Other bloggers might not enjoy the fact that their Tom Hiddleston posts become the stomping ground for wild conspiracies and ridiculous rumors. Personally, I enjoy it. Tom Hiddleston is the human equivalent of an overeager puppy, so I find it endlessly amusing that Hiddles has ended up with this kind of obsessive fanbase. Anyway, as I previewed on Friday, Tom Hiddleston appeared on Top Gear. It was pre-taped and it aired on Sunday in the UK. I have to say… although I liked the manliness of Tommy’s photos with the Stig, he was back to his puppy ways for the interview:
Tom Hiddleston on Top Gear (02/09/14) S21E02 from Hiddleston-Daily on Vimeo.
Lord, so much to discuss. First of all: THE GLASSES. Ordinarily, I’m a big fan of men who wear glasses, but for Tommy… they made him look A) so much younger and B) even dorkier than usual. For the interview, I think he should not have popped his collar up. But! I enjoyed his story about his first car and how he had for ten years. I also felt sorry for Tommy because he had to do his lap when it was, as the Brits say, “pissing rain.” I HATED when he did the American accent, but I loved his impressions, as always.
And here’s the behind-the-scenes stuff from Tommy’s very, very moist lap. You get to see Tommy hydroplaning and driving in the grass! He takes off the helmet around the 2-minute mark and all of a sudden he becomes very hot.
Photos courtesy of Top Gear.
Dorky but I still like him, I find everyone on that show dorky.. and James May the top dork.
I have the biggest crush on James May. I don’t know what it is about him…Maybe said dorkiness?
At least it’s not that other one with the crazy shirts.. My son loves Top Gear he ignores the celebrities and car laps. That’s boring he says. I never watch as I just don’t get the appeal but it’s very popular here and the one in the US is too apparently.
I love the US one; they are such children 😀
He was adorable. And he didn’t seem as dorky as usual.
And men in glasses. I LOVE men in glasses.
Ba ha ha. I’m picturing Loki stealing a space ship to make a quick getaway and pulling a pair of glasses out of a velvet-lined glasses case, polishing them with a cloth (or a corner of his cardigan which you know he is wearing under his leather uniform) and popping them onto his nose before laughing evilly, stalling the space ship, calling it a motherf^*#er, glaring at a sniggering Thor, restarting it and disappearing into the dark void of space, riding the clutch the whole way!
Thor 3 – The Myopic Epic
I love it when his inner child is shining through and a man who can laugh at himself always gets brownie points with me
… can he have brownieCAKES too?
TH was great in Coriolanus. Saw that via NTLive at UCLA Saturday. The female performances were great. Hadley Frasier really pulled something off there. Wow.
Maybe the no tweeting on the birthday was the beginning of the end of his pandering to his fans. Not a moment too soon after what we’ve heard has gone on at the Donmar.
You guys…. video not playing in Russia. BBC copyright and all that. SO SAD! I want HOT TOMALE!
Oh Anna!
{{HUGS}}
Thank you! I need them!!! Esp bc my BFF just watched this and cant stop talking about how great it was – and she’s so far from a Dragonfly!
Anna, try this http://vimeo.com/86261033
Just browse on Tumblr Anna. I’ve seen posts that have already converted the Vimeo vids into more viewing-friendly versions.
Can’t help but love him.
Dorky and adorable.
Him stalling, haha!! Mortifying. He handled it well though.
Horrible conditions to do a speed lap in, I don’t envy him at all.
He seemed, to me, a little reserved at the start of the interview, like he was thinking carefully what to say (probably worried that he wouldn’t have any funny car stories or something). He was fine once he seemed to relax a bit.
As an interview it went nicely off track at times whilst keeping the main focus in sight. Loved his embarrassment over the stalling-I bet his sisters and friends have a fields day with that.
Can we assume from this his jag is an automatic.
Oh, I just assumed it rained in England every day! Not that I mind, I love the rain and yet live in one of the driest countries on the planet!
@Icerose – The main focus of the interview being to shill for Jag?? (TH has to milk a Jag’s worth of publicity out of his contract!). Even Clarkson was in on it. They must have all been paid off handsomely for their work!
Ah, the shilling of the Jag – that’s probably why they played the entire ad then. Not that I’m complaining.
Top Gear is saying it was the worst weather for a lap ever. They put a special code on his time for “very wet.”
Haven’t watched it. I just feel compelled to shout BALL GAGS from the heavens. Just because I can. It’s my trigger term du jour. I might do it again later.
Me and hubby loved that part. Yes, a dork in a show of dorks. So perfect!
The second video says “not available…”
Yep, same for me.
me three
The video behind the scenes is available on top gear blog….
Aw, I loved the glasses, lol. More power to ’em for making it on a wet lap (moist is just…*shudder*)–I was half thinking he’d go barreling off into the fences or something!
The dorky glass appeal is a great contrast to the hot arrogant Roman soldier-he kills both for me anyway.
I will not bitch about Tom being a puppy dog anymore. After reading about Shia it is refreshing to see someone who is enthusiastic when he is interviewing. He is
a professional, dependable and does not go out of his way to embarrass his employers (although some of you might disagree with me). There is not such thing as the performance art of being an a-hole.
OMG, yes just read that… I’m ashamed I was a fan of Shia. Must have been blind, deaf and..partially idiotic too.
Don’t beat yourself up over it. Learn from it and move on.
🙂
I always had many moviestar crushes… I don’t regret any of them…. Except ShiaLaDouche… I moved on before he could stoop so low but.. Oh my God, I feel an idiot any time I see his face online now…
Shia may find it difficult to get jobs going forward.
Funny. Love top gear. Don’t even mind the American teasing.
And what ridiculous rumors and conspiracies? I missed it.
I can supply you with some and hopefully amuse our host at the same time.
Jane Arthy bought all the ball gags. I am very upset by this and may plan revenge.
Puddletom has been hypnotised by the evil Luke Windsor. He tried to sack Luke once, but Luke made him squawk like a chicken instead.
Puddletom has nothing to do with his own PR. He can’t. Jane’s gagged him.
If you write Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch in the same sentence, the fabric of society will crumble and life as we know it will come to an end.
All true.
Nicely summarised!
Lindy, I should add – any other rumours hereabouts are entirely false. And I shall adjust my bosom at anyone who tries to start one. Often. Until they desist. You can start one if you like though.
Still lost…who is jane arthy? huh? Luke windsor?
Sixer, if I did start anything, it would be with the sole purpose of getting you to adjust your bosom.
@ Sixer
Do you think that Luke is actually still making squawk like a chicken? 😀
@ Lindy – my bosom isn’t really a good one for adjusting, what with it being miniscule, but I’ll ping a bra strap in your direction if you like.
@ Hiddles – no, I think he is spouting Luke’s PR script like an automaton because he is a naive little unicorn who doesn’t have a mind of his own. Luke’s been trawling the Hallmark archive for suitable phrasing.
@ Invader – oh my word, you’re a lost cause!
Hahahahhaah, love this!
Sixer, that was a masterpiece.
I’m trying! Lol give me a pot of coffee as my final meal and I’ll be on my way…. Not with it at all this morning.
@Sixer
“He is a naive little unicorn”
Bwahahahaha well it seems like Loki is missing one horn here lol
Surely, Tom is great at learning his lines, so the automaton part could even be true lol
@Sixer, you’re my favorite Luke truther. Remember there is no bigger sin than being try-hard, a famewhore or both. Also, one must diagnose all ailments through “powers of observation” from bipolar disorders, aspergers, tmj, toe jam, that itch in the middle of your back you can’t quite reach, middle child syndrome, that time you saw someone on the subway yawn and it made you yawn too… When will we get answers about Janeghazi?! What are they hiding?
Welp, this BLT won’t eat itself.
living in the UK and coming from North America I have lived with American teasing for many years until my accent lost most of its twang.
I still get that. But my accent is a mixture of accents, so the poor Brits are overwhelmed before deciding where I come from lol
Stop using the word moist in conjunction with Hiddleston. You’ll make the dragonflies combust.
Hahahahaha good comment!
+1
BBC’s Top Gear is awesome!!! Hope Kaiser knows Benedict Cumberbatch has also made an appearance on their show 🙂
She does. 🙂 We had a few posts about it — you can find them if you look under the BC tag and go back aways. 😀
I love dorks!
In the interview he said he’ll be in Toronto soon to film Crimson Peak. Hmmm…gotta figure out what spots he’ll likely hang out at…
@ Hello Kitty
please go stalk… Charlie and Tom are the same age and will no doubt be hitting the clubs. I think they will get on a like a house on fire and bring Toronto down. Plenty of dancing photos, please.
OMG, Charlie Hunnam and Tom Hiddleston out clubbing together??
I think I just evaporated from all the sexual pressure in the air…
Oh the imagery that just popped into my head is glorious. Thanks for that!
Do we think that Hiddles will party like rock star during filming? He strikes me as the type to keep it low-key during filming so he can learn his lines, show up early with lattes for the crew (and totally snitch on cast members who stayed out late on a school night). I can see him partying at the end of filming.
But I’ve put together a list of local shi-shi restaurants that he’d probably go to. My friends think I’m going to get slapped with a a peace bond (Canada’s version of a restraining order). But I’ll still see Hiddles at the court date. HA!
@Hello Kitty, I’m sure at some point him and some of the cast will go to at least a club or two or venture into NYC. You can’t work all the time, one must take a break.
@Hello Kitty
I think it was read that the avengers cast partied and filmed hard, he was in the thick of that. Parties at Scarlet’s house etc, it’s on an avengers’ interview somewhere, Scarlet was the part thrower. And weren’t they were all closed up in Mexico and went mad.
However, he needs to keep eye bags down now, so i hope he doesn’t.
oh, i think this film is going to ooooze sexual tension 😀
Charlie being a Geordie, and Tom being an old Etonian, I do wonder if they will be able to understand one another!
For the benefit of the Americans here, as a Midlander I find the Geordie accent very difficult to follow at times.
And hello Kitty – old Etonians don’t snitch. Heaven forefend.
@joespider
Hello midlander, from a northlander… Can’t get the Geordie either, never could… Although I guess the worst one for me to get is the StokeOnTrent one… Met a couple of people from there and it seems like they’re speaking Chinese to me…
@Hiddles forever
i’m originally from Stoke :-p
honestly, home to Potteries and Robbie Williams
@Hiddles forever, I went with a friend a few years ago to visit her college roommate, who had moved to Stoke on Trent. We’re from Boston. We couldn’t understand them and they couldn’t understand us.
@’p’enny
That’s great! Yes I’ve a friend from there too. But I couldn’t understand anything she was saying at the beginning!! 😉
@lilacflowers
Not surprised!
I love the dorkiness. He was all nerdy and relaxed and sweet. And the glasses! The American accent! The impressions! Everything was delightful and I’m glad I get to see it again when it hits BBC America.
And cripes, when he said “Take that bend HARD”. Oh my,
I agree with all of that.
He had a tough ride. I did wander if he might surf of the track at some point. I did that on the a dual carriageway once and it is kind of scary. I loves I am forever crossing puddles or whatever it was.
Think he did in the practice lap! It was in the top video that I managed to watch before it got pulled. In case you didn’t see it he was holding an umbrella and it got blown inside out and the cover disappeared!
He sang a bit more to, and sounded much better than his singing impersations!
Apparently this episode has attracted 200,000 extra viewers. Wonder why?
@joespider Apparently this episode has attracted 200,000 extra viewers. Wonder why?
apparently, Call the Midwife lost 200,000
anyone see the correlation LOL!
I want to hear him sing the puddle song while in character as Coriolanus.
Lilacflowers,
That might actually cause me to go into full cardiac arrest! Just the very idea of that is beyond hilarious!
@janeite, don’t worry. I’m trained to use a defibrilator. But isn’t the mental image of it fabulous?
That’s good Lilacflowers, because I think I would definitely need it. And yeah, the mental image of it is utterly fantastic. The thing I like about the guy is that if you were friends with him and asked him to do something totally bizarre like that, he’d probably do it. His ability at mimicry fascinates me too.
Oh, my glorious, glorious Hiddles. I will watch this clip several times over the next few days and each time I will smile.
Sigh.
Dorky and fabulous. Loved the glasses. Loved his enthusiasm. He’s such a kid sometimes. He was adorable.
Kaiser, that title!! 😀 😀
I loved it, he stalled the car, ahahahahaha, that was so gratifying to see as I’ve just recently gotten my driver’s licence and am still having technical issues with my old car since I’m not experienced.
Oh my, he seems like a silly shit driver just like me, and I effin love it, hahaha.
Also those glasses, LMAO, adorable.
And who knew he’s afraid of heights? Ahahahahah, marvelous.
I just loved the way he laughed at himself.
Re the heights, 500 ft up in the air in a banking helicopter with no seatbelt – I’d be scared.
But then I get scared
changing light bulb.
@Joe Spider: that helicopter thing actually happened to me on my honeymoon! It was NOT my idea, as I hate heights. However…when in Rome and all…this was the thing to do in Hawaii. Anyway, we were flying over the live volcano on the Big island of Hawaii when the door opened on its own. It was terrifying, and on the souvenir tape of our flight, you can hear me screaming bloody murder. My husband just casually reached over and closed the door. He always has grace under fire, or actually grace *over* fire, in our case.
They don’t fly over the volcano anymore. I wonder why?
Shannon your story is hilarious!! (sorry, can’t help it, I’d pay to see the video really, romantic honeymoon sightseeing tour, all of a sudden the bride screams as if she’s being killed, lol)
Hey you and Tom have something in common now!
I wish I could post the video! It was not my best moment, but funny waaay after the fact LOL
Yep, Tom and I are now flying daredevils (or flying chickens, really)
You poor thing, I would have died. Some years ago I had to climb three separate sets of stairs 400 steps in all (imagine skyscraper fire escapes) up a cliffside in northern Italy. I was hyperventilating all the way, inhaler out all the time. It aged me ten years I swear. The idea of a helicopter ride like yours would have resulted in instant divorce. 🙂
@shannon
I would have fainted lol never boarded a helicopter and I doubt I ever will…
It was the last time he talked me into any small flying aircraft. Funny…I did (very loudly) threaten him that if we ever land this godforsaken flying bucket of bolts, I will instantly divorce him. Or at least something very close to that, but using a copious amount of profanity. I also threatened the helicopter company, the pilot and the pilot’s future children. I was hardly the blushing bride at that moment.
Lucky for me, we have it all captured on tape! 😀
@JoeSpider…I will do many things for love, but climbing 400 steps up a sheer cliff is probably not one of them. You are much braver than I am, inhaler and all!
No matter what he does, he’s always been one of the most twee, flimsy looking men I’ve ever seen.
I don’t think he’s flimsy in Coriolanus or as Prince Hal in Hollow Crown. That man can bulk up his shoulders when he needs too, and swing some heavy metal swords. I love the scene where he takes on Percy. Even in Avengers and Thor 2, he can do action and show strength – I was really turned on when took down several dark elves. [fantasies kicking in] and telling Capt America to kneel.
The only thing I have seen him in being twee and flimsy in is Deep Blue Sea and to comedic effect in suburban Shootout.
I don’t know maybe it’s his face.
Certainly not flimsy as Coriolanus and I liked his performance in Deep Blue Sea but I aM a Rattigan fan. But sometimes the eyes decide to agree with brain no matter what they see,
@icerose
As a Coriolanus fan, you might be interested in reading Ralph Fiennes talking about Shakespeare and Tom’s performance.http://collider.com/ralph-fiennes-grand-budapest-hotel-interview/#more-311624
He said Tom was fantastic 😀
‘P’enny
Thanks for posting that, I really enjoyed Fiennes’ interview and he praised Tom too 🙂
After a solid week of reading about Woody AlIen, and other utter crazy horrifying people in the entertainment industry and wishing dearly that I could bleach my brain of all this evil, I cannot find it in my heart to even chide Puddletom for being Puddly.
He can dance and do backflips and hump Luke’s leg all he wants. I’ll forgive him for the Jag. (Isn’t he too young for a midlife crisis mobile?) I’m sure I will be shouting “ball gags!” later on, but it is all pretty harmless in the great scheme of things.
I agree with you wholeheartedly Miss Jupitero. All the other threads about Woody Allen had left me slightly sick, and seeing Tom being so childlike and enthusiastic in his driving & interview really warmed my heart again!
And I really love the Jag in the advert (and Mark Strong in it of course) LOL
Mark Strong…. Aaahhhh <3
+1.
I was thinking the same thing, but didn’t know if I should say it. After all the misery over on that other post, this is just a breath of lovely, fresh (and apparently moist, lol) air. I think many of us could use a WA breather, I know I can, but I can’t look away. I keep rechecking them to read new comments, and follow all the new links. Thank god for adorable, gloriously dorky Hiddles.
It kills my snarky self to admit it, but I concur, Miss J.
I’ll know that everything is fine again when I can cheerfully snark our boy. 🙂 I actually had to resort to medication after all last weeks news. 🙁
I’m doing a media fast this week: fluffy gossip stories can slip in, otherwise it is me and the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, the collected works ofDenise Levertov, and some good movies by people who aren’t child molesters.
Good for you. I did something similar last week and hoofed it off to spend the weekend with my brother in London. Went to a PEN event with Linton Kwesi Johnson. Balm for the soul.
I retain the right to snark, however, always!
Ah! Are you active with PEN? I used to work for them! Mental health vacations are very important.
Seriously, my Tommy? That’s so cool. I’m a supporter, no more.
OK so this Luke guy is his publicist. What’s the joke here though? I’m so lost on all of this and no one is making sense lol hump his leg? What?
It’s just an in-joke, Invader, about various set-tos hereabouts on what are or aren’t suitable comments to leave here and which people are or aren’t over-invested on the topic of Tom Hiddleston. Nothing of any actual substance.
It’s like throwing a live grenade. Make something up, or repeat unsubstantiated gossip about Hiddles and/or Cumberbatch, and watch the fan girls of each blow up. I love them both, but I love watching their completely insane obsessed fans even more. It’s fun! 🙂
I like to call them “gossip bombs.”
Invader Tak, it’s really nothing to fret about. Hang around the Hiddleston threads long enough and you will learn everything you need to know.
What it actually is, is a load of over-invested people (I include myself in this) telling off other over-invested people for having the wrong sort of over-investment. Tragic, we are, all of us.
@Invader – If you watch Tommy on the red carpet, you will see a silhouette of a man that follows Tom around. That’s not his shadow, that’s Luke!
OMG yes, I totally forgot to comment on the fact that he DRIVES A JAG.
I mean, figures, he’s selling them in tv ads, but still, was surprised how casually he said it!
He didn’t go as fast as Cumberbatch. I wondered why things were so quiet on Tumblr. Also the fact he repeated some of Cumberbatch’s quotes on the lap suggests he’d been watching Cumberbatch’s lap far too much.
as much as i love the two guys…..u can’t really compare the two….one was driving on a dry track and the other on very wet grounds.
i didn’t think he repeated ben’s quotes as well (i watched ben’s stint on top gear again recently on youtube)…. but my memory is quite shite. which ones did he say?
in the car, he said two things the same as Benedict ‘swearing- Mother-etc.’ and ‘use the track’ BC did it in a Yoda voice, Tom did not. The latter statement is repeating what Stig would have told them to say. Trained to follow the white track lines, which were not visible, to get the best lines and possible time.
good grief… here we go again.
And yes , to repeat because people are not listening. Benedict’s lap was in glorious sunshine.
I’m sure the Stig has a standard list of things he tells the celebs to do. What they pick up and repeat to themselves is random I’m thinking.
Another case of the fans looking for the similarities between Brit boy 1 and Brit boy 2 when it is more than likely all just coincidence! Why would TH intentionally use the same words as BC?? To draw a comparison that doesn’t exist in anyone’s world except the fans??? Nah, I don’t buy it.
Did he say the same things as BC? I wqtched the BC ep quite some time agoago, so don’t remember his answers. But both got asked the same questions about brits playing baddies. While TH tried to be all coy and polite about it, i remember BC jokingly saying something about villains being smart and brits usually sounding smarter than americana.
oh yes, I remember the same question by Clarkson! and yup, Ben was all jokey about the entire thing.
I thought Tom’s response was quite funny especially as in the Jag interview he had covered the intelligence factor-it’s a pretty obvious answer to give if you are playing the villain. If anything it has become a bit of a cliché response but as they both have used it at some point I call it evens.
I think it is because Brits are better actors and having been raised on the classics they do not have the same obsession as many American actors with playing the heroes. But neither of them were going to give that answer
lmao same here I thought I am hearing similar words and then someone posted the gifset on tumblr where both said motherfker and use the track.
I was like did Tommy watch the BC episode repeatedly and picked up those words or is it sheer coincidence :/
What are you implying, Abby?? That Hiddles wants to be like that other guy? Bite your tongue. He’s original, and adorable, and talented and way, waaaay better in every way.
actually alot of celebrities say that (motherf***er) on the show and i agree with ‘p’enny…Stig probably coached all of them to “use the track” when they drive.
@Shannon I hope what you wrote was a joke
@Windy…I get it that both can use that swear word as it’s common but use the track thing I don’t know…if Stig coached them to say it then why didn’t other celebs say it?? why is it only Tommy repeating those words huh 😛
Mother f…is a pretty common phrase especially in the age bracket they come from and the track was probably down to the advice they were given and maybe they use similar learning techniques when they try out new stuff. Repeating advice is hardly a new concept. Why compare them anyway. They are very different people. I know which one I would invite on my show or have over for dinner but as that ain’t ever going to happen so what’s the point,
hold the phone! only Cumberbund is allowed to say motherf*cker! Check the notary office.
Neither of these young men are allowed to say motherf*cker, jammypants! They’ve both been very naughty and will be punished for it later.
lunchcoma, shall we swap and take turns when one is done with the other?
That sounds like an excellent plan, jammypants.
Hopefully Thornfield will be willing to lend us some supplies…
riding crop and some decent gloves should suffice, wouldn’t you say?
@Abby…I was definitely kidding. Should have added a wink 😉
I love me some Tommy, but that’s just crazysauce. LOL
@jammypants and lunchcoma, you may have to get in line behind me. 😉
Benny was faster, was he? 😛
Ahahahahahaha, still love you Tommy, don’t fret.
I wondered how long it would be before the comparisons popped up. Benny had a dry day which made life a tad easier.
Comparisons happen a lot on Cumby and Hiddles threads. And in this instance, it was kind of inevitable considering they both did the Top Gear thing. I love them both and could never pick a favorite.
and Sesame Street 😉
Actually, Hugh Bonneville was concerned about beating Cumberbatch’s time. Tom wanted to beat Bonneville and Ron Howard. He tied with Howard and beat Bonneville and talked about having to carry Eddy Redmayne in a play at Eton. No mention of Cumberbatch.
Dorky AND fabulous. The two combine in one lovely package with Tom. And it further proves to me he is one hell of an actor considering the difference between his goofy boyish self and the total hot, screaming, manly and arrogant Coriolanus he inhabited when I saw the play last weekend.
YUP the difference is quite amazing -he really can morph when required
So very happy right now!! I’m still campaigning for a daily dose of Hiddles. Or you can simply, you know, just post the picture of Hiddles with that Stig guy and attach it to a different post (excluding posts about that other British actor who shall not be named here). Or make something up and post the picture. I would be fine with that. It’s so much fun to have a celebrity crush again! 🙂
Oh, and I just have to do this, because I like them both:
Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch are both extremely talented and attractive British actors.
*looks around for falling sky*
Nope, we are all still here. 😉
No, Shannon, you went and done it wrong.
You have to say something like Tom Hiddleburp smells of burps and Benedict Cucumber is the bees knees. Or Ben’s lap was better than Tom’s (no innuendo intended). Or I saw Tom’s GIRLFRIEND Jane Arthy snogging Ben in a back alley near a strip club. Or at least Puddly doesn’t date ESCORTS, ner ner di ner ner.
See? 😉
My apologies, Sixer. Looks like I violated the Dragonfly pledge of honor. What was I thinking?? Next time I promise I will get it right!
*walks away muttering under breath: I must hate Benedict Cumberbatch, I must hate Benedict Cumberbatch, I must hate….*
Wait a minute – Tom has a GIRLFRIEND?? 😉
Let me try a hand at this Sixer…. Tom has dumped gf Jane for Ben’s ex Olivia and because Jane is so upset, she’s now become an escort and is seeing Ben. And Luke is so darned upset and outraged that he’s resorted to stealing Tom’s Jag (with Mark Strong in it).
But….Luke is kinda regretting the theft of the car because he’s realised that the seats have been febreezed like crazy and the boot is full of black sweaters. Mark Strong told him that that’s where Tom’s ‘acting’ sweaters reside in and are currently in dire need of a visit to a good laundromat.
*there, I’ve tried my best*
windy,
That. Was. AWESOME!!
*applause*
“I saw Tom’s GIRLFRIEND Jane Arthy snogging Ben in a back alley near a strip club”
Oh Christ, the gods of gossip, please make it happen!!!!!
The internet fallout would be more glorious than KStew with her director coupled with Brangelina & Jen.
@windy, that is probably the funniest thing I’ll read all week.
And Ben runs of with his best friend Hemsworth…leaving Tom with three babies and pap-loving supermarket ex-wife.
*On knees*
Please dear God, don’t let them find out that Bunny is hiding in the cupboard next to the ball gags and vibrating butt plugs…..
Ok I don’t have a faint idea about what all of you are talking about but… Just give me Tom’s car with Mark Strong in it and we’re even 😉
@Tommy – BENNY doesn’t have a bunny. He only has a dodgy Russian. I bet she isn’t even REAL let alone VELVETEEN. We win, right?
@Windy – I almost believe you.
Almost…
you guys better hide… Benny is at Coriolanus tonight, spotted in the audience and they will be reading this thread later and Benny and Tom will be chasing you down the street 😉
@’p’enny
I live countless miles from London so no need to hide hehehe 😛
or Ben’s osteopath is better than Tom’s but Tom uses better deodorant because he never stops running.. Tom has better taste in women but Ben’s taste in horses is far superior. Tom forgets his underwear whilst Ben looks great in a sheet. Tom speaks Ancient Greek whilst Ben excels at insulting Downtown Abbey.
Tom read the Edward St Aubrey books before Benny who only mentioned that he was reading them when he heard of a possible film project. Then Tom tweeted that he was re reading them after he heard about the project. Shameful pimping from both of them on that one,
Icerose! I knew you had it in you.
Benny went to see Tommy on stage!!
OMG, now I want fanfiction of Benny and Tommy running away together after the show! And they lived and fcked happily ever after in some shady Soho nightclub with prince Harry as their bitch!
@p’enny: “And Ben runs of with his best friend Hemsworth…leaving Tom with three babies and pap-loving supermarket ex-wife.”
Oh my god…this had me just collapse in giggles. My kids are looking at me like I’m crazy!
@Kelly: I’m joining you in your prayer to the gossip gods. The Tumblr meltdown would be EPIC.
@icerose: *standing ovation*. That was a virtuoso performance! Fighting over the St Aubrey books…I will be chuckling at that all night.
You ladies are all hysterical in the very best way!
@Squirrel: Almost???? Dang, what gave it away? The fact that I left out the velvet?
@’p’enny: I live miles away from London, BUT if I was in London now visiting my brother who happens to study there, I won’t mind either of them chasing me down the street just cos of my posting on CB. Heck, I won’t even run away from them. I will just stand there so they can get their hands on me *i can be sooo shameless*
Tom Hiddleston has an obsessive fanbase, Kaiser? That’s news to me! 😉
I loved these vids. And I was very amused when he said, “I’m always driving in puddles!” like some kind of little song.
I thought he did quite a nice job on his lap around the track!
Janeite–google Dean Martin and ‘Forever Blowing Bubbles’!
TotallyBiased,
Just did and found a YouTube audio vid! Thanks sooo much for that! What an absolutely hilarious thing for Hiddles to “channel” Dean Martin in that way!
Channelling West Ham, surely?
http://31.media.tumblr.com/b21b500825fdd0839c1cd9febe78d0a0/tumblr_n0r68bOhKn1ra8x1ao6_250.gif
Hahaha spot on!
LMAO <333
Hahahahahahahahahaha! Thanks for that, jammypants! That’s my most favorite part of the whole thing.
Loved it! Especially the singing as I tend to sing in the car all the time. The glasses dont bother me. Like the scruff!
I love in the extra footage when the top of the umbrella flew off and Tom in his glasses and helmet just goes with it.
gave me a good laugh! http://ww1.sinaimg.cn/large/6e14d388gw1edek4kyl6jg20b40677wi.gif
HAHAHAHA!
bless him for trying to hold up a brolly in gale force winds
That wind was fierce. Even though I am in the US, I have read in the paper and seen reports on the TV news that the UK has received a lot more rain than usual this winter. The weather that day just looked damp and cold and rainy and miserable.
It was a horrendous day from the looks of it and the winds would not have helped either. At one point he said he could not see the tracks
Dorky and fabulous. Haven’t we all learned by now that unless he’s playing a role, dorky is part of the package?
Love the glasses, but then, I always like men in glasses.
Seriously can we have one thread without that woman’s name being mentioned!? He’s never said he’s with her and hasn’t been spotted with her in 6 months.
I’ll be in the garden till you can all behave.
You had better pack a sandwich ZsaZsa, you might be in the garden for a while! I’ll come sit with you and we can come up with a list of names of women he hasn’t been linked to in recent months. I’ll start us off…
1. Me
2. You
Ummmm, now I’m stuck!
me
Me. But I’ve been promised that it’s my turn next week!
@lunchcome – I’m gonna need a picture of that, or else you stay on my list!
Easy enough, given Tom’s love of selfies!
(I’m holding out for the linking being via dance party. Sporting events are all good and fine, but I’m not much on tennis, nor do I suspect Tom has any interest in the NFL.)
Me neither, but I’m married so I don’t count hehe
Ok I have to confess something now.. Very bad… Someone wrote in a post, in an old thread, he was with JA. I now realize that could be this Jane you are all talking about..
Well I freaked out because I thought he was together with Jennifer Aniston (and it was a great turn off for me!)
Me. I’m married too, but the Hiddles threads are too much fun! And he was quite sexy as Loki. 🙂
I wonder why he didn’t tweet on his birthday? He was trending worldwide, and it would only have taken a minute. Off topic I know but it seems unlike him.
I sincerely hope he had better things to do on his birthday than be on twitter!
Three cakes to eat after all, nom!
His Twitter went pretty professional awhile back, and I suspect it’s going to stay that way.
Yes I agree. I saw someone say he’d cleaned out his favourites too. It’s just a bit sad that so many fans made a big effort and he didn’t even acknowledge it, it’s a bit mean. I kind of watched a lot of it from the sidelines and I feel bad for them is all.
Private events should stay private and his fans should respect that. The boy is working like a dog lately (back to back projects) so I think he has earned a private day to himself (a special day to him).
*popping back in for another bottle of wine
I’ve got to admit I’ve stopped following him on twitter because frankly he’s boring now. It’s probably not even him tweeting anymore. The old care free, funny puddletom has been put to rest and now we’ve been left with a plastic.
This is only in reference to twitter. I do enjoy his interviews when they’re not silly in a bad way like the Elle one.
Right is the coast clear of that woman that people think Puddletom keeps hidden in his black cardi pocket in fear of his big bad fans ?or do my wine and I go back in the garden and maybe throw a drunken party in honour of dragonfly king and his bunny?
I kind of like that he didn’t tweet anything on his birthday. It’s his only day off and it was his birthday. He’s entitled to it.
Janearthyjanearthyjanearthy
ZsaZsa – did the humour in my posts escape you or are you just a tough crowd?!
Once more, just because I can: JANE ARTHY.
@sixer it’s gone beyond funny now. The whole episode is irritating and pointless. I bet many others feel the same.
I couldn’t care less about what she does or shacking up with either. She’s a non story
But you don’t get a) my point or b) the joke or c) to moan about what others say on here. If I want to say Jane Arthy, even if it is simply to mock the outrage whenever her name is mentioned, and even if the outragees do fail to get the joke, I CAN. I just can. You don’t get to shut me down.
@zsazsa
Stopped following him too on twitter. To be honest he was more boring than Russell Crowe posting his daily cycling exercise….
I read somewhere that if you go into your bathroom in the dark and look into your mirror and say her name three times, she may magically appear.
@sixer oh, I get you now. 🙂 Bit slow catching on due to the fact I have a headache, tired and the last thing I want to read is more pointless stories about that woman.
I shall make sure to re-read them and not whilst I’ve got a headache.
@Janeite, will she also magically follow everything I follow on Twitter as well? 😉
It means soooooooo much to me that people recognize that Bunny is my one and only true love. We will never be parted. When I wear velvet, it is all about her.
Jane and Luke sleep in the bathtub after a nice shag, but Bunny is always in my arms, even when she isn’t.
Why are you sorry?? Nothing wrong with being tired of somebody. You don’t have to apologize for it.
What the blazes?? This isn’t where its supposed to be!!!
@squirrel…i was kinda wondering for a while there :p really thought for a second whether our dear squirrel went crazy and started talking to herself.
On a different note, i was watching a few past interviews of Tommy and realized there’s one that I’d missed for some bizarre reason even though it’s been online for months now- the one called popcorn taxi while he was promoting ttdw in australia. I just loved when the interviewer asked about what makes him angry and he tries to stall (at least i thought so) for a few moments by laughing really awkwardly and also his answer afterwards was funny too. TOTAL DORK!!
^^^^^
If anyone is wondering why the wine has run out lol 😉
Who’s reading the obvious fan stories of Puddletom suddenly wearing glasses?
It’s funny how nobody has mentioned them before Top Gear. Maybe they were a gift from Ben.
It’s valentine’s say soon. Wonder what these two are planning for each other?
Screw the Psycho fans, Mark Gatiss and Chris Hemsworth are the real threat to this epic love story.
Ben has glasses too…Wasn’t he wearing them in LA or something when he went to watch a movie with a friend? Soooo it could be that Tom’s recent glasses are Ben’s gift to him, so they can have matchy matchy accessories, to go with their black/grey sweaters, and their free Jags, and muppet friends.
Mark strong has an interview online about capturing people and putting them in Tom’s cellar. When i read i thought at first it was a joke and some kind of extension of this thread… LOL Tom makes friends of everyone in the most strangest of ways.
http://www.thestudioexec.com/2014/02/mark-strong-im-not-evil.html?spref=tw
@ ‘p’enny – Oh god! Marks sense of humor makes him even more attractive! Obviously he and Tom had a few chuckles over such discussions!!
You are not evil Mark, but you are very VERY naughty!
(not sure why, but every time I reply to someone else, it is starting as a new comment rather than attaching to the comment I am responding to. Making it hard to follow my train of thought. Apologies everyone but not my fault!)
Hahahaha I enjoyed that link!! I’d like to see Mark and Tom acting together in a movie 🙂
This thread has 262 comments at the moment… More than all the four threads about the Hemsworths combined… big LOL
oh wow. Apparently the last one almost reached 500.
Probably the last one in a while. Puddletom is off to Canada at the end of the week for a few months so he’ll be busy working to do interviews and stuff.
Boooo. Is it end of the week he goes? Thought he had a bit more time than that.
Haha he’s one of those men that your boyfriend comes over with and is now his best buddie after talking to him in the rest room.
I bet he talks to ducks in the park as well.
Do keep in mind that ‘The Studio Exec’ is a parody site. This reads as more straightforward than most of their posts, but one really never knows. It’s like looking to Andy Horowitz for actual journalism–the seed might be there, but one should hardly expect facts.
@totallybiased
i didnt know that? but i thought it read like a jokey interview 🙁 really had some good imagery from this report.
OMG, oh my god, Mark Strong has a sense of humor as well?!?! O.M.G. staahp.
And he’s appearing with Cumby in The Imitation Game!!!! I can’t handle this.
Haha, are you sure he was joking?
Studio Exec is a parody/goof news website, so it was indeed a joke. 🙂
@’p’enny, thanks for posting that. Mark Strong has a great sense of humor.
Do you need more wine, ZsaZsa? I have a case of Pinot Noir and a half case of Sauvignon Blanc to share.
Haha lilacFlowers understands my needs. I’m probably going into the garden due to the other subject I don’t like that is associated with Puddletom and it’s to do with his education.
Why he commented on it again I don’t know.
See you in the garden. I have a Sean Bean detector to see where they’ve buried him again
Why do they hate Sean Bean so much, to the point of burying him alive? Puzzled.
Because San Bean dies in absolutely every film or TV thing he does. He died during the making of the Jaguar ad due to a freak accident with play-doh and a flip flop, after being hidden in the boot. Then magically came back to life, for the wedding of the century but was in the boot. Again. And I’m guessing he’s died. Again. So he’s now buried in the garden, but will probably come back to life as a zombie baddie best man. Or something.
Hiddles – because he tried to take the Ring for himself, obvs.
Because he was asked about it. Again. It’s morning. Would you like a mimosa in the garden?
Ok, so maybe since he’s getting more attention, the asshole-it is setting in? 🙁 Hope not, but you never know….or maybe the REAL PuddleTom is showing his true colors? Or it could be a Luke W thing, who knows. I’ve always wanted to like this guy, but….I keep going back to not trusting him to be a decent person. I think Hollywood turns people that way.
But on a positive note, I’m betting he smells like Cool Water (men’s cologne)…or….something a LOT more pricey. Hubby just uses after-shave and won’t let me buy him the stuff, so I’m woefully ignorant to what’s out there, but I’m sure he smells absolutely delectable. 😉
My comment was in response to Gin Princess, sorry for any confusion.
I guess that doesn’t seem like an asshole move to me. To know about the fan effort, he’d either have to be following Tumblr posts about it or be logged on Twitter at the time it was trending. I don’t blame any celebrity for staying far away from Tumblr (I wouldn’t want to know about strangers’ sexual fantasies about me) and it seems perfectly normal for someone who doesn’t use Twitter on a daily basis not to bother checking it on his birthday, of all nights.
And if it were intentional, I still don’t know if there’d be anything to condemn there. I think performers have an obligation to be gracious to their fans, but that doesn’t necessarily require the high level of engagement he used to show on Twitter. Frankly, some of his fans are pretty creepy, and it’s hard for me to blame the guy for wanting to put a little more distance in those interactions.
That’s how I feel about it too, lunchcoma. If he chooses to say “thank you” via Twitter, that is great. If not, no big deal. I think it was nice of those fans who chose to wish him a happy birthday, but at the same time he’s not obligated to acknowledge it. And who knows? He may send out a thank you tweet soon and then everyone will be happy!
Anyway https://mobile.twitter.com/jadygagas/status/432982433362083840
Benny is at donmar tonight
I’m surprised the place didn’t burst into flames.
Wait, that can still happen… I don’t think the show is over….
Can you imagine Benedict congratulating Tom “you were great but you still suck at driving” lol
Then Tom will retort about delayed gratification and eating cookies 😉
wow what a lucky audience! i’d burst into flames if i was there tonight LOL
and i would be thoroughly distracted from watching Coriolanus the play vs Ben the audience.
I think I would spontaneously combust too, windy! I wouldn’t know where to look! I would of course want to focus on the play but at the same time would want to sneak some unobtrusive looks at Cumby. My wish would be for them both to get up on the stage at the play’s conclusion and dance the tango together. Cumby in whatever he is wearing and Hiddles in all his blood-stained Coriolanus costumed glory.
Come on, over 70,000 tweets saying happy birthday and not one thank you tweet? I’m sure no one was expecting a full run down of what he did, or a pic or anything but a quick ‘Aww thanks guys’. It’s just kind of coloured my opinion on him. Loved him on Top Gear though.
Maybe he was with his family? He does come across as a bit of a mother’s boy.
Or maybe the twitter crazies have finally got on his nerves?
He might of forgotten his password.
Finding out if he’s followed anyone new within the last day is a good indicator if he’s really ignoring fans or is simply too busy
I hate that I know this but yes, he followed Jaguar UK on Sunday so he was online. I saw someone mention it. I don’t judge him for not tweeting, just thought it was a bit off. I think he’s distancing himself and I can’t blame him.
And Benny’s at the Donmar? Is a big cloud of energy forming over Covent Garden like in Ghostbusters? I swear if I hear a giant marshmallow man is seen stomping through London tonight, I will not be surprised…THEY CROSSED THE STREAMS!! Argh!
Zsazsa – chuck a bottle of wine over here, please, thanks…
Definitely a mothers boy but I think the fact that his mum was a single parent for some time played a part in that. I have noticed that men who have been raised by a mum on their own are often very close to their mothers. I really like that. They also shared love of the theatre.
You know, then again, he could still be celebrating….*wink-wink, nudge, nudge*…;).
@Ginger-Rose yeah because he’s swapped his black cardi for the Grey Cardi
Lets party like it’s 1999 for the new garment 🙂
i am sure he will, give him a chance.
His family/friends probably threw his phone away yesterday, i can imagine his phone is one those that beeps every 50 secs.
and, he is juggling a lot of balls at the moment, filming starting in toronto and he’s not there yet he’s probably learning another set of lines, character planning etc. Still finishing Coriolanus, and he looks knackered.
It took him a while to respond to all the you have reached a million followers tweets. I think as you say he is pretty busy at the moment. The security guard at the Donmar said he was last week.
When I went last week it was fans crowding around Mark Gatiss and blocking the exit as people were leaving that was a problem. The security guard had to request several time that hey move to let someone in a wheelchair out.
The behind the scenes of the Elle video – TH is on his phone quite a bit. I only follow about 50 people on Twitter and can barely keep up. How could he manage to follow over 1100 without help? Tom follows BC’s old girlfriend and Molly from Sherlock. ‘Bout time BC came to see him.
@browniecakes
his twitter feed will be carefully broken into lists.
1) those he care about -friends
2) those he has to promote
3) those he has to network with
4) the fangroups that actually show respects and do some charity stuff
5) and the 1million stupid fans that have nothing interesting to say, except ‘I love you, your perfect, and please follow meeee’
@’p’enny thanks for that I wondered what he thought of it.
And talking of Benny he is watching Coriolanus at The Donmar tonight . Lucky audience. That has raised the temperature considerably higher than Moffat, the Sherlock gang , Jim Jarmush, Josh Whedon ,Jessica Chastian, Guillermo del Toro and Helen Bonham Carter. The only person I got was Ed Milliband.
How do you know he is watching the play tonight? Have there been sightings?
Edit: never mind. I read up post. I was wondering when/if he were to see it.
I’ll mss the twitter feeds of Coriolanus and the celeb sightings, Damien Lewis and Helen McCrory, Billie Piper, and Laurence [who had a crush on Tom over Christmas, those tweets were funny] Fox, Kenneth Branagh, someone from Prison Break, Sam Mendes, Nicholas Hytner, Michael Granage [?] Edgar someone-off to make Ant Man?
it’s no wonder i couldn’t get a ticket ;-D
In meantime, i shall wait to hear the stories how Benedict and Tom got out of the Donmar tonight in one piece. And, which lucky pub they ended up in. Probably, came out holding hands with a written message on cardboard saying – were getting married. or something flaming for fans.
maybe they’ll both ‘come out’ (the way Mark Gatiss meant in his twitter reply to a fan) from Donmar in matching grey sweaters with a black sweater each tied around their waists, and leave in Tom’s Jag (the one that comes with Mark Strong) and rendevous at Ben Kingley’s just because he looks like he has the biggest pad for parties. Ah yes, ‘it’s good to be bad’.
Right that’s it @windy, I’m organising their wedding. Mark strong is the Jag chauffeur, Jane is the bridesmaid and Bunny is the best man. Elle magazine is doing the official coverage of the wedding and Mr security man is on the church door Incase Luke wants to stop the wedding.
We are all invited and Sixer is appointed to do the speeches.
Anyone else want to help to give them the wedding of the year?
Their vows should be constructed out of Shakespeare quotations, and Joey from War Horse should be the ring bearer.
@ZsaZsa, can I volunteer to be the bridesmaid as well please? And we can hold the wedding at Secret Squirrel’s garden? We need wedding favours too! Miniature frebreze for all guests to bring home? And cookie monster can hand out the cookies (assuming he doesn’t forget the stuff Tom taught him about delayed gratification and munch on all the cookies)… Who’s going to be the priest? And what about wedding music? Invitations?
I wonder if anyone actually pays attention to the play at those performances, lol
They’d be too busy panting.
Fabulously dorky or dorkily fabulous: either way with a double first from Cambridge he’s entitled 😉
adorkable
Love him.
Dorky looks so sexy on this man. Love him!
Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddleston in the same building? I love it. Hope the fangirls left Benny alone. Hope Ben got a chance to talk to Tom afterward.
Twitter was a bit boring this morning, there was just one tweet about the two heading into a restaurant and managing to avoid the stalkers.
As for bad fan behaviour Crimson Peak has started a twitter feed and carefully warned off his fans, via another fan post, that any advertisements for extras to star in the film are not an ‘in’ to hassle the actor. Words to that effect.
I don’t know about his fans tiring of Tom, but I think some of them are definitely borderline insane. There was a time Tumblr was fun to drop into, but reading some of their posts, it is getting scarily like reading a script for a psychotic thriller. Fanfiction – writing about characters that is one thing, but some of them obsessing and making up stories as if these people are really a part of their life and their sexual fantasies are plain scary. Is it me or that not normal?
Although I’m in complete agreement w/their text, it should be noted that “Crimson Peak the movie” didn’t start that Twitter account–it is a fan account.
Evidently Crimson Peak may, in fact, only be a working title, subject to change. Also, Jim Beaver is posting a charming production diary on his FB page.
@totallybiased
i found that out later in the day. It’s working title, i believe is Haunted Peak, but these things change and its a long time before this film actually comes out.
This is a sign of crazy things to come. i was hoping the crazy-fans would sleep for a while. And in regard to Jim Beaver’s FB I think he will get’s warned off for posting because it really is going to stoke the fan-flames, i suppose it’s all good marketing. But, they wont be happy when loads of nutters start hounding the studio.
Is Toronto about to get a huge tourist boost.
the tweets I read said they came out with their body guards who walked them down the street,
Agreed, ‘p’enny, Overly intrusive fan fiction is not normal.
In my opinion, writing fanfiction about real people crosses a line. It’s kind of creepy.
I’m glad those two managed to have a nice romantic meal without being stalked.
Off Topic Belle but have you seen the website with really funny bad fanfics? It’s a collection of really awful ones all nicely put together. Not sure if there’s any Hiddles one
I’m not sure if it’s the same one you’re thinking of, but I have been to one website that has hilarious excerpts from all sorts of fanfics. A particularly descriptive Harry Potter fanfic about Dobby and Hagrid comes to mind…
Could class it as a sort of scriptorial stalking.
So agree about fan fictions involving the actual actor being creepy but reading the wedding conversation above I am now quite keen on a Benny and Tom honeymoon story. Plus a reading on the Graham Norton show with graphic pictures as Hiddles and Benny sit on the sofa competing in the production of sexy blushes whilst polishing each others cheekbones.
“Twitter was a bit boring this morning, there was just one tweet about the two heading into a restaurant”
OMG they had a romantic dinner together afterwards, I CAN’T <333 MY HEART !!!! Cuddleston forever!!!!!
(lol, but seriously, how the hell do you find out all of this??)
it’s on twitter, just search Coriolanus and someone, somewhere is talking about the stalkers running after Tom and Ben through Convent Garden. I am getting some very wonderful images in my head. But, no one has a got a photo.
I am kind of glad they are not capitalising on their friendship and posing together, if they had it would have be all over the Daily Mail today. I sometimes wonder if it was fans running after them or paps.
“stalkers running after Tom and Ben through Convent Garden”
ahahhaahahahahhahahahaahahhahaa
oh god the awkwardness and absurdity
ahahahahahahahahahahhahahah
What makes this even funnier is that Donmar is on a very narrow street.
Their romantic dinner was the Ivy. I hope the restaurant didn’t mind the bad jumpers Benedict’s looked like he should be on Blue Peter [year of 1972]
I find it hilarious that these two dorky actors became heartthrob sensations and almost have to run away from a horde of screaming fangirls hahahaha
LOL THIS
Hahahahahaha best comment lol!
Yes, I am wondering that too. If they were not actors, they would appear as quite geeky….
Mark Gatiss apparently blew Ben a kiss last night at the end. We shall see tonight if his character keeps getting hit by the sword and other objects by PuddleTom tonight. Nobody openly flirts with PuddleTom’s fiancé EVER!
Ben might of encouraged it though due to the Chris Hemsworth scandal, where he was sitting next to Tom and may or may not have been holding hands with him. There’s been other reports of sightings of them together but only a blurry camera footage of Tom and someone in a helmet is not much evidence.
PuddleTom has always maintained he’s single but we all now know of his secret wedding to Ben is imminent.
Got to go, Ben’s insisting on wearing his flip flops and fishermans hat to their wedding and I’ve got the feeling Tom is planning on bringing out the dragonfly jacket as well.
ZsaZsa “Nobody openly flirts with PuddleTom’s fiancé EVER!”
LOL
well Mark wasn’t invited to the after-party, Tom and Ben left him behind in the boot of the Jag as they headed for late eating at the restaurant.
actually, since the jag has room for four bodies, ‘you know what , I mean” I wonder who else was flirting with Tom’s fiancé was stuffed in there?
Left in the boot with Sean Bean.
“Mark Gatiss apparently blew Ben a kiss last night at the end”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I can’t take this!! Mycroft blew his little psycho brother a kissy kiss!!! I am collapsing with joy!!!
To add to the scandal Martín Freeman and wife turned up at the matinee tonight and hinted to Tom about a threesome. Benny has broken off the engagement and poor Mark is trying to stop the stage from flooding as Tom gives free range to his emotions in the final scene off Coriolanus.
At the end of the performance Mark again reiterated that although he is out Tom and Ben are not gay but share an intense bromance which had led to a more intimate relationship and could the fans at he door tonight please not mention Benny if they want to be able to read their autographs when they get home
lol !
ah, second trip by Amanda. [I think]… secret crush 😉
I love this. there should be a special blog on the internet to keep these safe and special
Hiddles has a new interview with Time Out London, it seems, where he answers questions about obsessive fans and the like. He does confirm that he’s shut the social media door a bit – “I don’t want to sound like a twat, but sometimes you just don’t want to stop and take a selfie.” Good for him. As he becomes more famous, this is the natural order of things, I suppose, or else he risks becoming a Kardashian.
Only available right now as a photo of the article page on someone’s Twitter.
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That’s a really good interview. Thanks for sharing!
I disagree with Jammy. He doesn’t come across very well in that interview. I hope it was because he was tried but he was doing the exact thing he was moaning about. The reason why he has obsessive apart from the fact they are weird is because they want information.
If you don’t want to talk about something, don’t start a fire and moan when it gets out of control.
Ben needs to gag him more. That boy talks his way into trouble sometimes.
The stalking needs to stop otherwise he will completely Hollywood himself
Yeah jammypants, I thought the same. A good interview. Shorter than the Elle one but better and more insightful. He comes across as quite self-aware and also very aware of his fandom, the good and the not-so-good.
Thanks for the links, poppyseed.
ZsaZsa – what did he do that was the exact same thing he was moaning about? That he approached actors when he was young?
He’s spoken openly about being grateful to his fans, and there are plenty of reports of his kindness towards them, even recently. But there’s a difference between respectfully approaching an actor and the obsessive fan behavior that I think he’s referring to – the screaming, the pushing, chasing, stalking, telling him they love him and that there’s no one in the world more perfect than he, etc., that must feel awfully uncomfortable for any reasonable human being.
Perhaps he should not have said anything at all, but I rather like that he was frank in this interview. He comes across as more honest and more human, less the prince charming that that every other groveling female reporter tries to make him out to be.
Nah, we can agree to disagree ZsaZsa. I thought it came across quite frank 🙂 Nothing more. Nothing less.
And let’s be real here. Ben has said some dumb things too.
@Janeite, I agree. The Elle one was ok, but they sure asked him stupid questions, verging on Tiger Beat, giggling teen material at some parts.
@poppy, agreed!
No I agree with him being Frank with some of fans as it’s been long overdue.
I’m referring to what he doesn’t like talking about. He shouldn’t of talked about it in the first place.
It must be very frustrating for him at times but sometimes he does bring it on himself. Not that it’s an excuse of some people to behave towards him. I’m really pissed with Luke because poor Puddletom needs PR help more than ever due to his increasing popularity.
The trouble is that Tom didn’t expect his fame to become so big in such a short time. Imagine not bring able to do things that you used to do and always done and now it’s been all taken away. He needs proper guidance without sounding like in his words a twat.
Still better than the Elle interview. I do prefer the light hearted ones though when you can tell he’s realaxed
I know what you mean. I sometimes think it’s also down to the kinds of questions he’s asked as well though. He’s acknowledged that he “can’t say no.” That’s a problem for sure. Looks like he’s starting to firm up a bit though.
Here’s the thing. At least the thought hit me. If he elects to answer a question, he can at least put a stamp on the black and white things. If he chooses not to answer, the journalist will spin their own take on it. I’m not sure there’s a win on this, other than at least giving one’s thought on certain subject matters.
Argh. I know I’m coming across awfully anti-Tom at the moment and I don’t mean to, I don’t, but I kind of agree with Zsazsa.
It seemed he was sending a very clear warning to the crazy fans – long overdue I believe – but the rest, I don’t know, it just seemed very different to normal and I can’t put my finger on it.
And I still think that not acknowledging over 70k happy birthday tweets – (and before you say it, no I did not send one so this isn’t a personal grudge) – is just bloody rudeness.
Either way the Hiddle-gates are closing for good. Fans had better get used to only getting whatever Luke sends out.
Agreed, I love LOVE it, he sounds like a real human being for once, OMG!
p.s. he eats like a horse every day?!? eff you man, EFF YOU, where does all that food go to, his dong?! he’s skinny as a rake when he’s not obsessively working out for a role, and that’s to butch up, not lose weight! fml really
@Kelly, now that I’m in my later 20s I’m starting to understand the problem with sugar and eating and where it goes. Some people seem a bit luckier in that department with their never ending metabolism churning.
I respect Jammy’s opinion 🙂
I think everyone knows I’m more of a fan of his light hearted interviews. What I read here was a man very tired, probably frustrated with the whole fan fiasco and in need of a hug from his mother. The whole Elle issue didn’t do him anymore favours either judging from the comments I’ve read.
I’m sorry but I’m not one of those fans who claps like a seal at everything he says because let’s face it, i don’t agree with what he says all the time
Besides I’ve got a wedding to plan. I’ve heard we might be able to get Ken to do a soulful meaningful Shakespeare reading during the service.
Does anybody here want to try and remove Sean Bean from the wedding car trunk?
i think everyone’s right, it’s all happened too fast – in particular the last six months, since Comic-con/thor 2 it’s reached the moon.
I think this interview is the very first time, that i can recall, where he’s actually talked about his ‘obsessive’ fans bad behaviour [not everyday ones] i liked his expression ‘talking them off the ledge’ a bit. I think that is a good way of putting it.
i also agree he’s stoked the behaviour too, he charmed himself an army, and he knows it. It was all fun when it was part of the controlled Marvel universe at cons and promo tours. When it was kept behind barriers and tables, he wasn’t sat still long enough to be an everyday target.
But, it has no place outside/inside the Donmar and the fans were expecting the same level of Tommy-attention, ‘hugs’ and ‘selfies’ and he tried to meet that demand, initially. I really believe he did.
I remember when he started the back-door signings and he tried to catch the tube home, i thought then, you ‘plonker.’ That isn’t going to work! What went from 30 wanting his attention, grew to 100+.
And, the stoking continued when it came obvious how Josie Rourke and Tom sexed this play up, and they knew it. So, it could have been all boring, roman war-like, but no! Make it sexy and ‘good’, why don’t you? 😉 Twitter-Tumblr went crazy, then came those official photos 😮
…. but worst of all, then came the brilliant acting reviews in the UK press -Tom was actually taking this play seriously. 😀
But, Benedict has the problem now, poor guy. Sherlock S3 has sparked the crazies. I wonder if they will sex-up Hamlet- keep the punters awake. He’s already finds his obsessive fans ‘unnerving.’ but, he has more balls, i think he will turn round and tell them to ‘f-off’ I can’t wait to see that. But his career is in a strong enough place to survive that. Tom’s isn’t yet.
I hope Tom will come back to the fans with smiles again, but at the moment the bloke has closed up shop. It’s been too much. I do think he has been under enormous pressure, first lead play -NT Live, not a word wrong. Then came the Tomapocalypse… good grief
I will be forgiving towards him not twitting to his fans, as he should be doing and keeping his posts all ‘promotional’ i think he’s trying to calm the ‘obsessies’ down.
although, i don’t know how OLLA is going to go down next week… that may bring a whole new bunch of ‘obsessies’ the students! All those stoned cultural students loving midnight films and decorating their walls with posters the size of buses… think Jim and Tilda are soo cooool.
I’ve got no problem with his statements about fans. He tries to be gracious and kind, but sometimes he’d rather be able to go about his life and do his grocery shopping. That seems reasonable enough to me.
He did sound a bit snarkier in this interview than in many others, but I think people have seen that side of him before. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a little more that and some, but somewhat less, sweetness and light when he’s among friends. Like Lilacflowers, I’m mostly surprised that he referenced politics, especially since (unless I’m missing out on some very obvious context) it seemed to be unprompted. He usually seems to veer away from anything controversial, so that seemed like it might have been blurted out.
@Kelly, infuriating, isn’t it? My brother is like that too. He has to eat a full meal before bed or he loses weight in his sleep.
Apparently this was also in Time Out London XD
https://twitter.com/Ruther2/status/433246963812032512/photo/1
@Poppyseed, thank you for sharing that interview. I found his straight talk refreshing and there were many good points.
This: Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don’t take yourself too seriously and keep your head down! Nobody needs to know anything more – and – in a way, they don’t really want to.
Excellent and very aware. And I think it’s true, people don’t really want to have their bubble burst by seeing into his private life. Of course, it doesn’t stop me from speculating and reading what’s out there! It’s part of the fun of being a fan. 😉
“”Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don’t take yourself too seriously and keep your head down! Nobody needs to know anything more – and – in a way, they don’t really want to.””
I liked that as well. Nothing that new but I like the way he set it out. A nice polite way of saying mind your own business.
Having said that all the Donmar fan stuff is a lot of Chinese whispering. Somebody took a box of chocolates to the Donmar staff to apologise for the fan behaviour and they did not think that there was any. So basically a few incidents get repeated and re blogged and again and again and morph in the process,.
Yes, he phrased it well. Good philosophy to fend-off the fan tsunami and keep focused.
I haven’t kept up with the goings-on @ the Donmar, except when he was meeting fans, but I’m not surprised a little gossip goes a long way!
Am I right in thinking you saw him on stage last week? I am envious. I’ve yet to see the NTLive production, something to look forward to.
I liked that comment too, icerose.
And I think that the stopping of Hiddles’ appearances outside the Donmar was more the culmination of a lot of things rather than one particular incident. Tons of fans lining up every night, not all of them listening to the security guy, the presence of only one security guy not really being enough, possible health & safety issues posted by large numbers of people blocking streets and sidewalks, etc. And maybe Tom just got tired of it. He’s certainly not obligated to do it and he may have just requested that it be stopped.
@lunchcoma, it seemed to be in response to the questions about his education and being stereotyped because of it. I noticed that even in Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson threw both Eton and his grades at Cambridge at him as if he should have to defend where he went to school and how well he did. As if a twelve year old kid has a say where his parents sent him to school. I saw a program he did with Mark Rylance and a Shakespearean scholar around the time Hollow Crown came out and, for no explicable reason, the Shakespearean scholar responded to something he said with a rant about Eton, which he politely ignored with a smile. It just seems weird and it usually seems to be the male (and British) interviewers who do it. The female interviewers all just seem to gush and ask stupid questions. I’ve seen others whine about “posh bashing.” He doesn’t seem to do that exactly, just seems to be asking to be taken on his own merit and not stereotyped.
“…just seems to be asking to be taken on his own merit and not stereotyped.”
Yes, exactly that, Lilacflowers! All of that endless questioning about his education, background/family, and the whole “posh” thing has to be getting so tiresome for him. Heck, I’m tired of it too! I had forgotten all about that interview with Mark Rylance and the Shakespeare scholar until you mentioned it. I think it may have been a BBC thing, if I remember correctly. It was more of a discussion and less of an interview with Hiddleston and was quite engrossing. Glad you saw it as well.
@janeite, yes, it was a discussion about various themes in Shakespeare that came after several bits about the making of the Hollow Crown, somebody’s talk about whether Shakespeare or somebody else was really Shakespeare, and some other documentary-type clips, and then the discussion with the two actors, the scholar and a moderator. When the guy went off about Eton, near the end of the show, the moderator tried to cut him off and Rylance rolled his eyes and shook his head.
This sounds like the Newsnight discussion in 2012 with regular presenter Jeremy Paxman, Simon Schama the historian, Mark Rylance and Tom, just before the Olympics. It was a lively discussion, quite common on Newsnight (that’s the point). I didn’t see Paxman cut anyone short except for the usual reasons, ie they ran out of time (I also don’t recall Rylance rolling his eyes).
Just to let any non-Brits know, it’s quite common for people in the UK to “rib” someone for their background, the same as Australians do. I do get the impression that Americans particularly don’t get this.
Interesting that he chose to make a political statement in that interview.
Yeah, he’s usually really prepared for interviews, but I’m not sure he meant to get into that.
The Telegraph picked up on the political declaration and ran a blurb about it today.
Thanks for sharing, poppyseed. It’s a nice, short interview, putting several things into neat perspective, without all the unnecessary gushing that has gone on in other interviews, although, with the exception of the political statement, not really much new, just saying several things that have been said before with some frankness and rather colorful language, which doesn’t surprise me. And wow, wasn’t that a run-on sentence from me!
He is gorgeous. And he goes to Canada indeed, but I guess he be visiting England as no actor is needed on the set all the time. And I heard he started to follow some fan suddenly, which happens to be a very pretty girl, so who knows what new we will hear next time 😉
None of the cases I’ve seen have been Tom so I don’t know if this is what happened, but there have been a few of instances recently with celebrities accidentally following people who tweet them often. Or there’s something buggy in the twitter app, as a couple of my friends have people showing up in their feed who they never followed. Or maybe he just followed her, I don’t know. I do know from personal experience though that it’s really easy to accidentally follow and favorite things, and Tom has been known to not be particularly savvy in the twitter department. 😛
He’s not following anyone new. In fact he’s had a twitter cull.
Still not going to re-follow him when I can get the same information here. Twitter is a personal thing and if there If one place he can air his real feelings it is there. It’s not like he hasn’t before. I have a feeling that his hands is tied and not in a good way.
As he’s more famous he now needs a PR agency that can deal with it more instead of making matters worse for him.
Lets hope that Canada will give him the break from the limelight he needs
Maybe you right indeed I dont know. But she did not seem to tweet him that often 😉 I checked her history a bit. Above being pretty, she seems also very nice. And she fangirls a bit as well 🙂 Watched Coriolanus in December from the front row so maybe flashed him with her beauty 🙂
Anyway it would be extraordinary if he hooked up with someone outside the industry. Very refreshing.
I dig what you say on twitter. It sometimes unfollows ppl suddenly without the account owner’s part to it, so probably it may follow us well. Or someone may hack and follow. PPl do weird stuff sometimes. I do not follow much of his fandom group. Only Hiddlestoners and Loki Page. I believe Hiddless Goddes are the most crazy.
I also hope Canada will bring him break, but then again you think there are no crazy ppl in Canada? 🙂
@Lisa, so, you are stalking people he follows on Twitter to see what they look like?
So come on Lisa what’s her Twitter name? The only twitter fan account which isn’t obsessive is UK Loki. She’s normal some of the people she talks to isn’t.
Hiddlesmeme I class as being one of the crazy ones who used to tweet every hour on the hour. I’ve thinked they’ve stopped now since the Time out article thank god.
I have noticed that only some two days ago. She is not a fan – group. She is a very nice girl 🙂 And her name is Zara. I know that curiosity killed the cat, but it is an unusuall thing. Whatever happens I am rooting for it 🙂
Finally, fresh squeeze gossip!
Bring on the after-show sex-in-the-park-with-pretty-fan sightings!
Unfortunately I cannot obey your wishes. No such information around 🙂
@Lilackflowers First: No I am not stalking anyone, especially as we followed each other before he started following her. Two twitter is somewhow a public means of communication and all tweets are public to read unless someone makes it secured. So your theory failed. Sorry 🙂
If nobody wants poor Sean Bean – can I have him please?
You’ll have to share. Especially if he’s wearing leather trousers and has travelled back in time about 10 years, when he was still pretty toned. I’d still take podgy Sean though.
No. Sean is miiine!! *Harold Zidler voice*
Sean Bean timeshare?
Something tells me you will need to dress in black constantly. He dies a lot.
lolololololol, Lilac 😀
The Sean bean detector found him and Kelly patched him up for us.
But he’s due to die again in an hour do you’ll have to be quick with him 😉