new relationship but we just didn't see it before. I don't think he has spent this much time with someone 24/7 for a long time - probably not since EO when they were filming ISTL. By all accounts there were a number of Facebook posts from locals that they were hanging out in every cafe in Shreveport. I always thought that not very obvious pairing was born out of an intense time together (in terms of emotion and 24/7 contact) filming a project he loved.
What's new is that we are seeing it in public. Partly I think because this is what TS does and he went along with it for infatuation. Partly because once you feed the beast, the beast will start feeding off you whether you want it or not. I suspect we are entering the phase where the paps follow them everywhere whether they set it up or not.
>>34 He's become a household name in America. His IMDB has shot from around 50 to 3. He is one of the most common Google searches (is Tom Hiddleston gay?!).
I'd say it's been fairly beneficial.
Nevertheless I do think he's pounding the panty pudding and not thinking with the right head and perhaps dazzled by her dowry.
If they keep this up long enough (and I believe they will) the negative press will diminish as the public sways to believing in the fairytail cinderella dross they have fed us and they will become a new power couple. I think they are making a power play.
"Not even Taylor Swift can make Tom Hiddleston hot"
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/not-taylor-swift-tom-hiddleston-hot-article-1.2683932
Harsh! TS made TH less hot.
"Look Out, Taylor: Kanye to Release ‘Famous’ Video During Live-Streamed Event"
http://stylecaster.com/kanye-west-famous-video/
Maybe it wasn't Harris behind those IG comments
http://www.eonline.com/news/775413/is-calvin-harris-calling-out-taylor-swift-on-instagram-ex-says-singer-controlled-the-media-and-now-he-s-free
Oh I see it was the "https" thing. Thanks. :)
>>40 I'm saving some codeine and wine for Kayne. I feel a shit storm coming.
>>41 I wish I hadn't read the comments. Those Swifties are cray cray delusional. She can do no wrong! She perfect!
Not sure I follow who you think is behind the IG comments. Are you tinfoil hatting? You think Tay Tay is controlling the media through Calvin?!
>>31 Welcome So Sorry! And don't be sorry, it was an honest mistake. We've had trolls in the past use Anon's well established board name in an attempt to give credence to their insulting posts. But you are clrearly not that troll, both because your grammar is very good and you've not said anything trollish.
So welcome and feel free to pick a less apologetic name! And certainly feel free to throw in your two cents at any time.
>>45 Oh I have no idea, the article halfway says "However, a source tells E! News that Harris wasn't behind the comments."
I was merely reporting that. I read at another tumblr blog (the one who used to be teatime-with etc) that TT fans are not beyond faking stuff like this.
I said I would make a habit of checking in every Friday but I'm not going to be able to keep up with you ladies or with Hiddleswift. Christ, kids, slow that relationship express train down!
Like Anon I think they are in that mad rush of the first few weeks of a relationship. They are falling in love because that's what you doing the first weeks of a relationship. Will it last? Will they get married? Stranger things have happened, like them getting together at all! But I dont think we can predict too much at this moment.
I'll see you next Friday. What will I have missed by that time? Wimbledon? An engagement?!
I have to thank you all for sharing all the information about this very odd relationship in an adult and sane way.
I'm not the type of person who cares about celebrities. I made an exception for Tom Hiddleston because he was not a celebrity. He was a serious actor who didn't seem to care about the Hollywood way of life and only cared about his craft. His interviews gave an image of him as an intelligent and cultured man but maybe he's just good at memorising interesting things he reads in books.
The Tom Hiddleston we all knew until a few weeks ago would never date a plastic doll like Taylor Swift who behaves like a 15 year old, who dresses like a 15 year old and whose friends also behave like 15 year old. The lunch with Hank William's granddaughter was probably a move to look more mature after that night at Selena Gomes' concert.
I'm trying to understand his behaviour but I really don't get it. So I'm counting on you to help me with that.
Please, tell me he didn't fool me all this time.That the old Tom is still in there somewhere and will be back. Tell me that the man I respected so much is not a whore who sold himself to the fist famous and rich woman he found.
"28 Things You Learn While Hanging Out With Tom Hiddleston, Taylor Swift’s New Makeout Buddy"
http://www.vulture.com/2016/06/tom-hiddleston-profile-extras-hang-out.html?mid=twitter_vulture
So can you still read these quotes of him a believe him?
THIS, I 100% believe:
"My great strength, and my great weakness, is that I can't do anything by halves. So when I do something I do it to the exclusion of everything else."
She's going to meet Tom's mother. They were spoted in Colchester, probably on their wary to Aldeburgh.
https://twitter. com/paulmoss100/status/746361330463014912
>>54 I think he already did, at the latest CB post it's reported they spent yesterday in the company of her parents.
According to that tweet, they are now in the UK near Aldeburgh which is where Tom's mother lives. Colchester in near the highway, so maybe they stopped to buy some coffee (as the guy says).
>>56 sorry I thought that was a place near Nashville.
So he got himself a postal vote or a vote by proxy just to be back in the country the day after the poll? Isn't that idiotic and unrealistic?
Nothing he's been doing lately makes any sense. And she has a private jet. So... Oh what do I know?
Another spotting at a petrol garage in the UK.
https://twitter. com/KatiePether1/status/746370044905529344
>>56 Well I'll be in Aldeburgh tomorrow so I will keep my eyes peeled for them and their enormous security detail.
"PS. Got an email today about their next possible destination. Apparently her fans track the tail of her private plane? And supposedly her jet landed a few hours ago in London."
I read this at CB, apparently TS private plane was also in Philadelphia during the WizardWorld ComicCon
>>62 Which just proves that they can date without paps if they want to.
>>64 very quickly, they announced their split on June 2nd, WWCC was that very weekend.
Ha ha I just had a thought - he flew into LA on 31 May. She announced the split on 1 June.
It could therefore just about be true that they got together after the split (like, the day after). I recall reading that they talked on the phone and while they were talking he arranged flowers to be delivered right then. Sounds a bit less like bullshit and more feasible if he happened to be in LA as well.
So they see each other in LA some time after 31 May, then on 4 June they fly separately to Philly. Then he flies home on 6 June - meeting at Paramount Studios on 7 June - then back out to NYC on probably 9 June. We catch the story a few days later on 15 June. That's why it doesn't look quite like a first date. They are about 2 weeks in and we have already had the romantic gesture of her firing up the private plane for some secret nookie in Philly.
>>66 And that narrative that he only called her after hearing she split from Harris was always bs (we already thought that but yeah) To be fair when she was in PA she made a surprise appearance at a fan wedding, maybe she already had that planned, maybe she decided knowing TH would be in PA.
I know totally expect an engagement by the end of the month.
>>67 Well, maybe. Remember (as theoanons just reminded me) that he was seen en route to Oxford with a blonde in July before PurseGateGate. That was very probably him taking EO to see his father. If the US weekly time line is to be believed that was longer into the relationship (assuming they started in May) though they had probably spent less time together.
Random thought - was she at Country Music Awards thingy?
>>68 True - although I seem to remember the girl who saw him that time said she was pretty sure the blonde wasn't EO (she was a Marvel fan, for once it might have been his baby sister). I don't know what to hope for anymore.
>>69 from what I read there are fans that watched the show to see TH so I think they would have spotted her.
It's all on, isn't it? I could be wrong, but I'm really not expecting an engagement announcement soon; I was kidding before.
We can assume that he met her parents during his time in Nashville. Perhaps nothing major, just a 'nice to meet you, son' sorta moment. This is what Taylor does. She'd met Gyllenhal's parents very quickly after they started dating and I think had Thanksgiving with his sister's family. I don't remember if he met her parents, but I wouldn't be surprised. They lasted 5 months. Some people just jump in at the deep end with relationships. She's one of them, and he's following her lead.
If he's met her parents and he's following her lead, it would only be polite and proper (that's TH!) for him to take her to meet his. They'll have some tea and Mrs. Hiddleston will bring out the good biscuits but they're probably not going to be picking out china for the wedding reception.
Heaven knows I could be wrong meeting the parents doesn't always equal engagement, marriage or even serious relationship. At least not with TS!
And I completely believe that EO met his father and maybe his mother. Those two were hanging out and seeing each other much more than we ever realized.
>>72 Yes, all this. I said before I thought that THEO was an iceberg and we were only seeing the 5% above water. I bet she met his parents and that they spent much more time together than we saw. It's just that with Swifty we see much more, partly through choice and partly because she is just a lot more famous.
And she has the private jet so it is feasible to say, "hey, let's fly down tomorrow and see her." She is super rich and at the moment has a lot of time on her hands - so why not nip to Nashville, meet the parents, then nip to Aldeburgh, meet mum.
I'll leave this here, it's a comment at CB about what happened with the Kennedy boy, very similar to what's happening with TH, maybe it's not as sui generis as it seems.
http://www.celebitchy.com/492070/tom_hiddleston_taylor_swift_spent_all_of_thursday_with_her_parents/#comment-15102113
>>72,73 you could totally be right about it and this will resolve itself into a fling (see my corny speculation).
Anon, it seems his blue jaguar was brought to Heathrow, look out for it.
PS I will be very interested to see how Swifty plays the pap card while in rural Suffolk. There is no chance - I can say this with total confidence as I am there at the moment - no chance at all that a pap encounter there will "just happen". Unless the Sun is reading this board and/or Theoanons and/or deep down the comments section on CB it will not know they are in Suffolk. I know we are very, very important but that does seem unlikely (& Lainey only said that the plane was in London - if I were a pap I'd be waiting at his place).
>>74 It's not. This seems to be TS's broken record with relationships. And look at you using Latin!! I love it. TH would be so proud. I bet he and Swifty are going through declensions together as we speak!
>>78 Haha, whenever he brings her a rose he goes "rosae for you" - he made it sound like it was the most difficult thing in the world (I grew up in close quarters with Latin).
>>79 rosa tibi. Latin's a breeze. Greek makes you its bitch.
>>80 mea rosa. Languages are strange, you can never predict the one that will make you its bitch.
On to meet his parents and go to Wimbledon! If they don't have plans to end up together, and maybe they do, I'm just wondering what the graceful exit from this could be? Like best case scenario for Tom, does the distance and work commitments just keep them apart and break them up in a mature way w/o drama, so he can maintain his gentlemanly image and good PR?
Or maybe TS will end up with him, and he will thank her as his significant other if he wins an Oscar one day? Hmmm... Thoughts?
They're not getting married unless they are truly in love and right now, they seem infatuated. I give it her usual 3 month timeline. Maybe even earlier, July. Tom's image is a mess. There is no room for a graceful exit for him anymore so he's just gotta suck it up and play by Taylor's rules. She'll figure out a way to get rid of him where it'll look like he cruelly dumped her. Even if she's the one who ended it.
oh my god! I've just searched his name on Facebook for the first time and the comments on every news item are all very bad to Tom and Taylor but especially to her.
>>85 And at the bottom of the article, the narrative:
May 2, 2016: Taylor and Tom Hiddleston are spotted dancing with each other at the 2016 Met Gala in New York, before the star's split from Calvin Harris.
June 1: It emerges that Taylor and Calvin have broken up after 15 months of dating.
June 15: The Sun obtains photos of Taylor and Tom kissing on the beach in Rhode Island, taken June 14.
June 16: Tom and Taylor are pictured boarding the singer's private jet in Rhode Island.
June 21: The couple are spotted dancing with each other at Selena Gomez's concert in Nashville, Tennessee.
June 23: Taylor and Tom have a dinner date with the popstrel's friends in Nashville.
June 23: Calvin allegedly responds to fans on his Instagram account after he is asked by social media users what happened between him and Taylor. A rep for Calvin tells Entertainment Tonight that the DJ did not write the comments.
June 24: People reports that Taylor has introduced Tom to her parents, Andrea and Scott Swift, in Nashville.
>>86 I did say upthread that if they pulled a major stunt like this to coincide with Kayne's video I'm calling the whole escapade a load of bollocks.
This kind of obvious stunt won't play well with the UK public. They're playing everyone for fools heartlessly the day after the nation went to shit.
Someone give TH a standing ovation and retire him to the basement.
tin hat on
she is wearing baggy blacks and covering her stomach with that enormous handbag
>>87 Could she be faking it to make Calvin, oops sorry I mean the public, think so? :D
Okay I know I said I was leaving for good... but I just saw that ridiculous atrocity of a pap walk featuring Tom's own mother (for God's sake, Tom, your mother? have you no shame?) and I just had to pop back in to comment.
The way I see it, as this is playing out, we have two options here:
This is ridiculous. I'm actually so angry right now and I don't even know these people.
>>89 I'm leaning towards number 2 simply because I can't comprehend number 1.
It's really the only explanation for him being so extra. Although he has been described as extra before..
What a mess, this is so embarrassing.
The shame, the shame
What's happening? Seriously, what is happening?
Anon, I hope your holiday isn't ruined by all the paps that usually frequent the busy metropolis that is Aldeburgh.
Now that he's pap strolled his mother. Is it on to Oxford for papa H? Or back to London for more date nights?
I never thought I'd say this: I'm going to go watch a Kanye West music video. And I'm going to click on The DM's article about Kanye. And I'm going to praise Kayne's video. TS is not getting what she wants from me.
It's such a D-lister reality TV star thing to do.
The cringe is strong on this one.
They actually hired friendly paparazzi to follow them from the moment they landed. It's so desperate and sad and eww and Tay Tay can't even hide her contempt for mum I can't believe she's actually struggling with this stunt.
PS Kaynes video is worth the praise
*Kanye
So glad I dosed up on Codeine and booze again for this spacktacular event
>>89 >>90 I still don't think TH got her knocked up, but I think she cheated, told the ex and he crashed the car, then they broke up and she now has to overscript everything so that everyone around them seems so happy with the speed of the new relationship so that neither the negative press from the ex, nor whatever scandal she is running from regarding Kanye will be overshadowed by her new love. (whew).
Wow. The pictures are up on dailymail of Hiddleston introducing Swift to his mother. The jag met the private plane, they're strolling down his mother's street arm in arm with the mother. They are zipping around in his James Bond jag car. Is this for real? Is she pregnant? Is this a Hiddleston save for his career. So confused.
>>95 It is so severely over scripted, it's transparent now. I don't even know where they're going with this now.
I can't believe he used his own mother. That's really low. We're only on day 10. What is going on?
If she's pregnant they wouldn't be this obvious. It'd be spaced out over time. They'd make it more gradual to show an organic relationship and not make the pregnancy factor obvious.
This whole pap walk was like a photoshoot. It's ridiculous!
It's about to get worse in 4, 3, 2….. check it out
http://tayswiftland.tumblr.com/post/146440166159/nobody-else-curious-about-the-ring-she-keeps
>>98 I did see that. It's so big, how can you miss it. I just assumed it wasn't new but if Swifties say it's new then... wow.
This is turning into a two week engagement.
Chuck that up your timeline, DM
So, back to those pregnancy rumors... no point putting tinfoil hat on any more
>>99 She wore suspicious rings when she was dating Calvin and Harry. It's like wearing a loose blouse to get people talking about a pregnancy. FWIW she's not wearing the ring in the Rhode Island pics or the Selena Gomez concert pics as far as I can tell.
She was drinking at the Selena Golez concert and also in the lunch pap pics in Nashville. I don't think it's pregnancy. This is screaming showmance to me now.
Wow. At least they're not holding hands in any of the shots : ) Only slightly weird how TS is not quite smiling in the pics. Will Taylor stay with Tom in Australia for all of Thor 3 shooting, or will she head back to the US? They're making quite a play for "dream couple" and pushing back all of the Kanye video chatter. Could this still be over by July? Or is it more of a 6-9 month thing? If they are able to convince people of their feelings, could public opinion flip to their favour?
Gomez* jeez typos and me today
This is totally like Bennifer 1.0 but on steroids. BUT it's also classic Taylor. That girl is always so extreme and so ott with relationships and boyfriends.
I just keep waiting for the LOKI'd or something. Not because he can't be in a legit relationship, but it just seems so weird. Everything is being played out in front of the cameras without any attempt to hide, or have a quiet night etc. But they've proven they can indeed pop off the radar when they want.
So there is a desire to have it all out there, but why? This is like a car crash, I can't look away.
>>105 Haha I wish. If this is some big elaborate prank, it's not funny anymore. I'm finding the entire thing rather annoying. They're everywhere - you just can't get away from it! Tabloids, serious news, social media... no place is safe from the epic shitshow that is Hiddleswift. Or Swiddles. Or ToTay, or TayTo, or whatever stupid cutesy name they've latched onto at that moment.
I'm going to continue being nasty about this until it ends, and probably for some time after. I hope you're all okay with that. If not, just let me know and I'll leave again. ;)
I'm afraid what is happening is that TH was always a phony. Go Kayne!
>>85 I'm glad we can finally say there's no real feelings here, only PR thirst, of the lowest level.
>>89 anonsy! I can't even be angry anymore, it's such a disappointment that I only feel dislike. Paparazzi don't just happen in that area, or in a small airport or in a small town. This was all announced in advance. And hi smother! The poor woman maybe even had to put on a brave face because there were cameras.
>>91 Did you notice the five (five! does she think someone will kidnap her?) bodyguards SUV behind the jaguar? So ridiculous.
>>100,101 yes, the drinking wouldn't be advisable, but there are women that do anyway, and we can't tell if it was alcohol or not.
>>106 I'm new here, but I live for the nasty because I'm just sitting here with a giant neon billboard of question marks above my head. At least the nasty gives humor to it all.
Also, this is one seriously long first date. They haven't been apart long enough for it to be feasibly considered a second date yet. From hello to cohabitation, they're living in a fishbowl on purpose.
>>107 I know. His mother. That's where I draw the line.
(P.S. my captcha is "sin")
I just woke up. We had a night out and I have a hangover. I thought I felt bad but now I have just been sick in my mouth a bit.
What is going on, people? When I said I would look out for her gigantic security detail I was joking. She doesn't need security in Aldeburgh. Yes, the Aldeburgh Festival is on but the average age of festival goers is about 75. No joke. (American peeps - it is a music festival for composers Taylor would of course recognise, like Benjamin "Yeezy" Britten).
I really, genuinely, thought they would take his car and drive to Aldeburgh and try to be on the down low. I was expecting maybe a blurry fan shot from a local kid. There is no doubt at all that these pics are staged. Quite apart from the posing (walking three abreast with arms around each other - so natural) they can't have been taken later than late afternoon because of the light. That means they were being taken almost simultaneously with the tweets saying he was in Essex emerging. Aldeburgh is a 1h drive from Ipswich and a 2.5h drive from central London so for someone to get there in time these pics have to have been a set up. Tom Hiddleston just used his mother for a pap stroll. I really am disappointed now.
>>106 be as nasty as you want anonsy, get it out of your system :)
>>110 According to the Daily Mail they didn't even take his car, it was rented at the airport - which I find extremely hilarious for some reason. In my mind, Tom gave a speech something like this: "I will fake kiss you on a beach. I will eat a swan pastry. I will go to a Selena Gomez concert. I will allow you to meet my mother. But I will not. I repeat, NOT. let you ride in my Jag. Some things have to be kept sacred."
>>106 Say what you want, baybee. I am all aboard the bitch train now. Toot toot!
ps anyhow the rule here has only ever been - no snark to each other. Snark about Tom's bad life choices is A-OK!
>>106 Carry on, I'll be chirping in. In fact seems we are on on the same scathing cynical page.
What I can't comprehend is the sheer stupidity of fans on both sides lapping this up. Have they never dated and truly fallen in love?
Knowing that every step you take outside will be documented by the world what horny couple on heat would ever deliberately do so.
Then take into consideration their combined wealth and lack of commitments, their daily pap strolls are inexplicable. STAY INDOORS AND COPULATE if that is what you do (I am having some doubts).
PS Anyone notice Olly picks him up from the airport and they hug
>>114 I saw Olly (poor thing), that's why I thought it was TH's jaguar.
Ok now that Tom has put it all out there for us to see, I did something I have always previously had too much self-respect, and respect for his privacy, to do. I looked up on 192.com where his mother's house is. It is not on the main street. It is on a quiet side street. On street view you can see that it has a high wall and a gated drive (you can see the height of their or neighbours' walls in the pics). Tom and Taylor and the whole shebang could have driven in those gates and no pap would have been able to photograph the meeting. Also because under English law you have a right not to be photographed in your own garden even if visible from the road - though the walls are 5 foot high so it wouldn't be.
>>115 It certainly wouldn't be the first time the Daily Mail was wrong about something.
>>116 So they invite their own crew of paparazzi to Tom's mother's house, then they get her to come out into the street for the stupidest most awkwardly staged-looking three-headed monster photograph ever. With matching sunglasses and smiles!
>>116,119 Poor woman, strange he didn't pull his sisters into this mess.
>>119 If you look at DM's photo 14 of 25 those big ass walls on the right of the pic are the walls of his mum's house.
I have never seen his mother looking anything other than like a little old lady in pics. Someone bought her shades. He often says they are incredibly close. Maybe she is as thirsty as him for him to be uber famous. Maybe she's down with it all.
>>121 Sorry I know that! Why did I say publicist? I think it's the shock...!!
>>114 The fans are claiming that the paparazzi followed their movements on social media and were hounding them. That it's not Tom and Taylor's fault they're so famous. I mean if your audience is THIS naive then obviously the sky is the limit with this showmance. I've even read comments where people are justifying that you just know when someone is the one and Tom said that he's let everyone know when there was something to write home about.
This isn't something to write home about. This is a parade. Tom really isn't behaving like a well educated 35 yr old adult man anymore.
>>120 Maybe they refused. Or we'll see them get papped tomorrow going to his mom's or in London on Sunday. I'll bet we don't see Dad.
Well, his Oscar campaign (for what film I have no idea), started very early.
>>120 Oh well he can't blow through his whole family all at once, he's got to keep them spread out so they can get in the tabloids every day for the next week.
>>122 "Mummy please, this will help me get Bond, I swear! Just put on these sunglasses and pretend you like this girl, please? Please, mum!"
>>121 That's his own Jag? Lol! The DM said its a rental and it makes Tom look even more pathetic that he rented a car for Taylor while she's flying him around in her personal jet.
>>124 That quote regarding something to write home about was from an interview during the Coriolanus era, either the Times or ELLE UK. At that point people took it as a direct slap in Jarthy's face. So now that he's being so public, this relationship with TS is 'real.'
And my capcha was 'plowzzment'.
>>124 I can't access CB right now (the site won't load) but I bet his squad of apologists are saying just that, that his mum would never agree to a pap stroll, so it's all about REAL feelings. Confirmation bias is a bad beats.
>>131 They've been surprisingly quiet on the latest TayTo thread. It's under 200 posts. One poster posted the link to the pap stroll and they snarked that mama Hiddles must be thirsty too. Meaning that one poster believes it's all legit and real and true love.
>>124 They aren't f*cking hounding him. They were already there.
The guy who saw him tweeted at 16.14 that he saw TH getting coffee in a petrol station in Colchester.
The DM has a photograph of TH getting coffee at the Colchester services (it has an m&s simply food shop which you can see in the background). That photo is very high quality and has the name of an agency at the bottom. It was taken by a professional. That professional could not possibly have read that tweet and arrived at the petrol station within a matter of seconds to take that photo.
>>132 considering how much glee they felt when BC did the same, it must be difficult for them.
>>131 >>124 I saw a tumblr post that said something along the lines of "this is obviously real, because when have we ever seen him bring anyone else home to meet his mother?" I don't think these people are really thinking about what they're saying - Tom bringing a woman home to meet his mother is NOT SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE SEEING. Your significant other meeting your family is not a public event! And based on what Anon said at >>116 not only was it completely unnecessary, but they had to inconvenience themselves to make sure they were photographed being oh-so-happy together.
>>133 Exactly
So next will surely be Wimbledon.
I almost wonder what type of strategizing goes into this, what are the PR teams conversations like. That's what I would love to have a transcript of >.<
Random other thoughts:
1) I don't think she is pregnant. I think this is her respectable meet the parents outfit. She can hardly show up wearing that biscuit-revealing black dress she had on in Nashville. She was probably imagining tea and scones and noblesse oblige.
2) I don't think it is an engagement ring because she is wearing it on the wrong finger. That presupposes they are making an attempt to hide the truth about their secret engagement. Um......do we believe at this point that these two are hiding anything apart from the actual moment of coitus?
>>137 I want to join that team cause they obviously take mushrooms
>>139 We on this board could take all the mushrooms in the world and still come up with a better PR plan.
Throwback to a quote from Old Tom a.k.a. Fake Tom:
http://theopiniondominion.tumblr.com/post/146444343123/do-the-work-enjoy-the-work-take-it-seriously
>>143 lol all I got from that is that 'enchantedbyhiddles' needs to change her name
Can I steal someones tinfoil hat for a moment to throw something outlandishly weird out there?
Maybe this is how he gets his break but keeps his name out there, burning people out, shucking the title of internets boyfriend, perhaps putting a stop to the dancing bear persona or at least in its previous incarnation. Unless it's something hideous it wouldn't affect his roles much, right? I know I'm being nutters, but eh... just saying.
I promise to never don the tinfoil hat again.
>>143 I even remember this article, I think it was with ELLEUK, beginning of 2014. I really need to delete of this crap from my brain.
>>145 I would agree this if the comments had been limited to the gossip world, but here it's the serious press, it's journalists he had interviews with. BC did all the PR stuff, but nobody in the serious press drag him. So it might end up affecting his career, he won't be jobless but it has definitely changed the perception people had of him. And as I said before, studios care about boxoffice results.
>>145 I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought something similar. It's almost like he's actively trying to alienate his fanbase, isn't it?
>>146 This is the part of the stunt that I feel has gone terribly wrong for him. I don't think the possibility of Tom getting mocked by the Guardian, Esquire, etc. crossed the minds of whoever came up with this stupid idea.
>>147 It is, but in a more polite way than telling people to straight fuck off and give him some space. But his more recent interviews right before this potato business sounded a bit tired and jaded. (I'm looking at you quotes about seeing people for what they are and about things being destroyed )
Perhaps he wanted to engineer a break from the madness. But I dunno, who would really do that? Not likely, and I'm not presenting it as such.
>>149 Yeah. I had tossed the idea around when I was still trying to justify his behavior as something that made sense.
>>145 If only. He's just exchanged the dancing bear persona for Taylor's dancing bear persona. At least the first one was endearing. This is a massive joke. Didn't an article call him Taylor's dancing monkey? Yeah it was the Slate - http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/06/16/taylor_swift_kissed_tom_hiddleston_and_everyone_is_freaking_out.html
I think Tom had a mental breakdown when they rejected him for Bond and now he's gone completely off the rails.
>>147 is that even possible these days? If it's not tumblr, it's be instagram, I mean that every new artist will become the darling of some social network or the other. He would be the only one making such a big fuss about it. After he courted that
I guess he thought that mearly getting a serious gf wouldn't push away the rabid, 'crazy' fans - he had to push people away. And it's certainly elevated his recognition - he is #3 on imdb as someone said earlier.
>>149 I get the "trying to change your image" bit. (Though into what? A famewhore and Taylor's side piece?). But if you wanted space is this what you'd do? That Vulture piece someone posted yesterday was from a recent sit down with NY Mag (and seemingly others - in about April I think) - and he was tired of the publicity yes, but his reaction was "some things are sacred" - ie leave me the hell alone and don't ask about my personal life. From that to this? I don't get it.
>>151 Exchanging one dancing monkey for another - that's it New Anon
>>154 He/his publicity thought they need to burn the house down and rebuild it.
>>156 It's just such a 180 so quickly... and I never would have dreamed he'd bring his family into it.
This article is recent, 3 days ago, but it mentions ISTL as Oscar material
http://www.theresident.co.uk/london-culture-events/tom-hiddleston-interview-bond-oscars-hampstead-heath/
>>154 yep, that's the difficult part to digest, that it wasn't a 180 at all, that his answer were fake.
>>159 Oh God, is THAT what all this is about? Did he get word there might be an Oscar nom for good ol' Hank even though the movie was a train wreck? So he's dating Taylor Swift, spending time in Nashville, meeting up with Hank's granddaughter...
>>157 And the article concludes that this press bombardment is all about - not Calvin - but to deflect from Kim/Kanye and her alleged lying about the video.
>>156 Maybe that's it indeed, burning down the house. It's been surefire, fairly quick, and increasingly successful. While boosting his name recognition if not his reputation, and he isn't having to do all that terribly much. Any hint of a return to normalcy would most likely be welcomed, so a free chance afterwards to become a new man and change some of his public persona?
>>163 So this is a PR relationship of mutual benefit. He retools, she deflects.
>>163 it seems to me he did an excellent job with his old PR, I mean here we are in the face of evidence that he stooped down to such a low level, and we are still trying to find a reasonable explanation to justify his choices. We are just refusing to admit we were the victim of a PR manipulation.
>>161,164 I have no idea, yes his performance was praised, but by the time of the Oscar next year there'll so many new films that his will be long forgotten, so I don't really see this being about an Oscar.
>>166 I know you're right. It's just so disappointing. And I don't like being played.
>>166 Oh no doubt, his old PR is the reason I became a fan. And I'm not a fan of anyone, like.. ever. I don't follow shows or movies or people so it was a rarity - aaaand I've been a fan for just a few months. In time to attend WW in PA and see this trainwreck. Which is reminding me why I tend to hold that all celebrities are by nature, batshit. (Sorry for the rant, but yeah. I loved the PR of who he was, he seemed like a legitimately cool AF person worthy of respect. )
>>168,169 I know, and this we are doing isn't even the worst part, I bet that in a small corner of our brain we are all hoping this will end fast with the usual TS's way, so that we will maybe manage to save some respect for him and be able to go back being fans, dismiss everything as a momentary craziness. And I bet he knows that.
But the truth is that we were or we are being played. Even if before he was truly thinking those things, now he doesn't anymore. So how can you trust any future statement of his?
>>170 You can't, after this is over or I get bored I'm legitimately out of the fandom. Not because of his relationship, I'm a-ok with that. Or the PR part because we all have public faces, and they don't reflect who we are privately. Lord knows if you talk to me at work, I'm a professional. And so are they.
I'm just a moralistic snob and he lost me at the cheating. There's no way around the timeline where there wasn't at least emotional cheating, and he was on board with it. But no, it's business you can't trust a thing and shouldn't. He probably has a basis of the qualities everyone admired. But those don't make a complete person, just an aspect that was focused on for the professional mask. He's changing that, showing more or simply using the sudden shift as tinder to bonfire the entire thing and start from scratch.
>>171 if sources around his ISTL extracirricular relationship with EO are to be believed, this is not the first time.
>>171 The same thing probably happened with Elizabeth Olsen too. She started working with Tom and then suddenly broke off her engagement over the phone. At the very least, it gives the impression he's sitting there waiting to be a rebound. (That is if we're going with the idea that this thing with TS is at all legitimate.)
Well, I for one am going to look on the bright side - maybe we'll get another Michael K article tomorrow.
>>171 I ignored everything Hiddles for the past 4 months, I'll go back to it as soon as this is over too.
God, imagine if he forces his what? 75 years old father to do a papstroll? yew
>>176 I still can't get over how fishbowl everything is, 360 view at all times. But if they're doing Da, it would most likely be soon. He's running out of days to be photographed on before Thor. Unless he'll be flying the family and TS out to do a set visit Photo Op there. Hmmm.. merit.
>>175 Well, the brightside of it is that he thinks he's a Knight in Shining Armor (or Amour) for these two sad, sweet ladies.
Rationalization is a hell of a drug. And he may be hitting rock bottom.
>>178 I hope not, rock bottom is a shitty place to be. :(
IMO he was coy about his private life was to protect his girlfriends from crazed internet fans. Now he has met someone who doesn't need protection, someone who cannot be hounded off the internet or intimidated. And now he can do what he always wanted, show off his partner and be shown off.
>>180 I get where you're coming from, but 1. this has gone way beyond "showing off" a partner, and 2. it goes against everything he's said over the years not just about his love life but about wanting to be taken seriously as an actor and keep the focus on his work.
>>180 No. This is bs.
>>180 I could totally see once as him feeling free to express his love or whatever. But we're working on literally something every 1 to 2 days. It's intentional, but he's not the one really showing anything off. Besides meeting his mom, all of the dates have been her turf.
And with >>181 Completely against the principles he's repeated for the past several years. Discretion seemed to be important.
>>183 ;)
I get desperately wanting to give the man the benefit of the doubt and wanting to see all this through pink coloured glasses, but let's not bend facts to theory.
If TH was ever that kind of person he would have opened his articulated and eloquent mouth to tell his fans to back off Susannah or EO, the way Charlie Hunnam did for his gf.
TH has sold out his private life, because make no mistake both TH and TS are making money out of these papstrolls.
In the meantime, Chris Hemsworth yesterday published a photo with Taika Waitit saying they have been discussing Thor3. Which means they are both already there busy with the film.
And then there's this article with some set photos and that says "Principal photography on Marvel’s Phase 3 Thor sequel, Thor: Ragnarok, the biggest movie to be made in Australia this year, will begin on July 4 and continue until at least the end of October."
http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/entertainment/its-a-marvel-in-the-making-as-thor-ragnaroks-majestical-universe-rises-on-gold-coast/news-story/dee9d716dfbfdc1e89f472edb04ecaa2
Is it mean that I hope THor3 will be a great success and with very little TH in it? =P
Taika Waititi said in a recent interview that Thor3 should be more focused on Thor's character instead of Loki.
Maybe they only included Loki in a few small scenes and Tom was not pleased. Maybe that's why he's engaging in all this showmance. I wonder how Marvel is going to deal with all this.
Look at photo 3 of 25 of the DM pics with mummy. Not an iphone in his pocket. Cigarette packet?
How were the paps allowed inside the airport?
>>188 And actually looking closer he has the phone in his hand. Couch, you called it right. He's smoking (again?). Maybe he never stopped.
>>188 You know I noticed that and thought it looked like a pack of cigarettes, but promptly forgot about it as I sat there gaping at my computer screen, muttering "his mother. his mother? his own mother. his MOTHER?" in stunned disbelief.
Papping his mother is very weird indeed and probably an indication of how much leverage TS has in the relationship.
They both imho, need to lay low a tiny bit for a tiny while .. I was kidding about the next Friday engagement announcement but i see that with the discussions about rings and babies what .. 14 days? into the whole thing, I might've been a bit ah .. late.
Anyway - I hope for Tom's sake that the bigger picture - whether it be Bond or everlasting love with the (A-list) love of his life, is worth it. He and his PR have managed to make some form of mincemeat out of his former brand .. the new one remains very suspiciously plastic.
>>189 I am guessing because they were there with the rest of the team. See my post above about them being "papped"" at the petrol station. That photo was taken because the paps were travelling with them.
>>191 More evidence that his public image may always have been very carefully controlled. I cannot recall a single pic where he has been caught smoking or an interview that referred to him smoking during the meeting (there was one where he said he had smoked during ISTL). Even that pic at the ES Awards where Anon. thought he was smoking outside with Helen McCrory was cropped so the cig wasn't visible. But that is a cigarette packet, I am sure.
>>190 ww4.sinaimg.cn/large/6e14d388gw1f57dh7vh76j20qq0zf7ce.jpg
left hand:eyeglasses+iPhone
left pocket:car keys?
right pocket:cigarettes packet, definitely.
either he never stopped and he has been lying about it, or he picked it up again out of stress...in a moment when he is not supposed to be stressed.
>>195 Maybe just got bitten by the habit again during ISTL and it never left?
Someone who comments on CB has totally been on here and has stolen both my name and almost word for word the comments I made about the Hiddleston house being off the main road and it being illegal to photograph people in their gardens! And my comment about the pap being with them at the petrol station!!! FFS....
If I were Tom right now, I'd take up smoking too. And I've never even touched a cigarette before.
>>196 I think there was a radio interview during the promotion of ISTL this past month (in NY I think? I condensed so much info in a week I can't remember exactly) and the dj flat out asked him if he is a smoker and he actually smoked while filming ISTL and TH's reply was that "No, I'm not a smoker. The one in the film were fake cigarettes".
>>199 He LIES! Everything is lies! He's a lying liar who lies!
>>197 Really? Well, take it as a compliment, at least it wasn't twisted into something else, and it was a good comment. But I saw a few poster at CB using the "anon" or "Anon" username so that maybe wasn't stolen.
The THEO blog is off the train too.
>>197 Ugh, that sucks with the no credit. But it is really good info, so I can see why they nicked it.
>>199 Oh, um. Nevermind then lols. Gonna agree with >>198 and yourself on that one then. Sometimes, you just need a smoke and this looks like entire days comprised of nothing but those moments.
>>201 I saw the THEO post and was like shit, it's bad when the person running the gossip site is just like #nope.
The pregnancy theory doesn't make sense. She was in a relationship with Calvin for 15 months, they surely had a normal sex life and she was probably on the pill or other contraceptive method. Even if she was indeed pregnant, how could they know for sure the baby was Tom's and not Calvin's (unless she didn't have sex with Calvin)?
I have a different theory: their Met dance-off was such a success worldwide with everybody saying "aw, look how adorable they look!" that they thought they would get a similar reaction if they started dating. But the general reaction was negative and even serious newspapers like the Guardian called them fake and started mocking them. Even Taylor's fans were calling her a slut. Her PR team quickly came up with a plan to convince everyone that the relationship was real and serious and that could only be achieved if their respective parents were involved.
>>199 >>200. Yes he did say flat out "I don't smoke" in response to a direct question. So, as CB sometimes says, he opened his mouth and spoke lies. I do not think TS is a smoker and he has taken it (back) up since they've been together. She really doesn't look the type. I think he has been a smoker all along and he pretends not to be. I can't see what else that thing in his pocket is.
I just read theoanons' post. She seemed like us - funny and a bit snarky, with the odd tinhat theory, but basically a fan of Tom and definitely not there to rain down hate on him or any GF. She has really tried to say over the past fortnight - it's genuine and the publicity circus is just what all celebs do one way or another.
So if she is off the reservation and now thinks he is a thirsty desperate famewhore, then - he really is.
Come and hang out with us, theoanons! You seem nice! Work through your trauma with fellow-sufferers!!
Hi-- I had an experience with a family member who had a miscarriage after a plane trip Across the country, while she was in the first trimester. No flying is allowed for a woman in the first trimester, so no pregnancy b/C TS been all over the place. Plus, she's been drinking hard core at the restaurants (wine with swan pastries, and reports of multiple cocktails w holly Williams and espresso, and no caffeine allowed during pregnancy either.)
I personally think that Taylor may have been pregnant with CH, and decided not to have the baby. And this whistle stop tour, not to say TS and TH aren't very infatuated, is the only way to establish that the rock formation paps weren't a terrible idea. No one, not even TS, wants to be perceived as a liar. And if TH is a smoker, yes he lied which is awful, but this is a darn stressful situation on all accounts. And you can't smoke near a pregnant woman either, btw. due to second hand cancer.
She's still wearing that ring even in the new photos from this morning at the beach. It really looks like an engagement ring.
Every damned day? Really?
RE: New Photos http://belleswift17.tumblr.com/post/146455504959 link from ONTD comments
With his mother again, and the paps. Is this an attempt to shut down the UK press? We sell our romance but you stop writing mean things about poor TH?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHFRYAABXH_/
We didn't go to Aldeburgh but apparently it is now crawling with paps, according to owners of a boutique that has a branch there as well as the one we went to in Southwold. All the staff know his mother as she shops at the Southwold branch. FWIW they all think TH is gay! (Not I think having brazenly asked mum, just what they think having met him).
Is this Tom's brother-in-law, Emma's husband?
https://twitter. com/taylorsnextsong/status/746739683086970880
This is Emma's husband isn't he?
http://belleswift17.tumblr.com/post/146458053379/tom-and-a-friend-out-in-suffolk-saturday-morning
There are going to be pics with his niece too at this point?
Then Oxford, Wimbledon, G&W, what else?
Is that guy he's with a relative? They look pretty similar about the brow.
I know he has half siblings from his father's second marriage that he never, ever mentions in the press. From mum's side too? Or a cousin?
>>214 that's Emma's husband, for sure.
>>213 So she picked someone who has a family resemblance! Ha ha. Happens quite frequently I guess.
The whole clan is gathering...
>>217 engagement party?
They look like balls of some sort rather than balloons.
Not balloons. Tennis balls for children.
So there will a family reunion this weekend at his mom's to meet Taylor. Maybe there will be a wedding announcement.
>>214 His dad has more kids? I didn't even know he had remarried. Interesting.
>>214 His father married again? I didn't know that.
It does look like the whole family is gathering. For an engagement party? Not if they want us to buy this at all. If they spring an engagement on us this soon there's only one thing people will be talking about: timeline!! They will try to sell the 2 week whirlwind courtship ( love, romance, he's the one) but people will talk about when this pairing really paired up. Because even arranged marriages take longer to negotiate than 2 weeks. It might just be people online but with how the mainstream media seem to be treating them, I don't think it will just be CB and DListed pulling them out on the carpet for a good talking to
Loving the phone pic on theoanons's tumblr.
Gay - I would have said no before but now I'm not so sure because this relationship looks cooked up in a science lab? Famewhore - would have said no, but not now.
>>214,222,223 caught in the enigma of the balls I missed the detail: his father remarried and had other children?
>>223 Me too, I would never have said he's gay and famewhore but now everything seems possible.
Forgot to say. I'm starting to think they deserve each other in a very deep and meaningful way. The hunger for fame, the tendency to manipulate, the shallow surface, the eagerness to use anything and everything for publicity. It makes me wish for an engagement and wedding so that we can watch it all crash and burn in 3-4 years. (Hoping baby doesn't absorb my bitchiness)
I think he's been this hungry for fame all along but never had the chance for a true PR-filled life and romance. Now that TS is around, he is grabbing the opportunity with both hands. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
This comment from CB:
"WOW. HE. DRAGGED. OUT. HIS. MOTHER.
I have yet to see him pose with any of his parents and/or family members at a movie premier and yet we get these gems."
>>226 I also want to see this crash and burn (waves to baby I know she/he can see me)
Established that TH is doing this at 99,99% for PR purposes, the remaning 0,01% would be for maybe infatuation/beard/the nerd who never scored. Let's say that in a few weeks TS is bored, she doesn't want to adjust her clothes to his anymore (I respect the dedication she has, modelling herself after the guy she is with) and she dumps him.
What is TH left with?
A bad PR job that brought bad results
A reputation in pieces
A new waves of jokes at his expenses as a 35 years old who fell for TS's games involving his family in the process.
Did I leave something out?
Part of another interesting comment from CB:
"I don’t usually jump on the pregnancy bandwagon, but I think Taylor might be pregnant. Something looks different about her. And if she is, I can only say, well played, Mr Hiddleston! The English upper classes have never turned up their noses at rich women, and his child would be heir to $280 million and counting. Well played indeed."
I think he's in it for the money. That's why his mother is so happy. Without her millions, Taylor Swift would just be a slut not worthy of her son.
>>223>>224 I will have to find the receipts for that. I am sure I read about his father and the half siblings when I first joined the fandom and noodled around looking at old interviews.
The mother's remarriage - or not - I know nothing about. That was speculation as to who this ginger bloke might be. She is wearing a wedding and engagement ring but a certain sort of English lady does even after the divorce. The house in Aldeburgh, bought within the last 5 years, cost £2m. Unless Papa H is utterly utterly loaded that would have been a very large divorce settlement especially considering they split back in 1994. I assumed second marriage possibly. I suppose TH could have bought it but given that his own property cost a couple of million I thought that unlikely. He isn't so big bucks yet that he could afford to buy several properties at that level.
"Swift is set to meet his brothers on Saturday, June 25"
his brothers? lol
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/taylor-swift-tom-hiddlestons-trip-to-england-dinner-with-mom-w211264
>>232 The real story appears to be that his sisters have had sex changes.
He has brothers now? Lol
My genuine question is when are they finding time to bang in all jet hopping? They are photographed going out and about so much. You can't peddle The One and "couldn't their hands to themselves" and give them zero downtime where they're getting it on. Maybe they really are bearding for each other.
{also waves to baby} I think baby will need a healthy dose of scepticism and snark to deal with a world in which TayTo is a thing.
1) Timeline beggars belief if there is an engagement this weekend. I will take off my (tin)hat to those who said it had been going on for some time because I just do not accept that TH of all people would commit to marriage after 2 weeks. If they met at the Met Gala and shagged then I suppose we are approaching 2 months. Even so....
2) Unless she's pregnant. This brings me back to TH being an idiot, except now I can put my finger on exactly why.
4) if she is I want to see the timeline on that. What's the betting she will mysteriously disappear and the date of the birth will be the only thing in this whole damn relationship she doesn't put out there.
>>229 After all this -- and there will be an 'after' - he gives up acting in lead and supporting roles and goes into stunts - because he was born for stunts.
>>226 Also yes to this. They seem to be an appropriate match for one another.
Has Tom been waiting all his acting life for a relationship that was worth pimping out for publicity? Was he in fact in a relationship with JArthy for a year but never admitted it because there was nothing in it for him? I bet he did tell that Elle journalist that she was his GF and she assumed it was no secret and mentioned it. Then he realised very suddenly that his relationship wasn't helping him with his internet fanbase so he kicked poor old Jane back in the closet.
Was he responsible for the USW article about THEO and PurseGateGate, when he thought he had a romance that might buy him Oscar glory? It would certainly explain her otherwise mystifyingly bad reaction to the paps. Then when ISTL bombs EO is back in the closet too.
I think he is gagging for this - the attention, the column inches, the lifestyle and his perception of himself as the stud who got Swifty.
By the way, the beach where they were depicted is very flat and long with no cliffs or dunes and nowhere to hide. They may not have called the horde of paps who descended on Aldeburgh after the photos from the first lot. But they are complicit in these photos too. At the very least they are fully aware that they are being photographed.
I've changed my mind about the pregnancy theory. It might be true.
His mother may be happy with Taylor's millions but it may also be because of the pregnancy news.
Also, when you're dating someone new, you feel a bit insecure but Tom looks very sure of himself and is acting as if he owns her cars and HER. It's almost as is he was sure nothing can take her from him, as if she's the one who needs him desperately.
>>240 Sorry it is Martin - still worth it. Michael K is presumably lying in a darkened room with a wet towel over his eyes. I know how he feels.
>>240 Heartbreakingly, that is Martin - the weekend guy at DLIsted. He's okay, but not as good as Michael K - my child's future godfather.
>>237 I think you nailed it re: JArthy. And I could absolutely see this version re: THEO PurseGate. And now I think that he definitely sees himself as the stud who is worthy of only the best, and the best in his opinion, as it turns out, is a multimillionaire mega-famous music/movie/other A-list star, no less.
P.S. I am still lurking and agreeing with pretty much everything all of you say, just a bit speechless myself, lol. I certainly did not expect the pap stroll with his mum.
Now I want a ridiculously cheesy wedding with carriages, doves, white horses, prom king and queen crowns, TH pushing TS's cats down the aisle in a stroller, her squad in matching bridesmaids' dresses, etc., etc., and then I want to never hear from them again. Meh.
>>240 This is so good! Please tell me that DListed is a very famous site and Tom Hiddleston will read that.
I would believe almost anything right now including a whoops baby. Only two things make me think this is not a pregnancy:
1) TS strikes me as a girl who has PLANS. Mistakes don't happen in Taylorworld, especially with legions of tweeny fans and their churchgoing moms to think about. Extramarital pregnancy combined with a very unfortunate cheaty overlap are so off the wall for someone who controls her image so fanatically. And even if she does vanish for a few months she will struggle to make the maths right. If she shows up with a full term baby in 6 months time nobody will remember the story of the whirlwind courtship we are currently being spun.
2) Call me a devotee of stereotype but 99.99% of men don't want to get their GF up the duff in the first few months of a relationship, no matter how infatuated they are and no matter how much they want kids in the abstract. They like to feel they are making a choice. The whoops baby dad looks a lot more hangdog than TH in these pics (exhibit A: step forward, Mr Cumberbatch).
I think we are possibly searching for a plausible explanation because this is so nuts compared to how TH claimed he was. If we throw everything he said about the ephemeral nature of fame and his privacy in the bin, and start as if we didn't know him, we would just say, TayTay is a hungry famewhore who uses every relationship for $$ more than the last, and she has totally found her match.
>>236 LOL
>>237,244 Maybe that was the way with all his past relationships, a lot of PR and no sex. Do you remember Susannah's reply on fb when she denied she was married? Her friend told her "then fuck" and she said "Fuck yeah". Then Sian who was so besotted with TH she didn't dare asking for anything more than tail after him. JA who thought she hit the jackpot except the guy was always away and busy with his work. EO who probably thought she met a great guy, but no, PR and laser tag - I'm still not convinced about PurseGate because he looked too pissed, but it could be he thought she exaggerated it.
>>244 Hey qaz, nice to see you! I apologise unreservedly for Brexit. Also to anyone else on the board who is European and thinking WTF (M I think!)
>>246 nods in agreement.
I miss the days when we were content to make fun of his clothes. I laugh so much at TS only wearing flats now because she needs to look simple, when with Harris it was all high heels.
>>248 Those were such unexpected results, and a sad morning, I won't lie. But hey, you definitely have nothing to apologise for! Everything will work out, one way or another. You hold on there, too :)
I am copy and pasting this from CB because it struck me as really rather perceptive:
"Not only a high profile match, but also a super-rich wife. I think Tom is gunning for that. I had something of a ‘d’oh’ moment earlier when I realized that OF COURSE he’s aiming high in the marriage market. I wonder how I missed it before: he fits the type exactly. Since his schooldays he’s been living the somewhat uncertain life of the English gentleman who doesn’t have quite the money and the status to fit in with his Etonian peers. He has the image of the aristocrat, but he isn’t really an aristocrat. His family is wealthy, but not rich enough for a lavish lifestyle.
I do think he’s in love, but love isn’t always blind. Taylor is perfect for him – not only in terms of the fame game, but also money and status, on top of being beautiful and (presumably) fun. Money and status aren’t necessarily something he seeks consciously. I’ve seen it before in similar circles. When you subconsciously crave something, you’re more likely to fall in love with it when you meet it in an attractive package. His sister married up in terms of social standing, too.
I think the engagement is coming much sooner than Dec."
hum... I wonder where this ex-girlfriend is coming from... and why.
>>252 To combat the 'Is Tom Hiddleston gay?' google searches?
He's played with the fame and notoriety fire and now he's likely to get burned. The people who couldn't be bothered to share or sell stories about him are going to come out of the woodwork.
>>251 Well, first he needs to convince TS to marry him, second TS will come with a prenup. If he manages to be cast in film for great money he won't need to marry into it, and I think the man is enough of a showoff to want to be considered rich of his own.
Look at these 2 side-by-side pictures of Taylor Swift, one from the Met Gala and the other from this week. Her face is rounder and fatter in the second one. Her whole body is fatter.
I forgot to include the link to the photos:
https://twitter. com/news8magazine/status/746805774261846017
I'm not saying she's definitely not pregnant because honestly at this point nothing would surprise me, but I think the slightly different angle of her head and the makeup are what's causing the difference. Plus celebrities are notorious for doing cleanses, detoxes, laxatives, and all kinds of other weird things leading up to big red carpet events so they look their thinnest, and I doubt Taylor's an exception.
I really don't think she's pregnant. She was drinking white wine in that Rhode Island tea room report. She can't be that careless. I think it's all a lot simpler.
This is really fast paced almost like they are on a time table. I believe this is all scripted and to be over by mid July to early August, during the time period he's going to be working.
It's her story mostly. She wants to look good in the media, more specifically she wants to look good for her fans. Her breakup and Kanye controversy left her looking not so great. Tom and her probably were flirting post breakup or mid breakup and she decides why not and he thinks yeah we got great response after the MET gala they'll love us. She may or may not also have the ulterior motive of pissing off her ex. Tom realizes along with banging a hot young woman, he'll also benefit from visibility if his name is attached with Taylor's, and he's fine with her publicizing it. However the response isn't that great for Tom and they realized well it's fun but it ain't gonna last at this rate because their careers matter to both first so they're fast tracking it all to give a fairytale scenario to Taylor's younger fans but to any adult it's a classic Taylor being Taylor and rebounding, no harm no foul. Tom has always said its hard for him to do relationships properly because of his work ethic so he's got a built in out that it was good but unfortunately work took its toll on us but we continue to be friends who respect each other. We're already seeing US mag peddle his id make a bad boyfriend story. And Taylor's fans are supportive because TayTay will find love again and Tom will get back the part of the fanbase that's willing to forgive.
That's my story and unless some really INSANE development happens like she starts showing a pregnancy belly tomm, I'm sticking to it.
>>252 I loved the shade in this story! First time ever the Sun has preferred a brainy non famous brunette to a blonde famous airhead.
They also found the shade for this one - having had a pick of 2,000 photos of TS thinking "this beach is bullshit. The weather is bullshit. His mom is really boring and my mom is thinner and has a Louis Vuitton purse."
I go out for a massive bender and come home to MORE PAP STROLLS.
Oh stahp puleeze
Why does Tay Tay's face look like mine will in a few hours when I suddenly regret my recent life choices, am incapable of dealing with present trauma and stifling the need to vomit? At least I will have memories of a night of pure hedonistic joy and laughter, she looks like she sat on a pole and swivelled while making a mental shopping list.
She does look chunkier (shameless body shaming).
I can't quite comprehend why she would want to go through all this famewhoring, potential marriage and a life with a family that bores her to death for a Hiddlespawn conceived on a first fuck.
I'm also thinking of migrating to the datalounge TH is ghey board (in lurk mode 'cause they scare me)
>>261 If you do go over to datalounge, you have to come back here and tell us if they come up with anything noteworthy. A bunch of them think Tom slept with Kenneth Branagh.
>>262 Well, I saw an interview during his recent US promo tour in which the interviewer was talking about the importance of Branagh in his career and Tom's lip twitched visibly when Branagh's name was mentioned. It might just have been because he's aware of the rumour or because the rumour is true.
Well everyone, it's been hours (HOURS! I can hardly believe it!) since the last paparazzi photo essay about the Romance of the Century. Shall we start betting on what their next totally-not-staged appearance will be?
>>265 Are we sure they won't burst into flames if they try to walk through the door? Will they reserve a special pew for her bodyguards and paparazzi?
Yup! I was gonna say church too. And then brunch with the whole family including Tom's "brothers" and pics of Taylor playing with his niece. Or someone's kid. Expect perfect shots that look like movie stills. I really hope they don't drag someone's child, especially not his niece, into these thirsty pics. This is becoming so over the top. Why does Taylor Swift do this? I watched the Harry Styles and Kennedy kid romance unfold and it was more or less the same. Especially the Kennedy kid. But it wasn't this fast.
>>267 I think she did the "meet the families" thing after only a few weeks with Harry Styles, didn't she?
>>268 Yeah but no pictures. Just tabloids leaks about it. She got papped with Harry more towards the end of their relationship. Literally last month before the breakup.
Getting papped at this level, it was the Kennedy kid where almost every activity she did with him was papped including going to church with him and his family and then visiting his mom's grave who had committed suicide earlier that year. Even if the mom has passed away, Taylor will visit her. Shows commitment!
Small question, anyone else read the opinion dominion on tumblr? It seems to be gone now and I was wondering if something was said or if that just.. happens?
>>270 A bunch of fans reported her to tumblr staff for "invasion of privacy" or some nonsense and got her deleted because they didn't like what she was saying.
>>269 Thanks. I've never followed her too closely, but I do remember the Connor Kennedy relationship being pretty crazy. The paparazzi visit to the mom's grave annoyed me.
>>261 >>262 On datalounge they think he's ugly and fake; even though some of them love his body, they're a superficial lot. I lurk there, did a search on his name and there was no real new gossip, only threads regarding the Bond race. There were 2 or 3 old threads from the Coriolanus days that maxed out at 600 comments due to an influx of fans from LSA and CB who were blasted by the DL regulars. They don't like women there, no surprise, especially straight ones. So i continue to lurk.
>>270 I just discovered that site yesterday. Format-wise, it seemed no different than any other anon ask / reply site, plus she wasn't nasty to them like the bike.
>>271 That absolutely sucks, I liked that one. Though I'm not hip on where all the gossip or news comes from. I only knew about that one, THEO, and from theo -- here. Lol
Thanks for the info Anonsy. :)
>>264 At Wimbledon on Monday, maybe a glimpse today in London pulling into his gated driveway. No pap with his father.
Regarding The Opinion Dominion, I just remembered, a couple of hours before tumblr pulled it, she posted a very long submission from an anon about TS's history with the press - not just dating, celebrity feuds, problematic quotes, shady things she allegedly did. That's probably what broke it.
>>260 she does look bored and I love the Sun for the shade
>>277 The opening match features the reigning champion and is high profile - but bad tennis as they are usually playing some poor unseeded player whom they demolish. My guess would be the middle Saturday.
I guess church today - it's round the corner from the mother's house so a nice excuse for a stroll, ha ha. Possibly dinner at a local restaurant tonight then back to London on Monday.
I wonder if she will stay in a hotel - he didn't stay at hers, remember, and also the mancave is probably not up to her exacting standards. Or many women's exacting standards. This is a man who bought furniture along with the house.
This is a good one - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/could-tom-hiddlestons-bond-ambition-backfire/
A subtle "please calm down with your circus thank you you have the talent calm down this is embarrassing"
>>278 They probably will do church, won't they. I guess after you exploit your mother, exploiting Jesus is the next logical step.
I'm going to go with hotel, since he stayed in a hotel in NYC and Lizzie stayed in a hotel last summer when they were doing their thing. Besides, I don't think he has enough guest rooms for all her bodyguards and photographers.
>>278 The finals will be after Thor starts filming so I thought they might catch what they can when they can, starting this week. We'll have to wait and see.
Remember that look on Jarthy's face when she was leaving the G&W in those shots from a month ago? I wonder if he told her about Tay - JA looked like she was in shock. (just kidding)
>>279 If he knew he was still seriously in the running for Bond, would he still bave agreed to this high profile relationship? Someone said earlier in this thread that he probably found out he lost the role and said fuck it, I do what I want now.
>>282 Maybe they told him he lost the role because he wasn't high profile enough, and he snapped. "You want high profile? I'LL SHOW YOU HIGH PROFILE!!!"
>>279 I have no access to the article. It's subscribers only. :(
>>284 Don't worry their paywall is terrible. You get 5 free articles a week and then they try to block you. But if you clear your history or switch to a different device it should be fine.
That article in >>279 suggests the underwear pics helped his profile more than Hiddleswift paps; he should proceed with caution.
>>285 Hopefully mom spoke (or slapped) some sense into him / them. The dour looks on the beach aren't for nothing.
My capcha: exarth
>>284 Clear your history and it should let you access. I'm not a subscriber and I can access it. All in all though it's basically advising him to cool it with the Taylor circus and just keep doing what he was doing before career wise and stick to his previous philosophy of discretion because being a scandal or something else unsavory may come to light with all this extra high profile coverage.
>>285 where little hiddles his is ego or his PR, because they spent more time on planes and papstrolling than in bed.
Funny thing, this isn't even helping his self-esteem or in confidence.
He never used to have any problem at being photographed with his eyeglasses, now as soon as he is in public he is holding them in his hand. And he is smoking.
>>280 but I presume she is staying at his mother's house right now, are the bodyguards there as well?
>>291 I guess we can't really know, can we? Since the photographers have their scheduled photo ops, maybe after the first day they were told "no more pictures of Taylor and her people coming or going."
Someone on the DM Suffolk article commented that they saw Tom and Taylor on their way to see Lionel Richie at the Colchester stadium last night. I guess that's where the next pap shots might come from.
Also Glastonbury is happening. They might hit that. He's gone to it before during the JArthy era.
>>289 I created an account but it still ask for my credit card details. If I get 30 days free, why do they ask for my credit card details? I don't want to give them that information.
>>294 Lionel Richie in Colchester (not the sexiest city in the UK). If someone took me on this date I would dump them immediately.
>>296 I think they want to start billing you as soon as the 30 days is up, in the hope you will forget to cancel. It's easier to clear the history I think. PS you can surf as much as you like on an iPhone without hitting the paywall. They seem to have decided that they don't care about you squinting at a tiny screen for free.
>>297 this is was clearly his choice (are we sure he is 35 and not older?Lionel Richie!) as revenge for Selena Gomez.
"perfect cookie cutter leading men like Tom Cruise"
What?! Tom Cruise has no shoulders!
>>297 My thoughts exactly. But hey, they they went to a Selena Gomez concert which is much worse.
I think Tom wants to get into the music world and Taylor wants to get into the cinema world (her few film appearances were irrelevant). This relationship will be beneficial for both.
Also, as someone has mentioned, she wants to marry a British from upper class with high connections and he wants to have money to be at the some level as his ex colleagues from Eton. She brings the money to the marriage and he brings the class status. Everyone will forget her slut reputation (or so she thinks).
Maybe her bored face in the photos with his mum were because she's realised that he's family is not so upper class as she initially thought. There's no ancient mansion or friends with noble titles.
>>296 Someone copy pasted the article on Tom's IMDB message board. You can read it here - http://m.imdb.com/name/nm1089991/board/threads/258725508/
>>301 She's aiming for Prince Harry. Tom is just a stepping stone lol She'll get her chance at Wimbledon when Tom introduces her to Camilla.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHGz78Vhh6j
Some more beach shots which I'm posting for the obvious juxtaposition to the caption 'SHE LOOKS SO AT PEACE, BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY 😻👫❤'
Is that an eyeroll that's progressed into a full head roll?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHGzt0gA4rN
This is absolutely terrifying.
>>294 Selena Gomez to Lionel Ritchie in a week. How's that age gap going guys?
>>305 That hand holding...she always holds hands with all her guys the same way. There's never any variation. Always the interlaced claw.
>>305 That pic of him is terrifying. Stockholm Syndrome anyone?
She meanwhile still hates the bullshit beach.
Richie vs Gomez has nothing on the charms of Aldeburgh in festival season. As my husband said when he saw the pap pictures, maybe the bodyguard will take one for the team if it looks like someone might get run over by an electric wheelchair.
>>307 LOL
>>308 I think his mother would probably think Lionel Richie was a bit moderne. She is a doyenne of the Aldeburgh Festival and has been on the organising committee several times.
The news about his first serious girlfriend is everywhere. I'm sure it was his PR team that leaked the story in order to stop the "Tom Hiddleston is gay" rumours.
http://ww4.sinaimg.cn/bmiddle/6e14d388gw1f584egviacj21tk2k8qv5.jpg
Th showing her his domain and TS thinking "Where's my jet? My SUV? My horse, my horse, my kingdom for a horse!"
I want to share this comment from DListed because it's ON SPOT:
http://66.media.tumblr.com/ea0ddb12b66d4a10f66dbc738dc3add8/tumblr_o9cdueugMb1qb86xno1_r1_1280.jpg
This is the original Stockholm Syndrome photo, so basically TS was saying "Guys turn to your left for the paps please, I didn't pay all that fuel for my jet to walk aimlessly on this beach"
>>314 Oh my.
Honestly I would love to see fan photos, or any other type of photo than pap photos. And how blatantly there are they? I know there were photos of paps outside the house, but I dunno.
Are they called now, or is it just ants on sugar since it's a supposedly quiet sort of location?
>>315 probably both? Like Anon said the first batch of paps were called because they were there the very instant things were happening, now of course others flocked because it's worth it.
>>315 Here's a pic of the beach. Nowhere for a pap to hide - so at the very least on those beach photos they know they are there. http://www.tournorfolk.co.uk/aldeburgh.html
Torrilla has a pic of paps at the end of the street - but that pic was taken the day after the original meet mum pics. They have all descended now she is known to be here. The original pics were staged - mum didn't wait at her door and greet TS once she stepped inside, like any normal person welcoming someone into her home. She came out of her house, through her front garden, out past the high walls surrounding her property and into the street. If they hadn't called the paps and she didn't want to be photographed there was no need to have been.
Anyone know how I can post screencaps on here?
>>319 I think you may have to upload them elsewhere and then post links, but I'm not sure.
>>319 like anonsy said or there is an image board
http://4-ch.net/img/
>>321 thanks I will experiment later with the image board. Have to pop out now.
More photos from the beach papstroll
http://lost-in-taysland.tumblr.com/post/146485295748
And then this, preparation for the 4th of July party?
http://belleswift17.tumblr.com/post/146497870699/teacherous-taylors-taymerica-slide-the-rhode
I missed this detail in the DM's exclusive article with TH's mother, but I read it again in the new CB post, this was supposed to be a "quick, 24-hour trip" That explains the bored face on the beach.
No sightings of them at the Lionel Richie concert. The only thing I found was a comment on a DM article from a guy saying the he had seen them at a Colchester petrol station and they were heading to the concert. How did he know they were going to the concert? I'm sure they wouldn't tell him that. Maybe they were heading to the airport to get on her private plane or maybe they were going to London to his place.
>>323 have they cropped his mother out of a few of those? They look familiar but missing her.
http://tom-hiddleston.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=634&pid=32475#top_display_media
http://tom-hiddleston.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=634&pid=32484#top_display_media
Don't crop mama out; she's the only thing giving these shots legitimacy.
>>326 Poor mama, forced to do a papstroll, ignored by her son's gf for most of the walk and then cropped out!
>>324 The concert venue is next to the petrol station. He might have seen them going in when he was parked up to get petrol. By the way it is the same petrol station as he was spotted at getting coffee on the way down to Suffolk! He is a creature of habit all the way!
>>328 They'll spin this like the other concert: He's so in love that he went to her friend's concert; now it's time for her to enjoy some of his 'more mature' music.
I wouldn't be surprised if we get pics. They seem incapable of going out without pics being taken.
I still think they were not at the concert. That's the petrol station near the highway to London and to the airport where her plane is.
>>330 Seems like they might still be in Suffolk
http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146504408426/thanks-anon-for-the-tweet
PS I love how people refer to Suffolk as 'his hometown.' Let's count the ways in which this is incorrect.
Here's a community service post for anyone with residual doubt that the maternal pap stroll was staged, or in some way foisted on the Hiddleston family without their consent after sneaky paps saw Taylor's plane land and trailed them all the way to Aldeburgh.
Here is a picture of Mama H welcoming TS: http://4-ch.net/img/src/1466957400346.jpg And here is a much wider street view of the same place: http://4-ch.net/img/src/1466957678459.png Look at the single storey building on the left and the black and white gable behind it.
Immediately in front of the single storey building is a parking space, and I am guessing that the DM pics were taken after TS and her entourage parked there. She and TH are headed towards the house on the extreme front right on the street view. Yes, the one which is completely invisible and well set back behind a giant hedge. I think I was wrong and the drive belongs to next door. So TS couldn't have driven up to the front door and got inside in total privacy. But what you can see, I hope, is that Mrs H has come out of her house, out from behind her massive fuck off sized hedge, and walked about 20 yards along the road to the parking place, despite the fact that her son was holding his mobile phone and presumably could have called and said "don't come out mummy, the paps are everywhere." It does not therefore seem to me that this was an unwilling pap encounter. Perhaps I am unduly cynical in my old age.
>>332 No, you were duly accurate and fair. He forced his mum to go out to meet them precisely because the DM's paps were there.
>>333 I should also have mentioned that the road where the paps were standing is dead straight and wide - as you can see a bit from the street view. They weren't hiding behind a bush, folks!
And don't forget that that is a private street only accessible to residents. There are electric barriers and I've seen at least photo taken by a resident the day after their arrival showing the paps outside the barrier.
>>335 What an excellent point. It is accessible on foot, and there is a manual barrier, but only at one end (there's no guard so I guess bona fide residents want to drive in and out without stopping to fiddle with a barrier). The manual barrier is where the paps were standing. But the whole encounter took place on private property - you're absolutely right. Which means that the paps only got in with permission.
Here's the tweet with the photo taken yesterday that shows the paps outside the electric barrier. You can also see the same barrier on Google earth so it's that's means it's not a recent security measure.
She had to come out to get papped.
https://twitter.
com/atthebasin/status/746720532553469952
>>334 It's also interesting that that's the only time the paps took photos near his mother's house, they didn't when they left for the beach walk, they didn't when he went out/came back with his brother-in-law. So yes, completely staged.
This would be the photos where you can see the paps (a pap photographing other paps, delirious)
http://ww4.sinaimg.cn/large/6e14d388gw1f57vt0mmsgj216o1kwtmj.jpg
>>337 sorry I posted my link before seeing yours
>>338 That's the barrier I mean. You drive into the street from the other end where there is no barrier. You can actually see the black and white gable in the pic - so even assuming the paps were photographing the encounter from behind the barrier (not allowed because it would be a photo of them on private property), they would have been completely visible to TH and TS.
I know it's just a blind item, but...
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2016/06/blind-item-3-1262.html
I've never needed proof that this was set up - or all the other pics are from paps they've called and worked with. The beach pics were laughably obvious, the others have been as well.
>>313 Savvy that comment was very interesting. It's why I keep coming back to wondering exactly how the breakup with her and Calvin went down, and the timeline.
>>342 I was talking about the RI beach pics but the UK ones are laughably obvious as well but probably from paps that sensed blood in the water rather than from 'her team.'
>>342 I know, I know. Who in their right mind would think a posh elderly English lady would meet her son's girlfriend of 5 minutes and immediately walk with her arms round both of them? But I have been getting very pissy at all the tumblr nutjobs screaming "they followed them off the plane at Stanstead! They even hounded them at their private family moments in a tiny seaside town!"
>>344 Doesn't matter if she called them, they knew they were there and willingly posed for these pics in circumstances where the money shot was totally avoidable. I think she did call them. It would be difficult to follow them by car on the route from Stanstead to Aldeburgh. It's an hour and a half on fast roads.
>>341 Well, if it's because of K. West, it's not working. If you search Tom's tag on twitter you get all the showmance but if you search TS tag you mostly get news about K. West's video.
>>341 Well, if it's because of K. West, it's not working. If you search Tom's tag on twitter you get all the showmance but if you search TS tag you mostly get news about K. West's video.
>>345 I understand, Anon. The Swifters are so convinced that she's being hounded with her one, true love. They have very limited memories.
>>350 and the Hiddlestoners. They are struggling to reconcile the latest, most monstrously thirsty pap stroll of all with the previous comments about some things are sacred, it's all about the Werk etc etc.
PS we have had rock and stroll. Can I name this one The Mama and the Papas?
I wonder if moma Hiddles knows about TayTay's reputation with men.
Om my! I shouldn't be so invested in this. I'm starting to feel like a crazy Hiddlestoner but this is so entertaining and I'm in bed with a broken leg and too much free time.
>>352 Oh no!!! Get well soon! 💐
What is happening to us? Pregnancy, major dentistry, broken leg. This board has more drama than TT's love life (and that really is saying something).
Thank you. :)
A 'source' for TH i.e. TS's PR, which means she's making him do her dirty work, has 'spoken out' about Kayne's video - it's classless:
http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/06/26/tom-hiddleston-kanye-west-classless-taylor-swift-famous/
Not that HL is a reliable source - I'm sure they make up stories and this one is just as suspect - it would be something TH would say in private but not make an explicit or veiled statement about to any press or 3rd party to pass to the press.
I found a link to the video last night, and it's ... weird. Naked wax figures in bed. Bizarre.
>>356 I think the real reason Swifty is annoyed is because the wax figure is less wooden than her.
>>357 snorts if the rumors about her sex drive are true. If not, I hope the two of them are having the best sex of their lives, and can't wait to get to the privacy of his home in London to have more, because that's the only good thing about all this PR fuckery.
>>358 I read so many rumours about that. The funniest one was on the bycycle that she doesn't like the noises, so Calvin had to get his rocks off in silence!
>>359 I saw that and had a laugh. Is that anything like $cientologists needing to give birth in silence? I'm surprised no one (as of my reading it a couple of days ago) countered with, if the pregnancy rumor is true, she's probably got the sex drive of an 18 year old boy. I know I did for the first half of my pregnancy.
Amazingly, I don't think we're going to get anything today. It seems even famewhores rest on the Lord's day. Could be that they are resting up (pap strolling is hard on the legs and dignity). Could be that they might actually start to behave like a normal couple now that she no longer needs to overshadow Kanye and Kim.
New pics with the rest of the family and children.
http://www.justjared.com/2016/06/26/taylor-swift-tom-hiddleston-hit-the-beach-again-in-the-uk/
>>361 Hahahahahaha!!! Or not. We didn't have a pic of Saturday's activities - except now we do. I bet we get church shots tomorrow.
Woah. Do I dare believe my eyes?? There are pics of them NOT holding hands??? Is that allowed?? And Tom isn't smiling?? Did Kanye tweet him or something?
And yup there's children. I hate it when she uses other people's kids. And Tom letting his niece be a part of this mess.
I've noticed they release pictures every 12 hours on the dot.
She looks bored. I think Tom and his family are enjoying this more than her.
And did you notice her jacket matching his?
I spoke too soon!
>>365 Wasn't she photographed with Gyllenhal's niece or something, Maggie's kid, one nanosecond into the relationship? This is all the same MO. Can't believe that the families always fall for it.
>>366 It's a Barbour jacket. And she has borrowed some green wellies from somewhere. In fairness the weather yesterday was absolutely atrocious. I had to go and buy a hoodie. I am not surprised she was unprepared, though the shameless style copying is also part of the MO.
TH says he goes there to decompress, and he is with his family, whom he adores. And he has his new girl. No wonder he looks happy. I am surprised she looks as bored as she does given that she is supposed to enjoy antiquing in New England or whatever. I haven't been to New England but I imagine the olde worlde charm to be similar. Maybe when she said this she meant her interior designer did it.
>>365 They release something every evening at around this time, I did notice that. Of the previous day's activities.
The infamous ring is now in another finger. It's still on the right hand but is gradually moving.
>>368 New England beach town culture (Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Maine) is very similar. I spent summers there. Cool, jacket weather, though people do swim and sunbathe.
>>368 Yeah she does. It's honestly a low point for me and I don't get how families just let her use their kids for her pap walks.
In comparison to how hard they were selling it before, he seems more toned down now. It's a lot more normal looking now than the try hard efforts before. But to be quite honest, I'm surprised he's got his hands in his pockets most of the time and isn't glued to her hand like before lol
correction: "ON another finger"
I know that all relationships are different. I also know that people mature and change and tend not to make the same mistakes in relationships. But...here is a timeline of TS's relationship with Harry Styles. I got it from the Daily Mail but it jives with other timelines I've seen. Does anything sound familiar...or should I ask, does anything look different?
-October: Harry tells an interviewer '[Taylor]'s a really lovely girl. Honestly, she couldn't be a sweeter person. She's a great girl and she's extremely talented.'
Days later Taylor splits from former love Conor Kennedy
-November: When Taylor makes a guest appearance on the X Factor, Harry arrives to watch
-December: The pair go public on the 2nd, with a visit to the zoo in New York
-January 2013: The pair split after an almighty row while on vacation in the Caribbean. She left alone on a boat, he stayed to continue the vacation.
In between she met his mom, in America and in the UK I believe. He met her mother. And they were papped walking all over NYC, kissing on NYE in Times Square, walking around with the infant daughter of his make-up artist.
>>374 Spookily similar. I didn't know she dumped the Kennedy guy and jumped on Styles so soon after.
Here is a priceless DM article shading the Madonna-esque transformation into an English lady. Worth it for some priceless pics of her glowering at TH as she is being loaded into Mum's car. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3661145/Taylor-Swift-gets-English-country-makeover-wax-jacket-wellies-steps-Tom-Hiddlestone-Suffolk-stroll.html
By the way, Covehithe is a very remote village about an hour's drive from Aldeburgh. It is notable for having a ruined medieval church that is slipping into the sea. Very romantic and atmospheric. I'd have believed that old Tom would want to bring his GF there. If she didn't like it that may explain the grim expression. Or if the paps are now following them everywhere whether summoned or not, he may finally - finally! - have woken up to the fact that this is not ideal.
DM says this is today. So mummypapstroll on Friday, beach in stripey top on Saturday/out with ginger brother in law, beach again on Sunday. I take it back - we are being fed material every day on the day it happens. And no rest on the Lord's day either.
>>377 He looks actively grim in the DM photos, even more so than the JJ. Are we into phase 2 of the Swifty relationship timeline, aka the bit where the victim/hostage realises he has made a terrible mistake?
>>376 So that's her eye-daggers look, complete with a smirk. I'll look for it more often.
At least the DM blocked out the pics of the niece's face compared to JJ. She's a cute girl.
Covehithe is one of my husband's favourite places in the world. I showed him that pic of Swifty's face and he doesn't want to go antiquing with her in New Enhalnd anymore.
>>376 These are probably like the paps for the beach stroll yesterday - not hers, not called, but expected after the show they put on Friday (Thursday?).
Welcome to your life, Thomas. Called, uncalled - they are now a permanent fixture.
>>382 My husband is skulking round the holiday cottage, muttering disconsolately about the suffering of a fellow classicist who took a girl to a gothically beautiful ruined church and she didn't like it. All I can get out of him is "nice chap really" and "terrible mistake" and - God help us all - "intervention". I may be in the paparazzi pictures tomorrow, wringing my hands while my husband tries to lure him into the back of our car using a copy of Polybius.
>>383 Is he going to lure him into the back seat of the car by throwing Polybius in as incentive? Is that when the intervention starts? 1. Catullus or Horace must be preferable. 2. My mother used to do this with the family dog to get her to the vet (she ALWAYS knew we were going). Mother used bacon.
Do it, Anon. Plan an intervention. Maybe find sexy Classics major - use her as bait!
Anon, I love you (and your husband). Thank you for making me laugh.
>>385 My pleasure!
>>384 I think the idea is to chuck the Polybius onto the back seat and when the dog, I mean Hiddleston, clambers in to investigate, tail wagging, we slam the door and burn rubber all the way back to London. We may stop at the vet en route for a sedative. Then we liberate him back into our house and reintroduce him gradually to books and classical music. He can talk to my husband about classical things and geeky things (quoth my husband, and this is not a joke, "I just know he would have enjoyed our trip to the lighthouse today. She wouldn't, I can tell"). I can be simultaneously mothering and sexual, which they will both think is normal because, you know, classics. He will not be allowed to read the Daily Mail sidebar of shame.
I am starting to get into this idea!
>>386 "I can be simultaneously mothering and sexual, which they will both think is normal because, you know, classics." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! applause
In some of the pics on IG, you can see what looks to be a police cordon, or at least officers present. WTF?
Do we think they're making 'the beast with two backs' while staying with mummy? That could explain TH's sour I'm Not Getting Any face. My husband - I LOVE it - and I did our honeymoon right! And it was ridiculous because I could have been hit by a truck and would have popped back up smiling. We hadn't even had a proper bonkfest in the beginning of the relationship because of work and conflicting schedules.
It's now been three-ish days with mummy and family. That's a long time to go without having sex with Taylor Swift but having to still date Taylor Swift.
http://teacherous.tumblr.com/post/146522540717/taylor-and-tom-along-with-toms-family-walking
They brought along the videographer for this one! Shit.
>>390 Wow. Yep, this is getting pretty ridiculous now lol
http://tom-hiddleston.com/gallery/index.php?cat=67
I know a lot of us use Torrilla, but I've found this site a good alternative. They're about as quick and perhaps more accessible than weibo.
>>389 Unless Mum is progressive and doesn't mind them staying in the same room (i wouldn't put any money on that) I bet he's dying to get back to London and the privacy his place. Or her hotel room. Unless they're not doing it yet.
His niece...Poor Sarah, but I see she is having a laugh (did she divorce? She's back in England, no husband?) He has no right to look pissed at the paps presence, he brought the madness into his family life.
>>386 Go Anon, you and your husband have our blessing, clearly his family is in no condition.
>>389,390 Wouldn't that be even more reason to hold hands?
He's wearing his running shoes for a walk! Blasphemy!
>>374 At CB I saw a pic of TS alone on a boat leaving the Virgin Islands after th row
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3855/1956/original.jpg
>>374 That's why we all said from the beginning the point here is not TS, she does what she always do, everyone knows, the reason why we find a recurrent pattern it's because it's always the same story. And since nothing happens spontaneously in her life, everything with TH from the beginning was carefully planned (it's also why I don't think TS is ever going to marry him)
The real problem here is TH, not only for his 180. Harry Styles was what a minor when he started with TS? I get his family going along or the Kennedy's boy (who apparently was the one who put a stop to TS madness when she bought a house near theirs), Jake Gyllenhaal was 29 so less understandable, but TH is 35!
They were holding hand at some point after all, the photo is indicative of the family's opinion
http://tom-hiddleston.com/gallery/albums/Photos/Candids/2016/06%2026%20Strolling%20at%20the%20beach%20in%20Suffolk%20England/016.jpg
>>377 (aren't those his eyeglasses) But yes, gloomy faces
Goodness, why is he looking down? Is it dawning on him the mess he's in?
http://tom-hiddleston.com/gallery/albums/Photos/Candids/2016/06%2026%20Strolling%20at%20the%20beach%20in%20Suffolk%20England/038.jpg
“The jet has 12 seats, which means she has plenty of room for her entourage when she tours—or, simply to scoop up her boy toy du jour. Page Six reported that Swift flew Kennedy on the jet from the Hyannis Port Kennedy family compound to her hometown of Nashville, simply because she “missed him” after not seeing him for merely a week. God forbid he have to take a commercial flight! We feel his pain.”
http://stylecaster.com/taylor-swift-private-jet/#ixzz4CiejOwYJ
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.'
>>495 It's supposed to be spear but saying "the spear side" sounds stupid.
Where did you go in the end?
Knowing my luck, after the Intervention, hubby and TH will fall in love over the classical droning and end up re-enacting scenes on Greek pots while I sleep in a cot at the foot of the bed.
http://blindgossip.com/?p=79384#more-79384 Grain of salt, people.
>>501 It is spear. Mykonos with hops around the other islands. Your husband and TH would make a great Bl: This actor loves Greek art....
>>496 I do think right now everything E! says is coming directly straight from Taylor's publicist. They were the ones churning out articles in minutes after a TayTo pap stroll so that we'd all have a narrative accompanying the visuals.
This one cracked me up though - https://m.mic.com/articles/147208/taylor-swift-and-tom-hiddleston-are-literally-modeling-their-relationship-after-rom-coms#.v78nfIsEX
Their whole relationship is such a Disney teen movie lol
More gay rumors, Anon: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2016/06/blind-item-9-686.html
>>502 I've been hearing whispers of Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner about to go public soon with their relationship. It may or may not coincide with their movie premiering at upcoming film festivals. Telluride maybe but don't quote me on that. You can quote me on the relationship though lol
>>502 heh hello TH/TS/EO/CH. CH is now dating and actress I've never heard of.
Ding, says the capcha
>>505 oh wait - let me publish this again, and mention that if you missed it, read the little bon mot below the ad - that's the zinger:
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2016/06/blind-item-9-686.html
I was telling a friend who just discovered TH when she watched the Night Manager, that i thought he was bi. Always, from day 1. Easy to say being the theatre and with the KB rumors but I believe it. And from there it's easy to see that he's not really going as long between relationships as the public sees. And if there really is a breakup with you know who, who's minding the store during this publicity storm?
>>507 CH? I was thinking that the 'super movie' part could be Henry Cavill, but I don't know his relationship status. Is there another youngish actor that was in the Superman movies that EO could be 'hooking up' with?
>>510 It's not Jeremy Renner??? I thought those two were going to come out. If it's Henry Cavill she's seeing, that'd be pretty amazing. They'd look stunning on the red carpet together. Him being with the 19 yr old was all sorts of creepy and uncomfortable.
'It’s been a little less than two weeks since the start date of Taylor and Tom’s contract Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston’s authentic love grew on a rock in Rhode Island and since then, they have moved faster than two U-Haul lesbians on speed...
But seriously, ToTay is looking so damn fake that it almost defeats the purpose of a PR relationship. Maybe this is one big performance art piece and Taylor’s artistic commentary on how her relationships are perceived by the media. Naw, I’m giving her ass too much credit.'
>>511 i forgot she was filming the movie with Renner earlier this year. Did Cavill break up with the 19 year old already? Good. That was creepy
Just came across this article from last week and had a good laugh about it:
http://thats-normal.com/2016/06/congratulations-taylor-swift-tom-hiddlestons-publicists/
(Not sure if it's been posted already, there have been so many...)
http://its-tomlinsunshine.tumblr.com/
bodyguards saying "make space", and this is the guy who ranted about equality
>>516 Eye roll. If they wanted space they should have just taken the private tour, it's not like they can't afford it... but if they took the private tour then we wouldn't have any "adorable" fan anecdotes and instagram photos being passed around on the internet.
Side note, it's interesting that someone who saw them interact in public (peck on the lips and all) thinks that it's a PR stunt.
>>516 That sounds so romantic. Like a 5th grade field trip. snort
When they don't call paps to follow them in a private area, they go to a crowded hotspot. Gotta leave that picture trail to show how deep and beautiful their love is.
Thi sis the Wndy Williams video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=835&v=fqDn8cK7OBc
Look at the faces of the audience, this is not bringing him any love in the US
>>518 I'm glad that they couldn't call the paps (it'd be impossible in the Colosseum unless like anonsy says it's a private tour, I'm sure there'll be a papstroll tomorrow) because this way we got photos of TH's where he's not in paps-mode.
>>520 His pap mode seems to be slipping too from the looks of those last beach pics. He looked like he couldn't even be bothered to muster up joy or some contentment on his face.
It seems so arrogant that while his country struggles with Brexit, he's parading his lavish lifestyle with Taylor even more. Don't think that's adding to his appeal for the Hiddlestoners exiting in big numbers.
>>521 Comment on DM article (which featured the phone pics): "looks like Tom Hiddleston will be the third British exit in a week" (we bombed out of the European Cup last night).
Looking a lot less miserable:
>>523 Am I being too tinfoil hatty if I note that these pics look to be of much better quality than the other candids taken yesterday?
>>524 My first thought was AH! There are the pap photos...
>>525 Yes. I don't think anyone got that close - so they are paps with good zoom lenses.
Also these http://oursong.tumblr.com/post/146594791149
>>527 Last night's dinner?
If you want to be really tinfoil hatty she has what looks like a glass of juice. And San Pellegrino in the wine cooler.
>>523 Hahahah! Full blown pap shots! I knew those were on the way. They really have the timing down to a science for their pap releases. They couldn't leave the narrative up to the civilians and their social media snaps.
Lord, they really are reenacting their own Nicholas Sparks movie.
>>528 Not sure but I'd guess so, and interesting.
Though honestly my tin foil hat is still stuck wondering how the ragmags knew the first day they were in the UK that it would only be for 24/48 hours or so.
I might have to craft a second hat to perch on the first >.<
Those Colosseum pap shots literally look like an engagement photoshoot. I'm really beginning to believe that Taylor goes through all her pap shots and OKs which ones she wants going live.
>>523 It's incredible that they managed to make a 'passionate spontaneous kiss' look like an forced airlock between a frail old man and a needy ironing board.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/06/28/calvin-harris-taylor-swift-tom-hiddleston-parents/
'Calvin Harris thinks it's "f****** laughable" that Taylor Swift has already met Tom Hiddleston's mother ... considering she NEVER met Calvin's parents during their 15-month relationship.'
Hello lovely sane people. Back from Greece and I just have to say, I AM SO OVER THIS ENTIRE SHIT SHOW! Seriously, WTAF is going on??! Yes the relationship may be real and in some photos they look genuinely happy and in love, but please, for the love of God, give it a rest with the publicity. With their money and connections they could be having a lovely romantic time away from the public eye. He's being made a laughing stock. So not good. What a knob.
I've noticed on Swifty blogs that whenever these pap shots come out of TayTo, they are always quoting one of her songs and the lyrics seem to fit pretty well. Almost like a music video. Which makes me wonder if TayTo have built their world tour around her albums? This whole thing is TAYlored to appeal to her fanbase.
That would be insane. Then again so is this performance. Sorry with each new pap stroll, I still get appalled that they're being this transparent and expecting us to believe it's all organic.
>>533 that's because he is (compared to her) an old man and she is a needy ironing board.
>>534 Damn...harsh. Her own jet and "it's too far away"? And now this world tour. That's definitely gotta hurt.
>>535 Welcome back!!
Yes, she totally could have done the holiday she did with CH when, IIRC, the only shots released were her own from Instagram.
>>540 Yep, exactly. It's so over engineered, I just can't work out what it is all about. I managed to take pictures at Ancient Corinth without getting papped once!
BTW my captcha just now was VOW - maybe a wedding is on the way after all!
These pictures are so confusing! I used to think it might be interesting to kiss TH, but these pecks with sunglasses on make it like a lot work! And a hand kiss is quite romantic,p in general, I think they can be passionate and gallant if done correctly, however, I would be into these brunch pics if they were sitting leg to leg, or hip to hip, with warmer body language. Where is the warmth and the heat? The pap pics are definitely to try to drive the narrative. What is the purpose of this? Does anyone know? And keeping the water in the wine cooler is the best way to keep it cool in the summer. That makes sense. And it was reported that TS had about five cocktails while out at Adeles in Nashville, so I'm hopping that she wouldn't do that if she was expecting.
>>527 She is dressed differently so I'd say they are from today's breakfast.
>>530 I think because this holiday has been planned. Or do we believe that they are deciding where to go the night before going?
>>533,538 and this you both said is not even shade, but a mere description.
>>535 Welcome back! The funny thing is that it looks bad as a PR show, but it looks even worse as a real thing. If it's both it looks awful. There's no way of spinning this positively.
If they plan to visit other Italian cities, I hope TS is prepared to walk, because most city centres are pedestrian areas or somewhat close to traffic. She won't be able to go around in SUV.
Anon those were definitely papshots, torilla has the HQ
http://tw.weibo.com/torilla/3991379909165632
>>543 Planned, exactly. For being a "private" affair it very much sounds like their itinerary is known, which is strange at least to me. Or tinfoiling means that paps know where they're going to be well in advance, so the sources are sharing more than just "taylor says she loves him" sort of things.
>>543 Couch, I'm genuinely bewildered by the whole thing. Also quite cross with myself that I even care. (Not in a jealous type way but in a why would you ruin your good reputation like this kind of way.)
>>546 it's strange for an actual relationship, more it's alien for a real relationship. For a press tour or role campaign or similar, not really.
>>547 I feel you, I don't see TH's profile rising because of this, the good that came from his press tour in the US it's garbage now, the reputation he built in the UK it's garbage now. Yes, his career will go on but no in a better way that it was before. Plus, he won't be able to go back to the way it was with the press. Maybe if they had disappeared after RI, but this is really a circus.
>>543 It's definitely a holiday but why do they feel the need to overexpose themselves on it? The idea of putting their whole vacation up for everyone's viewing pleasure is tacky and thirsty. The only way this could get any worse is if they shared it live in real time via Periscope. Or created their own snapchat sorry with their own filter - ~~* TayTo Tour || Summer 2016 ~~*
>>549 Yes, my exact feelings too. Nothing would surprise me now for what happens next. He's totally love blind I think.
Oh look HQ pap shots. They still managed to leave Stanstead and arrive in Rome without a single papshot though. Odd that, if the stans' narrative is correct and the paps are following them everywhere because every single photo is worth $$$.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHMNWN-BHnt
The uncropped version tells a different story.
You can't tell me that any couple, famous or not, would choose the only open space in the area rather than dry humping up against that high wall shielded from the public.
So candid, so spontaneous, so in love.
So where next, guys? My guess is that TayTay will have had enough culchah fairly soon and that they will return to the UK for Wimbledon and so he can show her his hood.
>>554 It also tells me the close up shots of that moment are pap shots. Good quality from that distance.
>>554 I thought that too. So convenient that they are standing by the only gap in a massive wall, so that the paps can get a clear shot.
>>555 Florence/Venice/Milan, or a combination of these? Then London and then back to RI for the 4th of July celebration (I don't believe for a moment that TH will be in OZ on the 4th)
>>554 it's like the scene of a cheap romcom.
>>558 I expect so. Maybe chuck in a quick trip over to somewhere chi chi like Capri to get engaged.
>>560 I've been to Capri in August and my god it was crowded. Opportunities for more "intimate" moments.
I don't at all think he will be in Australia on 4 July. And I bet he should have been but has tried to get his people to move his start date. Idiot.
Weird. Very few people at the Colosseum in full touristic season.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLawcohG8P/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLa9S7hDJU/
>>562 it depends on the moment - I visited last year in a quiet moment, when I left the queue to enter was long - it's also a big place. And I suspect someone, Totay, asked for personal space, there was an Italian security person walking with them in one of the photos.
>>562 Is it just me, or are the people in the far right, kind of hiding in between pillars, holding big cameras?
>>564 you're right
>>565 Or have I just totally lost the plot?! This thing is like a car crash, I don't want to keep looking but I can't stop myself.
>>561 Uh huh, I wouldn't be surprised. Unless his role is significantly smaller in this film and he isn't required for start of PP.
>>519 Wendy's always got it out for TS's man-hopping, though. Nothing but criticism over the years. That she's never heard of Tom means she won't make a dent in his US reception.
The rooftop shots of TH/TS are looking really romantic today. Finally, some natural behavior?
>>569 the ones at the colosseum? Or the ones at the restaurant where he has finally put his phone down and is kissing her hand?
>>554 Anonon to see that IG pic I just followed that account...
>>572 Except, where's the deep tongue kiss? And I wonder if they're in the same or separate rooms ?
All very 'tomly' says my capcha.
New pics. Taking a tour I'm guessing http://oursong.tumblr.com/post/146603556409/taylor-and-tom-leaving-rome-by-helicopter-after-a
The Roman Holiday continues. They made sure DM used the right pictures this time lol http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3664074/Tom-Hiddleston-Taylor-Swift-prove-inseparable-lock-hands-matching-outfits-romantic-stroll-Rome.html
>>575 I wonder why he insists on keeping his eyeglass on his shirt or in his hand instead of giving them to her. What does she have a purse for?
>>575 I feel emasculated looking at these photos and I don't even have any man parts. She must be paying for all this, right? The fancy helicopter ride and the whole shebang. while he stands there in a pair of Vans that should quite frankly have hit the bin a long time ago.
>>577 hahaha indeed, but look at him, behaving like he's in control - Poor Olly took the few garments left at home a brought them to him, but he couldn't do miracles.
>>575 The chavette and her bitch face uncle trying to blue steel.
The bodyguard is hot.
>>577 It's embarrassing. I don't see how anyone can be envious of them or find them desireable as a couple. The only thing I'm envious of is their ability to vacation wherever they want at the drop of a hat in that jet of hers.
He's never going to live this down. Unless some strange miracle catapults his career back into the respected area it was in originally.
No ring on Taylor's right hand anymore in these new pics in the DM.
His worth shot up from $8 million to $20 million since this romance started. So even if his reputation is getting trashed, his value is going up. If his aim is to up his visibility in between now and Kong to prove he has leading man/ BO value then this stunt might just work. Serious actor? Not anymore I guess.
>>581 She's got that mouth-glued-shut-behind-sunglasses face. Dickmatized? Or growing bored?
Oh capcha, 'be' is not helpful.
>>582 Where is that figure from? Is it "worth" in the sense of marketability? That doesn't translate into cash in the pocket - or not yet, and I will be interested to see what the next project after Thor 3 is.
More petrol station pics and in the top photo I think you can actually see the outline of the lid of the cigarette packet. http://quoting-shakespeare-to-ducks.tumblr.com/post/146614222236/for-tom-those-are-some-swole-ass-pecs
And yet we still have not seen him light up once, notwithstanding they are followed by paps everywhere. He really can control the image that gets out there.
>>584 I'm not sure. I always thought it was in terms of projected/ estimated annual income. It used to say $8 mil on here and just overnight it changed to $20 mil so maybe it's a combined estimation of this year's earnings (as both actor, producer, plus endorsements, lotta product placement going on in this TayTo Summer of Love 2016 tour) http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/tom-hiddleston-net-worth/
People exclusive about how much Tom's mom LOVES Taylor. What's the ETA on this proposal in Paris now lol
http://www.people.com/people/mobile/article/0,,21015460,00.html
I don't think I've seen a couple, a supposed power couple at that, get mocked this much in the media. Even the tabloids they are giving exclusives to find a way to slip some snark or jab in there. This one is hilarious http://www.papermag.com/taylor-swift-tom-hiddleston-pr-mance-1888497069.html
>>586 "Tom's mom is just gushing about Taylor," a Hiddleston family source tells PEOPLE exclusively. "She thinks Taylor is the loveliest. She was so happy to meet her."
-A family source? Now the Hiddlestons have a source?
"Taylor was almost immediately part of the family,"
-Almost immediately? LOL
I noticed we get plenty of leaks about how she feels, but none about him.
>>590 He does look very sweet in the pics where he's kissing her hand, though.
>>585 I can't keep up! There's like 70+ new messages overtime I check back in! I have baby brain - take pity on me.
Are we done with Rome? Are people still laughing at them? Does TH have ANY more fans left?
>>590 'The couple have proved that they are serious about their relationship.' That's the intention but ain't no one buying what they're selling.
TMZ seems to have CH on speed dial/ be his mouthpiece. They also gave us the infamous 'America's Sweetheart - my ass!'
I just don't know how they're getting to know each other. When they're out - which seems so often - they're surrounded by 2-3 bodyguards at all times!. That doesn't allow for conversations, for flirting, for sexy talk. Sexy talk - you know how good that is! It's essentially foreplay. Sexy talk while walking the streets of Rome? Not in front of the hired help. Sexy talk in the helicopter (loud sexy talk it would need to be)? Not in front of the 3 bodyguards. Maybe they're attached at the palms because that's the only way they can be affectionate.
I can tell you this, these two aren't going to replicate the 'quality time' I and the Italian had with the remains of the Claudian aqueduct. Not with 3 bodyguards 25 feet away.
And where's Lex? I thought for certain this would rouse the beast. They may have had to put her into a medically induced coma - the plan being to bring her out post-TayTo.
>>587 That article has now been scrubbed from the internet.
Forget tinfoil hats, my entire body is wrapped in the stuff at this point.
>>594 "forget tinfoil hats, my entire body is now wrapped in the stuff" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
>>593 The almost total lack of alone time will prolong the relationship though. He will be sorting through the contents of her brain for months before he finds that all it contains is Instagram, cats and Gigi Hadid. She, meanwhile, will spend months listening to his guitar playing and it will take her ages to realise that he only has 3 Hank Williams songs in his repertoire because he won't ever get to the end of a song before the bodyguards come in.
Thinking of guitar playing - I mock TS for having the mental acuity, emotional maturity and leisure interests of a not very mature 15 year-old - but she is a talented guitarist and lyricist. If she ever grows up emotionally she could be the next Allison Krauss (who, by the way, has won more Grammys than any other singer or female artist - suck on that, TayTay).
What on earth does TS think of our hero's guitar playing? Has he even tried? Does she inwardly cringe and whimper as we did when we watched all those interviews where he tortured people with his singing and strumming? Has she explained that really good guitar players like her don't take their guitars everywhere they go? Why isn't People Mag telling us the answers to these very important questions?
>>593 PS [whispers] I don't think Lex is very far away.
>>589 made funnier by the thought (or sad reality) that Taylor probably is that controlling about her pap pics. I genuinely think she goes through them and selects the most perfect picturesque ones to be sent out. Only the most staged and perfectly orchestrated.
>>594 No surprise. Taylor Swift isn't exactly known for her sense of humor. I'm sure her team was on it as soon as it came to their attention. But hurray for copy paste and the beauty of sharing through social media http://theopiniondominion.tumblr.com/post/146622064350/paper-mag-article-text
In case others didn't get a chance to read.
>>593 I'm actually loving how Calvin won't sit quiet or just disappear. He keeps poking with a stick, providing conflict to this week's episode of Edgemont High.
Sexy? Taylor Swift does not do sexy. She does romantic and whimsical and whatever the definition of a sappy romance is. Honestly, the pap shots all look like background images and art for one of her newly released albums.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHNuxFrAark/ Still in Rome apparently. And with no bodyguards or paps in sight in sight! Could it be?
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.
>>698 Though Couch is right, he is the most naked and badly shot of the men. There is a guy in there wearing sweatpants and a vest, for god's sake. They aren't all standing there showing off their dick prints, like the fans would have us believe, so TH still looks by far the most idiotic. He and Paulson are duking it out for thirstiest nekkid person. I didn't need to see her titties either.
>>700 I am surprised the list said "Tom Hiddleston, Crimson Peak" and not "Tom Hiddleston, boyfriend of Taylor Swift."
Seriously, he gets this because of Avengers and CP? I don't think he deserves it. He has never been nominated and his last 2 big movies bombed.
Insight - nothing we didn't already know, but it's from a journalist who is not an invested Taylor stan: http://www.eonline.com/news/776646/who-is-taylor-swift-why-her-new-romance-with-tom-hiddleston-has-me-questioning-love
"The far too rapid emergence of Hiddleswift reminds me of a conversation I once had with a top Hollywood power player. ... the bigwig argued ... the more we cover certain celebrities’ private lives, the more we are unable to suspend disbelief when it comes to their professional life.
In this case, the power player is right. I no longer see Tom as the thespian-with-a-double-first- from-Cambridge-University; instead I feel like I’m watching a soufflé collapse.
And I certainly no longer believe Taylor is just like you and me when it comes to love.... On Monday, as Taylor and Tom ... paused so she could wrap her arms around his neck and kiss him, it was all for the cameras.
For the first time, I feel somewhat manipulated. This love story feels disingenuous. I am not saying her feelings for Tom are not real, but the public telling of their romance feels inauthentic.
It makes me wonder if she didn’t actually feel the depth of emotion she told us she experienced through her songs because if she did then how could she be so careless with her ex’s heart… unless Calvin did something particularly terrible."
>>702 CP because it's Del Toro (even if he flops people still recognize his talent) and Avengers because that's his main biggie. Those are the credits but it's also taking into consideration him as an actor and professional. He's schmoozed enough people in the industry that he would've made it through the considerations and all his coworkers have nothing but praise for him.. And honestly before the Taylor fiasco he was respected, High Rise and TNM were his saving graces this year before he decided to wreck it all for the biggest thirst stakes.
Maybe if he had just waited for a little instead of going on a bender with this Taylor thing, this would've been great news. But now it's mixed feelings because of his famewhore ways.
>>701 They should've just stopped at the nice shot of him with his shirt open and maybe lounging in bed or near the window like that like Liev Schreiber. Or lying topless in bed with the covers on his lower half staring at the ceiling like his many pensive Jonathan Pine shots and close ups.
>>704 TNM is tv - which the Academy sets its face against. I do take the point that he is liked and respected (or was) for being a nice down to earth guy and a serious actor. But he needs a hit, doesn't he? I loved HR as you all know but it wasn't a huge box office hit, or an unmitigated critical success. CP foaled badly to make good on its vast marketing budget, ISTL was a stinker of epic proportions and TNM didn't do so well in the US....
>>700 Does anyone care? Will anyone notice?
>>701 I want to see her tits out but only if she is wearing the Marcia Clark wig. ;)
>>702 It's not exactly a Who's Who of HW talent. I mean, Daphne Zuniga from Spaceballs? Dakota Johnson couldn't act her way out of a paper bag.
>>703 There is officially nothing sadder than watching a souffle sink. It happens all the time in my kitchen.
Thinking back, we should have seen this coming with the stylist. We laughed it off then, but it was a frightening portend of things to come. A sad grab for attention using clothes that seemed to fly in the face of his usual style, clothes in which he either looked a tit or looked uncomfortable.
I blame myself. I was there for the Time Talk. I saw that tartan monstrosity close up. I should have recognized the signs of an impending breakdown and done more...more...I let the team down.
>>708 I saw it coming when he said he loved "Fast and Furious" but I didn't think he would takes the change to THIS level.
It's been coming on for a while. Remember the TDW tour when he travelled with the orange makeup lady? And we have had other troubling signs such as taking guitars on planes (how the other passengers in first class must have laughed with delight when they heard they were to be serenaded!). Not to mention all that nudity for feminism.
>>711 If he is the Academy's poster boy for diversity, they are doomed.
If The Night Manager has a second season, Miss Swift will be his Pine girl.
>>712 No, that'd be Idris Elba. Him and John Boyega and Oscar Issac are going get pushed more as the new names in the class.
>>699 http://4-ch.net/img/src/1467244742572.png
And this is why those W mag pics are terrible - in any situation. This face. This face! It's worse than the other faces, which were terrible - but only 'entry level' terrible; these are 'advanced level' terrible.
Little did he know at the time that he was perfectly predicting what his fanbase's collective expression would be at the end of June.
>>715 Is that a manip??? Why would they print that 'I just ate warm fresh poo and I don't know why' face?
Just catching up with the 100 or so posts!
If the plane stopped in London it was surely to drop him off. He has to pack at least two washed outfits for Oz and I can't for the life of me picture him fitting in at her tweenybopper party. The photos would top him dancing at Selena Gomez though so please make it happen.
They just came out and said it: http://pagesix.com/2016/06/28/tom-hiddleston-might-be-using-taylor-swift-to-land-bond-role/?_ga=1.61565868.1843477913.1466463216
'Also a big thank you @twhiddleston for coming along to our costume exhibition. Such a pleasure talking with you about my work. It was unreal'
She did drop him off in London.
Naturally there were no sightings from the airport. TayTo were only seen by paps last time they landed (insert eyeroll)
Is Taylor in London with him? Wimbledon tomorrow??? Will they sit with Camilla? Will Taylor and Camilla fight over the Night Manager?
>>721 According to the Swifty plane trackers (who have yet to be wrong), her jet stopped briefly in London and then headed back for the U.S., so she's probably in Rhode Island inflating her Taymerica bouncy castle for her squad party.
>>716 It is. But doesn't it perfectly sum up that shoot and the fans right about now?!?
>>720 I want my country's greatest holiday to be untainted but I also want them kissing while sliding down an inflatable slide and holding sparklers. Nothing says love like a slide-kiss with sparklers. Hoping she sends the plane back for him. Hoping she sends the plane AND a bodyguard back to make sure he gets on the plane.
>>723 You have obviously never mixed inflatables with pyrotechnics before
>>721 >>722 They probably had a Wimbledon pap stroll planned but then had an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Il Papa took TayTay aside and said, 'Girl, you need to pump them breaks.' Next thing you know, the plane makes an unscheduled stop in London for TH to deplane and raw cookie dough and ice cream to board.
>>725 I have actually. Sparklers and pool floats don't mix well, but if you're drunk enough, you don't mind the smell of burning plastic!!
Has anyone else noticed that all of the HD images from the dailymail review of their Rome trip that were published today, were also from the same "image direct photo company"' that the Rhode Island kissing pictures were from, as well?
In suspense as to whether he got off the plane in London, or not. Not sure if I can handle TH pics on the Tayamerica water slide. Also confused by the we are not bf and gf yet narrative. So much to be confused about. Yet, he's leading the entertainment news on every channel. Is this a secret stroke of genius?
You'd think he's heading off to work, hence the surgical procedure to separate their hands. But I have a feeling that some of the Swifters on tumblr are going to grumble about Tom 'not supporting TS when she needs him most' - at her pool party. They seem the sort to not understand how real life works: what do you mean he chose a contractually obligated deadline over our Tay? If he really loved her...blah, blah, blah.
>>728 Crazy like a fox? It changed every other day, but today on TV entertainment shows it was back to people in the know saying they believe the two met long (weeks or months) before the pre-MET dinner i.e. TS cheated.
>>728 Most of them have been. I saw the Theoanons tumblr mention that with the concert photos a few weeks (yes, it's only been a few weeks!) back.
I guess it's a company that acts as a clearinghouse for independent paps -negotiating prices and the like. Considering those first shots (now semi-verified? via GC to be staged/sanctioned) were through them, some have wondered at the connection to TS.
>>728 A woman in London thanked him for attending her costume exhibition a couple hours ago (thanks Anonon >>720, no idea how you managed to wade through his tag on Twitter to find that). She apparently had a full conversation with him, so it was most definitely him and not one of those mistaken identity sightings. So he did get off the plane.
>>729 I can't handle tumblr anymore. Too much terrible logic, too much insanity, too much immaturity. It's not worth it for me personally to sift through all of that just for the handful of blogs that make some sense - especially since even those are being inundated with crazy anon messages now.
Tom due to arrive in Oz on the 1st
>733 How have we managed to avoid the cray crays here? I can't help noticing posts from this blog doubling up in other tumblrs so there's a lot of cross reading and mutual lurking. There's only three tumblrs I glance at now who have maintained the snark
>>733 Someone mentioned on the Theoanons that a good number of Swifters were 'invading' the usual TH tumblr places. She said she'd had to deal with them too but that she could smell them a mile off as they stunk of apologists!!
They seem to have a swarm like mentality coupled with the maturity and real life experience of 12-year-olds.
>>734 I think the Australia rumor was one of the first ones they put out - something about him giving her an open invitation to visit. The interesting bit of that article is that he's going so soon. No pool party for Tom!
I'm not sure about the tumblr thing. Maybe we're just not cool enough. ;)
>>734 I guess if she's willing to hit up every grey, rocky beach in England for him, she'd be up for a few more beaches in another country - sure, it's winter, but they're less rocky!
I can see her TayTaying her way through the 4th before packing up and letting the powerful magnet in her palm find its mate.
Unless this is true love, I think the worst thing a girl could do would be to travel to a guy at his place of business, doing all the work for him. If this is real, TS flew him round the world on her plane, and now she has the honor of flying herself out to Australia to be at his casual beck and call? TH must have pretty good game. This could turn into the usual scenario where a hookup girl doesn't get the hint that it's a hookup, and she tries to turn a one night stand into a relationship, when really it was only supposed to be a relationship of convenience. Except this version had a five star trip involved. Now I'm kind of worried for TS! I must be spinning. But that breakup would make a pretty good song, if they were bf and gf, which apparently they're not...
>>738 This whole "not boyfriend and girlfriend" thing really has me scratching my head. It's completely incongruous with the narrative they've been attempting to sell us for the last two weeks. Maybe they are unhappy with the way things are going (personally or professionally) and are trying to slowly back out? They can't just say "never mind, everyone is right, this is fake/stupid/whatever and we're calling it quits," so they start slowly dropping little hints like "not boyfriend and girlfriend." Then when they do "break up" in 3-6 weeks, it won't be completely out of the blue - people will think oh, well they were never officially boyfriend and girlfriend anyway, guess it just didn't work out.
>>739 Yeah I think they're getting ready to end it. So they've downgraded from "true love soulmates he's the one!" to "not boyfriend and girlfriend". I wonder why Taylor did this. And why would Tom trot his mom and niece out just for a publicized fling? They could've done it all in London instead of his mom's. The presence of his family for the sake of a big summer fling makes no sense to me.
>>740 I'm sure they weren't anticipating the relationship being so poorly received by the press and the public, so they kept trying to go along with their initial plan of selling it as a whirlwind romance - meeting friends and family, romantic vacation, etc. thinking that eventually everyone would start going along with it. Since that didn't work out they are moving on to plan b, laying the groundwork for an easy end to the relationship.
>>739 - That article was written only after the first pap shoot. I suspect htat after the whole "meet the parents" business, we can safely assume that they are indeed, "boyfriend" and "girlfriend".
>>738 It's Taylor Swift, she seemingly ALWAYS does the worst thing a girl can do in a relationship. I'm not sold on it being a one-night stand or hook-up given the very public and very 'romantic' campaign. One wouldn't think they'd (and it has been a joint TS/TH operation) publicize a hook-up so doggedly.
>>739 That was from UsWeekly, right? I think that was their storyline in previous print articles, that it was casual (it sounded so much like the EO story last year) and they were just seeing each other and getting to know each other (even though that was ridonk given the past few days). Online, I think they've just sorta reported on it all without all the gushy, lovey-dovey of other publications. Am I not remembering correctly? It's a blur.
I thought it was People, ENews, and GC selling the true romance/he's The One line.
Also, does she use UsWeekly as a quasi-official mouthpiece like she does with People and GC?
I could be wrong (couldn't we all with this unpredictable crap), but I don't think they're through - not with each other, not with us, not with the PR. I don't even think they want to parachute out. They may be enjoying it, they may just be slogging through with moments of enjoyment, whatever the case, they seem invested.
>>743 It is a blur. I can't keep anything straight anymore. Perhaps it's just wishful thinking on my part that this is on the way out, but even if it is, they can't just abruptly cut it off after the events of the past two weeks. So yes, you're correct, we are in this for weeks - maybe months - longer, regardless of whether or not they've decided what course the relationship is going to take.
I think this is a short toothbrush break due to necessity. She has her serious hedonistic pursuits and he has his serious werk. The fat lady isn't singing yet
>>743 They're starting the rollout and laying the ground work for the breakup. It'll probably happen sometime in Australia. Mid to end of July, maybe early August. To put things like "not boyfriend and girlfriend" isn't a mistake. It's deliberate. I'm also seeing "rumored romance" thrown around as their tour is recapped. So it's on the horizon and it'll be soon. I don't think we'll be seeing too many new paps of them, not at the past 14 days level.
I think they thought they would get the big happy response. They didn't anticipate everyone including the tabloids calling them out. It's not worth the effort to keep up appearances anymore so they'll gradually taper out from the public eye and then issue something work related broke them up or something.
>>744 >>745 >>746 The break may be because her private pap has called off with exhaustion! They're wearing the private snappy-snap out!
The boyfriend/girlfriend thing is from UsWeekly; they've never gushed about love and fairytale romance. They've been fairly neutral, surprisingly. If People starts to dial this relationship back, then I'll start to believe that there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
>>745 I feel like the lady isn't even fat yet! She's only just started her vocal lessons and gone off her diet. That's how far out we are. I hope I'm wrong, I suspect I'm not.
>>748 Wouldn't it be amazing if it timed perfectly with your gestation. You could be the phantom hiddlespawn
I go to sleep for 8 hours and I wake up to find the hostage has been let off the plane!
Why didn't he take her to the show at RADA? I wanted pictures of her looking bored and holding his hand in a vice-like grip!
Tumblr has gone nuts. My fave blogs have mostly not commented but have gone dark, or are posting a few pics without comment. There's some snark (my dash this morning was asking how this helpless victim of the paparazzi managed to land in England without being photographed) but there is also a lot of stanning from some other regular TH blogs along the lines of how dare anyone find it odd that he says one thing and a month later does down thing quite opposite. A lot of shrieking of get out of the fandom from our favourite Stan who asked the crazy question in that q@a in Berlin. Good luck Tom - a few more months of this and she'll be the only one left.
Just one thought re photo agencies - some of what I thought were fan pics are now on the DM as being from an agency. Agencies do steal photos off Twitter etc - I know this because a friend of mine's child died a couple of years ago and the circumstances made it into the DM. All their FB photos suddenly appeared in the DM with "copyright Rex" across the bottom. They had to take legal action to make the agency stop selling their family pics as its own.
>>703 a sinking souffle! Beautiful!
>>750 Yeah, me too, RADA, he went to a safe place in incognito, and no photos! WTF!
I think most of his fangirls are hoping for this to go away soon, so they can dismiss it as a summer fling, a momentary craziness and go back believing whatever bs TH will start selling again, pretending he never pimped out his family for PR. Thing is, his fangirls might go for it, but media and others not so much.
>>751 yeah same here. Although I mainly use mine for film and vintage Hollywood stuff, but the Hiddleston side had gone very quiet. Those that remain are very divided. It's all quite Brexit actually.
>>753 I think you're right Couch and I get the feeling they're going to be quite disappointed on that front. I feel this has only just begun, far from over yet.
If he has to be in OZ on the 1st, he either left right after that RADA exhibition or early today. No Wimbledon this year, surprise surprise.
I hope I'm not reposting something, I'm losing track. It's an estimation of how much the Whirlwind-Totay-Tour might have cost with some snark. I think it might actually be a bit higher than that.
>>756 I'm not sure how accurate that report is. I'm still holding out hope for some Wimbledon Tom and some lovely snark on his companion, or lack of.
https://twitter.
com/kinseyschofield/status/748408682673741824
'Taylor Swift & Tom Hiddleston make me miss Ted Cruz & Heidi.'
>>753 The media won't let him forget it. Jake Gyllenhaal still gets questions about Taylor and why he didn't marry her lol One thing though TH can't ever use his privacy and discretion line now without getting a good deal of side eye.
I'm still in shock that we went a whole day without new pics. It's giving me separation anxiety. Beach pics in Australia though. They like beaches and holding hands there. Will the Hemsworths and their babies join the photoshoot this time?
>>759 LOL! We'll always have Rome and the Colosseum.
>>760 Maybe we'll finally get to see the Conda in speedos (trying to look on the bright side).
>>763 NO PLEASE! Not speedos. That is not a bright side.
I think TayTo will go dark for a short while while their PR teams take more mushrooms to come up with a better idea
>>758 he only goes to see Federer or Murray, maybe Djokovich, so he doesn't have many options.
>>759 SNAP!
>>760 Double date, certainly, at the Hemsworths. Please Ruffalo don't stoop down to that level, please! - Jake was considerably younger than TH when it happened, late twenties, and people still gave TS the benefit of the doubt.
>>765 TayTo and her team are all on a Skype conference call right now trying to figure out the next move. Luke is there but he's on mute because as Taylor said, "Luke I feel like your vision is not in line with mi- ours. How about you listen to the brainstorming today and it'll help you with feedback at the next meeting, hmm?"
>>767 Ok correction:
ALL PARTIES involved in this recent fiasco are to take a hefty dose of mushrooms and reflect on the past fortnight.
Imagine tripping with Swifty. I bet she'd go all single white female psycho then wallow in a pool of self pity over her father not loving her enough and you'd have to lock her in a room for your own safety
>>769 Yeah, it was excellent. More of that kind of thing required!
>>770 She's a baking girl. You know she'd bring brownies to the meeting ;)
Oh jeez I'd rather not. I don't even think she'd make a fun drunk, simply because she's too much in control and wound up tight to go beyond a little flush in the cheek tipsy.
>>772 She'd be that bitch that says 'you look nice' while her face says 'you're ruining my selfies'
https://twitter.
com/sherrifflucy/status/748427150336864258
Buzzfeed journo burn.
I almost feel bad for enjoying this.
I just hope these burns don't incite or invite actual hate towards Tom Hiddleston. I just read on tumblr that some part of the Hiddlestoners are planning to boo Tom at comic con and make him sign a photo then tear it up in his face and some even want to kick him...
????!!!???!!??
What is wrong with these people? No wonder Taylor Swift travels with bodyguards. Jeez...
>>776 I saw some of those posts a few days ago and got the impression that they were mostly joking around. The only semi-serious one I saw was a post encouraging people not to fawn over Tom at Comic Con and to direct questions to his costars instead.
>>776 >>777 Tumblr is extra as usual. I hope there will be no dramatic tearing up of Loki posters or, God forbid, kicking or shoving (??!! I hope it was a joke).
Although it would be interesting if the reaction to him was more or less reserved instead of the usual head over heels excitement.
Lol
https://twitter.
com/vibe89/status/748418117634785280
>>779 That's the thing with tumblr. When they say stuff like that I can never tell if they're just kidding around or scheming.
We'll still get head over heels excitement. Swifties have become his fans too. Maybe they'll all go to support Taylor's boyfriend.
>>780 True, even if a few juvenile tumblrites go through with this booing thing, there will be hundreds of other people who will cheer, so it's probably going to be all right.
>>751 Yeah. Get out of the fandom so I can have him to my unstable self.
>>749 before the madness post-RI, I wondered here if it would outlast my gestation. A few weeks on, I think baby will make an appearance before the end of TayTo. They just seem too invested not to keep this going.
With my luck they'll end it just as I go into labor and I'll have to watch the tumblr Swifters collapse in on themselves between contractions.
>>783 If that happens, you must name the child TayTo. It will be a sign from the heavens.
>>781 and even if that happens TH will play victim, doing puppy eyes and saying that people always mock him for his passion. I'm starting to think that we might not get another photo Totay until after SDCC, creating enough doubt to make his fangirls think it might be over. And then after SDCC, there'll be more.
>>786 'I've come back to you and the work, my dear fans! Your love for me has helped me escape that evil succubus.' Public event passes. 'Haha, got you! Enjoy some more TayTo beach shots!'
I wouldn't have though it possible before but that was before.
>>786 They would be fools to keep parading and pap walking so obviously they will continue to do so.
>>783 >>785 Aww little TayTo. I love that we will be constantly up to date on the couples progression through your gestation. I assume you've been nauseous of late, especially in public. Let us know when they start kicking.
>>785 I often buy Tayto crisps from the British market, so my husband would think I'd lost the plot and wanted to name the child after potato chips.
'Hiddleston...is working extra hard to get the part.' Tell me about it!
>>788 No nausea, but I now insist that my husband hold my hand everywhere and publicly display affection by touching my bump as often as possible before throwing his head back and laughing maniacally. Strangely I'm also now able to spot a camera a 100 feet away and smile smugly for it.
The power of a gestation running concurrently with TayTo!
>>791 LOL does TS have also a personal gym on that private jet of hers, or the heavy lifting is her?
>>792 hahaha Tayto's love taught us all the secret ways to true romance and an education in camera spotting.
>>791 This seems to be a positive spin on the usual 'so and so is getting fat' article. Both of them appear to be a little bit porkier rather than uber buff. Lets face it, they've been living on a steady diet of pizza, pasta and swan pastries for nearly a month.
They haven't even disappeared off the radar for long enough to have epic weight- loss sex marathons.
I bet he won't be able to fit into his Loki costume.
Today is Thursday, but instead of a traditional #tbt I thought about a ThrowBackTom, and in honour of the abusive use of private jet:
TH joining Vivienne Westwood and Greenpeace to campaign against climate change for the Save The Arctic campaign from 2 years ago, back when he was chummy with ELLEUK fangirls
http://www.elleuk.com/life-and-culture/news/a23089/tom-hiddleston-saves-the-world-greenpeace-vivienne-westwood-climate-arctic/?zoomable
https://twitter.
com/eiffeltyler/status/748495813505056768
Yes I was wondering what was going on under that tablecloth too...
'computer, enhance quadrant 17'
>>797 I must be missing something, it doesn't look like anything to me? >.< Even with the zoomed version. What am I being blind on?
>>798 I can't see anything either. Is he hiding an enormous boner or something?
I thought this article was fascinating: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/06/30/taylor-swift-and-tom-hiddlestons-parade-of-love-is-a-gold-mine-for-paparazzi-a-dream-scenario/
The best part for photographers and agencies, besides the money? All the photos have been fairly simple to obtain. When Swift met Hiddleston’s mother in the small seaside town of Ipswich, England, the couple didn’t appear to mind that photographers were following them around on the beach.
“It’s only as easy as [the celebrities] allow it to be,” Ken Goff of Goff Photos said, explaining the challenges of photographing stars. “Because if they had gone there and stayed in the house and not come out, that’s as hard as it can be. So really, whether it’s in a small town or village or in a major city, it can be difficult anywhere or easy anywhere. It just depends on the subject and how much they don’t want to be photographed.”
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None of the agencies would confirm exactly how they find out where Hiddleswift will be next — the Image Direct, which first snapped the photos of the couple making out on the Rhode Island beach, declined to comment.
Here's some info we were looking for yesterday on her plane - a photo of the tail numbers is featured in this article from 4 years ago:
I checked FlightAware, and her tail numbers were made private so they're not available for tracking by the public. Anyone claiming to be tracking her has inside information.
>>802 it doesn't show even on flightradar
>>800 that is interesting and it confirms what we have been saying all along.
I thought this was hilarious! http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146700500046/twittercommandyflower89status7483259641286082
Good research on the plane info! I imagined a super secret blog w a password.
The most recent update of the dailymail presents TS as TH's new gf in its title. But how does a relationship w TS increase TH's sex appeal for general audiences? If TH was with a single Scarlett Johonnsson, or a younger and single Angelina Jolie, or even just a gorgeous and visible SI model like Chrissy Tiejens, I would see that. TS has a pretty face and an amazing figure. She's a consistent song writer for her demographic of fans and a keen business woman. But she never has ever tried to be seen first and foremost as a provocatrice. I would consider the secret trip to RH as a saucy first date (if the pics hadn't been so staged.) But its countered by the immediate visits to a Selena Gomez concert. And the visits to their families make her seem as if she's up to her warp speed dating-as-usual tactics and cementing her "good girl" image for her fans. And the pap-walk family visit makes TH seem like he has changed his image completely from the serious artist/artisan who craved privacy. Luckily for his TH, I can't imagine that the press would stalk his young gorgeous niece or Mom. The most they'll do is stalk TH on his next R and R trip to visit them, though. By contrast, his neighbourhood in the City is still safe.
I certainly think that the couple likes each other, but this a masterful way for TS to dominate the headlines between albums. And I think that TH simply didn't want to vanish like a ghost in work like he always does till Thor 3 ends Nov 1, and just hope that that his next movies connect with audiences.
Hopefully leaving his schedule blank is a strategy, b/c Emmy and Globe nominations for TNM could raise the bar for the film scripts he is offered. He needs cohesive well-written scripts attached to directors who can sustain dramatic narrative tension for two hours. Except for TNM and HR, his other projects were more about concepts and characters than narrative.
I predict one San Diego CC romantic dinner with TS, and maybe one trip to Australia with a few pics. And then maybe a taper by summer's end. But perhaps that's just me fighting for his former image in the serious British press. Do you think that TH expected to he remonstrated so cruelly on both sides of the Atlantic in the press? Or did he assume that would be the case, and does TH just think he needs visibility and the money from the embargoed pics, no matter what? Last thought, that daytime Roman lunch pic would have been steamy had TH had a hand gracing her thigh.
>>805 goodness, her fans are as bad at relationship as she is, no wonder they dig her songs.
what about this one?
http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146699264751/omg-ts-stans-appear-to-be-really-like-locusts
Btw, I'm pretty sure some of them are writing at CB because all of a sudden is full of people rooting for this relationship to be true and them to get married because it's true love.
And we have TH reputation damage control in the dailymail! I'm hearing Streisand singing "The Way We Were" in my head. I wonder if this is by Luke and Co.? So wild.
>>808 That's how her fans track Taylor?
Maybe it's just me but I find it really disturbing how they track her actual plane.
>>809 Which article? In which way is it damage control? Has it managed to turn back time or erase our memories - because that's the only damage control that would work at this point.
Apparently the Swifty jet is on the move again according to her fans. En route to pick up Tom for the big 4th of July bash? Will we see their social media debut this weekend?
According to this little girl learning code in Karlie's class, Karlie Kloss herself confirmed Tom and Taylor are spending 4th of July together
>>808 Couch, I must be missing something so obvious. If I click on a Playback button I'm redirected to a map with hundreds of planes on the move, not just one (or one that is highlighted in the field of many planes).
What am I doing wrong.
Great minds, NewAnon!
>>812 Is it!? That is properly creepy that it can be tracked so easily.
>>812 I wouldn't be surprised if we get a social media debut. Strange times, kiddies. Strange times.
What was so important about the RADA thing that he needed to be dropped off?Or maybe he was packing and will go on to Oz from RI? But why not just have Olly bring a case to the airport so you don't have to deplane?
Well damn, I was really hoping Tom wasn't going to show up in the bouncy house.
>>818 I'm only surprised that he was dropped off in London! What was that about? I thought for sure they'd just jet back to the US together.
Like I said, he's in this to win it. The immaturity of a bouncy castle and being surrounded by her squad aren't going to deter him.
>>813 I also love that TS's friend is essentially ticking off the guest list to a random girl she met in a class: Yep, they'll be there. Go ahead and post it on social media, and if you have relatives who are paps, send them to this address. Wink, wink! I have a feeling there may be a lot of cameras out in this secluded backyard...all the better to publicize you, my pretty!
Wow. Like in it to win it like marriage? Or in it to win it like long term relationship and PR and Hollywood exposure?
>>820 Or maybe they'll just quietly celebrate without any hubbub or photos. Spend some quality time together away from the public's gaze.
>>819 why would it - a party like this is right up his alley. Remember the first silly MTV stuff with Josh where he was wearing a fake mustache, pulling pranks and they had a 'sleepover'?
>>821 I said before that I have no idea of what 'winning' means exactly. I don't even think he has a clear idea!! But like everything he does, he's going full bore with this one! Work that bouncy castle, TH. Work that inflatable swan. Work that stars and stripes onesie.
His only complaint the whole weekend will be that his onesie wasn't tight enough to properly show off his package.
>>823 But that was for promo on a movie. Being silly and fun for promo work is one thing, hanging around on a bouncy castle in a non-ironic way when you're 35 is another.
Dropped off 6.29 and is going to be picked up again on 6.30 or 7.1. WTF? I'm amazed how she uses a jet and engages in transatlantic flights likes it's the family Volvo making the school run.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Borat-Mankini-American-Stars-Stripes/dp/B008VPAJNE
Please wear this Tom. Around inflatables and sparklers. It'll really help dispel those gay rumors
>>826 I didn't even bother writing 'sarcasm.' I knew you'd all know it was!
How do you use the tracker of the plane? And where is the plane right now?
It just occurred to me that if TH stays with Tay Tay who is mostly tits, teeth, silicone and rhinoplasty, we are going to witness an incredible transformation. I'm predicting hair plugs, botox and and a return to the glorious radioactive face
>>828 He mostly resembles Uncle Sam actually. Tall, thin, can't grow a proper beard, looks of retirement age (that was unnecessarily cruel - I apologize). I predict TH as Uncle Sam: I WANT You...for an over publicized relationship.
This will be my first July 4th without alcohol since I was about 20. I do not need this shit on top of what's already a non-margarita and Corona chaser holiday. Bite me, TayTo!
>>834 Can I suggest we all drink heavily so you can live vicariously through our slurry updates.
Woah. I almost didn't recognize Tom without Taylor attached to his hand http://theopiniondominion.tumblr.com/post/146722749030/kaleidoscope112-from-tweetingpaula-on-twitter
>>836 "Where is Taylor?" Yes, Tom, this is your life now.
>>833 Re: your second comment - if I see Hugh Hefner's name in any TS/TH related article from here on out I'll know the press is lurking here.
>>831 I don't think she's mostly tits, teeth and rhinoplasty but I DO think she's mostly immature and crazy, especially in respect to her relationships. Sadly this has already rubbed off on TH, or at least unlocked the secret crazy vault he had hidden so well. I would have dealt with hair plugs better than pap strolling his immediate family.
>>835 Do it! The friend whose party we're attending has promised me 'mockaritas' which she assures me are just as tasty as the real thing. I, in turn, promised her an afternoon of my eyes burning her like laser beams every time she tries to serve me a mockarita. Margaritas without tequila are like unconsecrated communion wafers - no damn point.
>>836 Calling the gf to see when his ride is picking him up? Looking back at two weeks worth of memories and selfies? Approving the pap schedule for the holiday weekend - those totally natural pictures aren't going to stage themselves?
>>839 Any cocktail that contains the word 'mock' is cruel.
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/awkward-taylor-swift.jpg
At a cursory glance she has had a lot of work done for a mere 26 year old: new boobs, eye lift, nose job, teeth makeover, rumored butt implants.
Saying that, TH certainly has a celebrity smile and frozen fivehead.
I'm suddenly hoping they stay together forever so we can watch them surgically mimic each other a la Liberace and Scott Thorson.
Is there any credence to the 'source' that was tipped off by the Kloss? Sounds a bit baity to me.
>>840 It was a fan on Twitter, so it could really go either way.
"...it looks like the British actor could be moving in on Calvin Harris' Armani deal "
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/tom-hiddleston-take-calvin-harris-8322512
>>842 Oh how interesting. I guess the Armani deal is one of the perks of the contract?
Here's this too:
http://www.australianetworknews.com/tom-hiddleston-taylor-swift-romance-in-trouble-tom-sick-of-being-followed/
I wonder if when they do eventually break up, they'll use the invasive paparazzi excuse. Hilarious, considering they invited them along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=l48OaQPwEVc
Freaky foreshadowing....!
This combined with the fanfic is just TOO MUCH
>>844 hahahha! Down to ITALY! It's eerie!
You know sometimes I feel like Taylor was a tumblr Hiddlestoner and MET was her fangirl dreams come true lol Who knows maybe she wrote that fanfic herself 😂
>>845 By all accounts she used to be very active on tumblr so there's no doubt she was well aware of TH and the obsession over Little Hiddles and probably read that story.
In light of this showmances blatant fakery combined with this video and that fanfic I'm removing my foil hat and declaring she was shrooning with the team and came up with most of the storyline. It's like she's branched out from songwriting to penning romance fiction to showmancing her romance fiction irl.
>>846 That's right she was. Damn. Combined with the response to the MET dance off and everything Tom she may have read/ found on tumblr, she very well could using the fanfic and the Hiddleswift shippers wet dreams as a guideline. Or at the very least, being on tumblr she very well could've just ended up crushing on Tom shrugs
Actually I have no idea. With that said, this whole relationship so far though DOES look like a TH fanfic come to life. Seriously.
>>843 This article sounds like it was translated into English from the original Serbo-Croat: "Recently, Swift was seen decked up typical like a British countrywoman. She also sported a matching wax jacket akin to Hiddleston"
I'm not feeling the Botox: http://the-haven-of-fiction.tumblr.com/post/146666684008
He's definitely had his teeth done, but I think braces, not caps. Here he is with his retainer: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/366339750912751108/
They still aren't totally straight especially on the bottom jaw.
>>823 I agree here, he has no problem to be silly at parties - we've seen enough photo booth pics of him wearing silly hats, clown glasses, making faces, etc. I totally see him jumping in that bouncy house, lol. He would look ridiculous, but he'd be up for that, I have no doubts. I hope there are photos!
>>814 I know, it does the same to me, I think you are supposed to know where it left off and be able to find it in that sea of other planes. I was too tired last night to do try, but at least we know the dates.
The 4th of July party is going to take place on the 2nd, isn't it? So it could be TH might spend Saturday in RI or NY and then leave for OZ.
>>836,839 Not having a hand to hold he was holding the phone. O r maybe he suddenly remembered he has to learn lines for a living.
>>842 Wouldn't that be even more pathetic than already is? Not only he's a kept man, she relies on her to land a job.
>>844 I said it from the start, when TS started following him on twitter in 2014 when she hardly followed anyone, it was a sign. She went to that dinner and Gala knowing well prepared and knowing very well what would work with him, i.e. praising ISTL like it's the best thing that ever happened to cinema and dancing.
>>843 that would be hilarious because "DUde, didn't you know? Have you heard of google?"
>>849 Botox requires biannual injections. I think he's as lazy with them as he is with changing his clothes, which is a good thing. While there's products and facials that give you temporary facelifts for special events, there's none I know of that will completely erase a deeply indented frown line. I've been watching that frown between his eyes vanish and slowly reappear, particularly in the last year.
The bottom teeth are a mess which I find endearing.
>>850 Getting silly isn't the problem, looking silly is (Hugh Hefner/ Selena Gomez). Maybe that's the final straw we all need to jump off this fascinating ledge
This is fun, they make fun of TH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eubkn38NQ5Y
CH was TS's true love, they should never have split
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHSpWM8A2eF/
>>856 Ouch! Is he suggesting, perhaps, that Ms Swift doesn't write her own songs and music by herself?
>>857 that and/or that he existed as a renowned artist before TS, which is true.
>>856 They were peas in a pod.
I wonder what delights to expect with TayTo; a twangy yodelling album with a touch of pop or a rom com: "Too fast: making out in Italy after a few weeks'
>>850 Hi qaz! It will be all fun and games, then either a pap with a super-long range lens will catch it and the creepy old man jokes will start.
>>854 I'll have to watch for the smooth forehead - I wasn't paying attention to that part of his body. I should be embarrassed, but ...
>>860 CH was def >>854the emotional one in the relationship.
>>861 It's my job to look at faces. I gotta say, I can't stand working on botox faces. The fat literally weeps out of their pores onto my brushes. I can't blend powder products, I have to stick to creams only even on eyelids. It ruins my brushes- they're instantly dripping in gross fat on contact. So there's a warning to all you lurking potential botox users. Aside from looking waxy and frozen and weird.
If I'm remembering correctly, the last time the smooth forehead made an appearance was when he did that photoshoot in all those double-breasted pinstripe suits.
>>862 Oh that is so gross! Eeeeeeew!! I have never seen any website tell you that is a side effect (no wonder!)
>>863 Ignore all stills photos for reference as they are photoshopped. I go off red carpet or formal appearances. Nothing can be cheated on film. Unless you're Nicole Kidman in that Australia movie who had to have facial expressions edited onto her face frame by frame because she was so frozen (notice she didn't work for a while after that role)
>>865 It's something I've only recently realised and am forcing it as a discussion amongst peers in the industry. It is a problem which none of us have spoken about before. Maybe because it's so prevalent now, it's not just for celebs, everyone's doing it
>>866 Thinking about it, there was a time when his skin looked great - during the September CP tour. I wondered if he had had some super hydrating treatment which made a difference for those 10 days or so. If he had just had Botox it iwould have worn off by April and he might not have had time to get it redone between Vietnam and starting the next publicity tour, when his skin looked bad.
>>861 Hey, Whatsinaname! Well, that Hugh Hefner comparison is a bit mean, but... yeah. He and squad will look all kinds of awkward together. That's why I want photos, lol. I'm morbidly curious.
>>862 OMG, eeeew.
>>866 Did they really do that for her? I love this kind of insider info, do continue sharing! :)
tinfoil hat
You know, speaking of insider info, I find it alarming that the relationships being compared to TayTo most frequently are Cloony and Amal (gay) and Tom and Katie (gay). So that's a bit weird.
I need to stop sharing, it's the same combination of codeine and alcohol brought about by a mouth massacre in a period of temporary unemployment. Disaster. Although it's been so much fun to follow this charade.
>>870 Ah yes. But the question would be: which half of TayTo is gay?
I will now crawl back into my own tinfoil cocoon and await the next conspiracy theory.
>>870 Or, as I just realized is possible, were you saying that all parties involved in those relationships are gay? (If you don't feel comfortable answering don't worry about it.)
>>872 I have only heard of one side being gay but who knows? There were career opportunities galore for both partners involved (and for TH if you think about it)
>>874 Haven't heard on the grapevine that AC is gay, just GC. I think she just has a tooth of gold.
>>875 Tooth of gold is a kind description. All of Tom Cruises ex's have made a name for themselves and also garnered a lot of leverage in the industry. It's possible TH is doing the age old bearding in reverse (because he's a feminist). It's a reach though and I may not come to this conclusion when sober
>>876 Of course! Bearding for feminism! Yes, for feminism, just like his naked bottom, thrusting on television and movie screens across the globe.
Those "number 11" vertical wrinkles that TH has between his eyebrows are a classic sign of smoking also...
>>880 Well Taylor was wearing a tinfoil dress to the Met Gala so she is way ahead of us!
>>882 damn you're right, I forgot the first axiom of the TS book, "everything is planned in advance"!
Is the fact that BBC Radio1's program is shading them really really bad?
http://teddiestum.tumblr.com/post/146746867633/tom-hiddleston-situation-being-discussed-on-the
>>884 Yikes! Tom's been a guest on that program, hasn't he?
It's never ending, the cynicism pours another drink
I sense a GC article coming. They always like to trot one out when the press gets too bad for TS...or too close to the truth.
GC?
>>887 I don't think TS is capable of that sorta avant guard approach to video making or social experimentation. This is what usually happens when people are so surprised at a situation that they can't believe it's real; they start to try to explain it away. We've all done it here with our tin hats.
This is probably what it appears to be: a relationship that is being marketed, managed and PRed in the most cackhanded fashion imaginable.
If they were smart, they might cut and run and say it was a social experiment or music video, but I think they're going to double down and stick to the PR plan. For my own prurient viewing pleasure, I hope they also double down on the cackhandedness.
>>890 Gossip Cop. A mouthpiece for TS as well as other celebs. I'm fairly certain they let PR people write their copy.
Wow. The mocking just continues. I really hope the two don't end up doing something dumb and extreme just to change people's minds about the relationship being real. Because with their current timeline it won't look good.
>>891 Avant garde TS!!!!!! No, I don't believe that.
Who knows what is going on inside TS's lizard brain. This is a new experience for her, having the tablecloth pulled away so everyone can see how the trick is done. I have little doubt, though, that she is image-obsessed enough to pull the plug if she thinks this is harming her, irrespective of any feelings she might have for TH.
My feeling is that he is a bit of a romantic, very keen at the moment, possibly thinks he is lurve, and will be defiant. For the moment. The fun for me will be seeing how long love triumphs over the fact that he is a laughing stock, and that his carefully crafted public image is in the toilet. That's the battle I want to watch from the sidelines. I can't wait for the first interview he does after this debâcle.
>>895 I agree, I think he'll be stubborn about it. He's said often enough (aside from wanging on about privacy and not oversharing) that he can't control what people think of him, so I think he'll stick to that and feel he is being true to himself.
Captcha is - Dilation - WTF!
>>895,896 I wish he had stuck to some other of the things he said. But I hope that if he says something along the lines of wanting to be private about his love life or that some things are sacred, the journalists will laugh in his face.
>>897 Same here. It's going to be interesting to see how he handles it.
>>895 Agreed. I wouldn't be surprised if he believes that it'll all just blow over in due time.
I do find it interesting that E! went from publishing detailed accounts of TayTo's dates minutes after the pics release to writing think pieces about the couple's supposed staged romance and worrying for Taylor Swift.
Has it really been 48 hours since we were gifted with any pics? Is this the calm before the July 4 social media apocalypse?
Here's an article that makes a really obvious point about rock n stroll that I never thought about. If they were engaging in pda on a crowded beach (a detail given to us by the Sun which said "An onlooker revealed: “They were all over each other – hugging and kissing – even though there were 20 people coming and going on the beach") then where are the fan photos of this encounter? I haven't seen a single one. http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/entertainment/news/a44347/taylor-swifts-tom-hiddleston-relationship-fake/
I have been waiting to get home from work for this! Disclaimer: This baby is eating away at my brain so my IQ is dropping fast, this is all conjecture and I could never support a policy paper with these assumptions, but here goes:
I've been making my way through theoanons back catalogue because it was mentioned here. She was churning out a lot when I was in Libya and doing the whole 'real life' thing. I read about the tiny brunette spotted with him in May (was that mentioned here? I haven't gone back over the posts I missed) and dismissed it because he's always spotted with brunettes.
Yesterday an anon was posted about seeing this same brunette in his local pub. Theoanons published it, joked about her waiting around when TH was in Rhode Island and left it at that http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146724703241/tiny-phd-girl-spotted-at-his-local-pub-alone. A few hours later this post went up http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146726696146/to-submission-anon No other posts were published between the two. Maybe it's just me but that note seems to be directed at someone who wrote in, asked for the previous post to be taken down and for no more 'brunette PhD student' anons to be published. Is this crazy? Am I going to strain my arm with the reaching?
But wait...this morning I was looking at the blog on the train. She posted another message to 'submission anon.' http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146749503261/submission-anon-all-the-best-and-i-mean-that And this is where you need to trust me - she posted one message, which I saw, but then edited it. When I refreshed the browser after looking in the archive, the message had changed. The first message had exactly the same start and ending but some lines in the middle were missing. To paraphrase the missing lines: I know how hard it is to be in graduate school while trying to maintain a relationship, especially when your life/home is in another country.
The ending of the message, mentioning a line and using it, sent me to the archive. I don't know if I missed any posts, but the only post where theoanons gives a 'line' to this brunette is here http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146154470436/tiny-brunette-in-a-restaurant-anons
It's a line about enjoying TH's dick but not enough to give up her studies.
Now it could be that someone - maybe a Swift fan or someone who wants to pretend she was in a relationship with TH (although that number is dwindling) - is fucking with the blog and writing in messages pretending to be this PhD student. Or maybe those anons about PhD student are real, and PhD student wrote in to the blog. Did PhD student break TH's heart in May (he lost out to a dissertation!)...sending him into the arms of a pop princess? Because what lies on the other end of the spectrum from small, dark, PhD student? Yeah, that one.
That's my addition to our collection of conspiracy theories.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHVaP1IBvhI/
Looks like he had voiceover work? Maybe we won't get TH in a Borat mankini. Disappointment, thy name is TayTo.
Jesus Christ! Did she really do this?
I forgot to include the link. Sorry.
http://uinterview.com/news/kathie-lee-gifford-confirms-that-taylor-swift-crashed-kennedy-wedding/
>>906 Yep. That whole Kennedy boy thing was so pathetic because he was still a minor and she was 22-23 something. It was pretty creepy and getting papped at his mom's grave...that's when I stopped giving Taylor Swift the benefit of the doubt.
>>902 Tbh, I never believed the tiny PhD brunette story. Mostly because these rumors always come out when Tom is dating someone else. It's almost as if these rumored hookups/ gfs are the real deal and the person he's actually dating is some front to protect the real gf from his crazed fans. It gets too fanfic for me and I tune out lol
Then again it seems like Taylor Swift may have read and believed her Hiddleswift fanfic too. I wanted to see if this public romance has more similarities to the fanfic apart from meeting at MET and it does! They take a European vacation in it too where they are hounded by paps. Maybe Taylor is using the fanfic as a guideline lol
>>908 Maybe this is going to turn out to be some bizarre commentary on celebrity life after all. Plot modeled after a fanfic, obviously staged "paparazzi" photos...
>>906 I remember this from a news story after it happened. And I remember my mouth agape.
>>909 oh god I hope not. Tom will go on and on ad nauseam about fame and its trappings and quote Shakespeare and post modern poems while all Taylor puts out a Blank Space style video and song with yet another victim perspective.
I'd rather take my chances with a poorly introduced eager romance between two adults with the emotional range of a 13 yr old teenager. It's more entertaining.
Did anyone else notice that the Swift plane was on the move today? The tail number N898TS had a flight starting at 19:23 today. Is there a way to track the city that the plane took off from and landed in? How do you do that?
BTW, the plane is not on the move now. So I am assuming this must have been a short flight in the US.
>>909 Yes, I want them to go meta. It's the only way out where they can both save face. She can morph into a woman that takes control and gain an adult intelligent fanbase and TH can go back to being a likeable gronk.
>>906 This is incredible. What a transparent attempt to role play yet another fantasy. She truly lives in a dream bubble. I just can't comprehend her guile and stoicism.
"It was like talking to a ghost. She seemed to look right past me."
>>902 I don't get it. Is there supposed to be a tiny lover doing a PhD that wuvs him so but is shy of the public eye so he came up with an elaborate distraction to date the Swift so that the miniature love of his life can be free.
It would seem from those messages that theoanon is in contact with the person calling herself tiny phd but I get the impression she's being trolled.
Who knows, with the way TH has been behaving lately, there's suddenly more likelihood of truth in everything I've written off as a load of bollocks.
>>915 Every time Tom's publicly seen with a woman, someone trolls around on the tumblr gossip blogs with some story about how he's actually seeing a "short curvy brunette" or some variant thereof. I forget if it was when Tom was with JA or EO, but someone sent all kinds of anons to the Town Bike about a woman from Toronto who was Tom's secret girlfriend. Short, brunette, didn't want to be in the public eye. He supposedly met her during Crimson Peak filming, they'd been seen together in restaurants and public places, the usual story. Eventually someone claiming to be the woman in question contacted Town Bike and said it wasn't true and to please stop posting about her. Fast forward to the present day, and the exact same thing is happening on THEOanons.
>>913 She has two planes. She could be using the other to pick up Tom. I'm not sure if her fans trace the second one too.
Okay. E! news just officially listed TH as one the "A-list," during their breakdown of celebrity couples leading up to Independence Day. Wow. This included Affleck/Garner, Holmes/J Foxx, and B Cooper/Shayk. They placed TS in Rhode Island, without mentioning TH in London. Maybe this plan is TH's grab for visibility before putting his head under the sand for Thor 3. Not saying there won't be more TS sightings though. Although this romance seems like a lusty con job w PR benefits for both parties, maybe this twisted plan is working in Hollyweird, and TH's fan base just to accept it. Hmm...
>>917 They do track both planes, and have some secret Swiftie coven on tumblr where they all privately message each other about it or something.
I have tracked the second plane! Tail D-BETI. This plane is based in Germany, took off near Wertheim am Main and is flying what seems like a local flight flying NE in Germany towards Northern Germany, possibly up to Denmark. So this second plane is definitely not headed to London. Maybe TS leases the second plane when she does not use it. So if TH is headed to the US, he would probably fly commercial. The internet is scary!
>>920 I saw that tail number on a photo in an article about her planes that was captioned "A Dassault Falcon 50 like the the one registered to S A T A, LLC." so I don't think that's her actual plane. Based on the tracking info, that particular plane never leaves Germany.
Here's the article. It seems like the Falcon 50 is her "backup plane," and the Falcon 900 is used for international flights as it holds more fuel. So the 900 would be the one she sent for Tom.
http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/why-does-taylor-swift-have-two-private-jets-1728496160
Okay. So I found out the tail number of the F 50, registered to the same company as her F 900 (S A T A, LLC). It hasn't flown since May.
>>924 D-BETI isn't her plane.
Here are her two planes:
1.
https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N898TS
https://planefinder.net/data/aircraft/N898TS
2.
http://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N198M
https://planefinder.net/data/aircraft/N198M
D-BETI is owned by a man named Adolf Wuerth. It's based in Germany.
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/D-BETI.html
https://planefinder.net/data/aircraft/D-BETI
Yeah, anonsy is right, I think theoanon is being trolled about that student, especially because TH hasn't been in London enough to do anything, he left for Hawaii as soon as he finished promoting CP, thn he was home for 2 weeks around xmas (and for those that supported the idea that THEO was still a thing, he was with EO) and then away until what June? The only thing he dicked in London were hid underware.
I go with my theory that if there isn't any TH appearance for the 4th of July party, we won't be seeing them together until after SDCC, so people will be more inclined to buy it was a summer fling and forgive him. Then she will appear in OZ.
And to say he wanted so much to be cool
https://twitter.
com/TomTheNextLevel/status/748947185585295360
Apparently "stunt for promoting a new single" is becomingeveryone's hypothesis (but it still doesn't explain the involvement of his family)
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/tom-hiddleston-taylor-swift
I saw at the OD blog that there is now a hashtag on twitter #famewhoreTom and #hiddlestutnt If this turns out to be a promo move, was it really worth it?
I'm starting to have a feeling TS's fans make things up as they go along
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHVruBmDFvk/
Ruffalo is already on set
https://twitter.
com/MarkRuffalo/status/748936743114518528
>>906 and TH is dating this moron? This moron is a feminist symbol?
>>930 Her fans insanity levels make the craziest Hiddlestoner look relatively normal. I'm still a little shocked at how her fans track her planes. Twitter sightings at an international airport vs. actual real time tracking of a private jet...no wonder she has all that security detail. The way her fans worship her, there's no telling when one could lose it.
>>928 They could have decided to lay low until Australia. I believe it's a serious relationship so I'm thinking we'll definitely see them together in Australia. Maybe even some outings with Elsa P and her kids. It'll be interesting to see how they do their pap strolls now that people have been calling them out for staging their outings.
>>933 And by serious relationship, I mean it'll be over in 3 months or less. If they do end up being together for much longer well then bravo.
Hey, speaking of Botox, can you tell if there have been hair plugs from this pic:
https://instagram.com/p/BFXZKmQTZV8/
I'm just posting to help us fill an entire thread in a week
>>930 Amazing how they flew from Rhode Island to Paris and back to Rhode Island all in one day, since there aren't even enough hours in a day for that to be possible. Not to mention Tom was in London recording voiceover work at the same time! Taylor Swift truly works miracles.
I can't with the flight tracker thing! Are they in Paris? Must say I find this very unlikely given her thing with holding a July 4 party with inflatables every year.
Tiny PhD. Hmm. The reason I doubt that rumour is that it was never mentioned at the time. We/theoanons' followers/the fandom generally were all looking for THEO sightings - so a sighting of him having PDA with someone else would have been gold dust. But it wasn't mentioned even though according to theoanons' sources it was widely known. Sounds quite similar to the alleged sighting of THEO in Jan 15 which nobody mentioned at the time but which nw3 remembered about later.
>>935 Something is wrong with that pic - Tom's entire forehead looks warped.
>>935 I think he's already started plugging at the front but its too hard to tell. It's very thin at the hairline which is why they cut so much length in to disguise it. He's worn lace fringes on films so I wouldn't be surprised if he has one for events but he's far too lazy to apply one every day. I've seen celebs that have hairdressers put on their hair every morning and gotten quite a fright seeing them without their wig.
That particular photo looks badly photoshopped. Only use film stills, fan photos, red carpets films or movies for references. Even pap pics sometimes get doctored. I don't trust any stills images.
Talking of hair, didn't his hairstylist tweeted a DM of his after the BAFTA TV awards where h ethanked her? I think it was RT by Frenchie.
>>944 I would argue the scale dropped off far more dramatically at the time of the RI pics. An instant plummet to really uncool
>>946 Yes, and by now we've reached a point so low it would be off the bottom of the magazine page. A point I like to call "so uncool it feels like the fiery depths of hell, please God make it stop."
>>948 They do offer "hair enhancement" services, according to their website. Looks like extensions, feathering, that sort of thing.
>>948 Hairdressers cut hair and color. That is usually all they do. There's specialists for the other stuff.
That Frenchie seems a bit special. I'd be putting her on my single white female list if I were him.
>>947 He's sunk so low I'm beginning to pity him. I need him to parade in that Borat suit to remind me he doesn't deserve my secondhand remorse.
Here's to hoping he's on a flight from Paris to RI (where's our resident plane trackers?)
>>952 If he's on a plane it's not one of hers, but I feel like we would have gotten an airport sighting like we usually do if he was wandering around an airport somewhere.
>>953 Well that blows Paris out of the equation.
For reference. This was the White House dinner. No frown lines. Waxy forehead. Hairline looks fuller (not the usual U- bend)
This stupid showmance is not helping his career. If the Academy had announced the new members before he started dating Taylor Swift, he would be all over the news bec of his work instead of being mocked for dating this eternal schoolgirl.
The British press, which used to love him and praise him before this romance, would talk about it. And I'm sure he would have tweeted something also.
But if you search his name on Twitter or Google, you only see news about his ridiculous romance with Taylor Swift it's sad really.
>>956 I know, it's actually making me feel sorry for him now. What a mess.
All the private jets and fancy hotel suites in the world are not going to wash this grub away. Once the infatuation has calmed down, he might end up feel pretty silly.
>>954 The hairline might be the angle. Here it looks a lot worse than face on. I agree about the Botox though. I think he maybe had it done when he had that period of "down time" in New York, after the end of the ISTL/NM publicity tour and before he re-emerged for the WH corespondents' dinner. I do recall he could not be accounted for for a few days. His face looks a lot less lined than in the W pics which were taken mid April. So I am guessing Botox in the last 2 weeks of April.
Weren't there videos of this dinner? I'm not a botox expert, but if he had botox just before it, he wouldn't have been able to move his forehead as usual, right?
Here he is on snapchat eating a doughnut - and raising his eyebrows! I think good Botox should not leave you unable to move your face. It might also depend on how recently you had it (I have never had Botox!). The number 11s between his eyebrows seem a lot less noticeable though. https://mobile.
.com/HiddlesLoveNic/status/726720205062324224/video/1
>>960 Here's another from that dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjRWyYbFFWA
Now the dinner was on April 30th? Here's an interview for Tribeca from 2 weeks before, tbh he looks the same to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Lvf-Z7mc4
No sign of Tom at Wimbledon as yet: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/tennis/david-beckham-hits-wimbledon-stars-8333144
To be completely offtopic from the swiftage, saw a gif of Tom during OLLA where he got grumpy. Anyone know if there is a video form of that? My google and youtube skills were not up to snuff, so I thought I'd ask >.<
Sorry!
>>963 maybe these?
OLLA behind the scenes
part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lhQgx9eEFo
part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnj49sNyWCc
sorry I can't check myself because in theory I'm working
and thanks to ?? because I found this gem, TH not leaving but returning (or going) to the NY hotel after RI (did he go sign a NDA you think?) The pap didn't mince words!
>>965 Wow. Angry back. One for anyone who said he looked really happy in New York after RI.1
People are crediting Taylor Swift for getting Tom in the Academy class. As in them dating is responsible for that. I thought you have to be nominated by your peers for that and it had to have been in the works way longer than them dating.
Is everything he does and every accolade he gets going to get attributed to Taylor?
>>967 I suspect that's the kind of thing that might lead TH to end this sooner than later. He is (rightly) proud of his success and I don't think he will tolerate people saying it is all because of TS.
Latest USW screed. No longer peddling the "not BF and GF" line. However also their "source" looks hilariously bad. Last sentence is that TH "has some surprises planned for the rest [of the Rome trip after the Colosseum]." Like dragging her round the Vatican museums, and then going home to attend a RADA exhibition!
http://theopiniondominion.tumblr.com/post/146813500985/paths-of-our-childhood-taylor-and-tom-in-us
>>969 That jumped fast from "not boyfriend girlfriend yet" to "100% in love". The things that jumped out to me
Interesting.
>>968 Well they're already painting him as an opportunist. If a breakup happens sooner than 3 months, they'll either paint him as taking advantage of her or if she wants to be nice to him they could go for the "true love destroyed by media scrutiny" angle (which coincidentally was what that Hiddleswift fanfic deals with)
Keep checking back on this tweet and hopefully the person who wrote it will say the destination of the flight he was on with TH.
https://twitter
.com/cthulhu_lou/status/749382080627404800
>>972 According to his Twitter he's on the way to Seattle.
>>972 The guy said he's headed towards Seattle but he left from Copenhagen. How would the trajectory work if this dude is headed to the US and Tom is headed to Australia? Unless Tom is not headed to Australia...
>>974 First off, the tweeter is a girl - that was my mistake. Secondly, she seems to be taking some sort of long roundabout way with several layovers to get to Seattle since it's taking her a full 24 hours, but the flight she was on with Tom was likely headed somewhere in North America. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe flights from London to Australia typically fly east over Asia rather than west over the United States. However, the last few times Tom was flying to Australia he stopped over in Los Angeles to do business for a day.
My hope: Los Angeles for business, then Australia
My guess: Taymerica
Copenhagen to London (TH) to Seattle to Australia. Unless there's a stop between London and Seattle.
Unless, of course, Tom was in Copenhagen for some reason and he was on the flight from there to London. Not the most likely scenario but still possible.
>>975 I thought it was a guy too. I didn't see your post before I posted mine lol We both were mistaken. Yeah, I thought the easier route would be direct London to Queensland. Maybe he is stopping in LA and then Australia.
Oh it's be so cringey if he's at Taymurica bash...
Is this one of really low tier tabloids?
"He even made a joke about how they're moving too fast, and he mock-proposed to her with one of those plastic kiddie rings you get from a bubblegum machine. She thought it was hilarious."
Lol no comment
Completely plausible that TH is headed to Tayamerica on a commercial flight to NY or Boston. Does he not have to be there on the first day of filming? I would have thought that TS would have just sent a plane for TH. Her primary plane flew again today at 10:24am. Did anyone see where it went?
As for a meeting in LA, do people have film business meetings on Sundays in LA? I have no idea, actually : ) Maybe you do if you won't be in town for a month or so. FYI, Dr. Drew just called TS a "glossy" and "a love addict" on www.tmz.com. Ouch.
>>980 LOL I've never even heard of it. I have to say, the "source" stories are getting sillier and sillier as each day goes by.
>>981 Tom told a story once that he met with Marc Abraham (and Rodney Crowell?) to talk about ISTL on Easter Sunday while he was filming Crimson Peak, so I guess it's just whenever everyone is available.
Apparently the party IS happening right now:
https://twitter. com/CaitDittman/status/749410141083230212
>>983 Or Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds could just be there early hanging out, I guess.
We all know Tom will be there too. He's making a fool of himself.
>>980 Not going to lie, that story is creepy to me. Yep we're moving to fast trolololol fake marry me, so funny much lol.
But as a serial commitmentphobe that's just me being weird but acknowledging you're moving too fast by fake proposing is just... awkward.
>>986 I'd be more creeped out by it if I thought it actually happened.
Her fans are probably loving it though. After all, a bunch of them on Instagram thought it was totally possible to take a flight from Rhode Island to Paris for lunch and then fly back to Rhode Island again.
"Omg so romantic!" they said.
Not "there aren't enough hours in a day for that to be plausible!" or "Tom's been photographed in London today!"
>>975 You're right. If you're headed to Australia from London you can get a direct flight which refuels in Hong Kong or Singapore. I've never heard of any airline flying west. You would typically use either BA or one of the Asian airlines (Singapore, Cathay etc) for that journey. Headed west means an intended stop off in the US.
>>980 LOL a guy who stopped using twitter because of some "vitriol" he received isn't capable of cheering up anyone.
I wonder if it was worth exposing his family like this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3671788/Meet-family-Taylor-Swift-introduced-Tom-Hiddleston-s-relatives-reveal-fascinating-characters-lurking-actor-s-family-tree.html
>>985 I'm cringing already. Oh god, it's going to be awful.
>>993 This is me every time I see anything to do with this mess:
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/013/292/tumblr_lz376laNSq1qaygy7o1_500.jpg
>>995 DListed's ridicule is the silver lining in this mess. I can't wait to see what he'll call TH now. Maybe the theme of JCPenny catalogue will continue.
Oh wat is he confirmed to be Boratting?
This is beyond cringe. I draw the line at dad with squad.
On another note, I have being doing my darnedest to squeeze gossip out of the usual industry blabbermouths and the consensus is: 'who is Tom Hiddleston?' and 'I don't want to talk about fucking Taylor Swift, I hate her.'
>>997 He was apparently on a plane to North America today, so the assumption is that he will be at the party. Unfortunately.
Interesting about your snooping. That could explain some of the motivation behind this relationship, actually - he wants to be more known so he dates a pop superstar, she wants to be more liked so she dates internet darling British gentleman.
>>998 Well that backfired then didn't it. She's still annoying and disliked and his name is still not a household one.
Perhaps we are ridiculing a genuine relationship between to try hard exhibitionists with a Kardashian thirst for attention and broken brakes on their emotions exercising their medieval g-rated love for the world to adore only to find an even stronger bond in isolation from extreme worldwide ridicule.
Started a new thread. Congrats everyone on filling this one up so fast - it was a record!
