Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
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.