Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley might be done, and Noomi Rapace might have something to do with it. Huzzah? Or bad news? Some background: Tom’s engagement to Charlotte Riley was very on-and-off. They actually broke up completely in 2011 (maybe because of Lindsay Lohan), and then got back together months later. Tom told everyone that they were engaged, but he also said that Charlotte was rather gun-shy about marrying him, and that he’s extremely needy in his relationships. Enter Noomi Rapace. Noomi and Tom started hanging out – as friends – last year. Then they began working together on Animal Rescue, that film with the adorable pit bull puppy. It’s said that they adopted the puppy together. It’s said that they’ve been spending a lot of time together. It’s said that they’re pretty much together at this point:

Tom Hardy, who played Bane in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, has become close to Noomi Rapace, the star of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’.

When Tom Hardy played Heathcliff to Charlotte Riley’s Cathy in ITV’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights in 2009, their passion continued off screen and the pair were soon engaged. Sadly, the actors’ love story seems to have come to no more of a happy ending than that of Emily Brontë’s characters.

Mandrake hears that the couple’s wedding has been put on hold. It is said that Hardy, 35, who played Bane in the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, is being comforted by Noomi Rapace, the 33-year-old star of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Last year, the Hammersmith-born Hardy told me that Riley, who starred in the Channel 4 series World Without End, was “a difficult woman to pin down” when it came to choosing a wedding date.

“You’d have to ask Charlotte when we’re getting married,” he said. “She’s always so busy with work.”

Riley, 31, who will appear opposite Tom Cruise in the big-budget film All You Need Is Kill, responded in January: “That’s not true at all. He’s a cheeky bugger. We are desperate to do it, but I’ll never have a celebrity wedding. It will be low key, with family and friends.”

She was nowhere to be seen last week when Hardy and Rapace attended a gala dinner hosted by Denise Rich for her Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation, at Battersea Power Station. The pair stayed close together throughout the evening and could be seen cuddling while the pop star Jessie J performed songs. They later left together.

Hardy is currently shooting the Hollywood thriller Animal Rescue with Noomi, who divorced her fellow Swedish actor Ola Rapace in 2011 after 10 years of marriage. She and Hardy are due to appear together again, in Sir Ridley Scott’s film Child 44.

Riley shared a home in London with Hardy, who has a son Louis, aged four, from a relationship with Rachael Speed. He and Speed met when she was an assistant director on The Virgin Queen.

He was previously married to Sarah Ward, a producer, but the couple divorced in 2004 after five years of marriage when his drink and drugs problem spiralled out of control.

A spokesman for Riley declines to comment. Hardy’s spokesman was unavailable.

[From Telegraph]

Yeah, it sounds like Noomi and Tom are a thing now and it also sounds like everything is a hot mess. I’ll admit that I was hoping Tom and Noomi would end up together as photos revealed a certain body-language attraction for both of them. But I hoped that Tom would formally end things with Charlotte before he started up with Noomi. Eh. I think at this point, when you sign up to bone Tom Hardy, you’ve got to know that he’s got a wandering eye to a certain extent. I think he passionately loves the woman he’s with at the moment, and then he meets someone else to be passionate about and it gets messy.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Here are some gorgeous new photos of Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and that pit bull puppy on the set of Animal Rescue yesterday in New York. We’ve previously covered Tom Hardy and the puppy here and here. For this lovely candid photo shoot, Noomi got more involved with the puppy and it’s still really adorable. This puppy is a star!!

I do wonder if there’s a puppy-handler/trainer on set or if the production basically adopted a puppy and the puppy is a natural actor. I love that the puppy has a little vest too! And he’s SO well-behaved – he’s off his leash in most of these photos, and he stays by his mom and dad (Noomi and Tom). Also: check out the photo where the puppy has found a stick!!! Basically, what I’m getting from these pics is that Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace should get married and officially adopt this dog.

By the way, People Magazine had a story about some girls who basically traveled to the set of Animal Rescue to stalk Tom Hardy, and they say he was super-nice to them and posed for photos and everything. I’m thinking about going to NY to stalk the dog.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Does it get any better than this? I really think Tom Hardy is in love with this pit bull puppy. The pit bull puppy is Tom Hardy’s new best friend in the whole world. Anyway, these are some new photos of Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and THE PUPPY in New York yesterday, where they’re all filming Animal Rescue. Last week we had some lovely images of Tom and the puppy too, and I’m filling out today’s post with some of the photos from last week too. The photos from yesterday have the puppy living inside of Tom’s coat. The photos from last week have Tom carrying the puppy outside of his coat.

You can see more gorgeous photos of Tom, Noomi and the puppy here. I like that even when Noomi is holding the dog, Tom is still touching the puppy, stroking his head or making sure he’s okay. I would have thought that dog trainers and dog handlers would want (or need) to take the puppy away in between set-ups, but maybe people think that if the dog gets acclimated to Noomi and Tom, the dog will “perform” better in the movie.

Sigh… TGIF Tom & Puppy! I’ll update if we get more photos in.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, WENN.

I know you’ve been waiting for these photos. Me too. The photo agency had some technical problems, but we finally got them in!! HUZZAH. And this is just a reminder for all of you who comment crap like, “Why aren’t you posting the photos? I WANT THEM NOW.” It’s not always under my control, so please think before you unleash your Tom Hardy-lust hissy fit.

So Tom was holding a puppy on the set of his new film, Animal Rescue, in New York City yesterday. According to IMDB, Animal Rescue is “A crime-drama centered around a lost pit bull, a wannabe scam artist, and a killing.” Whatever. The film should be “Tom Hardy holding puppies for two hours” and it would be the biggest hit of the year. The film also costars Tom’s newest BFF Noomi Rapace – they did a photo shoot together last year, and they became fast friends. And you know what? I wouldn’t mind if that happened at all – if Noomi and Tom hooked up. I know he’s got a fiancée but they’ve broken up before and why not some hot Noomi-Tom action?

Anyway, Tom… puppies… panty explosion…etc. Enjoy. There are no more biscuit worlds for Tom to conquer at this point. He gets ALL the ladies. That pit bull puppy is all, “Yeah, I get to put my snout in his crotch all day. JELLUS?”

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

It’s been more than two months since we’ve had any new photos or stories about Tom Hardy. I’ve been missing him lately, especially since pre-Oscar gossip has been deader than dead. And magically, here he is! I would like to thank whatever paparazzo managed to grab these photos of Tom in London yesterday – he was going into the Soho Hotel.

Tom spent much of 2012 hiding under a particularly grizzly beard. It wasn’t his styling choice – he was cast in Mad Max: Fury Road, and he spent months in Africa filming it. When he came back to London, he shaved his mega-fur and went clean-shaven for about a second, and now it looks like he’s back to a beard. I don’t know if this beard is for a role or not, but it definitely looks like he’s keeping it trimmed and stuff. Mad Max isn’t due out until 2014, and Tom does have some projects in various stages of pre-production (including something with Noomi Rapace!), but 2013 is not going to be The Year of Hardy. He doesn’t have anything coming out this year. Which means we’ll just have to make do with the rare candid photos we get this year.

As to the “Would I hit it?” question – of course I would. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I’m even more likely to hit it when he has a beard. Imagine that tickling your thighs and then answer the question.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Ahh… hello, my long lost lover. Aren’t you excited to see new photos of Tom Hardy? He hasn’t been on a red carpet in a while. I missed him. Tom was in London last night for the premiere of Jack Reacher, the film starring Tom Cruise and his fabulous Xenu lifts. Don’t worry, y’all – Tom Hardy isn’t IN Jack Reacher. I guess he just came to the premiere because he wanted to see the film. I bet Tom Cruise busted something when he saw Hardy on the carpet. “Xenu, Xenu, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? If you’re going to say ‘Tom Hardy’ you can STFU!!” In reality, though, I kind of wonder if Cruise didn’t personally invite Hardy to the premiere. Just because Cruise likes a pretty mouth.

Anyway… now that I’ve filled your head with creepy Xenu imagery, can I just say? I hate Tom Hardy’s outfit, I dislike the way he’s standing, and he looks like a scuzzy lumberjack. But, as always, I would still hit it. Up and down. Now, would I spank it? Yes. I would. Would I slap it up, flip it, rub it down? OH NO. Bel Biv DeVoe.

So, I guess Hardy is done with Mad Max? It felt like they were filming that for the better part of six months in Africa. Which is why the distinct lack of Hardy for the last half of the year. So what’s next for Hardy? He’s just been confirmed for a video game adaptation. They’re going to be making a movie based on the game Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (the film will just be called Splinter Cell). I guess he’ll be playing a spy or an assassin or something. The deal is already being compared to Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed deal, and it’s possible the two films could be going head-to-head.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Charlize Theron made my Enemies List when she actively participated in W Magazine’s odd, Harelquin romance-esque faux-p0rn photo shoot with Michael Fassbender. I wrote her an open letter at the time, detailing my disappointment with her. I get that she loves a rough-and-tumble Irishman. But she really needed to stop throwing herself at Fassy. It was getting gross. Well, Charlize has been MIA for months and months since then – she flew to Namibia to begin work on Mad Max: Fury Road with actors like Tom Hardy, Zoe Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and more. I assumed that Charlize would get along with Tom Hardy – he seems like her type of guy, and God knows, Charlize is a Man’s Woman. But according to Radar, Tom and Charlize did not have a very good relationship at all.

There’s no love lost between Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting. The British method actor has been driving the South-African born Oscar winner crazy by constantly talking to himself during breaks in filming the remake of the 70s cult classic, an on-set source claims.

Charlize, the source says, just can’t believe Tom has to stay in character when they’re not filming and thinks he’s a “weirdo!”

“Charlize and Tom are just not getting on together,” the source told RadarOnline.com. “Professionally, they are doing a wonderful job, but in-between takes Tom likes to stay in character and is constantly talking to himself and mumbling things.”

“Charlize has tried to talk to him during breaks in filming but he shuts himself off from the rest of the cast. She has the ability to switch off when she’s not filming, and can immediately turn into her character as soon the camera’s rolling. However, he prefers to isolate himself and Charlize thinks he’s a weirdo! But I don’t think that bothers him, he just does his own thing,” the source revealed.

Mad Max: Fury Road has already been besieged with problems, Warner Bros. reportedly sent out superstar producer Denise Di Novi to Namibia to oversee production after the project ran over budget and behind schedule. George Miller, the director at the helm of the big-budget reboot, has suffered similar fate before; his last film Happy Feet Two also ran over budget and ended up flopping in the movie theaters.

It was enough to cause Warner Bros. to panic and make sure a close eye is kept on the maverick director. The fourth movie in the famed Mad Max series, which made a star of Mel Gibson, is expected to wrap next month. It stars Hardy in Gibson’s role, alongside Theron, Brit stars Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Whitely and Zoe Kravitz.

[From Radar]

Okay, I could see that. Charlize seems like the kind of person who would prefer to just hang out when she’s done with a scene, but Tom Hardy seems like the kind of dude who thinks he’s the second coming of Marlon Brando (and maybe he is, who knows?). And maybe Tom just doesn’t want to hang out, you know? Every actor doesn’t have to play the bad-boy off-camera, and it always sounds like Tom has already sown his wild oats and he’s into his sobriety and being a better person these days. I doubt it’s some major controversy, though. I’m sure Charlize will be posing Harlequin-style with Tom in no time.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

We’re going to have a blonde James Bond for two more 007 films, but people are already discussing what will happen to the Bond franchise after Daniel Craig. For the record, I really enjoy Daniel Craig as Bond, and I think he brings an interesting vibe to the character, and I’m looking forward to Skyfall and to his next two Bond films. But I do love to wildly speculate, and Naomie Harris (who stars in Skyfall) seemed to let the cat out of the bag about one particular Bond option – Idris Elba?! Oh, yes. Oddsmakers are also saying that Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy and Sam Worthington are in the running:

Daniel Craig may have another two Bond movies left in him after ‘Skyfall’, but the speculation has already started as to who’ll replace him. And bookmaker Paddy Power think that we could get a black Bond as they’ve slashed the odds on Londoner Idris Elba becoming the next 007, making him a new favourite.

It’s believed to be due to the fact that current bond girl Naomie Harris’ claimed that Elba was being lined up to become Bond. She told the Huffington Post: “I didn’t realise that there was this talk and then I did a film with Idris and he said that he met Barbara Broccoli and that it does seem like there is a possibility in the future that there could very well be a black James Bond.”

Elba’s ‘Prometheus’ co-star Michael Fassbender is next in the betting at 5s along with ‘Clash of The Titans’ star Sam Worthington, with Tom Hardy next at 6s.

Elba rose to fame as Stringer Bell in The Wire, but despite playing a Baltimore drug baron he’s a native Brit, while his co-star in the now classic TV series Dominic West is our best tip at a lengthy 25-1.

Elba doesn’t want to be thought of as the next 007 though, as he told NPR: “It’s a rumor. I just don’t want to be the black James Bond. Sean Connery wasn’t the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn’t the blue-eyed James Bond.”

Another first would be a first red haired James Bond, and that could happen in the shape of Damian Lewis, whose odds were at 5-1 with William Hill, although the market has since been taken down from Oddschecker.com. He’s unrated by PaddyPower, who also have Batman star Dougray Scott as fifth favourite at 12-1.

[From Entertaimentwise]

I really like the idea of Idris Elba as Bond. I think he would do a great job in total – he looks great in a suit and a tux, he’s a really big guy (tall and just… big), and he’s a fine-ass man. As much as I love and adore my husband Michael Fassbender, I don’t really want to see him as Bond. He would be great, for sure, because he’s a wonderful actor and he’s a great physical actor (like, he’s good at stunts and such). But I feel like Bond would be a prison for Fassy – he wouldn’t be able to do the kind of work he wants to do. Same kind of thing with Tom Hardy – he seems to like to do “interesting” character work rather than “be the lead of the biggest franchise of all time.” But Tom would bring a lot of the same street-fighter vibes that Daniel Craig has brought. As for Sam Worthington… that one’s a non-starter, I think.

PS… Yes, I just wrote this so I could post pretty photos of three of my favorite dudes.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Let’s not pretend I’m covering this for purely scientific reasons or anything. This is just a post devoted to looking at new, beautiful, fur-covered photos of Tom Hardy. It’s just a bonus that Tom is seen here with Noomi Rapace, one of my favorite girls. Tom and Noomi interviewed each other for the “20th anniversary issue” of Blag Magazine. Incidentally, I didn’t know what “blag” meant – it’s a slang word popular in the UK, from what I can see, meaning “to convince by rhetoric; to gain acceptance or approval through persuasive banter or conversation; trickery; keenly persuasive” according to the Urban Dictionary. Basically, a blagger would be someone who was good at bullsh-tting. So, it’s kind of a clever name for a magazine I guess.

Anyway, Tom is promoting Lawless, but there’s only one released quote from the interview thus far. Tom says:

“I want to dispel that it’s all about celebrity-ism, I’m f–king bored of people looking at whose shoes are interesting and what hat is interesting. Storytelling is very important to people, it comforts them, unites us, cheers us up, we can affect change with these arts. We need to be entertained to connect…”

[Via Blag Magazine]

Interesting. Is it wrong of me to not really care what Tom has to say about “issues” and “art” and such? I don’t have a problem with him speaking, but if he speaks, he needs to be talking dirty and/or telling me that he loves me. Other than that, I can just make do with staring at his beautiful face and trying to imagine his beard tickling my thighs. As for the photo shoot… it’s kind of beautiful and weird and I love the whole “smoking in the bubbles” thing. I’m super-jealous of Noomi. I hope they got along – how could they not?

Here’s a short, behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot. It’s worth watching just to hear Tom say “my sh-t eating grin”.

Photos courtesy of Blag.

These are photos of Tom Hardy in London yesterday, the day after the UK premiere for The Dark Knight Rises. As you can see, Hardy was wearing a promotional t-shirt for TDKR, and he looks really happy and jazzed, especially with (what I’m assuming is) his promotional matte-black Bat-car. These photos were taken roughly ten hours before the horrific mass-shooting at a late-night screening of TDKR in Aurora, Colorado. We’re not a hard-news site – we only bump up against real news stories when they have some kind of celebrity attached, or when they involve pop culture in some way. So, I’m not going to be covering the hard-news developments of the deaths and injuries of these poor people who just wanted to see TDKR, and I won’t be giving any time to the POS a—hole shooter. My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those injured or killed.

Here’s People Mag’s coverage thus far:

At least 12 fans attending a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises Friday morning were killed when a gunman opened fire on the audience in Aurora, Colo., a suburb of Denver.

Another estimated 50 were wounded, including a 6-year-old girl, Police Chief Dan Oates told reporters, CNN reports.

Police apprehended 24-year-old suspect James Holmes – a local resident who was said to be heavily armed and wearing a bulletproof vest – in a rear parking lot of the Century 16 Theater in Aurora’s Town Center Mall, police spokesman Frank Fania told CNN. “He did not resist. He did not put up a fight,” Fania said.

Holmes remains in custody. His home is currently being searched for possible explosive materials or devices.

Holmes’s mother, who lives in San Diego, confirmed to ABC News that her son was the shooter, saying, “You have the right person.” According to ABC News, she was unaware of the shooting until she woke up and had not been contacted by authorities. She also expressed her concern, and told ABC, “I need to fly out to Colorado.”

The attack in the theater began when the suspect tossed a canister of tear gas into the crowd through an emergency exit door, reports CNN affiliate KUSA. He then opened fire. Some moviegoers thought he was part of the show.

“We saw people running around and screaming,” an unidentified man told KUSA. Another moviegoer said the gunman wore a gas mask and moved through the theater, firing randomly.

Of the wounded, at least 20 were being treated at the University of Colorado Hospital for minor to critical gunshot wounds, spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery told CNN.

At the moment, the Dark Knight Rises cast – including Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Morgan Freeman and Marion Cotillard – is in Paris for a scheduled red carpet premiere on the Champs-Elysees Friday night. PEOPLE has been told that Warner Bros. has canceled all interviews related to the movie opening, as well as the premiere itself.

In a statement, the studio said: “Warner Bros. is deeply saddened to learn about this shocking incident. We extend our sincere sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims at this tragic time.”

[From People]

Warner Bros. has pulled Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale and the other actors from all of their promotional work in Europe for the time being. Warner Bros. also canceled tonight’s premiere of TDKR in Paris. According to Radar, the whole cast had already flown to Paris (from the UK) before they heard about the Colorado massacre. My guess is that the Paris premiere will be canceled for good, and Warner Brothers will do a media blackout for the weekend, and then the actors’ promotional duties will resume on Monday. That’s just my guess, btw, I have no inside information. Also – Nikki Finke is already talking about how this devastating tragedy will affect TDKR’s opening weekend. Too soon, Finke.

Photos courtesy of WENN.