Benedict Cumberbatch has been named The Sexiest Actor In The World. By an obscure Empire Magazine poll. Benedict got the most votes (NO RECOUNTS) and beat out #2 Tom Hiddleston (dragonflies are weeping) and #3 Henry Cavill, as well as Ryan Gosling, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Robert Pattinson, Michael Fassbender (the hell?), Hugh Jackman and Bradley Cooper (!!). I don’t really have a problem with declaring Benedict “the sexiest” whatever (alien, actor, velvet-voiced dragon), but I do think this mess was rigged. What I find absolutely shocking, however, is that the Hiddlestoners (who are so very emotional) didn’t find a way to rig this thing for their man. How is that the Cumberbitches were better organized?! We’re usually too busy creating slash fiction about Sherlock and Watson handcuffed together on a bed in outer space.
As for the ladies, Emma Watson was #1. She’s the “sexiest”? RLY? The other ladies on the list: Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence, Kristen Stewart and Anne Hathaway. Seriously, what the hell is going on with this list?
As many of you mentioned in yesterday’s Cumberpost, the trailer for The Desolation of Smaug came out. I’m not into Hobbit p0rn and it seems like only the die-hard LOTR-fans are excited about the film in general. Everybody else was just excited that we finally got to hear Benedict’s dragon voice at the end of the trailer (around 1:57 mark):
I’ve never wanted to bang a dragon before this very moment. Smaug: would you hit it?! I would only hit Smaug if he had an auburn dong muff.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
No.
Every time I look at him I think the conspiracy theorists are right- the world really is controlled by lizard people.
LOL +!
+1
+1000
I just do not get it. I don’t. To each their own, I guess.
Hoo hoo @EscapedConvent,
I hope you’ll forgive your sister in faith, but since today we’re probably going to hear again how unsexy & weird Cumberbatch is, this situation just compels me – a devoted CumberNun** – to expose our Sister Act, and to confess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girW7nTNnMQ
And no matter what:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPpd-6X3tEo
** approved by Mr. Benedict Cumberbatch
Vesta. Vesta, you have stolen my heart. You had no way of knowing how much I love the “I Will Follow Him” scene in Sister Act! I’ve loved this song & this scene for years. I watch it when I need a giggle. I loved it long before Cumby, & today you have connected them!
Thank you so much. Here is another barrel of gloegg! To Cumberbitches! *clinks glass*
@EsCon – I’m glad it suits your spiritual taste. It’s your “fault” this classic even came to my mind again, and I just had to dedicate a few vespers to you (God, am I becoming such a fan stalker of yours 😉 )
I do not get this. He looks so dry like he has a crusty mouth. He’s gross.
I do not get it either. Every time I see a post I say. Here is another post about CucumberPatch. His face reminds me of a warty cucumber.
Thank you! I felt as if I was the only one here lamenting the seemingly constant presence of this victim of pernicious anemia. He needs a high protein meal and a week in Cabo with Aniston.
“He needs a high protein meal and a week in Cabo with Aniston.”
Dear god, no.
I know, I know…I understand he’s an acquired taste/not everybody’s cup of tea. But, please (I beg of you), don’t wish that on this nice man.
lol! 😀
+200000
+100. Reptilian.
I’m so happy I’m not in the minority here. This guy is so not cute/handsome/sexy.. He’s average.
I wish he would make my biscuit tingle so that I could somehow relate to these posts!
The secret is understanding that at some point, the man du jour becomes largely irrelevant to our collective exuberance.
Awww hell to the no! In what universe does this happen?
Seriously, a corn nut is more attractive.
+1
I freaking love you and want to have your children.
Clearly they did not see his cap/ cardigan combo from the JT concert.
That said, still yes.
Look, in his defense, you can’t always be jorts and boots and scarves. Sometimes you have to settle for less. And that’s okay.
With that said- I like the sweater. Am resigned to the cap (is he trying to “hide” the Turing hair?)
*denial*
Don’t deny the power if the jorts. They are obviously what won him this prestigious and utterly impartial award.
Jorts, caps, fags and jorts.
You said jorts twice.
I like jorts.
(Thanks, Mel).
PS: I mean (British) cigarettes, not (American) gay men.
I think the jorts are what tipped most of us over. If I’d still ride you like a pony and spawn your children while you’re wearing jorts, then, by golly, it must be love. Or lust. That man can wear a fine pair of jorts. And is ALWAYS so spot on with the accessories. Always. (gigglesnort)
Of course it’s impartial! I think the bitches out-foxed the stoners mostly because the stoners were too busy staring at the perky wonders that are the Hiddles pecs and watching him jump around with a sword. The bitches are used to multi-tasking.
I’ve always thought that he wears caps in an effort to go out in public without being recognised, especially with the Sherlock hair. But now the quickest way to spot Cumby is to go to a concert/show and watch out for flat caps.
Yes to sexiest … What was it? Sexiest voice? Legs? Ears? Eyebrows? Oh, actor. Yes, that too.
That’s so true. And a real man can wear jorts and a fisherman’s hat while holding his head high. He wore those things so well that he used up all of his dignity and had none left for his birthday celebrations.
@Leah, Fanty, Sixer, Curls,
Oh my gods & goddesses, y’all have knocked the wind out of me completely & I bow before you. Jorts, jorts, jorts! Never has a wonderful word languished in obscurity for so long & been resurrected so gloriously! Jorts!
It does not take a Parliament of Owls to see that Bendyclutch Cummingbird (for you, Miss Jupitero) is the sexiest babe in the world today.
Jorts! Sexiest man in the *World*. And jorts. Look at them, Cumby-destroyers! Behold their denim power. Worship them before they destroy you!
I was wondering if I should be concerned that I’m very drawn to him as Turing. There’s something about the trenchcoat on the bicycle.
@Curls,
Think you’re right about the caps. But now everyone knows he has a closet full of the silly things, he may just as well go to Justin Bieber I mean Timberlake concerts in Sherlock’s Deerstalker.
@EscCon: You should be concerned if you were not drawn to him as Turing, oozing intelligence, discipline and – my guess – suppressed sexuality. And Cumby on a bicycle, goodness, remember the Palace to Palace London bike ride? His bare LEGS? The cycling jersey? The man knows how to wear the hell out of a pair of padded cycling shorts 🙂
(I ride a roadbike myself and know that the bulky padding isn’t exactly flattering)
@EscCon: Why not opt for the gigantic bearskin hat? Unobtrusive, timelessly elegant, and I like the phallic undertone.
Is it weird that I find the Turing bicycle less arousing than the waistband-chafing-under-the-nipples grandpa trousers?
@T.Fanty – Please, that kind of taste is not weird, but a NORM here. This is a place where jorts are the LBD. So that means the grandpa trousers are like a thong here.
@EsCon – if this place in itself isn’t a Parliament of Owls then I don’t know what is… Wanda would thrive here, that’s for sure.
@ Fanty
I call them Robert Mitchum trousers. And I find them rather tingletastic also. Marginally worrying.
that jumper was apparently sent to him by fans!
Eh, I’ll let Cumby have it. TommyAnne will need some consolation in my arms now, and there’s less competition clawing at CHarming.
Re: Hobbit, I am very excited because it means more Bloom! Bloom was my Hemsworth for the 8-9 years till Hemsworth came along.
His Romeo and Juliet got surprisingly good reviews.
Just like Chems, he’s underappreciated 🙂 He’s just sh*t at picking projects.
His Will Turner will always be my Ultimate Romantic Movie Hero, till Hems does better (he wont).
And wives.
BURN. Tho I was majorly Team Miranda for the LONGEST time.
@ T.Fanty:
To be fair Hemsworth is bad at that, too.
In terms of famewhoring wives, Hemsworth’s gets the blue ribbon (unless, of course, DUC decides to marry Elizarova).
@ Eve,
At least Remora gets that she can promote herself by promoting him. Surely that’s the true definition of marriage, right?
@ T.Fanty:
That’s debatable.
Considering Remora’s track record, it’s clear she’s toxic (in the long run).
Is DUC pronounced like Duke, Duck, or Dee You Cee? It needs to make sense in my head 🙂
ETA @Eve re: Hems/Remora – it’s ok. I’ll be here. Waiting. With open arms.
@ Anna:
I guess it’s Dee You Cee because it’s an acronym?
But pronouncing it as “duck” makes sense — at least to me.
Let me explain: here in Brazil, the word “duck” (pato) also means fool…we started calling him that way during — and because — of RovaGate, didn’t we?
I kind of like pronouncing it as “duck.” Because it makes me think of a duck in a flat cap, like a slightly warped Beatrix Potter illustration.
In this context, however, he’s Cumby. Here’s the breakdown:
Cumby – his usual fine self. To be hit under most circumstances. Usually involves a suit. Exhibit A (excuse me while I temporarily lose the power of speech): http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ebz4ZKM38dM/T8UmbXgvqNI/AAAAAAAAAR8/CoX7lTZJUp8/s400/cumberbatch9
Benny the Bitch – sartorial rules above apply, but usually accompanied by some kind of testy or overly frank interview. Also to be shagged at all times. Exhibit B: http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cumby4.jpg
DUC – when accompanied by the niece/PA (who always looks like she’s bracing herself for getting her stumbling uncle home). Clad in any combo of cap/shorts/cardigan/denim shirt/bijou poodle hair (that last one is just me). Gets a little action out of a sense of loyalty and remembrance of looks past (although I’m not sure if being Proustian is quite the way to go). Exhibit C: http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2013530/rs_634x1024-130630165133-634.Benedict_Cumberbatch.Glstnbry.6.30.13.JMD_copy.jpg
Cumberkhan: Dangerously fine, only invoked when wearing the proper safety gear and to provoke Eve (and maybe when my lawn needs tidying). Example: http://scifanatic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/stid-img-35.jpg
Well, I suppose I should chime in here. First of all, congrats to DUC and all of his sexiness – its a fine honor.
As for Tommyanna, I have Anna’a back here, he will work out his emotions in an aggressive sword-play rehearsal and then we shall continue the sword-play into the bedroom to truly console him. He may have willed the Dragonflies to throw this one because we are so good at consolation (lord knows we have quite a bit of practice)
As for CHemboy, I cannot wait until he sees my house-warming present.
As for the list, although I do mean my hearty congrats to DUC, I call foul to the whole lot. I went through the entire list and Mr. Rochester did not appear anywhere on it – what madness is this?
RovaGate. Brilliant. Took a second to click 🙂
I love YOU GUYS! That is all.
I love you, too.
*grabs Sixer’s ass*
You s1ut! RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!! >.<
*shakes head sadly at the silliness and wanders back to fondle the blue suit from exhibit A*
@fanty
I didn’t realize the subtleties of the Cumberbatch naming dictionary. I think DUC is probably the best one for gossip. the glastonbury photos will forever hold a special place in my heart.
@T.Fanty – You’re just killing it… That Cumberbatch breakdown of yours should be added to the Epic of Gilgamesh or something! It’s a Cumby mini Bible – if anyone here EVER again asks explanations for Cumby incarnations, they should be automatically directed to that. Amazing.
T. Fanty, that picture of him in my great-aunt’s gardening hat and jorts is testing my will to live. Oh, and the SCARF with FLIP-FLOPS. Add in the pasty white legs that look as though they’ve never seen the sun, and I can almost forgive naysayers who think the Empire mag poll was rigged.
That being said, although your “31 Flavors of ‘Batch” are spot-on, you forgot to add MysteryBatch (aka anytime he’s got the curls).
Someone is asking about dragonflies in the TommyAnne thread. We might need to request that CB adds a glossary.
Surely Mysterybatch is Sherlock, which we gleefully conflate with the poor regular man himself? Can be cross-referenced with Benny the Bitch.
We need a name for any time he holds a baby. Because seriously.
And yes, a glossary would be great. It’s hard to read some of the comments, which are filled with in-jokes about some comment or other made months, if not years, ago.
Oh, dear….I was saving this for Fanty’s birthday tomorrow, but you pushed me off the rails with BatchBaby.
Behold him & his glorious smile, with his Owl mother:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxl258pQea1r77hnpo1_400.jpg&imgrefurl=http://deareje.tumblr.com/post/15616784370&h=344&w=259&sz=61&tbnid=ap97RGcktyjA1M:&tbnh=121&tbnw=91&zoom=1&usg=__io3sCvAUoaT3UcrjVnT6QFHQGVg=&docid=9IzQN9WVOV3JcM&sa=X&ei=6VRMUpS-JuXXygGjt4GgCQ&ved=0CDoQ9QEwBQ
Aw, it’s such a cute picture!
@Eve & Sixer,
You ~guys~ are shanking me with laughter today. Your ass has not been grabbed properly until you’ve been grab-assed by Eve, AmbASSadress of the beautiful Country of Ass People.
Sixer, please leave some fags (ciggies) for us fag hags. We may have quit ciggies but the idea of Cumby in jorts makes some of us want to light up again.
Oh dear, EsCon – what are we going to hang in the foyer now?
Shall we scrap the “cute kids with their mums” theme and go for “Hot Men Liking Fanty’s Toes” as we originally thought?
ETA – and I wouldn’t know about the @$$ grab as Eve has never favored mine. Oh, did I drop another hanky? Silly me.
@j.eyre,
Miss Jane, I apologize for the befuddlement. It’s hard to say what to hang in the Thornfield Picture Gallery today.
Since today is a bizarrely special occasion, since Cumby is not universally accepted (how? why?) as the sexiest man in the world, & since I have had too much gloegg, I will offer this as a theme:
“Portraits of super-cute toddlers with their Owl Mummies who grew up to rule a Kingdom of Usually & Formerly Rational Ladies Whose Brains Turned to Benedictine Liqueur Upon Hearing Our Master’s Voice Read `Ode To a Nightingale.'”
Will that do? We can change the Portrait Gallery theme tomorrow. My shoulder is almost healed from that dislocation that happened after being zipped into Cumby’s suitcase, & I ought to be able to help you with Thor-hammering the nails again.
Too many arcane references? Too soon?
As long as someone in a sparkly thong jumps out of a cake, I’m happy.
Sit down Miss Jane, I was talking about the scientifically proven (don’t forget) Sexiest Alien in the galaxy.
*huffs* well! I guess I will just button this frock up and save my sparkly thong for someone who appreciates it.
@ EsCon:
AmbASSadress. I like that.
@ J.Eyre:
Someday (I just can’t help myself). But try not to slap me like T.Fanty usually does.
I’m totally late to this party, but I assumed DUC was supposed to mean duke but be pronounced duck, like in Terry Pratchett.
I can’t be the only one who imagined Drunk Uncle Cumby running around screaming “WHERE IS MY COW?”, can I?
Ok, I do like Benedict and find him very interesting… but there are other actors who are far sexier…
This. Great actor-no shade there, but SEXIEST actor? No, no and NO.
I think he will be respected as an actor for a long while, but this idea that he is super sexy seems to be a fad. He is interesting and fun to watch, but really kind of a niche look.
These polls are not necessary anymore please. And he is far from being the sexiest!!! Please don’t throw rocks at Me cumberbatch or something I don’t know what his fans are called its just my opinion. Hell to the NO!
Are we being “Punked”?
He’s got some seriously good PR people working for him.
As much as I love him, do I think he’s the sexiest actor in the world? No. I think that title would be held by someone more like Brad Pitt or Chris Hemsworth. That would make more sense to me.
weidly i dont think its PR.. haha.. because if this is PR driven i think hiddles or cavill will take over..
I think there is a huge PR campaign behind Benny at the moment. You can see a dramatic change in his photo/dress image and the amount of PR hype at the moment. It is not unusual when someone suddenly hits a high in their career.
Love Sherlock and respect him for his acting but no matter how they dress him up he is just not my type and would never get my vote.
Did he deserve to win the award. No more and no less than anyone else who has won it. Sexiest “actors” come and go but those with talent will keep on producing good work regardless of labels. Stephen Rae has never won a sexiest award in his life but the parts still keep coming in and he never fails to impress. Not to mention Emmy nominated Peter Mullan and they are sexy. Great that Benny has his day but if he has any sense he will see it for what it is and move on.
@icerose – I agree someone is starting to work on him. He is no longer wearing “braces” or suspenders as I saw in one photo.. I think that his rep is CAA or UTA can’t remember. But he is just very popular on the internet. I say his name to friends in the US they don’t seem to know who he is, oh the guy from Elementary they say. Good for him like he says he finds it hysterical.
I don’t think that if Cavill would win it would be PR either.I mean…look at Cavill’s face.There are very few people in the world who posses this kind of beauty.
My favorite response of his about this nonsense is “i’m barely the sexiest guy in my flat and i’m the only guy living there!” Haha.
It’s not PR he just has a very organized passionate fanbase. They are replacing the Robert Pattinson fanbase who used to rig all Internet polls in his favor during Twilight.
No this poll wasn’t subject to any autobots, Empire made sure of that.
So it is pretty accurate poll. It’s just that his fanbase is HUGE worldwide. I swear it he happened upon the Yanomami tribe in the Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve in Venezuela they’d start yelling, “Sherlock”!
Now this one looks like woody allens son.
LOL
LMAO
He is too tall. Woody (“The Perv”) Allen is barely five feet.
Kaiser, how many times did you vote, lol?
This poll always named Emma Watson the sexiest actress in the world. That says it all really.
Uhhh no, since you found the poll how many times did you vote Kaiser and were you the only one voting?
no
just no
YESS….I don’t care if the polls are rigged or not. The fact that he won make me very happy….Goooo Cumby!!!
Plus I never even heard about these polls neither did many Cumberbatch fans so the win is surely surprising.
His voice as Smaug is the reason I am dead and this is my ghost writing. ***pathetic joke I know
I think I am happily dead by Smaug too 🙂
Actually I am surprised by this too. I usually don’t pay much attention to these polls, let alone vote.
Great that someone feels the same way hehhe 😀
@Abby,
Golf clap! You cannot have too many ghost-writer jokes! I like it.
Don’t blame me – I SWEAR I didn’t do this!
*destroys the black catsuit, a long rope, the picklock and all other pieces of evidence*
I shut the door. They still come in, they’re like zombies.. Murmuring ‘jobs.. Jobs..’
I just do my best Eve impression and smile snarkily while choosing my weapons.
Did someone mention zombies? One of Fanty’s Fantlings has a special Zombie-slaying rifle. She’s small but she looks like she could handle those inconsiderate co-workers.
Oh! Oh! Oh! I love zombies. I want this rifle. Where can I find one? I would swap for my son’s Indiana Jones whip. Even for my second-best ball gag.
@Sixer,
Hello! If Fanty doesn’t see this & answer, I will contact her people, who will in turn contact your people, about said Zombie-rifle.
It’s a pretty bad-ass rifle. I actually heard a claim that it once belonged to Samuel Jackson, but that has not been authenticated….yet.
Pausing the debate to celebrate the inclusion of “auburn dong muff” into the CB lexicon.
*stops the press machines*
>> CEE-LE-BRATE GOOD TIMES, COME ON !!! <<
*pops party streamers*
I’m writing a poem to celebrate the occasion. I’ll post it later, people keep asking me questions about work;)
Tell them to bugger off because you’re doing something that’s actually IMPORTANT.
Or close your office door so nobody knows you are there. That’s what I’m doing.
@TFanty: Gaaaasp! You could’ve told me earlier how to get rid of people at work who actually expect me to WORK and keep me from doing important internet um, research.
Anyway, what am I still doing here?
* picks up pile of dog-eared manuscripts, opens window and throws them all out *
@Shw: Hail to the Poetess Laureate!
Yes, Shw – slap a photo of James Franco up on your computer screen with a caption reading “I am creating ART.”
If that doesn’t shame them than nothing will and you are clearly too impressive for that shoddy work-environment.
@Shw & Curls,
Idiot people at work. Today is a special occasion! Tell them to get stuffed.
They should have brought a big cake to work & had Cumby pop out of it, to celebrate. Who dropped the ball there?
Fanty was so looking forward to licking buttercream frosting off his freakish toes.
*watches as all curls’ work papers fly to the ground from a tall office building*
And some people still bother to insist Cumby isn’t the sexiest…
@Vesta: Seventh floor. Yeah, that was a really impressive sight. And my final act before going home.
@Vesta: To be honest: there’s a roof terrace running along the seventh floor, so I just opened the window and retrieved the papers (people would kill me if I lost their manuscripts). Still, an act of liberation.
@curls – Ha ha, thank God for the roof terraces. As darling as Cumbyling is, I’m relieved to hear you didn’t quit your job (which sounds interesting) 🙂
HELL NO! lol
Didn’t read the other comments just had to post my own. lol
Stuffed ballot boxes is all I’m sayin’.
Not that I wouldn’t hit it (and tell it off, because this one is allowed to talk purely so that I *can* tell it off) because I would.
See my posts below, dahling. Yes, these ballot boxes are very easy to stuff.
Maybe now that Tom has a job, he just wasn’t able to put in the necessary hours at his computer.
I think it was more the Twitter sulk. Never having been on there is SO much better than being on there and flouncing orff, darling.
Having said that, I’m back on Tommy. A bit. His legs got tangled in my ball gag just t’other day. It took FOREVER to get it free.
You’re also back! I probably should have explained that once you’re here, you’re not allowed holidays.
And can you please untangle the ball gag? I need it for Idris. Quickly.
I have good reasons!
1) Harvest festival au jardin de Sixer. Much pickling, freezing, yadda.
2) Trying desperately to avoid accidental Breaking Bad spoilers as I don’t have Netflix and must wait until DVD and next month.
3) General angst about going back to school.
I see I missed Idris, Tommy-omelette AND Benny the Bitch yesterday. Buggery.
What did Idris do? Open his giant gob and come off like a tosser? I’ve no idea why I let him get away widdat, but I do.
I keep going back to HiddlesNipples. So delicious!
Say what? Did someone use ice cubes on Tommy without my permission? Gads, without TELLING ME?
*goes off to investigate yesterday’s posts*
You’re going back to school?
And can I request some pickled onions? The English shop over here has just started stocking up on mincemeat – I’m very excited.
I’m starting to think that I’m the only person in the world who didn’t watch Breaking Bad. I got halfway through the first season and gave up. Mr. F is urging me to work through it, on the grounds that it improves, but I don’t enjoy relentlessly bleak for extended periods of time, so I don’t know if I’ll go back.
Yesterday was a fine CB day – TommyAnne is foxing it up with a sword, and Cumby is the gift that keeps on giving. Idris just wants you to know that he’s tougher/cooler/more street than anyone else around. Because who doesn’t love a middle aged GANGSTA?
Ok. I have seen. Luckily, I only want Idris for beast sex. So he can say anything he wants, however wankly, and I shan’t mind. He had a doozie yesterday, though.
Tommy looks nip-and-beard-delish from the waist up but I feel that he shouldn’t hide those legs in joggers. After all, I, me, Sixer, the only woman who should matter to him, principally like him for his legs.
@ Fanty
Yep. School. I’m bored. Kids are bigger and I have some free time after work and family. I want to do something different and something I’ll find difficult. No books. No arts at all. Long term plan is a second bachelor’s degree from the Open University but this time in physics. My maths is nowhere near good enough though, so this year is for getting that up to scratch.
I have three types of mixed pickle, pickled courgettes, roast tomato sauce, roast pepper sauce, ratatouille, and more. But no pickled onions. Mea maxima culpa.
Holy crap, that’s impressive. I fled physics after my GCSE’s. I still suspect that they only put me in a high set because I was the only girl in my year who opted for it (the alternative was biology and I had heard frog dissection would be required).
What are you going to do with a physics/lit combo? As a sidenote, there’s some REALLY interesting work going on with lit and cognitive theory in my field.
@Fanty – I never watched BB either and have no desire to, aside from general ‘staying on top of pop culture’ motivation.
Refresh my memory: you’re a Brit? Pre-UES/midtown East? 🙂 And a redhead, right?
I think foolhardy might be the better descriptor!
Honestly? I’m not going to do anything with it. I enjoy my job. I’m not ambitious – in fact, as time goes on, I find myself less and less interested in status or money and I was never that fussed in the first place. It’s just for me to do something for me, that makes me happy and keeps me alive.
Physics because it’s interesting. And everything flows from it, I guess. Also because it’s different to anything else I do in my life and I’ll probably find it hard.
Seriously, though: if you have any ideas, no matter how left field, shout out. Nothing’s set in stone. If I change my mind before next year’s enrollment, nothing’s lost. I’ll just be better at maths!
That’s me! A happy ex-pat, living in NYC and talking about Shakespeare for money. Life is good.
@Sixer,
I get that. Your current job sounds great. I have so many interests I would like to pursue, and the list only grows as I get older and more cognizant of the world around me. If only someone would pay me to sit around all day and think and play around on CB…
Indeed. When I say I’m not fussed about filthy lucre, this obviously precludes the gurt big lottery win that would allow me to become salary-free and to pursue many more daft but satisfying avenues akin to mature student studies.
You know I am totally gonna stalk you when I’m in NYC next May 🙂
Anna –
It’s a date! I’ve already met a couple of FABULOUS Cbitches IRL and will gladly encounter more. I want to see if I can hold my liquor against a real life Russian! Don’t underestimate the power of Essex.
Oh, dude, I am a 2 martinis/3-beers-and-done kind of gal. Now you’re making me think that I wont survive the weekend!
PS – a few weeks ago one of my regular readers, who used to be an expat living in Moscow and with whom I connected via yet another expat here, she and I chatted in email, and CB came up, and amidst shout-outs to several CB*tches here, she goes, “OMG so you’re THAT Anna!”
@Anna – let us speak more of this May visit…
@Sixer – I had to eat a pickle and cheese sandwich yesterday just to feel closer to you. I fear I shall pout for the rest of the afternoon to hear your reasons were as silly as bettering your life through education and dazzling domestic pickling adventures? I thought it was a bad haircut.
Miss Jane – I know. They call me Flibbertigibbets-R-Us. I will try to use all future absences for much better purposes. If (when) sex or cheese and pickle is involved, I’ll come get you.
SIxer – just so long as we learn from this. Now let’s off for vodka and pickled sex.
No. Just no. Nope. Never in a million years.
And I’m far from a die-hard LotR-fan, but I’m very exited about the movie. I don’t give a shit who’s the voice of Smaug, as long as it does the character justice.
My reaction when I first saw the trailer? Yay, Legolas!
Maybe there would have been more diverse comments if it hadn’t been discussed in a lizardface Cumberbatch-post, of course the discussion there is going to be focused mainly on him. I, for one, skip most of his posts. Just wanted to see the rest of the list in this one. //end rant
My reaction when I heard Smaug,s voice-was but its so distorted it could be anyone. If I did not know better I would have said Alan Rickman.
Legolas looked as hot as ever and glad to see he has a s side story
Hmmmm….did Cumby harm you personally in some way? Hahahaha!
(His voice is pretty distinctive, even if you’re anti-Cumbite.)
@EsCon
What’s an anti-Cumbite?
Does it mean you don’t bite cum?
(these type of questions arise only because one spends too much time here…)
@Vesta,
Vesta! I’m shocked! I’m sure you understand I can’t possibly answer that. (Internet activity is now being screened by prying nun-eyes….;-))
Seriously, I just whimsically began thinking of Cumby-bashers as anti-Cumbites. There are a lot of them about. I suspect they are not drinking enough gloegg.
@EsCon – That’s a well fitting name however, in many ways…
But here’s an another thing: I’ve noticed that you seem to own a larger number of those glögg barrels.
Now the thing I wonder, it’s just that usually the Vikings just rob and take everything. But in your case they GAVE you several glögg barrels, which is odd. There must be something v-e-r-y special you gave them in exchange, so that they left in such a lavish mood…
& you’re the first person to notice this!
*wink, wink
nudge, nudge,
say no more….*
I like Cumby and Hiddles but how did they beat out the likes of Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba and RDJ, unless by rampant and ruthlessly organized fan voting? I think it speaks more to who has the biggest and most vocal fanbase. That said, the ladies’ list made no sense. Emma Watson is beautiful but she has the sex appeal of an apple. Ditto for Anne Hathaway, who ranks somewhere around a glass of tap water.
It was interesting because I always hear Fassy being praised but although he is conventionally attractive he did very little for me in Jane Eyre -too bland. But I will be seeing 12 Years a Slave so maybe my opinion will change but he is competing with my love for Chiwetel Ejiofor so he may get overlooked again
Some strange results but Empire is UK magazine I think so lots of UK votes?
No way was this rigged. This poll is done every year. Its not obscure and no surprise. Empire is a big film magazine and film stars come far and wide to their awards show every year.Its also well respected in the industry.
There was no special effort by the Cumberbatch fans. I’m on tumblr and the poll got the usual level of attention. He just IS that popular these days. If anything was fiddled it was the anglophenia poll because that can easily be influenced by bots.
I’m annoyed people think its rigged. Hiddles or Cavill yes because they have huge Pr machines behind them spending a fortune. Cumberbatch doesnt. Suck it up. He won fair and square.
Awww, Cumbersquatch fans are so naive, it’s cute.
Kind of agree with you on that one. There was no PR campaign for Star Trek?? and certainly no PR campaign to get him into Star Wars. And Benny having three films on at Tiff was not plastered all over the UK press?? Daniel Radcliffe who also had three films there was barely mentioned prior to Tiff. And there was definitely no Oscar nomination campaign for his role in Assange (coughs). Funny though that Chiwetel Ejiofor ,who actually ended up walking away with all the praise at TIFF, was barely mentioned in the press prior to the screening. Yup no PR campaign at all.
@Jen
Perhaps you have a special definition of ‘naive’. Tho’ new to the CumberCollective (only met him a few months ago speaking flawless German in ‘Parade’s End’ on Arte), have spent the interim tracking every role of his offered at Amazon. His breadth is amazing. Can’t remember the last time any actor has been able to transport me as this man can or slip so easily into a new persona. A glance, a gesture & the scene is his. Sexy for me is when you can’t take your eyes off the man, when he looks dead into the lens with blue-green eyes & you feel he is peering into your soul. Hiddleston with a long houndlike face & Fassbender with an everyman’s visage can’t cut it in comparison—even shamefully nude. If this is naive, so be it. Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, perhaps you & the many other verbal critics could take your urbane views elsewhere.
@lorkin,
Lovely, eloquent description. Yes, he’s a true chameleon.
My evidence for this: When people first saw Sherlock, & began to notice BC, they were hit with this shocking memory—*That* was the creepy creep in Atonement! No—that can’t be the same guy.
Acting!
The winner of projecting goes to…
I don’t understand the results of either poll, but whatever.
I don’t want to live in this world anymore…
/Benedict over Fassy, Idris, and RDJ makes baby Jesus weep
WTF????
hell no -_-
Any poll that doesn’t have Daniel Craig as Mostest Sexiest is moot to me.
LOL at all the Cumberhate. Whatevs. Go Benny with your sexi(est actor in the world) self. Seriously though I am a cumberloonie, I would give the “sexy” title to someone like Fassbender or Idris Elba.
Ummmm, no (LOL!). Oh, and Emma Watson???…the girl has ZERO sex appeal. WTF????.
The aliens from his home planet rigged it, obviously.
LMFAO! I seriously cracked up reading this.
LOL.
“Come now
Don’t be shy
Step into the light”
Well, here’s a phrase from that trailer I want to hear again
– in Cumby’s bed…
Sounds like a naughty game of hide-and-seek to me…
Somehow I think that “don’t be shy” are words that Cumby will never have to utter in your presence, my darling.
It was voted on by 50,000 people that’s not even 2 large corporations or a small village in Somerset. I mean I like him but in the entire world noooo. I do think he is sexy but NO ONE I know does and I get that crazy eyes when I dare mention they shake their body as if they had the shivvers. LOL
*whispers*
My LARGE village not a million miles from Somerset doesn’t have 1,000 people in it.
Wow that is tiny. I use to live in Austin, Tx where I moved from NY when I said I wanted to live in a larger city (bigger than Austin=less than 1m) now in London. I think Cambridge is the smallest I could go and its very pretty
I came here from London! We are about 5 miles from a market town with a population of about 20,000, though, and under 20 miles from each of two cities, so we’re not entirely in the backwoods! The UK is *very* small.
You must be Yeovil or Chippenham way. I’m in Bath!
My ‘large’ village of Origin had less than 300 people living there when I grew up.. Rather fitting for a village called ‘Nomansland’.
Lol, just no.
Talented? Yes.
Sexy and beautiful? Not in a million years. He is so U.G.L.Y that hurts.
Hell NO! yes, He’s ugly. I’m so tired with all this bullsh*it. Ouch
Nope.
Maybe it wasn’t rigged at all? Maybe they voted him because he’s the most visible in the media right now.
Thing is, Tom Hiddlestone is not a household name and not many people recognize him beyond his Loki character just yet.
Michael Fassbender as Magneto? X-Men First Class was 2 years ago. Prometheus was a domestic flop.
Idris Elba in Pacific Rim? I don’t think so.
Ryan Gosling isn’t out and about much these days. Ditto Daniel Craig.
It’s like process of elimination. Cumberbatch is insanely popular right now. Even my Dad has taken notice and commented how big Cumberbatch has become this year, how much he reads/hears about the guy, and my Dad hardly watches any film released within the last 10 years except Daniel Craig in the James Bond movies. It’s not that surprising that people would vote for Cumberbatch beyond his looks.
This is like People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive and people are always angry when their favourite isn’t chosen eg. Bradley Cooper and Channing Tatum before Ryan Gosling. I remember a lot of people moaning about that like it’s the worst thing to ever happen.
With People’s SMA, the “winner” can turn it down. And it comes with the in-depth tell-all interview, of course.
But the premise must be the same: whoever gets the most work and media buzz in a year gets the SMA title. Nothing to do with being physically sexy, IMO, but sexy as in “#1 casting choice”.
It was like that for Bradley Cooper after exploding into mainstream with the Hangover series. The same with Channing Tatum entering A-list status when all of his 3 movies last year broke the $100 million box office mark and he became a household name.
It’s mostly based on who has the most visibility at the time. Looking at all the other “choices” from the poll, Cumberbatch is the one having the best year in terms of projects and media attention. It’s not surprising that people would remember him the most and vote for him.
Given the year he’s had, do you think Cumby could be SMA for People magazine? Or do you think his stuff might be kind of out there for the readers? I was just looking at the list of past winners, and they all seem to be actors who have been stars in big-budget films (Clooney, Damon, Ryan Reynolds, etc.).
he is so not sexy. He looks super creepy.
I don’t think it was rigged at all. Every time someone who is unexpected to win, wins, people always call it rigged. When he comes in at #5 and in the top 10 on other lists is that rigged to? Lol smh
Fact is, women do find Benedict attractive and I’m not surprised he won. I’m not surprised Tom came in #2(which alot of people are complaining about to).
If people wanted their fave to win then they should have voted. It’s quite simple. Don’t hate the player hate the game. Not every woman wants a Henry Cavill.
None of those other people are sexier than Benedict, imo. He should get all the votes in all the polls, forever.
No, he is not sexy. He is not attractive. I enjoy Sherlock very much and think he and Martin are great together. But sexy? NO!
The V people have landed and voted for their favorite alien lizard, that is the only way to explain it.
did this happen because kaiser voted again and again?
I’m in the minority. He looks like a ferret and I do not get his appeal, but for the ones who love him, enjoy.
I don’t trust *any*!of those fan polls. Hiddlestoners campaign heavily and take it very personally, and it’s easy to stuff the ballot box.
Not to go into too much detail, but a good friend of mine was once in a radio competition where listeners had to kick competitors off the island so to speak. The prize was 10k, and she needed the money to pay medical bills. She won because everyone on her LGBT listserv campaigned for her– and we found out later that some especially earnest supporters cast multiple votes from every computer at the MIT computer cluster, and rallied others to do the same. This actually works. Those pills are not very sophisticated.
All that said I think this pill has more reality than other polls. Cumby doesn’t have the same over the top PR machine Hiddles has. GO Cumby you sexy thang!
It doesn’t sound too surprising (even to a very unskilled computer user like me) that poll results are quite easy to manipulate. Good thing that your friend won though, she/he obviosly needed it.
As for these kind of “s£xiest something” polls it would be a bit embarrassing if someone actually used their skills to fix the result… Hmmm, and Cumby has quite a lot of computer nerd fans, so… I wouldn’t be shocked.
I don’t suspect ballot stuffing in Cumby’s case– I do with Hiddles specifically because his fans on Twitter campaign heavily when he is in any poll, reminding a fans daily to vote. Nobody else seems to do this.
@Miss Jupitero – Hiddles fanatics seem to be ready for political movements for him, so you’re right that they would be the actual suspects for ballot stuffing.
Maybe it just seemed a bit unreal at first that Cumby really won this…
(btw sorry for messing your friend with a she/he option, when you clearly wrote SHE. Silly me!)
Speaking as a Britisher, I can say Benny the Bitch has a much bigger profile than the PuddleTom and particularly among women. Many mums and many daughters like Benny the Bitch. Even my 60-something mother thinks he’s lovely.
PuddleTom, on the other hand, passes largely unnoticed, save for a few sons and daughters who like comic books and movies (and the comic cohort in the UK seems much smaller proportionally to the one in the US).
His pr sucks a lot I say as a huge fan. I’m sure he won because of his passionate internet fans like me.
Serious? Cumberfans campaigned the living daylights out of every poll too. I use what you call the internet and see this, so I know. They are just as passionate as Hiddlefans. I’m being objective here, sis.
Gotta be a joke because NO. JUST NO.
Yes. Yes, definitely.
YES.
He’s soo sexy, I think about him al the time. It’s not about his looks, before you haven’t experienced this what I feel you wont really understand. I quess it’s al the little things, like that he wears fans jumpers, that cap he’s wearing al the time, his eyes(never forget the eyes), his heart lips, how he hugs people, his rambling but thoughtful answers, he’s sweetness, he’s just so real.
I do get that some people think he looks like a lizzard too lol. Still he’s the sexiest for me, I have never felt this for a celebrity before.
nailed it!
Thora you need to get a life.
OMG, JUST NO!!! Standards for men are SO LOW!
Sexiness to me is someone worthy of a great bang and a great chat; pick your order. His talent, personality, sense of humor, self-awareness AND looks set me on fire! Can you imagine the debates and then the make-up sessions? And then there’s the voice … gulp! Anyways, I can totally understand why he doesn’t do it for everyone, but for me, perfection!
when there are actors like idris in the world hell to the no on this guy no offense to his fans
Well, that’s just silly. He has a fabulous voice. That is all.
Am I the only one who finds the change in pattern of “Sexiest Male” interesting? For a long time those polls have been dominated by conventionally good-looking men of … dubious talent (and if this were the nineties or early aughts, I’d put good money that Henry Cavill would have been the winner). Now, maybe due to the power of teh interwebs or just an overall change in the viewing public’s tastes, it’s skewing towards men who are controversial looks-wise but undeniably talented and intriguing. I’m neutral on Cumberbatch but I’m enjoying that someone like him took this one.
Now I wish like all hell that this would finally start to extend to ‘Sexiest Woman’ polls, but it’ll be a cold day in hell before that ever happens. :/
No, you’re not the only one.
And yes, you’re right about the same NOT happening to women anytime soon (or ever).
You have a good point about the women but for the men, Brad Pitt, Leonardo Dicaprio, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, George Clooney, etc. who have been named sexiest all have Oscar nominations or won oscars and not just for one role, but proved themselves multiple times.
Fassbender, Cumber, and Hiddle all have 0 Oscar nominations.
You’re soo right. Pitt, Cruise etc. are the real deal: exceptionally talented actors, whose looks played no part when they started their career. Their s£xiness is just an added bonus!
But Cumberbatch & Hiddles – those two are the WORST. I mean, they’re like nothing but conventional good looks from head to toe. No talent, nada, just two empty pretty boys. When they lose their looks, it’s over.
“No talent, nada, just two empty pretty boys.”
Oh, Vesta. Gotta disagree with you there. It’s the opposite. I’m obviously a fan of Cumby and I don’t care if people think he’s hideous but people thinking he and Hiddes have no talent whatsoever is just ridiculous.
@ Tish:
I’m pretty sure Vesta was being sarcastic.
@Tish – if you go and read my little postings on CB, you’ll pretty soon find out that I have the name Cumberbatch tattooed on my lower back 🙂
@Eve – Ah sarcasm, yeah, I clearly don’t master that noble and admirable skill yet… 😉
@ Vesta:
To be fair, even the best, most refined sarcasm doesn’t always translate (well) into print.
Heck, not even an obvious one. For instance, I once wrote a comment on a Jolie thread, posing as some of her most vicious dectrators — even though I had been posting on CB for quite some time and many regulars knew I was “Team Jolie”, some thought it was for real.
It wasn’t as much as they couldn’t get sarcasm (in general) but the fact they probably spotted my comment and read it without realizing its context. Or they didn’t know who I was (which is kinda sad, because I totally want to believe I’m a star here…no, I’m not even going to humblebrag à la Gwynnie and TommyAnnE).
@Eve – thank you for your story, it’s consoling to hear misunderstandings have happened to even true professionals (and that was not sarcasm). Anyway, it is a complete mystery to me how anyone on CB can even momentarily forget your tongue-in-cheek attitude (a random visitor is the only exception). Because for my part I can tell that the moment I saw your avatar face, it was sarcasm at first sight..(isn’t that better than love at first sight?)
I so agree sarcasm doesn’t always translate to print, but I also believe very much it’s a skill (which I don’t master even when I speak aloud in my own language, sigh).
I’ve posted so little on CB that I don’t expect to be recognized and understood because people know me, but in this case I just could not resist joking about empty pretty boys when virtually in EVERY single thread it has been repeated how Cumby and Tommy are plain/ugly but talented… (are they even talented, no Oscars!)
That’s a welcomed shift in dynamics, if it lasts and isn’t just a few unusual choices now and then.
And I’m echoing that it would be even more welcomed to women’s side, but like you said it happens when the hell freezes and causes the new Ice Age. Would it be something like Tilda Swinton – the sexiest movie star 2513?
“Would it be something like Tilda Swinton – the sexiest movie star 2513?“
You mean Tilda Swinton’s mummified body? Now *THAT* would a shift in dynamics.
P.S.: I know, I’m horrible today. Don’t mind me.
@Eve – Ha ha ha, probably a very drastic shift is necessary anyway so why not go all the way! And isn’t she already now like a reeally OLD mummy to most men(she’s 52)…
@Vesta,
Vesta, I am very impressed with your Cumberbatch tattoo. My attempt to get a Cumby “tramp stamp” was a hopeless fiasco. The tattoo artist doesn’t believe in Nuns getting tattoos, as he is a traditionalist who thinks this will send him on an expressway to Hell. He was so stubborn!
After bickering with him all through High Mass, I attempted to trick him by spelling Cumberbatch’s name in a number of different fanciful ways. This also failed.
Finally he made an exasperated, somewhat belligerent phone call to Mother Superior, who sent Nun Security over to drag me to the dungeon *again*.
@EsCon
TRAMP stamp?!? 🙁 I was told it’s the “lady label”… But oh no, that is just sad you had to face all that undeserved anger, and got cruelly punished, once again, when for Owl God’s sake you only tried to acquire a delicate mark of eternal love!
And yet I tell you, you had luck. Firstly, you got to howl Benedict Cumberbatch name variations (I know it makes you happy). Secondly, Wanda would NEVER accept a tattooed bird for her precious owling son. So, mine isn’t a real one but a ballpoint pen tattoo.
I only wear it to cover the traces of an actual removed tattoo, which had another man’s initials… To Wanda I’m telling this romantic story that I found CB (hot men lust central) only because it’s the Owl Parliament’s official web site nowadays. She’s old fashioned, you know.
I just don’t get it. He looks alien to me. The eyes, forehead, and just overall head area. So no.
Yes, he looks like an alien, literally, and I am someone who appreciates “strange” beauty, but I can’t with him O_o
Sorry, but hell no. Sean Connery at 83 is sexier than Cumberbatch. He may be a fine actor, but his ‘unconventional’ look is not one for the masses. Sorry.
agreed! Sean Connery=yes
this guy=no…I just do not get it
Deserving? Not while Mads Mikkelsen lives.
Loki is n°2, as usual.
The man does nothing for me. I don’t get it.
“sexiest actor in the world”?? buwahahahaha, uhhhhh NO. Wrong again.
I think he’s a great actor, but he just doesn’t do it for me in that way. Idris Elba would have been my pick. Is my pick.
I like Cumberbatch as much as the next person– but this was rigged. I get the attraction; I think he can be weirdly sexy in Sherlock (and in Star Trek Into Darkness), but I know his looks aren’t palatable for a large majority of people beyond his ardent fans. There are far, far sexier men out there.
These polls/titles are just silly fun, in the end. So whatever…
Just wanted to add: I’m excited for the next Hobbit film to come out! The first doesn’t measure up to the LOTR trilogy (and it’s not supposed to, the tone of the books are really different), but it’s a fun watch. As long as they cut out the singing… And I’m definitely NOT looking forward to the silly Legolas love story shoved in there. Ugh.
How do you have a post about this without a photo of the Sherlock curls?? *swooon*
Maybe in another world in some parallel universe, but certainly not in this one.
The question is, in WHICH of the many worlds in the vast space of the universe.
Certainly not, in my opinion, in the world I live in: the Earth.
This is the sexiest actor in the world?maybe he is the sexiest in his country.HUGE world wide? really? in his dreams.I heard about him for the first time on this site and I still can’t get his name stuck in my head,its just too long.
HAHA is this poll being ironic?
i dont know anything about him (other than I skip over every post focussed on him) but he’s super ugly. would not bang.
I still find Tom Hardy and Jude Law sexier for example. Although I love Benedicts name and voice
Nope…for the life of me cant get dis guy’s attraction….he looks strange…lucky him i guess
Benedict deserves it! He is so attractive, and the way he portrays Sherlock is just fantastic. And that voice, and those cheekbones <3
Definitely, NOooooo
Had to come back & check again on the awful reactions to this Wizard (NB: not ‘lizard’) by so many who can’t seem to separate themselves from ‘accepted’ standards. Since he has become my Master of Smoke & Mirrors, it is a relief to find so many comments, many truly hilarious, from (s)hes who appreciate his magic, BC the Magnificent, the stage magician who brings you illusion in the form of reality—or is it reality in the form of illusion?