Henry Cavill ended his engagement, he’s single for the first time in 3 years

Ever since I wrote that Benedict Cumberbatch “posh-bashing” story last week, I’ve been quietly obsessed with figuring out which of my favorite or not-so-favorite English actors have been “posh” this whole time. Is Henry Cavill posh? I’m looking at his bio on Wiki – he seems to have grown up in an “upper-middle class” family – at least that’s what we in America would call it. His father was a stockbroker, and Cavill went to a prestigious boarding school. I bring up his background because I think it might explain why he was with a international show jumper, an Englishwoman named Ellen Whitaker. Here’s a photo of Ellen:

Maybe I’m being a gauche American, but I always associate that kind of horse culture with the British upper class. It’s totally possible that Henry and Ellen just fell in love and it had nothing to do with horses and the British class system. I’m sure I’m overanalyzing. Anyway, Ellen and Henry dated for three years, even getting engaged at some point. But now they’re over! It really doesn’t sound like there’s much drama:

Henry Cavill and Ellen Whitaker have mutually decided to end their engagement, a source confirms to Us Weekly.

“There was no fallout. They just both agreed it wasn’t working,” the source explains. “They broke up three months ago.”

Whitaker, a champion show jumper, revealed details of Cavill’s proposal in a May 2011 interview with the Belfast Telegraph. “I couldn’t believe it when he asked me to marry him,” Whitaker, 26, said. “I thought we were there to celebrate his birthday. It was such a surprise and I am so happy.”

Best known for his role as Charles Brandon on Showtime’s The Tudors, Cavill, 29, will play Clark Kent/Superman in the highly anticipated 2013 superhero film Man of Steel. His other TV and film credits include Immortals, Tristan + Isolde, The Count of Monte Cristo and Stardust.

[From Us Weekly]

So Henry has been single for three months? And there hasn’t been any rumor of any jumpoff and he hasn’t been flaunting any new girlfriend? What world is this?!? Could it be that Henry and Ellen really did just split up, with no other people involved, and that he’s taking his time re-entering the dating pool? Perhaps. I tend to think that it was probably getting more difficult to sustain the relationship given their divergent career paths too – all of a sudden, Cavill is a hot property, and next year we’ll get to see him play Superman in Man of Steel. Shall we watch the trailers again? Superman was a longshoreman, you know.

Hot. So… who will Henry Cavill date next? I really have no idea.

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  1. Mirella says:

    He’s so hot.

  2. LadyBird83 says:

    He is amazingly hot. Like if I look at him for too long I might combust hot. Loved watching him on “Tudors” I hope Hollywood doesn’t go and muck him up.

  3. brin says:

    “Who will he date next?”….ME!!!!

    • I'm says:

      me me me! pick me pick me pick me! (jumps up and down)

      😀

    • Carolyn says:

      “Henry, Henry…I’m over here…(waving madly)”. I’d choose him over Fassy. For those questioning his looks..he is absolutely gorgeous on screen. As most who have watched The Tudors will testify. Unless they’re more JRM ladies.

      The broken engagement was so on the cards, as many here predicted quite some time ago.

      This news made me irrationally happy 🙂

  4. cupidityrox! says:

    I liked them as a couple. She’s normal looking & has her own thing going on. She’s no hollywood plastic bimbette. I hope he doesn’t go down that route.

    • sara says:

      Her “own” thing includes getting busted for drunk driving and being known for beating her horses if they don’t do well.

      • freya says:

        where’s the proof of this abuse? i read it on another gossipsite aswell, but google doesn’t give me any answers on it other than people claiming it. Which makes me doubt it is true, she would have suspended/punished by the association. all i could find was that SOME people are of the opinion she uses her crop too much.

      • GoodCapon says:

        What about these two?
        http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=281008&page=20
        http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=492947

        I can’t view it because the admins banned my IP address (even though I’ve never been a member of that site or done things there, odd) but I do remember reading those threads a while back and they offered a more insightful view about Ellen than your typical gossip site.

      • freya says:

        thanks Goodcapon. they too offer no proof though. just opinions, some say she beat the horse some say she correctly corrected it. it was apparently done during a televised competition but she has never been sanctioned.

  5. Aud says:

    HE should be the next James Bond.

    • Maria_Spain says:

      Yeap 😀

      • Amelia says:

        Eh… I’d rather have Richard Armitage as the next Bond tbh.
        I wouldn’t slam the door in this guy’s face though if he happened to show up at midnight with a really thin t shirt and it was pouring with rain.

  6. Katyusha says:

    Aw, that’s a shame! 😀

  7. yellowshaba says:

    He was the big reason I watched The Tudors. Loved the show in general, but he always gave me big time tingles…always rooted for him professionally, I highly doubt he will have any trouble finding another girlfriend, and I hope things work out for him..

    • Jill says:

      Me, too. But, is it just me or has not be quite as hot since? I mean, a very good looking man, but maybe there was something about the time period, too of the show? I think at the beginning of the series when they were all playing their real age, they looked their best. With the closely cropped hair?

      • iseepinkelefants says:

        Not just you. He’s not been hot since the Tudors. I mean he’s nice to look at but he was “OMFG, I die” hot in the Tudors era.

      • Brina says:

        Honestly, I think it’s partially because of his hair color. (Weird, I know. Lol.) But, his hair in The Tudors was a gorgeous dark chestnut brown. It had a softness to it that complemented his features. Now, his hair color is black, or almost black. It makes him look more harsh. (You know what I mean?) Also, he probably lost some face weight when he was getting in shape for the new Superman film. So, his face looks more chiseled. Anyway, he looked his best in The Tudors. But, there is no denying, he is still one of the best looking men out there. 🙂

  8. sara says:

    FYI when he was filming Superman around Vancouver, there were lots of stories about him hooking up with ransoms. I guess he’s just so boring no one really cared.

    • Mia 4S says:

      I need to move to Vancouver! There were stories about him and then when Jeremy Renner was there he was hooking up with the local girls as well (oops sorry Internet, am a I causing problems with the everyone is gay narrative? Shocking I know! LOL! )

      I guess we will see what happens to him when Superman opens. Supes doesn’t have the best track record for the careers of actors playing him (no Clooney or Bale) so I don’t know.

    • Whatsyourbeef says:

      Are we sure they were together for three years? I know lots of people who worked on Immortals and there was tale of him having quite serious hookups… In fact I believe a girl broke it off with him, as he was too intense. He is definitely posh too, really posh and also a proper gentlemen… Which is why I am confused about the timeline.

    • Katija says:

      Do you mean randoms, or girls who’d been kidnapped for money? Both are interesting, one more than the other.

  9. Katyusha says:

    Kaiser, was it you who lived in VA?
    I live in Northern VA, and showjumping is huge up here – among Americans, too.

    I have a horse that I do lower-level eventing and foxhunting with, but I’m obviously not upper class and British. I basically work to have my horse haha

  10. Birdie says:

    Girls, you can have him!

  11. Eve says:

    Does absolutely NOTHING for me.

    • Miss Kiki says:

      It’s all good Eve, just one less person for me to have to cut!

      • Eve says:

        And I like that!

        Meanwhile I’m having to fight all the other Cumberbitches, Hiddlestoners and Ruffalians…

    • Miss Kiki says:

      I adore Cumby, Hiddles not so much.

      Their fans really are a different kind of crazy, like a whole big bag of crazy. I have a spare grenade if you need to borrow it.

      • Eve says:

        I agree about Hiddleston’s fans. I may need that grenade (thanks a lot, by the way).

      • Miss Kiki says:

        No problem, I always carry a spare cos bitches be crazy.

        I’m currently picturing you in an Anchorman news station fight scenario facing off against the HiddleStoners and CumberBitches

      • TheOriginalKitten says:

        He doesn’t do it for me but neither does Hiddles or Cumbers.

        It doesn’t help that the fan base for these two guys are bat-shit crazy.

      • Miss Kiki says:

        That’s the problem, I loved Cumby well before I was aware of the nutjobs he has for fans but with Hiddles, whilst I find him adorable I can’t put on my stalk list because I find his fans completely out of control.

        Don’t worry I’m totally aware that my use of the term ‘Stalk List’ kind of puts me in the same camp as them!

      • TheOriginalKitten says:

        Don’t you kind of hate that though, Kiki? I feel Fassy’s fanbase has been slowly coming unhinged as well. It’s unfortunate because I love Fass but I just can’t get down with the psychos.
        It’s almost like when you love this awesome band that nobody’s really heard of and then they suddenly become HUGE and overrated.

        We need to somehow shield our crushes from these rabid Stans-we must protect their reps!

    • dooliloo says:

      I know right Eve! I mean he is pretty and masculine but he’s just blah for me.. I watched some of his interview and I was like *blank stare*yawn*..

      I prefer by far Cumberbatch and Hiddleston, they are lively and interesting… I’m still getting my hopes high that one day their Stans shall be locked up soon soon enough, especially Hiddleston’s, they are getting out of hands..!

      Henry Cavill oh well..who knows when Man Of Steel promo tour will begin perhaps he’ll show a more interesting side of his…?

  12. tru tru says:

    god, I love this site, there is something for everyone…

    he is piping HOT!!

    and from what I am reading a proper gentleman.

    hate to be snarky but his ex’s hair looks fried on top of those extensions.

  13. T.C. says:

    A boring couple had a boring break up after having a boring engagement. Is that the story here? As to who he will date next, any famous actress to up his profile.

  14. coey says:

    He is very handsome and I think in the next few months we are going to see him dating some high profile actresses. His career is starting to take off and I am sure he didn’t want to be tied down.

  15. Puffy shmuffy says:

    Quelle surprise. NOT!!!

  16. LittleDeadGirl says:

    Not surprising. Don’t most actors drop whoever they were with when they get the big break.

    • GoodCapon says:

      For this instance it does seem like that, but I do hope it wasn’t because he was getting his big break and she couldn’t ‘catch up’.

    • Miss Piggy says:

      I think it’s in the manual. The checklist is in the chapter “Poised For Big Break”. Dump GF? Check. Trash all other jobs prior to Big Film Break is probably next. Where is Mara Rooney???

      • LittleDeadGirl says:

        It’s become so routine at this point in time if I was with an actor/actress I’d have my bag packs ready to go -lol-

  17. only1shmoo says:

    WOO HOO, here’s a present I never expected to get today; Happy Birthday to me…no seriously, it is my b-day, and this news couldn’t have come at a nicer time (am I a bitch for saying this? Eh, probably)

  18. Palefire says:

    Oh me yooo hoo over here yah hi. I’ll help you rebound. 🙂 hehehehe

  19. lucy2 says:

    Out of my way, girls!

    I would guess that once his career took off, his life changed, and it affected their relationship. But who knows. Totally agree with Aud, he’d be a great James Bond.

  20. Ella says:

    He’s not posh. The accent is usually the clincher, and Benedict Cumberbatch could not play working class. Henry Cavill can and did in ‘I Capture the Castle.’

    • LAK says:

      Henry is posh. His middle name is Dalgleish!!!! he grew up on Jersey and went to Stowe.

      Accent is only a clincher for non-acting people. English actors tend to be good with accents PLUS they all pretend to be in a different class, usually lower, than they actually are and change their accents accordingly.

      • GoodCapon says:

        When I read Jersey I thought you meant Jersey Shore 😀

        Is Jersey a posh enclave? And what’s with Dalgliesh? The only Dalgliesh I’m familiar is Kenny DALGLISH and he’s faaar from posh 😉

      • LAK says:

        @Goodcapon – Jersey is an island between France and England. It is part of Britain. Tax haven. people who live there are generally wealthier than the average Briton.

        Dalgleish is a gaelic name from Scotland.

        I think Kenny’s family possibly anglicised.

      • Amanda_M87 says:

        I thought he had two middle names. IMDB says his full name is Henry William Dalgleish Cavill.

  21. sapphire says:

    There’s plenty to go around, apparently-can we just take turns? I am probably most senior so I get to go first….

  22. mia girl says:

    “I couldn’t believe it when he asked me to marry him,” Whitaker, 26, said. “I thought we were there to celebrate his birthday.”

    OMG! Justin Theurox totally pulled a Cavill!

  23. kpist says:

    Smoking Hot

  24. Stacie says:

    Henry is so damn beautiful. Loved him on the Tudors ! Is it wrong that when I saw this headline it made me smile from ear to ear? I realize I have no chance with him but he’s just so damn Beautiful !!!

  25. Katija says:

    Man, I love the British class system vs the American one. I guess this whole “posh” thing is, like, you have wealth and your behavior and mannerisms totally reflect it? In America, being classy vs not being classy has pretty much nothing to do with money… the richest girls I knew in HS were the biggest drug hos. And don’t get me started on Soviet Motherland… there, if you tell someone you have money, they’ll just ask what branch of organized crime your father got in to after 94.

    • sanna says:

      All the issues with Benderbush Cucumberpatch really opened my eyes to the British class system, and how huge of a deal it is.

    • LAK says:

      Katija, ‘posh’ and wealth do not define class in Britain. look at Victoria Beckham, the Eccleston daughters, Tamara Mellon, Kate Middleton. All wealthy parents but definitely not Posh.

      Think of it as a caste system similar to India though perhaps not that extreme because we can migrate class where as they can’t.

      • Katija says:

        Okay now I have no idea what posh is. And I have the five-year-old urge to counter, “But then why was she POSH Spice?!”

      • Liv says:

        Haha, that came to my mind too! 😉

        Victoria is probably wanna-be-posh and LAK means “posh” in a old-family-good-school-way – am I right?

      • LAK says:

        @katija – those names came about during an organic newspaper interview, allegedly, where it was supposed to be an analogy for their personalities and preferred clothing choices. VB always tried to project ‘posh’ but once she opened her mouth, it was very clear that she wasn’t. She didn’t bother to go to the sort of school that would give the veneer of ‘posh’ like Kate Middleton or Tamara mellon did.

        @Liv – yes. At it’s simplest I do mean ‘posh’ as you have described it, but it is more than that. It governs all kinds of choices in a person’s life.

      • iseepinkelefants says:

        Katija – didn’t she coin that name herself? And I think it was because Daddy drove her in his Rolls to boarding school, but no Vicky B is not Posh. More like a poser. She’s new money if anything.

  26. Rose says:

    She seems like a lovely British girl. But their careers are so far apart that the breakup kind of makes sense.

    That aside, I can start fantasizing about him again. When I saw the headline I got all hot and bothered 😉

  27. eric says:

    He doesn’t have “it” factor like Brad Pitt, looks like a wall street broker from the Hamptons.

  28. Katie says:

    Oh Henry. How I’ve loved you forever!
    I wonder how long it will take for tabloids to start speculating about his orientation…

  29. iseepinkelefants says:

    I saw this coming when it was announced. Plus it was kind of random (according to his fan girls).

    Weren’t he and Adrien Grenier spotted at some bar a few months ago picking up chicks (AG was getting his cast offs or something).

  30. Camille (The original) says:

    I’d like to see him with someone like Jessica Chastain.

  31. pato says:

    I love him in the Tudors and Count of Montecristo. I don´t like him in Hollywood, he will fall for anorexic actresses and stupid PR things *I am looking at you Skarsgard* and silly movies. sighs.

  32. Helvetica says:

    He is so handsome

  33. lucrecia says:

    the first time I saw a pic of her I thought ‘they don’t match’ and well, I was correct

    and about “the girls” I just have to say GIVE ME PROOFS!!! lol pics, something to believe it! 😉