Star: Tom Hiddleston dumped Elizabeth Olsen before he left for ‘Skull Island’

I genuinely believe that Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen were dating for much of 2015. They worked together one year ago, filming I Saw the Light. Soon after they worked together, Olsen’s engagement to Boyd Holbrook was over and her dalliance with Hiddles was seemingly “on.” Sir Dragonfly might have even been a homewrecker! Then, when it came time for Olsen and Hiddles to parlay the gossip about their relationship into buzz for their film, Olsen seemed to tap out. While they were in Toronto, Olsen told Refinery29 that NO, she wasn’t dating Tom, etc. The true Hiddles fans side-eyed her for that one, but Tom didn’t really say anything about it either way. And now Star Magazine claims he was totally over Olsen’s game-playing so he dumped her and he’s probably knee-deep in strange in Hawaii as we speak.

Talk about playing too hard to get. While it seemed as though ‘I Saw the Light’s’ Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen were ready to go public with their new romance, insiders claim the actress had trouble committing to her costar once filming wrapped.

“Elizabeth’s so focused on her career,” reveals a pal. “She just wasn’t sure she could handle a serious relationship right now.”

Tired of trying to make sense of her mixed signals, Tom broke it off with Elizabeth before he left to film ‘Kong: Skull Island’ in Hawaii – not that he’s singing the blues.

“He seems determined to enjoy himself out here, partying late into the night with cast and crew,” says a source on set. “And no one can help but notice just how close he’s gotten to quite a few of the gorgeous girls working on the production.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Hm. If Elizabeth Olsen was so focused on her career, didn’t she realize that a high-profile romance with Tom probably would have helped her career? I mean… it wouldn’t have hurt at all. Still, it’s good to hear that Tom wasn’t waiting by the phone for Lizzie. He’s already moved on! Apparently. If so, good for him. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he was enjoying the company of some lovely girls on the production. I’ve been saying this for a while too: Brie Larson is a possibility. She’s working on Kong: Skull Island too, and she gives me an Elizabeth Olsen vibe as well, which might be his type.

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  1. escondista says:

    Ohhh…I rather liked these two more than most celeb relationships.

  2. Lilacflowers says:

    Brunch is served. Colin is quite proud of the turkey soup. We’ve been having lots of fun with go-carts and laser tag.

    The vending machines in the meadow are stocked for the fray interested in this latest news from the oh-so career oriented despite having no work lined up Lizzie.

    • Snazzy says:

      I love brunches served by Colin chez Lady Lilac! 🍾

    • SloaneY says:

      Lol. Nicely done, lilac.

    • antipodean says:

      Turkey soup is just the ticket at this time of year. Is my usual tipple still available, and who is in charge of mixing the cocktails this time? How is the gang finding the tropical location, hope their headwear is not getting too droopy in the heat.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Colin is still and always in charge of beverages and he will endeavor to find your tipple. We are enjoying the tropics immensely.

    • NUTBALLS says:

      We have turkey soup sitting in our garage (alternative fridge) just waiting for the sweet potatoes, onions, spinach, carrots and celery to be added tonight!

      • antipodean says:

        NB, your soup recipe sounds divine, I am tempted to beg for an invitation. I usually let my leftovers sit for a few days so that all the flavours can imbue, I am very much a leftover person. Unfortunately Mr Antipodean is not, so I have to try and devise different, appetising ways to serve them.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        antipodean, Mr Balls is the cook in the family and he not only makes a divine turkey soup with the carcass, but also makes the best garlic-cheesy mashed potatoes this side of the Mississippi. Paula Deen would be proud with all the butter he puts into it!

      • antipodean says:

        Three cheers for Mr Balls! Garlicy mashed spuds are the best.

    • jammypants says:

      Yum! I noticed everytime there’s gossip, it always gear in favor towards Lizzie. She’s been busy.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Well, she actually hasn’t been busy so yes, her “pal” has been busy.

      • jammypants says:

        I’ve actually defended her a good bit this year, but yes, I’m starting to think she’s “busy” in spreading useless gossip. I wouldn’t have been suspicious if it weren’t for the verbiage constantly in favor towards her image. So far, it’s done more good for her than Tom. Now he’s being called homewrecker, player, manwhore. If I was Tommy boy, I’d steer clear as well.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        That is the most obvious reason to point the finger at her… she’s the workaholic who’s too busy for a relationship, despite just last year being engaged to her long-time boyfriend at the age of 25.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        And she’s not actually working.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        Yeah, if the Hawaii spotting is legit and Tom’s still hooking up with her, then I think he’s a moron. She’s not making him look good with the way the press is slanted in her direction. To me, she comes off looking like a desperate famewhore who’s using him for column inches as well as his West End connections.

        What bugs me about her is that she acts like she doesn’t pay attention to what’s being said about her online, as though she’s above all the nonsense, but everything we’ve seen about THEO this year points to her looking for media attention, so she comes off as disingenuous to me. Tom, for all his talk about keeping his private life private, came off the same way with the July outings, knowing it would cause people to believe the rumors.

        The hookup isn’t the issue with me; it’s the saying one thing but doing another that bugs me about THEO. He needs to stop talking about authenticity and truthfulness because he doesn’t live up to that standard any more than other actor does. They will say what they want you to hear and show what they want you to see, not necessarily, what’s actually true.

      • neutral says:

        @ nutballs ” Tom, for all his talk about keeping his private life private, came off the same way with the July outings, knowing it would cause people to believe the rumors.”

        Hang on a minute. What has Tom said about his private life? Nothing apart from saying they weren’t dating when directly asked at TIFF. Apart from that they were seen out twice (once by a stalker who sold her pic to the Daily Fail for £50) once after the theatre in which he looked a lot less than happy – what is he supposed to do, stay at home all day hiding?

        And the Hawaii sighting wasn’t legit I believe it has been established.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        Neutral, the way I see it, Tom’s decision to step out in public with Lizzy was deliberate and meant to draw attention to both of them. For a guy who knows how to keep his private life out of the spotlight, I saw that as a calculated move for publicity. Others saw it as an innocent outing with a coworker. I don’t see any public outing with a single woman he’s rumored to be sleeping with as being “innocent”. He’s got such a tightly-controlled public image that I don’t buy the idea that he was “caught” or unaware of what would happen after he was seen twice with her that week. It got both of them column inches and advance publicity for ISTL, so it accomplished its purpose.

        As someone said back in July, whether or not they’re hooking up isn’t the point. The gossipy narrative was the only reason they were being talked about in mainstream entertainment sites.

        He’s mentioned in an interview that he felt it’s best that fans not know much about him so he can be a more effective actor. I agree with him, but the problem is, when he pulls something like he did with Lizzy, it serves to distract from his work and does bring his personal life out into the public sphere, so it comes off as disingenuous to me.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        ETA: Frankly, I would rather they had, if true, just come out as a couple or kept the whole thing behind closed doors or if not true, addressed it directly as false, which they didn’t. Their denials came off as though they really were messing around and just didn’t want to admit it. Tom didn’t even deny anything, he just made sure he didn’t say anything that could get thrown back in his face later.

  3. Mimi says:

    Jeez with this story!!!! Elisabeth is dating the director of the film they did together! He’s three times her age actually…

  4. Andrea says:

    Not everyone has to commit. This seems like a non story. Not everyone is a perfect match.

  5. Coco says:

    Oh, I love Brie Larson…I could get behind that hookup!

  6. platospopcorn says:

    Just had a look at Brie’s IMDB page. Very nice career! And she’s cute, although if he hooks up with her, I’m going to be a bit squicked out…She looks a LOT like his sister, Emma!

    • NUTBALLS says:

      She was fantastic in Short Term 12. It’s on Netflix.

      • Beth No. 2 says:

        Yes she was. The teenagers in the home, especially the rebellious girl and the black boy, were outstanding too.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        Beth, have you seen ROOM? She was great in that too. I’m expecting her to do well during awards season.

    • Crocuta says:

      Everytime Hiddleston has a romance (or a newspaper invents one) somebody claims the woman looks like one of his siters. It’s like people really want that to happen.

      That being said, this is the first time I might see a bit of actual resemblance, although not that much. Emma has a very distinctive face-shape and jaw that is way more expressive than Brie’s, and the nose and eyes (shape or colour) don’t match either. But kind of the overall vibe, yea, a bit similar. Actually Brie reminds me of Anna Paquin even more, in the same “overall vibe”. So that vibe isn’t that rare with many different people.

    • Hannah says:

      Brie has a serious boyfriend. Even if she didn’t I don’t think he’s her type, she’s basically a total hipster. She hangs out with all those hip LA musicians and some female comedians and feminists like the portlandia actress/musician and Amy schumer.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        I agree. She’s not his type at all and like Lizzy, lives in LA.

      • Heather says:

        “Brie has a serious boyfriend.”

        As I may have said on here many months ago, EO was engaged so serious boyfriends are no barrier… lol.

    • Locke Lamora says:

      I quite like Brie, and she’s a really good actress, but I read an interview with her and Shailene Woodley a while back and they were so annoying together, In that kinda pseudo-deep hipster way.

  7. Zapp Brannigan says:

    So a tabloid confirmed the end of a romance between two people that another tabloid started. I’m going to need more coffee.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      And the timeline is quite a bit off too but anything to move copy and get Lizzie’s name out there when she has no work lined up

      • NUTBALLS says:

        Hence why she’s so focused on her career, y’know.

        Poor TommySausage… a man can only wait for so long! Perhaps he’s throwing himself into his work so he can forget about his heartbreak. A *new* priority for him to focus on…

      • Pleasestop says:

        Im sorry but why everytime i come on this website theres a comment of this kind here?? Similar of when someone was going off about alicia vikander using her relationship with fassbender to put her name out there. I understand that alicia and fassy have a trail behind them, but elizabeth and hiddles, really?? Shes recognized as a very talented actress and seems to have a brilliant future. Pretty sure she will line up something – being from an influent family and having a leading characther on the mcu. Hiddleston has a year of flops behind him, and loki is no longer a big deal. Please accuse the man of being the famewhore for once. If this story was planted by one of their teams, i say it was team hiddleston. He isnt as famous as the internet makes him seem to be, clearly loves attention, and the article doest trash her but is favorable to him. And remember when his team planted a story on the daily mail about how he was dating jessica chastain, and it was serious (and it sure as hell wasnt her team, since they would for sure know that when the dm claimed she was visting him she was acting on broadway – and even if the daily mail is trash, if they make up stories is about people way more relevant than tom hiddleston)??? I do. Please stop accusing the ladies of everything. Its tiring

      • SloaneY says:

        Sorry, sugar. If it came from anyone’s PR camp it was hers. The article makes her sound like a hard-working gal who got dumped on by a complete man-whore. It makes her look great and him look terrible. Especially after all those articles earlier in the year about her shagging pretty much anyone who has ever been in a Marvel movie.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        “Hiddleston has a year of flops behind him”

        Really? He has only had one film, Crimson Peak, released in cinemas this year and it did fine, not The Martian or Spectre fine but not Our Brand is Crisis, Burnt, Rock the Casbah flop either. High-Rise and Tom’s performance have earned nominations at the British Independent Film awards and won’t be released into theaters until next year and it was never intended for the mass market. I saw the light received poor critical reviews for the film itself but his performance garnered favorable reviews and nobody knows what the box office will be when it is released in March – some bad films actually do well at the box office so way too premature to claim it flopped.

        She isn’t working on anything now. She hasn’t worked on anything since her part in Captain America: Civil War wrapped. She has nothing scheduled for the immediate future. These “stories” have been in the American press in forums her family has used before.

      • Lambda says:

        “Sorry sugar”?
        Wow

      • SloaneY says:

        I’m from the south. It’s how we do. Wasn’t meant to be offensive.

      • jammypants says:

        “Flops”? The only film that came out was Crimson Peak. Unless you mean reviews. One tanked and the other was positive.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        Lizzy has a brilliant future?? With who, Marvel?? Are you serious?? Marvel has yet to turn any C-list actor into an A-lister in the past 10 years.

        I think she’s a good actress, but she hasn’t had any noteworthy roles since Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene. She’s got good reason to be panicked about her future — she hasn’t worked since the end of May and she has nothing on the horizon. That means, once her two films are released in the Spring, the earliest she’ll be promoting another film is mid-2017, if she starts working in early 2016. That’s a long time to be out of the spotlight, so we’ll be seeing her at fashion shows and she’ll continue to milk the PR for this rumor until March at least.

        These rumors have her camp’s fingerprints all over them. Hiddles obviously went along with the PR pot-stirring in July and I side-eye him for it, but she’s the one getting most of the benefit and the one in a more precarious position career-wise.

        ETA: everything that Lilac said.

      • EN says:

        > Lizzy has a brilliant future?? With who, Marvel??

        For what its worth, I think Lizzy will make it. She is a much bigger name in the US, and she can act. I am not so sure about Hiddleston anymore.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        EN, the only reason she is more popular in the US is being the sister of the Olsen twins, not her acting, which I agree she is talented. Nonetheless, casting directors aren’t picking her, so it remains to be seen if this is just a temporary work slowdown or if she’ll start landing some good roles in the future.

      • ell says:

        how do you know directors aren’t picking her, as opposed to being her decision not to take work she doesn’t want to do? so many assumptions.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        I know directors aren’t picking her for roles because other women are getting them. You can bet that she’s got agents trying to get her some of those parts that we’re seeing her contemporaries in. She’s not just sitting back waiting for a phone call.

        You think she would have wanted Brie’s role in Room, Skull Island or The Glass Castle? Vikander’s in Danish Girl, Ex Machina or the upcoming Bourne film? Or Roony Mara’s in Carol? I do.

      • chelsea says:

        Lizzie’s the better actor. She’ll be fine.

    • I Choose Me says:

      I’m going to need more than coffee. Who’s with me?

      *Snags a comfy spot on Lilac’s veranda.*

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Give your beverage request to Colin and he’ll be sure to get it to you quickly.

      • jammypants says:

        I’ll join

      • Solanacaea (Nighty) says:

        I need a tequila or maybe a vodka…

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Colin will bring a bottle of each and you can alternate.

      • Solanacaea (Nighty) says:

        Thanks Lilac… My students gave me a hard time today…

      • vauvert says:

        Ah, sitting down in the shade. Colin, please be a darling and get me something fruity, tropical and silly – like umbrella silly.
        I think this is a tempest in a teapot. He is a single guy. Plays the field. Never confirmed the relationship, if there was one. Why would he come across badly?? He has lots in the works and will continue to get lots. Hope Marvel brings a to of Loki back because the fans love him.

        As for her, I have only seen her in Marvel and IMO she was absolutely horrible – her and the guy who played her twin were so wooden and not believable in their roles, they ruined the movie for me. Beyond that I have zero opinion of her. Again, single gal, dates around – who cares? Whether she hooks up with a bunch of costars or dates one of them quietly – as long as the other person(s) is not married, it’s a free world.

  8. Madly says:

    There were long stretches were they were doing nothing but always spotted apart. Whatever it was, I doubt it was any kind of committed relationship, if that.. He might have been dating others as well and we just don’t know about it. I think fans here built it up to be more than it was. These two never seemed like a match to me anyways.

  9. Moxie Remon says:

    I’ve been getting a bad vibe from Tom for a while now, but if I had to pick between Elizabeth or Brie, Brie would be the girl. She doesn’t seem so try hard and there’s something off about Elizabeth; when I see her face, it just annoys the hell out of me.

    • Andrea says:

      Bad aka Fassbender player vibe? I’ve gotten that too, but I like them both so meh.

      • Moxie Remon says:

        Something like that, but Michael doesn’t seem to paint himself as a good boy, while Tom just, I don’t know, he seems like one of those guys who’ll tell you you’re the love of their life and then leave you broken 2 days later. I used to love him so much, but lately, he’s been a disappointing figure for me.

      • jammypants says:

        “I don’t know, he seems like one of those guys who’ll tell you you’re the love of their life and then leave you broken 2 days later.”

        And you got that from?

      • marshmellow says:

        Yeah, I get the same vibe. I don’t know if he’s secretly a player exactly, but I don’t buy the image he tries to sell.

      • Chloe says:

        Same as fassy? Really??? In what world?? Fassy has a string of relationships, hook ups in a very short time. You can find pictures of him with many different girlfriends.
        Hiddleston has what? One relationship before he was famous. And some rumour that’s been denied by the girl, Olsen.
        Hiddleston would only be considered a player in someones imagination. If he was a a female actress people wouldn’t suggest he was a player with absolutly no proof of it.

    • EN says:

      I am also getting a player vibe from TH, and I don’t like it. I feel people who are players lack integrity. Why can’t they deal with people honestly?

      At least with Fassbender you know that what you see is what you get. And even Fassy has had more meaningful relationships than TH. TH seems to have none.

      And the partying? He is not 20 anymore. It doesn’t look good.
      I am becoming disappointed in him.

      • Andrea says:

        I don’t think he’s had meaningful relationships (fassbender). I think women get with him thinking they’ll be “the one” who snags him and he tells them from the get go its casual, they get pap’d, women get upset over the lack of relationship, it implodes.

      • Andrea says:

        I have a guy friend who is 37 and doesn’t want to settle down yet. He doesn’t mislead women, he mainly has one night stands. That’s his prerogative. I don’t get why if TH and MF do this, it is sleazy. yes, maybe they should grow out of it, but I’ve seen where players/party boys who get a girl pregnant and try to settle down before they are ready and it always implodes and they ultimately leave the woman. It is best to let them get it out of their system, however long it may take them. Like they said in SITC, wait until their light is turned on.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Not being in a committed relationship does not automatically mean a person is a player or gay or some how wrong. It can simply mean that he or she has not found a compatible person with reciprocal feelings and is unwilling to make the stupid mistake of settling just for the sake of being in a relationship. And no, merely being single does NOT make two people compatible.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        EN–what partying? Are you seriously taking Star as a source? Look, we know you love your boy Bendy, but you don’t need to shade Tom to make him look good.
        The word out of Hawai’i that we actually have receipts for is that the cast and some crew have been doing LOTS of fun activities as a group (laser tag, go meeting) as witnessed by pics on Instagram. Other than that, we have Tom sitting by himself at a hamburger joint. There’s no evidence of him out partying, not even as much as SLJ and the Straight Out of Compton boys.

      • EN says:

        > Not being in a committed relationship does not automatically mean a person is a player or gay or some how wrong

        To me it means something is not right. People need connection and relationships.
        In so many years he hasn’t found a girlfriend. He is a successful, good looking , intelligent man. I don’t think the issue is that women don’t find him attractive and don’t want to date him. No, it seems that he doesn’t want anything more than short-term secret hookups.

      • EN says:

        > EN–what partying? Are you seriously taking Star as a source

        Well, we don’t know if any of it is true. If it is true then it doesn’t look good.

      • jammypants says:

        Here we go again with the archaic notion that only being in relationships by the “spinster” years validates a person’s worthiness and good standing with others. Well in a few years I guess I’m of questionable moral character then. I know sure as heck I’ll be single for a good many few years because guess what? I’m very career focused right now. I’m not opposed to hookups. I guess that doesn’t look good either.

      • Andrea says:

        @jammypants I couldn’t agree more! I am 34 does that mean there is something wrong with me that I haven’t gotten married yet? Some people feel it is best not to settle down with the wrong person or to settle. It is best he sows his wild oats then gets saddled with a life he will ultimately leave. That is far worse IMO, when he should know better but does it anyway when he knows he can’t stomach that life forever (seen it happen to women and men who aren’t ready and it never ends well).

      • Lilacflowers says:

        @EN, sorry but to me, what you’re describing lacks integrity and, again to me, morals to some extent. Being attractive or smart or wealthy or talented has no bearing on whether one can find a compatible mate. Being single does not make two people compatible at all and the insistence of so many people that it does is a huge contributing factor for the atrocious divorce rate.

        Also, as an unmarried woman not much older than Tom, I can attest that one can have tremendously meaningful relationships, filled with love, with extended family and friends of all ages and gender. Since I was 21 years old, I’ve been subjected to the type of judgement you advocate here and sorry, but I find that harsh, cruel, and wrong. I know so many people who have made that commitment when they shouldn’t have and most would agree that my life is fuller than theirs. I need more than just seeing that a guy isn’t in a committed relationship by a certain age to judge him lacking in integrity or dishonest or a player.

      • Madly says:

        Of course you do. You are a die hard BC fan, heaven forbid you should give TH credit for anything.

      • Solanacaea (Nighty) says:

        Excuse me?? I’m 40, not married, so that means something is wrong with me? I have friends, family and I’ve had bfs (there’s the connection and relationships). I decided I didn’t want to get married (plus, I don’t want kids, would be really harsh to impose that on someone else).
        What’s with the ranting of “those who aren’t married or in a relationship must have something wrong with them”?
        Maybe, just maybe, those who get married not to be judged and catalogued as spinsters are the ones who have something wrong with them. Lack of self-esteem. As I like to say: Worry more about your cousciousness than your reputation. Your cousciousness is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you, is their problem!

      • jammypants says:

        Well, I was told yesterday that I shouldn’t judge hollyweird’s beauty standards so harshly, and I’m contributing to its negativity just because I didn’t think the otter looks better than average dudes and that I am enforcing said discrimination, which I totally wasn’t. I should be judging someone’s character above their looks. But the thing is, putting down the looks of average dudes is also reinforcing another kind of stereotype that’s damaging as well. Anyways, today I see that another kind of judgment is being brought up with no irony.

        @Nighty: ” Your cousciousness is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you, is their problem!”

        Precisely.

      • EN says:

        @Madly, I am not only BC fan. I only post on certain CB articles because I dislike celebrities other articles are about and I am not giving them my clicks/ comments by choice.
        This opinion of mine, though, has nothing to do with any of it. I dislike men who string women along or mislead or play with their feelings.

        @Solanacea, you misunderstood, there is nothing wrong with not getting married. You have relationships, though. I didn’t say anything about getting married.
        Also, many people choose to remain single rather than be in a relationship with a wrong person. And it is a wise decision.
        I doubt, however, that this is TH’s situation.

      • EN says:

        @jimmypants, my comments about looks had nothing to do with the “otter”. But a wider discussion of how women don’t want to be judged on looks, yet themselves keep doing it. You chose to take my comments the way you took them but not the way I meant them.

        I am done with all of you and personal attacks. Enjoy your Prince Dragonfly.
        I can’t believe people will rip somebody apart like this over some celebrity they know nothing about.

      • jammypants says:

        @EN, and you didn’t personally attack me saying I’m part of the problem simply for saying I didn’t think he looked better than the average joe? You generalized me as part of some double standard vocal group I’m not part of.

      • vauvert says:

        Sorry @EN but I think your sweeping characterization that something is wrong with him (or anyone else) for not being in a relationship is really far reaching. Why does everyone need the validation of a romantic relationship in order to be “okay” and not have something wrong with them??
        Maybe he is actually very honest in not getting involved in serious relationships knowing that he does not care to be married – maybe not now and maybe not ever. Maybe his family and friends and work provide all the emotional stability he requires, and hookups provide him with the kind of fun he wants, when he wants it, no strings attached and no hearts broken.
        I am pretty certain that if he would have left a trail of tears behind him one of those people would have sold her sob story to the tabloids but we have never heard a thing like that.
        Speaking only for myself, for about two years after a divorce and a short relationship that left me emotionally devastated, I did not date. At all. Casual hookups did not interest me, I was focused on getting into grad school, working, spending time with my family, reading, traveling and simply healing. At the right time, I casually dated multiple guys, had some fun and once I met my now husband and realized he was the one, that was it. But there was nothing wrong with me for two years in choosing to not pick up guys in bars or get set up on blind dates when I knew I didn’t want a relationship at the time and was not about to “settle” just so I could look normal to judgy people.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        EN–disagreeing with you does not equal ripping you apart.
        Challenging your assertions (which felt rather harsh and personal to commented) does not equal a personal attack.
        Repeating negative (and tabloid based) comments about a celebrity–multiple times–and simply replying when challenged that it is terrible if true is definitely going to get hackles up.
        It’s as I commented below. Some people seem to want to sling mud, and others seem to want to make sure it is thick enough to stick. I don’t understand the motivation.
        There’s a whole human spectrum between “OMG HE’S SO PERF!” and a cheating douchecanoe player. Why can’t people just let Tom be a human somewhere on that spectrum–i.e. not on the worst end, either!

      • marshmellow says:

        “Why can’t people just let Tom be a human somewhere on that spectrum–i.e. not on the worst end, either!”

        What do you mean “let”? He’s going to be whatever he is regardless of what we say, and I highly doubt he reads the comments section of articles about himself anyway.

        I don’t think it’s going to hurt Hiddleston any if I merely mention that I got a bad vibe from him… or affect him in any way whatsoever.

      • jammypants says:

        @TB, well said! No one here thinks he’s perfect. But he’s probably more normal than people make him out to be. The ones painting him to be the other end of the spectrum are just as bad as the unicorn lovers.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        @EN, please. Nobody ripped you apart but you have been extremely judgmental on this thread and other threads about lifestyles that don’t comply with your views that people should be permanently paired off quickly in their early 20s and that it is oh so easy to do. It isn’t easy and everyone shouldn’t do it and if they’re not, it doesn’t mean they lack integrity. And actors do not have to release press notices on every relationship they have just to please you.

        You are on a discussion forum where people are going to disagree with you and may do so as long as they don’t violate the rules, which nobody did.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        Marshmellow, I have no doubt that Tom and his publicity team keep tabs on what’s being said about him on the webs. They’ll want to see which way the wind is blowing in the fandom. I recall a few times when CB posters would wave to them when it appeared that he was reacting to things being said here.

      • marshmellow says:

        Oh. In which case…

        Dear Tom,

        Please stop wearing pumpkin colored foundation. Maybe you already have … I haven’t been paying attention for a while. If so, good job.

        You have nice pants.

        I understand the need to promote one’s movie, but some of your interviews make me have to replace my BS meter; e.g. War Horse and “I want to buy a horse because horses are so majestic that they vomit rainbows! I’m saving my moneys to buy one! Really!” [paraphrasing mine].

        Say something negative. About anything. I dare you.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        Oh, Marsh–you just made me snort Diet Coke.
        And you should DEFINITELY read the FT diary article linked below, it will give you what you’ve asked for!

      • marshmellow says:

        Thanks!

        When he compared showbiz to a circus, I thought he was going to be more critical of Hollywood’s “razzle dazzle” habits — either how it’s all about appearances and tends to ignore issues like discrimination against minorities in the industry, or the tendency in films to hide lack of talent with pretty special effects — but he meant like an actual circus…

        He does mention the bit about avoiding sensationalist headlines, but that’s one of the things that bothers me about him. Granted, I don’t follow him that closely anymore, but it seems that, in his attempt to avoid sensationalist headlines, he never really gives a straight answer (unless it’s on a tame topic, like Shakespeare or acting techniques). He gives very fluffy non-answers that seem to be designed to please as many people as possible. It’s smart, probably, but it comes off as disingenuous, and I think he’d be one of the last people to call out discrimination in showbiz, such as Bale or Clooney standing up to O’Russel. Tom, on the other hand, worked with Woody Allen and had nothing but praise for him. I would pay money to see him give his honest opinion on the sex abuse scandal. … Well, I might pay him in free hugs, because I don’t have much money.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        *snort*

        Nicely put, marshie.

    • neutral says:

      @ all. I’m not saying it isn’t true because I don’t know either way, but where is the evidence that Tom is a player? Exactly how many people has he been seen out with in the last year or two?

      • marshmellow says:

        I can’t speak for everyone else, but I said it was a “vibe,” meaning it’s just a hunch. I can point to a few things that made my side-eye him, but not hard evidence.

      • Ankhel says:

        @Marshmellow

        I feel the same way about this. Major Hiddleston fan since Thor, I love this man. I also don’t believe that marriage is the only good outlet for those over a certain age.

        But, he hasn’t shown any serious interest in commitment since his breakthrough. There’s been a steady stream of rumours about casual hookups ever since. Not relationships or even dates usually. He broke up with his last serious girlfriend at the same time his new fame would’ve enabled him to drown in strange. Also, he sometimes comes across as genuinely flirtatious with his prettier fans. (He’s a boob man, alright). So, no proof, but a good hunch.

        Whatever makes him happy, and it’s his choice. It’s not what I personally dream of, so sadly this is hurting my crush a little.

  10. Die Zicke says:

    I never got a couple vibe from them. I could see them maybe being a fling that fizzled out, but a couple? But what do I know.

    Brie and him would be a cute couple.

  11. NUTBALLS says:

    This is one of the funniest things I’ve read all year. Thanks for the laugh, Kaiser! So the casual hookups are no more because Lizzy “I love being in a relationship” Olsen is focused on her career?? Ummm, okay. Let’s see if they look to get any more PR mileage out of this thing prior to ISTL’s release in March. Then, I suspect the rumors will stop for good.

    That is, unless Lizzy lands herself a West End theatre gig (with Tom’s help)… in which all bets are off.

    ETA: The only thing Brie and Lizzy have in common is their age and gender, imo. I like Brie better than Lizzy, but I don’t see her and Tom hooking up at all. And I don’t think Brie would use a hookup rumor for PR like THEO did. Brie’s like McAvoy, she walks the talk.

    • athena says:

      They will get plenty more PR mileage out of this thing before ISTL is released in March. I find it funny how giddy and celebratory everybody was at the ISTL afterparty in Nashville, almost like they were secretly celebrating something like – TH proposing to EO perhaps? Especially with the movie being taken out of Oscar contention for 2016…hmmm?

      A week after the Nashville premiere a press release was made saying MK would marry in June of 2016, Surprise -she got married this weekend. MK got engaged around the same time as EO in 2014 and she told MK that “she could pick her wedding day first”. It will be interesting to see if there is a surprise THEO Xmas wedding. I wondered why Tom and Jessica were giggling so much on the red carpet just two nights before (EO acted the same way with Tom copying Jess’s body language), maybe he told Jess he was going to propose to EO that weekend! The Twitter rumors around Oct. 23rd that they were shopping for engagement rings in London could be true cause he was in London that weekend for Emma’s Wedding. That Star article was to throw people off.

    • athena says:

      That is, unless Lizzy lands herself a West End theatre gig (with Tom’s help)… in which all bets are off. – Don’t forget they will be working together for some time to come. Skull Island is supposedly going to join forces with a Godzilla vs King Kong face-off, EO may reprise her role in that as well as teaming up with The Avenger’s/Marvel Gang.. So needless to say if they really did break up, they will have a lot of movie sets to be awkward on.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Tom has said the monkey movie is a period piece

      • NUTBALLS says:

        I didn’t think WB had commented on whether any of the actors will be reprising their roles in the final two films of the trilogy. I doubt they even have a script yet, since the deal was just finalized a couple of months ago.

  12. jinni says:

    If he hooks up with Brie than I’d start thinking that he and his team have decided that getting with actresses that have a lot of buzz is their new strategy to get his profile up, since no movie (outside of Marvel) has done anything for his career so far. Also, that these movies he’s in are so bad that getting with a co-star is the only way to sell them. Basically, I don’t think hooking up with Brie would be a good look. It would look like a bunch of pr just like this thing with Olsen and looking like a famewhore is never the way to go.

    • jammypants says:

      Have you even seen these movies? I’m curious! people keep saying they’re bad when most of them haven’t seen them. I’ve seen all of them. And no, not all are bad.

      • jinni says:

        I didn’t say they were bad, but that I would start wondering why he would need to keep getting into relationships with his co-stars if they were any good. Since pr relationships between co-stars is a longstanding method used by studios to get buzz for movies, especially ones that need all the help they can get in interesting an audience.

      • jammypants says:

        How many costars has he gotten with? As far as I know: 1 and that’s Susannah. Gossip does not make it true (but it doesn’t make it untrue either). The difference is, neither camps comfirmed. In fact, both have been quoted as denying the relationship during press junkets at TIFF promoting ISTL. Tom’s been working nonstop. He doesn’t need the press. I think Lizzie is talented and doing well for herself, but she hasn’t done any work for months. Who needs more press? Marc Abraham, the director, himself has said that the gossip about their relationship upset Tom. If he was hungry for the PR, he wouldn’t be upset about it.

        No press is needed for ISTL since it’s DOA. The ship has sailed to promote that.

      • Solanacaea (Nighty) says:

        @jammypants, female or male, because he was even hinted to have something with RDJ … 😉

        *naughty Nighty…lol)

      • Lilacflowers says:

        @Nighty, and Branagh.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        Mmmm.. Branagh, who I’ll be seeing tonight on the big screen in Winter’s Tale!

  13. Caitlin Bruce says:

    It’s funny how Elizabeth was spotted with Tom in Hawaii two weeks ago. Either they are still dating and this is just trailer trash magazines making up crap or the person that spotted them was lying or getting mixed up with Elizabeth and Brie.

    • Die Zicke says:

      If there weren’t any pictures of them together in Hawaii, I wouldn’t believe it. His ‘fandom’ has a habit of making things up.

    • M.A.F. says:

      Those “sightings” are based on Instagram/Twitter posts w/no proof.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        And one of the sightings supposedly took place on a night where he was photographed, without her, with other members of the cast and crew at laser tag.

      • Dara says:

        But there were other sightings too, enough that I’m convinced Lizzie was in Hawaii for at least a week (or two consecutive weekends). The ones making the rounds on Tumblr may have been someone trolling, but there were others and they were far more believable for me. Anyone who has read my comments on CB knows I’m on the fence about these two and a possible romance so I don’t have an agenda here, aside from not automatically buying the BS that tabloids and PR try to spin our direction.

        I’m sure I will be scoffed at since I offer no proof, but as much as I am tempted to post links, screenshots, etc. I’m opting not to. I have seen what happens to people who innocently post sightings and sneaky photos of celebs not realizing how much of a tizzy they’d be creating in the more over-invested corners of a fandom, and I am unwilling to bring that kind of unwanted drama down upon the original posters. If someone else finds them, they can do what they want – but I’d like to keep my good karma in reserve for something more important.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        Dara, the original tweet (and related responses) didn’t look like someone trolling and once she realized she’d stirred up the fandom, she deleted the original tweet. She didn’t answer additional questions from fans, which also made me think the sighting was legit.

        Then again, I’m in the camp that THEO have been hooking up for the past year so I saw more reason to believe that she was there than not. Not that it matters… just my opinion.

        Lilac, I thought the laser tag photo was taken during Thanksgiving break… along with the cargo shorts photo.

      • A says:

        Hawaii is one of the biggest holiday destinations in the world. Celebs don’t go there to hide their low key romance. Earlier this year Kristen Stewart and her GF Alicia went there and there were a lot of twitter sightings and pap pics. You can’t tell me Loki/Scarlet Witch went undetected by paps over there plus that Hawaiian teenager who ~spotted them on twitter deleted her tweet after someone tweeted her that their romance was denied at TIFF

      • Dara says:

        @Nutty – the cargo shorts photo was taken almost a month ago, that ReelTours twitter guy just posted it a few days ago without explaining where or when it was taken. He bugs me btw – talk about a fan baiter of the first order, and he regularly poaches other people’s photos and videos without credit to make it look like he’s the one with all the inside info.

        @A – the sightings of THEO I’ve seen were from places that are off the tourist track, and it was locals that spotted them. And I’m not talking about the deleted Tweets.

      • Grappa says:

        No, the ‘Hawaiian teenager’ – who is a Marvel fan and at university – deleted her tweet after Happy Meerket (yeah, that lunatic) called her a liar.

      • A says:

        @Dara on Twitter or IG? Can you link us? I’m surprised screencaps and links of those sightings aren’t being shared in TH fandom.

        @Grappa yes called her a liar and told her about the denial at TIFF in the same sentence

      • Lilacflowers says:

        @Nutballs, John Ortiz posted the laser tag pictures on his Instagram the weekend of the Paris attacks.

      • Hannah says:

        @Dara, so the sightings at the restaurant and at the market are legit? The twitter user who tweeted about them was not a troll then.

      • Dara says:

        @A – See my earlier comment about posting links, etc. There are several reasons why I’m choosing not to:

        1) the sightings seem to be at TH’s fave hangouts on the island, and I don’t want to be the one that makes them any easier to find while he’s still there.

        2) the folks that did see them together don’t deserve to be harassed by some of the over-invested (and slightly unhinged) fans that would come out of the woodwork once the links got around, and based on what has happened in the past I have no reason to think this time would be any different.

        3) I decided a while ago to be more circumspect about posting or blogging any sightings of TH that I have found, especially if I think I’m the first to find them. Posting stuff like this can cause ripples (or tidal waves) in the fandom – just think about how different the gossip of the last year would have been if the photo of TH and Jane in Bora Bora had never been found.

        The only reason I’m speaking up now is that people are thinking it’s impossible EO was in Hawaii, and things are getting nasty (on Tumblr, not here) when others offer a different opinion – which makes me cranky. Even if there was photographic proof there would be those that would say it was faked, or photoshopped, or the blonde girl he was with was his sister…and then someone would sell said photograph to the DM and all hell would break loose.

        @Hannah, I saw three separate people post about seeing them in various places on the island (not including the Tweets that have been deleted), so as far as I’m concerned it’s legit.

      • A says:

        @Dara I’m gonna be really honest here…it’s hard to believe you’re the only one in TH fandom who has seen those sightings with her own eyes but still if you’re telling the truth I’m sure we WILL get screencaps/links soon cause TH fans are good with this kind of stuff

      • NUTBALLS says:

        Dara, I trust that you’ve seen things that the rest of the fandom may not have, but I am surprised that other less conscientious fans haven’t posted the same photos / screencaps already. Call it intuition, but I thought that the sighting sounded legit and it squared up with my assumption all along that they’ve been casually hooking up. So, it wasn’t too hard to believe that she was there. It’s a short flight from LA and it is an island paradise. 🙂

      • Dara says:

        @A and @Nutty – no one is more surprised than me that no one else has found them or chosen to share them. I’ve been anticipating a fan meltdown of epic proportions for weeks now. And @A is right, eventually someone will find them. Sometimes the fans are so good at it, it scares me just a little. I’ve gotten pretty good at it too, if I say so myself – good enough that I frequently pause to think about the consequences of posting things before I actually decide to hit the ‘publish now’ button.

      • jammypants says:

        @Dara, why don’t you just post it? It’s not like you’re the original source.

      • Dara says:

        @jammy – I hesitate to post precisely because I’m NOT the OP’s and I can only control my own actions, not theirs. Let me offer two hypothetical situations for you. A store employee is super-stoked because Loki and Scarlet Witch come in to where he works. No big deal – until a fan is so upset at the news they were actually together she takes it upon herself to complain to the guy’s boss for gossiping about customers and he gets called into the manager’s office for a chat. Someone else sees them together, somewhere TH has been seen multiple times. Again, no big deal – unless Tom has a certifiably dangerous stalker we know nothing about – and who now knows where he likes to hang when he’s not working. To me, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that EO was in Hawaii very recently is not enough motivation for me to risk the unintended consequences that may result.

        Sure, you can say I am being overly dramatic and paranoid – but I would rather not tempt fate. The Star article is the only reason I said anything at all. If they broke it off before Skull Island started filming, why was she seen in Hawaii less than two weeks before that article appeared? If the story was indeed a PR plant by either of them, then I’m calling bullsh*t on the whole thing.

        At the end of the day, fangirls are going to believe what they want anyway – despite proof to the contrary. Either you think I’m credible and will allow for the possibility they were indeed seen together, or you don’t. Either way, the world will continue to turn and another juicy of bit gossip will soon come along to distract the fandom.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        I’ve seen multiple tweets over the past month from people who ran into Tom, SLJ, and other cast members at the Mall, sandwich shops, and the like. I’ve seen exactly ONE tweet identifying Tom as being with EO (well, it was the Loki with Scarlet Witch one), which popped in a number of places before being deleted. Considering what a thorough media hound/stalker that Reel Tours Hawaii guy is, and that he has absolutely no shame whatsoever, I really can’t believe MULTIPLE sightings with EO would have gotten past him.

      • DT says:

        @Dara you could post the tweets but block out the name of OP or location anything like that

      • jammypants says:

        @Dara, gotcha, I’m super out of the loop on THEO gossip and the crazy around it.

      • DT says:

        Also maybe she was in hawaii and they finally called it a day and that’s why this article has made an appearance. They seemed really off with eachother ar TIFF then overly friendly at the premier in nashville, maybe they have been on and off again and now they are off again….. just an idea

      • NUTBALLS says:

        Dara, I wanna get you virtually drunk so I can do things to your…

        …computer.

      • Dara says:

        @Totally, after all the fun we’ve had together these last few years, I’m absolutely crushed that you would simply not take my word for it *sniffle, sniffle, SOB*

        @DT, it did occur to me I could block out most of the identifying details and drop them onto Tumblr, but then it would be even easier to say they’d been faked and we’re back we’re we started. It also crossed my mind that maybe she did fly in to break things off, or maybe she was there taking a traditional Hawaiian cooking class and needed someone to taste-test her new recipe for Loco Moco. Who the hell knows.

        @Jammy, I wish I had never glimpsed some of the more fringe fan behavior in the Hiddlesverse. I’m sure 99.5% of fans are harmless and simply over-enthusiastic, but given that at least a few are asking that ReelTours guy for Tom’s Oahu address so they can send him “care packages” I’m taking no chances.

        @Nutty, I’m rather fond of you so wouldn’t really need to get me liquored up to get into my… hard drive.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        Oh, Dara–I do respect your reserve. And frankly, it isn’t even as if I care whether there is a THEO in any way, shape, or form–or not.
        It’s just that darn need (er, demand?) for açcuracy I suffer from (my bff is the same way, probably why we get on so well.)

      • Dara says:

        It’s all good, @Totally, truly. And I probably would be skeptical of me too, given the givens. And I hear you about accuracy. It drives me absolutely bonkers when I see fangirls (especially those on Instagram) post an old photo and assume or even imply it’s something it’s not. A photo of Tom at an airport was making the rounds a few weeks ago and many said (or assumed) it was a new sighting in Hawaii. Turns out it was from the Seoul airport during the Thor II press tour, two whole years ago.

      • Becky says:

        Lilac – John Ortiz posted that laser tag photo just over a week ago, I remember seeing other photos from that evening at the same time so 20 Nov (it says it was a Fri night)
        https://www.instagram.com/p/-Wq8jMkaYC/

        Dara – did you see the original source of the pic of Tom in the cargo shorts, is that how you know it’s a month old?

    • Madly says:

      Considering how much he and Brie have been hanging out, it is much more a case of mistaken identity. Besides EO has been spotted all over the place.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        I can’t imagine that someone would mistake Brie for Lizzy. They don’t look anything alike.

      • madly says:

        I disagree, I think they have the same coloring and could have been mistaken if in a dark room like a restaurant and if not seen full in the face. Besides neither of them are all that famous. Just a woman near him with the coloring and people would run around saying they saw him with EO.

  14. Miss M says:

    I don’t know much about his personal life. But I thought Jane was a good match for him. What happened to them?

    • SloaneY says:

      Keep stirring that pot…:)

    • Miss Jupitero says:

      A Jarthy sighting would be awesome right about now.

    • guest says:

      Jane was sent to hell by his fangirls LOL seriously everyone said that she mocked his fans. I would do the same. I mean I would ask myself why everyone is so damn interested in his private life and then I would think: “Know what? You want to terrorize me? I can play that game, too!” The picture of her and Hiddles in Bora Bora was EPIC. She was smiling in a dirty way as if she wanted to say:” Keep staring at his pictures, I have him here, and there, and here, and there. Everywhere!” LOL I loved Jane.

      • neutral says:

        I was more interested in his left hand in that picture!

      • NUTBALLS says:

        guest, that BB pic was EPIC. After all the assumptions that he had dumped her, it was like a postcard to the fans with Jane’s two-finger British salute and the caption:

        “Still doin’ your man, b*tches!”

        JArthy was the best.

  15. Miss Jupitero says:

    Partying late into the night? Meh. Hiddles has always struck me as too much of a career-minded workaholic to be much of a party boy, and if he were serious about relationships, I think there would be some sign by now. If anything he seems really detached in that area. I suspect that someone’s publicist (Lizzie’s?) is keeping this alive in anticipation of ISTL, but it seems silly.

    • Sochan says:

      Yes, this.

      Also, can someone please answer a dumb question for me? How do “couples” like this (hypothetically) have any kind of relationship when they live on separate continents in the first place?? I can see dating a bit here and there when each is in the town the other lives in, but even that seems a stretch to me. Tom doesn’t live in NY or LA, and Olson doesn’t live in London — not with any regularity they don’t. So why would anyone assume “they’ve been together most of 2015”? Where? When? HOW? It just doesn’t make sense.

      That said, I don’t care who Tom dates. I rather like seeing people in love and happy so if that happens to an actor I like, great.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        I could totally buy into the probability that they had an on-set fling that continued with casual hookups when she was in London or when they were promoting ISTL, but I agree that there’s no way they were anything serious with their postal codes being 5,000 miles apart.

        Besides, Hiddles is a known workaholic and she was talking like she was looking forward to babies with Boyd last year. Tommy isn’t going to get derailed from his career ambitions anytime soon, by Lizzy or anyone else.

      • Sochan says:

        This makes sense to me. I’m not personally convinced of anything between them, mainly because they just don’t/haven’t send/sent off lovers’ vibes. But I don’t think he sleeps alone all the time either.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      Lizzie is keeping this story alive because she has no work

      Next week, we’ll hear how Chris Evans is consoling her

  16. Bettyrose says:

    Does that mean he didn’t get his own bowl of cigarettes at the Mary-Kate Sarkozy wedding?

  17. GlimmerBunny says:

    I’m sad, they really make a stunning couple and I like both of them. Lizzie is WAY prettier than Brie and a betetr actress too, so it’s a downgrade (if it’s true, which I doubt)

    • NUTBALLS says:

      I agree that Lizzy’s prettier, but I don’t consider her a better actress than Brie. Have you seen Short Term 12 and Room? Her performance was brilliant in both. She’s deserves every bit of critical acclaim she’s getting.

    • Hannah says:

      Glimmerbunny
      You do realise that this site is just saying it would be nice if they hook up? There’s no actual rumour about Tom and Brie. She has a boyfriend anyway so no need to be dismissive of her looks.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      Brie has better clothes. I saw a picture of Lizzie at some wedding (not her sister’s) a few weeks ago and she was wearing the most hideous skirt I’ve ever seen.

    • NUTBALLS says:

      While we’re doing shallow comparisons… Brie’s a more interesting person to listen to in an interview — both in content and vocal sound.

  18. M says:

    I still think it was PR for their film.

  19. InvaderTak says:

    How far in advance was his story written? Cynical me is kinda wondering because it seems really coincidental that this appeared the same weekend her sister got surprise hitched. Might be barking at thunder though.

    Edit: print edition. Never mind. Maybe if I read first I’d be less cynical.

  20. seesittellsit says:

    LMAO – they’ll probably announce the engagement next week. Does the STAR have any info on next week’s Powerball numbers?

  21. Boston Green Eyes says:

    Wait, there’s actually a girl named Brie? Y’all are pulling my leg, right? I mean, that’s a whole level of tragic.

  22. Hannah says:

    Why are people ( dragonflies) blatantly ignoring that Brie Larson has a longtime live in boyfriend? She’s been with the musician Alex Greenwald for years. This is common knowledge if you follow her career.
    (Same thing happens with Jessica chastain people always ignore that she has a boyfriend and try and hook her up with Hiddleston every time they are in the vicinity of each other).

    • Lambda says:

      Oh good. I don’t follow Brie (other than her movies) but she seems to good for Hiddleson.

    • jammypants says:

      eh? #notalldragonflies

    • Saphana says:

      those guys dont matter in gossip terms. as long as a female celeb isnt dating someone very famous or super handsome gossip readers and mags will always push for their relationships to break up, so they can pair them up with better looking and more succesful men.

      • Hannah says:

        I don’t think those girls boyfriends are less attractive than Tom, it’s about the fame level I guess and the need to see him hook up with someone successful and pretty. It’s sort of fantasy for the fangirls I guess.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      This dragonfly hasn’t ignored it at all and hasn’t been wishing that she would hook up with TH. I wish her and Alex all the best and I really like Brie. Unfortunately, some people can’t grasp that men and women can have great platonic friendships or even work relationships without sex entering the equation

  23. Lilacflowers says:

    Star has him going from wrapping I Saw the Light to shooting the monkey movie as if the intervening ten months and TNM never happened.

    • jammypants says:

      Well you know, the only logic that applies is one that fits their narrative. I guess they forgot he spent two months promoting three movies on the heel of working on TNM from March til July. Immediately after the promo tour ended, he’s in Hawaii filming SI. But let’s ignore the timeline! 😛

      • Lilacflowers says:

        He went to South Sudan too but they’ll just skip that because it doesn’t fit

      • jammypants says:

        Well no one wants to talk about South Sudan because the press for it was released under the radar, not taking advantage of Tom’s full dragonfly promo schedule for maximum coverage. It doesn’t fit his famewhore narrative 😉

      • neutral says:

        And the Sudan trip was actually in March I believe, just prior to filming of TNM

  24. DT says:

    I know we hate this blog but take a look on TOBY at some tweets that were posted to Tom around the same time as date night. Very interesting. They are screenshots so its not some bs TOBY has published herself.
    And I also don’t believe lizzie was in hawaii at all, the only tweet that said she was, deleted it almost straight away because she was wrong. I couldnt find any others except some troll who was trying to wind up a crazy fangirl. This account was later deleted.
    And I think lizzie and Brie do have a very similar look, same hair colour and length, same build.

    • pat says:

      what’s TOBY?

      • DT says:

        Its a tumblr blog called the town bicycle, she mainly publishes stuff from fake sources and she can be quute nasty to people too but I admit I find it fascinating to watch unfold sometimes and she was the first one to publish the photo of tom with his arm around elizabeth in his neighborhood. You have to take most things she says with a pinch if salt but sometimes she actually produces some gems. Like the screenshots of the tweets im referring to. Im not saying they are true by the way its just interesting to see what actually get said about or tweeted to TH. And how sometimes the fandom can take something and twist it totally out of context.

      • jammypants says:

        Some people have way too much time on their hands.

      • neutral says:

        @DT TOBY wasn’t the first – it was in the Daily Fail first wasn’t it? And she is toxic.

      • LadyWhoo says:

        No, TOBY had the pic first. One of her readers then sold it to the Daily Mail – for 50 quid apparently. Like DT says, she gets some gems (the original NW3 Anon, the cafe pic, these new tweets), but a lot of the rest is pretty sketch.

      • NUTBALLS says:

        I have to say that after skimming over some of her more recent posts, she does like to mock the superfans and says that she started the site for that purpose. She does get a few gems, but I don’t like how she gives the Tommy-haters a place to spew their venom. There’s are some serious butthurt fangirls that like to post on that site.

  25. Fluff says:

    Don’t follow either of them but it’s probably for the best, his stans were gearing up for Benedict Cumberbatch fake-gate (now with extra plastic dolls!) mark 2.

    God help whoever he does end up with.

  26. browniecakes says:

    TH was probably asked non stop about his personal life/Lizzy in his press tours. He hints that he was. TH did a diary/blog in the Financial Times ( ft.com/life&art) on Nov. 20: He says in his usual verbose way, “During these press tours — a contractual requirement upon actors in the modern age to help spread the word and to drive box office — one hopes, above all else, to represent the director’s intentions, to introduce the film, to deepen the audience’s understanding of the context in which the film was made, not to take oneself too seriously, and to emerge with one’s personal dignity relatively intact. Not everybody plays fair. I have learned a whole new set of skills in dodging headline-chasing hot potatoes: those questions designed to elicit a sensationalist answer more likely to drive traffic to a given website.”
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/dad6e65a-8de3-11e5-8be4-3506bf20cc2b.html

    • neutral says:

      Well said Tom!

    • TotallyBiased says:

      I do like that ‘diary’ entry. It’s a regular feature of their film and television section, and he wrote one before that was a good read as well. If I remember correctly, it was in 2011 and discussed filming Avengers and going to India or his sister’s wedding.
      An ONTD poster has ‘out of contexted’ a quote re reporters wanting clickbait answers, turning it in to (tell me you saw this coming) a clickbait headline/ONTD post!

  27. Chloe says:

    According to someone who posts a lot about london theatre on the guardian website, Tom hiddleston has a massive ego. This person also said he’s a very lonely man. Don’t know if it’s true?

    • Solanacaea (Nighty) says:

      Maybe it is… Who knows…? Only the people close to him..

    • neutral says:

      Have you got a link Chloe because funnily enough all the named people he has worked with who comment tend to say this sort of thing:

      http://themusicinthedark.com/2015/11/23/a-conversation-with-high-rise-director-of-photography/

      • Chloe says:

        You can google it its on the guardian website. It could be a jealous person, they seem to work in the theatre, they make a lot of comments about shows,I don’t know. Sometimes I see both the ego and the nice guy in him you know what I mean?
        They say Tom cruise is the nicest man to crew and co workers. Still the man has a huge ego clearly.

      • WinniePoo says:

        Neutral is working overtime today, putting out ‘Tom isn’t a prince’ fires right and left!
        And, of course people who have worked with him and are asked about him aren’t going to slate him to the press. And, yes, Chloe, people can have a huge ego while still being nice to colleagues. If he wants people to pet his ego by saying nice things about him, then he’s going to be nice to them.

      • Allegra says:

        @Chloe:

        I think this person may be a regular poster from Datalounge. Many poster on that place works on theater.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        Eh, Neutral is just reasonably asking for receipts. There’s a difference between not being negative about someone, and people going out of their way to mention how genuinely kind and nice someone is–Tom’s co-workers go on and on about his positive interactions with EVERYONE, from crew to crew and cast family members. Reporters mention this, even ones that start off inclined to slate him. So all of that is of course just PR bulshit compared to one Anon poster on the Guardian forums? That bastion of absolute truth?
        Sigh.
        I get so tired of people either wanting to throw a lot of mud or make sure it stiçks. What did Tom Hiddleston ever DO to you guys, other than be born and make some movies?

      • jammypants says:

        oh I know what guardian article you’re talking about http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/08/tom-hiddleston-interview-crimson-peak

        I think you’re reading too much into it. Even the writer dispelled his prejudices by the end of the interview 😛

        I mean sure, some of us are pretty biased, against or for, but my logic meter explodes when people make wild claims out of thin air or from dodgy sources.

      • neutral says:

        @ Winnie the Poo – haha, no I just like to call it out when people come out with shade without the receipts.

        And thank you TB for understanding my point. 🙂

      • jammypants says:

        I stand corrected, not the same article. But regardless, it’s just a negative comment from a nobody? 😛

    • Lilacflowers says:

      Has Laurence Fox been going undercover on the Guardian’s comment pages?

      • neutral says:

        No – he’s far too busy with his film career. 🙂

      • jammypants says:

        He’s an artiste and has no time for such trivial things 😉

      • Solanacaea (Nighty) says:

        Why are you talking about Laurence Fox? Is there any animosity between him and Tom?
        * curious*

      • neutral says:

        This is from an interview Fox gave the Evening Standard a couple of years ago

        “As for social media, he likes the way he can use it to control what images he sends out of his family, so he can be his own “privacy invader”. He’s less keen on the idea that he has to become some sort of personal brand. “I mean, have you Googled Tom Hiddleston singing Man in the Mirror?” he laughs. “I mean, that’s a 24-hour-a-day job, being Tom Hiddleston. I’m not much interested in being Laurence Fox in that sense.””

        http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/laurence-fox-on-billie-piper-and-his-new-west-end-role-in-strangers-on-a-train-8915734.html

      • neutral says:

        @ jammypants, and doesn’t think he should have to do auditions – thinks his body of work (!) should be enough .

      • Lilacflowers says:

        @Nighty, Laurence has a habit of making snide remarks about Tom that come off as a bit envious. Tom gave an interview quite a while ago in which he said that, when he started acting, he used to ask advice of everyone he worked with and most people were nice and helpful, Vanessa Redgrave and Albert Finney in particular, but one guy, whom he wouldn’t name, was extremely nasty. Given Laurence’s attitude, I’ve wondered if the nasty one was James Fox.

      • Solanacaea (Nighty) says:

        @Lilac, well maybe… Lol, I just recently seen Laurence’s work as Hathaway in Lewis. He seems like a decent actor. No need to be envious of Tom, plus.. Isn’t he pursuing a singing career now?
        I love gossip… lol

      • neutral says:

        @ Lilacflowers – SPECULATION ALERT. Or perhaps Lozza went after the Randolph Churchill role and hasn’t forgiven Tom for stealing it from him! 😆

      • Solanacaea (Nighty) says:

        Went on a googling trip… Lol. He really doesn’t like Tom…
        “Fox joked that he may get hired to play fellow British actor Tom Hiddleston in a future biopic, if Benedict Cumberbatch hasn’t already snapped it up.

        “The Tom Hiddleston biopic may become a reality, if Benedict Cumberbatch isn’t free, and then I’ve got a chance! You know, everyone’s turned down every job I’m told of. “”

      • Guest says:

        I googled him yesterday and geez that man is pretty bitter and jealous…..He mocked Tom pretty often.

      • hermia says:

        I kind of agree with Laurence Fox, And by the way, he’s very yummy too. I love TH as an actor, but well, he’s very very hungry isn’t he?

      • Solanacaea (Nighty) says:

        @hermia, I like Fox too, find him interesting. I really enjoyed Lewis and Hathaway, such a good TV series.. Laurence’s songs are actually nice and he has a good voice..

      • TotallyBiased says:

        I REALLY like Lozzie as Hathaway, not so much anything else I’ve seen. And he is FAR hungrier than our Mr. H. The stunts he has pulled (and things he has said such as the snark about TH) in order to get column inches in the press.
        Plus he was ego itself about his headlining Strangers on a Train, and that didn’t come off well at all. Jack Huston definitely stole the show from him.
        Fox got tired of being Hathaway and wanted to do more theatre, evidently. But when that didn’t work out so well he returned to his Inspector Lewis role for another season.

    • guest says:

      May be the person wanted to ***** him and Tommy Boy said “No thanks”? God knows how Tommy Boy is behaving but the thing is this: if he had such an ego, no co actor would talk in such a positive way about him. Geez, you could think that everyone wants to **** Tommy Boy as everyone seems to say how wonderful and perfect he is. Sometimes it is disturbing LOL

  28. Moxie Remon says:

    @jammypants Well, i got this from my vibes

  29. TotallyBiased says:

    So evidently Brie and Tom have hung out/talked/emailed at some point in the past. In Total Film’s December issue, she said this about Skull Island:
    “But she does reveal that it was the chance to play in a studio-tentpole that intrigued her. “Tom Hiddleston and I had a conversation about it before I was cast,” she reveals, “and we both had the same interest. He’s a big lover of mythology, as am I… for Tom and I, it becomes exciting to take the stories that we know we think are important to be retold and do it on a scale that will be reached by more people.” ”
    Either that, or she’s a clever girl (clever PR crew?) and the benefits of a Hiddleston reference have already been made apparent.
    Not that she needs the boost, her performances are getting her great attention–but Total Film is a very Hiddleston-friendly environment, and that definitely goes for its readers as well!

    • Allegra says:

      I think they met through Ben Wheatley. Brie is in Ben´s new movie Free Fire.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      They may have done a chemistry test or a script reading/audition together

    • KTE says:

      My theory is that he got actively involved in persuading people to come on board after the first lot of cast departed. Which would be why he’d be talking to Brie. She was on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast recently and was saying how much care she takes in choosing projects and how she’d rather be unemployed than do a project she doesn’t believe in. This Total Film quote is pretty much what she said about deciding to do Skull Island on there – either she’s repeating herself in interviews or they’ve nicked it.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if he talked to Sam Jackson about it as well – though he probably wouldn’t need to say much more than ‘we’re filming in Hawaii’!

  30. KTE says:

    I read the guardian theatre section and comments pretty regularly, and I can’t recall any such comments about him being made.

    In fact there’s no reason to be saying anything about him over there since he hasn’t done anything theatre-related this year. Theatre stories rarely get many comments, so it should be obvious if someone is posting about him on unrelated stories.

    • Chloe says:

      It wasn’t said recently it was on an article from some time back regarding his pr tour for one of his projects.

      This is the comment, since some people are asking for receipts.

      The. Ego. Has. Landed.

      He’s actually a very lonely young man.

      Good actor, but lonely.”

      http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/nov/20/thor-tom-hiddleston-publicity-social-media

      • neutral says:

        Ah well, there you have it, one anonymous person says it so it must be true.

      • jammypants says:

        Eh, I’m more interested in this remark in that article 😛

        “Tom was my neighbor for a short period of time. Physically, he is a gorgeous male, much more so in person than on TV or the big screen. Not only does he have the stature of a Greek God but he is extremely charismatic, even Steven fell in love with him.”

      • Sochan says:

        “not only does he has the stature of a Greek god…”

        I think TH is a handsome man with a great physique (I favor splendor builds that are toned but not muscled/”ripped”) , but even I laughed out loud at that one.

      • neutral says:

        But jammypants, that begs the question “who is Steven?! 🙂

      • KTE says:

        Random of you to bring up a comment from two years ago, about his promotional activities for Marvel.

        There’s no reason to think he knows Tom any better than the rest of us do. Lots of people go to the theatre a lot and even work in the theatre without getting to know actors personally.

      • jammypants says:

        @neutral, I’m curious about this Steven too! secret lover? admirer? Anything goes!

      • neutral says:

        wrong place sorry

      • Anin says:

        Steven Spielberg… I think

    • Hannah says:

      Maybe he’s a good actor who happens to be attractive to some ( I lol’d at the Greek god comment that is over the top). But to others he comes across as lonely with a big ego. People are complicated. I always find it weird that fangirls believe or even want the object of their affection to be perfect in every way. Most people aren’t like that, and if they are they probably aren’t very interesting.

  31. Madly says:

    People on this thread believe things too easily. One tweet and they think someone is in a place where there is no other evidence. Suuuurrrreeee.

    Some people just want this hookup to be taking place and will automatically believe anything to support it.

  32. KTE says:

    Yup.

    I see no reason to disbelieve them when they say they’re just friends. So this is just The Star doing the obligatory break-up story to obscure the fact that the relationship stories they were running were basically made up.

  33. Lilacflowers says:

    The DListed article of Olsen’s publicist’s announcement the breakup of a non-relationship is hilarious.

  34. guest says:

    This is funny as hell. First they were casually dating or whatever you call it. Then they denied it. And now he dumped her? HAHAHAHAH this is funny. Geez, team Olsen is playing hard. As for the “player vibe”: No one knows this guy. He could be into SM or whatever. He could be gay, straight, bisexual. He could be so much more. It is funny how people are commenting on stars they don’t know personally. I don’t want to attack anyone here but ever thought about the fact that the guy could have been dating someone without commenting on it? Without people knowing it? Everyone thinks that he has been single for years. Why? Because they were no pics? Because he never commented on it? Never took a woman to a Red Carpet Event? So what? Seriously girls, if someone wants to hide, he can. If someone wants to keep a relationship hidden, he can. If someone wants to marry without people knowing about it. He can. He is not Brad Pitt and even Pitt managed to marry without people realizing it. Hiddles could drink, take a lot of viagra or whatever without people knowing about it. Yes, he is a control freak when it comes to his image but may be he just doesn’t want to share his whole private life with his fans? I always wonder why you have to take a girl to RC Event to make something public. Not every woman wants to see flashlights in her face. Hiddles is Hiddles. If he wants to talk about his private life, he will do it. If not, he won’t. Simple huh?

    • lola says:

      Tom… is that you?

      • guest says:

        HAHAHAH no…. If I were Tom I would have mentioned a vanilla marriage. Btw, just thought about an interview in which he was talking about LOVE during the CP press tour. Said something like: Can’t control who you fall in love with…. hmmmmmm. May be he is still seeing that Olsen girl? May be they are totally over the moon and she is pregnant? And he will marry her on Christmas? You know Bendy married on VD… so he has to follow on Christmas, right? Just kidding….. I will call Jane now.

    • Solanacaea (Nighty) says:

      Agreed…

    • Lilacflowers says:

      I’ve been pretty much saying all that for a while now.

      • guest says:

        Thanks. Just because he is not seen with someone, does not mean he is not really seeing someone. Know what I mean, right? I mean, he said: if there is something to write about, hopefully, I will be able to talk about it…… And months later he was seen with Jane on an island 😀 God knows what he is doing on this island with Olsen or whoever ,-)

      • Lilacflowers says:

        He’s with me. And we’re doing all sorts of delicious things. But there will be no pictures in the tabloids. I’m camera shy.

      • guest says:

        @lilacflowers
        oooh come on share the juice and let them all freak out. do it like jane and send us a picture in which you are smiling like the devil… I loved the bora bora picture….. is he reading shakespeare to you? singing? oh let me guess, you are walking around, holding hands, enjoying the sun and talking about marriage, right?

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Oh, dear Guest, we ARE married. Just celebrated our first anniversary last month.

      • Guest says:

        @lilacflowers
        Married? Why was I not invited? 🙁 Poor me.

    • Leah says:

      @guest
      But aren’t you doing the same with Elizabeth Olsen? You are projecting on her and her motives. A lot of really quite negative while chastising people who for commenting on a celebrity they don’t know. As they say pot meet kettle.

      • Guest says:

        @leah
        What about Olsen? I was joking when I said that Olsen’s Team is working hard. God knows what Tom and Olsen are doing. I for one do think that that these two are still banging and just lied. But may be he is seeing someone else instead? May be he is gay? May be he is more into his work? There are many possibiIities. Just find it funny how the majority seems to think that just because he has not been seen with a woman in public means that he has no one. We are talking about a guy who can vanish for months. As for Olsen: he could marry that woman and it would not bother me. At least he sticks to a woman then and hopefully won’t hide anymore 😀 why hide Olsen? 😁 homewrecker Image? Who cares…. We are not living in a fairy tale and he is not Prince Charming…..

      • jammypants says:

        @Guest another possibility was that to imply they are dating means it’s a serious relationship. If they are just banging…well then there is no real relationship to confirm 😉

  35. Kate says:

    Always so entertaining for me to come home after a long day of work and see that a TH thread has over 200 comments about a trivial article in that paragon of journalism, STAR. Lol.

    I’ve read all the comments to see what people are saying and I agree with a lot of different stuff that’s been dished out on this thread. Not that I’m important, but I love adding my bit because I do like Tom and I’ve followed his career (and his extracurriculars, ahem) for a couple years now.

    1. I agree with posters who think it’s odd that such a kind, attractive, talented man doesn’t _appear_ to be in a serious relationship. I am also one of those women who thinks Tom has a “player” vibe about him. It’s just my opinion, I have no basis for my judgment.

    2. The fact that more than one person (including Rodney Crowell) has labeled Tom as “lonely” makes me wonder MORE why he’s not with someone. I realize he might be too busy, might not have met someone he’s compatible with…but wouldn’t he crave more interaction, especially of an emotional and/or physical kind, if he’s as lonely as people say? Super invested fans sometimes reference his Aquarian sign when they talk about this – he’s unable to emotionally invest, etc. It’s odd.

    3. I’m also guilty of reading Blind Items about celebs, and Tom has had several conflicting ones written about him (allegedly) since early fall. Two of the blinds mention TH as “closeted”. I know, I know…large grains of salt for the blind items, but perhaps this is the reason he’s not seen with women in relationships?

    I’ll just be over here in the corner with my Hiddleston tinfoil hat on.

    • Andrea says:

      I dated an aquarius and he was super scared of commitment and ultimately cheated on me, thus I left him. I found through my experience with him that other Aquarius can be equally wishy washy. I see this in Tom.

      • Kate says:

        @ Andrea

        My worst relationship to date was with an Aquarius. Six years older than me and I made the mistake of thinking (I was early 20s) he would be mature and ready to think about settling down.

        Wrong, wrong, wrong. He dumped me via email after a short, awkward 9 months – had never made a move to form a serious attachment to me – and skittered off to the next young lady he could find.

        Apparently they were together for five years but he refused to marry her (and I knew her…wonderful girl) so she packed her bags.

        Commitment-phobe! I too can see this in Tom. (But I’m probably projecting.)

      • Andrea says:

        @ Kate Mine was in my mid-20’s and only lasted 4 months. He has since been engaged and had a series of open relationships, but nothing lasting (supposedly the engaged one was verbally and physically abusive to him). It’s been almost 10 years now and he is still up to the same ole same ole.

      • jammypants says:

        I dated one too. Great in bed. Very self centered. Impossible to stick with long-term. I don’t believe in star signs though, even if mine fits the bill.

    • Sochan says:

      The closeted angle is always the fall-back theory when a seemingly smart, nice, and handsome man isn’t seen in relationships with women much. In Tom’s case I just don’t see how being out would hurt him much at all. There are certainly gay men and women who are doing just fine in their fields. I do suppose the argument could be made that none of them are top of the food chain, but I don’t Tom is destined to be TOTFC in any regard. He’s a great character actor and works best within a team/ensemble. But it’s certainly possible that Tom is ambitious to be TOTFC and would understandably feel that coming out would ruin any chances at that. It could have to do with family, too. You’d be amazed at how many people toe a liberal, progressive line until it comes to their own kids.

      At this juncture I don’t have any strong feelings that he is gay, but I must admit that the possibility of him being in a secret relationship with his PR guy (Luke) has crossed my mind more than once. It would definitely be a solid cover.

      • Andrea says:

        Cumberbatch was supposedly gay too—only one who hasn’t had gay rumors is Fassbender.

      • Kate says:

        @ Sochan

        I feel bad for reinforcing the assumption, in my mind, that just because someone isn’t parading a relationship/isn’t involved over a long period of time (that we know of) he/she might be gay. But I do tend to think that sometimes. (The Luke/Tom angle has tingled my Spidey senses a couple of times, too.)

        Tom talks a good game in interviews about being transparent and honest with people (albeit quiet about his personal life), and I genuinely think he can be both of those things, but I’ve always felt that #1 priority for him is his career.

        That being said, I think he’s willingly “dishonest” with some of the PR sh-t he participates in (linked in the press w/certain actresses, whether real or not), and I believe it’s very possible that he thinks he won’t reach that leading-man status he seems to want so badly if he is, indeed, gay or bisexual and chooses to let it be known. So he could very well be omitting the truth of his orientation. All of the dishonesty, therefore, benefits his _career_ (aka his beloved, his baby, his longest-lasting relationship).

        I feel like such an a-hole. I _know_ it’s none of my business who people sleep with or what their preferences are but…the shallowest part of me would be sad if Tom Hiddleston was gay because women wouldn’t be benefiting from that gorgeous body of his. LOL

      • Sochan says:

        @ Kate

        I feel guilty about that too, and I’ve also been on the receiving end in my own (non famous!) life, so I feel extra guilty doing it to someone else. I’m not gay and have never had any inclination to even be with a woman in a sexual way. But years ago someone revealed to me that she thought for a short while that I was a lesbian. When I pressed her as to how she arrived at that conclusion, her reasons were so flimsy and unintelligent that ultimately she just felt embarrassed to have said anything about it. So I know how it feels to have a lifestyle that is countercultural and have people build false assumptions on that. On the other hand I also understand the temptation to do that. Curiosity and all …

      • neutral says:

        Remember the comment by Mark Gatiss when someone tweeted him to ask if he and Tom came out (to the stage door after Coriolanus)? His comment – “I’m already out and Tom isn’t gay” All he needed to say was a yes or no in relation to what the tweeter was actually asking. Sure, he wouldn’t have outed Tom but he didn’t need to say what he did if it was.

      • Crocuta says:

        Gatiss made a joke. If he really believed Tom was gay and in the closet, he would not have said that. Because then he would be lying in a situation where he didn’t have to lie. Because nobody asked him about Tom’s sexuality. Why would he do that? It makes no sense.

      • neutral says:

        @ Crocuta – We are in total agreement on this. Gatiss wouldn’t have made the joke if he had thought/known Tom was in the closet.

        BTW sorry if I confused you, I meant to put “he didn’t need to say what he did if HE (Tom) was.

    • Die Zicke says:

      I used to assume he was bi, but I’m kind of second guessing myself.

      See, what makes me think he’s not gay is that there aren’t any rumors about relationships with men, even from his school or theater days. There are rumors of relationships with women (like Gwendolyn Christie when they worked together) but not really any links to men. I feel like most closeted gay actors do get linked to specific men, like Jeremy Renner and his ‘business’ partner. The only guy Hiddleston has been linked to is his publicist, but I think a big reason for that is his publicist is openly gay (or so I’ve read) and the issue with that is his publicist apparently has a boyfriend (or once again, so I’ve heard. You’d have to double check with a Dragonfly). And I feel like if an actor was in the closet, he wouldn’t really surround himself with gay men.

      But then again, this is all speculation.

      • neutral says:

        And we have only seen him with his publicist a couple of time when not in “professional mode”

      • jammypants says:

        I remember seeing some pics posted on might have been Amanda Grossman’s Twitter (his orange makeup lady) and it seems Tom hangs out with Luke and his boyfriend just fine. Hanging out with a gay close friend does not make one gay by association. I mean it’s not impossible whatever way he swings, but I don’t think by principle or default being friends with gay people makes one gay. I have many gay friends, but it doesn’t mean I am.

  36. JRenee says:

    “Knee deep in strange”, lol!!!!

  37. Beach girl says:

    @Dara. You are completely correct with your comments regarding the tumblr sightings. Sorry I haven’t checked in sooner.! I’ve been on Tumblr too long. I have screenshots of one of the Twitter threads talking about the sightings. They were posted yesterday but no one wants to touch them because there’s a giant meltdown going on. There were 2 accts from local girls. The first got harassed so she deleted the tweet. The second got the same treatment from happy meerkat and deleted her acct completely. I looked at who they followed, tweets, time online, etc, seemed like normal uni girls. I regret getting involved with this on tumblr because there are soo many anon comments calling them trolls. It’s ugly. They didn’t seem like it to me.

    • Dara says:

      @Beach girl – one thing Tumblr has taught me is to be sure of my own boundaries before I do or say something, because no matter what you do someone will be pissed off about it and it’s best to be prepared to stand by your actions.

      One camp is peeved I won’t share full details, another group is griping that I even mentioned those details exist because just mentioning it at all is an invasion of privacy, and still others mock me for ‘pretending to be morally superior’ and think I’m gloating that I know something they don’t. But, as per usual, none of them come here to gripe about me to my face, they just moan about it behind my back. In other words, it’s just another typical day in Tumblr-ville.

      That’s why I keep coming back to CB, we may not agree with each other but it’s possible to have a rational and reasoned discussion without all the high-school theatrics.

  38. Lilacflowers says:

    It looks like we were sorely in need of a Tom post. Too bad there isn’t any actual news.

    • TotallyBiased says:

      I really expected more conversation about the FT diary column–there’s just so much fodder in it! But no. Eh, whatever.

  39. TotallyBiased says:

    Since we love talking about Tom’s willingness to be the ‘dancing bear’ when promoting a film, thought I’d just drop this here from the ‘diary’ entry:
    “The film business is the modern-day circus — in every respect. A different troupe swings into town every weekend, each with its own promise of an exclusive new show under the Big Top, all competing for two hours’ traffic of your time. James Bond! A haunted house! A man on Mars!
    Mercifully, dancing bears no longer feature on the bill, but actors now have new responsibilities, separate from their time “out front”, on the stage or in front of a green screen.”
    This is just before he addresses his own experiences, and the frustration (my word choice, but that’s the sense I get) with the click-bait quote seeking journalists.

    • neutral says:

      I think the dancing bear Tom has disappeared now. I think he decided he has done enough of that and it’s someone else’s turn.

    • NUTBALLS says:

      We’ll know if the dancing bear is gone for good when he’s promoting Thor: Ragnarok.

      In Asia.

      🙂

      • neutral says:

        To be honest Nutty I hope Tom is to busy filming something else to do major promoting for Thor Ragnarok. Let Chris do his share this time.

  40. KTE says:

    Put me in the camp that has been thought a lesbian just because I didn’t have a boyfriend. I’m also just so year younger than Tom, am still single, live alone and am not *remotely* lonely.

    Oh, and I go to dinner and the theatre with friends I am not having sex with.

    So I do think people are far too eager to jump to conclusions about him. I also think we know less about his life than we think we do – I don’t think anyone was aware that he was friends with Luke Evans, Jessica Chastain or Lizzie Olsen prior to working with them. He must be managing to strike up and maintain friendships without the paparazzi noticing – perhaps he keeps in touch with people via email. It’s really not impossible that he has a romantic life he has kept out of the press.

    But I still don’t buy that it was ever EO or that either of their PRs were planting those stories – they simply don’t gain enough from it for it to be worth their while, planting those stories, and haven’t spent enough time on the same continent when they could have been to have been actually in a relationship.

    The real beneficiaries of these stories is The Star, as it makes for great click bait, and it took them 3 tries to link EO to someone that she was actually then actually photographed with!

    • TotallyBiased says:

      I’m with you on this one. People keep saying they were on a deliberate pap stroll because of the restaurant they went to–but this restaurant has fallen way down the pap lists in London over the last year. Even the main pap attraction, Kate Moss, hadn’t been snapped there since November 2014.
      It’s an upscale restaurant open late (after the show they were at got out) walking distance from the theatre. Probably not a ton of options in that intersection of the Venn diagram.
      Civilians were tweeting with video their location and that they were together (as in, same place, same time) as soon as they were walking out of the theatre–paps had the length of their meal to locate where they went to eat (and they still didn’t corner them until they had to come out to the street to get their cabs.)
      I just think there were way too many paps (and they were way too aggresive–getting IN her cab!?) for this to have been a friendly pap call by either of their pubicists.
      Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe!