Even though Benedict Cumberbatch directly confirmed the fact that he is NOT moving to LA any time soon – because of his friends, family and Sophie, in that order – The Daily Mail is still claiming that Bendy has bought himself a sprawling LA estate. The Mail has the photos too – go here to see. For what it’s worth, I think the Mail is just repeating the older story from another UK paper. I don’t even think the Mail realizes that Bendy shot down this particular rumor at the BAFTAs.
What else? Well, Benedict has a new interview with Nightline. You can see the video here, but I’m embedding it below too. It’s a really short interview and they go on and on about how Benedict is “famous on the internet.”
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He says he’s not on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram and that there lots of people on Instagram pretending to be him. But the Sophie part is interesting. When asked about Sophie in general, he says, “She’s great… she’s very cool.” When asked, “Even about the Cumberfollowing?” he goes off in what I can only think of as a warning to the most aggressive Cumberbitches:
“Yeah, she’s fine. True fans know that they’re treading on something which is very dear and private to me… yeah, I think it should be [private]. There’s somebody who’s going to come into the world as our child and I…I’d ask people to respect that fact.”
SHOTS FIRED! No, I tend to think he is trying to tell his fans to cool it a bit. We’ll see how that works out. Ha.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I must be a TRUE fan and I don’t even watch any of his shows.
Full stop. Do I see birthing hips?
Is this your new thing like moobs or the smell of snow on top of snow in Boston?
It’ll be like shelling comet peas.
No it’s always been my thing (not my thing!) and I’m counting on you to help me investigate. Maybe I’m just seeing narrow shoulders which also warrant inspection.
Narrow shoulders and an absence of curl. The absence of curl throws everything off.
I’ve noticed in the past that he has birthing hips, yes.
Sixer, Everyone wishes for whirled peas, so much better than war.
He’s always had them. It’s more obvious at a higher weight.
I really hope he does not keep his kid private.
The world needs a Baby Otters. Look how helpful they can be…
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/four-conversations-derailed-baby-otters?mbid=social_twitter
Ha!!
Of course he won’t. He wants his privacy but he also want to pimp his relationship etc when it suits him.
Apparently, one can become a TRUE fan simply by not caring. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to conduct experiments on what happens when you blow marijuana on bare-chested Charlie Hunnam and Tom Hiddleston, roll them in warm car fur, and cover them in freshly falling Boston snow. You know, for science. The smell must be intoxicating. No, I don’t need help.
Way too much work for a snow straddled woman who’s cat receives artsy mail. You take Hiddles, I’ll bring my pixie bob & my award winning Strawberry Cough and cover Hunnam, okay?
Do I get Óscar Isaac Hernández out of this deal, for no reason whatsoever? Because, YES, yes I do.
You’re not allowed to have all the smoldering swarthy artsy counter culture types, Kidoa. Oh speaking of which, did we discuss Colbert shirtless, hairy and without his glasses on? Had to do a double take. 😍😍
I did not see that.
Here ya go:
http://instagram.com/p/yu1fg2NOQq/
@mimif, deal. My artsy cat, Tom, and I will now drink chocolate martinis while watching our new governor try to throw more people under his snow covered bus fleet.
@kiddo, yes, you get Oscar Issac Hernandez, specially dipped in last night’s Boston snowfall. Oops, sorry, almost sent you Aaron Hernandez and that would not be good
That’s hilarious. But Colbert looks better than the Aflac Duck.
Giggling about the accidental Aaron Hernandez even tho I shouldn’t be.
@Lilacflowers I expect the five minute production to be up on the DVD by the end of the weekend, To top off the quirky avant garde approach can we have some Tom howling Hank Williams soulfully with shadows of his sax playing reflected in the snow and scattering of Shakespearian quotes wafting on to Tom’s chest as the marijuana hits those three hairs I love so much,
@icerose, our private activities are private and not to be shared on DVD or YouTube. As BC has pointed out, a TRUE fan would know and appreciate that.
While you are making your various plans with Tommy and Charles, I just want to mention that Jamie (my pet name for him) Norton will flying into Logan tonight. He’s coming to Boston to see me because, well, he heard that I was to be snowed in for who the eff knows how long. He wants to keep me um, company during my winter of NEED.
Now, that is how an Internet Boyfriend should roll!
@Green Eyes, do enjoy your visitor!
@Lilacflowers Never under estimate the power of his out of hours lover-I come with secret powers to achieve my aims -but if it bothers you I will recreate my dream avant garde experience on out next rendezvous
@icerose, you are scaring him.
I’ve only seen him in one movie, the current Oscar nominated role.
I don’t get the hype with this guy. He is talented though, but I didn’t feel any charisma. I don’t get it,
P.S. he and UMA could pass for brother and sister now, same face, lol
According to the ever so reliable mail the wedding is Feb 14th at a country estate on the 1sle of Weight -guests include Kiera Knightley and Martin Freeman who is best man
Yes icerose, some British media are reporting that today is Benny’s big day, that he’s tying the knot in the Isle of wight (a small posh island off the south coast of England) so will be walking the red carpet as a married man. He won’t be a Batch-elor any more ( sorry…). I’ll cope…
And for the honeymoon, he’s going to take her to see Fifty Shades of Grey….
i bet the chemistry and sex in FSOG is hotter than these two. kinda makes FSOG appealing in comparison
Uh oh, alert the ‘fan police.’
Ben, you beautiful tropical fish, you have to realize you’re going to make the ones you’re trying to push away more frantic and will push away anyone who wants to genuinely be your fan. Now ‘true fans’ will break into your home to send you gifts instead of just going to your PR’s office. They know where you live. Blurring out your house on google earth just makes it more obvious where you live. (haven’t seen it but just been told that his house is blurred)
dear ben.
shhhuuuuuutttttt uuuuppppppppppp
<3 me
Right?
He sounds like a complete moron everytime he opens his mouth. Shut up, Cumby. You ain’t all that, face like a long cob of corn like that, gurgh.
Ha! Couldn’t have said it better….
+3.
They can have all the privacy they like as far as am concerned. The more the better.
Amen
This idiot really thinks he can control anything about his fandom????
Well, then I really wouldn’t call those people his “fans”. But what do I know, I never experienced being a fan of any celebrity. Maybe being unhealthily obsessed is a basic requirement.
Cause you’re here to explain us what a “good ” fan should be.
As I said: “what should I know”. I don’t consider myself his fan, just liked him in Sherlock. Never saw any of his other stuff. But being fan of someone probably should mean that you are actually interested in what that person is saying, non? Otherwise you are not a fan of an actor, just a fan of something residing only in your head.
True fans respect his privacy more than he does with all the talking about his private life.
Buuuuuuurn! But yes, you’re right.
this
shill it, Cumby
^ this. A thousand times this. How do you take a man seriously when he says “respect my private life” when he announces his engagement in a newspaper, confirms a pregnancy via a tabloid, and talks about his private life at the drop of a pin?
Umm…past tense “Respected”.
Prior to him shilling out his personal life to the tabs.
Other than that, I agree with everything you said.
IMAO – He’s right. Family is special and private. It is now his job to make it private.
with SH tipping tabloids he is going to have a bit of a rough time.
It’s so her tipping them off lol. Scotland tabloids?
def SH side. you can pick: family – Daily fail (fail started digging on family’s history and all out of sudden started praising SH and BC – I guess they need to hide a couple of skeletons from the family and Sophie past), the Edinburgh thingy in her mom’s favorite, the tweeter account that was tweeting mirror is possobly ran by her theater friend, tumblr was ran by Gambles, showbizspy was used to lay the ground for the grand PR romance – that’s HW, page 6 NY times is HW, Vogue and Elle is AW+HW. … just take a pick.
But he’s so famous. Now I’m not a true fan? I wasn’t aware that celebs could pick & choose their privacy. Don’t blame the fans. Blame the media & the paps. If fans happen to see what they post or write, it goes with the territory of so called fame.
He sounds super in love – not that he needs to prove it to moi… Just blah blah when he talks about her.
Used to think he was a great humble actor but this last year has shown him to be quite a needy ***wipe…
You can’t control fandom, but you can choose not to fan the flames or manipulate (or try to…) your audience and you Mr Batch are doing both of those things constantly…
Many actors have shown privacy is possible… perhaps stop taking questions on your private life might be a start?
I love your name. It describes Mr. Cumby perfectly.
Now let’s describe Mrs. Cumby and we get the exact opposite 🙂
Haha thank you! It’s what an ex accused me of being… Funny I did not identify as submissive at all….
He can’t control the media or the paparrazi either. If they post a pic I will darn well look at it if I please!
I’m not a fan but I think he’s so right. I think people who think they have any idea about the state of his life and relationship based on a few red carpet appearances and the odd quote need to take a few seats.
Red carpet appearances are only a tiny piece of it. He has used his engagement and pregnancy as P.R. for months, constantly shoving it the public’s face, and he now wants to criticize people for talking about. He should have kept his private life private, now that he’s losing awards left and right and it’s doubtful he will win an Oscar, he wants to go silent because shilling his baby momma didn’t have the effect that he wanted.
If he’d never brought her to the RC events or announced his engagement or the pregnancy, I doubt we would have known otherwise.
True, but I don’t think she would have stood for it. She saw an opportunity to raise her profile and wasn’t going to miss it.
People have a right to speculate based on their public appearance which they both willingly attend. What I don’t understand is why he needs to say something like that ‘true fans…stay away’ – I mean is Sophie being stalked by his fans outside of public appearance? Are there paps outside they’re house 24/7?? The fact is these have never even been seen together outside the red carpet and airport pics so it makes me wonder what prompts him to say such things.
As baity as they are and as much as she mugs it up for the camera it’s hilarious that he wants to act like they are trying to be invisible. Ha!
Well, wasn’t someone on Tumblr talking about hiring a PI? Or speculating that the child is not truly his/she is faking it/other crazy stuff? I think that there is snarking and speculating and of course people have right to do that. But there is also a line between “fans” and “scarily crazy people” and maybe he tried to bring attention to it.
There are fans who have nutty theories like that who comment on this site. Like Benny boy is some level of famous that he would go to the extent of faking a pregnancy. And what I think most conspiracy theorists miss is that it is not mutually exclusive for the relationship/engagement to be legit AND for him (or rather, Harvey Weinstein’s team) to use it for publicity. It’s like when someone comes out – it’s generally very strategic/orchestrated. Doesn’t mean they’re faking being gay.
This is getting so ….. that whenever I read his interviews I just think “oh, shut the F up Ben, we get it”.
Wow….a body language expert would have a field day with the section he talks about her and the baby.
Turing: full on eye contact
Sophie and the baby: #jawseyes, looks around, then at floor
Also, he’s a raging hypocrite with regard to the nuttier fans (I’m talking the ones who do up presents and cards and send him stuff for the baby…). He baits when it suits him and then gets pissy when it doesnt.
this is why there needs to be a thing where no fan shows up to something and he gets all pissy.
We should boycott Dr. Strange and see how that goes over.
Absolutely not. I’m looking forward to that. If you research Strange’s backstory, it has the potential to be a very good film. Maybe Black Mass lol.
“We should boycott Dr. Strange and see how that goes over.”
Haha you mean all 30 odd of you? Yep that will show him.
I think this whole situation is so weird. I don’t know who here first said it, but it’s been a buzzkill.
maybe that’s why he wants fans to stay away from him and sophie… so we’d stop feeding the rumors about their awkward relationship. If we can see the obvious from red carpet, imagine what it’d be like off the red carpet….oh wait….i believe we have several witnesses already!! LOL
Before during the sgf hunt, I thought SH was the one who wanted to keep low but after seeing her smug face on the red carpet and with wintour even, I though nah-ah. But BC has been openly discussing his enGAGment and been baiting about the cumberbaby, why he is suddenly doing a double take?
I picked up in that, too. No eye contact at all when talking about the bundle o joy. Or rather the “somebody”. He can’t talk about either of them in real, normal terms.
Exactly.
‘Privacy’ is the new ‘entitlement’.
If he really wants privacy, stop trying to be famous and just be a stage actor. Stop giving intereviews like they are going out of style.
This!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+1
Bendy- STAAAHHHHP. This Oscar campaign is really killing my affections for all things Cumberbatch. I’ve never been swoony over him, but I love him in Sherlock and interviews before this mess of a campaign. Now I’m just irritated by him.
#bangs head and runs
I’ve had it with this man, he says respect his girlfriend, blaha bla and yet he’s supporting her desire to be turned into People/Hello magazine fodder.
True fans? Like the ones that go to movies, read your interviews, might ask for an autograph (politely)? The ones you seem now to find an inconvenience? I agree, the crazes need to be reigned in. I would say the beat way would be to act natural, be polite where neccessary, and not blame this invasion of privacy on people who are taking in what you yourself ate putting out. True fans are probably the best defense against the crazy ones.
The crazies won’t leave because they think this doesn’t apply to them because they aren’t fans they’re “his friends”
I know. But discouraging them is on him and his people. Don’t talk about it, don’t answer questions you don’t want to, don’t indulge. He stopped doing that. Now his private life is all we talk about. They can’t totally be stopped, but leave it on the internet and at comic con, premeirs, whatever. He has had a part in this, and he doesn’t seem to care what it does to her. If she wants it fine, whatever. But I don’t see a rartional person wanting it
This^^^^^
He really needs to stop talking, ’cause it doesn’t get better over time.
I just don’t think he is a very insightful person. It seems like he is incapable of viewing his actions and words and the impact they can have in a PR context. It seems to be a very egocentric view.
I really hope they get married this weekend and he goes underground after the Oscars. And someone gets him some serious media training.
Since I expect them to marry, might as well get it over with tomorrow and then he’s got something to distract from the fact of not winning any major awards for Turing.
Ben, next week on the Oscar red carpet:
“Hey, who cares about the Oscars, I just married my baby mama. I know I don’t look excited about it, but that’s because I’M really tired from having to interrupt MY honeymoon for this awards ceremony, but Harv insisted and he’s the boss, at least until after the awards are handed out. Now please leave us alone — real fans should not care about my private life — because I don’t want to talk about my wife, my baby or last weekend’s wedding for that matter. I’m private about these things.”
i think he kind of did stop talking, this had to be taken from when he did ellen like a month and a half ago. what little recent stuff there’s been is all work related
that being said, im fine with the baby being off the table. they ve not been giving info out on that
Agree J. I don’t want to know name, see pictures…let the child have a private childhood as this has been over the top public.
@mtnrunner, I think you are spot on. That is exactly his sound bite for the Oscar red carpet. Ugh. It’s too bad he won’t be able to summon up the appropriate level of joy or wedded bliss or whatever the requisite emotion might be or I might be disposed to give him the benefit of the doubt and believe him.
Yes. Exactly! RDJ and Johnny Depp had much bigger fandoms and not once did I ever hear them complain about their fans. He should use them a role models instead of Clooney and Pitt.
I’m so much of a fan that I don’t give a f*ck.
Nope. Not allowed to do that!
Just tell us what did you name that baby Bendy and we will leave you alone. How can anyone top “Benedict”. Lawd, I don’t know!!!!
Name him/her Q. (I’m hilarious)
You know, at one point I really did genuinely like him, proper crush and everything, but now…he just seems like an actual whiney twat. So many celebrities manage to find the balance between distance and appreciation for their fans, but Benedict seems to expect the fans to find it on their own, and that’s not fair.
To be fair, though, a some of his fans are complete and total nutters. Look at some of the cray cray comments on this thread, if you need proof. Or just visit tumblr. If I were him, I’d want breathing room too.
Diana – “cray, cray comments” are one thing. It’s just gossip – which is part of life for everyone. Just more so for celebrities. The people he has the right to feel uncomfortable with are the people who try to insert themselves into interaction with his friends’ social media accounts. Or the people walk through his neighbourhood and show up and bother his staff with random weirdo gifts. But let’s be real: his friends should have recognized straight away that interacting with any fans would set an unwise precedent.
Diana – the ‘total nutters’ you speak of are the maniacs buying him ores St, baking him cakes etc, I don’t see ‘cray cray’ on his thread. What’s cray cray is a man using is Valentine’s Day circus wedding for publicity whilst moaning about privacy.
@ Oops: Yes, I agree. It just seems a bit silly to me, though. A lot of people seem to be taking it personally, that’s he’s getting married. He was never going to marry a random fan from Tumblr. Surely everyone knew that?!
@ Kat: Agree to disagree, I guess. There’s nothing wrong with a Valentine’s Day wedding. There is a lot wrong with the intense venom directed at Sophie Hunter, for daring to exist and be in a relationship with Benedict Cumberbatch. I don’t even like him tbh, but the delusions on display in this thread are just freaking ridiculous.
Diana: +1. These are by far the weirdest threads on this site. A shame, because Celebitchy was always relatively free of cray-cray.
* grabs popcorn *
Visiting from Hunnam’s Cat Smell thread (yay, Charlie on CB!).
I see, Benedict is still saying stupid sh*t. How hard is it to just say “no question about private life”?
But I’m truly starting to feel sorry for him. I mean if he’s actually marrying HER (maybe tomorrow)? The woman he thinks is “cool”. His wedding day will be the worst day of his life. He’s marrying someone who he wouldn’t have chosen to be his wife in any other circumstance and someone who’s not the love of his life (or even the love of his life at the moment, I suspect). Wouldn’t want to be in his shoes on that day…
If they are marrying now, it’s either timed for Oscars (why, I cannot imagine) or Mum Hunter is pulling the strings (they seem somewhat religious or “religious” because it serves their purpose to get a millionaire marry their Trust Fund Baby). Ugh..
Talking religion after you got pregnant after a few days of dating or lived with a man for seven years?
Whats the deal with Miss Hunter? Don’t know her. Whe is he marrying someone who he wouldn’t have chosen to be his wife in any other circumstance and someone who’s not the love of his life? Please fill me in on the details.
She looks like such a “perfect” woman. Yawn.
He’s marry her because she got pregnant after a few dates. Other than that she is only special to her mother.
I have been wtf since October but after seeing her look of pure hatred at him in that audience shot on Sunday night and his reaction, I felt really sorry for him. I believe he is going to marry this woman and sweet Jesus what a way to start. This is supposed to be the heart eyes honeymoon period. I’ve only ever seen bitter divorcees look at each other like that.
It was no surprise really, this isn’t based on love, however they’re trying to sell it, but I saw such despondent resignment on his face. Just sad.
As much of a twat I think he’s been, I think he’s a good guy and this has been a bit..bad.
I have seen that video, and all I saw was a woman with an extreme form of resting bitchface look at her fiancé. So many people are so eager to see everything in a negative way!
I apparently have Resting Bitchface, so strong that I have been told that I was seen giving people a “go to hell” face, when in actuality I wasn’t even looking at the person in question!
They are an odd couple. I hope they are happy, and that they have a healthy and happy baby. My cumberbitch care died months ago.
She doesn’t have RBF. She has WBF: willful bitchface.
@CL
Erm, how is that ‘resting bitch face’? She very obviously and purposely shot him a very nasty look. That’s a fact. I’m not sure how you can’t see that.
I too have seen that video. And I am one who is totally aware of how I look every minute in public. If I were annoyed with my bf & wanted him to know it, I would have done the exact same thing!
”There’s somebody who is going to come to this world as our child…” Gosh, I hope they they cast somebody who’s good enough for this role. When are the auditions, I wonder?
Honestly, how awkward is his wording when it comes to SH and now the baby??
I heard they’ve cast the fake baby from American Sniper.
The fake baby inherited its mother’s acting talents.
At least Fake Baby won’t cry when Mummy and Daddy fight!
LOL @ Ingrid!
I’ve just spent 8 hours in a fairly boring workshop. Thanks for the laughs, Ladies!
Maybe it’s because he’s not the father. So it’s only “as” our child. Not really OUR child. If I were a lawyer, that would be my interpretation of his wording.
I’m still holding out that may come to pass, that he’s not the father
The fake baby from American Sniper is busy. Apparently it’s on a magazine cover with Christina Aguilera this week.
Why is it that since this relationship started, he sounds like English is his second language? I’m trying to place his syntax… German? “It is the baby we are to be having.”
LOL!
Maybe it’s the pictures, his face, or the way he photographs/interviews, but this just seems so sad to me. Like I’m use to the whole “give us privacy thing”, but the amount of fan torture over Sophie that he constantly has to mention her saddens me. I hope he’s dealing with it well.
Talk about reining in some Oscar Sympathy votes, he really doesnt do or sound well under such an intense spotlight. Maybe they should prep him better.
When you put it that way, it sounds like he’s been using Sophie and the baby as a shield to ward off his fans and I can sympathize with that. But he’s also selling them both to the public hard…so he can only blame himself for his lack of privacy. Telling fans off for that will only make the nannies more aggressive towards curious would be fans and by standers.
I don’t understand where it’s coming from unless they are hooked on reading about themselves on the internet. No one sees Sophie unless they are together because no one cares. She is baity and mugs for the camera. If she wants privacy then stop sitting in the front row at fashion shows and running after paparazzi in airports. Then all he has to do is stop giving baity interviews to People, Hello! and every other magazine and newspaper in the universe and they’re set.
+10!
He was on Facebook. I saw many public photos of him with his Olivia Poulet there. Not sure if he is still on Facebook, but I hate celebrity who pretend they are on social media
Yeah she’s cool, very cool…like, compeletly cold.
You win!!! 😄
Cooler than being cool? ICE COLD. Allrightallrightallrightallrightallright. (sorry had to go back to my youth)
” I’d ask people to respect that fact( his privacy)” Ok, now how about YOU respect your own words, sparing us this oscar campaign spent talking an awful lot of time about your private life? God, i am not even a fan of him and yet he manages to annoy me the same, lately.I have to say, someone like, say, Leonardo Di Caprio is likely problematic, but at least he keeps his words, he likes his privacy and we don’t get to see his privacy and stop.
PR damage control in 3…2…1…
Before I forget, there was that girl on tumblr complaining about how Sophie took Bene away from her so she couldn’t get her selfie with him, and was blaming SH for it. Boo-Hoo how sad! Mind you this was the same girl who praise BC and told a reporter how pretty SH looked right after NY premier of TIG….so I’m side eyeing this entire article as PR bait to reel up the fans and make noise –Oscar voting remember!!
It’s so weird how that popped up on Tumblr again, isn’t it? I don’t think he needs damage control for this. This is part of the “I have crazy fans” pr narrative that’s been going on since the beginning.
yeah it was very strange for that girl to do another 180 and go back on her word. At least now we know why. I think he will do something to charm his fans back and there will be another article on how much ‘BC loves his fans’ kinda pr damage control. I really hate it how they’ve used his fans from the very beginning to stir rumors and use us shamelessly for his publicity stunt and yet he still gets to blame us for it like it’s our fault. Not cool BC.
He been very off-putting from a fan standpoint for the last 6 months or so. To the actual fans, not the crazies. He doesn’t understand that he’s not getting rid of the crazies, he only turns off the normals.
He doesn’t understand much of anything.
Viki: He will be all lovey-dovey and sh*tting rainbows at the Sherlocked con in April. That is going to be a major suck-up fest to the old fanbase
Didn’t that girl come forward and say she made up that story?
You know what’s weird? I think the wedding news is going to be their only effort of damage control. I really think they have zero respect for the little people who banded together to champion this guy to the big leagues – while crowd funding his side gigs. They think we’re bunch of easily distracted lemmings.
well thankfully i never gave him any money or promoted him on social media.
Ladies, off topic but would like to point out the Crimson Peak trailer is now out. Have a good weekend. Got it off Twitter.
It looked so good. Thank god Pissybatch dropped out. Tom seems to be a perfect fit.
@Ingrid- IKR? As I was watching the trailer, for maybe the 5th time, I briefly imagined Cumby as Sharpe and got an immediate and profound case of the “icks”. Sometimes the casting gods smile on us mere mortals and give us what we need. Is it October yet? Can somebody just take my money already?
@Darya -Yeah, Tom is conventionally handsome, so he can play a creepy character and still appear dreamy, but Cumby? He’s already creepy looking in his normal mode (what is his normal nowadays is another question all together, LOL), imagine him playing that level of creepiness with his looks… It would be horrifying, and not in a good way, I suspect…
Somehow, the image of Cumberbatch in that sex scene in the trailer just does not work.
Tommy is deliciously creepy in that trailer. I want to see the rest of that sex scene with Mia too. So glad Cumby dropped out so we can enjoy a Hiddlesfest instead.
Does it seem like they gave away too much in the trailer? The ghosts, the house, the sex…Its not going to turn me off any, but hopefully that was a true tease and not a summary of the movie in 90 seconds. And yeah, why in the world didn’t they go with TH in the first place? BC would have just been wrong. Hope people stop making fun of TH for taking BC’s “sloppy seconds” now.
TH’s choices seem more daring, left of centre (OLLA, HIgh Rise). BC seems to be stuck in wanting to be a Hollywood star. Bad idea Ben, terrible.
“MOST of them are sane and intelligent”.
I find this SO rude, classless, patronising and arrogant.
“Rude, classless, patronising and arrogant” is the official slogan of the Cumberbatch Oscar Campaign 2014-2015
Haha! 👍
If he’s so private, why did his stylist change his cover photo to a vintage wedding photo?
That dude is plain weird. Why is he retweeting naked Robbie Williams and steve mcqueens nob? Also, his whole Twitter account is basically info on BC. I’m starting to think grumblebatch isn’t too hot at choosing his company.
I can’t stand sycophants in general (it is SO possible to make connections without kissing up), so his baity lower tier friends are always on my bad side. Not James Rhodes. I’ve met him and he’s amazing. I also like Patrick Monroe and Tertius Bune. But, everyone who isn’t super close to him I just don’t like.
That dude is plain creepy. Answering nanny questions, the wedding photo, nfo on BC – but of course he does respect BC’s privacy and all.
I’m thinking the wedding story is true, but it IS VD maybe that’s why he changed it.
And I agree the stylist is a sycophant. I understand he needs work, and maybe even BC allowed him to do this, but there are discreet, classier ways of getting clients. It looks like he wants to build a social media high profile as much as have a career. Whatevss
What? BC’s stylist is giving out info about him? Why is he still employed? Come to think of it, he should be fired for not only being a loudmouth, but if he’s the one responsible for BC’s casual looks he should be out of business. And that kinda says a lot about him and his team if they put up with it for this long; they’re really not about privacy at all.
I ran a fan club for a well known Canadian actor awhile back and can attest to “crazy fans” (calling MY house in the middle of the looking for him, yet I lived in America. It was like, really?) But as I learned over the years, act nice, say, “Sorry, he doesn’t live here. Ta. Good night.” Click. Never engage as it only makes it worse. I didn’t want him to lose fans because I was rude as his career was just starting. 🙂
However, Bendy doesn’t quite seem to get his pompous attitude is turning off his normal, non-stalking fans, who you know, actually like his acting. I get he wants to protect his future wife and kid, but the attitude is grating. What happened to Bendy the big dork who liked interacting with fans? That London con is going to be a trip.
However, if he did buy that house before the wedding, good on him. It can’t be claimed as community property in CA.
This is nothing to do with protecting anything. If he wanted to protect his private life, he wouldn’t have brought it into this campaign at all.
He’s just pissy because he’s being seen as what he’s become..fame hungry and tiresome. And people are sick of seeing articles on sophie hunters latest imaginary project rather than Turing’s influence on the modern world and the subsequent agonising path to suicide.
“TRUE FANS’ WILL RESPECT MY PRIVACY WITH SOPHIE HUNTER” – then lead by example and keep your mouth shut. It’s not that hard, you simpleton.
THIS
Points for the use of “simpleton” lol
He told his fans if they liked him they had to like her and now they are told to respect their privacy- the one he shuffed down our throats hard for the last 6 months.
Besides pics on the RC, airports and that fashion event/ Chanel, when did anybody ever bother her? Not a single pic of her anywhere. So who are those super crazies that stalk her? If not for him, nobody would know who she is.
The classy move would have been to keep her away from all those events he schlepped her to. Then after the baby is born announce that he has a girlfriend/fiance/wife and a baby- just like that- no big deal. That would have shown that he really cared about them and did not use either one of them for PR. I know, that would not have given her any exposure, that she seems to crave so desperately, but he is the star, he should have made that clear from the get-go, that she is part of his private life- not his business.
I like Sherlock, Ben, not so much anymore. He turned out to be just another arrogant, snobby actor that thinks he can tell his “fans” what to do and when.
Newsflash, some of your fans ( you know they are actually real people, right?) have a brain, and they don’t just believe whatever you or your inadequate PR team try to sell to them.
I mean Karon, I am sure she works hard, but she is supposed to stay in the background, not appear in pretty much all his RC pics- the hightlight was last years Oscars. No PR persons boobs should overshadow the actor they are trying to introduce to a wider audience. Most people referred to him as the goofy guy doing the photo bomb whose date had a “no bra policy”. PR persons rule 101: Thou shall not show their bosom in public.
“The classy move would have been to keep her away from all those events he schlepped her to. Then after the baby is born announce that he has a girlfriend/fiance/wife and a baby”
yeah, they should have handled some things differently, but you cant do that. you look off your rocker or ashamed.
J,
You wouldn’t look off your rocker or ashamed. You’d look like someone whose private life is just that. Private.
What’s off your rocker about not sharing your personal life with the general public?
I think it would simply show that he would like to keep his private life to himself and not pimp it out. What he discloses and what not is really up to him and his PR people.
kat, because it’d be forced out anyway. public records, you can’t hide a legal wedding or a birth.
it would look bad, like he hid her out of shame or to keep his image for his woman fanbase, and also encourages the press to dig around like there was no tomorrow. think everyone’s reaction to the sudden engagement times 10. the general public would not attribute it to privacy but weirdness or paranoia
imo they have been okay with the baby so far though. just appearing in public pregnant is how a lot of couples do it, but they’ve not done what celebs sometimes do, like giving out other info– gender, name, due date, etc. beforehand
They have managed to keep SH completely out of sight between public appearances. If not for LFF and all those other RC sightings, their announcement and the tabloid stories supposedly planted by sources, we would not know that she is his fiance. If she had the baby under her name, nobody would know that it is his child.
To think it is out of shame depends how someone looks at it. I would think he is just really private about it.
Um, nope. Why would shame be attached to it? Not parading her on red carpets doesn’t equate hiding out of shame. He doesn’t owe the public dnt thing. What’s the difference between just being seen out with her pregnant in every day life as opposed to posing at a media event? Nobody cares about her anyway. She wasn’t and still isn’t photographed. The media are sniffing round because they’ve both courted them.
I think majority of the public wouldn’t bat an eyelid and would appreciate that he doesn’t sell his personal life like so many other actually private celebrities.
They are 100% playing with media. Actually famous women may choose to go on a red carpet pregnant, but SH isn’t famous. Nobody would care if she was there or not.
It’s a very public and tacky way of grabbing attention and telling the world whilst in the midst of a huge media and Oscar campaign.
And she was thriving on the whole baity aspect of it by coquettishly holding her bag at midriff height. It was game playing..not straight out honesty and openness.
Leaving aside the obvious hilarity of a man who’s timed personal announcements around his Oscar campaign and provided endless bizarre soundbites in the process, now declaring that those who respect him shouldn’t discuss his personal life..seriously you couldn’t make this up…
The sentence itself doesn’t even make sense. “True fans know that they’re treading on something that’s private” .. What is going on in his head. I mean..really.
And and this coming from a man who’s quite clearly been complicit in some very obvious games, including a red carpet pregnancy reveal, a look at us, don’t look at us at LFF, an engagement announcement leading into a huge press tour, a bunch of convenient info nuggets handed to the gossip columns. etc etc
He was hinting heavily at a pregnancy at BIFA and then oddly announced he was going to be an expectant father during a red carpet interview. Um..thanks for that…but we only asked if you’d seen Paddington.
And the Sun saying he’s marrying tomorrow lmao.
“in secret” My laugh of the week.
So private, much secret. Just all their friends shared very “mysterious” tweets and Mom Hunter, of course, called the Sun.
God I love this family, they make The Addams seems such normal, sweet people…
The Addams had real family values lol
And he gets to be the biggest idiot in this century (in public not in privacy).
This was being speculated on tumblr long before this article. I’m sure the press has people watching/trolling blogs for info. Unless BC or someone close is leaking it to the press.
Like his in-laws?
I normally don’t get into this end of it, Felice, but the Mirror has the wedding thing and they are who Hunter’s family talked to back in November.
Leaks. Like a freaking seive. There’s been social media hints for ages. A great deal of them apparently coming from people directly connected to them. Seriously? Your stylist twitters baity sh!t about your wedding after having your friend promote your page to your fans – and the “false” fans are the problem?
I don’t hate the dude, but pretty much no respect left for him.
Even when he was asked what have you learned in 2014, he spoke about her (that creepy ‘my heart, my centre, my forever more’). He could have talked about Alan Turing and TIG instead, if he wanted to be soooo private. He talked about her at ESA instead of mentioning the people there who actually HAD WON something, like his alleged best friend TH (to name just one).
He’s constantly yapping about his personal life and then moans about privacy.
Like he constantly moans about overworking, yet he spent most of 2014 doing everything his publicist asked him to do. There was a point I was thinking we may see him playing doubles at Wimbledon, he was bl**dy everywhere: F1 in Malaysia, Chelsea Flower Show, Hay Festival, Apple Store q&a, Sherlocked convention, and I could go on.
He should really make up his mind what he wants, because he doesn’t seem to know.
My two cents: he knows very well his fame is due to Sherlock and his fans. If said fans suddenly turned the other way, he would be just another talented Brit with a plummy accent. Let’s face it Ben, you are not the only one out there! Which is why, on one side, you want your fans to pipe down, but on the other, you are scared if they do, you will be left with a handful of dust.
Fact is, we are starting to see what’s beneath the surface and it ain’t that pretty.
Sometimes he doesn’t even have to talk. His crazy fans & the paps cling to bunnie dust like it’s PR fodder. If he wants fame, that’s just part of it. He can’t control it & shouldn’t presume that he can. Let it go…..
I am not his fan, but I find it a bit condescending when he says that true fans understand. Or when he says that “my fans are intelligent, they respect my privacy”, or something similar. To me it sounds like he would be talking to children and trying to get them to behave using Jedi mind tricks.
Getting married tomorrow on the Isle of Wight according to Mirror newspaper (No Times announcement then? )
why would anyone get married on the Isle of Wight at the end of Winter? beats me – i can think of nicer places than a prison island full of seagulls. Sorry Isle of Wighters….
I, for one, think Isle of Wight suits them.
Prison island is after all the metaphor for their relationship, right?
@penny, I came here to say exactly that. I’ve never been, and it looks like it might be lovely in summer, but it looks like one if the last places I’d have a wedding at this time of year. And to subject your guests to an out of the way locale, in dismal weather, for the sake of ‘privacy’ is just nutty. At least find something that’s an easy trip from London. Maybe they got a screaming deal on the venue?
On the bright side, the next 24 hours are going to be fun to watch- since I really doubt this “privacy craving” couple will let the occasion pass with some photos finding their way to some publication.
Internet explodes in 3…2…1…
mirror is super tabloidly, hopefully they’re not going to crash someone else’s wedding because there is a lot of them going on 2/14
Oh god. So they did go and inform the tabloids. Oscar trifecta complete. I was totally expecting this but am still flabbergasted. I guess I was holding onto the hope that he wasn’t Kardashian II.
I feel like every single wedding picture of him will look like “Sound of Silence” is playing on loop in his head.
Well, apparently this will be epic. What a way to stay private and classy. Isle of Wight , confirmation by the Mirror-only thing lacking is a celebrity wedding performer.
I’m not surprised by anything at this point. Everything in the tabloids always ends up being true with this pair (prob bcuz they’re being fed info). I hope they do get married and this whole thing can be done with. I think they deserve each other.
Give it time, scarf girl. I’m sure Weinstein is friends with Elton John…
Interesting, M&A won’t be there, neither will Keira (she’s in LA) but all of SH’s friends seems to be. And this was meant to be *HIS* wedding… oh, well…
Oh to be a fly on the wall at that wedding…..
And people say she’s not talented. It took her only 6 or 7 months.
I bet the wedding is true. I bet the Mirror has something on one or both of them, and BC is feeding them info to keep them at bay.
I go back and forth whether she got knocked up on purpose or if this is an arranged marriage. I really don’t know but considering the timeline it’s not “true love”.
Forget the Kardashians. He finally got the East Enders role of a lifetime! No, like, really – for the rest of his life. ROFL.
We may never know which of his friends will be there because – somehow – *most of them* manage to be discreet! Sophie and her friends are too artistic for discretion. They yearn to breathe free – always living on the edge…. Boundaries like discretion are oppressive to the human spirit. This is a piece called, Sophie’s wedding to a movie star: Exploring the quaint human notion of boundaries between people.
Critics say the most brilliant part of it is how Sophie projects the “art” back on to society, while simultaneously gas lighting it. Exactly who is the soul of indiscretion? Is it the media? Society? Pop culture? The Christian Right? Trust funds? Certainly not God’s greatest benediction to the world, the Cumberbatches!
nah. I think senyorita fed that to the mirror like she did the sgf.
It’s clearly BC/SH/their PR feeding info to the press. And SH was never the ‘SGF’. That was back in April a good while before she was around. Some pretty obvious groundwork being laid for some cheap press there.
Regarding singer: someone on tumblr mentioned the Elbow singer. Not sure where they received that info
This is the worst, snarkiest side of my personality speaking: I cannot wait for details to be printed in a tabloid magazine. I was fully expecting the, to get married on Valentine’s Day but I still held out hope it would be private. But no. No.
Yep. Looks like a lot of people are upset. I’m feeling it too. Not because he wants privacy. Of course, he doesn’t deserve to have his family life pried into. But his whole attitude surrounding the issue is completely misplaced. If he’s annoyed or upset with someone, it should be himself. Every actor has to try to build some kind of fan base. But he went hog wild and kind of developed a sort of “relationship” with his fandom. Dynamic. Whatever. He courted this. His friends’ interactions on social media courted this. As someone already said, they continue to bait his fans for followers with hints at what else? BC’s personal life. When it was for crowd funding it was all well and good. But I guess they didn’t think ahead…
After all that yawping about sharing the joy of his future wife and child with the press, he finally realizes that was a bad idea now that he’s very famous and actually has a family coming. Good. That’s okay. It’s fine to take it down a notch or 5. But he did it the wrong way. You can’t go from smiley, goofy over-sharer to the ice prince of cloak & daggers who just such a martyr for gracing the peons with his presence and expect it to work. Not peacefully. Not to maintain a sufficient strength of fandom that he still needs.
Who knows about how all of this abracadabra wife & kid stuff happened? BC, Sophie & the people close to them. I’ve been thrown off by the way everything went down too. But turns out – Looks like numbie over there didn’t realize he’d actually have to put effort into positively changing the dynamic between him & his fans. All this distance, coldness & general brattyness? It’s all about him completely blaming his fans for doing what they had always done, what he encouraged them to do – interacting with him! You can even marginally see it in journalists’ faces during these interviews. Like, “um, so yeah. Ok, dude. No offense. It’s just usually normal to congratulate people.Not just celebrities – people. Ask them the short version of their love story, if they’re having a boy or girl.”
I am guessing the statement may have been pointed at two specific conspiracy bloggers who seem to reach out to anyone affiliated with him online. Or the people who blew up his spot on Instagram at James Rhodes wedding. That’s fine too. They take it waaaaaayyyyyy over board. But he needs to take responsibility for his part. How do they know to contact those people period? Right?
True fans. What a stupid concept for a celebrity to espouse. You can’t expect your fans to only be there to give you money & support your career while you’re actively show your dreaded contempt for them, all day. Every day. What a disappointment this one turned out to be. He actually had me fooled.
At this point I’m happy to say he deserves the misfortune he gets in this relationship for wh*ring out his private life, and generally just being a douche around marrying someone because you knocked them up. Enjoy a 50% income lifestyle, Benedict.
This Nightline interview just proves how unprepared he’s been for this whole Oscar campaign. Nobody who understands PR even a tiny bit would diss any of his fans (no matter what they have done or said) at this stage in the game. If he doesn’t want to talk about baby and mama, then it’s Karon job to tell reporters up front that those topics are off limits; but she is not doing that. Karon is either out of her league or doesn’t give a sh!t about him or his image anymore.
She was out of her league from the start with Weinstein.
I agree 100%. Once she was put together with the Weinstein people they took over and made it work fo them. I don’t think they care about is image once this campaign is over. They find the next actor to groom as their golden boy/girl.
Karon is left with the mess that has become his life.
Getting hitched on valentines day is the height of ick. Especially for someone who wants to be private, its like an international holiday of weddings.
Are we taking bets if there will be pap shots or official mag shots?
I think both. You know, for maximum exposure. Oops, I mean privacy. Bad fan, sighs, bad fan!
No official shots. But Sophie’s friends will be sure to leak some into the public portion of the social media landscape and… Ta-Dah! It will be the fault of THOSE WHO ARE NOT TRUE FANS.
Also, 8 days before Oscar voting closes, just before film industry’s biggest event of the year?
Much private… So f*cking private…
They couldn’t wait two weeks longer? NOOO! It had to be *this weekend*.
Well Valentines is said to be the ‘most romantic day’ of the year so they gotta have their wedding on That day to make up for this couple’s lack of chemistry and romance in their relationship!!
Seriously tho, that wrw seems to have a house there in the Isle and is vacationing. Also I don’t see JR tweeting any hints about ferry boats – his tweet would be the first clue if there was a wedding going down. Also isn’t showbizspy their go to site when it comes to leaks? Has anyone checked that – coz its been the most reliable go to gossip so far re. this relationship.
Maybe it was so he wouldn’t forget his anniversary…lol.
A wedding on Valentine’s Day. It’s like the epitome of corny. C.O.R.N.Y. And before the Oscars……I just can’t. Maybe he really does think he’s Tietjens, marrying his Valentine, on VD, just a shame that he’s marrying his personal Sylvia. Ahem.
Sylvia was super amazing. Do not compare Pissyface with Sylvia!!!!!
ps Wouldn’t it be great if BC were with someone as talented and fantastic as Rebecca Hall? Damn!
Hermi. YES!
The majority of news articles about him are about his personal life rather than his acting. That’s a pretty big clue you’re selling your personal life more than your work. You don’t see the same for James McAvoy or even Tom Hiddleston.
Saying ‘true fans’ only behave a certain way is also manipulative. It’s as if he thinks he’s talking to children. He obviously doesn’t think most of them are intelligent if that’s how he talks about them.
I used to think he was great but now I think he can do one.
50/50 for me. You can argue it’s manipulative, but I do think it’s true in general. I’ve seen fans cross lines with celebs and gone “?!”
This is old, isn’t it? I mean, from early January?
Random, but I get the impression he means the baby from “True” forward and not Hunter.
Right now I want to cry that I thought this actor was above the tabloid crap and a nice guy with a slightly arrogant side. Marrying this pretentious jerk is just the icing. I feel like I’ve been duped. I want to cry and for someone to hug me
Group hug, Claire.
Group hug!
Oh Claire…I feel you. But just imagine how he feels right now, +next year, the year after, +18 years!! LOL
Thanks Viki! yes he’s going to be sitting in his own s*** for a good long while.
i don’t think so. They can’t stand each other. The divorce is coming soon. When he will be a poor man again he might be a bit more careful whom he marries next – if anyone normal would want him after this mess.
here is an internet hug, hope it helps
Thanks!
Cheer up, Claire. I understand. He’s not just an excellent actor on screen and stage. He really acted the hell out of – mmnnn, I’ll estimate at least the last two years.
I don’t care who he marries. It’s just disappointing that all this time people were actually worried about him because of his nasty attitude. And it turns out that he’s just moaning and groaning because he hates his fans. All he had to do was sit down in one of those first interviews. Maybe GMA and say something like: Yeah, I used to talk about wanting these things to happen in my life all the time. And now that it’s finally here, I’m really happy, but I also realize how much I want to protect it. I love my fans, but I have a new perspective I probably won’t share so much of that personal stuff anymore…
And you know who else that was unfair to? Sophie. So much skepticism thrown at her cos her “man” can’t own his sh!t. There still would have been some crazies because there’s always crazies out there.
Oops,
No, it’s got nothing to do with fans. Him and her have got so much hostility for each other around this manufactured mess. He’s got himself stuck in a shotgun wedding. It’s as simple as that.
Everything he’s said about this woman has been overdone, unbelievable and weird. He’s tried to oversell it when he hasn’t been looking like he wants to die and he can’t even seem to hold her hand properly.
The attitude he has to fans has nothing to do with it. He’s never looked so deathly and miserable as he has done since October.
I don’t understand how you’ve come to that conclusion at all tbh.
I guess time will tell, Kat – but if he was aiming at the people who mail him onesies and cartoons or cyber attack his criticizers and/or the conspiracy theorists who contact his personal ties over the web? He aimed too broadly. He’s got to know his “true fans” are either elated for him or confused and hoping the best for his personal life.
I’m still up in the air as to whether these past few years was an act. he wasn’t above flipping people off or being gruff. I’d like to have thought he was a basically good guy but who found fame challenging. Not total douche willing to sell his private life down the river for headlines and to put up the act of being an old fashioned gentleman when he knocked someone up
So. How did they get around giving notice? or is this a “wedding” wedding?
also, the commonness of buying into the VD ‘romantic day’ nonsense, either for appealing to the People magazine crowd, or because they themselves buy into it: noted.
Or they are marrying in a church. Works differently then…
(I always assumed BC would have a civil ceremony, but then again, I didn’t predict any of this either.)
I don’t think so Ingrid? You have to post banns at least 7 days in advance from what i understand? I’ve missed your posts by the way.
I thought banns had to be read at three different services before a church wedding. That would have gotten out. Isn’t it still possible he got the special dispensation?
Yes I thought so too. Does special dispensation or licence give you that though?
Oh, here’s a quick Telegraph piece about Stella McCartney’s wedding. Helped me understand a *little* bit better. It’s really not as clear cut as suffering death threats, just “security threats” are valid. And I think the case could be easily made for BC, unfortunately: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1440409/Wedding-rules-were-bent-for-Stella-the-celebrity-bride.
maybe they didn’t
Pretend wedding ceremony? They wouldn’t be the first (Bobbi Kristina, and a bunch of others I can’t name off the top of my head who were revealed to have only done a token ceremony)
look, there was no notice found, and this couple is nothing but PR, a very convenient pr for Oscars.
anon, did someone, or you, check the public registry in the past 24 hours? I’d do it myself online but have no idea where???
If there was it would be in the papers already. His name is Cumberbatch (someone would spill it).
I wouldn’t take that for granted. Can someone please check?
Is he combining wedding anniversary with Valentines Day so he only has to pretend to like Sophie one day a year?
Pretty much. Only needs to treat her once a year too – he’s that frugal!!
You think they’ll still be together in a year?
@alice, you’re right. He’ll be married 71 days because he’s not QUITE as classy as Kim Kardashian.
Alice I think they will just for appearances. I think they’ll stay “together” for a couple years so they can say it just couldn’t work out.
ANON. They were both at the GQ Awards. Maybe she gave him some tips. Looking forward to the Sophie butt selfies.
Claire. Based on appearances, they could say that right now or anytime over the last 3 1/2 months. I used to think he was smart and sharp.
Alice, yes but you know. Awards season, bad press, crucial moment of his career, etc. He might even see this as a good deal than the alternative of the headlines of knocking up someone, not marrying her, and only co-parenting. Especially given the “why hasn’t he found someone” stories that got to him. He always said the red tops are vicious. I don’t know how they operate, but they don’t seem vicious toward him these past six months so I’m guessing he made some arrangement with them, and this whole engagement-oops-wedding narrative is part of it. they haven’t been vicious to him at all.
Claire. However, in the DM article they made sure to say “dated for five months” before engagement, whereas before they were all “dated for five years”. Getting primed for some shade?
Alice, All i can say is whatever they’re feeding them can’t last forever…or can it? Is this the new normal where he’s going to feed us deets on his private life at every turn to keep the hounds at bay? He’s going to become a joke before long in that case.
Claire. Forgot to add that the Telegraph mase sure to point out he is (supposedly)marrying his PREGNANT fiancee, so that the couple of dozen people in the British Isles who don’t already know that this is strictly shotgun will know now. They’re all throwing subtle shade.
Alice, the DM headline reads the same! I’m just wondering now if the tabloids are going to get vicious soon or whether they’re permanently in his pocket. Not sure how the politics of all this works, someone care to enlighten me?
When oscars are over, when HW is out of the picture or until BC realises how many helping leeks sh has – then the ripping apart will begin. With the juicy past in the Hunter family (specially SH) it is going to be epic.
He has no right to be mad if the press and nannies show up tomorrow if it’s true.
Of course not. Who do you think told the press? His people have been leaking do on his private life since early last year. The engagement, the pregnancy were all leaked to gossip sites. Now this in time for his last Oscars push. It was always going to be publicised.
Valentino themed shotgun wedding on Valentine’s Day with top hats and designer clad flower girls. It’s the stuff of TOWIE.
And I have to say, this really gives a whole new light to the look of poison she gave him on Sunday night. What a way to look at the man you’ll be marrying in six days time.
but if there are photos of him in LA soon, I will laugh so hard.
What was being said on stage on Sunday when she looked at him like that? I’m trying to piece together whether it was related or not.
Felice, with three tabloids they’ve previously tipped off reporting, we can take it for granted they’re getting married. Assume the worst, hope for the best.
Also, I just looked at the front page photo of her…she looks like a clown in red lipstick. Don’t mean that in a LeCoq way either.
No, it was just another tantrum. Nothing to do with the speech. In fact, Mike Leigh (an ACTUAL director) had just paid tribute to Simon Channing Williams (his colleague who died in 2009) and that’s why people were clapping. But apparently she thought that wasn’t worthy of her respect and she brought out the spoilt brat act again.
I can’t think what he did at that moment to warrant it..released himself from her vice grip in order to clap?
Daily Mail has an article and a timeline too. Wonder how accurate it is lol. Yeah this bs is happening.
Nobody can be so dumb to think that him marrying tomorrow would have any influence on Oscar voters. If anything they will see how desperate, fame hungry and stupid he is.
It’s pretty much 100% why he did it though there’s literally no other reason to cram it in now. Could’ve done it in a couple of weeks when Oscar buzz and attention died down. Or even shock horror AFTER the baby is born. But oh NO , the incomprehensible idea that a child should be born out of wedlock. Tit.
I’m sure the wedding began to be planned back when he thought he still had a shot at the little gold man. What a tool.
The whole Isle of Wright ‘our wedding is a seeekrit’ thing is so Decoy Bride. LOL.
New found respect for la abbington, I must say. Her tweet yesterday …wow.
yes.
having said that she deleted her tweets
Hmmmm,…..
She said what needed to be said and boy did she make her point.
I think it’s obvious that she and martin have been less tha. Impressed with bc of late. I heard martin interviewed on the radio before Xmas and they asked him what he’d give his costars for Xmas. They asked: ricky Gervais , he answered – mirror. Deadpan. They asked: cumberbatch – mirror. Deadpan again. When they asked mckellen and Pegg he had lovely sweet answers to give.
Martin has DEFINTELY fallen out with gervais. In fact he cancelled a radio show in the us 20 mins before he was due on when he found out gervais was going to be there.
So the fact that he gave the identical dismissive answer to both of them, confirmed to me (amongst other things) that they’ve fallen out.
I didn’t know that. Interesting. That man sure does call it like he sees it.
If the wedding does transpire, then, yes she’s making quite the statement. Love her no BS policy.
It’s so happening, but how did they get around the banns requirements? Does anyone know what special dispensation gives you, that you can get around it? I thought it was so you can marry in a parish not your own.
I hate to point this out…but remember ‘parcelgate’? And how someone on Eggsy said there were lawyers involved? It’s possible that incident could have been used to insinuate the fact the BC does indeed have stalkers going through his mail and used that as an exemption to the public registry rule.
BUT in light of the fact that the whole world seems to be invited to This wedding via leaks from his own friends and colleagues, I do have to wonder if that parcelgate incident was also done by His people, in order to pave way to incoming events ie. engagement and a pending wedding. Also note he did have his address removed from google maps a couple of months prior to said incident. Its just getting harder to differentiate what’s real and what’s fake among this clusterf**k.
There’s no way ‘parcelgate’ was real: celebs do not have mail sent to their house. It’s a security risk. It was fake…whoever it was that was behind.
I must disagree; I’ve lost respect for her over that. (if, indeed, what we are all correct in our speculation about the nature of the tweets). If she and/or MF had a falling out with BC over his engagement she has no business being passive aggressive about it on twitter. I hope she didn’t mean what we think she meant with those tweets and deleted them to keep fans from continuing to read into them too much.
Edit: what is Parcelgate?
Why? She can say what she wants on her Twitter. She’s not obligated to fawn over his shotgun wedding.
Yes she can do whatever she wants with her Twitter, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying if there has been a falling out I’d respect her more for keeping it out of the public eye and just not say anything. The whole world doesn’t need to know. Act like adults and keep it between yourselves. It make her look petty IMO. They still have to work together too.
The only thing Amanda said was that on Saturday many things were hapenning but she was staying home with her family… No reference to BC, she could be talking about other things… She could be talking about Olivia Poulet’s opening night tomorrow… who knows..
I doubt it’s a falling out, per se. They seemed friendly enough on the Sherlock set. Probably more of a, why go to an over the top PR display when she could spend time with her family instead? And she probably didn’t mean anything anyway, and deleted because people were reading too much into it.
She does like to snark though. That’s why I like her so much. She doesn’t give any f****s.
I don’t follow Amanda, but I imagine, when she knew this cluster was going to break for sure, she took stuff down to avoid looking like she was making comment. She may or may not have been. I’m leaning towards it probably really had nothing to do with BC. I don’t imagine Martin & Amanda would be invited to a small wedding.
You remember how affectionate BC was with AA? They used to hug on set, etc. If she has seen him change because of SH, she has a right to be sarcastic in a very public way. After all, this whole thing has been played out in plain view. She’s just following the trend 🙂
It’s would be very unprofessional, as InvaderTak said, but after seeing them, it looks like she just meant big no V-day activities. The second one definitely reads like “Sorry if I just made any lonely people sad”.
I missed said tweet. Can you share?
Holy hell, they are on the front page of Telegraph! (Saturday’s issue) And I though it was a legit newspaper. I’m officially done with British press. Also, pretty much confirms that someone (PR) confirmed it as “sources”.
And this, ladies, is why The Loving Looks stunt at BAFTAs, so the press would have good, loving-looking photos of the Odious Couple to go with the wedding news. There were none before that.
Good point, Ingrid. Well they almost leaked the oopsie news to the Telegraph right?
Oh my god. What an embarrassment. He’s some actor, that’s all. How the hell is this front page news?
Did you notice the headline is “tv detective”? As opposed to “oscar nominated actor”.
The Telegraph is the most legit but they haven’t gotten a confirmation. Their story on the website is taken from the Mail and full of “it appears”.
If they can’t get something solid by early am, they’ll replace the photo. That’s why there’s no headlines and just a vague caption.
It would crack me up if they don’t marry this weekend.
They’ve both visibly aged by at least ten years since this farce started. Even heavy makeup can’t cover it. Don’t they have mirrors to see what’s happening to them? Love should put a glow on your face and a spring in your step.
Wonder if he’ll have to “perform” on his wedding night or if he’ll rush off and catch a plane to LA.
I’m reading the DM comments right now. Boy are they calling out BC and SH for their crap. Only one or two congrats.
It’s ugly over there. I guess Ben isn’t fooling anyone. He should have just gotten married and kept his mouth shut and asked his friends to do the same. Now he just looks so foolish.
+1
+10,000. Remember that Time magazine issue where Colin Firth said “He must be stopped”? Well…..
…and celebrities that “truly” want their privacy will not use private details of their lives to campaign for little golden statues.
I haven’t even stepped outside of Celebitchy to see the carnage. I’m scared….
Anyway, has anyone else noticed the weird (unintentional) omens? Announce engagement on Guy Fawkes, announce wedding day of Friday the 13th.
Haha. Brilliant.
@Oops, hadn’t thought about it…Oohhhh…Maybe it’s his id (Freud concept) is trying to tell his Ego something, but his super-ego likes to please everyone too much and doesn’t allow his ego’s rationality to surface and be aware?
* I don’t believe in witches, but they are real…*
THis!!!!!!
What amazes me is how BC manages to go in hiding each time there’s a media frenzy over his personal life! Where is He? What is he doing right now? No sighting of him since he lost out on the Baftas. See Benedict privacy isn’t that hard and your fans have been respectful. No selfies, no pap pics, no autographs since….so why is he still complaining?
If anything he should be complaining to his publicist!
That’s part of the PR.
I didn’t know I was his fan, let alone a true one. *scratches head*
Why, Miss M? Because you don’t care? LOL. IKR? Counter-intuitive.
Since being the big person is overrated, I am not going to be polite here: Never been into reptiles… *runs away from this thread*
That’s how he ensnares people.
Not a chance!!!! Maybe if he wins the Oscar this year?! Hahahahaahhaa: Not a chance!
From The Sun:
“We know full details of the wedding but are not revealing them so no one spoils the couple’s big day.”
“legal letter sent to Sun saying private function was taking place at the reception venue and that our photographers would be banned.”
“1. Couple spotted looking at possible venues on the Isle of Wight last month.
2. Signs go up saying roads close to the venue will be shut to traffic today.
3. Notice goes up at church where couple will wed saying it is closed today.
4. Lavish marquees erected for reception and vans arrive with food & flowers.
5. We find hotel closest to church is fully booked last night and tonight.
6. Cumberbatch family are booked on ferry over to Isle of Wight
Are these tab papers getting their info from the gossip blogs and then it’s spreading to other outlets? The Isle of Wight stuff was only picked up by those blogs, right? And the Sun is saying Martin Freeman is the best man:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-the-papers-31465526
@kaylie
No. These papers have all had an official tip off. There’s no way this wasn’t going to get publicity – it’s been pre planned. The articles were all ready to go.
Maybe AA’s tweet was in response to the Sun trying to get a story off them?
Because he’s SOOOOO private.
Famewhores, the both of them.
This has been carefully and publicly orchestrated.
He was never my favorite, but I think they deserve each other.
The silence from his parents has been deafening.
Kat, they’re definitely including stuff not discussed outside of gossip blogs, and it’s not the first time but tabs do watch actor Twitter tags. The legitimate papers are relying on the tabs for the info and using shy-away wording. Something is off, and I’m not stranger to media shenanigans.
They’d have gotten the same effect by just picking a paper and having staged pap shots come out after the wedding, it’s PR 101. This is just asking for things to turn into a logistics and security nightmare.
Kaylie,
It’s been fed to the press without a doubt. Simple pap shots on the day would’ve looked too obvious . This builds up the narrative and indeed the effect.
There’ll be no logistical nightmare or security issues. Like I say – they’ve planned for this.
^^
Lol
WTAF!? I know Sun readers are remedial, but surely even they will be scratching their heads at that?
Oh god. Out of all his publicity stunts since November, this one really is the most foul. It’s his pretence that he’s not that’s so irksome.
did you read on sogo some claiming to have something on sodius leaked something to the sun that’s why they got exclusive info from pr.
Lol. The sun photographers are sent a letter saying they’re banned? Why don’t you just announce it in the Times again. It makes everything so much easier, and slightly less tacky.
Wow wow wow. Well this may be an answer for The Sun weirdness. Go to the Daily Mail article and read the comment by “dontcallmejane”:
dontcallmejane, London, United Kingdom, 9 minutes ago
Reading these comments I see you are one excited lot. Keep it cool, kids. Well I have a confession/warning and may as well say it where I know it’ll be seen without intermediaries. I anonymously tipped off The Sun weeks ago on Sophie. We have mutual close mates. They told me something awful about why she’s with Cumberbatch, and who she was screwing while with him and when she became up the duff. The Sun didn’t run the story, but they received a “legal letter” from Cumberbatch’s people about the wedding. I have reason to believe they used my tipoff as leverage to get exclusive information in exchange for The Sun’s silence. Lesson learned for trying to “blow the whistle”, even if it’s for something inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. I’m becoming disillusioned with everyone and everything celeb and media…horrible people all around. Anything for a nice paycheck.
I find that commenter suspect. She claims B & S gave the Sun the scoop on the wedding b/c of her hot tip. Wouldn’t the Sun be pissed now? They published their article around the same time as the Mirror. In fact, I think I saw the Mirror first. Somebody did not get the exclusive they blackmailed for… Also, I don’t know what journalist in her right mind would sit on a game changer, tempest in a teapot, just so they could the deets on a wedding.
was it only The Sun that got a legal letter? Given the DM commenter post, I’m really curious if all red tops got one (and if so why????????), and if only The Sun, well, the DM commenter?
And his friends are saying to themselves, “You poor sucker. You moron.”
And in fitting tribute, I’ve gotten rid of my pair of Hunter boots today and am sending off in the post. 🙂
Seems the Times just made the announcement of the wedding venue. Well, good luck to them.
Never mind, found it.
St.Peter and St. Paul’s church in Mottistone village. The reception is at mottistone manor.
Sounds like just a religious ceremony then. The registry thing would have had to happen for it to be a civil wedding as well right? So what’s the point here?
@Claire. below: No, not if the gov. doesn’t recognize a marriage happened in a legal sense. That’s what I’m asking. People went on about the registry laws in Britain saying that because of that there was no way they could sneak a wedding. I’m American so I’m curious as to what’s going on here.
@Claire. (again lol) yeah that’s what I’m saying. They’re doing a conveniently “leaked” church ceremony only. If they really actually want to get married, go ahead and get it legalized too. Why bother even doing it for show at this point? Its seriously embarrassing because its pure PR.
What’s the point of what? Isn’t a religious ceremony still a wedding? She still gets half his money. Leech for life!
Oh wait I get what you’re saying. So there has to be a civil registry as well for it to be legit? Well they’ll probably do it later down the line…if it lasts. Any lawyers want to chime in whether she gets half his stuff and it’s a totally legit wedding if it’s religious only?
no, Claire. It is not legally bounding. They would be married in front of God (if they do it for reals which would be plain ironic and moronic) but not the law.
Is my understanding you can either have a religious or civil ceremony in the UK. They may have gotten around the banns or registering if they had extenuating circumstances (stalkers or hate mail or something).
Mottisone Manor is in the family, dahling.
OK, I’m going to preface this by saying I’m an American too and have been trying to wrap my brain around the UK’s marriage regs ever since the fuss about where/when George and Amal would do the deed. Still not sure I have it sorted.
From what I can glean, if you are married in a CoE church, the banns still have to be read (not only in the church where you plan to be married, but your local parish church – if they are two different locations) but the church takes care of the actual registration of the marriage with the UK government.
I pulled this from a local council website, “If you want to get married in a Church of England church, then you should arrange to see the vicar to set the date and time for your ceremony. The vicar will then arrange for your banns to be read out in church. This is similar to notice being given. The ceremony will be registered by the vicar and there is usually no need to involve the local register office.” That seems to eliminate the need for a public posting in order for the deed to be legal, or am I mis-reading that? So confused…and this isn’t the only part of this whole things that has me befuddled. It’s all been a giant WTF moment for me.
Really? Like really? Because Wikipedia says if a priest does the ceremony it’s legit. I’d like some other commenters to help us out on this one for confirmation? Because if it’s true, wow it totally is a PR wedding. Not that we can expect the papers to say so
No, Darya, you’re right, but then the entire church would have had to keep quiet for at least 3 weeks?
The banns have to be read to the congregation at least 3 times over the 3 months before the wedding. If not done, you’ve got to go the register route.
Mottisone Manor? Wow, it’s freezing there in that area right now.
From the government’s website: “You don’t usually need to give notice with the register office if you’re getting married in an Anglican church. Officials performing Anglican marriages will register your marriage.”
Do they register it before or after? Still, the banns. Could it be they were read and no one noticed? or do the banns need to be published? In which case it’s easy to check records.
More: “Banns need to be read in the parish where each of you lives as well as the church in which you are to be married, if that is somewhere else.”
http://www.yourchurchwedding.org/youre-welcome/common-licences.aspx
This is another thing but only if there’s a legally recognised connection with the church. Will reply to you in a sec InvaderTak
InvaderTak: question. Can you get married only religiously? It seems like the vicar/priest would take care of the civil side as well automatically. I wish someone could clear this all up.
The UK has an established church in the C of E. Vicars can act as registrars. So, if you get married at a C of E church, it’s simultaneously a religious and a civil ceremony. You sign the official register IN the church after the service.
If you have a different religious ceremony, you have to have a separate civil ceremony at the register office (equivalent of city hall in the US) OR you have to pay for the registrar to come to the venue. And if you have a civil ceremony at a hotel or other private venue, you pay for the registrar to attend.
Most Asian (Hindu/Sikh/Muslim) weddings are two day affairs, with the couple going to the register office a day or so after their own religious celebrations. Most other Christian denominations or civil celebrants pay for the registrar to attend so they can sign the marriage records at the same time as the main ceremony.
I was joking about the Times announcement! Lol! Why are they announcing it? I THOUGHT THEY WERE VALUING THEIR PRIVACY?
Not sure what’s the damn point when they tipped off the tabloids before the times.
Unbelievable.
Yep, so did People.
Haha. A very private wedding. Announced in a newspaper.
So what would be the point of getting out of registering if you were going to announce it in the press anyway?
I’m literally agog. I thought this would happen but still can’t quite believe he’s done it.
Wiki Anon has suddenly bailed. *shrug* You know if BC wants to be miserable that’s fine. I honestly thought he would’ve been with someone more pleasant.
What does that mean about Wiki Anon, Felice? That she’s devastated that this does indeed seem to be legit? At least in the sense that there is a baby, some sort of real relationship and an actual wedding coming?
Her grandma suddenly died. Honestly, if she were pulling our legs this whole time, she would’ve said something like “Haha you guys are so gullible. He’s married get over it.”
Things are just…too convenient right now.
That’s sad her grandma died but i never liked that blog and i think if you’re lonely on VD, go out and hang with friends instead of waiting for gossip about some stranger
What do you mean bailed? I’m surprised this thread is this inactive.
She left a note. She said “her grandma died” and she’s not participating anymore. Also, gifs are being deleted by tumblr.
Deleted by tumblr? What does that mean? I know jack about how tumblr works.
Uh-huh. That’s awful convenient. That’s tumblr for ya. I think its a safe bet they’re a fraud and /or a troll.
Edit: I was being a jerk there. If that’s true that is sad for her. No sarcasm. But still. I doubt it.
It doesn’t matter. I fear for him. He hates his fans and thinks they don’t mean anything when he’s about to join Marvel. He’s going to get his.
Most likely she’s in shock and made up her grandma dying as an excuse to go away to not have to deal. I certainly hope her grandma didn’t die suddenly. But like I said, no loss to me because I never liked her blog.
@Felice
Tumblr is deleting gifs?
One was deleted. I guess not all the images of that gif are being deleted.
Oh dear…Poor wiki. I don’t think she could handle the shock and horror of how this clusterf**k was going to end up. Or perhaps she was mercilessly bullied by several anons?
One thing majority of us thought: there’s no way he’s gonna marry her, just coz of a baby.
One thing majority of us were right about: this entire relationship has been a publicity stunt.
Yeah and everyone is calling him out as being a famewhore.
are you actually making fun of someone’s death? What the fu*k woman?
I’m still unclear on the legality of this marriage if there’s no civil component. Having said that if this is a religious-only ceremony that has no legal legitimacy, that only highlights what a PR stunt this relationship is.
this is how I understand it (we have the same). The civil one is the one that holds up in the court (aka, he looses half of his assets when the inevitable divorce happens), the church one it the one for religious people. but you are not married legally (it is not Mr. Bobby and Mrs Bobby but still Mr. Bobby and Miss-want-to-be-Bobby). Were there bans or a registry – no one seems to know (If they do, are holding back the info for some reason).
This relationship started as a TIG PR relationship, now it is still very much PR but for entirely different reasons.
They’re just covering up for the baby and figured might as well get PR mileage out of it and cement the “this is not a shotgun wedding” narrative for the general public at the same time. I get it *shrugs*
Hard to get out of the shotgun narrative when “pregnant fiance” is on every headline lol.
Will be interested to find out if there were banns or a public notice. Can we find out in retrospect?
Still better then “we knew each other for five minutes and banged” 😀
For serious though, it avoids that embarrassment for them to your typical person and leaves a nice little story for the kid to see later. Even if they don’t work out, the kid can at least think they worked at one time.
So doing a bit of reading there are four ways you can get married in a religious ceremony. It seems to bypass banns the only easy way is common licence but that’s typically for people who need to leave the country, and/or who are not living in the UK. go to weddingguideuk dot com for their page on this.
The only question I have now is: can you get married in a religious ceremony without having it registered civilly? (It looks like the vicar does it for you.) And if you CAN do it, is it still legit?
CK
That’d ridiculous though. What a load of hoop jumping and bullshit. Just be honest and co-parent. Having parents who have clear animosity for each other even the week before a wedding isn’t going to do anyone any favours.
I just can’t believe this is so blatantly manufactured for publicity. I suspected he’d have an oscars wedding, but clung onto the hope he wouldn’t.
Claire, stop panicking for heavens sakes. I explained it above. In the UK, a Church of England wedding is both a religious and a civil ceremony. C of E vicars are empowered to act as official registrars. That’s because we have an established church, of which the Queen is the head. Remember Henry VIII and the split with Rome? It’s been like this for 600 years.
Not sure why you’re talking down to me, but still doesn’t work one’s way around banns of marriage AND residency/church attendance requirements, unless one of them had a parent or grandparent affiliated with that church.
You’re just muddling simple things up. Banns have nothing to do with the legality of marriage. Churches do banns. Sometimes, the vicar is strict about it, sometimes he isn’t. Bishops can issue any exemptions they like. None of that has ANYTHING to do with ANY legal requirements for marriage. Some faith schools here admit any child in their catchment area. Others insist on longstanding congregational attendance. Same thing. The only intersection is that CofE vicars can act as civil registrars but priests of other denominations and religions cannot.
Benny just found an out-of-the-way church with an accommodating vicar, presumably.
@Sixer, all makes perfect legal and religious sense to me. Have a Comet Sophie and some lovely chocolate in the shape of The Bloke for your efforts.
http://www.yourchurchwedding.org/youre-welcome/reading-of-banns.aspx
It’s very rare to be able to marry in a church when you are not part of the parish.
And Yep..good for ole benny. Find an out of the way church and then tell the national press all about it.
Kat from what I read on the CoE website, you can only if you’ve been doing certain things for at least 6 months prior to the wedding, like attending the parish’s services. Maybe that’s what SH was doing all this time LMAO. The only other exemption is if your parents or grandparents were baptised there or something or such.
Also, banns have to be read not just at that church but at both partners’ local parishes. That means 3 parishes had banns read and no one said anything. How likely is that? I have no idea.
I’m not sure which parish that would be for BC considering he isn’t religious. Not sure if that’s fishy or they just found a way to dupe the vicar into thinking they were religious.
Ok, I’ll try one more time to illuminate the way it goes here.
The UK is largely secular. But when it comes to traditional rites of passage like marriage, many otherwise secular people want to get married in a church because the register office is seen as boring and not elaborate enough. Plus, register offices are usually pretty tiny. It’s a bridezilla thing, not a religious thing.
Therefore, C of E churches up and down the land are inundated with wedding requests from non-parishioners. They get a bit fed up with this and put up a bit of a fight and make a few rules and regulations about who can use the church to get married, ensuring that those that can have at least a fig leaf of Christianity about them.
However, individual churches apply these rules as strictly or as loosely as the vicar allows or as strictly or loosely as the bishop of the diocese insists upon. Any British bridezilla can tell you how to go about finding the easiest churches to get married in if you’re not a church-attender. And, of course, if you’re posh or rich or well-connected like Benny and the Comet, some tame vicar or other will agree to marry you, regardless of your church attendance or demonstration of faith. They’ll just make you go to a faith and marriage meeting or two with them where you pretend you take it all seriously.
That’s how non-practising people get married in churches in Britain.
And I repeat, none of this has anything at all to do with the legality of the marriage.
I think it’s pretty obvious that wikianon was just very odd. I’m shocked anyone ever took any notice of her.
She made us rational ones look bad. She needs a bit of help.
I am at a complete loss to understand why so many people are freaking out over a wedding announcement. Sh*t fire and save matches, what is everybody so upset about? It’s not like any of you guys had a chance with him, so what’s with all the fuss?
@Janet, most of us are really only here for the cocktails and snark. Although, now that I think about it, I haven’t seen a waiter in a while now…
To be entirely honest, my first thought when you kindly pointed out that none of us have a chance was, “Thank God for that!” At this point, the spectacle alone is why I’m still hanging around.
Now, where the hell is that waiter with my drink?
@Darya, the waiters fled long ago. It’s serve yourself from the cocktail vending machines.
Because thinking someone has a chance with a celebrity is the only reason one would:
Be interested in them?
Discuss them?
Criticize them?
Complain about them?
Comment on their personal lives?
Call them on their hypocrisy?
An interesting — but limited — point of view.
God. Are you joking? You think that’s why people are stunned? Because they wanted to marry him themselves?
*speechless*
Bahaha. Celebs want their privacy was at one time the point here.
Hear that? That’s the dog whistle this prat engages in every time he opens his mouth. He blows the whistle, and the fangirls come a-running.
Still reading on this marriage thing. Another reason they may have chosen now: from 2 March even religious ceremonies need to supply public notice beforehand.
I’m getting conflicting data. Some gov sites say the vicarage takes care of registration in place of the local register to ensure it’s valid, but that sounds like the actual registration, not the public notice beforehand?Citizens’ Advice Bureau tells me this, however:
“If a couple has been married in a Register Office in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, the partners can have a religious marriage ceremony afterwards. The partners are likely to be asked for their marriage certificate. A religious ceremony which does not comply with the conditions stated above and which takes place before a civil wedding is not a valid marriage under United Kingdom law and the couple’s status will be that of cohabitees.”
So they’re registering to be cohabitees unless we can uncover evidence they’ve married in a civil office first (and got around public notice for that).
Also, they can go to the Superintendent Registrar instead of banns three times before the ceremony.
My question now is: do they need to give public notice before going to the Superintendent Registrar?
Oh, for heavens sakes. In the UK, to be legally married, you have to sign the marriage register in the presence of an official registrar.
Church of England vicars are automatically official registrars so if you get married in a C of E church you’ve had both a religious and a civil ceremony.
Priests of other denominations and other religions are not official registrars so if you get married in one of those places of worship, you either have to pay for an official registrar to attend, or do a separate ceremony at the register office, where you sign the marriage register.
Look at this image;
http://www.wildweddings.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2030-wild-weddings-photography-st-jamess-church-sussex-gardens-london-w2-signing-register-12.jpg
What you are seeing is post-service at a C of E wedding. The bride and groom sign the official register in the presence of the vicar, who is also an official registrar. This means they are legally married.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5214/5429063084_0caf57daf3.jpg
Here is the same thing (signing the register) at a registry office at a civil ceremony, where the official registrar is just a civil servant, not a vicar. This means they are legally married.
(Signing the register is traditionally always among the set of wedding images a photographer includes because that’s the legal bit of getting married here.)
All makes perfect sense. As for prior public notice, I suspect that is similar to the Catholic requirement of posting banns, which is simply done by putting names in the church bulletin – no need to broadcast through a major publication or anything.
Ok, Sixer, no need to be quite so patronising about it. It really isn’t that simple a system for a non Brit who’s unused to the system, to grasp.
Well, I’m giving the official banns that I’m now giving up explaining. I’ve done it at least a dozen times since this sodding engagement was announced. If anyone still doesn’t get it, I just give up! I’m glad it doesn’t seem difficult to at least you, Lilac!
To be legally married in the UK, you have to sign the official register of births, deaths and marriages in the presence of an official registrar and witnesses. That really is it. Banns have absolutely nothing to do with it.
Over and out!
I also like how Sixer just assumed I’m not a British citizen.
eh never mind what i wrote above
Jesus, getting married in the Uk sounds really complicated, a major headache…
And why shoul be there beforehand public notices? That’s so weird…
Gee if getting married in the UK sounds complicated…just imagine what divorce would be like?!
Oh, and these two are just getting started!! Hahaha…
In Ireland you have to register in person intent to marry but can’t remember how far ahead and also not sure if its public knowledge. If you have a church wedding the documents have to be signed and returned within 30 days or its not legally recognised.
Its a bit odd that someone who always said he wasn’t religious to have a church wedding but i suppose people change.
Almost no one goes from being non-religious to religious, especially overnight and for no apparent reason. He pretended to be a god fearing christian for whatever reason to have a church wedding. Just in case you didn’t think he was enough of a fraud throughout this whole engagement thing already.
Come to think of it he is a minister also. He married his gay friends. What a chameleon!
claire, i gotta be honest, a lot of people do that lol. just like they only show up to church on christmas and easter
although the church of england is more openly lax than say, the roman catholics. like you can married in a CoE church even if you don’t attend church or are christened
The point I was making was that he always seemed as someone who wasn’t a casual churchgoer and more someone who plain didn’t believe in that type of organised religion. Not believing/being against it are very different to believing and going the occasional time.