When the Glorious Tiddlebanging of 2016 was just weeks old, we were already hearing stories about how Taylor Swift thinks Tom Hiddleston is The One, and that Tom is perfect in every way, and he’s such an amazing tea-drinking English gentleman. In the weeks that followed, we heard that Taylor was already thinking about settling down with Tom and they were talking about marriage and babies. And just two weeks ago, sources were claiming that Taylor was fully expecting a proposal of marriage from Tom, sooner rather than later. So… IF Tom does propose, is it a guarantee that Taylor would say yes? In Touch Weekly says that Taylor is the one with cold feet now. Huh.
Taylor Swift a.k.a the queen of relationships has cold feet! After starting a hot and heavy romance with actor Tom Hiddleston shortly after calling it quits with Calvin Harris, a source exclusively reveals to In Touch that after accidentally finding a diamond ring in the Thor actor’s drawer, the singer is now hesitant to accept his hand in marriage.
“She feels bad because she’s the one who originally told Tom she wanted to get married, but now she isn’t sure what she wants,” the source reveals. “She ruined the whole surprise, which left Tom upset for obvious reasons. But he was also crushed that she was telling him she wanted to wait.”
Even though the pair has only dated for a few months, Tom is ignoring the advice from friends and family to slow things down, and instead wants things to get serious — fast.
“He gave her an ultimatum about getting engaged,” the source continues. “She’s now telling everyone she’s made a ‘decision to make a decision’ by the end of August. She knows she either has to get engaged or leave Tom.”
If you remember, I started wondering about the shifting dynamics of Tiddles last week, when Tom was looking especially anxious at LAX and Taylor wasn’t even in LA to see him. I am starting to wonder if Tiddles is dying down and whether it’s Taylor who is losing interest, or just trying to tone it down in general. Like, Taylor is a really smart businesswoman and marketing genius: she knows instinctively that Tiddles hasn’t been the best thing for either of their brands. If she is phasing out Hiddles, I suspect it’s a business/PR decision rather than a love decision. But who knows? It could be that they’re blissfully Tiddlebanging in Rhode Island as we speak.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
They exhaust me. Don’t really care
This 1000%.
I feel the same. I saw the title and said to myself, what are these stories? Every day they’re more asinine.
And yet here you are. 😂
What a shit thing to say.
It’s a forum to express our opinions on the topic at hand, isn’t it?
It is, so why should anyone be mocked, with an emoji no less, for coming here to express their exasperation at TayTo?
And I don’t see her as a genius at anything. She has well paid advisors. She is good at manipulation, however.
I can totally relate to it. Jenson Button wanted to propose and I too had cold feet. 🙄
I know – same thing happened to me with Oscar Issac. I kept telling him ‘Dahling, we’ve only been dating in my head for a few weeks lets not rush things – i know you LURVE me but lets take it slow. Ask me again in another 2 weeks on our 1 month anniversary’.
Exactly! But It must be different when there is a dating contract involved (allegedly) versus imaginary dating. Sorry Taytay, my apologies! 😬
He keeps proposing to me too, 😉
Reconsider, Miss M. You’re his *The One.*
Y’all so funny. Thanks for making me laugh. 😂
Ugh! The worst part about this relationship is the constant PR battle about who has been more eager and into it.
This isn’t PR right here it’s an In Touch story completely fabricated and quite probably nothing to do with reality. At this point no one has to send missives for a tabloid story to get made up.
She found a diamond ring in his drawer? Not a chance. You know she’s going to need to choose it herself and, if it’s a headlight of a diamond, pay for it.
It’s like something an 8th grader would dream up … Wait, that makes it more plausible.
Is a woman wanting to choose her engagement ring a bad thing?
IKR??? I know a lot of couples that are doing it together these days. It’s now considered the modern thing to do. After all it’s a piece of jewelry you have to live with hopefully for the rest of your life.
No, not a bad thing. I picked mine out almost 30 years ago. My point was that TS seems like a woman who would not enjoy the traditional set-up suggested by the magazine. If she found one she wanted out of his price range. I can see her paying for it herself. Because she can.
Choosing it and paying for half seems quite common. It’s such a silly fairytale for a man to go off and find some expensive ring to present to you and surprise you and make you his.
Marriage is very serious and it should be discussed to the point where it isn’t a surprise…
My husband proposed with a simple yet beautiful solitaire. He let me know after the proposal that I could either keep the ring or we could design one together. It was very thoughtful of him to offer the choice because it is a piece of jewelry I’ll wear for the rest of my life. We actually had a lot of fun designing an aquamarine cushion cut set within a halo of tiny diamonds. It’s more meaningful to me that we spent the time learning about different stones and cuts and came up with something together to symbolize the next step in our relationship.
My Mister offered me his mother’s engagement ring (circa 1957) and it just happened to be the simple vintage style that appealed to me. So, I guess I did pick mine out, but it had the significance of being a family heirloom.
I’m not a big jewelry person as evidenced by the fact that we spent a whopping $100 on our wedding bands.
Oh good. I’m not the only one.
My first thought was “She writes fanfiction…..about herself!”
You’d be surprised how many people leave diamond rings in drawers, boxes, Knick knack jars, etc.. Besides, what was she doing going through his things?
She was doing his laundry. Someone has to wash the one pair of traveling clothes and that black work out outfit that he wears every day. She had lovingly washed and folded everything by hand (because she’s so down to earth that way) and was putting it away for him.
Okay, so the whole story is probably made up and yeah, she isn’t washing anything. 🙂
So now all of a sudden Taylor understands her faux relationships are bad for her image? I really doubt that. This public display is not new to Taylor, so I don’t think she’s suddenly come to her senses. The contract is up. Not to say they don’t generally like each other, but they totally had a deal and now it looks like it’s not going to be extended. She probably got enough material for her next album anyway.
Double album: one for Calvin, one for Tom. And a line of I <3 TS t-shirts. She'll rake in enough for a third plane.
Other Shelly here, I don’t believe this for a minute, but quite like the idea of her going through his drawers.
She’d make a better spy than he would.
And which drawers would that be?!!
I am the original Venus in Spurs, hahaha. My sweetie and I have been together for 18 years and still not married. I reserve my option to run off with the pool boy.
Keep all options open. Not just the pool boy. The plumber or the snow removal guy might be more attractive or have more money.
I would concur that the snow removal guy is particularly practical to have around in your neck of the woods.
I need a pool boy. Or an Alien Beauty. Or just a new crush generally. I am losing the crush war with Mr Sixer, who has it so bad for Laura Trott that I’m practically having to scrape him off the floor. I NEVER lose the crush war so this is an outrage.
Miss J – can I run off with you? (I’ll give you back eventually.)
Yes, Sixer, absolutely. I am planning my escape as we speak. 🙂
Our snow removal guy is a friendly little old man with one of those small blowers. He is always a welcome sight, but I don’t see running off potential. We do not have a pool, alas, but they guy who folds towels at the MIT pool is looking pretty damned good.
My company is now sponsoring a gym membership. Their outdoor pool has a water slide as ridiculous as Tay Tay’s and three floors filled with hunky personal trainers. I may need to take some long lunches.
Thank you, Miss J. Much appreciated.
I could run off with our window cleaner, but he is arthritic and can barely climb his ladder to do upstairs. I don’t think he would run very well. And certainly not as well as Laura Trott cycles.
I hired my first tree doctor to come out next week. He sounded cute on the phone and had good manners. I bet he has big muscles…
Y’all are giving me bad (good?) ideas.
My snow removal guy looks like Daniel Dae Kim. I’m not sharing.
@Bonzo, OMG, tree removal guys. I came home one night last summer to find my street taken over by tree removal guys. A little dead end street and we were totally blocked in by tree removal guys. One of our neighbors had a two trees growing into her roof and a third constantly threatening to crash into my living room every time the wind blew. She was having them all taken down and they were running them through a wood chipper on sight. Two other neighbors decided to take down trees too because they were old and sick and growing through the power lines and threatening to bring those down in every storm.
Muscular, yes. Very. And they were shimmying up and down the trees up to the top. We all sat on the porch drinking wine and enjoying the show. I hope yours are as good as ours were.
We have to remove our own snow in this neck of the woods. When/if we get any. 😆
Lilac, I shall report back if the show is as good from my front porch. 🙂
Yes. If I’m running off with someone, they need to be able to pay the mortgage. Or first class airplane seats. I don’t care about much else material, but house and travel are key. So no pool boys for me. 🙂
Too bad we don’t get milk deliveries anymore. (:
We get our dairy from a regional farm, but they come at 2am!
He is on a plane over the Pacific, far away from Rhode Island at the moment.
I find these proposal negotiation stories in In Touch and People and elsewhere, no matter who the subjects are, ludicrous. Like you tell the person (and the media) that you are planning to propose? Why not just propose?
Why not just propose? Because in their world paparazzi pics or it didn’t happen.
Lilac I don’t think it is coincidence this story surfaced straight after the “Orlando wants to propose to Katy” story broke. I could see that Taylor would totally want to race Katy to the alter. Tom was probably summons to RI to be told the plan was changing.
WHY would he fly to RI and add hours of flying to an already long flight to Oz? He was there for a reason.
Slowly building up the narrative for why they won’t be seen together soon?
Except sorry, I don’t believe the ‘Taylor was just so fun loving and free while Calvin wanted to be more serious!’ stories anymore than I believe this one. I give her props for at least trying to look like the ‘dump-er’ in these new relationships, it gives a nice twist on the Lifetime movie that has become her life.
She now must always be the dumper. Once the pic of her being sent off on the boat by Styles hit the headlines and she was mocked for it, she’s made herself the dumper in the last relationship and will do so in all future relationships. Whether she actually was or not doesn’t matter, she’ll get the press to run with that story.
lol what was she doing according to Intouch? putting his socks away after washing them?
Indeed Nina did “the source” reveal if it was his sock drawer or his knicker draw ?
I need to know.
Actually I’ve just had an awful thought, maybe she found his c*ck ring, and it squicked her out.
I’m just going to become a Bridge Seller, straight up , like old timey news paper boy in some of these stories *BRIIDGE SSEELLER, BRIIDDGE SELLER COME GET YOUR BEAUTIFUL BRIDGES! If You Believe These Two at this point in time Come Thru and get your Beautiful Bridges!*
I wouldn’t marry either of them. Can you imagine?
If you married Taylor, you’d never know which way she was facing and would have to learn to crab-walk.
If you married LEGS, he would sulk when you trounced him at Scrabble and laughed at what he wrote in your birthday cards.
Yuck. Times two.
Based on those who track her private jet, we they spent a few days in RI before he flew back to Oz today. So, we know they’re still together, but he’s clearly in damage control mode. No more papping out his personal life after the universal mocking they got and her image dismantling after Gossip Swiftmas last month.
And now I’ve got the SADS that I won’t get anything to snigger at for another month. As I’m already wearing my mourning black, I shall start the drinking early with the peach-infused Jamesons a friend gave me yesterday.
Anyone else need a drink? Sixer, I’m looking at you.
I’m not very good at drinking. I go from sober to rat-arsed in about three nano-seconds and so three nano-seconds of entertainment is all I would be able to offer you before the possibility of passing out rears its ugly head.
I have some sloe gin here though, so….
In that case, maybe you could be the designated driver?? That way you can still supply the humor.
I need lots of drinks. Been dealing with various Elder service agencies for my great- aunt all morning. Shouldn’t elder service agencies, whose missions are to help elders remain viable and safe in their homes have a better answer for stressed out caregivers who have limited time than “have you considered a caregiver support group?” Sure, if the caregiver support group wants to come over and do her laundry and vacuum her floors and do her grocery shopping and figure out how to get the transportation agency to pick her up and take her to the senior center so she’s not at home alone all day, that would be great!
Pass that Jamesons.
That’s fair enough. Although I also hate cars.
Um… have a sleepover at mine? That way, I don’t have to drive and it doesn’t matter if I pass out – you can just laugh AT me.
Sixer, I much prefer to laugh WITH you than AT you, my dear. Sleepover it is.
Lilac, sorry to hear about your caregiver stress. *passes the Jamesons* A good friend of mine has been doing all of that for her mom the past couple of years and it’s tough on her to balance with her high-stress job. Like you said, it’s the practical help that she needs — transportation, social activities, cleaning, making sure she’s taking her meds, etc. The sheer volume of phone calls to find the person who has the answers takes so much time. It’s like taking care of a big kid but the resources for them are harder to find than with littles.
Lilac – also sympathies.
@sixer, I am not a drinker either. Can I interest you in some herb? I will be out on the veranda indulging in a little 😊
Thanks. I just can’t imagine how elders who don’t have someone looking out for them navigate this world. Granted, my great-aunt, at nearly 88, is getting into the services system a good deal later than many others do. She was very active and fairly autonomous until a few months ago.
I would never trounce him in Scrabble. I never trounce anyone in Scrabble. I have never won a Scrabble game in my life. The Scrabble Gods hate me and won’t allow me to have tiles with letters other than Z and E. I have had seven E tiles at a time People tell me that there are limited tiles for each letter. Not true. Whenever I touch a Scrabble tile, the Scrabble Gods instantly change it to E. Or Z. I hate Scrabble. Scrabble Gods are mean.
Now, Boggle, I would trounce him in Boggle. I trounce everyone in Boggle. I see words everywhere that no one else sees. I’m particularly good at finding long words featuring multiple Es and Z, thanks to the cruel Scrabble Gods. I am the Queen of Boggle. The Boggle Gods love me. I love the Boggle Gods.
I could trounce him in Boggle than console him by agreeing to play Scrabble.
My mother used to laugh at the overly sentimental cards my father gave her. My oldest sister does the same to her very sappy (but good) husband. It is a family tradition that must carry on. Tommy understands tradition.
I see what you did there.
As both a Scrabble-Cassandra AND weirdo fan of the Hallmark archive, I suppose you’ll just have to marry him yourself.
I’m STILL not marrying HER.
Boggle is a marvelous game!!!
None of us have to marry her. She can marry her giant inflatable swan.
Scrabble may keep them together – Wordsmith meets Word Salad.
Forget the Scrabble, and birthday cards full of waffling/flowery dross…
…it’s being subjected irl to watching those atrocious/interminable impersonations that LEGS is infamous for (for the rest of your damn married life) that’s the real threat here.
That is why we have ball gags.
@lilacflowers LOL! I remember reading a comment on another celeb news site re that ‘I <3 TS' shirt… something about it being proof that LEGS must have some sort of humiliation kink. Perhaps Hiddles has his own set of ball gags stashed away somewhere then?
Even with the gag, I'd still have to deal with looking at that retinol/sunscreen deprived face. Plus, the prospect of being forced into Swift’s burn book/kill list, AND having to smooch Hiddleston’s non-existent Muppet-ish lips (at our Build-a-Bear themed wedding)… oh hell no. It's a hard pass from me, lilacflowers. 😛
Lilacflowers,
My sympathies. My mother died of Alzheimer’s a few years ago and I was her caregiver for over a year. You might have luck contacting local churches and asking for help. Either they can recommend someone honest who needs the work, or they’ll have a Sunday school group sort of a thing that will dole out the chores to help you out in exchange for a donation.
This was the time of my life that I fell in love with Mr. Netflix. He provided the brain candy I so desperately needed to get through my days. Unfortunately, he’s proven to be incredibly difficult to break up with, but we’ve managed to control ourselves enough that my marriage is still intact.
Best wishes for you and your aunt.
After the Build-a-Bear proposal, perhaps we can look forward to Hiddles doing his best James Fleet impression and Tay-Tay in the Little Bo-Peep wedding gown at a lovely posh country manor, but with the Scottish Fold kitties instead of a dog for the flower strewing and ring bearer roles?
Far more likely that it will end up being a Rhode Island beach wedding with a choux-pastry swan cake… prepared by Martha Stewart!
US Weekly’s just recycling what’s been said here and elsewhere. The initial PR onslaught had people predicting she’d walk the RC with a rock on her finger. Whether Tom is still staying the course after living with Taylor 24/7 for the first two months is doubtful, especially after seeing how his image took a major hit. He’s not willing to perform for the paps right now while he’s campaigning as a serious, Emmy-nominated actor. She’s PR poison and he knows it.
The only reason we’re seeing “end of August” is because that’s when Emmy voting ends. If these two are going to pull any PR stunts to direct attention to him during voting, it has to happen in the next 12 days.
I certainly think *we* write the better fairy stories. Especially when they involve Build-a-Bear (I’ll never let go of Build-a-Bear).
I really was going to try to make the Build-a-Bear thing happen for you. Had the “Follow Me to Build-a-Bear” sign ready to place on my little Bug and was going to make the drive down to Westerly this morning but he flew to Oz last night.
*sighs*
And I really could have used a visit to the beach down there today.
@Bonzo. I expected something like this from her camp after the RI visit. There was pressure to produce SOMETHING about her and the relationship during his 5 day visit other than an IG follow. Actually IF Toms got a good grip on things there will be no stunt before the 29th, just articles like this. And I have no idea what to expect at the RC. I’m just glad he got out of town relatively unscathed.
Beach Girl, it’s not surprising that rags will try and find something to write about while they’re avoiding the spotlight and he’s back in Oz. I’m curious if these two will try and generate some publicity for themselves before Aug 29th or not.
It’s clear he’s felt the backlash against him and not willing to play the game as he did in the beginning. Is this indication of a change in his commitment to the relationship or just a change in PR strategy? Has he come to realize there is no way that staying with Taylor is going to be good for his image or is he too isolated in the Taylor bubble to realize this? Who knows. It’s interesting to watch how both of them have reacted to the bad press they’ve received this summer.
“It has to happen in the next 12 days.”
Yikes! That would mean Barnacle Barbie will probably be on her way to AU soon for more carefully staged pap walks. Dinner, anyone?
Tay stays away from the Emmy press tour in LA, Tom will fly to her when he’s done on her plane to make it easy on him. Then Tom flies back to LA and he goes to AU alone. And NO Pap Walks. I think that was the compromise. I think Tom is still in the Taymerica bubble and this was his management’s call.
Yup. It also sets up the “Tom is desperate ” narrative that her peeps will cash in on later.
Poor sod.
I want to think Tom is more mature and in charge, but he’s just not. When it comes to romantic relationships she is truly more experienced (from what we know) than he is. However it goes with Tom now will complete the new album. As Kaiser aptly said he got comfortable in Taylor’s bubble.
Perhaps you’re right and it was a compromise for asking her to stay away from LA while he’s campaigning. I still think it was a sh!tty thing for her to expect him to fly 10 hours to come see her when she could have just as easily flown to him and saved him the additional travel. Is he that desperate to keep her happy? If so, he’s still playing the fool.
Let’s not confuse manipulative with maturity.
I don’t think Tom is still in the Taymerica bubble if by bubble you mean in lurve with her (IF he ever was). He’s more desperate to get off this “ship” as soon as pos (before Emmys) with the least amount of damage. He was probably told a TS PR-ship was a safe risk because of her all American, good girl image and her enormous fame, and that they could gloss over any awkwardness.
Now he’s seen how immature and tacky she and the situation really are, and no matter how much he smiles and tries to be optimistic, it won’t salvage this oversold, mismatched, stink bomb of a relationship. Implement exit plan now Tommy.
I think someone was watching the episode of Sex and the City where Carrie finds the ugly ring Aiden got her in his gymbag and freaks out and decided “Hey, that’s a good made up plot for Hiddleswift!”
Plus, what DRAWER? He hasn’t been in one place long enough to unpack in months! Nonsense.
ooooh gossip cop just confirmed that this story is false.
False that he is wanting to propose or false that she is going to turn him down ?
I really want a Tiddles proposal. They need to crank up the summer fun.
@Shelly no proposal and no cold feet.
Bloody Gossip Cop. I think they enjoy sucking the happiness out of juicy rumors.
LOL.
IKR? 😉
Of course they did. Tay Tay has them on speed dial.
Gossip Cop loves to debunk (especially) something called Celebrity Dirty Laundry. To the point where I suspect Gossip Cop invented Celebrity Dirty Laundry just so they can debunk CDL stories for their own clicks.
Sure Jan. I don’t believe any of it. Not the proposal. Not taylor getting cold feet. None of it. But this is building a narrative for sure so the end is near
This whole “relationship” makes me like them both 200% less.
My impression of Swift is that what she likes is romance and the idea of it; she’s not so keen on the post-romance slog of marriage (even to a classy Brit actor). Once the wedding’s over, the gates on the fantasy man and fantasy relationship close – and it’s that fantasy, and selling it to herself and the public over and over again, that I’m betting Swiftie is in love with. So far as it, er, goes (cough).
I can just see the pre-nup now: in the event of a split, he gets the private jet and one house. She gets, um . . . hmmm.
I too think she’s in love with being in love and once the infatuation wears off and she has to deal with the daily slog of married life, she’ll be miserable. No amount of money can protect her from the reality that intimate, long-term relationships are tough to maintain.
If there’s anyone that shouldn’t get married until they’ve happily passed the two year mark, it’s Taylor.
@WhatTheHell? – and having said that, I think the infatuation phase is still operative here, and having announced the relationship with the paps, they’re now playing “hard to get” to create more mystery, and I’m still betting she’ll show up on his arm at the Emmys – the opportunity is too good for either of them to pass up.
Ground control to major Tom: prepare for a bumpy landing.
Best comment of the day!!!!
Brilliant
😅😅
@ Bonzo. That’s the question isn’t it? Right now his #1 priority is the Emmy awards and Thor filming, and with the backlash from this summer he needs to downplay that whole relationship for awhile. But do they reunite after the 29th or Sept 18th? Is it a change in relationship commitment or just a change in pr strategy? We may have a better idea when he attends the RC.
Beach Girl, yes, the next few weeks will be telling, I think.
I don’t buy that he’s not sure he’s attending. I think he knows he is and they are gearing up to try and steal the headlines from anyone else in attendance. Hence, why I don’t think it will be a quiet four weeks of work. They’ve got something brewing that will hit the interwebs soon.
I’ve come to the conclusion that “the source” is a thwarted Mills & Boon novelist!
They are one/off/on/off. Can someone tell me which it is today please, I can’t keep up.
And why did nobody see him at the jewellers?
Personal shoppers attend to celeb purchases of this kind – no one saw Cumberbatch at the jewelers, either.
Because Spidey, he didn’t buy a new ring. He was planning to propose with great, great grandmother Hiddles’ ring that’s been passed down since the time of King George. He hadn’t asked her yet because he’s been waiting for approval from the Queen.
Nah, that ring would have gone to his big sister.
Which King George – we’ve had a few of them! 😆
He’s going to break up with her. This story is out so when they do break up, everyone will be like what????
I’m not buying this at all. It’s such a made for tv movie scenario. ‘Taylor accidentally discovers ring in drawer. Tom, distraught that she ruined the surprise, gives her an ultimatum to get engaged. But non-needy, stage 5 clinger history, teenage maturity level, Taylor just doesn’t want to commit immediately. She needs time.’ Gag me!
It strikes me that if Tom has mentally decided he wants out, he is doing the slow roll out knowing her history. He can use work as an excuse. Taylor also knows her image took a huge hit this summer after the Kanye tape was released that showed she’s a manipulative, calculating, liar. So Taylor knows if Tom breaks it off with her, she can’t do her mo of attacking him without causing herself more damage. And although Tom has damaged his reputation, he still is leagues better than the DJ’s & boy banders Taylor is accustomed to. So this story of Tom all of sudden wanting to marry Taylor but she’s having second thoughts is her way of pre-spinning the scenario of not only Tom not wanting to marry her but her sensing he may be cooling off to her & an eventual break-up.
What did humanity ever do to deserve this? These two clowns are so off the charts fake it’s painful.
Stop insulting mankind’s intelligence with this stunt queen garbage. We serfs aren’t as dumb as you two silver spoons think. Please just go away Taylor. And Tom, go back to Oz and stay there for a month.
Slight hyperbole there.
1. Off the charts fake – check
2. painful (t-shirt) – check
3. two silver spoons (both more than upper middle class) – check
4. clowns (both do wear a good amount of make-up) – check
I sense no hyperbole.
Can’t imagine anything chavvier than getting engaged to Taylor Swift.
False marriages aside, can anyone envision what the aftermath of a Hiddleswift break up would actually look like?
One could, in a parallel universe hope for silence from both parties!
I foresee another album with songs to terrorize our souls.
How dare you wish for peace and quiet, spidey! Don’t you just want to sit back, and watch the celeb world burn? 😛
I say bring on the ship of English Potter Rose/Shakespearean Ham! I want to see Emma Watson (who’s oddly enough the same age as Swift), and Hiddleston hook up–that way celebitchy would get the best of both worlds! We’d get another eye-roll worthy/insufferable celeb couple, and we’d get to witness how Swift would deal with the inevitable breakup shit storm.
Plus, forget Batman vs. Superman and Civil War. Just imagine the epic, cringe-inducing tumblr stan wars between the sycophantic squadron of Swifties vs. the Marvel/Potter power couple (particularly Hiddleston’s stalker-ish stans).
It’ll be boring if Hiddles is involved as he won’t address it in any way. No drama…boo.
@Bonzo. IA, Hiddles (and Watson) would probably keep mum if it ever happened, but I’m all for this Potter/Marvel hook up solely b/c of Swift, and her obsession /w writing not-so-blind-item breakup albums. How would Taylor ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women’ Swift navigate this PR minefield?
She can’t pull the ‘Dear John’ angle because she’s 26 going on 27.
If she drags Hiddles she’ll have to deal /w his/Watson’s rabid tumblr fan base, and if Taylor tries being passive aggressive about the breakup via social media it’ll look bad for her (Hiddles/Watson won’t respond + let her dig her own grave). If she drags Watson in any way… it’ll only remind the media of that incident she had with Camilla Belle, and Madonna/Whore aspect in Swift’s other songs/videos. In the same vein, Swift playing the old country music card of ‘This girl stole my man’… also not gonna fly. Being anything even close to slut-shame-y towards Emma ‘HeforShe™’ Watson would be a really dumb move that could hurt Swift’s brand.
I could see Taylor pulling the ‘He’s the one who got away~’ card, but ultimately it’ll make her look desperate for PR (especially if it’s her that ended the relationship).
If she dumps him he will look like an idiot; if he dumps her he will look like an a*****e. So I’m really sorry for him. She will earn milions with her new album a he maybe some bugs in another indi film or in theatre…
And who dates the guy who just split up with Taylor Swift? Maybe down the road, but I wouldn’t want to be next.
…and if he stays with her? He’ll look like an idiotic asshole?
I feel zero sympathy for a 35YO that knowingly hooks up with Swifty, given her horrendous track record. He wants the attention and lifestyle enough to be willing to look like a aging, thirsty, wannabe A-lister for the past two months. Why would either breakup scenario really make a difference? His rep is already tarnished — I doubt it really matters who does the breaking up in the end.
Personally, I expect it to be her — she’s in the power position, not him.
Tay flew Tom to RI for the most expensive booty call on record.
I would find this story more believable if Taylor had found the ring in Tom’s suitcase because that’s what he’s been living out of for the past two months. Taylor has never even been to his house let alone his “drawer”.
@Fanny – well, she’s been to his Mum’s house, though . . .
About the ring ( as a Canadian) am I right in assuming that if Taylor wanted a really big ring that that would be tacky to the truly posh?
Someone up thread said she would have to buy her own because it would be out of his price range. I think after so many Marvel days he’s good for a big ring but that he would never buy one – too middle class:)
Don;t know about anyone else, but to me really big engagement rings are naff.
I’ll see your naff and raise you: diamond engagement rings are actually meaningless. They are an invented “tradition” by De Beers to sell a product that they had a lot of and no one was buying at the time. They made up the symbolism and used celebrities to help create demand.
I don’t know how Tom’s going to toss this salad if the story being planted is him being so in lurve with her that he got a ring and proposed. I can just see Tom’s face as he has to take an extra long pause to consider the contract points while finding just he right five syllable words to acknowledge the story without confirming or negating it.
terminalogical inexactitude?
Good work spidey. You’re on the job. We should come up with some mind twerk, tongue twisties for Tom to use. He’ll be so relieved.
Courtesy of Winston Churchill in 1906 that one!
Right, sensible hat firmly put away. Story planted by the TS side because she knows Tom is about to dump her, or is going cold, and is getting her side of the story in first, thinking that he will be too much of a gentleman to contradict it.
Clearly they are spending less time together. Each visit/vacation gets shorter. She could of been in LA instead of her parent’s stupid garden.
Well he’s gone back to Oz. So if he just stays there, does the work and keeps his head down, and she stays Stateside for the next few months. Then at some stage they announce they have split up amicably due to the pressures of work………
Just hope Marvel can’t give him time off to go back for the Emmys.
I’ll drink to that Spidey.
Raising my glass as I type! Cheers.
Isn’t the visits shorter by necessity due to work? The real test comes when he wraps up filming. Presuming they’re still together, will he choose to continue living with her 24/7 as he did when they first hooked up?
Tom will conveniently get another job right after Ragnarok.
@spidey That’s just hyperbole.
Torrilla has pictures of Tom arriving at LAX yesterday. Does he just refuse help or does no one ever I mean ever help him with his luggage (or carry out for that matter)?! It cracks me up.
Anthony Hopkins and at least two of Asgard’s Warriors 3 are in AU.
I can’t stand this any longer. ..
WHY is he doing that to himself???? My God…
SURE, JAN.
Her PR team already run to Us weekly via source that she sent her jet to him to visit her at RI they make sure she summoned him, she could have come to LA since she has houses there but she asked him to come to her the poor man had come from OZ then went to RI & come back to LA & finally go back to OZ just thinking all that I’m exhausted already
Yeah that’s effd-up. They’re probably going to say his flight to RI was a desperate attempt to convince her to accept before leaving to OZ. After hashing it out with no affirmative answer, he gives her a deadline to accept.
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Eff’d up is right. Even if getting on that plane to RI was Tom’s idea, I’m giving the Pampered Princess serious demerits in the good girlfriend category. Why make your boyfriend go cross-country for 72 hours when you have nothing better to do and could have easily gone to him? Tom has always burned the candle at both ends, and he could probably get away with it when he was 25, or even 30, but he’s not getting any younger and the nonstop work and travel is starting to show.
Dara, my thoughts exactly. She would have looked less like a diva by accommodating his demanding work schedule and going to see him in LA. My guess is he’s still in the infatuated-and-doing-anything-to-keep-her-happy state of mind.
At some point, he’ll start asserting himself and that’s when things will get ugly. I hope it happens before they get married… for his sake.
Interesting all of this is coming out today, right after he left for OZ and Emmy interviews over. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is really why he went to RI, to discuss pr strategy stories for the gossip rags. Twitter is being bombarded right now with the proposal, the flight to RI on her private plane, and some weird one about Tom being jealous regarding the Mike Hess kiss. All at once. Someone’s working hard to sell us something, just not sure what’s real yet. Again change in relationship commitment or new pr to gin up interest? We’ll Know more by the RC. And the timing of the Brie Larson story is just plain weird.
Never fear ! Gossip Cop will get it sorted.
Good thing too as I stomped my tin foil hat flat.
Don’t get too excited but there are vague rumours that TH might be doing another play in London early next year.
Where have you seen those?
He has been dropping hints about it since he arrived in the US back in March.
Just from people I know.
If you need time to think about accepting a proposal, shouldn’t the answer be NO
😂😂😂
Most definitely, Spidey. Notice the end of August timeline? What a joke.
@Spiderpig, please say it’s Shakespeare! That might be the only thing that would keep me from giving up on him for good.
No idea, sorry!
@Dara. I did read one tumblr blog that stated She thought it was Shakespeare. Fingers crossed.
Heard it might be Richard II.
Heard the same.
@Spiderpig, please let it be “Much Ado” and may he play Benedick… My favourite Doctor and second favourie companion were brilliant as B&B a few years ago.
I’m just so tired of everyone pretending that she’s not gay, and taking this shit seriously. It’s just so gross.
This . . . and himself, as well. In which case, as neither wants to come out, they may as well get married and have a baby and get it over with.
I can’t take you seriously. Either of you. Seriously.
I don’t think it’s a case of people pretending. I don’t see there’s convincing evidence that that is the case. Just innuendo. If you have some insider information perhaps you could share it with us. Or do they just “ping your gaydar” ?
She is gearing up to take him OUT with this breakup.
She needs a sacrificial lamb so she looks like the one who did the dumping this time, and his eager puppy persona and thirst for fame has set it up perfectly.
Her whole life is storyboarded.
Poor Tom. He’s going to get body slammed on this one.
#dumbass
Hmmm, I think it would work better (pr wise) if Tom walks away and she again becomes the poor unlucky-in-love victim again. She wants, nay needs, as much sympathy back on her side as she can.
“I admit it, I saw myself as the young stud risking all for the love of a woman and for his country and all that stuff,” he said. “Because that’s what you do at that age.It’s probably better that it didn’t happen happen, because Tom Hiddleston is absolutely perfect. He fills the studly role to perfection.”- Hugh Laurie about Tom and TNM
https://www.thewrap.com/the-night-manager-star-hugh-laurie-on-why-he-let-tom-hiddleston-play-the-studly-hero/
Or they could be in deep infatuation with each other, and that only lasts a few months. So either way he gets his fame on and she gets a new album.
**smooths wrinkles out of tin foil hat**
In Touch has the story wrong straight away when they note that Swift started dating Hiddleston shortly after breaking up with Calvin Harris ! I think everyone pretty much knows she was still with Harris when the Hiddleston thing began.
I think Swift wants a big movie star BF to pave the way for her to become an actress. Hiddleston is caving a little so she going to drop hermit
No everyone does not know that unless they’re choosing to spread rumors.
What is known,
1) they meet and dance at Met Gala.
2) Tom goes back to UK next day
3) approx month Calvin breakup
4) Month later TS/TH seen together for 1st time
And Calvin seemed really done with the relationship when Ryan Seacrest interviewed him in April. Calvin not only didn’t attend the Grammys with her in February, he didn’t attend her friend’s wedding at which she was Maid of Honor that same month. I believe they were done or on a break after their vacation in March but hadn’t announced it.