Idris Elba ‘danced with Taylor Swift at the Met Gala,’ just like Hiddles

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Here are some photos of Idris Elba in London on Sunday, attending a “pop-up store opening” for Superdry, the British clothing label. Idris has joined forces with Superdry to create several lines of menswear and the combination is doing pretty well, I think. I mean, what man wouldn’t buy a pair of trousers if Idris Elba said “you’ll look good in these”? To promote the collaboration, Idris also did Us Weekly’s “25 Things You Don’t Know About…” feature. I loved this. Idris says that he danced with Taylor Swift at the Met Gala too! Wow, Taylor danced with Idris AND Tom Hiddleston and… Hiddles was the one she chose?!?

1. On any given day, I’d take a sweat suit over a custom-made suit.
2. I danced with Taylor Swift at the Met Gala, and Anna Wintour a couple of times, too.
3. Most embarrassing moment: I once wore my radio mic to the toilet, and I had a really bad stomach.
4. I met my first girlfriend at the age of 11. She was lovely. She wouldn’t let me kiss her, though.
5. I want to do comedy because I’m hilarious!
6. My favorite song of all time is “Darling I Need Your Loving” by an old reggae guy called John Holt.
7. I like to snack on pistachios.
8. I wear the leather jacket from my Superdry clothing line all the time, even in the summer.
9. I prefer phone calls over text messages. Texts can get misinterpreted. On a phone call, you can say, “Well, what do you mean by that?”
10. But when I’m texting, my favorite emojis are the pound fist and the 100.
11. I deejay. I’ll shamelessly plug that I just dropped a record of my own called “Spectacle,” which I edited.
12. When I was 8 years old, I deejayed for my mom’s and dad’s birthday parties and house parties. I felt like a big man.
13. My favorite thing about being a father [of daughter Isan, 14, and son Winston, 2] is seeing them absorb something I taught them. I love having that influence.
14. When I’m at the bar, I choose rum and Coke. It’s refreshing and doesn’t really get you wasted.
15. I want to work with Denzel Washington one day. He’s a hero of mine.
16. On a cheat day, I’d have cheesecake with dulce de leche ice cream and whipped cream.
17. My celebrity crush is Meryl Streep. When I met her, my tongue swelled up in my mouth!
18. The weirdest gift a fan gave me was a papier-mâché box.
19. The first thing I pack when I’m traveling is my flip-flops.
20. I’m a bit self-conscious about my feet. They’re not pretty, but I like them being out.
21. In women, my favorite qualities are patience and understanding.
22. My specialty in the kitchen is steak and hard-poached eggs. I season the steak up!
23. My favorite place to shoot is Africa. I love Africa.
24. If I were an animal, I’d be a lion: I protect my family. I like to chill out in the grass all day, man. Looking good with my long hair.
25. My biggest pet peeves in people are impatience, intolerance and rudeness. There’s no point. No need.

[From Us Weekly]

I only just realized at this moment that Idris has never worked with Denzel. What’s up with that??? Idris and Denzel really need to be in a movie together. He should also do more comedic work because he IS funny. In interviews, he’s very charming but he’s got a dry, wicked sense of humor. Let’s see… I also love pistachios and I also prefer speaking to someone rather than texting. His favorite qualities for women… “patience and understanding.” Why does that sound filthy to me? Is it because I have a dirty mind or because everything Idris says is filthy? Like, imagine him saying “patience…” softly. *fans self*

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  1. Jane says:

    The man could read a phone book and I would still drool over his voice. No comment about dancing with Tay-Tay.

  2. lilacflowers says:

    I love dulce de leche ice cream too! And rum and coke! Today is a perfect day to listen to old reggae songs! And I like lions too! Here here, Idris! Over here!

    • LadyMTL says:

      I don’t care for rum and coke but I love dulce de leche anything, and I’ve been to Africa too! (Seen lions in the flesh, even). Can we share the Idris love? 😛

    • BTownGirl says:

      And here too hahaha!! I’ll take the fact that he loves cheesecake as a sign that it’s meant to be.

  3. Gugu says:

    Idris’ tongue! *gulp* Lawd, the animal magnetism of this man…

  4. Becky says:

    I’d love to see Idris and Denzel work together too, that would be one sexy collaboration.

    As for the Met Gala info, there obviously wasn’t a camera phone handy

    • Loopy says:

      Well they were in American Gangster together, maybe he means more extensively.

      • V4Real says:

        I was just about to say they worked together in AG where Denzel’s character blew his brains out. But they didn’t have much screen time together in that film.

  5. kittTEl says:

    TS auditioned ibris as the role of her birthday before TH!

    Imagine how different the summer would have been!

  6. SM says:

    Swifty sanced with them both and chose Tommy. Why?!! I am sure because Idris was not on the menu.

    • Dippit says:

      Exactly – Idris Elba has too much self-respect and doesn’t need the PR of a fake romance. He just needs to be Idris Elba.

      • abbie normal says:

        + 1,000

      • Justjj says:

        He’s so sexy. Got. Dayum. But yes, he seems to me like he would have zero interest in a tweeny cat loving country turned pop star and his career certainly would never need that. Can’t see him going for her ever happening in a million years.

  7. Moxie Remon says:

    Thank God she chose Hiddles over him, but I don’t see him even turning his head to look at her anyway.

  8. kittTEl says:

    I guess the point is TS gets along with grasp TH’s friend.

    But the narrative is they are all laughing at him behind his back.

    Or doing both.

  9. kibbles says:

    Taylor is not his type at all. Look at his on-off girlfriend. She is curvy and sexy – everything that Taylor is not! Also, even though Taylor might have a one night stand with Idris if the option were open to her, you know her dream husband is someone as vanilla and boring as she is. I really think she and Hiddleston are a good match. Both are attractive in a very plain and unsexy way. Idris should be with a woman who is as sexy as he.

  10. Sixer says:

    He is a total ego maniac, isn’t he? Still, all is forgiven because he is the world’s hottest man. Although not this week because it’s ‘lympics and David Rudisha, my boo of all boos, has won another gold medal. David is the world’s hottest man this week. Someone buy me David Rudisha.

    IDRIS! You did NOT dance with Taylor Swift LIKE Tommy-omelette did. You made it look halfway decent and I will not hear otherwise.

    • spidey says:

      @ Sixer “He is a total ego maniac, isn’t he?” Glad I’m not the only one.
      But then we are all entitled to our opinions.

      • Sixer says:

        I think we can safely say that the person most beloved by Idris is Idris. But at least he doesn’t hide it. And is the world’s hottest man.

      • spidey says:

        Now that is where we diverge, I don’t find him hot at all. Shrugs.

    • BritAfrica says:

      ‘He is a total ego maniac, isn’t he?’ IKR?? Shamelessly too.

      ‘I’ll be a lion…..looking good with my long hair’. Honestly, chilling out and looking good whilst doing it. My brothers to a T. Everything’s gonna look coooool man. Typical African man!

      • Original T.C. says:

        I love the African Lioness. Beautiful, powerful and will cut a bitch for going after her cubs including the African Lion! LOL

      • Sixer says:

        LOL @ your brothers! I hope you take them down a peg or two!

      • BritAfrica says:

        Oh I try….but it’s very difficult to tell a black guy that…..’Bruv, you don’t look cool, you just look ridiculous’. They never believe you!

    • WhoCan'tHandleTheTruth says:

      His vibe actually reminds me a lot of my husband. Maybe it’s the international flavor; my husband is from Africa and I find that Idris has a very pan-African vibe. Also the same body type. (Full disclosure, I find my hubs far hotter!)

    • Dani says:

      He’s so full of shit/himself. And scummy to all of the women he’s ever had in his life. He’s so sexy but seriously…boner killer shitty attitude.

    • PaschaP says:

      He’s totally full of himself, but the Elba sure seems to know what he’s doing on he dance floor.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEVIBan3D6I (see 0:45 into the video)

      Now I’m wondering what a dance-off would look like between Hiddleswift and Idris. Not sure who should be Elba’s dance partner though…

  11. Monica Bennerman says:

    American Gangster. Idris and Denzel had two small scenes together.

    • BritAfrica says:

      I remember that! When he was banging on about having Chicken wings? at his funeral when he dies.

  12. saltandpepper says:

    Smouldering man and actor!

  13. Lbliss says:

    Swoon to every single one of those answers. Can this man get any hotter?

  14. Amaria says:

    To think we could have Swidris instead of Tiddles. It could possibly make Taylor actually seem cool.

    • Tash says:

      I know! It would actually make me stop and think ‘hey, maybe there is something more to her. Maybe she is not actually a perpetual 13-year-old.’
      Also, #25 -> AMEN!

    • I Choose Me says:

      A pox on thought. Pox I say. I just can’t see it. I mean she’s Taylor and he’s IDRIS. I doubt he could put up with her nonsense the way Tom seems willing to do.

    • susiecue says:

      If Taytay and Idris were a couple, it would make me ALL-CAPS MAD. I would only hate her more!

    • Fritanga says:

      As if Elba would have even considered bring TayTay’s contracted “boyfriend.” He doesn’t need that sort of thirsty, obvious PR. He also needs an actual woman, not an overgrown 15-year-old.

  15. Artemis says:

    People acting here like Elba would be the one refusing to date/hook-up with Swift when nothing in her past suggests he would be her type anyway. Even is she did want to to go there, I’m pretty sure her brand/image would not allow it, her fans would go NUTS.

    She reminds me off all the coming-of-age books I read when I was young and it was always white people falling in love and her fans can relate to that type of love. I don’t think Swift’s love stories would ever include a black man, let alone one that is almost 20 years older and has been labelled ‘rough’, ‘tough’, very masculine etc…Taylor picks men like Gyllenhaal and Tom who still have that boyish/earnest/cute quality going on or just dates straight up boys like Styles.

    Idris never dates famous women anyway. He cheats and hooks up with them (K. Michelle, rumoured also with Naomi) but dates regular women in public.

  16. Prairiegirl says:

    I just pictured Idris in that ‘I heart TS’ tank top and now I need brain bleach.

    Rum and Coke all the way, baby!

  17. ana says:

    My goodness I love this man. I would have his rum & coke ready for him when he gets home right next to his steak and the dulce de leche

  18. K says:

    He is just so charming and enduring. Not going to lie there were several place in this my mind went to some very dirty places and I’m ok with it.

    God I love him.

  19. Elle says:

    “My favorite thing about being a father … is seeing them absorb something I taught them. I love having that influence.” – Translation: The greatest thing about my kids is that they remind me of me!

    “In women, my favorite qualities are patience and understanding.” – Translation: I mess up. A lot.

    I have never found Idris attractive and I always wondered why. Maybe my spidey sense is better than I thought.

    • spidey says:

      Haha, it must be catching!!

      I did wonder how much Idris had seen of his daughter over the years.

    • I Choose Me says:

      Oh for sure, he has a huge ego and doesn’t seem the settling down type. He’s the type you have a dirty, torrid, sweaty fling with.

  20. MrsClincy says:

    Personally I prefer goose and cranberry but I can live with run and coke. He reminds me of my husband completely full of himself but you learn to deal with it. I’m just lucky my husband understands and respects my love for all things Idris he even lets me know when a movie is coming on with that Elba guy I think is hot.

  21. holly hobby says:

    Love this interview! I’m glad he kept his self respect and didn’t sell out the Missy!

  22. jferber says:

    I’m swooning over Idris Alba’s pictures. No need to read the article. Thoughts of him both calm and inflame me. All of America could use some Idris Alba therapy right about now. Does he not have some words of comfort or hope for us now? I’d settle for a whole bunch of semi-nude photos.

  23. Trixie says:

    I don’t find his “patience and understanding” answer to be sexy. It sounds more like he wants to be a cheater and wants his lady to be “patience and understand” his cheating ways.

  24. he would have WRECKED taylor and she would have lost her mind and been TOO cool for school

    LOL!!!

    Anyways…. taylor kinda sees people of color as pets or exotic creatures and or ornaments in her life (remember the her petting the weeknd’s hair and her strategic planning/placement of black girlfrannns in her lameass SKWAD)….Idris is too aware for allofDAT