CB and I were just talking about how The Glorious Tiddlebanging of 2016 has made this summer so much fun. I may complain sometimes, but honestly, I’m enjoying this couple so much. I think Tom Hiddleston’s career is going to be in tatters when all is said and done, but the end might not be coming as soon as people think. Why is that? Because according to Us Weekly says Tom is going to propose to Taylor Swift very soon. YAAASSSSS.
Taylor Swift is living her own love story. Life with boyfriend Tom Hiddleston “has been a dream come true,” a Swift source says in the new issue of Us Weekly. “He’s so romantic, classic and chivalrous, and he’s doing everything right.”
His grandest gesture has yet to come. After a whirlwind month of dating that included jaunts to England, Italy and Australia, a Hiddleston insider says the 35-year-old Brit is ready to upgrade his relationship status. “Tom is planning to propose very soon,” says the insider. And the 10-time Grammy winner, 26, has her answer prepared. “She would definitely say yes,” says the Swift source.
His devotion has floored Swift. “Taylor’s totally into him,” says the Swift source. “She is so swept off her feet.”
There’s no real roadmap here. Tom’s history doesn’t indicate one way or the other if he’s the type of guy to propose to The One after only dating her for a month. He’s obviously been in serious relationships before (poor JArthy), but he’s been doing the bachelor thing for a while, and maybe “his light is on,” to use the Sex and the City concept. Like, he just decided that he’s ready for marriage. And Taylor was the first person he saw. So, is he really ring-shopping? God, that would make this summer even better.
Tom also tweeted this a few hours ago:
.@KathViner: 👍🏼 https://t.co/mI9qWs2mm1
— Tom Hiddleston (@twhiddleston) July 13, 2016
Tell that to your Taymerica squad, baby.
Cover courtesy of Us Weekly, additional photos courtesy of Instagram, Fame/Flynet.
Plz let it be true, so why do some of this fan think Taylor force in in a private relationship. Oh she better be pregnant, come on taytay make me happy.
boobs are getting bigger, you never know!
I sooo hope this is true just to see the hiddlestoners lose their shit. I hope the wedding is big and splashy. That last pic of him on the slide with those girls Lolololololol
I wonder if she’ll stump up the money for the ring, it would have to be pretty special.
This will be so funny, if true TH fan girls on suicide watch and tweeny Swift fans in a lather over THE dress.
Please gossip Gods, make it so.
I’d go one step further and say she’ll be doing the proposing. It will happen before bff Abigail gets married.
You are funny 🙂
He’s not exactly poor! He’s worth $20million. I think he can afford a ring.
He is not worth $20 mil. Not by a long shot. The website you’re getting that from has no proof for those numbers.
If he were worth 20 million, then why is he so desperate?
He’s probably worth less than $10M but regardless he can afford a ring.
20 mill is a gross overestimate of Hiddles net worth. His house is worth a few mill, I’m sure, but he hasn’t been getting multimillion dollar paychecks for his indy and BBC work. Not even Marvel, if they bumped up his pay or bonused him after RDJ’s backend deals were revealed, would be paying him anything totaling that amount.
It’s probably closer to 10 mil.
Still a nice chunk of change to have, but nowhere near what Swift has as a touring performer and songwriter, along with merchandise income.
@delorb
Because some people have a pathological need for celebrity/attention.
Who hurt you, Tom?
🙂
Taylor, too. Although, I suspect hers comes from ridiculously indulgent parents.
Vicar of Dibley wedding, please! Or it’s not allowed to happen. Here is what the bride should wear:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/16/17/a1/1617a1876665a5e6db826e7ea431115f.jpg
That Vicar of Dibley pic, whilst excellent, is a bit restrained for my liking…A hello Kitty theme with cats ears headdress would be in order I think.
You kinda have to watch the whole episode to appreciate the full glory of that wedding. It’s on YouTube and it is genuinely hilarious!
I’d take Richard Armitage over Hiddles, too.
@Lostmymind, you said Richard Armitage and I literally said, “Oooh,” and melted a bit. Hiddles is like cut-price Armitage.
I was actually referring to the wedding where the vicar married RA. I didn’t click the link. But that wedding was funny, too.
Richard Armitage……yum…
“Vicar…” Also available on Netflix! The more you know 💫
NOOOOOOOOOOOO. Not VoD! If they do that dress I will never laugh at the silliness b/c Tiddles ruined it. =/
Taylor would love that dress.
Noooo, noooo… It must be THIS:
https://tackyweddings.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bride220606_390x800.jpg?w=390&h=600
Hahahhaahahahahahha…… You win!
She would need bigger implants.
Haahahahaaaahhaaaahaaaaaahaaaahahaaa!!
Sixer: How about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMfc_qWJJp0
I love the Vicar of Dibley. I don’t think Tiddles is on that level of amazingness though.
We could plan this wedding for them, couldn’t we?
It would be EPIC.
No. Anne Wintour shall be wedding planner. It shall be the cotton candy wedding of every little American girl’s dream. The Archbishop of Canterbury shall perform the service under the watchful eye of the Queen, who will have been kidnapped and drugged by Taylor’s squad of bodyguards. Taylor’s girl squad shall be dressed in horrible poofy dresses. Mama Hiddleston will be held at gunpoint to insure Tom’s participation. Benedict shall be banned due to his inability to stop cackling. Glorious it shall be.
Cyn, I’m gonna need you to sneak some Loki costume somewhere in there…
If Dawn French isn’t officiating, can we make it Dame Edna Everage?
One of Taylor’s cats as ring-bearer. It can wear Loki’s helmet with the rings perched on the end the horns.
I need Eddie Izzard in here somewhere. Also can’t wait for the action shots of Frisky and Tabby tackling Benny the Bouncer after he jumps between the photographer and the bride five too many times.
Izzard can be an usher if you like.
What song for the bride to come down the aisle to?
‘What song for the bride to come down the aisle to?’
Blank space, if TH gets cold feet and jilts her.
The ushers shall be dressed in Loki costumes and Eddie Izzard shall deliver the prayer. We may have a problem in that Eddie’s dress might overshadow the bride’s. Lilacflowers, will Colin be available to assist? (Speaking of, is it Colin Farrell or Firth because I have been imagining Firth.)
Sixer Dame Edna shall sing. What I don’t know but am seriously thinking that Taylor herself shall perform “My Heart will go on” as she walks down the aisle to prove to everyone that she is a much better singer than that Celine person.
Does the best man have to make jokes about all the other wedding participants during his speech in US weddings?
If so, I’m offering loads of fudge for a good joke.
Sixer, first we need to decide who the best man shall be since Cumby is out due to his blatant, gleeful disregard for importance of the Hiddleswift union. We must know in order for the jokes to be on point. I would say Idris due to him being there when they first met but I see him having a Cumby like reaction and being banned as well for excessive snickering. My heart’s wish is for Piers Morgan to be best man. Can you imagine the toast? (Never have I put the words “heart’s wish” and “Piers Morgan” in the same sentence. It’s kinda freaking me out)
(Side note: You just know that Cumberbatch and Cavill are thanking God for the diversion that is Hiddleswift because NOTHING they have ever done remotely compares.)
He’s a feminist so he’ll have a best woman instead: Elsa Pataky!
If Eddie Izzard is back in drag, he can be a bridesmaid. Even better!! Love him!!
@Cyn, Firth.
Lord all mighty, you do not even have to wait a few years to stare in horror and wonder “what were you thinking????!!!!!”
Hahahahahaahaaaa!!! *Gasps for breath* HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Bahahahahahaha!
Eventually, Tom will join us in asking HIMSELF that question.
Splutter!
This is just SO 7th grade!! I really can’t stand it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Oh Sixer, you’ve done it now! Off to YouTube I go to hunt for that episode….
Being the person that I am – I remember coming back from a party in freshman year of college while quite tipsy saying “No. I’m done partying. I NEED TO WATCH VICAR OF DIBLEY”
When I first got Netflix and it popped up in my suggestions, I called my Mom and yelled into the phone for like three continuous minutes, I was so excited hahaha! Whenever I’ve had a wretched day, I relive the whole Uncle Simon fiasco and the resultant banner…and I feel so much better 😉
*Jim Trott Voice* No, no, no, no….YES!
p.s. Thank you for making my day!! 🙂
Lol! Best groom ever! omg!! i still don´t understand why is no Richard Armitage the next Bond (XD sorry off topic but im in love with him)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R_Cqve8cWVU/hqdefault.jpg
and her squad too :-p
I have to admit that Vicar of Dilby gives me life. When I was hospitalized over a weekend for my second cancer surgery, the local PBS station was doing a marathon of it. I had never seen it before and spent what were two of the scariest days of my life blissfully distracted by it.
THE best weddings ever. Alice’s dress was hilarious but weirdly enchanting.
This is completely freaky as I got home from work today, popped on the TV and loaded up Celebitchy for the latest on Tiddles. On TV right now is Vicar of Dibley AND it’s the episode that she first meets Harry (Richard Armitage). Coincidence or omen??
That is my all time favorite show and also my favorite episode!
Lolz I’m a believer in Hiddleswift they are perfect for eachother in some odd, awkward, cheesy, cringey way. I totally could see them being together forever (at least Hollywood forever 3 or 4 years).
They really are. Every time people question why they’d be interested in one another I’m like, “Seriously? They’re like the same person.” Looking beyond the different cultural backgrounds and different education levels, they’re awfully alike personality-wise. VERY alike. They’re headed for Hollywood forever, for sure. That’s just my opinion though—I don’t really look to Us Weekly for reliable news, lol.
Considering Taylor is known for having short relationships, it would actually be funny if she ended up having a really long, happy marriage.
Yep its hard to dislike them, but they are an endless source of fun….This is Disney level romance.
They are like two halves of the same person. I think the fact that he doesn’t have a string of bimbo exes bodes well for a long and happy relationship. The tank top said it all. No reporter or pap has to ask him if she is the one. He has made his choice graphically clear.
Seriously, this thirsty, glorious spectacle is my Happy Place and I never want it to end!
Agree. I’ve never been much of a fan of hers, but I still think he’s hot despite the The Glorious Tiddlebanging of 2016 (I LOVE that term!). But they are so sickeningly thirsty/deleriously cute that I find myself unconsciously sheering them on for more giddy future embarrassing PDA. Definitely makes the summer more fun. 😀
For real, as soon as I saw them dancing (and I use that term loosely) at the Met Gala…I was sold. Big T looks like he’s doing Gob Bluth’s chicken dance and I need a wedding out of these two based on that alone 😉
If this isn’t a music video I will eat my shoe!
It’s like Joaquim Phoenix fake/reality movie.
MY EYES MY EYES
That water fun park picture makes me feel like I’ve seen something I shouldn’t have
A marriage proposal after a month? Sure. Wireder things have happened.
That photo… I had to scroll back up to make sure I saw what I thought I saw. Shouldn’t have done that.
They seem like they are in the honeymoon phase. That’s like the best and scariest part of the relationship (at least in my experience). In terms of dating, you’re never more in love (or “in like”) with someone than in that phase. Things you go through afterwards cement or break your feelings for that person, but the honeymoon phase is full on lovefest.
That water slide picture makes the intended groom look about 78…Presumably it was released with Swift’s O.K. It doesn’t do him any favours at all.
I’d be well pissed off about that, if I were him.
He’s giving me the Ross vibes when he dates that younger girl and when they broke up she throws water ballons at him.
OMG! The Ross vibes! *Cringe* 😀 😀 😀
Oh yes Ross vibes all the way – either relationship – Ross with the college student (which got him in trouble career-wise as he was her teacher) or Emily (they got married within 6 weeks of knowing each other.) Ross and Emily went on 1 date and ended up on a weekend getaway together. Maybe they are huge Friends devotees.
Maybe Hiddles could accidentally say JArthy’s name at the altar…
Also, LEGS has finally cemented his new position as the internet’s Cockwomble of Cringe. Use of emoticons is incompatible with his previous incarnation as Intellectual but Humble Thespian.
The transformation is complete!
Now all we need is the wedding and some babies for dressing up and photographing for Instagram. Can they shorten the human gestation period so that I can enjoy these pictures next week, I wonder?
with the speed they’ve moved this relationship along at, i wouldn’t be surprised if they managed to shorten pregnancy to a week. it would better fit their timeline!
They could adopt next week.
I think it’s the least they could do for us.
And My Little Pony must be the dressing up them for the first baby Instagram photo.
I think it would be SO TIDDLES for them to adopt a pony together and Insta the announcement to everyone.
But how did I get him so wrong?? I guess I had seen him in ‘The Hollow Crown’ and just assumed ‘thespian’. Then I saw him again in TNM.
This is a whole different person/persona so serves me right – never assume!…
Everything in Britland is conspiring to let you down of late, BritAfrica, isn’t it?
I can revel in my years-long history of mocking the LEGS half to death for his twee fakery, at least. Sorry!
I know! Brexit and now this.
I must have done something really bad in a former life! But hey, I should cheer up, from today we have a WOMAN Prime Minister!
Kaiser, please feature Theresa May in a thread, only the 2nd FEMALE British PM out of 76 of them in over 200 years!
Angela Merkel, Theresa May and Hillary Clinton?? Anything is possible! 🙂
You shouldn’t have said that. Boris Johnson is Foreign Secretary. FOREIGN SECRETARY! I would have had him as Minister for Heavily Foreshadowed Apocalypse.
Irony is dead. Britain has jumped the shark.
(Americans: this is the one who said Obama was against Brexit cos Kenyan heritage, has talked about piccaninnies and lord knows what else. He is our Trump. He is our equivalent of your Secretary of State. He is in charge of our DIPLOMACY. Shoot me now.)
@BritAfrica
“But how did I get him so wrong??”
https://youtu.be/dmZSkWBJwBU
@Sixer, in some pictures today, Boris is beginning to resemble Drumpf physically. They seem to share a stylist. I apologize for not burying him under a snow mountain when he was here in Boston during the snowpocalypse called Thor.
Lilac – Mr Sixer and I honestly fell about laughing before we started crying. I’m so embarrassed. They told your State Department press guy about the appointment just as he was taking questions and even he had to stop himself laughing. SIGH.
@Sixer, is there a third party that has any credibility and potential to take advantage of any of this at all, given that your two major parties seem to be spinning out of earth’s orbit?
I do have to grudgingly give Boris some credit though for his brilliant take down of Willard Mittens Romney, who never met a transit system he didn’t want to destroy, during the London Olympics. Other than that, he seems to be bordering on raving lunatic. Just like Drumpf.
@ Sixer
‘He is in charge of our DIPLOMACY. Shoot me now.)’
Lol! I really think it’s a little game of tactics here. If TM keeps Bozo close then he can’t plot to take her new job…..
I will explain Boris’s diplomatic skills by illustration. Here is the limerick he wrote this year about the president of Turkey (and I know we know he is dodgy, but still):
There was a young fellow from Ankara
Who was a terrific wankerer
Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn’t even stop to thankera.
Perhaps he should turn his poetic skills to members of his own party with animal partners. Or would that be too many?
He probably had to do it himself! I can give you this Boris-related Shakespeare skit by my favourite British children’s poet, which cheered me up:
http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/another-incredible-shakespeare.html
Delightful. And it is difficult to find anything delightful in any of this.
Here, Drumpf may be pulling Gingrich back into the political scene. Because what we really need right now is an adulterous jerk who blames all the country’s problems on poverty-stricken women and their children.
Ah, the good old single mother trope. We know it well.
3, 2, 1…. (That’s my countdown for his less-than-charming interwebz appreciators to say the word breeders. Is breeder a term of abuse stateside, too?)
Not an oft-used one, but yes, it occasionally pops up. Welfare moms is the term of derision most used. Gingrich, the paragon of “family values” is on his third marriage after cheating on Wives 1 & 2.
I was watching BBC news last night and they could barely keep straight faces when announcing or discussing it.
He self-presentation reminds me of a deranged muppet.
I laughed so hard at this. Have I enjoyed a PR cringefest or summer romance this much before? I don’t think so.
Alright everyone get your wedding gear together. This is going to be fun
I’m trying to find all of this interesting, but…it’s hard.
Maybe the divorce will be way more fascinating.
Hahahhaha same. It’s just mind boggling that three “adults” would be acting this way. Fame is one hell of a drug.
I don’t think I’ve ever been more exhausted by celebrity couple coverage, and that’s saying something.
You must have missed Bennifer 1.0.
Bennifer 1.0 was glorious and on another level.
The music video is still one of my favourite things.
Pamela and Tommy Lee are a close second.
Twiddle are amateurs in comparison. They aren’t even close to hall of famers Elizabeth and Burton.
You’re such a wet blanket, LAK. Get on board, woman!
You’re nothing in the supercouple stakes until you’ve been denounced by the Vatican.
Bennifer was entertaining. This, not so much.
@ LAK
Ahhhh……that music video! Actually I could use a laugh right about now as I haven’t been to the block for a while….
Yes.. The music video was so beautifully awful. She’s immune by this point, but he’s never going to live that down.
Bennifer 1.0 predated social media so while it was wall-to-wall on tabloids and TV shows you could easily avoid it if you wanted to. Social media amps everything to +1,111,111.
Klicking on their article and even worse, replying, is what makes the media want to report on them in the first place. So if you don’t want the articles to continue, you have to stop being the faithful customer of their news.
He heard that she made something like 170 Millions of Dollars last year so yeah he totally wants to marry her.
Say what you will about Taylor but she is smart, if this marriage happens (please god yes it will be so funny) he won’t ever see a penny of that money.
She’ll have him in the most iron clad prenup of all time.
yes, this! i always got the impression her parents were behind the brand of Taylor in a big way. they were both financial advisors i think? anyway, she’s got bizsavvy brains in her court…jollies with hiddles ain’t gonna make a dent!
I wouldn’t be so sure. The peen has a blinding effect on many females.
Mommy and Daddy Swift (who I think bought her recording company when she was still a kid) will see to the prenup so that she can keep the stars in her eyes.
That prenup will be as a thick as a complete set of the OED…..
Dani – I think if anything it’d be a generous pre-nup… but I really really really don’t see her ever marrying someone without one. I mean – I could be wrong, who knows. But I think business wise she’d at least partially protect herself. She’s not the kind of person who’s blowing through as much money as she’s making, and she likes investing in property, so I’d like to think that she’s at least got some money sense.
I suspect most of Taylor’s money and property is tied up in trusts, which would make it difficult to reach, even without a pre-nup. A pre-nup would then limit access to interest income from those trusts and income earned outside the trusts.
She tops the new Forbes list of celeb earnings..I was kind of surprised at that..I would love it if they had a quiet, no circus wedding ..the tabs would have a meltdown
Her fans would too. They want to the full Disney-wedding extravaganza – complete with live-streaming of the actual ceremony and endless Instagram coverage by all her friends.
I wonder who would get to achieve living the dream: will it be Tom? Or will it be Miranda Kerr?
I still don’t see any evidence that Tom is mercenary and after her money. It’s supposition. It’s hardly an Anna Nicole Smith situation; if Taylor was a 90 year old billionaire I might wonder what the attraction could be other than money. But she’s young and pretty as well as rich.
So Tom tweets with a subtext meaning “don’t believe everything you read”, then a couple of hours later USW run a proposal article. Intriguing
He´s sending SOS to us? 😀
Amazing. I definitely have way more fun reading this site than any of the others. He should totally reach out the the Ladies (and Gents) of Celebitchy for PR guidance.
DListed has some pretty funny TIDDLES threads too… tho’ they’re more crass & irreverent than we are here. Not for sensitive eyes… like those of kids reading over your shoulder!
Michael K cuts right to the chase. Love reading him.
Yeah, MK pulls no punches. I think his best lines are usually the ones he’s struck through.
He will learn to love his captors.
Hahahahahaha.
@ Miss Jupitero Hilarious comment! The laugh you just gave me made my morning!
Comment of the day!
Stockholm Syndrome….
“Don’t believe everything you read” could mean:
1) Don’t believe it’s a PR stunt.
2) Don’t believe it’s a music video.
3) Don’t believe one of Taylor’s favorite things about him is that he’s a tea drinker.
4) Don’t believe it’s the truest love to ever exist in the history of humanity.
5) Don’t believe the throat cackling.
6) Don’t believe their hands are superglued together.
7) Don’t believe their hands AREN’T superglued together.
The list goes on. It has been a month and we’ve heard every theory we could possibly hope to hear.
Don’t publicists tend to get a heads up on these kinds of stories? But then again – there’s so much to read about them out there, that he could mean any or all of it haha.
Publicists don’t necessarily get a heads up, actually. They keep tabs on what’s being said because it’s their job, but a lot of what’s written is printed without anyone’s approval.
They almost always get called for comment for legal and journalistic reasons so they have an idea what is about to be printed.
It is probably in reference to Calvin and Katy’s attack on Tay Tay because it is his job to protect her reputation and defend her honour now…
they are obviously the most overboard couple of all time but i still doubt this. itsn ot even a month is it? yes im sure the next poster will tell me their parents married after saying hello and have been happy since but its very uncommon and Taylors team and parents would have a word with her.
Go on Tom, I dare you.
+1 hahhaaa
I double dare you, Tom!!
Tay is SO good for gossip. I’m going through some hard stuff personally, but TayTom and the whole CH mess keeps me smiling!
This relationship should really be called TomTaylor. They could get a fortune from Tom Tailor.
It is a fun distraction, isn’t it? I’m expecting there will be a push for an engagement as soon as the pre-nup can be drawn up.
Wonder if Tom realized signing up for a first public date on the rocks of RI four weeks ago would lead to all this? Hopefully they are both thrilled.
Whether this is true or not, or if it happens tomorrow or in 7 years: prenup, you two, prenup!
The Guardian article is about how failure to report political issues properly results in people voting for referendums or candidates they don’t understand.
Does Tom know he’s about to propose? And where’s the surprise and romance in the proposal if the bride has already informed the international gossip media that she’s expecting it?
“Does Tom know he’s about to propose?”
Well I’m guessing he does now lilac !
His latest script page has been delivered!
Kinda love that he retweeted something political. I know he usually doesn’t engage in the political talk, but I’d be really curious to know his thoughts.
From where I’m sitting, he retweeted a self-serving Grauniad whinge for similarly self-serving reasons. (See yesterday’s thread). Hardly noble. Also, hardly difficult to see the motive: LOOK AT ME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE… BUT ONLY IF YOU DO IT NICELY.
Plus, added an emoticon to confirm he is forever lost to civilised society.
I agree with Sixer — that was more than a political statement. He whining for some positive attention to drown out the mickey-taking.
I bet Taylor showed him how to type that emoticon.
The bride is orchestrating it and has already purchased the ring.
What a trainwreck.
Trainwreck is right. I can’t wait for the next installment in this disaster.
I’ll bet he doesn’t know he’s about to propose, but Us Weekly knows best. He probably also didn’t know he had brothers until an earlier Us Weekly story reported that according to their “insider”, Taylor was expected to meet these elusive male siblings shortly after meeting Tom’s mother.
It occurs to me that my knowing that Tom doesn’t actually have brothers makes me more of an insider than Us Weekly’s insider who doesn’t know that. So I’ll be back later — I’m off to draft an exclusive tip regarding T and T’s plans to drop out of show business entirely and run away to raise alpacas together.
Lol my sources tell me they already got married, by the Pope, when they were at the Vatican.
They are going to announce it just before awards season.
Ha! And oh, er, yes, MY sources knew all about the Vatican wedding, of course. And about how the Pope let them shoe polish “TS + TH 4EVAH!” on the windows of the Popemobile and drive off into the Italian sunset.
@Ennuaire, he is an “honorary Hemsworth brother”. She’ll get to meet Chris.
Maybe the 15th time is the charm for our lovely aging prom queen (I truly didn’t realize she was 26). It seems proper that Taylor should marry the handsome? actor that swept her off her feet. Hope it’s true and they take a nice long honeymoon, a hiatus, so to speak from the media and us!
You know what they say, “15th time’s the charm.”
Is that the expression?
I really hate all this talk about how many exs T.S has had … Mock her for all her other petty ways, there’s so much to mock her for, but not for how many men she’s had, or rumoured to have had … Ffs I thought we were past where that mattered for a women… Yh I get it she thinks she loves them all, it all follows the true love path blah blah blah, but there isn’t any need to try and shame her for the number…
Lela, I don’t think the shade she gets is about the number at all, it’s that all of her relationships seem to follow the same pattern – and usually within just a few months. It’s aways the love affair of the century and is destined for holy matrimony…until it’s suddenly not.
Like I said it does follow the same path , and to mock her for that, is all fair, however if you notice the two comments above me both mock the number, and that’s what I have an issue with.
It’s the broken record nature of it. I replied to the number because that was in the original quote (it’s true, but beside the point). I don’t care how many bfs she’s had – she could happily make her way through the phone book, that’s her right. What I take exception to is the public stunts she pulls with every relationship, her ‘LOOK, I’m in a relationship!’ approach to them.
I have no issue with the mocking of how she tells her relationship story over, and over, but your comment didn’t portray that ! There was a way of wording it without throwing the “15” in it.
And, you say it’s “true” like you have been at her bedside, and witnessed it with your own two eyes, again making a point of that number when in reality none of us knows how many men she has slept with, and nor do we have a right too.
It’s not about how many men she’s had sex with. The hilarity is in how many she has fallen truly, madly, deeply and instantly in love with. We aren’t slut-shaming her. We are soulmate-shaming her.
I hope so, I really love the over-the-topness of this couple. I don’t know anything about them professionally, don’t listen to random music (no radio here) and only saw him years ago in a BBC series (think it was the newest version of Pride and prejudice? I don’t know, it didn’t stick with me), but from every article I read there radiates a cluelessnes about the world and a heart on sleeve thing that I love watching in other people.
I love the cover of US Weekly. Think of all the pictures we’ve seen of TnT kissing and holding hands and they come up with TWO separate photos of TnT for an ENGAGEMENT story! Great editing guys.
I think we should have a caption contest for that cover photo of his. It says “hapless fool” to me, but perhaps that’s just my cynical lens through which I view him. 🙂
I am now thinking of the steep water slide as a metaphor.
TH is hurtling down a slippery slope alright.
Are you watching Calvin Harris, here’s what you could have won.
Brilliant!
Strangely, that reminds me of The Idiot.
I wonder how many articles about himself he had to get past to get to something he wanted to read that held relevance to him. Or like a sequestered juror, is he only given parts of the newspaper to read with holes throughout of things he’s not allowed to see?
I can picture him reading a hole-filled newspaper for his sanity.
The only good thing about these two is that I don’t have to see Blake and Gwen anymore.
I wonder what his co-stars think about everything? I have a feeling that anytime they are seen out, the paps will ask about Taytom. I can totally see them naming their kid Taytom. (pronounced Tatum)
I need Taytom Shakespeare Hiddleston to happen. LOVE it.
I am all for making fun of this couple but this is really stupid and hence in no way could it be true. Tom is a thirsty attention whore but in no way is he an idiot and Taylor will never let this happen specially so close to a breakup so that she can come across as a cheater. Gossip rags should make up better stories really.
I don’t understand how people can possibly think that the Sun photo spread was their first date. The relationship obviously had been developing up to that point. There were many opportunities for them to have crossed paths in recent years. He was in Nashville for several weeks researching Hank Williams. They were both working in Australia last December. Anna Wintour may have thought they would be compatible and put them in touch.
The announcement was made once they were sure it was the real deal. They have been inseparable since then and the time they spend in Australia now is a test to see how they weather the situation when he has work demands on his time.
She is very intelligent but not academically educated. He will expose her to Shakespeare and the classics. He already plays the guitar and sings country western. They could just close themselves off from the world and lead a blissful life.
As far as his clothes… I have a 34 year old son who dresses the same way and it makes me crazy! It’s a generational thing.
Thank you. There’s obviously no way R.I. Rock Day was their first date. That just…makes zero sense. Clearly they’d been together for a bit before that, even just through texting or emailing if not physically together.
I’d put money on it that he was with her when he flew into LA at the end of May, a day or two before her breakup was announced.
He certainly was with her after Wizard Con when he was spotted in her neighborhood a few days after.
Actually Bonzo, he was seen leaving Wizard Con the same evening it ended and was papped multiple times in London over the next week or so, including the breakfast with JArthy. He was seen in NYC a few days before the Rock pics were taken.
Phoebe, I think you’re mistaken. He saw JArthy a few days before he left for LA at the end of May (where some have speculated he met up with Taylor). He disappeared for several days before showing up at Wizard Con, the same weekend that she attended a fan’s wedding in NJ. He was photographed picking up a pizza in the West Village (reportedly a couple of blocks from her penthouse) a few days after Wizard Con and the next time we see him (one week later), he’s snogging Taylor in RI.
I haven’t seen any pictures of him in London between end of May and late June when he took Taylor to meet his family.
@bonzo, there were tweets about him being on a flight back to London with people after Wizard World
Lilac, there was also that tweet about him being at a theatre show or something like that was never confirmed. What we do know is that a few days after Wizard World he was spotted in NY and there is pictures to confirm it, unlike the tweet you mention. While it’s possible he flew back and forth over those few days, I doubt it. I remember that sighting specifically because people online were wondering why he was in NY and wasn’t taking a beach holiday before Thor started filming.
I remember people were watching for sightings of him once his promo tour ended and I’m just detailing what came up during that time. It makes a lot more sense that he stayed in NY with Taylor getting all loved up and preparing for the RI “outing” than going back to NY and the photo supports that assumption.
I think they met the night before the Met Gala. There’s video of him, Idris Elba and Swift leaving Anna Wintour’s house and saying ‘nice meeting you’ to eachother. RI obviously wasn’t their first date but it does seem to be a whirlwind.
I think that was to deflect attention away from the fact that they already knew each other.
Eh I mean anything is possible but I think it’s more likely that’s when they met. At that point there was no attention being thrown their way.
Didn’t someone say that he started following her Twitter in March? Makes me wonder if he met her then or if PR “meetings” started taking place. The high profile transition from Calvin to Tom take time to plan and execute.
OK – at the risk of injecting facts into a celeb gossip discussion. Tom was not in Australia in December, the Skull Island production didn’t get to Oz until January. His research for Hank brought him to Nashville in Sept/Oct of 2014. I need one of the Swifties to verify her whereabouts at that time, but I don’t think she was even in town.
Mark me down in the ‘Anna Wintour as matchmaker’ column. They met at her party the night before the Gala and hit it off.
And had at the very least a texting/phone relationship from that moment on.
And consummated it when he arrived in LA, at the very latest.
@ Dara, I haven’t heard a single song of hers, but I quickly checked where she was in fall, 2014. She was everywhere – London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, NYC, and LA – except Nashville. I don’t think this is far from important, but I always admire your fact checking ability.
thx @Gingerly. I’m a huge fan of gossipy speculation, but I’m also a huge fan of verifiable facts. It’s fun for me to indulge in the former, but only if it’s not directly contradicted by the latter.
@Dara, you know I love you and we both love facts (Gingerly does too) but elsewhere on this thread, facts are deemed worthy of eye-rolling and smackdowns and rudeness. So, come have some brownies with me. Also, if Tom was hooking up with all the women some here would have him with during that five weeks in Nashville, well, it is a wonder he got any work done and his prowess is to wonder at.
Hmmmm, his tweet is very interesting. I wonder if he is tiring of all of this yet. There is a very bizarre story in DM today that she co-wrote/wrote a song for Calvin Harris and that he apparently was asked by Ryan Seacrest if he would ever work with Taylor musically, and he said no. I am sure her “people,” or “squad,” will start leaking negative stuff about him now. Calvin should be relieved that he escaped alive.
There is another thread here today about the songwriting credits
Thanks, yes, I saw it.
I’m slightly jarred every time I see a photo of them together or side by side as the Us Weekly cover shows. I feel like we’re playing “one of these things is not like the other” on Sesame Street — It’s like looking at a muppet with a cabbage patch doll. Miscast.
Jez had an interesting article where all the publicists said this benefits Tom’s career if he wants to do big studio films. While I agree that this is off putting for Bond and perhaps super artsy indie films, I think the fan girls are way overreacting to career damage. Ben A’s career didn’t have a low point because of JLo and Bennifer, it was because he had a series of films that bombed critically and commercially.
Anyway, the Tiddles engagement is bound to be gloriously over the top and make the media and fans act crazy.
@Div, I disagree with you about the downfall of Ben Affleck’ career. Ben’s movies were commercial failures largely due to over exposure as a result of Bennifer 1.0, he said so himself, yes they were horrible movies but when the audience can’t suspend belief when they watch an actors’ movie and you see the actor instead of the character largely because you know too much about the actors personal life than you lose the mystery. Tom will suffer the Sam’s fate as Ben did, the media coverage and not to mention the social media coverage is going to make matters even worse for Tom when all is said and done. If it’s true and he does plan to propose, wait for him to get cold feet and run away citing excessive media coverage, the media coverage of the break up will be just as massive.
I think one reason Loki carried so much energy was due to the fact that TommyAnnE was this completely unknown newbie in Hollywood.
And I think it really was the character of Loki (which is about as far from his actual personality as you can get) that was central to attracting his earliest fans. A certain level of mystery helped that. Now that we have all of this, I fully expect Loki in this next film to be pure cheesy camp, completely overshadowed by Tiddles.
Katy the big difference is Tom has said nothing publicly about this relationship.We may all know that the pap walks are prearranged photo ops but as long as he doesn’t actually comment publicly he’s fine. Ben and Jen 1.0 did every talk show imaginable and a music video to commemorate their love. And both were awful actors. Now TH is no Olivier but he’s solid.
If you still take Tom at his word, he did say that he’d talk about his love life when “there’s something to write home about”.
But he has not been in a good film is a long time too. Like I cannot remember seeing him onscreen after Thor 2.
Yup. This only helps TH career wise. Especially if he is nominated for an Emmy. Ben’s problem always is/was that he’s a bad actor. And as for Tom Cruise the couch jumping was just one in a string of bizarre behaviors. Anyway in comparison as neither has publicly spoken about the relationship.
I agree. At the very least, this gets his name on casting lists he might not have been on otherwise. And frankly, he can’t live off Loki for the rest of his life, not matter how much his fans want him to.
@Luca76 Tom may have not answered questions in an ambush attempt at an interview, but his actions speak volumes. They met the parents! He wore the “I (love) TS” shirt, which was a total surprise to her! He let loose over 4th of July weekend and participated in all of the goofiness without seeming like it was beneath him. He knew it was being photographed. He brought her to Australia to be with him! They have been inseparable for a month. Any where along the line he could have begged off using the excuse of work… but he didn’t.
“Ben A’s career didn’t have a low point because of JLo and Bennifer, it was because he had a series of films that bombed critically and commercially.”
Gigli, anyone? SO many Razzies…
And the I <3 TS shirt was so awesomely hokey. How could she not love it?
I know that Tom is a frequent guest on the Graham Norton show. Tom turns into a tried-hard cringe-worthy show-off as well. I am DYING to see what Graham asks Tom in regards to Tay-Tay the next time he is on. Will he be reserved and refuse to answer questions or go the couch jumping route? Decisions decisions.
He has only been on Norton’s show twice.
Ok-I stand corrected. Let’s try this again. Tom has been a guest on the Graham Norton show. Better?
I’m rolling my eyes so you don’t have to, Jane. Some people.
How about, Tom’s such a desperate attention and fame trollop that even though he’s ‘ONLY been on Norton’s show twice,’ it seems like he’s been there many, many more times.
@LadyLoo- Consider yourself adopted LOL 🙂 I totally LOVE your comment.
@LadyLoo,
Smack-down on aisle 7! LOL Best comment on this thread so far.
ooops wrong thread
I watched a clip of TH on Norton’s show, and I understand the comments mentioning OTT/try-hard. He was doing imitations (a couple were actually good). He seemed to be like a show pony or clapping seal. I didn’t finish watching, because it become tedious to watch.
Was it the one where Robert De Niro was there watching as Tom was doing and impersonation of him? I couldn’t finish watching that bit. It was just too much for me.
Yes, that’s the one! He was hamming it up a bit too much for my taste. He lost me after the first couple of impressions.
How romantic to have the press announce it before it happens. Why, it’s like Charles and Diana! Uh oh – oh wait!
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. If this relationship serves the purpose I suspect (cough), they might as well get it over have a kid, then get divorced . . . this must have been in the cards from the get-go, that’s why the parents were pulled in.
I daren’t think about the wedding circus Swift will insist upon – what’s your guess, folks, the RI estate or Stowell Park, Hiddles’ Mum’s family’s ancestral place? How about both?!
A marriage made in lavender heaven.
LOL – great minds!
Remember the “I’m not going to rush out to put a ring on it” quote. Hmmmpt!
Remember the “…the circus of being…a celebrity is something I’m sort of not interested in. I find it strange.” quote? Pfft.
Sure. And it’s possible that after saying that, he met an incredibly famous woman he really liked, and in order to be with her, he had to step into that circus. Sometimes in relationships we compromise, give things up, or change our minds. It happens.
You don’t compromise on principles, darling.
Otherwise, they aren’t actually principles, they are just talk.
@missmelissa, when did he say anything about “principles” with respect to fame? I don’t really think “I’m not really interested the the circus of fame” is equivalent to “As God is my witness I will NEVER COURT PUBLICITY!” Also, although I don’t remember us meeting, I’m so flattered that you consider me “darling”!
Ennui, if you think he fell head over heels for Taylor because of her looks & personality and that her immense fame and fortune isn’t the primary drivers here, then you give him credit for being a better man than 99% out there.
I don’t agree. Tom’s always wanted to be a superstar and Taylor is his last ditch effort to climb the rest of the way up the ladder to A-list. He’s never been a part of that crowd (in the US at least) and never been invited to the big events/parties until the Met Gala. He jumped at the opportunity to hook up with an A-lister that could get him into those places from now on and raise his profile exponentially.
Saying “I’m not really interested in the circus of fame”, then getting involved with Taylor Swift is a contradiction isn’t it? A bit disingenuous, false modesty perhaps? No one is suggesting he’s committing perjury for gods sake.
@becky, no, I don’t think his original statement was necessarily disingenuous just because he may have later changed his mind or compromised for a relationship. Or even **if** he changed his mind about needing to cultivate fame more actively as a means to opening the door to more role choices. I just don’t consider changing one’s mind to be the unpardonable sin that some here seem to consider it to be.
I’ve thought for the last couple of weeks that we will be looking at a Christmas wedding.
I was theorizing that Taylor would want a Valentines Day wedding and Tom would want nuptials just before he promotes Kong in March. A lot hangs on the box office success of that film and that would be a sh!t ton of free publicity.
Agreed. I absolutely see them at least engaged but possibly also married before March.
@Bonzo. True to Taylor’s form, but since Valentine’s Day became officially attached to the Cumberbatch wedding, Tom might invoke his one “No” allowed in their negotiations.
Maire3, I doubt Tom would have any veto power to stop her if she wants a Valentine’s Day wedding. Girl’s gonna have the wedding of her dreams. He just needs to show up in whatever costume he’s wearing.
Haha I wonder if Ben Affleck is sitting there thinking I should make a call- I mean that man nearly survived Bennifer 1.0 and let’s be real to climb out of the career slump he had to marry the ultimate social climber of Hollywood and create family world.
Tom’s career is going to be garbage after this, I mean it’s entertaining but it’s so bad for his career. Oh well I love it.
Affleck’s career slump was due to bad performances in bad films like Reindeer Games, Jersey Girl, Gigli, Daredevil, Surviving Christmas, The Third Wheel, and Paycheck.
And the circus that was Bennifer.
So sayeth the man himself.
Ben took a long time to recover, AND he had some box office and award pull in Hollywood. Tom’s got no awards pull and his past three movies have tanked at the box office.
Taylor or no Taylor – his professional road to A-list just got a whole lot bumpier and longer.
Exactly by the time Bennifer happened Ben had an Oscar and some respect for his acting then bam Bennifer and it all went down the drain. Tom doesn’t have that this is just like a look at me, look at me situation!! It will back fire. He can come back but its always going to be there, just like Bennifer is for Affleck.
If Tom gets an Emmy nod tomorrow, I won’t be surprised AT ALL if he pulls a “Weinstein” and gets engaged during final voting in the latter half of August. It wouldn’t be that strange after what we’ve seen the past month from him.
I will place my bet on that…..
He’s shown his true fame-trollop ways, so anything is possible. I do wonder, however, if Emmy voters will see through that, as so many in the serious press have seen through these PR stunts.
No doubt their PR team is probably orchestrating the “2nd wave” to keep their visibility alive through the Golden Globe season. I’m betting on 6more months of this. Oy
Oy indeed – I think you might be right about the Golden Globes. Tom may not be quite ready to let go of his awards hope for Hank. I doubt Sony will fork over any funds to mount a proper awards campaign for him, so he might be taking matters into his own hands. The HFPA are usually very happy to hand a nomination to someone who will give their awards show some big-time star power. Having the Forbes highest earning celebrity as your +1 might just do the trick.
Hahahahahahhhahahahhahahahahahaha!!!!!
This breakup will be so spectacular.
‘YAAASSSSS’
Down wid da kids
His tweet is ironic, given that his gf plays her entire life out on social media.
He’s in love, all right – with the fame, the lifestyle and the guitar/music industry.
This is going to be some lesson in maturity for him…I wish I could send him an airbag
or barf bag. he may need one after the dust settles.
Here’s an alternative theory (because despite all evidence to the contrary, I continue to live in hope):
Perhaps he knew this was going to break today and this is a smoke signal? “Don’t believe everything you read…” ?
Yes, definitely ironic and a bit naive on his part.
The thought of what their wedding would be like makes me shudder. And of course, all of it would be perfectly staged for Instagram.
The whirlwind togetherness of the photo story from TayTo has made this story inevitable. Tom does not want to be judged or have his relationships speculated about in print gossip or in think pieces by reputable media, I’m sure that’s the message we are meant to take from the tweet. I think it’s possible he has been professionally bombarded by requests for interviews and comment and I will wonder how much both of them have been pulled down the Internet rabbit hole of looking at that media.
The problem is that many of these pieces are made up from good guess work about what may very well come to pass.
Many of these pieces are made up as click bait or spontaneous grocery checkout purchase lure for the purpose of ad revenues for the website/publication without any input from the celebrity or the celebrity’s PR team. If a story is hot, they’re all going to jump on it with their own “exclusive” embellishments and people fall for it all the time
Exactly. Very little of what we see in tabloids reflects reality. There might be specks here and there, but it’s mostly fiction based on what readers’ interests are at the time. If one week everyone is making fun of Tiddles, every article will be about how they must be a PR stunt. When people start believing it might be legitimate, every article starts to revolve around their wedding plans, lol. We have already seen that shift over the span of a week or two. There really aren’t THAT many stories that come from PR teams—usually just journalists’ imaginations.
The problem with that theory is the input from the celebrity and the celebrity’s team isn’t the truth either. Assuming otherwise is a grave mistake.
The lesson from this escapade is that all of these people are in the business of spinning fantasy, and they are never not working. Even when they are not on set.
Unless one actually knows or has a relationship with them, no one will ever know what a celebrity is really like. We are being sold packaging, 24-7.
He is not genuine and never was. Proof of his great acting ability, right there.
I don’t know why anyone would choose that lifestyle, truly. What an exhausting way to live.
@missmelissa, I didn’t say that the input from the celebrity or the celebrity’s team was truth either. There was nothing wrong with my theory. My point was that media will publish articles made up by their own staff using “sources” who are nothing more than the person sitting at the website’s computer who got the assignment to spin whatever is floating around out there in a unique way so they can call it “exclusive” and get consumers to buy their publication or click on their website. Sometimes it benefits the celebrity, sometimes not but that isn’t the purpose. The purpose is to sell ad space for the website/publication. And it amazes me how many people do not get this and insist that everything out there is generated by celebrity publicists.
Am I supposed to believe all this bullshit? Tom in his most awkward and embarrassing interview ever, he couldn’t say he is in love with Taylor, or at least he is enjoying his time with her in Australia. Now you want me to believe that he is going to propose to her. This is the biggest joke ever.
If this news appears to be true, which I suspect it is, then Tom is the most stupid person on this earth.
PR-driven fakery – all of it. It still boggles my mind what an enormous disconnect there is between Hiddleston’s regular behaviour (in interviews, on Twitter, or in impromptu dealings with people IRL) and all this utterly ridiculous, juvenile nonsense that he has agreed to create by posing for photos and videos with Swift.
The ‘sources’ always sound like scripted twaddle coming from her camp to me. Or maybe his as well, with her agreement. They’re still trying to ‘sell it’. But is he on-board? He obviously was to start with, sort of, but I wonder how much more of this he wants to get involved with simply for the sake of raising his profile. It is all about the work after all 😀 … I see nothing here but a VERY poorly judged strategy to advance his career. So much for that!!
We’ve only seen pictures of them together, and he has declined to comment on the relationship when asked, so I’m not sure how this differs from what fans have come to recognize as his “regular behavior.” He’s dating a woman who is famous, and is therefore getting a ton of attention. He has always been this dorky and seemed interested in the spotlight.
All of it looks staged and fake to me. That’s the problem.
It’s sort of farcical from where I’m standing.
I still don´t know what is this (and I really don´t want to care, either, not successful so far…) My mind isn´t that ‘House of cards’ type, no strategic thinking, combinations, conspiracys etc., though. But I´ve got too much questions in my head now.
There was definitely something going on before June 14, that is for sure, but what and why and how? Why him and her? Is this a real love spark or just pure business for a temporary time? Wasn´t there any other man / actor/singer etc. available for this? Why would she pair with him to help his career ( she isn´t the one who need a boost)? And as a revenge for being dumped by CH this happened to quick for any proper planning.
If they were somehow connected in the background (texting etc.) and able to keep it low-key, why did they go public and opened this Pandora box in such a smashing style?
And who will do this with his private life , famous or not, willingly? Is fame and money really worth this?
Obviously I´m just a civilian and not used to this type of high games,, though…
I don’t know why, but I honestly think this could go the distance?! Long engagement? May wedding in 2017? I bet she would wait on babies though, idk why but I just think that. Please let this happen!!!!
This isn’t real. I used to like Tom kind of but this has been embarrassing.
Oh well, having to spend time around her is punishment enough.
Real, not real. Hard to say. Embarrassing – yes, always.
Ah, but you see, he was selling us a product back then too. The product then was the “ordinary man with the extraordinary job. An earnest, shakespearian actor who is not into the trappings of celebrity and is all about the craft.”
It was a well-sold product, but it was a story being sold, without question.
This is the new product, that’s all. It isn’t necessarily more real or honest than the original.
I personally liked the old product much better than the new one. YMMV.
The mistake comes when you believe either product is the real man.
Lets be fair there can be no such thing as an actor who isn’t fame hungry. Only people with an ego, and lack of embarrassment would go into such a profession.
I would say Miss Melissa is spot on about us being sold a product when an actor, any actor gives an interview.
When you look behind the curtain things are probably very different.
@ Miss Melissa
Good point.
I thought the old product was more consistent and believable in its presentation however.
The ‘rebrand’ isn’t working IMO. They can keep on telling me he’s a ‘hunk’ and a ‘Hollywood A lister’ and a future 007, or a himbo type who is super-interested in posing in his knickers at every opportunity but it’s not gelling for me. Having him as contrived arm-candy for an American pop-star who appeals to tweenies is just WEIRD.
@Miss Melissa,
So true. Its all packaging. I thought his old packaging was worse than this one. This one seems to be the more authentic of the two. Just look at how easily he put the whoring costume on. So if I had to pick, I’d pick this one. His earnest phase was so shallow, so cloying, so fake, that I couldn’t get through any of his interviews. But this out and proud, fame-whore is someone I can get behind.
I truly think this could be a long-term relationship. But the image of gossipers looking back five years on and being like “Remember when we thought Hiddleswift was a joke and they just…never stopped?” is quite funny to me.
The reason I think it could be genuine, is not because he met her folks, but because she met HIS family.
No matter how try hard or fame thirsty he is perceived to be, I just cannot see him involving his family in a tawdry showmance. Even talk of a piece of performance art, wouldn’t mean involving civilians in it, especially not his Mother and young niece.
Famous people are not the same as the rest of us, speedy relationships, weddings, babies and break ups are not seen as particularly odd amongst the famous. It’s happening imo, and it will be glorious.
Totally agree, Shelly. I was already believing it to be real, and his awkward interviews where he nervous-laughed when declining to speak about her sold me all the way. It’s real. They might have Disney-like photoshoots with paps, but they’re clearly happy together.
I think he would do that actually. He *is* that driven. And I think his family must have been in on it – I mean they must care about him and want to help him. Still think it’s kind of pathetic and desperate though.
Using the family as a way of getting people to think “gee, it must be serious” is a canny tactic in a way, because that’s what a lot of people automatically think. I believe this tactic has already been tried before by his PR folks too. There was a story about him allegedly taking Jessica Chastain home to meet his family that appeared a couple of years back in the Daily Mail. It turned out to be bogus, but it was a nifty way of implying they were a serious item (usefully enough when she just happened to be in the media for her Oscar nom). 😀
I think it’s real too @shelly, both for the reason you mentioned and because they haven’t pulled back in the face of fairly negative media coverage. If this were just a PR strategy that went horribly awry, his going off to Australia to work would have been the perfect excuse for them to be “forced” to spend months on different continents, and then, sadly, “drift apart” and amicably part ways. Instead, she went with him. To me, that says quite a bit.
That is also a good point Ennui, plus I really don’t see what in it for her. He is internet famous and touted to be the next James Bond, along with half the actors in Britdom, but other than that he’s nothing to write home about.
I’d say he’s a B lister at the very most, so maybe, just maybe they are two lanky dorks who just happen to like each other…a lot.
What’s in it for her is she gets to get married like her friends to a likeable good guy who fits her brand. What’s in it for him is he gets to live the VIP life and be wildly famous whether or not he ever earns another paycheck of his own.
@browniecakes – In a nutshell.
But I do think he’s way more cynical and calculating than she is.
“I have tried with all of my power for there not to be any inauthenticity. There is no version of me presented to you that’s been created or is artificial. The people I’ve always respected have an integrity that is unassailable. I’m only in control of my own integrity. I’m accountable for everything I’ve done and I understand that. Everything else is out of my control”.
I don’t believe the man who said this is faking anything. Tom is a high achiever and I really believe he has always wanted a life less ordinary, call it thirst if you like. Taylor Swift, one of the most successful women in the world has responded to his advances, fallen madly in love with him, what an ego boost, how is he ever going to do better in the partner stakes. He has tasted her life and clearly wants in on it no matter the consequences. This is an epic romance to both of them.
If it’s true that Tom saw himself in Jonathan Pine, the perpetual escapee from emotional entanglement was it just that his previous entanglements didn’t seem worth it, he must have been in love before. He seems to have bitten off a huge chunk of entanglement here. The circus is getting bigger with Taylor & her ex firing shots at each other. I think she is not immune to this battering or the fact that he is having to adjust to living his life in public. In the face of all this onslaught is that why she is not letting go or are they both clinging on tightly to each other?
@K.C. – Hiddleswift will always be a joke to me, even if/when they’re celebrating their 50th Wedding anniversary. 😉
Roll on the engagement, I say.
Didn’t KC predict a speedy wedding weeks ago? I can’t wait to see what celebrities their kids grow up and fall in love with.
Haha, I did! I’ve had my money on these two going this distance for a while, and I’ll be a bit surprised if they split up. I say “a while” relatively speaking, of course. This has somehow only been a month-long phenomenon. If I didn’t have a calendar, I’d think this has been going on much longer!
@The Understudy
Your comment is the best piece of writing I have ever read on this site. It is such a voice of reason. I’m writing this on 7/16 and there’s a chance that you’ll never see this. I have been known to have extra sensory abilities and I hope that you are inspired to check here. I have great hopes for Tom and Taylor as a couple. I think that they’re temperamentally perfect for each other.
If Tay Tay decides to outdo the Jlo video it better have dragonflies, an action shot of them sliding down the TayAmerica slide and an epic booty smack. Hmm, perhaps footage from Rome and Australia? We.will have to watch that music video together y’all! Mimosas and cookies for all!
Good Job, Tom! After learning that TayTay earned $170mn last year, you are about to make some decisive actions
my question from another thread, Is Tiddles the highest earning couple now? Together they earned about $171mn?
LOL
I hope it’s not true – what’s the old saying? Marry in haste, repent at leisure?
If it does happen, I would love to see the prenup. I’m wondering if there will be a clause about her agreeing to purchase and fund a production company for TommyAnne. It will give him something to do, and it won’t matter if his projects don’t get off the ground or bomb at the box office.
PapTayTo Productions!
I would hate it, but I think the fame trollop (thank you Ladyloo) has played this very shrewdly. And I’m afraid it will all be carefully timed for possible awards, a la cumberbatch.
And if she agrees to buy him his very own company and fund it even in the event of a breakup… Blech.
You’re welcome!
Sorry if anyone mentioned this before. I didnt have time to read all the comments an replies, BUT…. I’m not surprised they used two pics split for the cover. I havent seen him smile that big in a single photo of them together.
Yeah, they could hardly use those LAX photos. Or the Oz night out photos where his eyes seem conflicted: love for the flashes, hate for the way in which they were brought about.
Yah, those LAX and OZ landing photos were horrible! He always looks annoyed and tired now. He used to look so happy and engaging.
I think they were shading them both by cutting a pasting two single photos together… like saying they’re not a real couple while writing about an impending engagement.
Has anyone started a pool yet for how long this “relationship” will last if Hiddles doesn’t get a nomination for the Night Manager?
It will last until after Abigail’s wedding. She doesn’t want to be the squad single.
Is an emmy really worth going through a huge, month long showmance?
For the fame trollop? Yes.
Believe me, Emmys are a big deal for everyone in the entertainment business, whether on screen or behind the scenes, news, sports or entertainment. An Emmy is an Emmy and legitimizes one amongst their peers.
I hope the next big popstar comes out of nowhere and knocks Taylor down at the same time Hollywood collectively loses Tom’s number.
Then they’ll be stuck with each other in post-fame obscurityville and I can get a damn box of tampons at CVS without seeing their faces. I have never been so tired, so quickly of a celeb “romance”.
But aren’t you using Hiddleswift tampons? The tampons so thirsty you’ll never have a leak…unless that leak is to a gossip mag.
LOL LadyLoo. I’m now picturing a typical tampon ad, but with a girl going down a Taymerica waterslide.
“You can do anything with a Hiddleswift tampon.”
Ok, I’m going to begrudgingly concede that this comment is hilarious. 🙂
Ladyloo, take the rest of the day off today. You have earned your money with that comment.
Seriously LMAO @ Ladyloo. 😀
The really funny bit is that I can so imagine Tom being the ‘caring face’ of a tampons ad. And since Tom is so sincere and really ‘understands women’, I can even imagine him insisting on the coy blue being blazing, pillar-box red…
Someone somewhere, please make this advert happen.
Omg! Ladyloo for the win! 2 snaps and T formation in your honor!!
You know it’s a good day when Hiddles and tampons are the primary subjects of the thread. Thank you Ladyloo, for the giggles.
@LadyLoo: SNL should *totally*steal this idea for a commercial parody. I’m having flashbacks to their Kotex “Classic Maxi” and “Annuale Birth Control” commercials
Yes, yes, I’ll marry you and your british accent
@Sixer, she would say: Yes, yes, I’ll marry you and your ENGLISH accent…
😛
And in the next episode of Rebound Lightning Round: CH is having an absolutely epic Twitter meltdown.
TH is being used in this little revenge scenario.
Yes I have just read itand IT’S GLORIOUS ooooooooooouhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
I have to stand up and give a spcial kind of applause for the Katy Perry reference.
I feel like all hell is going to break loose.
I screen capped it.
Shame.
@M16 – Oh come on.
I know it’s hard for his fans to get to grips with the ‘new’ *smirks* Tom but he is not being used. For him to be used, he would have had to have gone into this relationship blind.
Hiddles is a lot of things but ‘blind’ he really is not.
Blindly ambitious, yes!
Love IS blind, Guesto.
You’ll see – I called it. Tayvin back together by December.
Katy Perry just got involved. This is epic.
#TaylorSwiftisOverParty
Well then this would surely be the point where your (idea of) Tom would bail. He would be justified in doing so and could, if he then kept his head down, emerge at some point with his dignity intact. Let’s see if he does. 😉
Honestly, I don’t mean to mock since I couldn’t care less what they do and am only here for the laughs, but I do find it funny that he’s still being seen somewhat as the innocent party here caught up in her PR net.
@Guesto – THexit 😉
And yes, I really do believe he has the emotional IQ of a turnip.
Please god, NO!!
Now Swift will flounce by the media w/a thin band on that finger and drive the public crazy, LOL
her PR folks are serious as heck!!
Her PR game is unreal.
No way is there just a thin band on that finger ever gonna happen. It’s gonna be a round solitare so she can stack rings on it for every special moment. Girl is gonna need more fingers.
I’m afraid it may have already happened, and her PR leaked it. Followed soon by another elaborately staged pap walk so she can wave her left hand around (the other hand still firmly attached to His Nibs) to show off the ring. Fame Trollops 4evah.
I really hope I’m wrong. If I’m not, I’m going to need a barf bag.
I hope you’re wrong too, but if you’re right, please pass me a barf bag as well.
Cumby must be laughing his ass off at this, and wondering if he’ll be asked to be a groomsman.
@JHK. The PR machine is like the shark in “Jaws”: murky, powerful and scary. Paraphrasing Capt. Quint, “We’re gonna need a bigger bag”
@maire3: Lol, you nailed it!!!
good!
As an ode to Richard Curtis.. Taylor will be wed in all her Alice Tinker decked out glory – after all she is marrying William Thacker and yes, the Vicar of Dibley will perform the ceremony in a perfect English country church with people hidden in the pews for their called upon instrumental solos to “All You Need is Love” then off to an outdoor reception complete with follies and flowers everywhere and her squad ending the night with a chorus of ‘Stand By Your Man’ ..
ETA: and Oh, just read Sir Rod Stewart’s lovely abode is listed sounds like the perfect country ‘cottage’ to raise the Tiddle Tots
I don’t mean to sound snobby, but this is CB after all. So 007 is a graduate of Cambridge and RADA. Did 1989 even graduate from high school? Whatever do they talk about?
Culturally, she is an empty vessel but an eager learner. He can recite Shakespeare and expose her to all the classics have to offer. She could write and compose a musical for the stage. Instead of going to the Venetian in Vegas they could have a palazzo in Venice.
What? So he can be her husband…and college professor? Is this a relationship or an annex class at the community college?
I don’t know about anyone else, but I was happy that LordLoo came to me fully formed from university. He had knowledge, ideas, book learning, common sense. It was nice that I didn’t have to ‘train him up.’
I have visions of a small argument about squeezing the toothpaste tube all wrong which spirals into a massive blowup ending with her awkward literary references in ‘Love Story’.
Tom: “Wot drivel — ‘Cuz you were Romeo, I was the scarlet letter?’ Were you pregnant with another man’s child? And didn’t anyone tell you they *both died* at the end?”
This story is boring now. The drama with Calvin is so much more entertaining 🙂
Random thoughts:
Somewhere, Chris Evans and Jenny Slate are thanking Tom secretly for taking all the air out of the, ‘Is Chris Evans a homewrecker’ story. I haven’t seen them mentioned in quite a while. Then again I guess neither of them are Taylor Swift famous anyway.
If she’s pregnant, there is going to be a lot of math going on. When was the child conceived, was she still with Calvin? Could Calvin be the father? I can see the headlines now.
Not gonna lie. I think the person this might turn out to be the best for is Calvin Harris. I had no idea who he was before Hiddleswift 2016 started. Now I follow him on Twitter and have even downloaded a few songs that he’s been involved in. Not my usual kind of music, but it makes great music to run to.
great music to run to – that’s what Tom used to think.
Haha! Now he just listens to Taylor.
I do have Shake It Off on one of my playlists. I haven’t liked a song by her since You Belong with Me, but I like that one. 😉
After Calvin’s meltdown on twitter today, I really like him more and am really beginning to dislike Taylor. What was the need during her “in lurve” romance novel pap walks to leak out the info that she wrote the lyrics for Calvin’s song? I mean, really why now if she’s caught up in a mad love affair? I love the way Calvin took her down for her leak in his tweets. Katy P. is loving this.
THIS. If she’s in LOVE and TH is THE ONE and they’re thinking about marriage and babies and a timeshare in Florida…why does she have the time to plot against her ex? Why does she have the inclination?
If you are truly happy with your new life, you can’t even remember the names of your ex.
I didn’t think his tweets were terrible, given what claims were coming from her side about the song. I don’t find anyone in this triangle to be exceptionally mature, yet I don’t blame him for setting the record straight.
The timing of the news leaking that Taylor wrote one of his songs, Calvin’s flipping out over it and her hospital visit is putting my inner cynic into overdrive. It’s almost like her team established this narrative to make Calvin look look like a bully if he clapped back. But why do this? Payback for cheating (if the rumors are true)? My, my.
Maybe Calvin and Tay are not done yet.
He’ll make a good first husband. I guess.
The fact that Calvin brought to light that Regina George (Tay Tay) really did have it out for Katy Perry is comedy gold. I saw that today and I started laughing my arse off. Oh my gosh, Tom Hiddleston better go on his daily run in the morning and keep running as far as he can. She is a total nut.
He needs to take a Forest Gump run.
Ladyloo, you are the queen of the comments! Thanks for all the laughs, they were badly needed!
Hahahaha, hilarious! Yes, he does. Tom needs to F. Gump it out of there.
And Katy Perry just retweeted her old tweet from 2015 “Time, the ultimate truth teller.”
Yeah, Katy is taking 0 prisoners and giving 0 f**cks.
If Hiddles isn’t in it to win it .. it’s gonna be a bumpy ride with more drama and characters than a Shakespearian play. We are in for an interesting, juicy summer.
Glad Tay made all that $$ this year cause it’s gonna cost her a bunch to keep up her image – paying for all of Hiddles private holidays, new ray-bans, aquatalia grey shoes, polo jackets and whatever else he wants to continue his staring role. In addition to the cost for her PR to keep selling her story. I think she may be having second thoughts about all this and her play on revealing her lyrics on the CH song may back fire big time. Wasn’t Rhiana just snapped wearing a ‘Bitch I Know You Know’ hat… is she joining this circle of fun? She and Katy are still buds, no?
Yeah, when Calvin starts bitchin’ and spilling tea and Katy drops a truth bomb, it makes TIDDLES much more interesting.
Michael K spoke my heartfelt feeling on the DL post: “I love it when us losers and loners get to gather around the green circle table in the corner of the junior high school cafeteria and watch as the popular kids publicly tear each other apart. It’s better than square pizza Fridays.”
This is gossip at its best. I’m drinking this up.
I am so ready for the Emmy noms tomorrow, I honestly doubt he gets one and I am curious to see how things will go from here.
I’m awaiting the Emmy noms too. Sorta hoping Oscar Isaac snags a space for ‘Show Me a Hero’
But if Hiddleston doesn’t make the cut, TnT is gonna be stage-coached for the next 6months. Saddle-up ya’ll – Golden Globe be the next prize.
Please, make it happen. At this point the wedding would be a coup de grace.
You mean, he has actually met Taytay and still wants to spend the rest of his life with her? Baffling.
Taylor go home. Tom go to work. Calvin and Kanye – get over it.
*Hands browniecakes a glass of champagne, then applauds*
Tom seems to be the only one listening to you. He released another UNICEF video from Loki’s dressing room so he is at work. I doubt the other three will listen to anyone or that any of them will ever listen to reason.
Did you see the video of him putting on the Loki wig? It melted my heart…
It’s like Tom is trying to tell us he is still in there somewhere, isn’t it, that Tom still exists with Tom’s interests – Brexit Twitter post, Loki wig, UNICEF plea. Poor baby.
Add Katy Perry to the list. Kudos to Rhianna for staying out of it (so far).
I will probably sound like a commitment phobe but if ANYONE even my dream celeb crush asked me to marry him after a month or even after 6 months, I’d go running for the hills! It skeeves me out when someone is that desperate to marry even if their light is on. And I am 35 (never been married 3 long term relationships haha).
Yup.
Not a commitment-phobe, just normal.
That’s a relief. I know a few people who find me not crazy in love I want to get married after a few months as abnormal. Then again, those people have a highly dramatic existence.
I don’t see Tom, who can’t seem to get past the Brexit vote, jumping into the Tay fray.
It would be kind of hilarious if all of this hubbub made him not get an emmy nod. I think he will, but I would be delighted if he was snubbed.
You just KNOW Taylor wants to be on his arm for the Emmys.
Her stans are so devoted and gullible.
I still want to give him more credit than this stupid headline.
Ladyloo and Browniecakes, bless you both. After an especially hellish day at the salt mines y’alls comments and a large glass of red wine are soothing my nerves. Ok just for the fun of it..say they get engaged and married. What and where is wedding venue? Rus sell and Ciara just did the English castle wedding. Beach? Vegas? Seriously, Tay has to have the moooosssttt amazing wedding ever, ever so what? Hot air balloon over a flower filled meadow full of wedding guests????
Neverland Ranch which she will have just purchased and redone. Or Westminster Abbey which she will have just purchased and redone.
I vote Neverland Ranch!! It’s 45min from my house. I think it still has a choo choo train and amusement park!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverland_Ranch
If he does propose to her after one month of dating he’s stupider than I thought.
Oh she might try to do that! Ok, swans, butterflies, dragonflies, hand embroidered invites personally delivered via horse and carriage, the girl squad bigger, badder, and dreseed by Wintours flunkie at the time. English component…I’m putting $ on an Downton Abbey themed extravaganza where Tommy Anne is Knighted and then he and Taytay are named Papspousesforlife…crowns…kisses..
We may be on our way to our first fight instead of a proposal if this Calvin thing doesn’t wrap itself up soon. Maybe Gentleman Tom can challlenge Calvin to a duel.
Glove slaps at noon
Surely they’ll just quietly elope at a registry office somewhere, right?
Hilarious! I see what you did there, Miss M. I see it and I like it.
I think Tay Tay has been seeing TH for a lot longer than the past month. I think she was two timing Calvin Harris since January or so and he is pissed with her whole love at first sight, cutesy act with TH. I don’t blame him. He will probably keep dribbling out insider scoop about her that will keep us entertained for months.
What’s really going on with Calvin and Tay? Maybe all the OTT traveling and PDA and I HEART T.S. bs and I want to meet Tom’s mother when I never met your mother has been just to piss off Calvin? Phot
I think he is painted into a corner and I feel a little sympathy. (I also think his tweet today was an attempt to call BS without getting into too much trouble. Imagine the NDA’s you’d have to sign!) The media and fans have been trying to ‘marry him off’ for years – no respect for single adulthood or just dating around as a life choice.
I sincerely doubt he would commit to this degree after a month, in public, while working on his livelihood-project & bread-and-butter character. I don’t believe he invited TS to Australia.. I think she invited herself.
I think it was more her idea than his to trek across several countries and accompany him to Oz. He’s obviously going along with all of it, but I do wonder if reality is going to set in within the next week or two (assuming it hasn’t already).
She’s not going anywhere, unless he puts some ice on it by dropping the ‘English’ gentleman persona she’s apparently lapping up.
Tay: whatcha doing?
Tom: packing for Australia.
Tay: can I come?
Tom:
Tay: Tommykins?
Tom:
Tay: Tom, can I come?
Tom:
Tay: Tooooooooom!
Tom: I suppose
Tay: oh goody
Tom: you had better go pack
Tay: My bags are already in the car
Tom:
Tay: You’ll be late if you just stand there staring at me silly boy!
😀
Twitter wars, biting articles, medial mess, Tay´s squad, Tay´s business enemies etc.- that is the world Tom wants to live in willingly? Hm…
All I got from looking at that magazine cover is Hiddleston’s lips = Kylie Jenner pre lip injections.