Sigh… Benedict Cumberbatch. Benny made sure to Batch his way through last night’s GQ Men of the Year Awards in London. Too bad he didn’t bring #AlltheVelvet. Nor did he unleash the #Cumbercurls. Sadness. What he did bring was a heavy dose of dirt-lip and VEST. Benedict Cumberbatch = Vesty McDirtLip. And I’m okay with it. Mostly because I know #AlltheVelvet and #Cumbercurls are coming at a later date. Benedict must slowly prepare us for his Oscar campaign. He’s easing us into it. Right now we’re just getting the tip.
And you know what else is great? Benedict won Actor of the Year! I guess this is the new thing for Benedict – he’s actually winning awards and such. First the Emmy, now a GQ Actor of the Year Award. Then maybe some critics’ awards, then maybe a Golden Globe? Here’s GQ UK’s write-up:
Even for an actor with a hit rate as good as his, Benedict Cumberbatch has had a superlative year. The 38-year-old returned to the small screen in the third series of BBC’s Sherlock, went blockbuster for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, put in an epic performance in 12 Years A Slave and next month excels alongside the cream of Brit talent as Alan Turning in Enigma-code biopic The Imitation Game.
Then there’s the small matter of his forthcoming starring role in Hamlet at the Barbican, the announcement for which caused a frenzy of excitement, sold out and became easily the most in-demand British theatre production of all time. Now, following his Emmy for Sherlock, Cumberbatch has gone one better and takes centre stage once more, with his Actor Of The year prize win at the GQ Men Of the Year awards. Collecting his award, Cumberbatch said: “This is wonderful. I’d like to thank James McAvoy for not being available. But seriously, it’s an embarrassment of riches. I’m in one of those extraordinary rooms with extraordinary people. Thank you Mum and Dad for rearing me. Wait, what century am I in? I’m going to leave the stage now because I drank a lot and I need the loo.”
So charming, so drunk, and he managed to give a shout-out to his mum. I’m sure that made Wanda very happy. I’m surprised Wanda wasn’t his date, quite honestly. I think he went stag to this event. He probably met up with his secret girlfriend afterwards. Do you think the sex is better after he’s won an award? I bet it is.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Pacific Coast News, Getty.
Boyfriend sure know how to wear a suit. Yum!!!
Ooh I’m first. I love the black on blue on black suit and vest as well as the scruff.
Looking good Benedict and congrats on the Actor of The Year for the second time.
EDIT
Well I was second LOL.
Even I think he’s looking hot with the curls at the moment. I’d spare him a moment of my boudoir time.
BTW: Tony Blair won philanthropist of the year. Much as I love Benny (although rarely in a knickers-down way), I think that tells us all we need to know about the GQ awards.
It’s as if they threw a bunch of random names into a basket and assigned random awards to them as they pulled them out of the basket. Kim Kardashian woman of the year; Ringo Starr – living Beatle of the year; Pippa Middleton – royal in-law of the year.
Kim Kardashian women of the year -are you joking?
Sadly, that was the real one.
Yeah, it’s more like a mutual free publicity fest. I wouldn’t turn down an invite but it shouldn’t really be seen as an “honour”. All in good fun though. It always seems like quite a “loose” event…
And I trust everyone has seen the gq publicity shots…? The tie removing one…cough…I’ll be in my bunk…
https://twitter.com/cumberbuddy/status/506959927731290112
*gasp* *fans self*
Oh. I like.
That pic reminds me of Bryan Ferry. That’s good.
that’s actually quite a good picture of him
Sweet baby Jesus!
Eeew. Cumby might want to rethink *that* compliment, then.
Dear Tony actually turned up to collect. UK Twitter had a meltdown of dropped jaws. I can’t even begin to parse it, so I’m just laughing instead. It beats banging ones head on the wall repeatedly, right?
In a strange way, you almost have to admire his stubborn sense of self-delusion and/or arrogance.
Yes! Teflon Tony! At the risk of turning into Richard Dawkins, I blame God. Or at least, Tony’s view of Him. Tony seems to have almost surpassed Thatcher levels of hatred this side of the Pond – perhaps not quite as virulent, but worse in that it’s coming from all sides. Everyone – except for the fools represented by Gentleman’s Quarterly! – hates Tony.
@Sixer – turn into Dawkins. I always enjoy a beautiful mind.
At least Thatcher was what she was. Blair was the great con. And, Thatcher believed in a principle. Blair just believes in himself.
(I can’t believe I wrote that. I voted Labour in my first GE when I was 18, and contributed to the landslide that brought him to power.)
Family of lefties here, so I voted for him, too. I think that’s the source of the hatred really, don’t you? The let-down of it all. I’m voting Green these days. We have a Green councillor despite it being a Tory safe seat where I live now, so it’s not entirely in vain.
I worked full time for the NHS from the Thatcher era onwards. They were all as bad as each other and the only thing you knew for sure was that everything would change and the process would cost millions and there would be a merry go round of managers changing their job titles. I still vote labour with lowered expectations but only because the alternative could be Russell Brand.
As much as I love him, and you all know I do…Tony Blair got philanthropist of the year and Kim Kardashian got Woman of the Year so…no GQ, just no.
Kardashian is Woman of the Year? Ass of the Year, more like it. And she makes a pretty penny for it, too.
I don’t like the mustache. At all. I don’t think it’s very respectful or especially gracious to say you have to go the bathroom during an acceptance speech. The black on black on black or blue is ugly.
The love light is flickering for me. It will probably steady if I see the curls soon, but I have to say, he could vomit on stage and this site would find it adorable.
Oh come on! This is worse (more laid back) than the Globes. (Emma Thompson, anyone?) This is like very very informal despite the dress code. No one takes this seriously. They’re just all having a jolly good time.
Sorry, I don’t care how informal, it’s just an immature, unnecessary remark. I’m not saying it’s the end of the world, I just think bodily function humor should end when you’re about 14. At least while accepting an award. Just my opinion.
The dirt-stache is atrocious. Too bad because I saw the pics of him from yesterday’s post and I thought he looked good. And I am VERY far from a fan of this man’s appearance.
The black on blue suit is giving me rage today, it’s awful. I need some more coffee quick.
Dan Stevens’ introduction of Benedict should tell you everything about what kind of event the GQ Awards are.
I think it’s hilarious people find bodily functions insulting. As if we all don’t go to the bathroom regularly and do the exact same “immature insulting” things there, lol.
I said the exact same thing further down A. Key.
So, @A. Key, when you’re sitting in the office (assuming you work at an office) and you feel like visiting the ladies’, you usually loudly inform all your colleagues about it? 😉
Of course we all go to the bathroom, we fart, we vomit, our stomachs growl. When we’re 7-14, any reference to that has us rolling in the aisles. I just think you grow up, and “I have to pee pee” doesn’t seem funny anymore. If it still delights you, then that’s your right. I just wouldn’t end a speech by saying I have to go to the loo. No matter where I was. It’s stupid, immature and tacky, in my opinion. As I said above, it’s not the end of the world. Just not funny to me, or appropriate unless you’re running for president of fifth grade.
Honestly, he seemed tipsy to me like everyone always is at the GQ’s. Not surprised that slipped out, and he’s evidently less vulgar than me after a few LOL. Have fun, ladies, think I’m taking a break from here for awhile. Try not to break anything while I’m gone 😉
This is Britain folks! The country essentially runs on tea and toilet humour. And contrary to what you may have heard, British actors are not sparkly unicorns who never need to pee. If people announcing that they need the loo causes you to have a conniption, it’s best to give the entire country a wide berth. Btw if one of my colleagues announced that they were off to the loo, nobody would bat an eyelid.
Funny, I lived in London for almost a year and I found people to generally be sophisticated, funny and kind. Not one made jokes about having to go to the bathroom. Maybe you just hang out with really immature people. They exist in every country. And btw, I’m not “having a conniption” just because I don’t think fart jokes are particularly funny. I’m tired of talking about this so enjoy your humor and good luck to you.
Fair enough!
Lol “bathroom”
You have to wait for the full beard/scruff when it comes.
I guess you didn’t hear Dan Stevens introduction then…..
Ehh. I’m not liking the whiskers on My Otter. 👀
I don’t like the whiskers, either. I do like the garb, though.
This isn’t the Oscars. I’m sure given it was the GQ awards that any mention of the loo was highly appropriate.
He didn’t just wake up yesterday and said: “Today I want to channel my inner bum.” It’s for a role (Richard III), and if Martin Freeman is anything to go by, IT’S GONNA GET WORSE.
So: This looks JUST fine. And, no, I wouldn’t mind the scruff chafing on my thighs.
@ Mrs. No – Bahaha!
Oh I thought it might be for a role, but wasn’t sure.
I think he should have gone with a fake ‘stache instead because this one makes me sad.
Exactly. He should steer clear of facial hair I think. The suit looks nice but leave the hair natural stop with the product to tame it.
The thing is, he’s not a very hairy person, so the pornstache just doesn’t look right on him. He has like 3 hairs on his chest and about a dozen on his face. If it weren’t for his voice and those deeply ingrained wrinkles on his forehead, people would mistake him for a 12 year old.
I put way too much thought into this but… I think he waxes or shaves his chest/torso. In S2 of Sherlock, you can see he has quite a bit of auburn/reddish blonde chest hair in that scene in the palace, and in older movies where he’s shirtless, he definitely has a dark “happy trail” that he lacks in more recent pics/films where he’s shirtless and you can see that low. He managed to grow a full beard for Van Gogh so here’s to hoping he doesn’t suddenly get scraggly and pornstachey…
I don’t know why I know this either, but yes, he has chest hair. I’m a freak for obvious continuity errors in things, and in an episode of Sherlock… Had to be season 3… Where he gets shot? There’s an ambulance scene and then later when he’s at hospital.. In one scene he has chest hair, and in one he doesn’t. They obviously shot the scenes at different times.
Anyhoo, long winded way of saying he waxes.
I think he waxes or shaves as well. The beach photos of him in those hilarious trunks had not a single strand of body hair!
Not one bit of hair http://24.media.tumblr.com/20ec491257bb1d32c55be28be8fbbb0f/tumblr_mjwynbhd8D1r0tc6do2_400.png
and because this is hilarious http://31.media.tumblr.com/26f1b5f9aac64f751ad6d61be17250a2/tumblr_mnroipzqof1sr6ufzo1_400.gif
And if you go back far enough, in To The Ends of the Earth, you definitely see ‘batch’s patch (couldn’t resist… not enough coffee this morning).
@jammy- I like the crazy color change better than those horrific birds!
If you look close enough at the hi-res versions of those beach photos you can definitely see a “treasure trail” though. Not that I am a perv or anything……
The GQ awards are rubbish (Kardashian ?!), but it gave me a gorgeous man in a gorgeous suit. Swwooon!
I love the drunk video of his speech last night
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/benedict-cumberbatch-accepts-gq-award-4156613
“motor drivers” hahahaha
So drunk, so rambly.
“Downton Abbey or some such SHIT…”
Hehe, is tipsy Benny’s inner bitchy Benny rising its head?
Noo, I’m just teasing… I love free booze too 😉
I kinda like drunk, rambly, bitchy batch…
That being said, is it just me or has he seemed sort of drinky and sad lately? He never seems to genuinely smile in pics anymore..
Also, I hate to be the thread jacker, but where the heck is Hiddles? I’m having withdrawals…
I think he looks a lot better than he did when he was filming Sherlock last year.
Maaaan if I had some of the delusional fans he’s got I’d probably get fed up after a while too. I’ve spoken with people who legit think they’re going to marry him and cry when they check into reality and remember they won’t. Scary shit.
@Sighs – I think that at least this night it was quite difficult to smile genuinely. It’s not that Benny is the most innocent choir boy himself, but to be “awarded” in the same batch with shallow/shady KK/TB is definitely a stretch… If I was him, I would have been drinking vodka like a thirsty man in Sahara.
It’s a shame T-Hiddz wasn’t there. I miss that brisk little Boy Scout…
Me too. So much Benny, so little Tom.
Me too. So much Benny, so little Tom. I would say more but I have to go to the loo….am missing tom so much I have had to say it twice…
Me too! Me too…
*echoing endlessly*
thank god! i am not the only one. Hiddles in Mallorca getting his hair cut and looking suntanned again. 🙂 the hair- dresser has leaked a pic. Check Torilla on tumbler.
i am amazed he passed on the GQ awards, i am beginning to think he is avoiding being seen in the same places as Benny. I wonder if they have a pact, you this year, – me last/next year! Not really, but GQ/ Comic Con and no Hiddles??? every Brit actor worth their pounds were at GQ last night. mmmmm
Ladies, ladies, ladies! We have all been trying to make a concerted effort not to disrupt these threads and we have been doing a fairly good job of it, even though we miss our happy puppy. He’s working really hard and his own mother doesn’t seem to see him very often these days. But relax, he’ll probably pop up soon with an announcement of projects for early 2015; he’s heading to LA soon; High Rise will be released in June; and Guillermo del Toro has promised us that we have only 320 days until the undisputed God of Comic Con returns to San Diego – hopefully, in this form http://37.media.tumblr.com/c9bb87713271d2ebccc0a9caabeebf98/tumblr_n47dk9jSi11qeuzrdo10_r1_500.jpg
In the meantime, let us leave the Cumberladies to their thread and watch the Loki movie again. Or just stare at this. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Tom-Hiddleston-LMK-112973.jpg
EDIT – and he isn’t doing “Me Before You.” Sam Claflin is with Emilia Clarke. And I say good for Sam.
News from Tom:
@twhiddleston it truely meant alot to me meeting you sir tom hiddleston yesterday in london – diana
@twhiddleston thankyou for yesterday in london outside piccadilly circus for having a picture with me and accepting the drawing – diana
@Penny except Fassbender, McaVoy Hardy and Tom. Not sure about Radcliffe and Redmayne
@icerose, and Nighy and Richman and Whishaw and on and on and on
I thought people got a mention when they did stuff. Didn’t I read that Tom is busy working? Not much news until he’s free, I think. Well, not unless he gets into a drunken brawl in Louisiana.
Thanks bunches, lilac! I needed that. 🙂
@sigh(s), you are most welcome. We all need to help one another through this dry spell. I even went to see “Exhibition” this weekend – which was equivalent to watching paint dry with one bright spot.
some people under the link were saying he was not really drunk that he rambles like that all of the time,
@Lilacflowers I guess like Hiddles they were all off filming. Ben Whishaw is always absent from any of these lists but he is often quoted as being the best actor of this generation. I sometimes wonder if he has an embargo on everything but the Bafta’s.
Nooooooo! I was saving the ” loki movie” til the weekend and now the link tells me the video no longer exists. I presume the guardians of the copyright at marvel have avenged the breach by censoring it? so disappointing…
@Lilac, oh dear god, if I knew I would have warned you to spare yourself. In fact, all of our dear TommyAnne’s scenes are on youtube, free of pretentious sparse whiny plotting. Only prettiness to enjoy.
@Anne Tommy, I don’t think it did. The link works for me http://vimeo.com/104165262
The Loki movie is back up, and Out of Darkness will finally be available (video on demand) tomorrow (the 7th). Oh, and he was evidently on a plane to NYC Thursday.
http://vimeo.com/ondemand/outofdarkness
Thank you, the loki film reappeared and I just spent a happy couple of hours viewing it. But have said it before and will say it again, I really like ” Exhibition” and the other Hogg films, something gripping about them despite the lack of action. Very upper middle class but women’s concerns about ageing and involuntary childlessness which are themes can hurt whatever class you are and I find the films moving.
Given the crappy sound quality of a phone video, and that I think it’s his first guitar and singing performance on a proper music stage, himself doesn’t sound too bad. He doesn’t sound like Hank yet, but he DEFINITELY doesn’t sound anymore like Tom. And there’s time to keep working on it.
Think he’s pretty gutsy for doing this!
http://kzookev.tumblr.com/post/96833905778/tom-hiddleston-just-performed-at-the-wheatland
Drunk Uncle Cumby, I’ve missed you!
This photo will be the death of me.
https://31.media.tumblr.com/8d4e8d10e3150d7593867490aff38389/tumblr_nbat40BDJj1qgae0ho2_1280.jpg
So this instead to attending the Emmy’s. Not a smart move Dirtlip.
The GQ Awards just take a few hours of his time. He lives in London so he just has to get dressed and attend. When the Emmys were on he was in the middle of doing motion capture and filming for The Jungle Book; Origins so that would have interrupted shooting for at least a couple of days and that is incredibly expensive.
The GQ awards are obviously not more important than the Emmys but he has a very short break in his schedule at the moment before he starts rehearsing and filming for The Hollow Crown series.
The Jungle Book filming has already started?? o_O
Yes he mentions in one of the interviews from the GQ event that he has just finished filming, his part anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pi6Rditk5g
@Maggie, thank you, I somehow completely missed this piece of news!
I know it has been said many times before, but he did not just decide to skip the Emmys because he felt like it. He was working on the Jungle Book directed by Andy Serkis. Flying to LA to attend an award show where nobody expected him to win would have been an inconvenience for the whole production and the crew. His “dirtlip” is growing for his role in the BBC production of Richard III. I have never met a man who could grow his beard over night. So what is he supposed to do?
Exactly! I said the same thing, but *obviously* some people can’t be bothered to actually read some of the responses before posting a comment.
Richard III with a ‘tache!!!! Sacrilege.
LMAO!! Oh my! The Emmy’s and this party were what, several days apart? The venom from some people, its just too delicious.
*sighs* On the one hand – I do not like drunk acceptance speeches that are given in front of a hall full of guests. Imo it’s just not a cool thing to do. The “need to go to the loo” chafed me just as much as that suggestion to ask him what his shoe size was which he threw to a fan during SDCC panel. On the other hand, Kim Kardashian was there. It just about sums up the level of the event to me lol.
Any event where Lindsay Lohan is a presenter and a Kardashian is an honored guest, I don’t expect much couth to be on display.
He said in one of the red carpet interviews that he has already wrapped on his filming of The Jungle Book and is in rehearsals for Richard III so it’s not like he has been slacking off instead of going to the Emmys! Give it a rest already. He’s probably been working 12-hr days and has months of promo work for The Imitation Game ahead of him.
I think I’d be more “OMG REALLY?” If he won at the oscars and got on stage smashed, but even then…grown man, his own choices… I’m just saying I’m not horribly shocked he (or anyone) was drinking and being a bit laddish at the GQ awards.
I don’t get the whole skipping the Emmys thing. It’s not like he insulted someone’s mother or something. He didn’t go because of work. It’s not going to get him “fired” from Hollywood because he had other responsibilities and didn’t go so he could actually honor those commitments. Besides, I don’t care how big an actor you are, a flight to and fron London to LA, the whole rigamarole with the awards, etc, takes a huge chunk of time and if you’re in the midst of projects, it doesn’t make sense to go, esp if others are depending on you for the film schedule.
Sorry? Did I say he should’ve skipped GQ and gone to Emmy’s instead? Please do reread my comment, thank you. Also, the amount of work he’s already done and will be doing has absolutely nothing to do with the level of the event he’s attending – or the way he’s behaving during said event lol.
Aaaand my previous comment was for @just a fangurl, your comment got posted a bit later, @MissMary. Just FYI.
@Innie Outie aaaah, okay, lol, I was like “wait, I didn’t say he should’ve skipped!” lol. COnfusing morning all around.
Considering the guest list, I might have gotten tipsy as well.
That’s exactly my thought, @M.A.F. 😀
Absolutely! In that context, it’s practically a requirement. A case could be made for a medical application – to curb the eye-rolling and vomit-in-the-mouth reflexes, which can cause permanent damage in large doses.
Did you guys miss what Dan Stevens had to say just prior? If going to the loo is bad, then his use of the c-word was horrendous. No excuses for that one.
Come on, girls, everybody got drunk there. Haven’t you seen videos of people so drunk they could barely walk? And those tripped and falling down? As for the speech, it was remarkably well for a drunk. I’ve heard guys swearing like truck drivers when they are drunk, just look at Dan Stevens. Now THAT was unacceptable.
With that amount of pressure I was glad to see that Benedict let his hair down at GQ.
I’m unapologetic in my lust for him. I don’t mind at all when he’s drunk. After looking at KK, what other choice did he have except to get blistering drunk? I know I would have if I had seen that. Must get a butterfly net so I can catch my panties. I think he’s gorgeous.
LOL Kri. He is gorgeous.
I thought his drunk rambling was hilarious and a drunk “inner bitch” is a familiar persona to me. Mine comes out after one too many Gin Tonics. So we would get along splendidly.
I live in fear of full beard and Sherlock curls….it will be the lust-induced death of me. If he’s filming Hollow Crown through the end of the year it should be a very happy Christmas LOL
Well said Kri. I couldn’t find any fault with his outfit. I’ve seen plenty of guys do the all black or close to all black that he did and the world didn’t stop turning.
I don’t understand facial hair for Richard III. He was smooth faced. The best Richard III was Olivier and he did sans hair. Is he trying to compete with Martin?
From a quick look at the Mirror, it appears that a
lot of people got trashed at the party. I wonder if Benny’s regretting the TMI today. The loo comment was cringeworthy IMO.
I would think it is the director and artistic associates, of The Hollow Crown who are deciding how Richard should look so I doubt if Benedict is trying to compete with Martin.
Is it a cultural thing because I don’t see how mentioning the loo is cringeworthy?
We all have to go.
@Maggie, might be a cutural thing. I lived in the states for some time and I quickly realized that I could not be as direct in my way pf speaking as I am at home.
Do not talk about it, it is something you do in the dark, in a secret room and please pretend it never happened. I do not want to generalise the US in any way, but that has been my experience so far.
I’m an American and the loo comment didn’t bother me at all. If he’d said, “Gotta dash now because I need to take a piss.” I would have been disappointed in him. Otherwise, I thought he was gorgeous in every way. 😛
I found it a bit funny and not really offensive, just more of a “OMg did he just say that?” thing. I think I’d have been more off-put if he’d said “Well, I gotta go drop a deuce, see ya!”
@MissMary LOL. Can you imagine if he’d said something like that? Or even “But before I leave, does anyone have a magazine or book I can take with me to the loo?”
@Green Girl: *snort* “Can I borrow someone’s program? I’m gonna be a while and don’t want to read on my phone. Unsanitary, you know.” Though I’m sure, if he had said that, there’d be the tumblr contingent saying how it was an obvious signal to the secret gf who’s really Loo Brealey because Loo is the same is loo and rhymes with poo.
I’m an American and his “I have to go to the loo” comment didn’t bother me at all. If he had started to go into detail as to what he was going to do in the loo, that would have crossed a line and become toilet humor. But as it was, it was just a funny, tipsy way to get off the stage, IMO.
Not to mention it was classier than the way he was introduced ON to the stage by Dan Stevens, so…
@MissMary and GreenGirl,
Your posts should come with a disclaimer. So funny! And for the record, I didn’t have an issue with it either.
A stand up comedian I”m close to asked me if BC said he was going to “pinch a loaf” , “float an air biscuit” or “burn a log”, it’s all good in the U S.
I thought the funniest bit was when he mentioned Downtown and then covered his tracks-not so piddled that he could not remember how his last two mentions of the series went down with the fans and cast of Downtown.
LOL Yeah I was thinking “way to backtrack, Benny” when I saw that part of his acceptance speech. I don’t now how drunk he was but he was at least aware enough not to shove that foot too far down his own throat.
I actually thought it was funny he didn’t mean to offend Dan, then he realized Dan is no longer part of DA so he sort of stopped caring after haha! Admit it Ben. You think DA is crap. It really is crap though.
Like scruffy Ben, like black on black tuxedo, like drunk, bitchy, rambling Ben and love the hair.
The GQ Men of the Year Awards are a lesser Golden Globes but are a full on publicity fest just like the Golden Globes. No one takes them seriously, everyone gets drunk and spends an inordinate amount of time in the loo.
I can’t believe people are going on and on about his facial hair as if peace would have occurred worldwide if only he had been clean shaven.
And seriously, compete with Martin Freeman? Pfft!
I wrote this on the previous thread as well. Given BC’s past attention to character details, I find it surprising (and disappointing) that he would have facial hair for a production about a character that was smooth faced (and also had long, straight, black hair). Just as disappointed with the director, if that’s the person making the decision. My opinion, for what it’s worth.
I just noticed I posted just about the same thing above. Sorry for the redundancy, but am a huge Shakespeare buff so am probably too invested!.
I am more interested in how it plays out with the production concept. It could be an indication that they may be planning a traditional historical setting as opposed to a more modern/nebulous setting as per Freemans/Coriolanus both of which worked well.I saw the Two Gentlemen of Verona last night on Live broadcast last night set in modern day dress and it was brilliant.
My guess is it will be very traditional period affair because they are aiming at wide audience range and playing safe, Either way the beard could go but facial hair might be more indicative of period. I think with Shakespeare the necessity to make him look like the original is not really considered to be that important. Maybe if it was a straight for ward film about Richard 111 it might be a factor.
Dear GQ,
The man’s name was Turing, not Turning. He contributed more to humanity than you ever will so show some respect and spell his damn name correctly.
“Right now we’re just getting the tip.” Thanks Kaiser.
The secret gf wasn’t there? There were 2 blonde girls at his table (except Karon) lol. ah Louise has a boyfriend (Ben Kingsley’s son) and he was there. I think he has dates but a secret gf not so sure
LOL and don’t forget the brunettes cleverly disguised as GQ and Hugo Boss employees! He has ’em stashed in plain sight!
lol. In response to Kaiser who was asking if sex is better after winning an award, well not sure the secret girlfriend wanted to have sex with her drunk bf 🙂
I wonder if he gets handsy when he’s drunk.
MISSMARY
in the name of research I have looked at every picture from last night that BC wsd in..It was hard,demanding work.But I don’t shirk in my tasks!
After many hours,and hot flushes,I feel I can reveal the secret gf’s identity…
It’s quite obviously Dan Stevens!
Or Karon the PR!
Or Lewis Hamilton!
Or Lol Brealey!
Or non of the above because she was shy…and wouldn’t come out of his pocket lol x
@Felice: I’ll take one for the team and find out! For science!
@Kazlock: LOL I bet that invisibility cloak got mighty warm with all those lights last night!
If this is the tip then I’m going to get my special friend. I can’t stand the tip. Tips make me ragey. All or nothing damnit!
I hate the tone on tone with the vest. I see he’s matching the vest and pocket but there needs to be something else to break up the shirt and tie. A pattern, shine, something.
His facial hair is horrible. The suit was dull. The acceptance speech was embarrassing. The awards show and their loose criteria for awards were even more so. Karon was dressed in her worst outfit yet. Was there anything good about the evening?
Good= Sounds like there was lots of alcohol.
I just got a good look at Karon’s dress. I like it. I think many people think women over 50 shouldn’t dress a certain way-total B.S. Compared with Cara Delevigne dressed in a see through mess only outdone by an always trashy KK in a leather strapless swimsuit with a metallic sarong like thing that didn’t even close and she almost tripped over, I would say that Karon looked good.,
Remember me laughing at bangs/fringes for jessica Chastain?
Well in Britain this is a vest (worn under a shirt usually by a kid, as in ” wear a vest, or you’ll catch your death of cold”:
http://www.marksandspencer.com/5-pack-pure-cotton-sleeveless-vests/p/p21167180
these are waistcoats:
http://www.marksandspencer.com/MSSearchResultsDisplayCmd?&searchTerm=waistcoat&langId=-24&storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&categoryId=0
I always assumed it was just a British way of describing the obvious. It covers the waist and is sort of a coat, hence, waistcoat. Potato chips are crispy, hence, crisps. Candy is sweet, sweeties.
i do hope Benny isn’t a mama’s boy, that would be sad.
there’s a play called MEDEA tomorrow so maybe he will attend the play with the same brunette
What brunette?
The alleged secret gf. Invisible Girl. All that jazz we were joking about–the blonde brunette redhead with the chunky thin ankles who is a model with a super serious secret career and only six inches tall so he can hide her.
MISSMARY Oh!That brunette!!
I thought it was a different one!There are so many of them.I’m thinking of giving them nick names
Henceforth I shall do so.
Step forward ‘Chunky legs carpark girl’!
Take a bow ‘Tube top,protective arm around,girl’
And let’s not forget’ Secret cinema,kissy face lady’
If I’ve missed anyone off the list please forgive me lol xx xx
It was ironic. Sure he will go and see the play but I don’t know if he will attend it with a bonde, brunette or an alien girl
LOL “Lady he walked behind on the sidewalk in NYC while wearing a hoodie,” “Woman he stood next to at a bar in SoHo” and “woman he chatted with while waiting for his drink in NW1”.
MissMary I’d completely forgotten about them!I Thankyou for reminding me.
Should ‘Button Lady’be on the list I wonder???
After all he did smile at her….
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Now everyone knows! 😉
Has secret gf gone back into hiding again?No mention of her since the secret cinema kussy face thing.As reported in the Daily Fail lol
@Kazlock: LOL he hasn’t stood next to anyone not in PR or the industry over the past few days so no, no secret gf.
Medea has been on for sometime but it is being broadcast live tonight because I a going. He could have gone any time over the past few weeks but the stars do not normally turn out for live broadcasts like they do for opening nights because the press are not there.
It’s GQ. Has anyone ever taken it seriously? It’s like an mtv award for people who are popular at the time.
Besides, what’s he gonna do? Refuse the award? I’m not sure what people want from him but like it or not he’s got oscar bait to promote. Jesus people.
He does naturally have more hair. There’s an old photo shoot where you can see the chest hair, and he’s got a full on beard in painted with words. He’s just usually clean shaven for roles. It’s probably still growing out.
Fashion wise he’s done dark on dark before and it was fine. Hm
Even though it’s an award event, we’ve spoken about who’s there so I don’t think it was taken as seriously as any other. Plus a decent amount of the people there are friends of his or at least he’s met them (the downton crew for example) so if you’re gonna go you might as well have fun.
I suspect most awards shows are less rigid than they look on tv too. When the cameras are off it’s pretty much just celebs visiting with each other.
I think most of them, even the Oscars and BAFTAS, are more a networking/see and be seen sort of thing than a serious “omg I’m recognized! This is it! I’m established!” (mileage may vary on the Oscars).
This kind of award is very important for many of them because artists love to be flattered. For them is essential this “recognition” and the attention that they get from media. Notice how many of these unnecessary ceremonies they attend during the year. It’s a huge waste of money.
I guess one wouldn’t get into performing or at least try to break into movies/t.v. if they didn’t crave attention, at least on some level. I’m sure some just do flat love performing but from the looks of things (not just these awards but in general), many celebs just want to be noticed and liked or at least be known.
I’m sure some of it is attention but award ceremonies are always networking events. It’s where actors meet other actors or other people in the business. It’s also where you can get some attention for your current or future projects.
Most people love to be flattered, especially for what they do.
It’s a bit more complicated than just ‘they love attention’ truthfully. Actors are independent contractors, so networking is crucial and not limited to directors. You ideally want connections and good reps with studios, film distributors, script writers, and fashion designers. With the very rare exceptions, no one wants to hire or dress a hermit.
For the typical actor, falling out of the light for too long will kill you if you’re not cemented-few actors are. People forget about you, studios forget about you, and that’s it.
So, yeah, some actors love attention, but it’s less than you’d think. They learn to deal with it and walk the walk if they want steady work. There’s always competition that is just as good as or better than you, and the loudest kettle often wins.
i get why cumby (and others) align themselves with GQ. it’s a major publication, and can afford them many networking opportunities. but it’s SUCH a sexist piece of crap mag. i’m waiting for the day it goes under.
Where I live (South/Southeastern US), a lot of places sell it in the same section as the nudie mags and do the whole “obscured cover” thing. It’s not quite as bad as Maxim but it’s still hella problematic and misogynist.
the worst part is they masquerade as being modern men supporting feminism, and spout liberalisms all over the place. super hypocritical.
Probably not align but it gets them the face time they need for work. I doubt even they care who’s hosting. They’re networking (or getting drunk with pals *cough*)
Generally Benedict is good about how he speaks to and about women so I don’t think he’s exactly agreeing with GQs views or anything.
I couldn’t say for sure but he’ll probably be at as many things as possible until the oscars.
I believe his ‘plus one’ was his publicists, Karon Maskill. And as for the supersecret girlfriend – it was all started by the head of PBS Masterpiece, Rebecca Eaton, intimating in a panel interview for the Cannes Lions festival, along with the New York Times, Maureen Dowd, that Benedict had a girlfriend. http://pagesix.com/2014/06/17/downton-drama-obama-almost-ripped-lady-granthams-dress/
doe someone know what happens to BC. If you go on twitter & see @denise_wholock posts to A. Abbington & L. Brealey it’s strange?
I’m not sure what you mean… I don’t see any posts from that user.
MissMary French girl
I’ve seen same thing.A tweet claiming Benedict isn’t well.
Not sure if it’s some kind of joke or not though
@Kazlock: Who knows. I doubt a random fangirl would know anything about his health status that isn’t made public and they are likely nannying because he was tipsy and silly and the awards the other night. There’s an astounding number of people in many (all?) fandoms for different actors who want to police the behavior of adults they fan over–claiming all sorts of potentially libelous/slanderous and just plain ignorant things (any celeb they see drinking is an alcoholic. if they’re not smiling 24/7 they have depression, etc). All that to say, a random fan isn’t going to have info on his health status and his friends aren’t going to talk about it, one way or the other, so she’s barking up the wrong tree.
Frenchgirl,
“@LN5976 it’s kind of a tag to let Benedict know we’ll always support him”
https://twitter.com/LN5976/status/507570632151027712
Silly people.A couple of FB pages said he was looking ill not so long ago.
By the time they’d finished he’d been diagnosed with everything from anaemia to depression! Turned out the PUC was after a long haul flight lol
A lot of people who are on the more obsessive end of fandom (not just his, but almost every fandom I’ve seen or been part of) like to make diagnoses regarding the fanned-over person’s health. Did they look tired? OMG anemia, cancer, depression! Did they look flushed? High blood pressure! Pregnancy! Were they tired? DRUGS!
I love clicking on the Cumberbatch comment threads because so many of you get so upset with each other and all offended and “exCUSE me, read what I said AGAIN” and it’s hilarious and ridiculous, the level of butthurt because you are all commenting in a celebrity gossip thread about some man you’ve never even met lol
Anyway Benedict Cumberbatch is smoking hot. I love his forehead wrinkles and crow’s feet
well everything is ok it was a tweet just bc he was drunk & to show him all support fans give him
Frenchgirl. Thankyou.
Next time I get rat ars*d I expect an out pouring of love and support from FB and you guys here then.
Bet he had a humdinger of a hangover yesterday lol
I wonder if he is still recovering since he went to an after-party and is reported to have been doing shots. Yep, he certainly tied one on!
@Encumbered: LOL the same after party had the cops called on it for a noise complaint. I think everyone got a bit rowdy.
Vodka shots with Richard Madden!…..Oh Lord I’ll be dreaming of that tonight!
Has BC left for TIFF yet does anyone know?
Been very quiet since Tuesday, hope he recovered from his hangover lol
TIPPETT just so you know I have indeed met BC at an event back on Feb, the man is beautiful, charming and has the most amazing set of eyes and a voice to die for plus he put his arm round me when we had our photo taken therefore this means I am now his wife lol
It does make me laugh when people get all concerned about him being “ill” when the majority of us are sitting here thinking yep he’s pissed good on ya Ben it’s about time you let your curls down and were allowed to be a 38 year old bloke, hell I’m a 38 year old woman and can get just as ramble after a few too many bubbles at the weekend!!!!
I’m glad he’s nice in person but I’m also totally on board with him pushing back against fans that cross the line. He’s already got more patience than I could ever muster. It’s wild to me that some fans can say totally out of line things or behave rudely and expect him to smile and…I don’t know, fall in love with them or something.
I read in a blog that a girl who was dating a celeb (lol) said that it’s possible he has a scret gf bc nobdy knows that they were dating even if qhe was at parties with her own friends. And an other one said that maybe the sgf is not living in London & works a lot (she’s not in public eyes)
Frenchgirl… I read the same thing lol!
People ripped into her about it.
I begin yo think the secret gf is a load of crap that the tabloids got hold of and ran with.
“I begin yo think the secret gf is a load of crap that the tabloids got hold of and ran with.”
– Moriarty voice –
You’re just getting that now?
LOL
It’s impossible not to be a little star struck in his presence but I’ve never seen any bad behaviour from fans towards him, but I know it’s out there and there a few on a minority that do seem to believe he’s there’s and no one else’s but it is a minority and the greater number of his fans are respectful and mindful of him and his personal space!!
I also cannot abide the term “Cumberbitches” either as it certainly doesn’t help rid fandoms of a stereotypical image of fanatic girlies, which the majority are not 😃
Thank you Clara, I totally agree with you
It is horrible though isn’t it I don’t know who coined it but they did us no favours. Fandoms are already subjected to horribly inaccurate stereotypes as it is so we really need to find a better term!!!
Ha ha I have to admit I almost turned into a gibbering wreck myself when confronted with those beautiful eyes looking into mine and when he greeted me well I almost lost it, but I managed to hold it together and then took my fangirling self far far away and had a little moment to calm down lol it’s been a long time since anyone has rendered me speechless, well done BC well done 😂
He’s at TIFF now my lovelies!
With Adam Ackland…. who must not be mistaken for the secret gf!
He’s doing a Q&A apparently.
If anyone see’s s transcript would they post s link please?
Thankyou x
Well, don’t you know? Adam IS the secret gf! Now, hear me out… His whole ruse as a cis-male, heterosexual family man with a wife and kids is about to be revealed as a sham! He’s really a tall, leggy brunette with a super secret high powered job but sometimes wears blonde wigs and lace dresses and walks around car parks… The whole Adam Ackland thing has been a disguise.
there’s a photo on markmalkin insta of BC with a guy & a mistery blonde!! lol let’s go for speculation
Lol!Just seen it…..I’ll start the ball rolling……
OMG!.Is that his secret gf ??????
Tempted to do that on T,just to see the reaction lol.
the bonde or the brunette?
If I had to guess, I’d say she’s PR for the guy Benedict is talking to (Hanging back the way Karon’s hanging back)
Frenchgirl
I’ve seen the blonde girl pic.. Is there a brunette one too?
Has he taken both secret gf’s with him?????
no sorry I had a problem with my PC so my post is not complete. Who is the SGF, that blonde or the brunette with whom he was spotted in London lol? Wonder how mamy gfs he has & that the brunette is not jealous of the blonde
North of Boston looks like it.
A T blog(?) as posted a sort of compilation of BC pics from.last night.All of him apart from one.A woman in a purple dress(brunette).Doesn’t say who she is…looks sort of familiar though.
Give it 10mins and it will go into meltdown while they figure out if she’s secret gf number?
which pics of the brunette. I only saw the pic with the blonde one
Frenchgirl.. I think he has a whole harem of secret gf’s lol!
Maybe they all have ninja abilities
..seeing as none are ever pictured with him lol
do you know who is the woman in the pic (with the purple dress)? Wonder why they posted it with all BC pics
It’s on a T blog.Part of a load of BC pics.The other’s are all of him.Apart from this one of the brunette lady.
not sure she was with him, seems like he was with Karon. Maybe the girl from the blog posted the pic to speculate
Frenchgirl
Not sure who the woman in the purple dress is.
Like you say,could be deliberate. If anyone knows,please let us know
Looks like she is local pr.
the pb is that i can’t find the original pic
MISSMARY!
I thought brunette may have been an actress.Couldn’t place her though. Just seemed odd her pic was in the middle of a load of BC one’s.The other’s seem to concentrate on him.That one on her
@Kazlock. The only woman I see with Ben in all the photos is Karon. What brunette are you talking about?
She’s Sarah Rafferty from suits
Sophiek
It’s on a BC blog on T.
Posted load of pics of BC then one of the lady.
Another blog solved the mystery. It’s an actress called Sarah Rafferty, from a show called Suits.She was at same party.They said she didn’t seem to even arrive at same time as BC.
@Kazlock. Thanks! Lol. People are still trying to link him with anyone to make that gf rumor true.
I am now convinced that if he farts within 100 feet of a woman it is going to be considered a declaration of unbridled passion and certain romance.
SophieK, Encumbered, Kazlock: I’m actually giggling out loud at the “OMG who is _____ in the pic with him?” posts I see all over the place. STG, I go away for a few days on vacation, come back and he’s got a million new gfs, but they’re all secret and apparently doing covert ops with Adam Ackland as his decoy.
Encumbered…. LOL!He has more eyes on him than America’s Most Wanted!
I said further up the thread that I’m beginning to believe there’s no secret gf at all.Pretty sure there’d be at least one decent picture by now.
But to be sure I’m thinking of starting a file,just so I can keep all his secret gf links in order.
does someone knows who is the brunette who was photographed with BC? Can see her on Anyo’s dessert
Not seen anything. What’s Anyo’s dessert?
It’s a tumblr blog. There’s a pic with him and a brunette that looks like a PR or media lady, and a pic of him w/his arm around Keira Knightley. The only 2 brunette pics I see on that site from TIFF w/him in them.
If you mean this, she interviewed him:
http://anyo-haseyo.tumblr.com/post/96898354941/londongypsy-source
If you click the source of the pic, it looks like it’s one of the people who interviewed him at TIFF. (see the note cards in her right hand?) There’s another pic of them sitting across from each other.
(the pic is also on londonphile’s tumblr if you can’t find the other one)
Seriously, I cannot say it enoug (well, yeah I can…) there’s no secret gf. He’s not sneaking her into parties where they avoid each other all night so no one knows they’re together, he doesn’t have her stashed in the countryside somewhere where she’s got a Super Important Job and can’t be seen with him (because if you’ve got someone stashed away and don’t want to be seen w/them, that’s a side piece and not a gf or bf), and he’s not “debuting” her at TIFF after floating rumors to “get his fans used to the idea.”
Pure speculation on my part: He has Adam Ackland with him, his bff and his production partner in Sunny March. Sounds like it’s network, network, network time. Bring your bff for company AND make some solid industry connections for your relatively new company with projects that need more substantial funding and notice than crowdsourcing can provide.
BUT… he’s going to be within a few yards of women, some of them very attractive by heteronormative, social standards, and people are going to salivate over linking him to any blondebrunetteredhead with chunkythin ankles and a secret high powered job that happens to look his way, or he happens to glance twice at when he’s in public.
@MissMary. .You forgot my theory of the girl stashed away in a castle in Scotland. ;-). Seriously, you are absolutely correct that there is no secret gf, never was one. I am sure that if Ben had someone special in his life, she would be with him at some, if not all, of these important events in his life. And there is no one so he brings Karon and Adam to this latest event and that’s it. No mystery. It is what we can all see–a single guy, focusing on his career and enjoying it with his friends.
LOL I didn’t want to out Scottish Castle GF! She’s the last, secret, hope!
I am seriously amused by how many ‘fans’ think he has to hide a gf or is engaged in some sort of covert mission and has her at these events but “hidden away” and “smuggled in” like she’s the Princess of Everything and can’t be seen with him.
MissMary…
Well said.Never seen this Anyo blog.But as you well know I got sucked into Tumblr and all it’s crap.
Many of the blogs seem to be aimed at fan baiting. Few good one’s. But I’ve learned to take what they say with a pinch of salt.
For how many people take pics of him,I’m sure there would be at least one decent picture if any secret gf.
Unless of course he’s dating Mystique from the X Men?
A lot of the blogs about celebs on Tumblr are either hardcore, intentional fanbaiting, purposeful misinformation (again with fanbaiting or in the case of shit like Media Mass “social commentary”), or people living out their fan fiction by posting pics and swearing “OMG TRU LUV” or secret gf or whatever, then changing their narrative when they’re proven wrong or nothing comes of it. It’ll be the next woman, the next event, this or that. Some of the more salacious blogs will post how a “friend of theirs” or a “close friend who knows the celeb/their PR/a mutual friend” or even they themselves “saw/heard/knows for a fact” that the secret gf/bf was there and they had a fight and broke up over the secretive nature. Or some shit. It just spins out of control and becomes “a fact” in the celeb’s public life, when it never happened at all and it’s not even on their radar as a thing.
someone said on tumblr (benedict cumberbatch & anyo’s dessert apparently) that he was seen with a brunette
The only tumblr references I’ve seen are to a pic that an interviewer took with him.
That’s aside from some blogs that are taking THIS conversation here at CB to be a hint that BC’s got a new brunette girlfriend. It’s like a game of telephone in an echo chamber, each site magnifying the message.
I don’t know tumblr so much. Is it bullshit? So no sight ot the brunette except the interviewer then?
@Frenchgirl: Personal mileage may vary, but most (not all, but most) tumblr fan blogs seem to run primarily on fanbaiting or seriously unfounded speculation to downright lies just to get attention or further a personal fantasy of a celeb. Some blogs are legit and drama free or low drama (For BC, I rec Cumberbuddy, Cumberbatchweb, Londonphile–all avoid the speculation and baiting). But a lot are flailing in the dark and making stuff up or taking one grain of truth and making it into a ball of shit.
/sarcasm on
Is this his secret girlfriend?
http://londonphile.tumblr.com/post/96905765911/damnitmaurie-with-the-awesome
Or this?
http://londonphile.tumblr.com/post/96906843596/londongypsy-and-we-have-a-pointing-one
If not those, why would people think this is?
http://londonphile.tumblr.com/post/96899476186/londongypsy-source
They are all taken in the same situation: a photo with an interviewer during an interview session, today or yesterday.
But someone saw the last one, said “who is the brunette in the pic?”, and then someone else saw that comment and says: “ooh, I read somewhere that Benedict was seen with a brunette! Who is she do you think she’s the secret girlfriend?!!!!” Then someone here says “oooh, someone on tumblr said there’s a pic of Benedict with a brunette..they say it’s the secret girlfriend!” Then someone else goes back to the previous blog and says “someone on CB is saying they saw Ben with a brunette…they think it’s the secret girlfriend” Someone on another site pics it up and says “oh, that’s not his girlfriend, I’ve never seen her before…it’s probably just a casual date” etc, etc etc – lather, rinse, repeat.
Meanwhile, BACK IN REALITY lol, the woman is an interviewer who took a pic to promo her show/blog. She’s no more his date than the men posed with Benedict in the first 2 links.
@From North of Boston: ROFLMFAO! Spot on!
And there’s a pic of him with a fan in a bar or restaurant or something where she’s leaning over, taking a selfie w/him, and now that’s the “omg look brunette!” pic gaining steam *eye roll*
Ha! Miss Mary, so true, here we go again for another round (and round and round)
This obsessive behaviour over his every move and possible women in his vicinity is terrifying. God knows how he feels about it.
and where do you see the comments on tumblr?
The blonde and the brunette were both media according to what I read.Assuming it’s the brunette from the dessert blog and the blonde that was pictured looking at another guy,not Benedict.
Someone claiming to be at TIFF said the only people BC seems to be with are Karo,Adam and security.
Not up on doing searches on there, so that’s what I hear from the few I follow.
Kazlock: Heard the same thing. LOL I’ve been out of town all weekend and I come home to CSI: Benedict Cumberbatch online again, lol.
MissMary.. I stand by my comment
If he has s gf it must me Mystique from X Men!
Blending into the background lol.
Even the Tumblr blog that putsbout most of the trash doubts there is one
LOL how awesome would Mystique be as a date on the red carpet? Destroy your enemies and look amazing in anything, because she can look like anyone and wear anything in a heartbeat.
And it’s funny when the ones doing most of the rumormongering start running out of “proof”.
I agree, he’s dating Mystique… 😀
The doubt set in when a bunch of people blogged saying they’d seen him on ‘dates’ and it was definatly a gf….but when pressed wouldn’t or couldn’t say why it was definatly date / gf.
There ‘proof’ was pictures that clearly show BC but the ‘date’ was blurred.If they can manage to take 3 or 4 pictures of him without him noticing, then why can’t they get 1 of the woman?
Load of bull the whole secret gf thing!
Oooh I have a pic of him kinda hugging me and I’m brunette does this mean I’m his secret brunette girlfriend, who’s so secret that even I don’t know about it!?!
In a perfect world (ie in my head) he’d be dating Michael Fassbender and there would be a million pics of them everywhere so we could appreciate all the pretty!!!
LOL I’d love it if he was dating Quinto because those Oscar pics of them hugging give me life but *sigh* Quinto is taken and the Batch likes the ladies.
Always loved the idea of BC and ZQ because of those wonderful pics, but alas, it’s not to be. :-(.
If we say it often enough, some tumblr blog will pick it up and ZQ will be the secret lover, at least in fantasy land…
Already been there lol!
Think they even suggested Andrew Scott too.
I have another brunette alert.BC with his arm around a woman wearing a green dress..He’s wearing what looks like the shirt he’d worn for several interviews (male and female journalists).Pose looks same to..arm casually draped around shoulder,smile on face.
But as in the maroon pants of love,I think this shirt could be a signal to afore mentioned secret gf.
If he wears his blue/grey shirt of rampant sex,then it means momma us getting some sugar tonight!!? (But only if she takes off her invisibility cloak)
Oh, the pic with Melanie Ng? She’s a journo, iirc, or a media type. Started a small flail on twitter b/c she said BC liked her dress.
FFS…. I am going to put a chastity belt on him if this keeps up!
Meanwhile, this is enjoyable….
http://londonphile.tumblr.com/post/96916599966/im-going-to-go-ahead-and-make-an-early-oscar
@Encumbered: I really do hope he’s at least nominated (well, contingent on the performance and pic being as good as advance screenings are having me believe).
The woman in the green dress interviewed him. Her name is Teri Hart.
http://instagram.com/p/sqMNyuFvy7/
Aaaaah, I didn’t see that one. I saw Melanie Ng’s tweet and her dress is a seafoam green color.
I am parsing way too many shades of green tonight because of this lol.
who is Melanie Ng? Maybe his gf is an alien
She’s a journo with a Toronto area t.v. show. She’s interviewed BC before and they apparently have a cordial “Hey, I know you” thing going at these events.
wouh BC was seen yesterday with Eddie reydmane & a brunette!! lol. I think she’s ER’s gf. But with wich gf was Benny?
Another brunette lol?
She is Eddie Redmayne’s fianceé.
not sure it works, if it’s the same pic, she’s not close to him & looks at him like a fan, not a gf
Came here to say this, lol, both parts–the “sighting” and the fiancee factoid. There’s another pic of a brunette standing, looking gobsmacked while he talks to someone and there’s already “omg look how in love she is” posts. NM that she’s literally in the crowd while he’s signing autographs and not part of the group he’s with, etc.
MissMary… Obviously Mystique, aka secret gf,is now disguising herself as a fan!!!
Lord she’s good!I bet she’s really Adam and Karon to…We never see them all together.
It could happen! Lol
Kazlock 1307 yes just qeen the pic and the girl seems far from him. Poor secret gf
Kazlock: It’s just crazy enough to work! someone get a blurry pic of her near him and put it on IG!
not sure it works, she’s not so close to him and stares at him like a fan, not a gf (if it’s the same pic we talk about)
MissMary, Frenchgirl… We could set the rumour mill running with that lol!
Tumblr would go into meltdown!!
Anytime now they’ll jump on the Jessica Chastain bandwagon…again!
jessica chastain, just bc he would like to play in Hamlet with her. Can’t believe it
Frenchgirl: I think it is. It’s floating around the ‘net and it’s just a pic of some fans getting autographs/saying hi/staring. but some people really want to make the secret gf thing happen and are grasping at straws.
And the Jessica Chastain thing… I’m sure she’s a lovely person but I’m just not a fan. She always strikes me as very wooden in her performances. I can’t envision her as Ophelia at any age, across from anyone.
Besides…she’s in a LTR with a fashion industry fellow, iirc.
BC just won Best Actor in a drama at TV Choice Awards…and his parents collected it on his behalf.
Seems to have gone quiet on thevgf thing today.No mystery brunetteblonderedhead in sight!!
Because, I think most people are getting tired of the “Secret Girlfriend” crap.
If you go on Nelia Belkova twitter, you will see p pic of BC with Eddie Reydmane & a brunette (who is not ER gf bc she’s got long hair) So who is that girl?
Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne’s costar in the Hawking movie.
thank you, so no sights of the sgf lol?
LOL can’t see what doesn’t exist.
warning BC arrives with Karon but a brunette whho is not Keira Knightley arrived in an other car. is she the sgf?
@Frenchgirl.
You’re really grasping at straws. She is not his “secret girlfriend.” It is a drop off zone.
There’s tons of movies debuting at TIFF, and tons more that are out or coming out there to do PR and gain some steam behind their promos. WHo knows who the brunette is, but she isn’t with their party and isn’t the secret gf of Narnia. There’s scads of women there of all hair colors this week, all working on or with movies and the celebs, and they’re bound to be in proximety to the celebs, but not dating them.
@Linz I know she’s not, it’s just bc people speculate all the time. I think N. Tonks is the sgf, she’s always changing her apparence lol
If you go on twitter, check the pics of Amnda Getchell (@argetchell), you will see a pic with a brunette (her back) & the way she stands next to him makes me feel she could be the gf or a very passionate fan
@gossipgirl.
“The gf?” Where is proof of “the girlfriend?”
She looks like a fan. There are no other pics of them together/next to each other.
Looks like a fan pic or a handler, a “let’s keep moving, the stations/tabs/whoever are waiting” sort.
@Linz don’t be so stressed; there’s lots of rumours with BC & people like gossiping & see his fans reactions
@Frenchgirl
Not stressed at all. The “secret girlfriend” rumors were reported by a Tabloid/Gossip site in April. For whatever reason(s), some fans are still keeping it going and trying to link him to any woman he stands next to. (Female Interviewers, Co-Stars, Fans, other men’s wives & girlfriends, etc, etc)
There is no proof of a “secret girlfriend.” You know it’s BS, when The Daily Fail and The Mirror, had to take stuff from Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram..
yes I know those tabloids & how young fans can react in front of situations like that. but it’s funny bc they are pretty sure he will marry them. It makes me laugh when the journalist said she spotted him & his gf but didn’t take a photo. She’s not a good journalist lol
Linz
Completely agree with you.Secret gf is all tabloid crap!A fan can secretly take pics of BC,as they have always done,but never manage one of ‘gf’?
Load of bull!Journalists, and I use the term loosely, don’t even bother to get background details right.Because BC is click bait as soon as they link him with anyone!
The Twitter picture is def a fan.Pretty obvious how she looks at him,but he looks straight shesd.I lay odds he’s doing his pointy pose.
Linz
Completely agree with you.Secret gf is all tabloid crap!A fan can secretly take pics of BC,as they have always done,but never manage one of ‘gf’?
Load of bull!Journalists, and I use the term loosely, don’t even bother to get background details right.Because BC is click bait as soon as they link him with anyone!
The Twitter picture is def a fan.Pretty obvious how she looks at him,but he looks straight shesd.I lay odds he’s doing his pointy pose.
Got a silly question but do the stars come on red carpet with their agent or do they come with your gf or bf?
Both, neither. Some, like BC, go with their PR handler/rep since red carpets can be heavy networking events and you’re being interviewed and having pics taken and soundbites demanded, so having PR right there is really helpful to help manage the situation and keep things moving. Esp since some cases, they set up the “interviews” in advance, no matter how spontaneous they look. X channel when you step on the carpet, stop by this one over here, and you promised this other one you’d answer a few questions before going inside and GO. That sort of thing.
Wasn’t it decided yet that his secret gf is Mystique from XMen?
I’m fine with that..
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NIGHTY.. Yep!We agreed! Mystique is definatly secret gf!
For only she could appear as a blonde brunette redheaded woman wearing a laceytubetop while smoochingly riding a motorbike and going to the theatre with him!
All this and no picture???Definatly Mystique.. Or Harry Potter…
Well, Ben once actually said, I think it was in Graham Norton’s Show, that he went to Hogwarts…. He offered his Gf an invisible Cloat, that’s it… That explains everything, hidden in plain sight..
I knew it! He’s a Marauder!
BC just said “he’s taken” TIFF Q&A in response to a fan. Guess he really does have a secret gf after all.
I think “feast on your yumminess” is a disturbing comment. I think “I am taken” was a polite way of saying “I don’t think so, sorry.”
If he had a girlfriend, there WOULD be pics.
feast on your yumminees?? What’s that, what does it mean, what context?
Pics are not compulsory… I am taken is quite meaningful…. though without context..
Well, if so, wish him the best..
*goes to corner and cries like there’s no tomorrow…*
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@solanacae. Yeah, I thought so too. Wow…color me shocked…
He could have meant “I am taken aback” by the comment.
Noope, sorry, it was Alan Carr’s .. there we have the explanation..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3twjoxiwikw
yeah if you are taken, where the heck was she? I will believe he is taken when he takes someone to one of these events
Nighty
This is the most obviously obvious answer.My other suggestion is (drum roll please )……No secret gf at all!!!
I know Tumblr, the Daily Fail and other tabloids have pushed this for months and are likely to go into meltdown st the suggestion. But I see nothing that makes me believe it.
Of course he could be banging half of London(lucky gits),but my vote us no gf.
@Kazlock… Benedict just confirmed that he is taken at TIG Q&A
@SophieK.
He did not confirm anything. Just because he said “I am taken” does not mean that he is in a relationship.
More than likely he was just letting her down easy.
Sophiek
I heard.Ask yourself this…
After quite a personal,suggestive comment,would he realm say he wsd anything else?
It sounds like a way to sidestep a tricky situation to me.But we shall see.
@linz and @kazlock. Just seemed like an odd thing to say. Shocked me a bit since I was finally convinced all the secret gf stuff was BS
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, I’m still not thinking there’s a secret GF, ngl. I’m not in a “OMG DENIAL!” thing but more of a “I think he wanted to sidestep” thing.
@missmary. Definitely an odd way to finally confirm it if that’s what he did. Also an odd way to sidestep a fan, IMO. Should be interesting…
@MissMary.
I agree 100%!
Still think it unlikely to be true.If it is,why after keeping it private would he let it slip here?
What was the personal suggestive comment that preceded his answer: I’m taken..?? Need conbtext to assess everything..
A fan wanted to “taste his yumminess.”
Ouch… that’s an awful thin to say (even if you do wish that.. naughty smile)
Don’t know what to think
*crying hopelessly..*
Nighty: Maybe I’m wrong but it really struck me as just a nicer way to sidestep than going “EW! SECURITY!”
How many women, after all, will say they have a bf or husband to avoid weirdness with people who make gross comments? Guys can do it too. But like I said, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe his super secret redheadbrunetteblonde gf with the chunkythin ankles and the high powered non industry job she needs to keep quiet is sitting at the hotel she was smuggled into cackling her ass off over the cheek of it.
My crying isn’t real Miss Mary… But probably he does have a gf… let’s face it, famous, rich and charming…. Who wouldn’t want that…???
Guess we’ll have to wait….. to find out if she’s real or if it was an excuse… 😀
Ok, tomorrow we’ll read all on Lainey’s…. She’s already talking about on twitter…
@missmary. I agree with you on that…women saying they’re taken, etc but I just think….that I don’t know what to think…Lol….*sigh*
@Nighty: LOL I’m just kind of meh mainly because it’s so out of character for him to just drop that in and also… no pics. Ever. Seriously. When he’s dated women in the past, he was openly photographed with them. Even with Lydia Hearst and they were just “very good friends” (*cough* FWB *cough*). So unless he’s dating the Queen of England and they’re keeping it on the DL so Prince Phillip isn’t hurt, I’m not fashed.
And also, like I said above… I’m surprised the Fail hasn’t jumped on this like a duck on a junebug. So either it’s a nonstarter or news is busy in the UK this evening.
I was there and it was really quick and people laughed. I think he was just joking. Everyone was booing her so it was hard to make out his response.
yeah, and this is the only thing Lainey Gossip has to say about it… “” During the Q&A for The Imitation Game tonight, a fan asked Benedict Cumberbatch “Can I have some of your yummy-ness?” “”
“”After his super intense film. And a fine performance. And someone wants to talk about his yummy. In front of his cast mates. No one spoke.””
If she’s not picking it up… well… it’s probably a go away to the fan…
Like I asked Blended below, lol, did you see the movie beforehand and if so, how was it?
Absolutely amazing. You have to see the movie before the Q&A. There are some seriously heartbreaking moments.
I’m not going to be able to see it till November (I was angling to go to the Austin Film Fest but looks like it ain’t gonna happen for me. Boo.) but I’m already bracing for the heartbreaking bits!
MissMary I’m with you there.He must get sick of hearing these type of questions. Particularly after the screening of a movie like TIG.
It sounds like a sidestep to me.I await proof if it isn’t.
Ugh, I’ve tried to post a reply like three times but my computer is dumb tonight. Personally, if someone asked me a question like that ‘fan’ did at the q&a, I’d say “I’m taken,” too. I’d be worried any attempt at “uh, thanks but no” would just make things more weird whereas “I’m taken” isn’t really ‘letting them down easy’ but ‘let’s close this topic, no question in this vein please thanks’. Esp since he’s very clear that he doesn’t answer questions about his romantic life in interviews. I doubt he’d make an exception for a fan at a q&a. Couple in the fact none of the media outlets have jumped on that comment? Meh. Maybe he does. Maybe he has the market cornered in invisibility cloaks for her and tomorrow she’ll whip it off and reveal herself to be Mystique. Maybe he doesn’t, and we’ll keep getting blurry “omg his secret gf!” pics where all we see is him and a woman-shaped blur. I know pics aren’t “mandatory” but with as much as he’s out and about and travels, not one “actual” sighting with a gf? The one pic on IG where the guy said he met BC and his gf was retracted with an oops, I was wrong, not his gf… so yeah. I’m on the side of “sidestep.” I might be way off base but the whole secret gf thing? Not so much.
You’re prob right MissMary. Part of me thinks he knows what he said will be grist for the rumor mill and I think he gets off on that a little bit. I’ll be surprised if no one asks him about it though. We’ll see what happens…
Re: “I’m taken” comment – I’m waiting to see if there’s any video of it. Taken out of context, it’s difficult to tell if it was a sidestep or him finally “going public” with a relationship.
Sorry – I posted this before I saw blended’s reply.
ok i was at the q and a. a dumb fangirl asked an embarrassing question about him being ‘yummy’ and he said ‘i’m taken’ as he looked at matthew goode. everyone was embarrassed about the question and ben said it out of nervousness. the implication was that he wanted the girl to back off.
I have to ask–did you see the movie beforehand, too? If so, was it as good as the overall reviews are saying?
yes it’s very very good, and he is incredible. but we knew our boy would be 😉
tbh i’m very taken aback by how fast internet rumours start out of nothing. the ‘i’m taken’ remark was said jokingly to his cast mates because everyone was super embarrassed by the dumb fangirl. trust me guys, it was just an innocent remark.
Well, you know how it’s gonna be, rumor-wise… Tumblr is already all over it, Twitter, too, so by morning he’ll be married with twelve kids, divorced, married to his second wife, and someone will be swearing they KNOW FOR A FACT because omg look at this blurry pic true love y’all, lol.
Re the movie, lol: I’m glad to hear it! I’m pretty excited about it b/c I love Turing and I’m both horrified and fascinated by his story, and I really enjoyed the book the movie was inspired by, so the more positive reviews I hear, the more “whew!” I am about it, lol.
@blended…thanks for the clarification re: Ben’s remark. So glad the movie turned out so well. 🙂
@blended – thanks for posting this. Sounds like it was his polite way of dealing with a really embarrassing situation.
@Jane, yes that’s exactly what it was. he handled it very well.
Variety has mentioned it but is playing it down.
When the fest’s Cameron Bailey invited questions, one woman began, “Benedict, I think you’re actually quite yummy” and then rambled for a long time and concluded by asking “if I can taste your deliciousness.”
After a second’s pause, Cumberbatch gave a deadpan sigh that he’d been talking about the complex life and sad death of the brilliant Alan Turing, “and now I’m being called yummy … Oh, the jingle-jangle…”
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/yummy-benedict-cumberbatch-controls-his-fans-in-toronto-1201302340/
Watch the video. Benedict was not being serious.
http://youtu.be/TjWjs1jvr1Y
If Variety and Lainey are both basically ignoring it/playing it down, it’s a nonstarter.
There’s a video of the Q&A on Youtube already. Benedict gestures between himself and Matthew or possibly Keira as he says “sorry, I’m already taken” and it gets a huge laugh from the crowd. So, basically a big joke.
Here it is.
http://youtu.be/TjWjs1jvr1Y
why did he say he’s taken if he’s still single. We have to face it BC has a gf and we were wrong
yes just seen it and he shows K. Knightley. So sorry for my previous post
Is a secret gf similar to having an invisible friend? Or a blow-up doll? Otherwise, it’s not really a secret, is it?
Or at least that’s what I picture in my head whenever someone mentions his “secret gf.” I imagine Benedict whispering sweet nothings to the air or presenting flowers to one of those highly expensive sex dolls…while that song “You and Your Hand” plays in the background.
lol excellent
OMG Now that is going to be my “head canon” for BC and his SGF! Winning, lol!
@MissMary – It’s so much better than blurry blobs, don’t you agree? Now I have him telling the air, “I told them I’m already taken, so now they know all about us. Blow the curls so they’re not too jealous of you, darling.”
*snicker* I wonder if there’s a hand puppet, for special occasions… *cough* Oh, lordy. I’m going to giggle about this all day tomorrow now. Whenever we see him alone, he’s not REALLY alone… he’s got his invisible, imaginary gf with him. *gasp* What if that’s who he’s pointing to in all the pics? It’s not the fan but the imaginary gf!
Sorry–double post!
Poor Benedict. He needs to Peter Pan that secret gf so she’ll be real and visible to all…or find a Geppetto and fairy to make that puppet a real woman.
I really don’t mind if he has an actual gf, but the “secret gf” thing is so annoying to hear about every day!
@V: Maybe, just maybe, if we clap hard enough and *truly believe,* she’ll appear?
Could you imagine if he was walking down the street, talking to the air and *POOF* suddenly there’s a woman walking next to him? Would he thank us or curse us?
The tumblr and twitter flail is in full swing. Coupled with the “mystery brunette with her arm around him” pic, “everyone” swears that was his big reveal of the secret gf, never mind that, if you look at the video or read *eyewitness accounts* including those of journos as well as fans, it was obviously a joking brush-off and some major embarrassment. Ugh, the internet is going to suck tomorrow, lol. So many “OMG GUIZ! Be happy for them! SO IN LOVE 5EVAH!” and open letters to fans/friends of BCs/BC and his “ladieee” will be out and about.
The fact that this obvious joke is getting more of a mention on Twitter than Rebecca Eaton’s comment makes me think that whatever she said was taken completely out of context.
yes I’ve jsut seen the video on youtube when he said that, and it’s clear he’s pointing at Keira, the video was taken closer from the cast. Don’t understand why people don’t want to watch those videos
1st does everybody agree that he didn’t mean he has a gf but he’s taken by KK?
2d Am I the only one who thinks the pic with the brunette is strange? I mean, how they are together?
can someone tell me what journalists said abt this answer & the question of course? Can’t see anything, but due to the jetlag,here in Europe the twittos begin to get excited
someone on tumblr said she heard we’re all taken. And I think I heard I’m already taken. As I’m french can someone help me please
Frenchgirl.
I agree that it was meant as a joke to diffuse the situation. And the brunette pic’s he seems very uncomfortable.
Several posts on T and FB still think BC does have a gf…I’m still of the opinion he’s single
well me too, he wa spotted with a blonde, 2 different brunettes & Adam Scott in Brighton but with no girls around. So options : he has no gf or she’s not living in London or she’s invisible
@Frenchgirl.
Are you talking about when he was spotted in Brighton two weeks ago with Adam?
Wasn’t it Adam Ackland he was with at the pub?