Kaley Cuoco dumped Henry Cavill because she couldn’t handle the publicity?

Here are some new photos of Kaley Cuoco on a coffee run yesterday. Just one coffee, I see. No need to get two coffees to go since Kaley and Henry Cavill are over, I suppose. Still, Kaley already has a new boyfriend – tennis player Ryan Sweeting. Last week’s tabloids were trying to make her relationship with Sweeting into some huge scandal because apparently the guy has a “sordid criminal past”: a DUI plus a charge of giving alcohol to a minor. Sources claimed that Ryan’s “favorite things in life are parties and women… He comes off as the most charming guy, but he always leaves girls heartbroken. Kaley has no idea what type of guy he is.” But sources also say that Kaley “loves bad boys” so she’s fine with all of it. Still…only one coffee? Maybe they’re already over. We know she moves fast!

Speaking of her blink-and-you’ll-miss-it relationship with Henry Cavill, this story has been making the rounds:

Actress Kaley Cuoco was reportedly overwhelmed by her relationship with actor Henry Cavill and it was difficult for her to deal with the non-stop attention.

Cavill and Cuoco split up last month following a brief romance and friends of the 27-year-old actress said the relationship was difficult for her, reports contactmusic.com.

“She just got overwhelmed with the very public Superman relationship. She’s not used to that much attention and chaos in her life,” a source told OK! Magazine.

The Big Bang Theory actress has now moved on to tennis player Ryan Sweeting and is much happier with this low-key romance.

“She thinks Ryan’s really hot and a nice guy. It’s nice that he’s not really an industry guy,” added the source.

[From NDTV]

This could be true. A lot of you believed that Kaley was the one who pulled the plug on Cavill, leaving him in the lurch because he thought they had an understanding as to their showmance. Of course, other people believed that Henry pulled the plug because of the backlash, because he looked like Tom Cruise, which is to say, he looked very uncool.

PS… You know what I really like about these photos? I love that she’s wearing a supportive full-coverage bra. Now I want to know the brand!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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  1. V4Real says:

    She could handle the publicity but it was the bearding that drove a wedge between them. A girl needs to get laid every now and then. Yes, I said it, so what?

    • GMarchetti says:

      Priceless comment! Still laughing…

    • Lauli says:

      Lol

    • aims says:

      She sure does! Unapologetically too!

    • Curly says:

      Wenty came out and the world didnt end Henry. On the other hand, bearding with a fellow actress may have robbed you of 100 percent in the matter.

      I mean, what happens to the celebrity girlfriends when the guy comes out? It would put her career in jeopardy wouldnt it? Female success just depends so much on likeability. If an actress is viewed as a “beard for hire” wouldnt that affect her likeability? The girl who pretends to date a gay man just to get her picture in the paper wont be starring in any romcoms, me thinks.

      And doesnt it also open up her other exes to scrutiny. As in out guys who may or may not be gay and may or may not be ready to come out. If Henry came out, wouldnt it be widely presumed that Galecki is gay too? What if Galecki is gay and not ready to come out?

      Then theres the possibility that the actress is herself gay. If the guy comes out, would it force her to come out too? If only to stem the backlash from being assumed to be gold digging famewhoring beard, basically all the things Travoltas wife gets called.

      Man, if you are a gay celebrity do NOT beard. And dont do it with a fellow celebrity. Your choice to come out stops being just about you and your career.

      • aquarius64 says:

        I agree. The woman or women who dated the guy who came out will under scrutiny. Who’s going to believe she had no idea the guy’s gay?

      • Shawna says:

        This may be why the guys who have come Out were never really In. From Matt Bomer to Anderson Cooper, none ever had public girlfriends. Someone like Jake Gyllenhaal or John Travolta has dug himself a hole. They cant come out without making life very complicated for their ex girlfriends or wives. Bearding gay guys are screwed! I dont know if I sympathise even. The dilemma is of their own making, they should just have done what Bomer and Quinto did. Dont beard, just say you are private.

    • Nev says:

      WORD.

      Hahahahaahahahahahaha

  2. Yoli says:

    She dated her costar Johnny Galecki for two years and I wouldn’t consider him a bad boy…..

    • Jackson says:

      Haha! My thoughts exactly!

    • Lisa says:

      Agreed, plus, wasn’t that relationship kept essentially secret until after they broke up after two years? This recent thing with Cavill aside, I don’t see her as someone who really actively seeks publicity from her personal life.

  3. dina says:

    I know this is going to sound stupid but there’s something so off about her face to me. It’s the eyebrows I think? They don’t look good with the rest of her features or something.

  4. MonicaN says:

    Why no purse? I don’t get it. So many female celebs walk around carrying their phone, wallet, keys, lipstick, and sometimes more stuff loose in their hands. To each her own, but it just doesn’t make sense to me. Plus, you would think they would want to be more careful with items that are both valuable and contain personal info. You’re so much more prone to losing these items if they’re not tucked away.

    • V4Real says:

      I know I’m not a celebrity (except in my dilusional mind) but I do that quite often. When I’m going to places like the zoo, fairs, parks, etc. It’s easier than lugging a purse around. I keep my car key in my pocket and I would usually tuck my credit/bank card along with some cash in the case of my phone. I keep my housekeys seperate from my car key so I normally leave them locked in the car.

      • Kim1 says:

        I rarely carry a purse,just a wallet that holds my money,phone,lipstick ,comb and debit card and DL.I dont understand lugging around a purse,purse stays in car trunk

      • Val says:

        That is why I only buy crossbody purses.

      • MonicaN says:

        See, now that sounds reasonable. I’m specifically talking about the ones who carry a multitude of stuff in their hands. Even if you hate purses, I just don’t think it’s logical to carry several loose items around on a regular basis, especially if you’re going out to pick up things that you would also need to carry with your hands.

      • Lady D says:

        I use a purse about once a year, maybe. When I go out, I need money, keys and ID, which all fit in a pocket.

  5. kittenhayley says:

    I hate when people say “hot” to describe someone…
    It makes me feel pukey…

  6. GMarchetti says:

    Bitch, please…

    • brin says:

      IKR…*eyeroll*

    • QQ says:

      THANK YOU, YES!

      I was like LULZ Yeah right Miss Nobody-suddenly-on-paps-radars No One believes that for a Sec!

    • Lauren says:

      This “source” has got to be Kaley’s rep. Spin, baby.

      • GMarchetti says:

        I don’t think she has one, or else she should fire him/her for being so incompetent. She’s probably the one leaking the stories, and also the one who planned all that extravaganza a few weeks ago. And she was also the one who came up with the idea of posing holding a coffee with a farting face.

  7. Opa221 says:

    She couldn’t handle those full 10 days of their relationship lol. I actually believe this more than I believe Cavill pulling the plug. Though I have shaded both of them for that horrible attempt they call a relationship, I can see KC being a bit overwhelmed. She’s a TV girl and C-list (B-list?) as well. All that pressure coming in at once probably freaked her out.

    It was just sloppy PR. You can’t expect people to not be skeptical when you have Gina Carano for almost a year walking around w/ Cavill and then out of the blue KC pops up (seriously the most random person you could probably pick.) People are going to wonder what happend, where is Gina, why haven’t we heard any indication about this relationship before? The public can be naive, but they aren’t that stupid when it’s THAT obvious.

  8. Rice says:

    I’m torn between an “As If” and a “Yeah right”.

  9. Annie says:

    Oh PLEASE. Girlfriend wants to be the new Jennifer Aniston so bad. She probably wants to start making movies asap, so this was her chance to get major attention, except from day 1 it looked super fake and Henry is the only one of the two with an actual future in films, so of course he backed out, like you said, to not look like Tom Cruise, and left her, the thirsty one with the trips to Starbucks, on her own. You cannot possible say that you can’t handle the attention when you know people are on your ass, following you, and you keep making trips to Starbucks for TWO drinks and going to the supermarket with him the minute he comes back from his promo tour. It’s embarrassing. And then she immediately starts dating someone else, releasing information on how awesome he is and getting photographed getting manis and pedis together. Like what the hell. Does she not have a PR?

    • Virgilia Coriolanus says:

      Yeah, I don’t know if I believe that. Just with the way she acted before (the superman poster) and after (love of my life i.e. horse) on twitter, I’m shading her super hard. I used to really, really like and respect her for being one of the few actresses of her generation who didn’t overshare EVERYTHING. Now, I’m not so sure about her, if she is, indeed, trying to be Jennifer Aniston.

      But I don’t know if I believe that she was freaked out because of the fame. In the pap pics, Henry was the one all uncomfortable and stiff, while she was the one hanging off his arm, looking in love, or smirking for the cameras. Plus she’s being photographed a ton more. I’ve never seen a pap pic of her ever until the whole thing w/Cavill came out.

      I guess we’ll see in the meantime what’s her play.

      Oh, and yes, her pr is shit. HIRE ME! I’ll work for sixty thousand a year…

  10. LP says:

    The notion that she is relatively publicity-shy makes total sense to me. As Yoli said upthread, she dated her co-star for two years and no-one knew until it was over. If she wanted press, wouldn’t she have publicized dating a fellow actor on her network’s most popular show?

    • OhDear says:

      You could have said that about Cavill, too, when they were doing the pap thing. People and goals change, I guess.

  11. Daria says:

    Kaley and her PR need to just STOP with this already. We know it was a fake relationship for press. We suspect (and are probably correct) that she/they were calling the paps. Receipts? No one knew or cared about this person before she started “dating” Henry. Her furious backpedaling is just pathetic.

  12. bammer says:

    She’s still trying to milk this? My God, find a new publicity stunt already. I went from never knowing she existed to seeing her on blogs all the time after her Superman pap stroll. Go away. You tried to play the game and people laughed at you. There is no repairing it.

  13. RPG says:

    These pics look like they were taken right in her face, and she’s smirking (trying not to make it a full-blown grin) and making subtle gestures to the camera.

    The aftermath of Cavillgate definitely made her thirsty.

  14. Jackson says:

    I cannot tell if the tee shirt she’s wearing is something old and stretched out or if it’s new and the waist and sleeves flare out a bit. Either way, I like it.

  15. Tapioca says:

    If she wasn’t wearing a bra you’d think she was Britney Spears.

    Or is it just me?

  16. The Original Mia says:

    Kaley, sweetie…please stop. Your “relationship” was 10 days. If you were hitting it within those 10 days, bully for you, but it wasn’t that serious. It definitely wasn’t serious enough to still be talking about 3 weeks after it ended. You’ve moved on. Henry has moved on. Just hush, honey child, because now you’re looking hypocritical, thirsty and ridiculous.

    Respectfully,

    The Original Mia

    • z says:

      I agree. This topic is ridiculous and I am tired of the media making more of it than what it is….First, anybody stop and think maybe it was nothing serious or that they just did not click? Second maybe its was just casual dating and that’s it….Third, I am tired of people referring to this as a so-called “beard cover-up” and if it was true (which I do not) SO WHAT!….If you notice Henry has not came out and said a word about this story. He has been completely quiet which I know he has said he is a private person. Kaley’s profile has risen along with the fact she was seen sitting next to his movie poster when the story first broke WHY SO OBVIOUS?….I believe her people keep milking this story for her benefit….She goes on social media and get upset when people start to put her on BLAST!……I do feel their was nothing serious between Henry and Kaley…..People need to stop!

  17. Emily C. says:

    It looks like a couple Soma bras I have.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if she became frightened and pulled the plug. Women were being phenomenally nasty to her. You couldn’t pay me enough to date a celebrity with rabid fans.

  18. Maria_Spain says:

    she was dating… the “new superman” and didnt know what will happen??? C´mon girl!!!

  19. Mean Hannah says:

    Check out how perfectly front-facing her coffee cup is…she’s either getting paid or she’s practicing for the day she will. Right, SHE was the one who called quits on that “relationship”.

  20. Katie says:

    lol She couldn’t handle the publicity, huh? Is that why paparazzi caught her C-list self getting coffee?

    Bish, please.

  21. Jennifer says:

    I see some backpedaling here. What about the tweet she posted about him two weeks before they went public? You can’t get more public than that.

    • Josie says:

      You mean the one where she’s gazing up at him, mouth wide open in awe?

      Yeah that’s really the kind of behavior of someone who doesn’t want attention.

  22. neelyo says:

    I call damage control. Even before the Cavill debacle she was working the PR angle hard and the dating thing backfired.

    Her management seems very aggressive but not very smart. Because people think she was in it for the publicity, we’ll tell people she LEFT because of the publicity!

  23. Maureen says:

    Her eyebrows annoy the mess out of me.

  24. Rachel says:

    Don’t any celebrities own coffee makers?

    • akua says:

      But then if you made coffee, no one would take your picture unless you invited them into your house, office, etc., to do so!

    • Elle says:

      The funny this is, she actually tweeted a picture a few months back of her morning coffee routine. At home.

      Found it!

      https://twitter.com/KaleyCuoco/status/347709370785738752/photo/1

      I’m not buying the shy thing. Girl’s been working hard over the past two years to get her name out there: suddenly doing not one but two major ad campaigns and, when that didn’t raise her profile, suddenly deciding to go for the paparazzi route.

      She really needs a new team, because it seems like they’re equating any column space with good column space. If she wants to be a Movie Star, she needs to mix it up. Say what you will about Jennifer Aniston, but she picked a handful of smart non-Friends projects in the ’90s (especially when compared to commercials).

  25. LETS LOOK AT THE FACTS says:

    -SHE was the one posting picture on her twitter drooling over Henry.

    -During the grocery trip pictures SHE was the one clinging on to Henry with both arms, kissing him on his shoulder, just really hamming it up for the camera’s, while he just looked straight ahead.

    -All the publicist fed reports about their “relationship made her look like this super desirable fox, and Henry like this babbling idiot “who always had a crush on her”.

    -SHE was the one who was documented changing outfits for the paps 3 sometimes 4 times a day. Henry managed to fly under the radar, but the paps magically knew where she was the whole time.

    -It finally quiets down and then SHE starts posting obscure references about the “relationship” on social media, causing everyone to talk about it more.

    • Virgilia Coriolanus says:

      THIS is what’s making me suspicious of her.

    • lucy2 says:

      Agreed. She’s already proven she can date a fellow actor under the radar, but suddenly with him they were EVERYWHERE. And coincidentally just as his big movie was opening.

      I think they both wanted some PR. I can believe the level of attention and scrutiny might be more than she bargained for, but I don’t believe it was some sincere, innocent thing that got tainted by paparazzi.

  26. Side-Eye says:

    I don’t care about this chick or Cavill’s love life–I’m going to stan for his sexy, awkward ass either way–but I’m just so sick and tired of these gay/bearding rumors I can scream.

    • Stacy says:

      ^Agreed. People really need to let the gay thing go. There’s no evidence anywhere supporting the gay rumors.

      • Side-Eye says:

        To be honest, I don’t even know where they came from. Because he’s not having sleeping with everyone or because he’s not open about everything? Like, I literally cannot comprehend it.

      • Stacy says:

        Pretty sure the stories came from Datalounge. Apparently Henry having gay friends and hanging out at gay bars with them makes him gay. You know, cuz no straight person in the history of time has ever stepped foot in a gay bar *rolls eyes*.
        Its funny cuz there are stories about him having one night stands with different women yet those stories never really get talked about outside of a few forums.

    • z says:

      Yes I agree 100%……..Its sickening and so what if he is (which I really do not think)….He still a beautiful specimen of a man.

    • EmmaR says:

      His gay rumors derive from fake stories.Which is sad…

      The Graham Norton story?…FAKE!Henry never came out,years ago, during an interview with Norton.His only interview with Norton was the one he did a couple of monts ago!

      The Corey Spears Story?…Fake!Henry never tried to hide that he has gay friends.He actually invited them to the MOS NY party (and let them post pctures) and he recently talked about them.He is not afraid for the world to know that he has gay friends.And having gay friends does not mean that someone is gay…but what can you say?that what our society has come to be.Judgmental and without values.

      The Perez Hilton story?…Fake.Hiton never outted Henry.He did qute the opposite henry.I don;t remember what termo Hilron used but the term he used is applied only to straight men.

      Those rumors are being made up on Datalounge BTW!

      • Side-Eye says:

        That’s freaking insane. And then we’ve got people jumping down his neck for dating, like, do people just believe everything they see?

      • Stacy says:

        Perez posted something about Henry years ago on his site and tagged it under “Gay Gay Gay”. Some people took this as Perez “outting” Henry, even though the article had nothing to do with Henry’s sexuality.

        And ya almost all the rumors come from Datalounge. That place is disgusting. The people on there are so nasty and spiteful.

      • geraldine says:

        maybe the person who started all those stupid rumors wanted/wants to be HENRY CAVILL! LOL

  27. TherapyCranes says:

    I had to google Henry Cavill. You should have included a pic so I could have went Oooh that guy. They are both very blasé to me.

  28. Connie says:

    I really wish Kaley and her PR team would back off Henry. First it was the passive aggressive tweets after their breakup, then parading around with her new boyfriend, insisting that she and Henry broke up because he was a “playboy” and now it’s because she was so overwhelmed by his level of fame? Harping on this relationship that didn’t even last as long as my menstrual cycle makes her seem so thirsty and desperate.

    And I think she enjoys this new fame and has probably wanted it for a while. All the commercials, awards show hosting gigs and now the paparazzi photos. She either changed her priorities or has always wanted this but no one cared enough until now.

  29. Lilo says:

    Omg is Kaley EVER going to let this go? Wth happened to her? When did she get so thirsty for attention? And why do people keep blaming Henry? Since this “relationship” happened we’ve had new photos of Kaley almost everyday. Her subliminal tweets and instagram pictures. Tabloid stories blaming Henry for their split.
    What have we had from Henry? A few drunk photos.
    Kaley has benefited from all of this way more then Henry has, yet people still want to blame him. There seems to be this kind of dislike for Henry that doesn’t really make sense. I mean, he seems nice enough. There are no stories of him acting like a douche. He’s not a bad actor and he’s good looking. What’s the problem?

  30. KellyInSeattle says:

    I used to like her better, but I do still like her….more than most actresses on sitcoms, and love Big Bang. I LOVE Sheldon….like her and Johnny G. together, but not when she morphs into typical Hollywood. Still, I like her. I think she wanted the publicity, too….

  31. Miss M says:

    Cuoco, Let it go!

  32. kim says:

    Henry is still not worth reporting about…he’s generic…

  33. Nora says:

    She should back off and let it go already.Still leaking stories about her blink-and-miss relationship is stupid.It makes her look like an attention-wh0re!The whole story actually made me respect Cavill more.Yes it was wrong to be involved in a PR stunt (though everybody in HW does that) but he at least learnt from his mistake and now he is focusing on his movies.He does not talk about it or cares about it.
    The weird thing is that according to a blind item he was the decent one and he wanted to actually date her for real.Buy her PR team maked him look like the bad guy!

  34. emma says:

    she should consider getting a keurig

  35. foreveryoung says:

    I think she’s prepping for a post-BBT career, or trying to, and it’s just not working. Lbr, that show is over the second Jim Parsons decides he’s done all he can with Sheldon and wants out.

    The sudden influx of commercials when she’s never done that before in her career.

    Also, she’s up for a part in a studio feature film. Female lead, I believe.

    I’m starting to think this is like a two-pronged thing. Help her get a film career going and she’s pissed Cavill dumped her (or hit it and quit it) and/or backed out of their publicity arrangement once he saw all it entailed and decided it wasn’t for him (or it wasn’t going to work).

    Henry’s been silent and has disappeared from public view save for paps getting him coming out of a club late at night throughout a weekend a few weeks ago.

    She’s the only one keeping any of this alive, keeping her face/name relevant with the pap and tabloid attention every other day, and keeping it negative on Henry.

    Her passive aggressive social media digs at him. Parading her “new” hunky “boyfriend” of about 22 hours before the paps after her publicist or agent tipped them off about her locations. Getting pap’d every day when she was never pap’d before.

    Leaking stories that make Henry out to be some cruel playboy and she was an innocent lamb looking for love or he’s some desperate geek who fell for her at first sight and could barely function around her. Every successive story that’s leaked always is geared to paint her in a positive light and paint a negative on Henry in some way.

    It was a 10 day thing (at most) and 2 months later *someone* is still keeping the “relationship” and Henry connection “alive” and negative Henry break-up stories going and the only one benefiting from any of this is Kaley.

  36. Karen says:

    I would like him if he wasn’t so bland and vanilla. Say what you want about Kaley but she made him interesting. In fact she made that relationship interesting to the public. That relationship he had before Kaley looked so bland.

    • Paula says:

      I still think she is not bad here. Yeah, Kaley public on twitter the cavill-thing what’s wrong with that?
      The media hardly ruined his relationship with him. I don’t think so. I mean, if it had been several months I could understand, but it was no one week.
      BTW, who says that she and her team made the note about Cavill as playboy? LOL
      Henry left the relationship so quickly, what else he had to do, he’s not as dumb as he looks, his team coverage him as playboy, in HW is always better be playboy than being labeled gay.

      Kaley definitely is not a lesbian, believe me and she loves sex. I think she wanted it so badly and he just ran from there.

  37. geraldine says:

    yeah yeahhh and THAT’S WHY she’s STILL speaking about it!!!!!!!