Yay! I’m so happy we have some new Benedict Cumberbatch & Sophie Hunter photos! Hunterbatch! These are the first photos we’ve had of them – separately or together – since Sophie gave birth to the Cumberbaby. They announced the birth of their son on June 13th, although my particular conspiracy theory is that Sophie gave birth at least a week (if not more) before the announcement. And here they were at the annual Serpentine Gallery summer party held in Kensington Gardens – they didn’t walk the carpet, but they happily posed for some photos inside the event, and photographers got some photos of Sophie and Benedict leaving.
Some sites are already doing the “wow, Sophie already lost all the baby weight” stories. I tend to find those stories inappropriate, but in defense of the way these photos are being written about – Sophie really did “get her figure back” really quickly. She looks basically the same as she did when she was first introduced to us as Bendy’s (quietly knocked up) fiancée last fall. And by that I mean BANGS TRAUMA. Seriously though, these photos are part of my exhibit “Bendy & Sophie Fudged The Dates.” They wanted to wait as long as possible to announce the birth so that it wouldn’t look like a classic example of a shotgun marriage. C’est la vie.
We got an email query earlier this week asking if anyone has heard anything about the Cumberbaby’s name. I still haven’t. Even Cumber-centric Twitter hasn’t heard a whisper. Oh, and I completely forgot about this too: this is the first public appearance from the couple since Benedict was made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire). As for their future plans… Benedict is going to be doing Hamlet and Doctor Strange in the coming months. It is believed that the bulk of Strange will be filmed in London, even though the character is supposed to live in NYC. Benedict has been in rehearsals for Hamlet for weeks now. Sophie is going to be doing some stuff this summer too.
Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.
HEY GIRLS, CURLS!
How is her chest that small after just giving birth….seriously. Small miracles?
she might not be breastfeeding. or naturally tiny.
mine are like floatation devices, so im kinda jealous.
Bottle feeding most likely.
Some are just naturally tiny. I breastfed for four months and was still just a hint of an A cup.
My SIL was very small and she was thinking that her boobs would grow when she got babies, maybe even for a few months, and no, it did not happen. She did have plenty of milk, but there was not much to show for it. She ended getting implants after being done with having babies.
My sis’ were huge and she could not breastfeed at all! , no milk! All we women are different.
I wondered the same thing. If she was out for a few hours, my girls would be full, rock hard and ready to explode!
Mine were only annoying melons for a couple weeks. Then they shrunk down to nothing even thought I breastfed for over a year. They’re really sad looking now. God bless a good bra.
He looks so old in the posed photos! Or maybe he’s just drunk.
He’s officially lost the sexy for me. It’s gone.
Sunglasses at night, no.
I’d also hedge that the baby is more like 4-5 weeks old now at this stage. Probably arrived a few weeks earlier than the announcement.
She might just be a shy reserved person regarding PDAs but for once I’d like to see her look at him like he does her.
i normally agree on sunglasses at night but with all the flashes around from paps i get it.
…Don’t switch the blade on the guy in shades; oh no
Don’t masquerade with the guy in shades;
(oh no) (I caaan’t believe it)
You got it made with the guy in shades; oh no……
thanks a lot. It’s stuck now.
I have light-colored eyes and I could never take all those flashlights. My eyes seem more sensitive to things like that,b right flashing lights, bright sun, photos being taken.
that or he’s drunk and hiding his eyes lol.
Is he near-sighted? Because we see him in regular glasses quite often. Those aren’t just character glasses, are they? Because I am near-sighted, and I have a pair of regular glasses and optical sunglasses. I am often lazy to carry both with me and switch them out inside, so I often walk around the store or the mall in sunglasses, and I have occasionally ended up with sunglasses on after dark, but if I need to see where I’m going, I’m better off with sunglasses on than with nothing at all.
yeah he is timbuktu
Doubt he has sensitive-eyes issue. He’s an actor, constantly have megawatt spotlights shining on him when filming. A few flashlights shouldn’t be an issue. Prescription len sunglasses is more likely. But he wasn’t wearing sunglasses in that other event during the day, so it’s still odd that he brought sunglasses to night event.
I don’t wear my glasses all the time, either, since I realize it’s weird, I’d take them down for a meal, for example, since it’s distance I need them for. But I’d put them back on when walking to catch a cab.
Mind you, not saying that’s what’s happening here, but suggesting that there could be a benign explanation.
megawatt spotlights would be better if his are sensitive to light, i speak from experience lol, it is more common in people with light colored eyes
basically bright flashes of light in the dark are the worst. your eyes are adjusting to the dark, so the effect is amplified
I just think he’s way more into her than she is into him, that simple really. She just stands there and looks smug about it. That’s just the way it looks anyway. Maybe she’s staring at him adoringly the rest of the day, when there are no camera’s around, lol.
🙂
I think it looks that way, too. Wonder how she treats him when there are no paparazzi. She seems to cringe when he gets too close.
i think it is the nicest we have seen her-and I am not a huge Sophie Benny fan
Other way around but he is a way better actor. She always has her nose turned up.
It’s never too dark to be cool.
And rather gaunt looking and it doesn’t suit him right now – his face looks 4″ longer and it was already long enough.
lol, ita. now i’m starting to see why people say he looks like a foot
Toodles45, I’d never heard that description. It’s not at all flattering, is it? Still funny, nonetheless.
Sunglasses at night look stupid. It always annoys me when celebs do that.
I am giggling that Kaiser chose the one picture in which Sophie’s nose is headed upward to lead off the piece.
I’m amazing at sheer number of those! I’m not being papped, obviously, but I seriously doubt that I’d get a single photo like that had I been papped. I just don’t think I do that. Maybe she turns out this way when she shakes her hair away from her face or something, and it’s a habit, which is why we get so many photos of her like this?
@timbuktu, she tosses her hair alot. (youtube moet awards arrival with BC to see her in action)
At the hay festival last year, naomi of cumberbatchweb asked who was the reader/actress doing the “incredible amount of hair tossing”.
Looks like she’s trying to her hair out of her face.
I think the cut suits her very well, but yeah, when you’ve got a sidepart with curtain bangs, it’s going to go in your eyes when your head is down.
They look cute and happy. I haven’t been following their story closely, but don’t get the vitriol toward them. Dating, pregnancy, marriage, dutiful shlepping around red carpets together, seems pretty basic despite the compressed timeline. Marriage and baby kept pretty quiet. Guess I’m missing something.
They did look quite miserable together when they first announced their relationship, yet he gave all those interviews with extremely flowery language. That is what got me interested in this, personally. I’m usually not big on personal life of my favorite actors, but this one what just too much of a “wtf”, so I wondered if I was crazy or if others saw the weirdness too.
But, I think that they have since gotten better. Whether they reached some agreement, or genuinely fell in love, or maybe they were in love altogether, just bad at showing it, and later they learned – I don’t know.
I do agree with you, though, that at this point their pictures look if not “happy” (I agree with those who think that he looks more into her), at least very normal, and I think people who see signs of a bad relationship and impending divorce are reaching.
Doesn’t Michelle Obama have a dress just like that one?
Think so. If I’m not wrong it’s Monique Luhllier.
They look happy. I wonder if the pregnancy was a beast because she looks much better now. I mean, this is the first time we’ve ever seen her not preg isn’t it?
@Invadertak
I agree it’s a possibility. They both look so much better and happier. It’s very sweet to see.
She looks lovely, but I’ve never seen anyone ‘bounce-back’ from baby making soooo fast.
I have, a friend of mine a month after giving birth was as thin and elegant as before getting pregnant… Some people are naturally thin..
Google, Rashida Dati, french ex-justice minister who was svelte, and glamorous 5 DAYS after her caesarian. Pap strolled into her office in towering heels and YSL couture looking very, glamorous and no signs of trauma.
Some women do.. everyone doesn’t retain their pregnancy weight years later.. She was not very big from the pictures I saw.. she seemed to be all baby bump. just genetics
If you stay slim throughout pregnancy and you really just have the belly, you can be back to your old size (if not the exact same shape) within a couple of weeks.
With my first I ate for 10 and it took me a year to lose the weight. I kidded myself that it was baby weight, but that only accounted for about 20lbs, and I lost that much early on then stalled. With my second I ate healthily and continued exercising, and I was back in my pre-pregnancy clothing a week after the birth and back to my old shape within a couple of months.
It didn’t look like Sophie had gained anything more than baby weight, her limbs were still long and lean when she was 9 months along. Plus she’s pretty tall, that helps.
My naturally thin friends did. Within a couple of weeks.
It happens. I gained 70 lbs while I was pregnant and lost 30 of it in the first two weeks after my c section. I’m naturally small, only way you can tell I had a baby two months ago is because of my jelly stomach and huge boobs.
Eh, depends how you gain and lose weight. I am tall and thin like sophie, put on 11 kgs and was back in my pre-preg jeans by day 8.
That is also an incredibly flattering style dress…
Really? Plenty of women do. Heck, it’s a whole subcategory of the tabloid world: look how great so-and-so looks just days after…!
I was back in my pre-pregnancy jeans ten days after my son was born. I only gained 23 lbs when I was pregnant.
She looks soooo much better with bangs
She looks great!
I really like her dress.. she looks good..
Yeah i think she looks really well here
She looks great and really polished.
chaser,
really? You’d call it “polished”? I’m not dissing her, I think she looks great, I’m not a huge fan of that dress, but she looks pretty. But to me, this look is too casual to be “polished”. Her hair is down and rather natural-looking, her dress is more “work-appropriate” than formal, IMO, etc.
Pretty – yes, polished – no (but that’s not necessarily a bad thing).
Sure do. Her hair is shiny and neat, her face is clear with a hint of colour on her lips… that’s polished to me and it really suits the dress.
It’s a Parisian look, it’s meant to be understated and natural looking. 🙂
she really does. I wouldn’t look like anything but death just a month after giving birth to a half-reptile, so I take my hat off to her. /jk
Love the dress and it looks great on her.
I will admit that after seeing Sherlock for the first time last year, I was like “Oh, now I get it” about him. I think he only does it for me on the show though. Otherwise, I’m very ugh about him. Whenever I see pictures of them together, it always seems like he’s playing to her and she’s playing to the cameras. Maybe I’m just a horrible pessimist, but I don’t see them lasting.
I think they like each other quite a bit but I’m always a bit weary of couples who commit to big life decisions after such a short period of time. Hopefully, the fact that they’ve know each other so long will help keep them together.
They are also super rich so if they don’t want to be together in a decade or so they can pull a Bennifer #2 and live on the same property and still never have to see one another! #1percentsolutions!
But the thing is, we don’t know what that time frame is or was. We don’t know when they started dating, only when they kinda/sorta announced to the world (French Open 2014). We don’t know when he proposed, only when it was announced to the world (November?).
We can count backwards to September (or there about) to when she got pregnant, but that’s only if one assumes she gave birth late May, early June as was expected. We don’t know when they started planning their wedding, but the venue, dress and date hint at, at least 9 to 11 months prior. Because no way does one get a Valentines Day wedding at the last minute in an old church on a scenic island.
I always laugh at those people (not you Miko) who definitively say that this or that happened, at this or that time. That’s fine and all, I guess, but they managed to keep all the ‘real’ details pretty secret. Kinda puts all that showmance, media ho, stuff to bed, IMO. If either of them are, they aren’t doing it right.
Just an aside, they were papped late May and she was still pregnant. The photos are on this site if one cares to look. They were out shopping and most people here were wondering why she was still pregnant late May, when Benedict’s rep said that the baby was due late May.
They look good in these photos.
@delord – yeah, some of the talk around this pregnancy was starting to resemble the crazier sayings of the Suri Cruise truthers back in 2006.
@delorb
Well, I’m not 100%, but I thought the Vogue article about her dress said that it was rushed and done in 6 months?
Besides, from what I’ve read from Brits, the isle where they got married is not all that scenic in Feb., so it could be a rather unpopular wedding location in the winter, and it was only appealing to them because she has a family connection to it. So… Could be less 9 months quite easily, I think.
They look good. But I’m not sure why delorb is still trying to push the idea that they have been planning their wedding since they met seventeen years ago. Everything was done in a rush and hurried due to her unexpected pregnancy. It was a tiny little parish church on a tiny little island. It easily could have been available for them to use since you need family connections to marry there and it’s a tiny little village. We know that he proposed on Nov 3rd. We also know that she didn’t walk the LFF red carpet in October because they weren’t engaged. So there’s that.
Her family connections had nothing to do with the wedding site except luck and convenience. The site was selected because they could control the environment, meaning it was remote and hard to get to so there wouldn’t be many photographers or gawkers. Benedict stated early on that he wanted a private wedding – he knew that she would be about eight or nine months along at the ceremony and obviously he didn’t want photos taken of her because it would reveal a shotgun wedding. If she weren’t pregnant they would have married in a huge cathedral to match their huge egos.
“Whenever I see pictures of them together, it always seems like he’s playing to her and she’s playing to the cameras.”
This.
She looks less bitchy and more approachable when she smiles like that.
And I guess it was stress after all that made him look miserable during Oscar campaign.
I sooo want to know the name of the Batchling. Is that too much to ask? I don’t want photos, or need to see the birth certificate – I just need a name.
Not too much to ask. Some people have suggested names for years already, so no wonder there’s some curiosity…
I can remember James McAvoy doing something similar. It was, “wife had baby, the end”. I can remember searching because I really like both of them as actors (plus they look good together) and coming up empty. Then later coming up with Andrew. Just did a search and its Brendan. Wonder where I got Andrew? Jeez. Perhaps this is the new normal where celebrities don’t divulge that info?
Bancroft Timothy Charles?
Algernon timothy Cromwell?
Timothy Reginald Spencer?
Rupert Timothy Saxon?
Dudley Timothy Wesley?
Darius Timothy Frederick?
Vaughan Timothy Launcelot?
Forgive me. It’s 2:10am here, and now I’m just being ridiculous…
William Timothy Frederick? W.T.F. to his friends.
Seely Hunter Ivanhoe Tarquin?
Oscar Olivier Patroclus Sebastian?
Sorry, now I’m just being mean. Whatever I may think of his parents I really do wish nothing but the best of things for the Batchling.
They look really happy. These are the bests pics of them as a couple if’ve seen.
Totally agree. They look happy.
Completely agree. It is a game of getting more clicks.
I’ve seen Amish people in more revealing clothes than she wears
Point being?
She dresses like a frumpy old woman. I’m not saying she should go out undressed like a Kardashian, but she could use a stylist that would steer her towards something a bit less like a nun’s habit.
God, I wonder if HE dresses her. That would explain sooooo much
Hey ladies. Don’t dress how you want or to suit your personal style. You’ve got to hit the middle ground between revealing and not too revealing. But dress for your body shape, oh and don’t forget your age… you want to look sexy but not like a whore… *giggle giggle*.
What are we doing to ourselves?
so?
I hope she’s dressing just as she wants to dress, as I always do, and hope/wish all women would. I think she looks really nice here. It’s refreshing to see a woman in the public eye not thrusting her thrupney bits at every camera, doing the leaning, pouty sexy-pose, showing off her granny’s knickers or almost flashing her minge. There’s nothing wrong with some modesty, or even choosing the “safe” option.
They look like a boring couple.
Him getting on your nerves with his endless boring stories about his last hollidays and her saying nothing and smilling like she wants to be somewhere else.
Oh I doubt she wants to be somewhere else, because the only reason she is where she is, is because she married him. No one would be taking photos of her at an embassy party in London otherwise.
Agree with Sees. Spot on observation.
V true – its not where she is that’s making her look grumpy but maybe who she’s with. Good luck to her – he’s always come across as high maintenance and hard work in a relationship.
@betti, +100000
@seesittellsit assumes she wants to be there. She obviously looks like she’d rather be home doing a nice, homey needlepoint to hang in the baby’s room. Probably with birds on it.
I bet Wanda is rocking the cradle while these two are outing.
Why don’t people buckle their seat belts in taxicabs?
(I mean, to be fair Benedict has a poor history with cabbies. Yuk-yuk.)
I always do
It’s illegal here in Australia not to buckle up, even in a taxi. The taxi driver can, and usually does, refuse to move if you don’t click-clack, even in the back. It’s not worth the huge fine or even his license to allow a passenger to be unsecured.
They’re body language still looks reaaaally off. In the top pic it looks like he is rushing ahead and she is holding onto his arm for dear life and then in the pics where his hand is on her shoulder, it looks more like he is being controlling versus it being a cute, reassuring, or loving gesture. Am I the only one seeing this?
No you’re not. In the cab it also looks like he’s clasping her limp, lifeless hand for dear life.
Maybe paps make her nervous. It looks like he’s shielding her from them, or trying to, in the other ones where’s he talking, and she looks way more relaxed in all the other photos.
The hand on shoulder pic just looks like the “quick couple pose” you see with guests at weddings lol
She has no problem with paps never has. The problem is him – he feels like he has to protect her from the mob, i do get a controlling vibe from him primarily as he needs to be the centre of attention and to control his image as a man in love.
Was she papped before him? I must have missed something then.
She seems fine in smaller doses, one photographer, but much more anxious in large crowds of strangers doing it, like paps and on red carpets. And even that I’m a bit hesitant to say because pseudo-analysis of strangers can go off the rails fast.
Well, she is certainly not 5’9. I’d say she’s 5’6 or 7 at most. She’s gotta be wearing 3-4 inch heels and she’s still clearly shorter than her hubbie (6’0).
Oh, and holy smokes her skin is fab.
I do like that dress. Great color and fit.
I finally saw The Imitation Game. He was fantastic in it. Great performance.
Been following these 2 and it’s amazing how the comments and general feel about them has changed. Seems @ the beginning people didn’t care for her and now they adore her. Maybe pregnancy was hard and being in the spotlight didn’t help. He must be so happy about this. Still don’t like her but if he’s happy with her, and it really seems like he is, then good for them.
The tenor of the comments has changed but I think that has more to do with the commenters. I think the more serious pro/con people have drifted off elsewhere. She looks great. He’s giving her some soppy looks. But it’s a lot. Lots of women can bounce back quickly. But zero signs of pregnancy or any minor sign of a physical change? She was an actress but the reason she’s always staring directly into cameras is because she’s nervous? They must have been planning their wedding for almost a year? Yet, various details in the press revealed lots of strings were pulled to get things moving quickly and friends were surprised by the whole thing? He announced her as a GF at the French Open, but then said there was “no reason” to be seen together or to walk a red carpet because they “weren’t engaged?” What the what? That’s the phrase of the day with these two.
I place no bets on the length of their marriage. I don’t claim for a minute to know their actual “timeline” or feelings for each other. But something is just off about them. Of course, one would wish them happiness more than anything else. But something is strange here. It could be for various different reasons. But this sudden urge to prove their true lasting love to the media is weird and unnatural. No matter how you slice it, there’s going to be critics partially because of jealousy but also because they didn’t “roll this whole thing out” properly. Sure, it sucks to feel forced to reveal your personal life. But if you’re a celeb, you signed up for the whole gig. You can’t just pop up out of nowhere with a huge development, refuse to offer some basic background details and then be all inconsistent with the rest. Whatever this is, it was always going to be a PR nightmare the way BC decided to handle it.
It’ll take a couple years, but everyone will forget.
I swear these two look like brother and sister. Her dress is nice!
Why is he always dragging her out? She is wearing heels, walk slower Benedict. Or just walk side by side, that’s also a thing.
somebody mentioned above he tries to guard her, and it didnt dawn on me before, but i can see it now, especially in the photos where hes talking by how his body is turned
if paps make her anxious her best bet is to walk far behind though or leave separately, some celeb couples do that.
What you say about the paps reminded me of her holding on to Benedict for dear life. From the front, she looked poised and relaxed, but from the back, she had a huge chunk of his jacket.
I know she gets dinged for being a media (blank), but I’m thinking that she’s the reason for the secrecy. When Benedict gets going its hard to stop him, but he’s been very restrained here. Only a few lapses.
A few lapses of what?
Or he sped up to open the car door for her.
Honestly you can’t tell much from these types of shots because it’s such a short time sequence.
He looks like he is more into her than she is into him but I think that’s because he is used to the spotlight and she isn’t. I think she is nervous hence one pose all the time. When they are in the car, it looks like he is about to say to her: you see, it wasn’t so bad. We can relax now…
On another note, when they first came out as a couple I couldn’t stand them but now I’m way more into them than George and Amal. I think they played their cards right: even though she made lots of appearances with him, she didn’t look as pap hungry as Amal. Her way of dressing is also way more elegant and age appropriate than Amal’s especially when one were to think about political career which I know Cumberbatch is not.
Hilarious how the tide is turning on George and Amal. People loved them and now she’s a fame whore who killed his career. At least she has one. Take note Ben, the tide will turn on you and your wife too. It already swayed once and it will sway back. Give it time. People are very fickle.
I am still getting weird vibes from them. The only thing that is more tolerable about them is that they are not always in my face all the time.
hear hear!
boy with beard
He really wants Hollywood career, even came to the reception of US ambassador to Britain. Poor baby boy
yeah that’s not high profile or exclusive enough to help a US career lol
home country US embassies usually invite new academy members to attend an event the first year. you can say no obv but if youve got nothing else on might as well, especially if you landed a big gig with a us studio
Err.. He already have a Hollywood career.
My dad was invited to US and Japan’s embassy events when he already exported stuff to both countries. Not when he was still try to score a deal.
@YupYepYam, he is not well known in the United States. He was invited to the embassy’s celebration because they tend to invite anyone who has recently been invited to join AMPAS.
The photos them they really do look happy -in love.
Maybe they sent back the first baby to Russia and waiting for a new one.
She cringes and is embarrassed about his affections, and he doesn’t seem to register that. They don’t ‘read’ each other very well.
Unfortunately for him she didn’t cringe nine months ago.
Been gone a long while. So can I surmise no nutters here? I need a place away from Tumblr. They’ve gone Uber nuts there. They’re frustrations are palatable.
So you surmise wrong. Haha. At least the people over here are not on the fake baby train.
I’m just here for the Cumbercurls and to hopefully find out when Cumberbaby has a name.
I’ve decided to stay for Sophie’s dress. I love it.
I used to be a naysayer about these two, but I kind of like them now. They FINALLY look like a real couple – and I think she looks great. I hope they are happy.
A friend of mine got pregnant after dating a man 2 months (she had previously been in an almost 10 year relationship with another man and broken up with him just a few months prior) and we are all worried for her. She seems the best way to describe it is bewildered and overwhelmed by the changes and I think she knows it closes the door with the other guy forever (nor do we believe she is over the other guy). I do not think it will end well for her. I wish her the best, but it is awfully fast for all of us and from previous experience with other friends, it never ends well in these scenarios. I feel the same about Cumberbatch.
They still look miserable together to me. They are trying to “fake it til you make it.” It’s what they’ve done since November. They aren’t so much trying to convince the public and media, but themselves.
He is trying way too hard. I don’t give them long.