For the second year in a row, Benedict Cumberbatch is scheduled to appear at the “Letters Live” event in England. It’s basically a nice event where celebrities, writers and other assorted people gather for public readings of letters of famous and interesting people. Last year, Benedict did a reading of a very sad letter written by Alan Turing. According to TimeOut, Bendy will be doing more Turing letters, plus he’ll be doing love letters with his Sherlock costar Louise Brealy. Which I’m pretty sure is what happened last year? In any case, there’s a preview video of Benedict reading a letter by Turing – this letter was written soon after Turing was arrested for obscene acts with a man.
While I haven’t been feeling the Cumberlove a lot these days, I still love his voice. He could read to me any day of the week. Letters Live will be going down later this month. Bendy released a statement too, saying:
“Letters Live makes us pause and imagine the lives behind the letters read and the circumstances of their origin. The relationship between the audience, reader and writer on a Letters Live night helps deepen our understanding of these inspiring artefacts of the human condition. They are windows into the love, beauty, pain, and humour of their creators and recipients. It’s a privilege to read this most ancient of communications live to an audience.”
Sure, great. But move beyond Alan Turing’s letters though. That’s my only complaint!
Do you think he write love letters to Sophie? Do you think his sign-off is “Your loving otter, Bendy Batch”?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
new CDAN from Enty. And subscribe to it. Ben got much playing the whole circus in the promo, his now decided to pull out of the closet.
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2015/03/todays-blind-items-the-falling-out.html
http://www.agcwebpages.com/BLINDITEMS/2015/MARCH.html
I think I need a refresher on my gossip diploma because I clicked on those links and didn’t understand anything. Looked like a bunch of nonsense to me
Good Enty, very good
JK: Martin Freeman
Movies: “The Hobbit” franchise
Original in television role: “The Office” (co-starred with Ricky Gervais)
Quirky role: John, a porn body double in “Love Actually” or as Lester Nygaard in “Fargo”
Very hit show: “Sherlock”
JF: Amanda Abbington (2 children)
EB: Benedict Cumberbatch
(Sophie Hunter is blackmailing Benedict by marrying him when she knows he is gay)
Martin and his wife didn’t attend Benedict and Sophie’s wedding
I hope this is really just fanfiction. It’d be really sad if he felt he had to marry to keep his real ‘inclinations’ under wraps. We are in 2015, not in the sixties.
that is the biggest loads of bulls”3 i have ever read!!
where the hell did you get “Benedict is being blackmailed because he is gay” out of that blind? No reason is given for the (supposed) blackmail
Nope. They’ve been trolling tumblr and the skeptic blogs from the get go of this thing. Read the comments. Even their own readers thinks it’s dumb. And gay rumors are CDANs thing. Everyone is gay over there. They tried the same thing with Redmayne during Oscar season.
@Diego: are you saying that its a goodmade up story, or good gossip?
It’s pretty hilarious, InvaderTak, but ironically I noticed some of these skeptic blogs believe just about anything that’s packaged the right way. Their deduction skills are lacking 🙂
@InvaderTak Enty found on whom can be raised traffic, since the beginning of the year, about Ben was already 10 gossip, new goes every week. In March it is 4 gossip, and a month is not over yet.
Wonder how that’s possible to explain these rumors?
2014-08-10- This Downton Abbey actress went on a few dates with this foreign born almost A list mostly television actor who every woman seems to love. She says they split because he went all Fifty Shades Of Grey on her and she is more of a turn off the lights and close your eyes kind of lover.
2014-10-19 – This foreign born A- list mostly television actor who all the women love went on a date with his girlfriend the other night and went back to her place for a few hours. He then left her place and went to a party where he picked up a woman and took her back to his place for a few hours before heading back to the apartment of his girlfriend where he stayed until the morning.
*Jimmy Carr laugh* they can’t even keep their own narritive straight (word choice stays)! It’s kinda fun to kep track of their BS though. I remember that one about him and Laura Carmichael getting covered here just to make fun of it. Lol
Patris, anyone with a valid email can submit a blind there. Sometimes, they even reuse blinds word for word for different celebs, and they’ll also use current entertainment gossip to make them. It’s all about the clicks for ads pageviews.
CDAN blinds are mostly fiction and he admits that on his site disclaimer.
I might be in the minority, but I don’t like love letters. They are mostly cringeworthy.
I think they may feel that way because they are those of someone else. I don’t like reading private love letters. The words either get to you or they don’t. But the sentiment and all is meant for someone else. Their understanding.
so on that note I agree in some way.
I agree, Lisa. Of course, I think the letters my husband wrote to me when we were first dating are nothing short of masterpieces. But I don’t think I’d want to read someone else’s letters.
BC (Sunnymarch) owns Letters Live event now.
Basically he’ll do money reading love letters to 14 years old fans emptying their bank account to see him live.
So basically Mr Privacy is making money by reading the private letters of deceased people who have no say in whether they wants these letters read in public? Is it too early to start drinking?
Not where I live.
Cheers!!!!
It is never too early to start drinking. Have a Comet Sophie.
Thanks guys, its alway cocktail o’clock somewhere!
Not quite, a bunch of people own it. They’re raising some money for 3 literacy charities this time instead of one, so good luck to them.
I was going to say the same An.
They are raising money for charity and Sunny March (Benedict’s production company) will make recordings of celebrity readings available for public viewing on the event’s website.
All this information is on the link above to The Guardian.
“To my asset, my tool, the woman I proposed to”
feel the love!
The best summation of the situation I have seen. KUDOS BRAVO a wit you are
First Day of Spring
Cumberbatch thread
Boston Weather Forecast – SNOW
He cursed us when he was here, he really did.
It’s sunny here and I SAW THE ECLIPSE.
I’m glad he got married on the IoW and didn’t curse my little corner of the rural south west!
Good luck in the snowfest, missy.
I got a glimpse of it through the clouds 🙂
I’m so jealous that you saw the eclipse! We set the record for annual snowfall for these parts a week ago. I’ve forgotten what it is like to walk without boots and ice trekkers or to go outside without a heavy parka. I am totally a snow woman now, able to trudge through the worst elements. This winter Boston. Next winter – ANTARCTICA!
It’s similar to the way I felt during our floods a year or so back. I was so used to being cut off on the top of my hill that I almost lost the desire to go anywhere. Sympathies, Lilac.
It’s been a good week for stargazing here in the UK. My friend up in North Yorkshire has photos of the Northern Lights on Monday all over her Facebook.
@ Sixer:
Yes, I saw your shout out to me where you mentioned the forbidden one (I’m so glad Chelsea got kicked out of the Champions League!!!).
P.S.: Didn’t reply (then) because I’ve been battling a terrible terrible depression.
P.S.: ETA — no, he’s not hot. He’s an unrepentant a**hole. There’s something wrong with you.
EVE EVE EVE EVE EVE!
I miss you!
The forbidden one is still hot, whatever you say.
@ Sixer:
I miss you, too. And Fanty, and EscapedConvent, and J. Eyre…you know, all the good people from when Cumberbatch threads were fun.
If you stick around, I’ll do my best to inject some fun. Plus, I’ll send you a virtual snowglobe or somesuch.
You won’t get a better offer. Unless you stole Joel Kinnaman from somewhere?
Kinnaman is no more. I’ve been hooked up on this guy (Adam Bakri) ever since I saw him in “Omar”:
http://41.media.tumblr.com/1441f42c0e01ea282f673979460188ce/tumblr_n28sdz93rl1qm2rgoo1_1280.jpg
And then, there’s Oscar Isaac:
http://www.celebitchy.com/417746/oscar_isaac_ive_just_been_doing_a_pacino_impression_the_whole_time/
P.S.: Don’t worry. There’s no need for an extra effort. Just be yourself. I’ve always loved your comments (whether if it’s about a serious subject or not). In fact, I’m kinda jealous whenever I stumble upon a comment you’ve made and wish it’d been mine, because you talk about things so well. This is not some shameless ass-kissing. I truly admire your eloquence.
I could share Adam with you? I have no major crush at the moment. I need one.
I like you because you’re direct and ballsy and you make me laugh. And it’s nice to know that there’s at least one person other than Mr Sixer who thinks I make the occasional bit of sense! Kissy kissy Evelet!
@ Sixer:
Yes, you can. There’s also his brother (Saleh Bakri). I tried to post links to his picture but it didn’t work.
Watch the movie “The Time That Remains”. He (Saleh) looks gorgeous in it.
hahahaha awww poor lilac 🙂
@ Lilacflowers:
I wish we could trade places.
Where I live, it’s always 300 days (at least) a year of the brightest sunlight you could possibly imagine. People here in Brazil even call it “The Sun City”. I hate it. I have photophobia and too much light ALWAYS gives me splitting headaches. It’s also super hot here…you begin to sweat the moment you finished your shower and steps out of the bathroom.
What I’m trying to say is…stop complaining about the snow or I’ll have to bitchslap you!
Eve, no need to birch slap me, I’ve had a weird bronchial cough thing for 2 months. Bitch slapped by nature. Sending you some of our cold air, some shade, and some snow – the soft, fluffy, pretty kind, not the wer, sleet, icy kind. Which is what Cumberbatch is bringing us today. Feel better! Think of that guy you liked from RoboCop
Sorry, was a bit harsh…but really, you wouldn’t like to experience the heat I have to deal with everyday. So I’ll only gently bitchslap you.
He’s (Joel Kinnaman) lost the first spot on my list. Now it’s Adam Bakri (from the movie “Omar”) and Oscar Isaac — a tie in the first place, followed by Ramin Djawadi (dude who did the Game of Thrones soundtrack), Kinnaman (the guy from RoboCop) and Tahar Rahim.
P.S.: I’ll take any kind of snow you send me — even the wet, sleet, icy kind. I love all things cold. Seriously, I was born in the wrong place.
The Sourdough would like to point out that The Last Frontier has had the second lowest snowfall on record, forcing a reroute of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Thanks the the jet stream that’s pushing the cold your way Lilac, towns in Alaska are experiencing nighttime low temperatures warmer than long-established record high temperatures. Our average temps have gone up almost 7 degrees in the past 50 years, thanks to climate change. Polar bears are being pushed into the villages, looking for food.
I’m with Eve. Give me cold over hot any day. At least I can pile on the layers and find a way to have fun in it.
Actually, the extreme cold and the mountains of snow themselves don’t bother me. I like extreme cold and I think snow is beautiful and fun. I really don’t even mind shoveling, but this weather has caused me property damage (ice dams, roof leaks, downed wires, downed fence, bent tire rim) others have experienced far worse than me. And our infrastructure completely collapsed, making it impossible to get anywhere. But we won the Super Bowl!
@ Lilacflowers:
“(…) but this weather has caused me property damage (ice dams, roof leaks, downed wires, downed fence, bent tire rim) others have experienced far worse than me. And our infrastructure completely collapsed, making it impossible to get anywhere.”
Awwww, now I feel bad. Still…totally jealous.
@Eve, it is really beautiful. Wish I could send some.
Lilac, the collapse of the infrastructure, lost income and property damage that Bostonians have faced is really sad. Everybody pays more for it, directly or indirectly. I was always able to do my work from home, but my huz lost business every day it snowed heavily. On top of that, he was subjected to 3 hours of snowblowing/shoveling to clear our driveway, sidewalks and basement walkout. He would have been miserable this season.
When’s the baby due?
I think his team said early this summer. 😉
Yeah, right 🙂
“Chance’d be a fine thing”, thought Benedict morosely, as he poured himself his fourth whiskey in as many hours. Aaaaaand scene!
Mr. Cumberbatch needs to be careful his career doesn’t die from overexposure.
she looks much older than her age, I think. At least in this pic.
They BOTH look older than mid-to-late thirties first-time parents, newly-married after a whirlwind romance. They look like a settled, middle-aged couple with the 2.5 children away at school and they have just discovered that they can’t find anything to talk about, except kids and work.
Accurate.
It’s weird, isn’t it? Not what I would look for in a new relationship, but I guess there is no accounting for taste.
Benedict visit China he will be going to Shanghai for the LaureusSport Awards http://china.laureus.com/
Re:Laureus. Host hasn’t been announced yet but I wouldn’t put anything past that rascal. How’s that nesting Cumby?
Eve-totally missed you. Srsly-south of Boston, sick of snow and cold. work every other week nights-interested in swap offs?
*scratches head*
I’m honestly surprised by how many people missed me. Well…thank you all.
I’d love to trade places with anyone who lives in a cold environment. Totally jealous of all you guys in Boston.
Eve, I cannot tell you how glad I am to see you here. Celebitchy 1. Isn’t the same without you, and 2. Isn’t the same, full stop.
But I have thought of you many times and hoped you would pop in again. Also, I think Oscar Isaac is gorgeous and hot as a firecracker. Yet, I still love Cumby and have given up trying to make sense of it. It may be a permanent affliction and I probably need an exorcist. 😒
But the main thing is I’m happy to see you!
I love you EsCon, I really do (Fanty knows it, she can testify). Your sweeteness almost makes my cold, shrunk black heart warms a little. But I’m a natural born cynic and I have to tell you: you do, you DEFINITELY need an exorcism.
Or not. I mean, I unabashedly like James Franco so…I stand in no higher moral ground than you. Keep on loving your Bendy, poor guy lost about 60% of his fans during awards season.
The upside of your undying love for him? Now you can have him all to yourself (with no risk of being shanked).
ETA: I decided to show up online today, expecting only to reply to any possibly reply to my comments on that Oscar Isaac thread. But then…I was overwhelmed by the welcome.
*to any possiblE reply.
Ill admit to looking out for you in many many threads Eve. X
Glad to see you back!
Come to Ireland. Our weather is meh but we make up for it with spuds and good cheer!
@ Lindy79:
I would if I could afford it. In a heartbeat. But I can’t, unfortunately.
🙁
I had to go back and check the site and was shocked that a Cumberbatch thread had less than 300 comments.
I got scared that something was wrong.. Less than 50 post. Is this a record or something.
I was going to post something similar. A Cumberbatch thread with less than a 100 comments? A-MAZ-ING! And, oh the irony that almost half of them are…mine.
My theory: backlash. That shameless Oscar campaining, complete with foot-in-the mouth interviews, seemingly trite declarations of love and awkward red carpet posing, thinned the herd.
and half the comments aren’t even about him. It’s the place where people meet up to chat.
I too hope you’ll hang out here more Eve, I thought your threads were quite entertaining.
@ MtnRunner:
Let’s see if coming back to the online world will help me with my illness. I don’t feel comfortable talking about it — especially considering I’m talking to a crowd (that can either like or dislike me) — but it’s the stone cold truth: MDD is a merciless bitch. There are days I can do absolutely nothing. I stay in my bedroom, staring at the dark (not joking).
And before anyone says I’m begging for attention…no, I’m not. It is what it is.
I love you too, Eve. I’m always asking Fanty about you. I know that the welcome you are seeing here today is heartfelt; you should never doubt that. Everyone wanted to see our Eve again!
And I like what you said about my CumberLove! It’s true—nobody’s fighting me for that idiot anymore! What a difference from last year, huh?
I always figured if you did shank me, you would then call Miss Eyre to take me to the Emergency Room, rather than leave me there to die!
As for the exorcism, I might be able to book one pretty soon—-it’s the only perk of being an escaped Nun!
~Hug~
@Eve,
It has been the most embarrassing behavior for an actor since, oh I don’t know…Charlie Sheen?! As you say, it wasn’t just one thing. A lot of people have been severely turned off, and if that surprises him, it’s time for a reality tune-up.
I admit I’ve been totally turned off by the photobombing. Sit down, Cumby! Have some dignity!
Eve,
Did you notice that one day a Cumby post got over 900 comments? I doubt that World Peace and chocolate raining from the sky would have got so many comments. I was keeping a rather casual tally of the comments for a little while, but stopped counting at 10,000.
Edit: I didn’t mean for these comments to show up all together, sorry!
@ EsCon:
You’re disarmingly sweet, my dear. The exact opposite of myself: the cynical, blunt, defensive and bitter Eve. I, however, would give a good chunk of my years left on this planet just to be friends with you in real life. But alas…can only reach out to you online. Let’s try to make the best we can out of it, shall we? But you have to understand that I need to “disappear” sometimes. It’s hard to explain — I just have to.
Yes, I noticed that insane thread. How could anyone not notice that clusterf*ck? Didn’t read the comments. Felt like trolling with a “First!” comment (when it was already 600 +) but gave up. Didn’t want to offend anyone (and wasn’t ready to get into any argument if someone misunderstood my poor attempt at a joke).
P.S.: Don’t be so hard on Cumby though. I mean, Charlie Sheen? Dude abuses women on a regular basis.
Cumberbatch is closer to Anne Hathaway’s kind of desperation: desperate to be noticed, desperate to win. Cringe worthy, but not a crime.
You mean *THAT* photobombing at the Golden Globes (this year)? I ACTUALLY thought that was a meme from his U2 photobombing last year.
I still prefer Sheen. With him, what you see is what you get. I think our BC is like the proverbial onion: many layered and what lies beneath isn’t worth the eventual tears.
Plus, he’s ageing faster than Bowie in The Hunger. Not a good look.
@ Hermi!:
Good grief, woman! That’s so f*cking mean (and hilarious). Yes, I’m LOL-ing right now. I know I shouldn’t, but I am.
*waves to EsCon*
Eve, I didn’t know what that acronym meant until I Googled it just now. Sorry to hear and totally understand why you may need to go dark for a season. At least now you know that CB pals and other lurkers will be thrilled when you pop back in for a remark. Cumby threads were so much more fun with you, EsCon, Miss Eyre and Fanty providing the humor. Maybe they’ll hear the screams of your fans and rejoin the conversation.
Cumby’s disingenuity was pretty obvious since his words didn’t match his actions, in regards to his desire for privacy, love of his fiancee, thirst for an Oscar etc. I think that turned a lot of fans off. It will be interesting to see how fans react when he has something else to promote. Memories can be short-lived.
Eve,
I don’t know where this comment is going to turn up, but look for a message from Fanty. I don’t know if she can act on it today, but stay tuned! :-}
@ MtnRunner:
I’d give it name — like Molly or something — since it’s such a huge part of my life (but I don’t want to insult the real Mollys; also: “Molly” is slang for ecstasy which I have never taken, nor I’d like to). I sometimes “talk” to my depression — or it waves at me when I least expect.
The medication helps a little. I hate having to take it, I avoided it as much as I could. But the good thing is that it (medication) allowed me to think about my own condition more objectively.
@ EsCon:
You lost me a little here. What comment? Anyway, have to go now — I’ll come back later. But right now I’m in desperate need of a really good shower (seriously, I’m smelling like a wet dog now). Plus, there’s an imprint of my ass on the couch. Gross!
Re: the thinned herd
Knocking up someone he barely knows didn’t help either
MtnRunner,
Why hello there! It was fun in the old days, wasn’t it?! It’s nice to hear that someone thought we were funny during the CumberGames. He did have a certain amount of entertainment value. Come back, Cumby!
Eve, I like Molly. I think it’s a great name for your “companion”.
EsCon, those were the GLORY DAYS of Celebitchy. Seriously. While I read those threads after the fact, I’m sure y’all had plenty of fans that felt too shy or incapable of adequately contributing to the threads, but giggle snorted from the sidelines.
I didn’t have the same reactions to Hiddles that The Thornfield girls had — yes, he loved the attention and he can sound a bit pretentious at times — but for a celeb, he’s harmless and better than so many featured on this blog. I think he got burned by getting too cozy with the fandom and he’s changed his strategy, which I wholeheartedly avow. Not a lot of snark on his threads now, tho’ in fairness, it’s hard to fault him for anything since he’s keeping his head down and working like a dog.
While I chatted away about Cumby and the PR clusterf*ck during Oscar season (trying to make sense of his weird behavior), the threads took on a whole new aura in y’alls absence. I’m hoping that some of the fun can return now that awards season is over and he’s on to other things.
Eve,
Oh, I just meant that last comment in which I mentioned Fanty. The threads got so long, I wasn’t sure where my comment was going to show up on the page.
MtnRunner,
What a lovely, lovely thing to say! I really appreciate that, and I know that Ye Olde Trollops of Thornfield will too, when they see this thread. It means a lot to me that you thought of those days as the glory days! If we made anyone giggle or guffaw, then I figure we’ve done our job! What makes me sad, though, is that so many wonderful ladies on the site seem to have drifted away. I wish they would come back, too.
As for Hiddles, take heart! He’s about to have a high-profile year, I think, and I know we can have some fun with it if we put our thinking caps on. But I would caution anyone trying to bat their eyelashes at Hiddles in view of Miss Eyre, who bought Eve’s shank collection on eBay and is a bit possessive of the boy. If she threatens to stab me again, I’m going into the Nun Protection Program. 😶
Ah yes, wife beaters are better…WTF happened up there
@EsCon – CumberGames! Why am I just now learning of that term!? It’s perfect.
Y’all, I am surprised that a Cumby thread hasn’t yet reached 100 comments. What is going on? I can practically hear the crickets chirping.
@mtn – I’ve been meaning to ask what your icon is. It looks like Opus the penguin with a fabulous blonde coif. Then again, I don’t have my glasses on, so I could be way off base.
EsCon, As you know, Miss Jane has already challenged Lilac’s assertion on the Comic Relief post that she and Hiddles have been conjoined in matrimonial bliss after out he was thrown out the window with Colin and puppies or something like that. Miss Jane didn’t have much fight in her on that day, so I wonder if we’ll be treated to a shanking spectacle after all.
Not that I want to see harm done to Lilac, but we have had our issues when it comes to the PuddleTom. You may have noticed that I’ve been falsely accused of having directly or indirectly injured him by sharing him with icerose the weekend of Bendy’s wedding. This difference of opinion has resulted in her not lending him to me, thereby leaving Tom and I no choice but to continue our affair clandestinely. It’s not our preference — as an ISTJ, I much prefer to play by the rules, but we both have needs which must be — ahem — addressed, if you know what I mean.
Darya, You are close. It is Binkley of the famed Bloom County comic strip, the one with the closet full of anxieties led by the Giant Purple Snorklewhacker:
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1141671.html
@ EsCon:
Ok, got it!
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Dear Lord, I must be getting senile. How could I forget Binkley? Is it wrong that I want a Snorklewhacker for my very own? “Pipe dreams are under the bed” – classic. Maybe that’s where Tom is hiding, I better go check. Tah.
Darya, you won’t find him there. He’s *in* my bed. I’ll send him over tho’ when we’re through. We share the HiddleLove.
Most people just got tired of constant nastiness on CB. nothing to do with Benedict.
Considering Letters Live still has tickets available and it’s in London (where even fringe events in obscure places sell out fairly often), I think it has everything to do with BC.
Aside from the Sherlock fandom, many fans have switched off. I personally know people (normal, not crazy teenagers :)) who have gone off him because of his surreal behaviour during Awards season.
Which is good for him, since he said he only cares about one fan: his wife.
He actually said it, so I hope he gets what he’s wishing for. 🙂
I hope he doesn’t take it for granted his wife’s a fan. She acts like she wants to murder him.
there’s something additional in general, it’s not just BC threads, as in its traffic is down. no idea what though
Totally agree everything EVE said. Backlash is most likely the reason. I wonder if it will carry over once he starts performing again.
It won’t be over until she’s gone. And even then, if the baby is his, there’s still that stain.
According to various tweets, the past week seems to be filled with solo outings or ones with buds. Weird nesting behavior.
I find this event completely creepy. Having some actor read the private letters of someone who is long dead and gone. Incredibly disrespectful.
I grew up in Russia and we had to read letters written by famous people for schoolwork. I remember having to read Chekov’s, Tolstoy’s, Turgenev’s,, Dostoevsky’s and others letter.
Letters were just another form of communication. For most famous people their private letters are published with all their other work.
yknow, ive never thought about it like that, but you do have a point. none of these people have given permission for their private and intimate correspondence to be published and publicized.
I still can’t believe people find this guy attractive. He looks like he needed more time in the womb. He just looks….. incomplete, somehow. ???
Ben and Sophie was seen in Wales. Good job Enty. Waiting new photoset in the Sun and DM.
its great shes got such a long maternity leave off wor….oh wait.
LOL!
Wales?
Gosh the two of them have still not moved into together yet? they seem to be living in Edinburgh and tons of hotels. Eventually, they will have to settle and “nest” as they put it and actually share a house together alone, without mothers, agents, PR and probably friends.
Thought he’d be in Twickers for the rugby
He can’t go to the rugby twice. Remember his wife’s delicate pregnancy? And the backlash from the sightings without Sophie. PR has a narrative to push so the sighting in Wales is no surprise.
Also, I he went to the Rugby again, he would gave to take more photos with the fans, who he seems to despise nowadays.
US Vouge April’15 #5 – The Divine Mrs. Cumberbatch (2 pg) PH: Annie Leibovitz Style: None Celebs: Sophie Hunter, Maria Grazia Chirui, Pierpaolo Piccioli
it’s an old photo from that Valentino show they reran.
“Divine Mrs Cumberbatch”?
“DIVINE”
what?
…seriously.
what?
Well, don’t forget – they featured Kimye on the cover and multiple pages inside, so they’ll write any old crap apparently.
They have to spin their brand. It’s what they are, let’s face it. If they were a couple in the throes of passion they wouldn’t do moneymoons and staged pap shots. In the US, where he hopes to be the next big thing.
Good luck with that, the ‘Batches. 🙂
Yawn. He is so overexposed at this point, his hairline is receding, and now he’s overexposing the Missus too who is set to appear in her very own two-page spread in the April issue of Vogue as “The Divine Mrs Cumberbatch”. Christ they are so trying to make HER happen, tell me there is no bargain operating between them. I am so fucking over these two. Is there some reason, btw, that we never see anything on the far more intriguing and gorgeous Aidan Turner, whom the BBC has just said can “name his price” in return for a contract that will work around any future movie roles if he’ll just do more programs because of the response to “Poldark”? Please? More Aidan Turner less of the Rapidly Becoming Offensive Cumberbatch Duo?
Did you see him in Desperate Romantics as Dante Grabriel Rossetti? He was amazing. Yes, please, more of him.
By the way, I have an idea: he could replace BC as Hamlet. Pretty please???
PS by the way did you see that it seems she lied on her CV about touring Africa with a Mozart opera? That apparently never happened. I wonder if there’s anything true in that CV of hers.
Anyone else see the rumor that he’s dropping out of Dr. Strange? It looks like its mostly crap but good lord. People are really on him for this and it’s not just the nanny fans. What is going on here? This is so out of control. Even in the messiest celeb situations the star’s own side has something to say, and his people apparently don’t. I do. not. understand.
I think that it’s just one site with nothing to back it up. If true then he’s toast in the blockbuster department. On another note, the Crimson Peak trailer looks amazing. TH-yum yum. I may have to sneak over to Thornfield…
I have never been happier for BC to drop a project. I love Del Toro, btw. And the Nick Cave song they have used for the trailer. It’s just perfect. Looking forward to it.
Yeah, it’s the same site that has SH all of a sudden, having a “delicate” pregnancy after months of jetting all over the place. Going whale watching, going to a tropical isle with limited medical facilities, etc. The article sounds made up from first to last. I’d be the most surprised person in the world if BC puts SH and baby ahead of career.
I’d be even more surprised if she had a delicate pregnancy. The only time she felt she had to rest was when BC’s parents were in LA having dinner with him.
It’s the overreactions and behavior from fans and skeptic or haters or whatever that’s driving it more than anything else now, InvaderTak.
My two cents is that people need to step back, imo. I’ve seen less focus on serious wrongdoing by public figures than what’s now going on over simple PR/possibly personal problems.
i think people who take joy in his potential career issues, his livelihood, are weird tbh
like regardless of what you think of him as a person, hes definitely worked hard, and i don’t think this type of thing rises to the level of say Woody Allen. it’s just hard for me to understand that level of vitriol at a stranger unless you re talking something seriously reprehensible
also, invader tak, i think fans or truthers (?) need to tone it down because id imagine theyre contributing. like clickbait needs clicks
Hermii-this is completely off topic but I think I found a smoking gun re:your sighting on 7/15. Reply if interested. 😉
Please share!
Yes please do. And if I had to place a bet on the dr strange rumours, I think someone’s trying to renegotiate terms and leaking trouble in lala land is one of their tactics. Not uncommon. Also, someone on imdb has debunked Sofa’s entire “opera career”. Even the one opera she was associated with never was performed, LOL. She is so pathetic.
However, Claire!, the obstinately obtuse are still defending her and calling the poster a jealous hater, their typical response to anyone who questions her cv. And then the hypocrites claim they’re only interested in his work, not his personal life. However, they’re awfully quick on the draw when it comes to posting pap pics.
The typical imdb posters are just vile and nasty, Alice. My most optimistic scenario is they’re all 14 yo and don’t know any better but for some reason I doubt it.
Please do tell. 🙂
Well????
Hermi, what are they talking about? What’s the context here? What was your sighting? Is 7/15 a date?
About the Crucible theater date? Hermi said BC was trying to be affectionate with SH and she didn’t like it.
At work but stopping in quickly. According to this timeline, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwj4XOJG6iBWNEpzdmpmX2t3Q1U/view, Ben was not with SH but with Vickie ZaZa. There’s also a pic that I have, but may not be able to send link til later. Could probably Google though.
Well that makes things even more interesting. She’s a close friend of his: why would she be shoving his hand off her shoulder when no one was watching? Was he trying to start something with her last summer? Or was something ending? Still it makes little sense considering they’ve known each other so long: surely she wouldn’t abruptly shun a hand on shoulder even if they were arguing.
Was she at his wedding?
And anon121, where did you find this calendar all of a sudden?
Guys, that picture with Vicky was years before at the National. BTT already clarified that.
July last year, he was with SH, the love of his life. 🙂
i live in the middle of nowhere and the damn hamlet screening near me sold out in less than a day
I won’t have to worry about a sellout. There were five people in the theatre when Frankenstein played here.
@Claire!: The imdb police-officer is german, and I suppose she is at least in her 40s. Makes me feel ashamed to be german, too.
IIRC, she claims 20s.