It has reportedly been three weeks since Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift saw each other face-to-face. That was in mid-August, when Taylor’s private plane collected Tom from LA and flew him out to Rhode Island, for a weekend full of chaperoned dates with her parents. Tom then flew back out to Australia for Thor: Ragnarok, which is where he’s been ever since. While there are many theories that Taylor and Tom will Tiddlebang their way down the Emmy red carpet two weeks from now, some sources say “NOT SO FAST!”
Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston were inseparable for weeks after going public with their romance, but it’s said to have cooled down dramatically with the couple allegedly entering “crisis mode”.
While they’ve met the parents and been flaunting their love around the globe, Night Manager star Tom is said to have put his foot down over their relationship.
“Tom can’t deal with being a laughing stock and has told Taylor he’s done unless there’s a 360-degree change on her part,” a source told Radar Online. “It’s become a total charade and Tom is sick of being treated like a glorified escort.”
Tom, 35, who literally wore his heart on his sleeve in a ‘I heart T.S.’ shirt during her Fourth of July celebrations, but is now said to be at breaking point and is keen to prove that their relationship isn’t a joke.
“Tom is just done with it,” the insider told the website.
The source claimed that they think the days are numbered for the couple, who have put on such a strong front in public.
Yeah, the source for this is Radar, not People Magazine, E! News or Us Weekly. Which means it’s questionable. But isn’t it also questionable that Tiddles has only spent one weekend together in more than a month? Why haven’t outlets run stories about how it’s more than possible that there is a “cooling off” in Tiddlesworld? I also find it believable that the more time Tom spends outside of Taylor’s universe, the more he realizes that the Tiddlebanging likely hurt his image.
He also played charades on Twitter a few days ago:
Ok @josierourke! @DonmarWarehouse #charadespeare. I challenge @hadleyfraser. #YoungAndFree: https://t.co/AlwoIHyn7u pic.twitter.com/KPQ5cGWscv
— Tom Hiddleston (@twhiddleston) September 2, 2016
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Summer flings end quickly.
I wouldn’t say glorified, but hey.
+1!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Does Taylor employ a) a dresser and b) a torturer, who, between them, forced LEGS into that t-shirt? If so, may I please borrow them so that I can force Sixlet Minor to change the jeans he has had on for at least a week? (School starts tomorrow, so apparently it’s not worth changing your clothes JUST FOR ONE DAY. I despair.)
She has the body guards Frisky and Tabby and apparently a stylist who accompanies her at all times so I think we could have them give a “talking to” with Sixlet Minor. But Tom seems to wear the same pants for days on end too so they might not be too successful.
Tomorrow’s moan will be this: WHY IS YOUR BRAND NEW BLAZER SCREWED UP INTO A BALL AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR BAG?
Even LEGS doesn’t do that, one hopes. It’s my own fault for providing such a scruffbag example. But at least I am a CLEAN scruffbag, which is more than I can say for Sixlet Minor.
I hope these two don’t go in for complaining that the other one wasn’t doing it right during the inevitable split. I think they should let Tiddles fade gradually into oblivion. It’s not as though anyone much believed it in anyway. Half the onlookers were in it purely for the lolz and the other half were dying inside and waiting patiently for it to go the heck away.
My wardrobe is piled atop various chairs throughout the house at the moment, so I’m as one with the culprit whose blazer is rolled up into a ball.
I’m not sure this thing is really over, although I wish it were because I cannot stand her. Just because they haven’t been papped together in three weeks indicates nothing. The guy is working in Australia, which makes popping out for handholding in chain restaurants across the North American continent rather difficult.
But whatever. I’m sure LEGS will always find a way to entertain us. That charades video has had me giggling for days. Someone needs to develop a one-act, one man play for him in which he plays a circus animal tamer and all the animals. Or a version of Animal Farm in which he plays all the characters.
Sixer, if Minor is anything like my brother at that age, they’re rebelling and turning into scruffs. As soon as they want any female attention they’ll pull their act together.
Lilac – I think it’s over but, because I am in it for the lolz, I hope it’s not. Sorry! Although… caveat: if it’s on the downlow, it can be over. I’m only interested in the funny – and public – stuff.
Becky – that’s the one. I think we are coming towards the end of the absence of personal hygiene phase and waiting for the but nobody has ever been in love like I am phase. Major had a girlfriend but it all ended in outrage over whether or not to share social media passwords. He’s gone off the idea of romance now.
@Sixer, I think it is slowly slowing down to over because months apart on the other side of the world gives one the chance to realize “what the hell was I doing,” especially when one has Chris Hemsworth around to say “what the hell were you doing, mate?”
As for the personal hygiene of young males, there has to be a phase somewhere between absence of personal hygiene and the nobody has ever been in love like I am so I am going to spend every free moment in the shower thus depriving all other family members access to said shower and the toilet to boot phase.
Becky is super right. It’s just a small rebellion. I was so over the education system that sometimes my clothes were inside out. It shall pass.
A wise guidance made me director of scenery in the theatre department, and I recruited all my rude friends. We left the back door open for “air”, smoking, that is- and our sets were Fahhbulous. Sometimes students need a different education.
Can’t you steal his jeans while he is asleep?
Sixer, I have a tween boy who after 4 days of camping, I had to insist that he change his underwear this morning and who, we get home, will happily forfeit his weekly bathing for another 30 minutes of Minecraft.
I think Tiddlesbanging has been suspended out of necessity due to his work and that the days are numbered because it’s got such an unstable foundation. If making a public spectacle of themselves is no longer a part of the PR plan, than the sooner they put out this fire, the better. TIDDLES is only good for laughs.
He should come here and fester with the Sixlets. How did we get such filthy little Herberts? I mean, I don’t approve of obsessiveness about one’s appearance, but basic hygiene is desirable, is it not?
I think suspended also. I think there will be various delays on starting it up again to the point where it doesn’t start up again.
It is all a vast Marvel conspiracy! First, getting him to sign that multi-picture contract all those years ago and waiting, just waiting, for something like this to develop before sending him off to Australia for five months. Australia! And then next, Marvel will send him packing off to Georgia where he’ll be on lockdown because they don’t seem to want anyone to know exactly which actors are appearing in that Infinity War thing and they’ll release him only in time for Legendary to send him out promoting the Monkey Island movie all over the world and maybe do some theater stuff back in London, oh so far away, only to pull him back in for SDCC and that two year Disney thing in August, then off to China or Korea or somewhere to promote Ragnorak. Feige will just not let go. She’ll just have to find somebody else to hold her hand and wear her silly t-shirts. Is MacAvoy still free? Rupert Grint? Tom Felton?
I just know that if I send my boy off for a week of camp, he will come back wearing exactly what I sent him in. My practical side applauds his simplicity tho’ I fear the girls may nickname him Pigpen.
I too think they will weather the separations and low enthusiasm seasons for the red carpet events coming up. They both do love the limelight so very much. At some point in the not-to-distant future, they will quietly call it quits when the law of diminishing returns goes into effect. We’ll know when her people put out one of their prefabricated breakup statements that they keep in draft form in Outlook.
Once I “babysat’ my 2 teenage nephews and I had to bribe them with Chinese food to shower after 3 days.
Then I had to air out the entire second floor.
I love boys 😆
Oh, lilac flowers, not McAvoy! He’s my fun little imaginary brother- don’t break up my fambly!
Weeellll…. he couldn’t dump her in the immediate aftermath of Kimye’s-receipts-gate without letting the world blatantly know this was a PR thing that had exploded in his face.
I agree. This is right on schedule. A slow “drifting” apart, hints that distance and media intrusion are to blame. She will be at the Emmys but I expect a statement a few weeks after.
Have Gossip Cop refuted this yet? They jumped in to deny some clickbait article that no-one noticed.
Gossip Cop didn’t touch the TnT first fight story either. I think TnT will end when she starts working. He likes the fame. Following up 1989 is going to be a toughie for her – she won’t have time for him.
I think it exploded in all of our faces! We laughed. He cried in the privacy of the toilet on Taylor’s private jet.
No Build-a-Bear for me. No more paper knickers. No more suede shoes on the beach. No more throat-baring. It’ll be back to the Hallmark archive of inspirational quotations and the private is sacred balderdash if something Hallmark doesn’t immediately spring to mind.
SIGH. I so wanted Build-a-Bear.
But y’know. He might be chalking this up as a win. Exponentially increased name recognition in return for a bit of tarnishing of the classy thespian image. And it’s not as though the classy thespian image was even winning over all-comers when he was working it, is it?
Oh, I do believe there will be more paper knickers in our future. That photoshoot happened before he ever met her. As did the suede shoes, whose appearance back in March was heralded as a change from the cowboy boots. Silly things and balderdash will happen again, but maybe just not with the spoiled brat.
And the Charadespeare is quite amusing. Perhaps he is sending out secret messages with the title.
Not watched! I am back to demands in return for video views. No Build-a-Bear, no video-watching!
Sixer, the video will make you laugh.
And it is cold here this morning and threatening to get all hurricane windy and rainy on my Labor Day holiday. Instead of walking the beach, I’m going to burrow inside unhappily and make pumpkin waffles and watch Harold Lloyd movies all day.
Charading Shakespeare titles is a nice challenge. I think he pick a good one. Took me a moment to get it. I would probably have tried Cymbeline or The Tempest.
He’s obsessed with becoming super famous so am sure the serious thespian image will get ruined forever at somepoint. He can’t help himself.
Sixer_”He cried in the privacy of the toilet on Taylor’s private jet”…LOL. Oh dear, I thought that was hilarious, and I think it’s true. My brain cannot stop conjuring up an image of Tom all folded up like a mantis, sobbing into a gingham, lace-edged hankie, with” T&T Toujours ” embroidered in red stitching. I wonder if she stood outside the whole time, pounding on the door and reminding him that it was tea time.
Betti, that’s the impression he gives off isn’t it? Except you don’t get to that level by pimping out your private life.
To get to A+ list requires a combination of talent, looks, hard-work, and some kind of charm or star quality, like Clooney, Pitt et al. The rest is luck.
@kri “Tom all folded up like a mantis, sobbing into a gingham, lace-edged hankie, with” T&T Toujours ” embroidered in red stitching”. I’m dying here lol!!! The image will forever be imprinted in my brain!
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I forgot it was an ‘oliday stateside. Happy LaboUr Day, all!
If I get time, I will watch the video in honour of Lilac.
I bet he did cry, poor old LEGS. I’m sure it was supposed to be the fairy tale of the American Sweetheart and the English Almost-Prince that spawned a million Tumblrs. Given this did not happen and the whole thing was greeted by almost universal hilarity, I’m sure they are both over and out.
@Sixer, he cries a little bit in the video. But not as a human.
Not as a human? You are just trying to tempt me. What as? Bah. I’ll have to watch it at some point. Still a-workin’, so later.
If I tell you, then I give away the answer to the charade.
If there’s a 360-degree change on her part, she’ll be exactly how she is now.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who read “360 degree change” and thought huh?! If these “sources” are reliable (hahaha!l) then I think I’ve identified Put-Upon-Tom’s problem, an incorrect understanding of geometry!
I just read that and thought… “so he wants her to stay the same?”
Glad I’m not the only one who saw that! Is Jason Kidd their source? lol
Thank you!!!
I naffing hate it when people talk about 360 degrees as a total change. Um, yeah, no. Also, fall off a cliff.
I don’t know why but the last part of you post has me laughing like a loon.
So he wants her to twirls around in circles?
Lol I haven’t even finished reading but I had to make sure other people noticed this!
THANK YOU! That’s one of my biggest pet peeves – 360 degrees is full circle. Brings you right back to where you started.
Wait… so if he wants her to do a 360 degree change, they mean he actually wants her to stay the same, that is what they are saying, no?
But…it’s the Daily Fail so I don’t know what I was really expecting.
I think the situation is plausible but I don’t believe Radar has an actual reliable source (= I think the story itself was made-up by them or somebody claiming to know something).
So TH is ‘done with it’ but on the other hand He wants to prove their relationship isn’t a joke…Hmm.
Expect a PDA to end all PDA’s on the Emmy’s red carpet. There is still plenty of mileage in this relationship.
I’m here solely for the mileage and that mileage demands an Emmy appearance. They owe us.
The clue that this is completely made up by the tabloid media is the insinuation that TommyAnnE would be making ultimatums in a relationship where he is clearly not the power player.
She has nothing to lose dating Tom; he has quite a bit to lose ( insta-fame, respect, private jet lifestyle ) and will be hanging on for dear life to milk this for all he can. The mainstream media won’t be interested in him once they split and everyone moves on.
@Bonzo – yes, yes and oh 100% yes! re the media moving on.
Bottom line, if he wasn’t in it to win it, he’d never have tangled with Taylor in the first place. All this ‘regretful Tom’ bollocks is just, well that, bollocks.
Roll on the Emmy red carpet!
“PDA to end all PDA” gets my vote. They’ve got to show the world that contrary to reports their love is real and thriving on Sept 18.
Maybe this is what was meant by the 360-degree change reference.
I don’t think she should attend Emmy’s. They should just have her absence be the final nail in the coffin of this bumbling sh*t-ship. Get on with it and put the axe straight through its head and then burn the remains so that it stays dead forever.
Sounds like an exorcism, Cranberry 😅😅
I really used to like TH, and now I just find him really trifling. This whole “relationship” just makes me want to take a nap.
A 360 degree “change” is actually no change. Who writes this drivel?
“Tom’s done with it” but “He wants to prove the relationship is not a joke.” I think they hire Harlequin Romance writers to come up with this piffle.
50 Shades of Tay, the anatomy of a Summer romance.
Strong, manly Tom meets shy and retiring music nerd, Taylor. The heat of their romance causes her chest to swell most fetchingly, but then the jealous haters ruin their fun by pointing out that it looks less than authentic.
They say a sad goodbye only to regroup and slaughter all comers on the red carpet, as Tom wins an award for showing his a*se and Taylor gets voted best warbler of all time, even though its not even a category.
They move into her Rhode Island cottage, open a cat sanctuary and live happily ever after.
THE END
These things write themselves really.
It’s been a dry summer in tabloid journalism. I think that a recycle bin which they dip into to fill the pages and make way for more advertising. In fact, I know that’s their formula. The stories are just click bait to keep advertising campaigns and data mining going.
I’ve always wondered if there’s a section of tab reporters that write these ridiculous PR stories with some details from publicists to make it “real”. Cause some of the things written are hilarious and obviously fake
@Nicole, most of them just take what other tabs have posted and add a line or two from one of their earlier bits so they can call it their own. That’s what this story is. Multiple sites have now run this same story pretty much word for word. Some of them credit the other sites, some don’t and most of it is stuff that never was confirmed by an actual named human being. They don’t even check for whether they contradict themselves in the same sentence, which they do.
The really sad part is that people fall for this drivel.
“Tom can’t deal with being a laughing stock and has told Taylor he’s done unless there’s a 360-degree change on her part”
Lol, she`ll be back to the same …..maybe 180º?
Get over it Tommy boy
I think it is just a way to build up to an Emmy Walk of Epic Famemancing. They will be all sugary sweet hand grappling smug face see we ARE REAL, that the barf bucket brigade will be on hand to pass out little pink We ‘heart’ Tiddles pails.
Or not.
🙂
I can believe that Tom is now embarrassed about his behavior. He looked like an idiot wearing the “I love TS” shirt and happily doing interviews while out jogging. But I don’t believe he said anything to Taylor. It seems he likes the attention and lifestyle too much.
Am I the only one who notices that she never wears open toed shoes? Ever! Even in her Newport photos. I live in RI and piling fathom wearing closed toe shoes this forth because it was so hot. Even all her summer pictures her shoes are closed toe. I can’t stop noticing!
Now I am going to be obsessed with finding pictures of her in open toed shoes….Lol
Never wears them!!! Always closed, all summer long! It drives me nuts!!!
That’s actually not so strange for me. I live in Florida and almost always prefer to wear sneakers or boots bc I just hate wearing flip flops unless I just got a pedicure or I’m going to the beach.
Google Taylor Swift wearing sandals. There are tons of photos. She wears plenty of toe exposing shoes.
Oh goody! A new game. May I suggest double-bonus points for finding a photo showing both toes and navel? The game stops when the elusive trifecta is found – shoes with open toes, a navel-baring outfit, and the subject of the photo has her mouth closed and/or no teeth are showing.
The trifecta is nigh impossible. She seems to never close her mouth.
She’s a mouth breather!
She can’t close her mouth. Her new teeth are too big.
Bonzo: Mouthbreather 😅😅😅
Can you imagine Hugh Laurie’s face if Tom tries to introduce him to TayTay? What if John Le Carre is there?! The horror!😱
Yeah, no, she won’t go. He cares too much about his image to put it in jeopardy any more than he already has.
It would be insulting to the rest of the cast and crew on the production, considering how much negative press he’s had.
I hope he is too busy to go.
As much as your point makes sense, MI6, I think they both will want the attention that her attendance will bring. It also gives them the “everything is fine” narrative to promote.
I don’t think it’s over just yet. My guess is we’ll have a better idea in November when he’s done filming and has time off. It won’t surprise me if they hang in there through the holidays as he campaigns for a Globe.
Spidey, I hope you’re right and work is the convenient out.
Bonzo, as much as I adore you, I’m adamant about this. She will not go. Maybe I am expecting too much from him, but I believe he won’t continue to sell out and surrender to becoming even more of a laughingstock among his peers.
And Sixer, I really hope he didn’t cry. That is too sad for me to think about. 😯
You are wise MI6 and TommyAnnE *should* heed your advice. However, I maintain that Tom, for the six figures he spends on PR and the access to Taylor’s history decided to not only go public with her within a couple of weeks, but to do it in a big, splashy in-your-face sort of way, and chose to wear THAT tank top with his love emblazoned on it.
I really don’t think Tom realizes just how foolish he looks being with her. I suspect the eternal optimist, with his head in the Tiddleclouds underestimates the amount of mockery and the distraction she will create and he will plow on ahead with their Emmy plans.
I have no faith in Hiddles to squelch his fame whoring tendancies. I think she’ll be there with him on Emmy night.
I maintain he did not know what he was getting into. I have faith in him.
Then again, I believed in Santa Claus until I was 14, so make of that what you will.
According to the Daily Mail, she will not attend because she is “uncomfortable” with him taking the relationship public. She wants her private life kept private. I’ve been laughing about this for the past hour.
@lilac, me too! Best laugh I’ve had in weeks, if I’m honest.
It’s strange how people here seem to think presenting Taylor to actors, writers and other artists, is akin to presenting Marine Le Pen to the same group of people, or something.
No, but it is about the same as bringing a goat to a banquet table.
Oh. So Taylor lacks manners? That’s even stranger, because she definitely had enough manners to be invited to the Met Gala, for example. They get “goats” to host that gala? Odd.
Old ones, apparently. See Anna Wintour.
I think it’s more of a matter that Taylor always looks insecure anyway or at least she never exudes a sense of confidence. Then to have her as the other half of this mismatched couple sit with actors and creators that are very distinguished and older would make her look even more out of place. I think even Taylor is smart enough to know she would feel a bit out of place especially since it is a TV, not a music, industry event.
I agree MI6. As much as Tom’s eternal optimism has lead him to “step-in-it” more than once, I still think this time he has to have realized this was on a much bigger scale that he can’t control, nor can he word salad away the skepticism and mocking. No amount of laying low to milk it later is going to make up for the hits he’s taken or be worth the risk of further embarrassment connecting himself to TS in a ship no one believes anyway.
My other ray of hope is that TayTay feels the same. I really don’t understand why she gets into these relationships. I don’t care either, but I think this one has run it’s course. People are bored, and neither of them are going to get much more traction out of it than is worth the effort. She’d do better just getting to the tragic break-up and releasing a song.
Tay wants inroads into winning an Oscar, a Tony and I’ll throw in a BAFTA. So she’s gotten involved with an actor. A man who (except for his dorkiness) has the least in common with her of any guy she has dated before.
You sayin’ she had more in common with Jakey G??? Both him and Hiddles are an odd pairing with her. The dudes in the music biz are at least in her industry so that have their work in common.
I agree with Cranberry that she lacks the confidence, maturity and understanding to schmooze on par with Tom at his Hollywood events. I can only imagine the comical interactions she’d had with his colleagues. Can you see her taking a backseat to her man and waiting for him on the sidelines like other gfs do while he does his interviews?
She really knows how to paint herself into a corner going after older men she has nothing in common with who are part of crowds that she has no reason to circulate in. I’ve read enough interviews to see she’s extremely ambitious and wants to rule the music world. She has no time or interest in melting into anyone else’s life if I’m reading her right.
Jake is American like Tay
Before Calvin Harris, Swifty had a long string of 1-2 months relationships. It’s a norm length for her.
I suspect Calvin only lasted longer because she was on tour 7 months of their relationship. It delayed the inevitable.
And I think Calvin ended in March or they took a break in March when they did their “anniversary vacation” or whatever it was but didn’t announce until much later. Not only did he not attend the Grammys with her in February, he also didn’t attend a February wedding for which she was Maid of Honor and when Ryan Seacrest brings her up in that April interview, Calvin doesn’t seem interested at all. That guy had checked out.
I think it’s time for another Liberty poem *throws on black beret*
It’s nice he’s still close to Josie. She’s amazing, one of my favourite people ever.
They do seem to have a great, close friendship. They always challenge one another on these Twitter campaign things. I hope they work together again soon.
I hate to be that person but um. I think he’s just working and theres no way of knowing until November whether or not they’ve broken up. I’m not even going to expect them at the Emmys. Unless a more reputable outlet like Us or People has something to contribute I’m thinking this is just the same kind of breakup rumors every couple gets while one half shoots a film unless they stay on set. And if he’s shooting 10-15 hours a day there’s literally nothing she could do but sit in a hotel room.
Also a good theory, he’s working.
Hey as long as this PR mess was never about wanting the Bond role as once again this morning there’s more water being sprayed on the fire that was rumours. Same story as before about Craig being offered $150 million in salary and backend for two more films instead of just one. This story keeps coming back and even if only partially true shows how much enthusiasm the producers have for Hiddles (or Elba, or Turner, etc.) as new Bond….none.
They want Craig back. Period.
That would be three more films with Craig as Bond. He is contractually obligated to do one more. What he previously turned down was the offer for an extension for one more after the current contract. This newer offer would be for two films in addition to the one on the current contract. None of the “New Bond” chatter ever came from the studio or Barbara Broccoli or had any basis in fact. It was all generated by the British tabloids.
Agree with you lilacflowers, and the only reason Tom got pulled in was because of TNM and of course when he filmed that nobody had any idea that Craig was going to come out with the remarks he did.
Evactly right lilacflowers
Lilac beat me to the Taming of the Shrew, I had to cheat on Macbeth, got Measure for Measure at the second attempt, and A Winter’s Tale was easy.
Re Tiddles – I do hope that absence has made the heart grow colder, and that he has come back to earth. Think he got carried away in the moment to start with then realised he was riding a tiger.
Talking of riding, and totally off topic I’m in Keswick on holiday and just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see the Tour of Britain rider flying through. In fact if I had been so inclined I could have given one push and caused carnage, they came that close. Imagine evil smiley here.
I’m more intrigued by the blisters at the base of each finger on the palm of his right hand than anything having to do with her.
Doubt it 🙂 Possibly to do with his action filming? Sorry I need another drink don’t I?
You may have all the drinks you want, dear.
🙂 🙂 🙂
Maybe he’s lonely
Sorry
🤔
Lol you’re not sorry at all…
MI6 behave yourself.
You’re right, Shelly, I’m not at all sorry 😉
Maybe only for offending my dear Spidey 😚
Probably goes “hand in hand” with being Taylor’s bf
Pun intended
Wow
I’m gonna stop now
😆😆
Takes more than a bit of smut to offend me really. 🙂
I’m not paying attention to any of you smutty creatures. Spidey, your glass needs a refill.
MI6, you’ve taken the mantle from my former self and run with it… I feel like a proud mama.
Isn’t it 180 degrees? 360 leaves him right back where started…
Yep
Exactly. I would trust an insider that doesn’t know that.
Article in the Telegraph that Daniel C was offered $150mil for Bond. Please take it so we can end the speculation!
The recent clickbait articles are just to stir up interest, either by their respective camps or just the rags. Taylor has been working to rebrand herself – new body, longer hair, and I bet a more mature wardrobe for the Emmys. There will be several pre Emmy parties he’ll be invited to such as Bafta, studio, agency, sponsors, etc and I just don’t see how she’ll fit in, but Tommy boy is stubborn and
wants to proof a point so I expect to see her somewhere. I’ve thought this would end around the SI premiere but I think it will be sooner.
I think the tabloids start to pressure them already by writing article whether she goes or not, with headlines TS doesn’t want to go or Tom is too thirsty want her at the red carpet with him bla bla and most sources coming from TS teams
I just watched Meera Syal’s Charadespeare and I NEED that adorable kitten!
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tv-choice-awards-2016-nominations-tom-hiddleston-goes-against-cillian-murphy-peter-capaldi-1579785
No chance against those three powerhouses.
Actually, there’s a chance he could win that one. It’s not awarded for qualidee or anything – just an online click from thee, me, and a gazillion tumblrites.
I voted for Alien Beauty. I also voted for the Great British Baking Show and Gogglebox and For the Love of Dogs, which won their categories so I’m feeling all powerful right now. And I’ve never seen For the Love of Dogs.
And he did win. I got that one wrong. But I got Sarah Lancashire right.
Edit: And according to Twitter, he apparently submitted an acceptance film with Chemboy and Idris.
The usual way to predict the TV Choice winners is to look at the Barb viewing figures! Plus, factor in any online stan community that goes for upclicking the object of their affection in polls. It’s basically about a) scheduling and b) clickbaiting.
Alien Beauty was on BBC2 on a Thursday night. LEGS was in the pimp slot of BBC1 on Sunday night AND has a clickbait army. Also why you get the laughable result of Downton (also Sunday night pimp slot) beating Peaky Blinders, Happy Valley and Line of Duty.
TV Choice is about popularity, not quality. Nowt wrong with that, I suppose (she says, sniffily, in her best snobbish tone).
Which is why I figured that, despite my voting for Alien Beauty, Peter Capaldi would actually win because Doctor Who has a clickbait army unlike all others.
Ooh, you’ve reminded me. The new teen Who spin-off. Class, starts soon. Is written by Patrick Ness. Must. Not. Forget. To. Record.
@ Sixer, you don’t watch the soaps then? 🙂
Actually, my pet peeve, spidey. I don’t watch soaps because I like storytelling – I want a beginning, a middle and an end. I don’t watch many of the interminable US TV series with 20-odd episodes a season for much the same reason. But half the time, I actually feel as though I should because soaps are where working class people in acting in Britland actually get a fair crack of the whip. They’re not that often allowed into the lofty realms of storytelling.
Class: the endless story of Britland. Soaps are working class and gritty. Drama and most beginning-middle-end storytelling is dominated by the poshies.
I bet you wish you hadn’t asked now!
We all are eager to see this implode eh? I don’t see this lastly through the upcoming holidays..
About time.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
#staystrong
#IheartTS4ever
@Bonzo. I forgot about the GG. Not sure how much down time he may have since IW starts up in November, although we don’t know how large/small his role will be. Filming is in Atlanta which will make together time easier. Taylor has a concert Oct 22 in Austen during a Formula 1 race event. The event ticket price includes the concert and I have the impression those are purchased by sophisticated, wealthy adults- not exactly her crowd. Should be interesting. Still hoping this is over by SI.
Is his character, Loki actually going to be in IW ? I thought it was just a rumor.
I lost track.
Marvel really has not confirmed anyone other than Josh Brolin except to say that the Guardians will somehow be involved and it will include lots and lots of characters and most of the possible actors, including Tom, seem to have wide open calendars. Tom has at least one more film on his Marvel contract after Ragnorak.
Has team taylor gone into damage limitation mode now?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3774862/Tom-Hiddleston-asked-Taylor-Swift-Emmys-s-uncomfortable-fears-s-not-right-reasons.html
W.O.W. I’d say so, Spidey.
Taytanic wants to keep her private life private?? What an f-ing joke.
That said, this is the first sensible thing she’s said in 2016.
Maybe ever.
This is the most ridiculous article I’ve seen so far! It’s as if they’ve reversed roles and no ones gonna buy it. Both have reputations that are pretty solidified with the GP and their fans, so I’m not sure if something this far fetched is going to change anyone’s mind. Why all of the articles suddenly? Some are repeats but this is a little different. And Lifestyle has a print article. Stirring the pot for Emmys or an actual pr tug of war?
Actually, the most ridiculous one was the one that claimed she is gaining weight and having her chest reconfigured because she knows it will help him land Bond because the actor who plays Bond must consort with a voluptuous woman. As if anybody could name the wives or girlfriends of previous Bond actors other than Rachel Weisz.
@ lilacflowers Tee hee – Diane Cilento and Pam Shriver are two.
I’ll have another drink!
Because when you think voluptuous Bond girl, you think Pam Shriver?
You didn’t ask for voluptuous ones!! 😆
General comments BTL seem to be of the “he has dumped her” nature.
Or that he should dump her. The article is ridiculous but the comments are hilarious.
Quite. And the comments are so right.
Sounds like someone’s PR team is getting us ready for the eventual breakup, so we won’t be SHOCKED when it happens.
How incredibly odd. Have the media been so upset by the dry spell from Hiddleswift that they thought they were rife for some juicy break up rumours. All this despite the fact that the absence of photo ops is simply because they are both busy on opposites sides of the planet?
Is the DM a vaguely more believable source than Radar? Tom should know by now if he is getting time off for the Emmys so it is possible they have actually now made a decision about attending.
If it’s all bull I expect to see the gossip cop in action once the PRs pick these stories up, who’s side will deny what first? Surely it would be too perfectly following the predictions of so many folk for either concept to be true? I hold on with hope for more juicy ‘insider’ news.
The DM is no more believable than Radar or the Enquirer or Star or the Mirror or the Sun or Bustle or HollywoodLife.
Holy cow, that DM article is absolutely hilarious. Kudos to whoever made up that pile of dung.
Eurgh. See? They must be split already.
You’ve got one side feeding one angle (glorified escort, not bloody having it) and the other side feeding another angle (I’m more famous than you, so suck it up boy).
How yawnsome. I may be a stuck record, but why couldn’t they have split up AFTER Build-a-Bear?
Or split a Build-a-Bear? Oh the carnage!
Well, you know, imagine! They could have split DURING the Build-a-Bear proposal. A bit like when they make sweetie wrapper engagement rings on OITNB. Only parting, not engaging.
Build-a-Bear parts being tossed all about and a swan shoe hurled out into the mall!
Whoever the source is, is stupid. 360 is going full circle. Ending where one started. Nothing changes. Tom probably want a 180. That’s ending opposite where one started. That’s complete change.
TWINKLE you read my mind. 😜
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed and pointed this out. I just can’t with these “sources” and reporters who can’t speak or write properly.
All their disappearance means is that if they choose to continue their “relationship” without being seen, they can, especially after it became clear that the PR quotient backfired for TH and made him look like Taylor’s Aging Toyboy. However, after TH’s “and we’re very happy” he would be equally a laughingstock if they split so soon. So my guess is, they’re cooling it to retrieve some ground for TH’s macho quotient, but will show up on the Emmy RC sporting the Big Engagement Ring as TH has to get this over with sooner or later, OR they will show up on the Emmy RC for the PR value, assuring the world they are still “very happy”, and not announce a split until a “decent interval” after that has elapsed, as splitting too soon will scream PR and Beard in the whole thing.
They will double down for Emmy’s. I envision very formal attire, maybe styled by Tom Ford. Subdued but adoring looks at one another…refusal to speak to paps but pictures together, lots of waiving and greetings to fans..a new mature, elegant swift and dashing Tom.
Or perhaps this story has come out now because he has told her he isn’t taking her to the Emmys.
From your lips to gods ear I hope you’re right. If this is just to gin up interest for the Emmys then it will backfire; the GP isn’t that naive and the fandom will melt down. I also believe the kerfuffle the articles have created would definitely overshadow TNM cast if she attends, something he would want to avoid. I think.
I’d bet money on that!!
#Spideystheory
Is it raining by you, Lilac? I’ve been watching this non-hurricane all weekend.
@MI6, not a drop. We did have some wind a few hours ago but that seems to have calmed down and not a single drop of rain. Clear skies and sun. I’m regretting not going up to Cape Ann for the day.
Lilac: this whole storm has been so miscalculated. I got a hurricane warning on my weather app earlier today and it’s equally lovely here in NY. What a non-event.
Kind of like this relationship, actually. All hype and no substance.
😉
I’ve been getting alerts and warnings about “tropical weather” for the past 3 days. Oh wait! I see a cloud! One of those white, wispy ones. Thinking I”m going to head to the beach for a long walk and an ice cream.
Tay stayed out of LA when Tom did all his Emmy campainging. Why? Would she stay away from the Emmys? She is an Emmy winner. I am certain Kimmel is already writing the Hiddleswift jokes. Would TnT want to be present for that?
Can Thor 3 spare Tom and Idris? Not fair to send just one. I think Tom will a) not win, and if he does 2) do an acceptance speech like he did tonite from the Gold Coast.
@Browniecakes, unlike TV Choice or People’s Choice, which tell winners they won before the broadcast, the Emmys don’t tell anyone until that envelope opens and I don’t think they have ever aired a taped acceptance speech. But I agree that if Marvel is letting Tom go, they probably would be letting Idris go too and if they can’t spare both, neither.
Didn’t Tom sign up to be a glorified escort?
http://tv.bt.com/tv/tv-news/full-list-of-winners-at-the-2016-tv-choice-awards-11364084340770
But I NEED the acceptance video with Chemboy and Idris!
Me too – and at least with not being there he didn’t have to meet Piers Morgan!
They posted it on Twiiter and Beachgirl posted it below. Idris, Chemboy, and Tom all look lovely.
Yay! That’s adorable.
He has one outfit. We should start a clothing drive.
How much fun that set must be…
Tom just won Best Actor in the TV Choice Awards in the UK. Congratulations!
So much for his ruined career!
I think you’re UK based, spidey, so you are likely aware of the TV Choice Awards. They are arranged by TV Choice magazine (the UK version of TV Guide) and are decided wholly by a public vote.
They’re the tumblr of awards and aren’t really indicative of his standing within the industry.
But nice try.
@Matchday
Popular vote you say. Well the Industry likes that even better. When producers see awards like “People’s” or “Viewer’s” choice, they see $$ which makes it’s easier for directors to cast him.
So nice try back at cha.
@ Matchday – Oh hello dear, back again?
@ spidey I do pop in from time to time. I know you’re around a bit more, but some of us just have less time on our hands to defend our internet boyfriends. Good to know you’re not busy and can walk the beat Gossip Cop style around here.
@Cranberry – Given your obvious credentials as a movie insider, I’ll trust you. Surely producers will put more weight in his TV Choice Award and not the box office results of Crimson Peak, ISTL or High-Rise (not to mention the critical reviews). :/
Dear Matchday, Actually I don’t go out to work so yes I probably do have more time on my hands. I can recommend it!
Matchday is right. TV Choice is the awards equivalent of Tumblr, or the Rear of the Year or something like that. Not to be taken seriously by anyone. Just a fun tabloid night out.
Cranberry – they are so lightweight, it’s a real stretch to think these awards might factor into casting decisions. As I said above, they are pretty much predicated on a) the size of the click army the nominee can muster and b) the scheduling of the show during its original airing. For example, I can pretty much tell you which TV shows will trend on Twitter after they have aired, simply by dint of the night, time and channel they are shown on.
A popular vote award means the public isn’t as sick of him as some here like to claim. Sure some can’t stand him, but majority really doesn’t give a toss. So if the industry people are looking for a good actor, he lost nothing with dating Swift. If they are looking for a popular actor, he just won a popularity award. His movies flopped before Swift, so you can’t blame his antics for that. Hard to see the downside, really. No matter how hard some of you try.
Sounds like *somebody* got carpal tunnel voting against Tom, and is now disgruntled at the result.
I would be prepared to hazard a bet that Matchday did not vote. I certainly didn’t!
I am unsure who has said LEGS killed his career? I think the general thrust is that he had previously been hawking a serious thespian type of image but threw that to the winds in the roll-out of Tiddles in favour of a more tabloid name-recognition strategy.
Personally, I don’t think this is at all surprising. He has always tried to position himself for the American market (more recognition, more big bucks). It’s the image people are suggesting he killed, not the career.
@Sixer, in addition to the “he killed his image” chorus, there has also been a smaller but very strident chorus of “he killed his career” who have been claiming that they and film producers will never be able to see past the TS tank top and won’t cast him in anything or pay to see him in anything. Ever again. They support their arguments by pointing to the box office for High-Rise, which was never planned for broad distribution, and ISTL, which really didn’t get broad distribution either.
I’m happy for Tom that he won, but Sixer is right, these are not respected awards. My friend’s show won Best Drama or something and a couple of supporting actors accepted the award, as none of the leads or creatives could be bothered to go.
@sixer,@spiderpig
Yes, they’re popularity not respected, critical awards. I don’t know how they measure up to the MTV or Kids/teen’s Choice awards, which I can’t stand, but seem to have some weight among people in the industry even if they are just glorified popularity awards. I would still think that it would be of some consideration to film investors that want some reassurance that they won’t lose their shirt. I think ISTL is the most disappointing film for Tom in this respect, not CP which was GDT’s fault. No actor was going to save that script/plot. Still I don’t think anyone lost their house on ISTL. With the many independent films that lose money, it’s a wonder that any get made at all (write offs?). This is why most indies have to have two or more famous actors signed on to get investors these days.
@Matchday
Surly TV Choice are not that impressive of an award as having a successful BO movie. But you’re really going to use independent, art house films with very limited runs and theater distribution to make your BO case? Really?
In Crimson Peak TH was the relatively unknown actor outside of his Loki makeup compared to Mia and Jessica. Most CP bad reviews and poor BO #s were on the plot, script and inadequate, confusing PR strategy. Any acting criticism was spread evenly between all of them including Charlie.
And what other critical reviews? ISTL was trashed by critics, but TH and EO performances which were praised by those same critics. High-Rise, total art house film, received split “critical” (professional not amateur) reviews about the direction but NOT about any of the actors. You mean those critical reviews?
@ various replies – must remember the smileys.
Of course it is no biggie award (I didn’t know it was happening until this week!), and it is obvious from Tom’s acceptance “speech” that he doesn’t think so either. I was having a little dig at all the doom mongers who have been swearing since around June that his career would actually be ruined by his summer antics (and to be fair there were some of those hyperbolists* :
http://www.celebitchy.com/493521/piers_morgan_tom_hiddleston_is_doing_irreparable_damage_to_his_career/
He may have lost credibility in the serious thespian image stakes but another good Shakespearian role will go a long way to repairing that.
Talking of which, here I am in the Lake District on holiday and went to a Lake Artists’ exhibition in Grasmere. One of the larger paintings was made up of picture squares depicting scenes from Shakespeare’s plays. And there in the middle as large as life (or as large as possible in a six inch square) was Tom, complete with red knitted cap, being berated by Jeremy Irons!
PS Have I invented a new word*
Right, relax, I am going to have another one of those large drinks that Lilacflowers keeps plying me with.
Ha ha ha ha…The Daily Fail has an article today about how SHE is uncomfortable with HIS publicizing their relationship! Now it’s all her idea to not go to the Emmy’s as his date! OMG I can’t take it! That’s rich!
See above 🙂
Tom acceptance video
https://mobile.twitter.com/TVChoice/status/772932014098026497
It’s hilarious !
It sounds like there are ducks or geese quacking in the background. The three of them look delicious.
Cute, but there’s a bunch of quacks in that video if you ask me. hehehe
Maybe they all went for a ride on the roller coaster afterwards.
This is pedantic but a 360 degree change will be no change at all.
Surely Tom had some idea that a relationship with Taylor would be very one sided. She thrives on being worshipped and adored. I doubt she will ever be the one in a relationship that loves the most.