Don’t judge me, but I bought this week’s Us Weekly so I could read the Tiddles Proposal story. Us Weekly put part of their cover story online on Wednesday, which I already covered. But as I imagined, the full cover story had more deliciously cringey details. And before you say “Oh, Us Weekly doesn’t know anything,” please keep in mind that Taylor does have a history of running to Us Weekly specifically to dish on boyfriends and ex-boyfriends. After Jake Gyllenhaal dumped her, Taylor basically told her entire story to Us Weekly (under the guise of a “friend”) and Us Weekly published it. So, beyond what we’ve already heard – that Tom is thinking about proposing – what else does Us Weekly say? Some highlights from the cover story:
Tom is Prince Charming: “He’s so romantic, classic and chivalrous, and he’s doing everything right,” says a Swift source. “Taylor’s totally into him. She is so swept off her feet.”
Tom is “flying high.” A friend says: “Tom usually takes relationships so slow. He’s on this crazy, fun roller coaster ride and hasn’t stopped for a moment to look around.”
Introducing Tay to his family. “This is the first time he’s brought a girl home so quickly.”
Rushing to buy the ring? The friend says, “I wouldn’t be surprised if he just did it on a whim. Everything else so far has been random and spontaneous.” He’s been telling pals that he sees a future with Swift too: “He’s talked about all of it: marriage and kids.”
They’ve already talked about it. A Swift source tells Us Weekly, “Tom has discussed proposing with Taylor. And she has hinted that she’s interested. She wants marriage and they both want kids. She sees a lot of future potential with Tom.”
But there’s no rush. “There are no plans to rush an engagement. She would be slow to get married, for financial reasons.”
Taylor’s parents approve. “Taylor’s parents love Tom. They think he’s a really great stand-up guy and a gave him a big stamp of approval.”
Taylor is crazy in love. “She is so enamored with him and thinks he’s perfect, She gushes about how smart and funny and charming and handsome he is. It really is like being in a romance movie. She says it’s the first time she’s been this free in a while and she is insanely happy to be falling in love with someone while she is totally free to focus on it.”
[From Us Weekly, print edition]
I do think it’s interesting that Taylor is “free” right now, work-wise, and I think that might explain why everything seems so EXTRA with Tiddles. She’s not touring, she’s not promoting an album, she’s not doing press. So she’s focusing all of her energy into her new relationship. She’s bringing that single-minded devotion (the devotion she uses for her career) to her love life. And yes, I imagine it is exhausting. While her parents might like Tom, I do think that note of reality is quite accurate: Taylor has some faults, but she is VERY smart about her money. She might rush into a full-blown Tiddlebanging, but chica is not going to get married without an iron-clad prenup, no matter what.
Meanwhile, did you guys read this absolutely amazing Fox News op-ed? Taylor Swift was 11 years old when she costarred in a school musical, Bye Bye Birdie, with a 14-year-old named Cody Derespina. Cody wrote an essay about how Swifty was an 11-year-old Mean Girl who hated to share the spotlight with him. According to Cody, Taylor once “ripped down a series of pictures of me, crumpled them and threw them against a wall.” Cody says that he is absolutely Team Calvin.
Photos courtesy of E! News, Us Weekly, Fame/Flynet.
I love these two. I also love how they do random, on a whim things so carefully planned.
Hello DS!!! I needed to hear your thoughts ( imagination) on Taylor writing Mrs Taylor Hiddleston in 40 different ways in her diary/ burn book.
Oh and shit, I would hate some random dude taking about something I did or didn’t do when I was 11! Seriously 11!?!?
Hello there @Aussie girl!
I wish I could write something funny but these two seem to be stealing our job with their daily news. Although this diary picture you portraied seem super fun. It’s a rather complicated name though 🙂 She should practice; it’s same level as Gyllenhaal (had to check google for that one).
It’s such a stupid gloomy day here in Croatia; do bring more of delicious couple visions: I’m counting on you 🙂
Aah my poor DS. Sending you hugs all the way from Australia. Not a lot of sunshine here at the moment as we are in winter and I’m living in fear of the next heating bill.
I imagine our fave couple are still in domestic bliss in their hotel/apartment. Tay may even bake him some cookies for when he comes home from a hard day at the studio.
Stupid story; some Aussie family found out the hotel they where staying at and drove for hours and spent over $2000 dollars staying there in the hope of their preious daughter meeting Taylor. They only got to meet Tom on his morning run.
Really!!! They’ve been together a month!! A month!! Does anyone think this is going to last?? It’s so 7th grade, I can’t stand it. I don’t even find it amusing, it makes me roll my eyes so hard in my head.
Phony, but I feel Taylor is a plastic creation of the 21st century, so it fits.
@Sarah, I don’t think it’s going to last but I have a horrible track record when it comes to predicting the next step in the Hiddleswift saga. I was strongly convinced he wouldn’t subject his family to an arranged photo op, and that she wouldn’t go with him to Australia. Based on how wrong I’ve been on both accounts, I’m actually now afraid they’ll not only get engaged, but married.
thank you sweet @Aussie girl; sending you warm hugs back.
Their farts must smell great because these two have their heads so far up their a**es, its ridiculous.
They fart red candy hearts
That smell like roses and rainbows
I don’t understand this quote” She would be slow to get married, for financial reasons” She is very wealthy and Tom is not actually on welfare. Plus I am sure Taylor’s team of lawyers would draw up a iron clad pre nup to protect her fortune. Is Taylor’s image and career so fragile that getting married would cause problems?
I just read it that she would negotiate her pre-nup slowly and carefully, unlike the whirlwind romance that’s leading to the engagement.
@LizLemonGotMarried
I love your name.
………That’s all I got.
Taymerica lawyers are pumping the brakes.
I imagine she’s had a standard prenup drawn up for years….just waiting for pesky details like the victim’s name.
This! Robino you nailed it!
Her pre-nup’s got a blank space baby and she’ll write his name.
Tom Hiddleston is exactly the type many mom’s would like for their daughter. Very well educated, very ‘English’, very well mannered and earning good dough of his own and in a great career.
If he and Tay Tay are together I can see how her mom might faint for all that stuff, mine would
I don’t think they will be getting engaged any time soon. They are both adults with lots going on and unless they are genuinely ga ga for each other I think they both seem too risk averse for this.
Finally, I think what Tay TAy did as a kid doesn’t mark her out as the adult she becomes. For example I used to whup my younger brother’s ass when we were kids but I am insanely peaceful and calm now. Lots of behaviours whilst growing up are just trying things on for size.
I love the idea of Taylor as a mean girl though……love it
Since when being british is by itself some quality?
British fetichism at its best.
it helped a lot of mediocore white guys to get laid. i also dont get it.
To an idiot like TS it’s a quality.
I said ‘English’ meaning the stereotypical view of posh, well educated English men put about in film etc
*eye roll*
I get sick of everyone thinking anything British is the hot sh*t. Have a look at Jeremy Kyle, PLEASE. It’s the Jerry Spring of the UK.
Jeremy Kyle and his audience is no more typical of Britain than the posh stereotype typified by Downton Abbey and actors like LEGS and fetishised by some Americans is typical of Britain.
Most of us are NORMAL. As, presumably, most Americans are NORMAL.
he reminds me of an english guy i dated. seemingly sweet and gentlemanly but just very much up his own bum (to use a british term) really. the posh accent seems charming but can blind to less charming qualities!
Don’t you mean posh instead of English ? Because normal English guys are pretty much like every other guy everywhere. The posh ones tho.. they are the freaking devil.
In many ways I mean posh, yes.
Eton and Cambridge educated – so very posh, yes – but I meant ‘English’ in that stereotypically imagined cut glass accent, impeccably mannered type way
Randomly, on a whim, while talking in his sleep.
Hahaha! She’ll record the video on her phone as proof that he popped the question, and then he’ll have to stay true to his word as a gentleman.
Tom: *asleep* *murmuring* Will you marry me…
Taylor: Yes, YES!!!
Tom: …Jane?
/runs away
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Thank you Ohdear!!!
*snigger*
OhDear wins all the cake today!
LOLOL that is amazing, OhDear!
🙂 🙂 🙂
I’m definitely turned off to anything Taylor Swift right now…..after Katy Perry, after learning of her overly ambitious young life before stardom and pushing everyone aside, after Calvin, etc. I’m just OVER her and I no longer think she’s just an innocent young woman who happened to make it in the music business. I’m now thinking she’s not a very nice person and will do whatever she has to do to get ahead….there may be a reason why she was dumped by several men one after the other. I do believe she attached herself to Tom so that her image would not suffer due to one more failed coupling. She may just be using him, or may be serious, but I have no doubt that it’s all about HER…..sorry, no longer on my list of believable and sincere artists who could be kind to others, but are phony instead.
I will pay a lot of money to see THAT video.
I actually dispise Taylor. She seems like such a spoiled brat. So not shocking that at 11 she was like that. And Tom is weird. Remember that cringe worthy appearance on Norton? They a
Same here. Let’s not forget she even writes about how she is as a person. Just take the words from her song Blank Space: They’ll tell you I’m insane or this one: Cause darling I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream
Tom doesn’t realize what he is getting himself into. Heaven help him/ However, I don’t feel sorry for him one bit. He chose to be with her, now he must face the consequences.
TayTos have no whims.
I feel like every day I read more Tiddles (because we’ve literally had something new everyday, haven’t we?) and I think, “there’s no way this can get better!” And then I wake up the next day and, lo and behold, it has! At first I was annoyed, but now I’m kind of loving this whole thing. It’s so bad and awkward and cheesy, but it is giving me so much life this summer! Especially when we get the bonus of petty Calvin Harris leaks to the press.
I predict they’re engaged by the end of the month.
Maybe one of the bodyguards could be sent out ring shopping. But the proposal must be carefully orchestrated, of course, for maximum publicity.
When does Emmy voting start?
It’s like a nonstop cheesy, angst-filled teen romance (rife with jilted friends and lovers) titled ’20 Levels of Petty’.
All that’s missing is a soundtrack! Haha
What happened to the Tiddlesbaby rumors? Are we thinking those are dead?
😀 “Tom has discussed proposing with Taylor. And she has hinted that she’s interested….” What??? 😀 Like discussing new car or shoes or vacation?
Do the celebrities know that they can just date and get to know each other as normal people do? Or does a relationship in Hollywood always start with engagement to be somehow legitimate and exclusive?
I can’t remember the source (Tina Fey or Mindy Kaling’s books, maybe) but there was a famous person who talked about how an engagement in Hollywood is basically a “going stead” announcement.
LEGS has never done anything randomly, on a whim, in his entire life!
Hear hear!
The engagement will be perfectly timed for MAXIMUM IMPACT.
A Jane Austen quote is coming to mind:
“Men of sense do not want silly wives”
And another one:
“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure:
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”
Those are just SO perfect for this!!! She may be good with her money, or her parents are, but she is just a silly, fake creation. He seems pretty silly right now, but from his past, maybe will wake up in time. Or he will “repent at leisure.”
I do believe there’s an actual real stamp of approval. A physical stamp her parent use, for legal reasons.
Haha. Mama Swift’s Qualidee Control!
That’s right Tom, after she hands you the ring box, make it look spontaneous.
And it will coincidentally coincide with something one or both are promoting at the time (album, movie, tour).
Maybe they’ll become a singing/performing couple, like Sonny & Cher. Imagine the Taylor and Tom show, broadcast on NBC and BBC. So many possibilities…
God in heaven, Christin, please don’t give them ideas!!! Now her team will be contacting all the networks! One of them might actually put it on the air, and the world will be subjected to the TnT Flailing and Yodeling Variety Hour!
Lol RWS! Who would be willing to guest star on their show? And would the guest stars be required to join in on the flailing and yodeling? Think of the costumes! The embarrassment! The cringing! Oh please someone make this happen!
At first, I was envisioning country’s George and Tammy, but I don’t think they had their own show. But then I started thinking about Sonny and Cher’s variety show, with Cher’s wardrobe and Sonny’s mugging. It just fits in the most cheesy way.
I am old enough to remember the weekly hair-slinging (her, not him) and put-downs. They included their daughter and kept the show going even after a divorce!
You all can come up with the potential guests. Can you see Tom doing the skits and his many impressions? Taylor can write a new version of I Got You, Babe. Or maybe just change the lyrics and keep the title. It sort of fits.
Lol, re-written theme song:
“I Got You, LEGS”
(1) Who is this friend of Tom’s who has seen them together and is in a position to comment? He’s been glued to Taylor’s hand the last month and surrounded by paps. He spent 2 days in the UK with family (I don’t think it’s them!) and insofar as he’s been photographed with friends, they’ve been her friends.
(2) “No plans to rush an engagement.” In other words, no matter how rollercoasteramazeballs they want to present this relationship as being, they do actually recognise that it is not necessarily the greatest idea to get engaged 1 month after you meet and then marry straight after. So their publicist/”friend” is laying the ground for the possibility of a “spontaneous” proposal now, followed by a looooong engagement of, say, 15 months (pulling a figure from the air here). Followed by a split.
Spot on.
Yeah, I could see that happening. However, he’s going to want to keep himself in the headlines and with his glass-half-full way of looking at things, he may just think jumping into marriage isn’t foolhardy after living together for 6-9 months.
I so love them together, still, for ridiculous headlines like this. I literally went “pfft” as I drank my morning coffee. They are so totally random in everything they do.
As for that Cody Desperina character, he just looks like an opportunist to me. First of all, did he write that when he was 14 years old? What a poorly written op-ed. Second, he pulls up a story from when Taylor was 11 years old, which just reflects so poorly on a 30 year old man.
I hope they do because I think it would probably be the beginning of the end of her underserved career success. No more dating a high school kid for six weeks and buying a house next door to his family so you can turn around a write a nasty song about it.
She’d be over without her mean songs so her fans would move on. I also think the lack of attention and fanfare might kill her. We’re looking at a future Madonna…without the cultural impact of course.
If a guy started mentioning marriage after a few weeks of dating, I would get a stroke, no matter how in lust/love I was. But maybe I’m just weird or unable to commit.
No, you’re quite sane and rational. No one should be talking marriage after a few weeks, or even a few months!
I think it’s funny that Taylor at 11 is exactly what she seems to be now. Obviously, no one should be judged by how they act as a child, but it’s still juicy to hear. I honestly think she had stage parents, and that’s the reason why she’s so controlling. I’ve heard stories that her mom was pretty hard on her and shoved Taylor to be an entertainer.
Someone posted a link the other day, regarding two guys who helped her early in her career. I also looked up another article (not tabloid) about one of those guys and some tidbits about her parents. One of the observations mentioned stage parents, a tough mother and how PR framed her early background in PA. These were not brand new articles.
I do think there are people who will be coming out with their versions of her background, before she was sealed in a PR bubble by fame.
Nope, Taylor went to her parents and said she wanted to be a pop star. The family uprooted to Nashville and bought a controlling stake in a music label that in turn signed Taylor. What Taylor wants, Taylor gets.
Sure, Jan!
But, please,make sure you propose before October. Thank you!
As a third partner in this relationship (do to all the media coverage I feel as if I am one with TnT), Tay and I say WE DO!!! Now let’s get this disaster of a wedding going, an oopsy baby, and a prenup that would make Bobby Flay jealous!!
Waiting on that Times announcement before believing anything. She’s notorious for wearing diamond rings.
“Taylor is crazy in love.”
That and the rest of the Taylor quote from the US article and the Cody Derespina anecdote, IMHO, are further evidence of my Swimfan (or as another commenter here once said that “psycho love” vibe) theory that I am so into right now. Sadly, I’ll never know unless they eventually break-up and she has a very public, over the top meltdown. They stay a couple? Still sticking with my Swimfan story.
;D
And I hope he realizes that she won’t be nice afterwards.
I want them to go away. Far, far away.
Is that so wrong?
Maybe she could buy a private spaceship?
No. Please no. As nauseating as these two are now, can you imagine what an engagement would bring? Or a wedding?
Neither one of these people do things “on a whim.”
Unless ‘on a whim’ is a very public vacation spot I never heard of with plenty of room for body guards and paparazzi.
I think he’ll drop to one knee on the Emmy’s red carpet or at a party held afterward.
Maybe Idris is the secret source in the US Magazine interview because…have you seen his interview with the DM reporter? His laugh when he realizes the joke is just brilliant.
I think this means Idris is a Hiddleswiftie. Between this and Chris Hemsworth good-naturedly stating on a radio show that Tom looks happy, in direct response to a Taylor Swift question, I’m glad to see that Tom’s friends are having a sense of humor about all this.
What joke are you referring to with Idris?
Nice that his friends aren’t like “WHY did you bring this into our lives?” Maybe they say that in private, lol, but nice that they’re publicly being supportive.
The reporter, Allison Hammond, presents Idris with an “I <3 A.H." shirt. At first he begins to graciously thank her, but then he suddenly closes his eyes and lets out a laugh of recognition. He can't quite get the words out, because EMBARRASSING, but he does utter, "I've seen this. This is, um, this is, uh, Tom, this is uh," before the reporter cuts him off to show him HER shirt that says "I <3 IDRIS."
I saw that too.. pretty cute the way he handled it. I wonder if it’s going to become a journo gag gift during interviews now.
@Bonzo that would be amazing. It would also be a smart way to show that he has a sense of humor about all the conspiracy theories.
“Tom has discussed proposing with Taylor. And she has hinted that she’s interested.”
Um, how does that work exactly. “Taylor I think I might want to propose to you one day.” Taylor responds, “I’d be interested.” And then back to their regular activities? Okay.
lol
hahaha, right? I just love this. I love them together. I hope it goes on and on!
Taylor responds by buying a house next door to his.
God, some of these quotes are just so great. “Swept off her feet” “Like being in a romance movie” “This crazy, fun, roller coaster” Keep this “spontaneous” stuff coming kids
you do realize that if they get married both of their initials will be TH? LOL
😀
Surely you mean they will both be called TS 😉
I don’t see Calvin going away anytime soon. Like Future with Ciara, he’s in it for the long haul. Calvin will also get his picture on the cover of Rolling Stone. Maybe he and Katy Perry will do a revenge romance. There’s really no end in sight.
But what will happen to Orlando?
He can suck Selena Gomez’s face.
Excellent! That pulls in Bieber too
He will print the proposal on a tank top.
Great photo opp. For maximum effect, her private plane could also fly overheard, pulling a banner.
Wearing the tank top, he could fly low overhead in her private plane, pulling a banner, then fling open a door and release the emergency waterside and slide down out of the skies into the arms of her girl posse.
I used to be. Hiddleston fan, but I admit there were some interviews where I had to stop watching because he was trying so freaking hard, the impressions/dancing. He is better when the interview is more serious with some jokes thrown in, it’s less thirsty.
I think I hate this Tiddles thing so much because it made me realize how thirsty TH really is and I deluded myself into thinking that he was a serious/kinda awkward actor who liked his work, but didn’t take himself too seriously. I am ashamed I ever bought into it, but at least I know better now.
I’m with ya.
I used to think he was great too. What a let down. Hurtful that it was all an act! (With Calvin on the hurtful bit…)
He conned people into thinking he isn’t an actor. That way lies madness, like politicians if an actors lips are moving they are either lying or at work (acting job)
Cumberbatch got internet lust on the back of playing a fascinating character in Sherlock Holmes.
Hiddleston got interest because Loki is an interesting and sexy character, TH is just an average looking but hardworking, polite and well spoken generic Brit.
Being with TS moves him into a slightly higher league.
Caitiecat don’t feel sorry for feeling deluded, at the end of the day he is just a bland, nice enough actor who has hit the girlfriend lottery, their wedding or relationship will add to the gaiety of the nation and gossip sites, but it is harmless, meaningless fluff.
Aww man this spontaneous whimsical couple!!!
I almost fell on the floor from laughter regarding her ripping down his photos because she was jealous! Clearly, not much has changed. She probably ripped down all the posters she had of Calvin on her bedroom wall too a few weeks ago.
Taylor might be exhausting, but Tom may just be hyperactive enough to handle it.
I’m actually Team Calvin, but I still find Taylor and Tom incredibly amusing. I wish them the joy of it.
My daughter read me some of Calvin’s tweets. He sounds an obnoxious idiot. I wouldn’t want to be on any team he’s on. Making fun of Susan Boyle? Classy guy…
Ugh. The whole Us weekly cover just screams: ALL WOMEN MUST GET MARRIED ELSE THEY BE SPINSTERS LEFT ON THE SHELF IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE MARRIED YOU MUST HANG ON TO YOUR HUSBAND NO MATTER WHAT. I love caps.
She’s old fashion enough to want a ring and huge celebrity squad wedding. Something Calvin was not about to give.