First things first: our long, international social media nightmare is over. Tom Hiddleston is officially following Taylor Swift, and she is following him right back. Tom decided to “follow” seventeen people in total. In addition to Taylor, he also began following Idris Elba, Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Clark Gregg, Jeremy Renner, Ryan Reynolds, Luke Evans, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson and more. So at least on social media, Tiddles Is Still Happening. And many Tiddles to come?
As you can see from these photos, as of Friday, Tom was still in LA doing promotional/campaign work for The Night Manager and his Emmy nomination. I can’t even keep track of all of the new interviews! He spoke to Deadline, he did a Facebook Live event, he did a SAG-AFTRA discussion and more. So here are some of the quotes making headlines:
What he’s learned from his “summer in the spotlight”: “It’s interesting, we all live in a world where every phone has a camera, and there’s nothing new really about the spotlight on me. I think the spotlight, that’s what happens when you’re a public figure… What have I learned about it? Maybe it’s too soon to tell,” he admitted, before promising to give a “proper response”… “I’ve learned that there are many sides to a story, and that sometimes there are a lot of stories out there which are false, and the hardest thing is to not let the falsehoods affect your mind.”
What he learned from playing Hank Williams: “I suddenly understood why people [become singers] forever. There’s an extraordinary effect that music has on people, it creates such joy immediately… I really have such respect for musicians and for singers because they’re so naked. Actors get to hide behind character, even though we’re really expressing ourselves, but people don’t tell that. But musical performers are up there and it’s them. I have a guitar and this is the song I wrote, this is how I feel. But the power you have to make people feel good is extraordinary and that’s the reason why these performers are unstoppable.”
He also said many words about The Night Manager but my eyes sort of glazed over. I’m glad he’s proud of the project and everything, but I don’t have to absorb every word. As for these quotes… yes, those are references to Taylor Swift. “Sometimes there are a lot of stories out there which are false…” Example, please? Because the Tiddles stories aren’t just plucked out of the air at random. Tay-Tay did a Boyfriend Rollout and she overplayed her hand, and so now both Tom and Taylor are trying to do some damage control. A better answer for “what he’s learned” might have been “I learned that it’s very easy to live in Taylor’s bubble and not understand the damage I was doing to my career.”
Photos courtesy of Getty, Pacific Coast News.
It is pretty amazing how attractive I used to find him but the Great Boyfriend Rollout of 2016 effectively destroyed his hotness. Now I just see incredibly goofy, thirsty smile. Sigh.
He lost one admirer but found another in me.
+1
Another fan here.
Will you still be a fan when he and TS are no longer dating?
Yep. As far as “falsehoods”…so…that wasn’t you then in the I heart TS tank top? Because I think I speak for us all when I say that I WISH that were a falsehood…
Seriously. Can’t unsee that.
That tank top IS Hiddleston’s equivalent to Cruise’s couch jumping. It will follow him to the end of his career.
Yes! He used to be on my five list. Now … I still like him as an actor, but the OTT famewhoring is a total turn-off.
“I still like him as an actor”… yeah ! But that he is ! I think the world forget it !! He’s only an actor and her a singer ! They’re not gods and they are right to have a past, to take mistake, to have a good summer if they want, to have not longer dating or to have a begins of a long romance !
I’m interest to this news because fans can’t escape to it as TH and TS, but this situation is very serious and deserve reflexion from fans ! Seriously.
Interesting blind I saw on Crazy Days & Nights a few days ago…I’m not gonna link it but, it basically said Taylor controls Tom’s social media…and that she should be careful to remember what account she’s signed into. The blind reads:
“You don’t actually think this foreign born A- list dual threat actor who has a franchise controls his own social media accounts do you? No, no no. His A+ list girlfriend has everything under her control. Hopefully she remembers which account she is signed into.”
I totally believe this. I don’t doubt it’s in the contract.
not believable. for the past few years, he hasn’t posted about anything other than his own career. he learned to dial down his personality on social and now he makes nearly zero personal comments.
A- list. Lol
I believe it because she followed him three minutes after he joined instagram. It is pathetic that he joined instagram. Are Ralph Fiennes, Cumberbatch, Day -Lewis…anybody who matters to theatre and acting on social media..no.
The loser of the summer is really Tom. He is focused on everything but work
@Jena
Mark Ruffalo, Samuel L Jackson, Ian McKellen, Michelle Dockery, Kevin Bacon, Reese Witherspoon, Gwendoline Christie, Russell Tovey, Iwan Rheon, Lena Headey, Carice Van Houten
So all these people on IG must not be “serious” actors either. What era are you still in?
Not all actors, serious or not, have the same career trajectory. Instagram hasn’t been around that long, and like the other social media platforms, it’s dominantly a part of youth culture. Most theater actors don’t have a large fan base like Tom has had for several years (before TS). TS may be why he got on IG now, but he probably would have done it at some point anyway.
TH joined IG for Emmy only. He posted pics of Loki and TNM so far and that will be it I think. The timing was right before the planned interviews in LA and before the Emmy voting started. So yes, it´s all planned and adjusted by the reactions of the fans on SM and blogs etc. We have to endure them 5 weeks longer now till the Emmy night.
I have been thinking – will he attend the gala night? If yes with TS? Because if he won´t get the award could you imagine their faces? TH with forced smile thinking ‘my God, all this show and it didn´t work’ and TS ( used to win all the time) with sour grin thinking ‘Oh, you loser and now I have to write some songs about you anyway. Just wait, you´ll see….’ 😀
I think it would be the best if he won´t attend the RC at all. If he would win he could give prepared and more authentic (hahaha) interviews afterwards and if he would lose he could bear the defeat in private without embarrassing the Country Queen directly in the spotlight….
@Sue
So everyone that attends the Emmy Awards is expecting to win? No one expects that they might be one of the losers? Please.
First, he does Not expect to win. He said Cranston is going to take it. Whether he wins or loses, it’s still good exposure to attend top-line, HW award events and the after parties. That alone is reason enough for any un-established actor to attend.
Second, TNM is nominated for several nominations not just his. It’s important for as many recognizable cast to be present and represent the show and AMC at their table whether they are nominated or not. It’s customary.
Me too @coco, he makes my skin crawl. And that serial killer smile…ugh!
“It’s interesting, we all live in a world where every phone has a camera” even more interesting is dating a woman who has a professional photographer documenting her love life, Tom.
he tries to spin it like they were trying to keep this a secret and an obsessed stan caught them with their cell phone camera,
IKR? He’s been well trained in the Swiftian art of self delusion and the truth is what I say, not what you see.
Sure, Jan…… Camera phones. Yeah right.
TH is well trained and prepared to enter Taymerica that’s why I believe they are perfect match and for real and will last^0^
If it’s a lie in *my favor* then it’s not a lie at all. It’s the Swift, and now Hiddleston, approach to honesty.
A HELL YES to all of this..
We see what you’re doing there, Tommy boy.
^^^^^
Yes damn those camera phones….Pap walking your family is all the fault of over zealous fans, nothing to do with a contolling gf.
I wonder if his comments about musicians are a subtle shout out to Taytay. He obviously admires people who are musically talented. It would be nice to think he sees more in her than just her killer bod and extreme wealth and fame.
All joking aside I think they make a well matched couple.
Killer bod?
You mean before or after boob job?
Well she has got great legs and arse, her legs make me jealous.
She has nice toned legs, but an absolutely flat arse. There is nothing back there. The boobs are bolt ons.
Sorry, have to respectfully disagree about Taytay’s “hot bod”. The non-existent ass isn’t her fault ( though the meh nose jobs are) but her now second pair of bolt-on’s are awful. I could respect the crappy new tits if she would just admit it instead of the vehement denials that she ever got any plastic surgery. Parts of her body are more artificial than most of her fake relationships over the years.
I think she has a new bum too. Injections?
New boobs and a new bum, yep. The surgeon must have flipped her like a pancake on the most recent trip to the OR.
It must really suck to “upgrade” and then look in the mirror afterwards at your downgrade. I hazard a guess that she’ll probably be getting boob job number three within six months. Girl just needs to accept that as pretty as she is, she’ll never be sexy because that takes a certain “je ne sais quoi” she just doesn’t possess.
Didn’t realize we were calling professional cameras cell phones now.
Exactly what I was thinking. It wasn’t someone’s phone camera that took the photos of them canoodling on the beach. In a town that is generally papparazzo-free, those pictures on a private beach were taken with a telephoto lens by a professional photographer. Let’s not try and pretend we are trying to have a private relationship but it was caught on film by people with phones. And what about the posed cutesy couple photos, with two other married couples in rocking chairs? Was that captured by a passerby with a phone? Nope. Not buying it. And frankly this very weak attempt at spinning just makes me lose respect. Sigh.
@ladysussex it wasn’t even a private beach! It’s Spry rd look out! There’s single car parking along where they were sitting. Sorry I’m from the area and find this relationship bs.
This . . . mama mia! They shoved it to the public on a silver plate! And he is aging by the day and his interviews make him look phonier than a $3 bill. I’ve always thought the Olson girls creepy, and he was linked with one of them, and Swift is creepier than heck, and now he’s linked with her. I don’t think any of us really knows who TH is, and what is beginning to show is, um, well, alarming.
It’s a conspiracy.
I don’t know much about the performances of the nominees. Is he a frontrunner? He sure seems to want it badly. Are the other nominees in his category campaigning as hard as this thirsty one?
I don’t know how this works, do companies ask for interviews and he says aye or nay? ARe the other nominees doing interviews?
The studio, in this case AMC, sets up these interviews, not the actors themselves. Other actors are doing similar interviews.
Hey, Veranda, could you point us to a Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, or Susanne Bier interview for TNM’s *Emmy campaign?* Not an interview from 3 months ago, but a recent one where any other actor/director/producer was campaigning for a Emmy on behalf of TNM. Thanks in advance.
http://www.indiewire.com/2016/08/night-manager-olivia-colman-interview-emmys-1201713401/
And again, AMC decides who to send out for promotions.
Only one, and a print one at that. Surely there are more.
I am not your personal secretary. If you want her doing promos, call up AMC and ask why they chose to put out only one of their actors . AMC made the decision.
Thanks anyways, Veranda.
There’s usually flexibility and spread among the actors during promo for a show like this, so no, AMC doesn’t control it 100 percent.
If Tom wanted to campaign and his rep put that on the table, AMC would oblige as long as it didn’t mean cutting out other actors who wanted to hit the circuit hard as well or tip over their budget.
Go to http://www.goldderby.com/ and in the drop down click ‘Emmys Predictions’ then ‘Emmys Awards’ which opens a new drop down giving access all the various info related to all the categories (mobile, on PC it’s all at the top of the Home Page iirc): Editors’ Predictions; Users’ Predictions; Odds; info on interviews; etc. The Forum is interesting for snippets too.
Tom Hiddleston is nominated in the ‘Movie/Mini Actor’ category and “The Night Manager” under ‘Limited Series’.
For his category he will have had to submit one episode (the one he considered his best/strongest work), out of the six, for consideration. So, technically the judging/voting, isn’t about his role in the whole piece, but his performance in one episode. Each of his fellow nominees will have submitted also that which they believe to be their strongest episode/work.
For this particular category, not usually a headline one, he is working harder than any others and doing more interviews. This is NOT usually a category where nominees get much interview interest from outlets; I surmise his personal life profile at the moment has opened up opportunities for interview few in this category ever get – and he’s taken them (fair play, I guess).
He is still considered least likely to win by most reckonings and on odds of 80/1.
Anyway, a trawl through Gold Derby is a reliable one-stop shop for info/links to elsewhere.
They do the other Awards too at appropriate times.
I like Gold Derby but will never forget how it incessantly plugged Beyonce for a Best Actress nomination for Dream Girls.
Lilac, I missed the plugging of Beyonce.
I tend to find it has the least editorial/bias interference of all the ‘industry-related’ outlets and rarely seems to gush at the behest of actors’ publicists. Because it takes soundings from critics, main industry editors, and public alike, it covers the general/’informed’ opinion well in one easily accessible site (with good links to follow elsewhere if you wish to delve deeper)
They have the best track record on predictions too.
I said on another post that I have money on TH, just a small fun bet, as the Emmys’ always have to have a “shock win” based more on profile than performance every year. It wouldn’t surprise me for TH to be that this year.
The old ‘bet on who you don’t want to win, that way you can’t lose’ bet I make every year. 😆
The Beyonce plugging was epic. Not only did they have her nominated for Best Actress but Tom O’Neil was repeatedly insisting that she would win. This in a year in which Helen Mirren won for The Queen and Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet, and Meryl Streep were nominated for some powerful performances.
If I’m reading this Gold Derby article correctly http://www.goldderby.com/forum/television/2016-emmy-awards-complete-list-of-episode-submissions/ then mini-series Leading Actor/Actress contenders are the only ones that don’t have to pick a single episode to submit – they submit the entire project for review. Mini-series supporting still select a single episode. Hugh Laurie submitted Episode 5 and Oliva Colman Episode 6.
Thank you for that Dara, I hadn’t realised – I thought it was only the production ‘Limited Series’ which got to submit as a whole, not any of the individual acting categories. That seems a very odd exception to me – especially if Supporting in that Class (and in the more Senior Categories such as ‘Drama Actor/Actress’ etc) are one episode too.
Still, in the case of TH for TNM, he’d perhaps have benefited (even if Cranston should have it on lock) from a best episode submit, because he’s particularly weak Eps 2 through 5.
I think HL and OC have made wise episode decision choices.
Still reckon if there’s any TNM love going, it’s going to Laurie however much I would like Coleman to get an Emmy. I’ll go so far as to say, it’s a shame Laurie wasn’t deemed by AMC fit to go up for ‘Movie/Mini Actor’ (Lead) as, given the scope to submit ‘entire project’, he’d maybe not have taken Cranston or Vance but over the course of the piece he warranted it more than Hiddleston.
He personally is not. But the show will surely get something. My bets are on Coleman.
‘Movie/Mini Supporting Actress’ is a strong category. I love Coleman, and her performance far outshone TH’s (I think this of most of his co-stars in TNM tbh), but it’ll depend on the episode she submitted and she’s up against Smart for “Fargo” and King for “American Crime” – currently she’s fourth in running in her category.
I think if there’s any love to be shown by the Emmys for TNM it’ll go to Hugh Laurie (not undeservedly – currently third in line in his category) – he has a few (out of the six) very good episodes to have submitted as his one. Although, again, strong category. Quite frankly, Hugh Laurie could’ve made a case for submission to the Lead ‘Movie/Mini Actor’ category and I wouldn’t have argued, but that’s not how these things tend to work – except with the GOT cast who rarely/never(?) submit for Lead and have a mutual understanding to submit for Supporting only.
I say the above, notwithstanding my inkling that TH could take it as the obligatory annual “shock win” – that, I personally think, would be very undeserved.
The Emmys do have the occasional shock win but the shock is usually because they stick so long with the same safe and predictable choices year after year, often after the expiration date has passed *cough Jim Parsons cough, cough Modern Family * Bryan Cranston is pretty much a lock in this category, although he does deserve it.; his LBJ was brilliant. Cumberbatch doesn’t even belong here this go-around; he gave a mediocre performance in the worst installment of his series, but he is an example of Emmy sticking by what it has done in the past. And the reason why he isn’t visibly hustling is because PBS aired Sherlock and unless someone makes a huge donation for Emmy promotion, PBS does very limited PR – Congress frowns on it. Darlene Shiley gave money to promote Downton Abby so Downton got lots of Emmy push.
@lilacflowers the reason he’s not hustling it is because he already got one without even hustling for it back then.
He didn’t hustle for it back then for the same exact reason that he isn’t hustling now. PBS will not pay to campaign for Emmys or any other awards, unless someone like Darlene Shiley ponies up the money to do so.
US TV awards do seem to be very safe and the usual subjects turn up year after year. While the great Parks & Recreation, and Community, and Party Down get ignored…
The honest answer you are seeking is that the LA Times and other legit media know he has a slim chance of winning BUT he is hot news right now due to his link to Swifty so an interview with him will get a lot of clicks to a dying newspaper industry. He will thus get a lot of requests for interviews over his costars and competition. AMC also knows the interest in him his due to Swifty but will take advantage of it to get publicity. Tom, also in the know about the motives will also use it to promote himself by giving the interviews but pretend that the press to his relationship is a burden.
So it’s a win for all: LA Times, AMC and Tom. THAT’s why actors get into these high profile relationships. It increases your profile and gets you more press, more name recognition. And usually more work too. His career will be fine, it’s just his fans who are embarrassed to see him play the same PR game as other less “refined” actors. They can no longer act superior especially when their internet boyfriend is literally in bed with the Miss-forever-13-Petty-Princess.
THIS!
can’t agree more!
“the same PR game as other less “refined” actors”
Like Jake Gyllenhall.
He’s doing pretty good, and he did the whole TS PR-ship with paps too. Trick is he got in there while the getting was good, and people weren’t sick of TayTay and her never ending Comedy of Errors.
No he’s not a frontrunner. Yes other nominees do campaign like this for Emmys. It all depends. Some actors don’t need to campaign because they already have several Emmys and nominations like Hugh Laurie who doesn’t give a sh*t anymore. He’s an older, established actor with a family and other projects in the works.
If he were the main protagonist of the show, AMC might press him to do more campaigning/promoting. But he’s not, and Tom is the face of TNM. His image featured predominately in the advertisement of the show, and he is the main character.
Why doesn’t Hiddles just skip all the little interviews since he’s not favored to win? Well he’s not Laurie who is already established and doesn’t need or want any more Emmys, and can call some shots as to what he will and won’t do promotion wise. Obviously Tom is at the other end of the spectrum, and he would be daft not to make the best of this opportunity whether he wins or not. Tom, Olivia and Baer are not HW-Emmy insiders. There’s certain actors, shows and networks that will get nominated over and over. If you’re not really famous or plugged into main HW network, a nomination is definitely an opportunity for good exposure.
Lol
Thank goodness he followed TS online.
Now I can relax knowing they are still together.
It is making me question my own relationship. My boyfriend doesn’t follow me on Twitter or Instagram. I think he is sending me a message.
…get him a I ❤ LF T shirt before it’s too late!
Wrong place- There is a marked difference in Tom’s looks between this year and last. He looks a LOT older all the sudden.
I hold with my original opinion that he’s in love with a lot of things she has, including musicianship (if that’s a word). He’s never got over playing Hank.
He would never wear such a shirt. It has words on it. No shirts with words allowed. I fear I must end this.
He has been saying words about musicians since moving in with Rodney Crowell. Nothing new there.
I asked the Mister if he follows me on anything other than facebook. He does, but he never looks at it.
So I guess my marriage is a SHAM and he only followed me for appearances!
@Bonzo, but would he wear a shirt proclaiming his undying devotion to you?
Thank God, no. He declares his affection in more dignified ways.
In the past few weeks, there have been stories that: the romance is fake; the romance is real true lurve forever; a breakup is imminent; a proposal is imminent; the breakup already happened; the engagement already happened; she was going to SDCC; she was banned from SDCC; she was never planning to go to SDCC; she disrupted the Thor set in Oz; she was banned from the set in Oz; she has never been to the set in Oz; he was ordered to NY so Marvel could read him the riot act about her disrupting Thor production (they could do that right on set, no need to send him to NY and Feige was at SDCC when he was). And some people believe every word of every story and some believe none, and some believe what they want to believe and some make up their own stories and pass them off as gospel.
Any way, Sunday brunch is served on the veranda; and the free vending machines down in the meadow for the fray have been re-stocked. A lazy Sunday for a baseball game or watching Olympics or walking a beach. Or all three.
I want waffles and need alcohol. So if I have a blueberry waffle, what should I drink?
And yeah, the stories around this are typical TS fare. He’s come down with another case of verbositis.
We have bellinis and mimosas and bloody marys and can mix anything else you would like. The blueberries for the waffles were picked just this morning.
The stories around this are typical tabloid fare about any new high profile celebrity relationship. Very little of it unique to them. If it settles down into a long-term relationship, then they switch to baby bump watching and infidelity stories. There have been tabloid/celebrity web sites running articles on the same day that have them split or engaged; neither of which is true, apparently. Yet people swallow it all up or run around screaming PR. Yes, some of it is PR, while a lot of it is tabloids spinning what is out there for ad revenues, and most of it is not true. So, he points out this last fact and is now being called naive and thirsty for it.
And this whole bit about tracking the status of a relationship by whether a couple follows one another on social media is pure 8th grade girl behavior.
I just entered the meadow, and I wish to thank you for the impressive buffet of options. I am toting my mimosa in the silver liter flask received at the gate. I am most impressed however with the FancyBoy Overstuffed Pasty machine, because it is fun! One never knows what one may get for the token — each is a mystery wrapped in the same blue packaging! Well done, you.
Oh, Liberty, you are most welcome. Do enjoy all the treats. And please, take some time to come up and relax on the veranda. We do love to hear your poems. We could arrange for a reading later this afternoon, perhaps?
Thank you for the hospitality. I was enjoying a bit of apple crumble alongside the pool. I did not know Colin was such a natural herring!
I did not bring my poems, but can scribble something on the commemorative Olympic cocktail napkin I received with my mini Loki burger.
Here, Lilacflowers, in thanks for the lobster patties:
The hardest thing
The thing that’s the hardest
The hardest thing of all
Is keeping one’s well-tanned mind
From exploring the
Falsehood hall!
The spotlight shines
The shine is bright
The shiniest shine around
Luggage rolls through falsehood’s airport
While eager suede still
touches the ground!
A proper response
A response that’s so proper
Proper response plan to come
Public figure defibrillator fully installed
Many-sided love is both
falsehood & fun!
Bravo Liberty, BRAVO.
Standing in line for Liberty ovation.
Brava, Diva! Bravo! Champagne for everyone! A toast to Liberty, our poetess laureate!
Curtsies in meadow, while enjoying lovely tequila chaser to lovely Champagne.
Yea @Liberty🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎇🎆
Fabu, Liberty, fabu!
Right, stories from every conceivable angle have been generated about their romance, so surely some of them must be false. Tom’s not wrong to characterize it the way he did. He’s simply not choosing to spell it out for everyone.
He’s doing his usual of not commenting directly on his private life and that is fine. He can say as much or as little as he likes, and to his credit, he hasn’t actually complained the speculation, just noted that it comes with fame. I don’t think celebrities owe the public the entire truth, unless perhaps they’re guilty of some horrible crime to which they actually have to answer to society, but some people treat celebrity gossip like the inquisition.
I’d like a Bloody Mary now and later a nap on the beach.
We have set up umbrellas and tents down on the beach to protect from burns. The water is lovely today.
Don’t you know? He was supposed to lash out at Eppie Calvin on Twitter with a “nyah, nyah, cuckold!” post; use that new Instagram account to post all sorts of photos the paps didn’t get inside his mum’s house and during the Roman Holiday excursion, and take the time during all these TNM Emmy interviews to either proclaim his undying love for his girlfriend OR announce himself #Team Kimye while slithering about on the floor like a snake. He is failing on all counts.
What does Eppie Calvin mean ?
Just seen Lilacs reply…jaysus what were his parents thinking.
Adam Eppie Calvin Nuke Laloush Wilkes Harris.
And he didn’t get bullied at school for that name? Incredible.
Shelly and Grace, I don’t think that’s his real name, I believe Lilac is joking. Because on Wikipedia it says just Adam Richard Wiles. Or?
He dubbed himself “Calvin Harris” because he thought it would give him more credibility in the rap/hip hop world. I dubbed him Eppie Calvin Nuke Lalouch because the name “Calvin” does not make me think of black rappers, it makes me think of a doofus pitcher in Bull Durham.
Lilac – in Scottish terms Calvin immediately references for me the influence which John Calvin (and Calvinism) had on Scottish religion (mainly through John Knox) in the C16th. Scotland is, The Scottish Enlightenment notwithstanding, still at times referred to as a “Calvinist nation” yet; particularly re: work ethics and Determinism.
Although somehow I rather think Adam wasn’t thinking philosophy or theology when he chose his stage name. Yet Harris is an island off the West coast of Scotland yet still considered the most Calvinist of areas of Scotland (due to the Wee Frees – a somewhat outmoded denomination of Protestantism), so perhaps he’s deeper than we think and he considered his name that of one with which to Preach (through music).
I don’t know why I’ve typed all this because it’s of no real relevance other than, genuinely, everytime I read/hear his name I think of theology and thank the gods (in which I don’t believe) for The Enlightenment.
/Apologies for the digression… I had a couple of ‘sherries’ with lunch.
@Dippit, on hearing the name “Calvin,” my second thought does direct towards John Calvin as well, after Bull Durham. But I think Adam Eppie Calvin Nuke Laloush Harris explained that he chose the name because he thought it sounded more “street” or something. Because when you think “street,” you automatically think of a 16th century French theologian, a defender of predestination.
Lilac – the mean streets of Dumfries and Galloway (the area of Scotland I believe he hails from?).
In fairness, I think Calvin, as a name for baby boys, did become quite popular around the schemes (local council housing estates) of Glasgow somewhere around mid-Noughties. I couldn’t tell you why though. Perhaps that inspired him.
My favourite tale about Scottish names (in the Glasgow schemes) is the old one of Agnes (a once very old-fashioned name but now gaining some slight return in Scotland again). It gave birth to many younger girls being called Senga – what they did was if a girl was named after her mother (Agnes), instead of the US style of adding a Jnr (mainly to boys(?)), they reversed the spelling – so Agnes’ daughter, also Agnes, became Senga to those who knew her. 😀
Oh dear, lilacflowers, you have definitely appropriated my sensible crown! 😥
So Tom isn’t any more thirsty than any others, it is just that some on here just focus on Tom?
I’m still cranky.
I only believe my own stories. And I have some excellent ones.
No story today though. He is just getting on my nerves with the passive aggressive polysyllabic word salads. Falsehoods. Arsewipe. If you think the nasty tabloids are telling nasty lies about you, Tommy, come out and say so. Or shut up. Don’t come up with generalised, whiney polysyllables. It doesn’t incite sympathy in me.
@ sixer, well falsehood sound slightly more polite than lying bastards!
And he could have said terminalogical inexactitudes! 🙂
You most certainly do have some excellent stories.
I love my own stories, which probably is a bad thing. Oops!
He just annoys me with this shiznit. I could write sensible lines for him at the drop of a hat. How about:
“It’s been crazy, hasn’t it? Still, so long as you’re having fun and not hurting anyone, right? And that’s all I have to say about that.”
But oh no, he has to whine on in his passive aggressive way about non-specific sins against him and try to dazzle the hoi polloi with his univ vocab.
This is why I have ball gags.
He should hire you. Need for ball gags aside, the legs have looked particularly fine suited up in these interviews.
The legs do look fine!
Agreed, Sixer. And as much as I love the boy, that line about “used to the spotlight being on me” was a bit grating as well.
Uh huh.
Sixer, had TH hired you to be his queen-behind-the-scenes image-maker and interview story-weaver and body language director, working in tandem with Lilacflowers as his contracts manager, he would be in a much better place, and probably other jeans.
As it stands, if I see him going down a waterside with Simon Cowell and Emma Roberts, next, or wearing a shiny gold patent vinyl raincoat in a GQ feature on the agony and tumult of B-list fame, I will feel no surprise, nothing.
Liberty – as it stands, if I were to see him sign up for I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here (our lowest rent celeb reality show), I wouldn’t be surprised.
As I’m contract manager now, I’m booking him on a celebrity version of The Great British Baking Show so he can wrestle with rough puff pastry and meringue piping under the watchful eye of Mary Berry. Contestants must include Eddie Izzard, McKenzie Crook, and Bill Nighy (mainly because I want to hear him debate proofing methods). Sixer can choose the others.
Lilac – There’s always the possibility for his to do “Great British Bake-Off”, the celebrity version, done for either “Comic Relief” or “Sports Relief” (two massive UK ‘telethons’ done turnabout years).
If he’s under the watchful eye of Mary Berry he needs must the most beware of having “a soggy bottom [pastry]”.
In light of his current somewhat questionable internet/public approval ratings, he may well needs beware of having a soggy bottom in general too 😀
/Glad you liked “The Jam” link – a staple anthem of mine since I don’t know when; also one I’ve watched Old Etonians dance to *un-ironically* – very odd. I think the “Pulp” one has a more limited (lyrically) British resonance.
Of any of the Celeb Reality TV Shows (UK), I think, should TH’s career come to it (unlikely, even in its current overshadowed by TayTay state), he’d do reasonably well on “Strictly Come Dancing” – the original to “Dancing with the Stars”, but far more traditional still.
No sympathy from me either, Sixer. TommyAnnE deserves the largest, most painful of ball gags for his persistent circumlocution.
This^ No one has jumped the shark like Tom.He is beige
Sixer writing the lines, master ball-gagger and image-maker while lilac makes the contracts.
Please make this happen.
Bonzo, no one circumlocutionates better than Tom.
Don’t forget that she’s pregnant with his baby 😛
Or is it Calvin’s? Or Kanye’s?
Oohhhh don’t give the tabloids any ideas!
Who talks like that, seriously! Ooooo those wretched ‘Falsehoods’.
He does talk strangely at times, no? I thought his response to the RDJ Instagram ribbing was weirdly worded, too – he could have just said that he knew RDJ was taking the piss at him and that he (Tom) thought it was funny.
Everything he said during those interviews lately was already said (and in the exact same form or sentences) during TIFF 2015 or during BFF etc. for example when they promoted TNM for the first time. He cannot say anything new, even if he would like to. And there are and always will be some hints about his private life now, either from the interviewers or from himself, too. It feels like everyone is tiptoeing around him now, everyone has opinion about his summer adventures. I used to like listening to him but now I have hard times to buy what he´s saying, he´s whole appearance somehow. Tbh I think he won´t get the award, TNM series could get some awards in other categories, but who knows. I don´t think it was such a strong material, good for them to get the nominations at least.
PS: I would love to see him getting a contract with some tailoring company. He´s wearing suit like a god 😛 at least his physical appearance remained unchanged.
same here. i used to like what he said during interviews. seemed well thought and genuine. now with TayTo rollout, whenever i read his interview, i can’t help but think this is another PR-oriented answer that aims to manipulate public opinion. nothing wrong with it. i just made a wrong assumption about him (authentic and private). now he is just an ok actor looking much older than his age and selling his private life for public attention. for this category of actors, there are plenty with better looks and physique;)
TayTo are perfect match. i maintain that the relationship is real and they will get engaged
this is so right. he is so repetitive that his inauthenticity is glaring finally. he loves to say “there lies a tension between”…….”human condition”…which is fine.but, i have heard this in the new york times talk, sag talk, i saw the light, the night manager promotions. he has lost every shred of appeal.
This is one of the down sides of doing so much press and promoting. You repeat a lot, and it starts to sound flat or like a school assignment. I’ve seen other actors repeat things too. They’re asked the same questions over and over. I’ve seen actors start to lose their grip and almost ready to jump out of their chair at press junkets.
Tom’s very good at being collected and engaged even though he gets asked the same questions hundreds of times. He needs to loosen it up though and learn to speak off the cuff even if it forfeits his academically precise answers.
I wonder if he had a better management or publicist that could be really upfront and skillfully work with him, could he find a natural, comfortable adjustment while still maintaining his uniqueness. I’m wondering if it’s his management that’s not guiding him or giving enough feedback. Is there a personality or cultural mismatch?
‘… and the hardest thing is to not let the falsehoods affect your mind.’
Hahahahah! Tommy, how is life on cloud nine?
I remember an interview that Tom did with Cumberbatch for “War Horse”, where the interviewer was asking the Batch a question concerning foreign languages ( or something) and Tom started speaking Greek, and the Batch gave a look like “Oh, THIS b!tch”! And some Brit-style side-eye at the Hidddles. It’s a shame though, because he is talented. He didn’t need all of this extra. He just wanted it. Sigh.
Hiddles and the Batch are cut from he same cloth – both are super thirsty for it and both have made idiots of themselves in the process. But that is what fame infatuation does to you.
This +++++++
Infatuation with fame will turn anyone into a twat.
No pap walk. I will be here gloating all day.
😎
Just a visit to a bookstore by himself . You get celebratory chocolates today.
Why thank you, Lilac!
Of course I will need a pitcher of bellinis to drown my sorrows in if they go out to brunch before the flight back to Oz
😒
Which she will NOT BE on
Luke has him on a very short leash
Thank God
He bought a bunch of Penguin Classics and literatti books of the moment so that Taylor can read the blurb and pretend to have read the whole books. That way she can better ‘dinner party’ converse.
/Another “falsehood” to add to the mix 😉… probably 😄.
Actually, I only thought of that because Damian Lewis once admitted to going to bookshops to swot up on the blurbs of books he had no intention of reading simply to appear well read at London dinner parties.
Maybe Tom went the whole hog and got TayTay Cliffsnotes.
Dippit – if I recall correctly, LEGS and Bendy both tried similar on waxing lyrical about Edward St Aubyn novels when really they were angling for the proposed Mendes adaptations.
BTW: I hate those insufferable books.
Edward St Aubyn novels are impossible for me to read. It’s like every page is overflown with sanctimonious and self-serving wankery *cough* excuse the language.
Grace – hence the hilarity of both Benny the Bouncer AND Tommy-omelette accidentally-on-purpose recommending them!
I hate those books so much I can’t even tell you. Typical constipated posh boy wankery (I feel your word is the best choice).
Sixer, lordy, NOW THAT IS desperate and urgh. I think often that Damian Lewis is a pretentious git, but I liked with that little reveal of his, years ago, that he owns his pretentious git-ishness as being faux-real per se. They have special classes in this at Eton (and whichever Public School Cumberbatch attended).
It’s called How To Bamboozle The Plebs 101.
Once they’ve passed that, they go on to the intermediate level: Toffsplaining.
Teehee, Sixer, I’ve spent much time in company with those who have clearly aced such classes.
One of the lessons is, clearly, ‘When Caught Out (in ignorance or idiocy of opinion – especially by a Pleb with a “but actually… [insert better informed take]”) – Bray-laugh (LOUDLY) and bluster “well you may have a point, but allow me my little eccentricity dear”‘
I often wish to hand out copies of http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pulp/misshapes.html OR http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jam/theetonrifles.html
just to raise the volume over their “Toffsplaining”. I certainly hum them away to myself in such situations.
Do you have an apt term for the actual exit qualification they are awarded?
Sixer/Dippit, Damian Lewis gets a pass in my book for being married to Helen McCrory, who is an absolute goddess.
@Dippit, I like the second one. Are they set to music?
@ Becky, Helen McCrory should be Bond.
Sorry Becky, I think McCrory is an even bigger faux/pseud than Lewis (although a better actor than him – for which I give her props). She admitted in an interview, recently, that many of the tales she tells of her life (including professional and personal) may not be entirely true, but “as an actor, she has the right to invent them because her notions of real are altered by her commitment to her profession and art” [paraphrase] or somesuch guff. I suppose she ought to get some brownie points for admitting to her own “falsehoods” at least – but her justification for it read horribly.
Actually, come to think of it, shades of Hiddleston and his “committing to authenticity” guff recently. AND yet still he talks of “falsehoods”.
Lilac – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0DRch3YLh0
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRmrlkYdsQ
Helen is very definitely of the patronising poshie species. I give her pass, like Dippit, because she is an absolutely fantastic actor who does graceful, intelligent and incredibly detailed work. She’s properly talented, while I’d see the unholy triumvirate of LEGS, Bendy and Lewis as good actors, but hardly actors who will go down in the annals of history a la Daniel Day Lewis. I think McCrory is up there.
Dippit – the exit qualification is the Alan B’Stard Gold Standard. They also award the Bullingdon Plate to the top graduate. Second place gets the pig’s head and a new pair of pants!
Sixer – “Why should we, the country that produced Shakespeare, Christopher Wren – and those are just the people on our banknotes for Christ’s sake – cower down to the countries that produced Hitler, Napoleon, the Mafia, and the… the… The Smurfs!” – Alan B’Stard
Somewhat apt to our shared current despair.
AND “You know the really great thing about a fudged coalition is that neither of us need to carry out a single promise of our election manifestos.” – Alan B’Stard
Somewhat apt to our shared current despair over TayTo.
I still want photographs of how the ‘pig thing’ went down… and yet I REALLY REALLY don’t… !!!
On a McCrory note – I had her down as “The Guardian’s” ‘Secret Actor’ columnist last year – the one they had to pull after about seven weeks because the pretension and me-me ickness was SO very unpopular with readers. Any thoughts?
Because he needs more luggage – books! Maybe he is researching the next role.
@Browniecakes – so he bought Kim K’s book “Selfish” in order to research how to work the best angle(s) for his new TayTay’s Instagram Boyfriend role?
@Dippit, really like the Jam one.
i still hope there will be some airport departure show…
Gloat away, @MI6, I’m glad you were right! But do we know if he’s going back to AU today? Is she with him? Enquiring minds…
@RWS: Rumor has it he’s leaving for Oz tonight and she’s ensconced in her RI compound sorting through her burn book, practicing her self-satisfied smirk in the mirror and perfecting her kale farming technique.
Looks like TH can revert to Serious Actor mode unencumbered by the Pop Tart.
Lol, thanks @MI6. 😂 But I need something alcoholic to remove the Tay-the-kale-farmer image from my brain.
Didn’t know she was back in RI. Hope he does go back without her.
Gloat away, MI6. I think she was there though, unless someone authentically snapped a photo of her elsewhere this weekend.
As noted below, I suspect he’s in damage control mode and keeping her from usurping his Emmy campaign during the next two weeks of voting, while gearing up for their planned RC walk a month from now.
“there are many sides to a story”
BUT NONE OF THEM YET INVOLVE BUILD-A-BEAR. WHY THE BLOODY HELL NOT?
Ahahaha Sixer. You’re really pulling for the Build a Bear fantasy!
Sixer, I am with you on that one: picture or it didn’t happen.
If he dares to tell me that Build-a-Bear is a falsehood or merely one of many sides to a story, I will deploy my most painful, punishing ball gag.
Build-a-Bear atop the Eiffel Tower! Nothing less!
I am surprised the ball gag has not been deployed already this week.
It’s well and truly attached now I’ve read this interview!
Dear Sixer, it is heartening to know that your trusty ball gags might possibly save us from this posh toffery mess. I am so sick of this ridiculous naffery I can hardly bring myself to comment, (I say hardly, but comment anyway). I can only put my lapse down to deep ennui at the competing fiasco that is the disgraceful showing for the POTUS race. It has been a long hot summer here in SoCal, I hear it has been unseasonably warm in Blighty too, and I am ready for some cleansing gossip rains, but right now I can’t imagine what that would be. Perhaps Olivia Coleman winning an overdue Emmy, or my boo Hugh Laurie. What say you? Or, are you still trying to choke down the news of a delayed Brexit? I feel like throwing in the towel unless something funny and juicy comes along to distract me.
Brexit has been superseded by the Labour Party apocalypse, so I am still weeping into my cup of Yorkshire tea, sadly.
I’m a bit disappointed that Tiddlesbanging seems to have devolved into the usual LEGS twittishness. I much preferred him wearing t-shirts and throat-baring. Now he’s gone back to waffling on and using three thousand words to say one sentence in Plain English, I am bored. SIGH.
Colman winning an Emmy would be fabulous!
Antipodean, “I am so sick of this ridiculous naffery” that gets my comment of the week 😂
@Becky, I am pleased you like my over-exasperated expression, I was stumped as to how to explain my tiredness of this over-inflated Tomfoolery, best I could come up with of a lazy Sunday morning!
Don’t worry, Sixer! They’ll time their visit to Build-a-Bear with the release of Taylor’s next album, and they’ll pick a customized bear with a ‘record a message’ option. I expect a duet between Hiddleswift from Taylor’s album will be recorded on it.
Swift will get custody of the bear in the divorce/breakup, and she’ll dramatically release a revenge music video containing footage of her beloved cats using the bear as a scratching post after the split.
What is this Build-a-Bear?
Build-a-Bear is a horrific nightmare. Excuse me, Build-a-Bear is a store where one buys and then decorates stuffed animals. People hold children’s parties at Build-a-Bear.
Oh right, don’t think I’ll bother. 😆
@spidey Sorry for the late reply, but LOL lilacflowers summed it up perfectly!
Also, some of stuffed animals have devices in them that allow you to record personalized messages. Creepy as hell imo.
I guess he’s trying to make the situation better?
I think his PR team is trying to make the situation better.
His entire vibe is unattractive. Even for Taylor swift – especially for TS. If he is going to play her game like this – what drama can she milk for it? He’s going to end up being too perfect for her. This guy is going to get dumped for being eager puppy and it is going to be epic.
this guy has turned to be a stunning two-faced disappointment. no one has gone down in flames likes hiddles. he joined instagram and is not being photographed with swift because he is campaigning for an award. hiddles wondering why the fascination with him and his girlfriend is sickening to me. notice how there is not picture of them suddenly.what a sad piece of work for a once fantastic gentleman
Perspective dear. Perspective.
Can someone please explain to me why he thought getting involved with Taylor Swift would help his career? I just don’t get it. He must have the worst publicist ever.
Perhaps he just fancied her and wanted a bit of fun?
Hahahahahahahaha!
If only it were that SIMPLE and innocent, Spidey.
Same question here. How in the whole universe these two ended up together,(even if this supposed to be a stunt)?
Was it like ‘ Hey Tom, wanna burst up your carrier a bit? What would you say to hook up with Taylor Swift? Never heard of her before? Never mind, she could make you famous in US….blabla. Let´s arrange some meetings’.
Or maybe he should save her carrier like ‘ Hey Taylor, ever heard about Tom Hiddleston? This charming, educated, British actor/gentleman? What would you say to hook up with him? He´s nice and harmless and it could override the Kayne´s feud blablabla…’ Ugh, no, I cannot find any rational idea behind this. And fun, attraction, love? Hmmm, nope…
Tom is with Swift because he was ready to love anyone. He has been locked up in hotel rooms , alone for seven years working straight. He likes being a prince and found someone who is a perpetual victim and needs his maturity and saving. He thinks no one understands her..but him. She is the one person willing to listen to his Hank Williams impression . Do you notice how he is not being photographed with her now? Because he is campaigning hard for his award. So, he has always been press hungry and he is getting that with his extremely calculating and wealthy girlfriend. The thing is…..I do not find her respectable at all. Despite what you think of Kanye…there is footage of the producer of the Grammys from Feb. saying that she had an advance on the track. Her team made him retract and called him confused. Swift is a grotesque liar…She is not someone you bring home. No photo -ops in hospitals will make up for her track record of character assassination.
It already helping by doing tones of interviews for 2 days & generally public in America don’t know him that much before Taylor & in certain way dating Taylor he is in gossips news now than before so don’t expect him to break up with her soon he is loving the attention this relationship bring to his career or image
His interviews for his Emmys campaign alone are now all over the internet and getting hits because of his connection to Swift – nearly every headline ties Swift’s name into something he’s said (completely unrelated – see his bit about musicians and ISTL… and apparently been saying similar for years according to someone above – but it now has the Swift hook).
His Emmys category is NOT usually an interview-bait category – even Cumberbatch has never made it one to this extent for “Sherlock”. Yet TH has interviews everywhere on it! Joining the dots, on this (Emmys) merely one apsect of his career alone he’s making out from his recently raised personal profile on the back of his ‘association’ with TS.
@Dippit it just ocurred to me that how TH would run an Oscar campaign (provided there is one in thr future) who he would date? JLaw? one of the Jenners? katy perry?
I’m not sure re: Oscars but this
http://www.sugarscape.com/celebs/news/a1090945/taylor-swift-is-basically-dating-katy-perry/
adds a whole new enjoyable layer to everything thus far. Click the morph-vid – Loki to Katy Perry.
😀
More name recognition – to most people he’s “the guy who plays Loki.”
The whole thing would have worked better if they didn’t do the usual Swiftian “boyfriend” OTT 1950s high school romance style rollout. And Hiddles, bless him (I mean this in a good way), is a terrible liar.
yes but without the over-the-top display, would he have gotten this much attention? now everyone (well those who celeb gossip) are watching to see the train wreck. it’s got a kanye-esque “what madness will happen next” feel to it.
true about his not lying well and perhaps that does speak to an innately honest character. for an actor, you’d think he’d be more convincing when doling out the b.s.
@mee – I think it would have gotten attention no matter what, just because it’s the union of two very invested fanbases. And I gotta say that this train wreck is much more entertaining than if it were not as OTT. In the end he’ll be fine no matter what, but I’m curious as to how he/his PR will handle his image after this “relationship” is done.
He’s a terrible liar not because he’s innately honest, but because he’s hyper aware that he’s lying. Even he can’t believe in what he’s spewing about his messy personal life.
The central, fundamental lie is that, knowing he’s a celebrity, anyone asks why he’s doing x,y,z. He may be playing the game badly, he may be poorly advised, but they’re all thirsty and they’re all playing.
what type of cell phone shot all the HQ pics of TayTo’s pics with mama hiddles and sister and niece? i need a new cell phone with good camera.
Oh I didn’t realize the Hiddleswift phenomenon was all due to a few cameraphones and some fictitious rumors. I thought it was from the two of them staging daily paparazzi photo-ops and releasing every detail of their dates to E!
He needs to be careful here. He looks bad enough already, but at least he looks like a thirsty but good-natured buffoon. Playing the victim is a big mistake. It’s how his girlfriend wound up at the list of most hated celebrities. He’s not famous enough to get on that list, but he will wind up on my personal list if he keeps it up.
I don’t get the big deal with him. I think women can fawn over these guys and talk about how they find him attractive. But in order for him to really become a name he has to also appeal to other men. I don’t think men will gravitate towards him. And in order for male actors to build that base they have to have male and female fans. He seems to just appeal to some women. I have said this before and to me it is evident. I see lots of men that women like; but they don’t have a male fanbase. He doesn’t. And I don’t see guy saying they want to be like him; or talking about him like they do some other male celebrities. He will need to get them on board if he wants to have the Star Status he obviously does want.
I suppose he appeals to young (maybe also old but immature?), male, comic book nerds, but that appeal may be limited to Loki. I highly doubt any of the fanboys who loved him as Loki and go to every Marvel movie, also then went to ISTL or checked out HR *because* of TH.
Too bad more guys didn’t want to be like him. Politeness is fading quickly in our society.
I don’t think it is about that. It is about that Male appeal that pulls other men to you. He doesn’t have that.
@lisa2 sarahd seems to be a TS fan who’s suddenly become a TH fan. She doesn’t actually seem to be responding to comments but offering up disjointed compliments to TH, TS or both.
@sarahd
You bring up a really good point.
@lisa2
Yeah he doesn’t exude a lot of traditional macho masculinity. Tom does have a boy quality to him, although that might start to change since his looks seem to be maturing. IMO there’s a range of masculine archetypes, from the hyper-macho, rugged man, ie Thor, to the cultivated gentleman at the other end of the spectrum. Obviously we know where Tom is on that spectrum. That is where some of his difficulty comes when he’s trying for the “everyman” archetype roles. Movies tend to always use the universal, everyman archetype because it’s safe. It somewhat appeals to both men and women, or rather, it appeals to a working/middle class identity is a key factor to selling a movie.
Good points, lisa2. The big names usually do have fans beyond the lusty females.
Probably the same problem his friend Cumberbatch has. I don’t see/know any men (not talking about boys, but men) who find him an appealing role model.
lol not a Taylor Swift fan. But I certainly don’t have this passionate dislike for her. I do like Tom HIddleston.
Binged watch The Night Manager, I find his smile takes him out of character and I don’t really find him to be a strong actor.
Seriously ? Personnally, I discovered him as Loki and at first, my interest was for this character. But one friend brought me to look him for his actor’s performance (ok, at the beginning, they just said “He is so sexxxy !!” ^^ and that’s why at the beginning I just saw him with his dance). So I watched his different movies (Only lovers left alive, the deep blue sea, minight in paris, Hig Rise, Crimson Peaks etc…) and I can’t just let you say that he’s not a good actor.
I read a very interesting book to Patrick Palvis ,who is professor on Paris 8 University, and said to define a actor that an actor is a person who is able “to speak and to act either in his own name,but on the name of a character that he pretend to be or to imitate.” and for me Tom Hiddleston is totally respond to that definition.
You allowed to have your opinion of course, but, please, just try to watch his movies thinking that quote. I think that not many actor respond of that criterion. JR Downey, for example, is good in his domain but not respond to this criterion. That why I love Tom Hiddleston as an actor because it’s a rare actor, I think, to be able to show us different character totally different !
Don’t let you his private life obscure your mind ! 😉
Oh come on Thomas! own your fame and woman like a man. if you stop playing coy and hard to get, the paps and gossip will fade away..
Erm, wait….LOL
Ha ha Grace its a delicate balance, trying to sound like your privacy has been invaded, when you staged the invasion in the first place.
He might have got away with the staged pap walks if he hadn’t involved his family.
Tommy boy you can’t put the genie back in the bottle, this is your new reality. Taytay brings heavy pap baggage get used to it.
LOL, surely you mean ‘own your thirst and women’? 😉
Lord, he really really earns all the eye-rolls! He’s knows he’s behaved ridiculously, we know he’s behaved ridiculously, he knows we know he’s behaved ridiculously but he’s still trying to brazen it out with his wordy twisting of the actualité.
The funniest thing is that he doesn’t seem to realise how humourless this breezy denial/dismissal of his ridiculousness makes him look.
Nor does he realize how false it makes him look. Authenticity in all things, right, TH? And yet we’ve seen it in nothing of late.
He’s as authentic as a ‘Nigerian Prince asking to transfer his millions to your bank account’ email.
” I really have such respect for musicians and for singers because they’re so naked.” As someone with multiple degrees in vocal performance, I HATE when people say things like that, implying that singers are NOT musicians. Argh… All those years of theory, ear training, composition etc. certainly make me feel like a musician, thank you very much. Rant over.
I never realized musicians were singers. Not that I didn’t realize all the hard work and training, just thought musicians played instruments and singers sang, or at least that was the first thing that came to mind when I heard those words. Thanks for opening my eyes.
Instrumentalists play instruments. Singers sing. They’re ALL musicians.
My niece is a singer and lists her occupation as “musician.” Her voice is her instrument.
I hear what you’re saying, but having worked with Nashville session players, singers/vocalists are usually identified separately than musicians who play an instrument. It’s simply a different distinction and no disrespect is meant by it.
As someone who both plays piano and sings, I don’t know how anyone does both equally well at the same time. I can’t play or sing as well as I do when I can focus on just one or the other. Mad respect for the Elton Johns and Billy Joel’s of the world that can!
He must have borrowed a victim card from TS’s deck because he is playing it hard.
“Every phone has a camera,” i.d., we were unfairly thrust into the spotlight because of our fame.
“There are a lot of stories out there which are false,” i.d., the unfair press and general public won’t allow us to tell *our true* story; it’s so frustrating.
“The hardest thing is to not let the falsehoods affect your mind,” i.d., I’m really struggling not to let all this hate and unfair mockery affect my totally, 100% authentic self.
It’s like she whispered in his ear: just play the victim, everyone loves and believes a victim.
The reason I like Tom Hiddleston is because he’s is well educated, polite, entertainng and seems like a truly nice person. I’d say good catch Taylor. I think he made a mistake about promoting this relaionship in such a public way and is now trying to draw less attention to it by not really talking about it. Maybe lesson learned. But it still doesn’t change how I feel about him. In fact, I only learned of him because of it. Nice guy, passionate about his work, knows how to let loose and have fun, always the gentleman. I value those things. I wish he hadn’t went down this public road with such gusto, but it doesn’t negate all his other great qualities, or do I see the deed so bad that I can’t move on from it.
@SARAHD I agree with you. Never heard of him until reading CB and never paid any attention to him until TS. He seems like a nice guy who’s still a gentleman but doesn’t take himself too seriously. I think he is running “the show” now, too, because they’ve seemed to throttle back a bit on the open displays. I don’t know why I think Taylor is in LA with him and her IG pics/videos are to make us think otherwise. I like them as a couple and see them in for the long haul.
I’m 99% certain Taylor flew out to see him yesterday. Had he not insisted that she keep a low profile due to his Emmy campaigning, we would have had a pap walk.
She dying to let people know they’re still together, but he’s realized she’s poisen to his campaign. He’s calling the shots now.
I believe they are together here in LA too. Proof they can hide if they want to. The mutual follow me on IG completely appeases her fan base. We can’t have Teen Vogue IDing signs of a breakup.
If he wants another serious acting job (and it sounds like one is out there but not confirmed) he needs to prove he can dial it way down.
So photos and they are together, no photos and it is proof they are together and if they keep seeing one another he will be unemployed forever?
Spidey, my point is that her plane was tracked to Burbank when his media gigs were done. I think it’s safe to assume they were grabbing a little time together before he needs to fly back to Australia.
Now that he’s campaigning, he won’t be participating in her usual pap walking routine. He’s ok with the additional media attention because of her, but doesn’t want any publicity stunts to derail what positive press he’s gotten this weekend.
I too think they are simply laying low as he’s donning his “serious actor” image this weekend.
I won’t be surprised is there’s a more deliberate confirmation of their togetherness in the coming week…
“Nice guy, passionate about his work, knows how to let loose and have fun, always the gentleman. ”
but also pretentious and inauthentic and super thirsty
but never mind, if he can deliver good work and his image as TayTay’s boy toy wades, i can still watch him, case in point: Jake Gyllenhaal
Ever been at an interview trying to sell yourself? He’s not doing anything different than most do trying to promote themselves.
So super thirsty is what we call ambitious actors. Remember Hollywood has an age barrier, and at a very mature looking 35, he’s already passing the cutoff. I would have advised him differently, but still, in this business it’s just as much of a risk to do too little and wait as it is to overshoot and have unflattering PR exposure.
Everyone throw up all the very famous actors to measure TH by. What about all the actors that got pretty far up like Hiddles or higher and then disappeared or went back to theater. The one shot wonders. Actors you would have figured to see more of cause they had all the right requirements like looks, likability, youth, some talent? Point is, thirsty or not, this business goes through actors like a machete.
Her plane flew to LA late Friday night, then flew back to RI Sat. afternoon. Why fly all that way but not stay Sunday to have more time with him before he leaves? Swifties say she was in RI and sent the plane to pick him up, but the plane hasn’t flown him back today to catch a flight out of LAX. Swifties seem to think he’ll leave out of NYC or will leave later in the week. We will see.
So we believe it´s real relationship again then? 😉
And Swifties are Stalkers squad #1, my God, it´s so creepy.
If Tom was telling the truth that he was supposed to leave for Oz on Sunday, then it’s possible that she joined him on Friday night and they booked a private plane to fly back together, just like they flew back privately from Oz to LA two weeks after he arrived there in July.
Her plane could have returned to RI for someone else to use.
@Bonzi, “if Tom was telling the truth” is an interesting question. If he doesn’t get on a plane soon, it won’t have been the first time he fibbed about going back to Oz right away. Didn’t he say at ComicCon he had to get back ASAP, or something to that effect? Then he stayed in the states another week and a half before flying back.
it’s little funny, it’s like swifties are FBI ^^
Dara, I put that phrase in for that very reason, since he’s stretched the truth before.
Tho’ I see on Twitter that he was spotted yesterday leaving LA via a private jet, so it appears that this time he may have be completely truthful about WHEN he was leaving, at least.
The private jet makes me wonder if he was going straight to Oz, however…
Do we still need to feel empathy for the naked musical performer if they made $170M last year?
Feeling no empathy, or feeling a strong dislike, is there a difference? The overpaid in our society, that’s may be a reason to dislike someone and a different reason than the ones explained in conversations I’ve read lately. Now that’s a bandwagon I could jump on to.
Bless his sweet articulate self, he should have spoken some Greek and Latin just for fun and more authenticity. Is he going to submit his rear of the year episode? Golly gosh, I hope so, jolly good old sport and all.
Still, they make a lovely couple.
I’m out celeb hunting with my camera phone tomorrow now that the truth has finally been revealed. So excited!
I saw Maggie Smith in a Sainsbury local the other day.
My phone stayed firmly in my bag.
I’m rubbish at this pap lark.
I can just imagine her reaction if you had pointed it at her. 😆
I think I’d be removing it from a certain orifice.
Haha, you might well. I can’t imagine Maggie suffering fools (not saying you are one!) gladly.
I’ve seen a graph comparison of SM traffic comparing TH, CE, CH, and BC over the last few years. Usual ups and downs depending on movie releases with Tom in the lo-middle range until 2016 when he just sky rocketed above the others, surely due to their summer pr tour. He’s timed the chatter (IG) with interviews promoting himself and projects. Mission accomplished. I think they’ve gone quiet lately due to over emphasis on TS and the need to refocus on His work; but I’m under no illusion it’s over. He needs to keep us
Interested and commenting until SI opens.
He knows if he’s attending the Emmys or not; just wants us to keep wondering and chattering to increase traffic. Will she go to Oz? Get engaged? Depends on how it fits into pr plan.
What’s SM?
Social media?
Ahhh… that makes sense.
Like I said he can blame this on his publicist boyfriend, it looked so staged from the beginning, and they already split but have not announced yet, because the stunt has backfired, and Swifty would have none of it.
Just binged watched The Night Manager last night, there were times when he flashed his yellowish grin at inappropriate times, like he knows how cute he is. He is not James Bond material. Too squirrelly of a persona and weak eyebrows.
And what exactly is wrong with a squirrel persona? It has served me well!
Olivia Coleman is a bit like Morrocco Mole, now I come to think about it.
@ daisy Yellowish??????
…weak eyebrows? Are you sure you watched the right show??
The eyebrows are like a field of wild thistles!
Nothing weak about that!
I like his eyebrows.
I need to know what phone it is that takes pictures that well.
If i get that one then I won’t have to spend $100s on a camera for my first legit vacation.
Hope you’re going somewhere nice.
It’s called the ‘PRrungPaps NoteOurLoveBook101’ – its resolution is “authentically” worth “committing” to for the $s.
This awkward adjustment phase is uncomfortable.
Wish we could jump ahead 5 years to where they’re already married, have a kid or two and are being the same but we’re used to it by then so it’s ok.
I need downtime from all this.
Agreed. My post regarding the SM comparison and pr angle is basically me trying to talk some sense into myself so I’m not drawn towards the rabbit hole again of trying to understand, caring, and being gullible. This is high stakes business and a big gamble for him and it’s not over. Gonna let go of all the tracking; it just feeds the beast.
To me he is a co-star rather than a lead. Even in the Night Manager, it was Hugh Laurie that stole the show. Hiddleston doesn’t really have the strong presence of a male lead. He blends in, yes, but doesn’t really stand out. Throughout the Night Manager I was always waiting for that big turning point or something, yet there was nothing spectacular.
I can’t imagine him as Bond or any similar character.
Watching the video of the Facebook live interview, what struck me was how unprepared Tom was for the question about his high profile summer. Luke is really showing how much he lacks in doing serious, Hollywood-level PR. A publicist worth their weight in salt would have rehearsed a number of potential questions like this ahead of time with Tom so it wouldn’t have sounded like he was stumbling through and speaking off the top of his head. Tom doesn’t think on his feet very well and Luke should have had him better prepared so he didn’t sound so word salad-y.
maybe they prepared but Tom choked? bcoz u know why.. hehe
Why?
Tom can’t understand, and apparently no one can get through to him, why anyone thinks his relationship is just for PR even though the rollout was so public and OTT from the start. As Kaiser aptly said, he found it easy to live inside Taylor’s bubble. And he is still inside it, but the voices from the outside are getting louder.
Serious question, as I don’t know what is going on really:
If it is just for PR then he has been daft and he will have to manage the “get out” carefully, if (I know stay with me) it isn’t for PR and he really likes her why should he take any notice of the voices from outside?
Because it is TH we are talking about. He always listens to the voices. Whether it is real or a showmance you can count on him and his PR folks to be listening. 🙂
Is that the voices “in his head” or the voices on t’internet? 🙂
“you can count on him and his PR folks to be listening.”
@Chef Grace
I can’t agree with that. If TH always listens to the voices and follows their wishes (demands), then he’d be using spf 50 sun block everyday starting three years ago.
🙂
@ Cranberry – and wearing a wig! 😆
@WhattheHell
I mostly agree. He’s not gotten a lot of A-grade HW PR training. I don’t know exactly how much of a difference that would have made cause part of Tom’s appeal is that he’s not completely HW PR trained. See the conundrum? He’s too wordy, and doesn’t speak culturally like you’d expect from a mainstream celebrity. This is an interesting cultural exchange that’s not the same ol-same ol quick tongue, come bake, with all the right pop culture references. Yet, he gets through and actually does alright in the end despite this mix bag treats.
A good publicist understands their client professionally, culturally, and personally so they can seamlessly fit them into the public landscape and support them along the way. That is very difficult to find. Usually they’re just assigned to the client by the management agency. I think Tom sticks with Luke cause they’re friends and he knows Luke understands him. There’s no cultural misunderstandings or constant re-phrasing. He’s got a short hand with Luke and a system that they’ve built over the years. But Luke may not have the skill or connections at this level for US mainstream PR, and there seems to be a miss between Tom’s UK and US pr folks. That’s my guess.
I was a Cumberbatch fan and then that entire weirdness with getting his fling pregnant and marrying her happened and he lost me. Now, Hiddles and Taylor—he lost me also. He has become too much of a try hard. It is grating. I only have Fassbender now. Surely he and Vikander will end it soon—they always appear “just not into” each other.
But if you say that, we can ask you why did you fan of Hiddleston ? ( or Swift ?). For us as a personn or for the artist ?
Anyone think too that the couple TH and TS look like (a little, in gender) Vanessa Paradis and Johny Depp (because there is an actor and a singer) ^^ ?
It’s a sad, sad world in which this man is deemed one of the sexiest we’ve got.
Pictures of him and all the luggage plus a floral shopping bag boarding a private plane taken in Los Angeles area yesterday
She sent the jet & he got the baggage this means they fly together to OZ or it just contract conjugal visit
It was Saturday. Her jet took off from Burbank to RI then. And those are very good HD pics for a (*cough*) camera phone. Wonder why it took two days to release them. Did they need time to set up more Nicholas Sparks pics? The water slide is still up; maybe more TayAmerica with new T-shirt?
Good ole’ Torrilla has the pictures. I always figured she got Tom photos first via Luke somehow. Must be Luke’s reward to Taylor for staying away – we’ll show them Tom heading to you Tay. Pretty enticing stuff to have your significant other send the car and the plane for you. That would be easy to get used to. Pap walk soon?
I can’t find the video (granted I didn’t look that long) but I swear he did a red carpet interview somewhere where he got asked if he had a chef. His response was no, and he even jokingly asked the interviewer something like “how do you think I live?” Because the idea of him having a chef was ridiculous.
Sigh.
@Browniecakes: STOP GIVING HER IDEAS.
Wouldn’t it be fun if he skipped RI and got the pilot to take him home to London. He could do a load of wash and change outta those boots. I picture Tay with her hand over her eyes in her pinafore looking into the clouds for her plane.
@InvaderTak
I remember that. It was funny. It’d be hard to find cause it was off someone’s phone that was recording him being questioned by media people. He was asked if he had a personal chef, and he looked at her with a half offended and half perplexed expression and said “Personal Chef! Who do you think I am? “. That was the only time I can remember seeing him be affronted by anyone. Of course he was still polite to the interviewer, but I it was a rare and funny exchange.
Someone posted the link here on CB. That’s where I found it and made a comment. It was back during TNM promoting (in LA ?) at a Q/A that he and Susan Baer were at.
side note: This incident and other things he’s said in the past has always made me think that all the private jets and livin-on-high with TS is just a passing thang for him. A perk. I don’t think it’s what motivated him into Hiddleswift. I’m sure it’s very much appreciated since he travels so much though, and hey, at least he’s getting something out of this mess.
@InvaderTak I remember that interview too and i joked with my friend that if he would answer differently post Tiddles. BTW, does TayTay hire any private chef?
and different from what @cranberry thinks, I don’t think all the high life assocaited with TayTay is a passing for him. He seems quickly used to such high life. Some wise CBer once commented that TH, being wealthy since birth himself, he seeks sense of “previllage”, private jet, body guard, hang out with young models, Selena Gomez concert…oh wait…
If I believe the Swifties that say her plane arrived in LA on Friday and left on Saturday AND I believe the internet that says these pics of him leaving LA were from Sunday, then it appears as though she flew in for a conjugal visit before he left again.
It also appears that if he left yesterday but pictures weren’t released until this afternoon that the paps were tipped off as to when & where he was leaving from.
Still wondering why he’d be flying a private jet if he’s indeed going straight back to Oz…
Tom is apparently in RI, if the Tumblr meltdown is to be believed. (It actually has been fairly accurate thus far).
This surely isn’t a surprise as he’s going to be shooting in Oz until November (with a possible Emmy break).
So they’re dating, contract or no. (I don’t believe there’s a legal docment).
If she was going for non-clingy, it was an epic fail- it’s still her plane. Nice try, though.
He’s just being a twat right now. He’ll get over it once he finds out who she is. (Isn’t this the guy who said he values “decency and kindness” in a woman?!) Um, no, Tom. Not this one.
I’m now predicting something far worse than a papwalk…gasp…IG coupley photos. On her account.
😨😵😳
I would LOVE to be wrong.
Pics were probably on a 48hr agency hold. Neither of her planes flew Sunday, only Sat from Burbank to RI. PaPs do not hang out Burbank airport- they were called. Im assuming pics were taken as a way to let the world know they’re still together? No internet meltdown overshadowing Emmy voting (15-29)? Who know anymore with these two….
Ewww, Bonzo, they don’t have sex. It’s too icky.
And it would scar the cats for life.
Backing up @MI6 here.
They can’t be having sex. There’s just no way that’s possible. Not even in alternate realities are they having sex. The universe would explode. Again.
According to one IG account he boarded her plane on SAT.:
https://instagram.com/p/BJJWAjzB5PM/
This would make sence.Someone here wrote that her plane landed in LA on FRI night and flew back to RI on SAT afternoon. So is he there with her? With all his luggage? How will he go from RI/NY to OZ and when?
He’s not ageing well. He used to look so cute in Wallander. 🙁
Yeah. I think it’s mostly due to sun damage. Sure genes and stress can also be at work, but I thing sun and all the jogging in the sun that’s breaking down his collagen. Running tends to do that too so he’s getting a double hit with all the sun and running. Someone needs to tell his manager or someone and get some supplements or eating quality gelatin. Bone broth is an excellent source of collagen. Then hopefully several skin peels might bring back the youthful glow he used to have. If he’s willing to do this Tay-ship deal then he ought to start getting with the HW never age regimen.
This is in accord with my commented up thread about the lack of HW level, B-grade handling he’s getting from his publicist or management.
Sand blaster. It’s his only hope.
His skin is not rough. It’s just uneven with sun damage.
I’ll believe he’s in Australia when there’s picture proof. Otherwise, I’m holding firm that he’s not taking the scenic route back via TayForce One. That’s why he was on a private plane instead of his usual commercial flight.
They’re roasting him over an open fire over at DListed.
@MI6 now that TayTo united in RI, we in the Camp Yes may still be right about the pap walk;)
Is he moving into TayTay’s RI mansion with all the luggage?
But most importantly, to my great joy, TayTo is still going strong^_^ Now when is the PROPOSAL?
I don’t follow Tumblr blogs, but I just took a peek at Twitter and they are certifiably losing their sh!t over there. They’re mad Tom nodded his head when the SAG interviewer say he would be in Oz in 48 hours when it appears TayTay picked him up in her plane to bring him to RI.
I demand mock-worthy pictures on Insta, damn nit!
Perhaps he changed his mind?
So TH boards TS private jet in LA (probably Sat. afternoon) alone but TS steps out of the plane on RI in the evening alone.
Explain that, Mr. Holmes 😀
https://instagram.com/p/BJJWAjzB5PM/
https://instagram.com/p/BJJ7eCCBFdJ/
She has 2 jets, right?
Or TH really boarded on Sun. , not on Sat. as Swiftie stalkers presumed or I don´t know what this is 😀
Did he jump out during the flight? Is that a parachute he´s having in the bag all the time?
😀
Can’t be true – it isn’t all over the Daily Fail. 😆
Damn, spoke too soon 🙂
Daily Fail or it didn’t happen?