We’re probably going to have to wait for Taylor Swift’s much-anticipated album to find out what really went down with Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston. Was there an overlap between those two relationships? Did Hiddles pursue Tay while she was with Calvin? Did the scorching heat of their torrid Tiddlebanging destroy the heart of a decent Scotsman? We won’t know until we hear the blind-item songs, and even then we’ll have to decode everything and say “allegedly, this is about Calvin.” But In Touch Weekly has a funny/ridiculous/likely-untrue explanation for the seeming overlap between the two relationships, and that explanation is absolutely something that would have gone down in middle school.
The real reason Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris broke up is now coming out: a source tells In Touch that her rebound guy, Tom Hiddleston, had a hand in splitting them up in the first place!
“Tom told her that Calvin hit on one of his friends,” says the source. “She and Calvin were already having problems, so this weighed on her.”
The pair called it quits in June and she began seeing Tom – bot “Taylor started to feel like he was using her,” adds the source. Then came the clincher: Taylor met with the girl Tom said Calvin was hitting on, and she denied it ever happened. Now she and Calvin are talking again.”
[From In Touch Weekly]
So a 35 year old man allegedly told a 26 year old woman that her 32 year old boyfriend may have hit on another woman, according to In Touch. To be completely fair, this sounds too juvenile even for the three people allegedly involved. But in this dream scenario, how did the whole thing happen? OMG, Tom totally told Taylor that Calvin hit on one his friends and Taylor was like OMG I am never ever getting back with him OMG would you like to Tiddlebang on some Rhode Island Rocks and Tom was like OMG okay that sounds amazing because your last boyfriend had a wandering eye and like can you make this bitch famous and Taylor was like OMG yes let’s Tiddlebang and then strut around Europe and Nashville and Australia and make it the Glorious Worldwide Tiddlebanging Tour and Tom was like that’s so cool and then a month later Tay met that girl and she was like oh I never even met Calvin and Taylor was like OOOOoooooOOO and then Tay dumped Tom and now Tay is like OMG Calvin I’m sort of sorry even though I wrote like a million blind item songs about how you’re a douche and Calvin was like that’s cool bruh but I don’t really want to get back together and Tay was like OMG I HATE YOU. I would love it if that’s what happened (but that’s probably not what happened).
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I use to think Tom Hiddleston was hot. Taylor ruined him for me. F#ck Taylor. lol
I only knew him as Loki so when I saw the Taylor/Tom pics I saw what Tom really looked like. And then saw Tom in interviews. And I was hooked. I feel bad that things are ruined for you. I so enjoy looking at my endless pics while I swoon.
Me too Virginfangirl! I was like NO way is Loki hot. Then I saw the impersonations. Then I was a fan. Then Taylor happened. Then I saw him model and then I was like, yeah, I’ll pass.
Ohhhh samsies. I just can’t anymore. Makes me sad, but I would feel the same with any man who dates a juvenile (I know she’s an “adult”, but emotionally she’s only 12, y’all). Skeeves me out past the point of no return.
Doesn’t follow that her public persona is exactly as she is in private. Not saying it isn’t, but………
Her persona was a lot like the same in the kanye phone conversation. Every other word was like. Teen speak.Her vocabulary seemed very limited.
I don’t think Tom had any idea what she was like before meeting her at the Met dinner at what’s-her-face’s house. Lots of people that know her name and her music don’t know all about her or her squad and social media stuff. His impression of her may have been that she was very nice and fun loving. I’m no fan of TS, and I think she seems underdeveloped too, but I can see how others that don’t follow her life and don’t have any preconceived impressions could perceive her otherwise at first. Especially someone like Tom, who sometimes to a fault, always sees everybody in the most complementary light.
Imo, their (arranged) relationship was more of a whirlwind discovery romance tour. They got close and affectionate really fast before really knowing each other which is why it didn’t take long for it to go flat especially when Kimye-gate hit. I’m sure TH started to get a better idea of her, but sometimes, if possible, it’s best to just ride out a situation and let things come to a natural, deflated ending which is what seemed to happened with them.
@almost there I don’t know if Tom was all that clueless about Taylor Swift and her antics I mean we could say he is all about the work and doesn’t pay attention to celebrity gossip but that’s bullshit. I think Tom like a lot celebrities who whine about gossip read the shit just like you and I do. He probably thought he could handle her stuff and maybe secretly thought the high profile hook up would boost his career. Tom was only internet famous before he hooked up with Taylor swift only die hard fans of the Thor movies knew him. He probably wanted to end their fling when the Kanye west incident happened but maybe decided ditching her at that moment would make him look like a dick. I mean he has an image to maintain.
I don’t think most people follow the personal lives of these stars. I never did until recently. And my friends/family didn’t even know that Taylor dated Tom. This was shocking to me. But until I became obsessed with Tom I probably would not have know either. So Taylor’s antics went unnoticed by me for years, as I am sure happens with a large part of the population.
I used to think that he was one of the most charming man in there world. Then the tiddlebanging happened and now I can’t even look at his pictures.
First, the “banging” part of tiddlesbanging probably never happened. It’s highly, highly questionable the relationship ever got sexual and not because of any bearding.
Second, how does the tiddlesbanging make him less charming? He is either charming or not charming – period. Just cause you don’t like that he had a romantic dalliance with TS doesn’t mean he’s not a charming anymore. It’s called being objective.
Sometimes I wonder if it was his actions or who he did it with. I mean if Orlando Bloom wore an IloveKP shirt, I think people would have laughed it off as a guy having some silly fun. For me, it’s not Taylor Swift so much as her “squad” and her pics with this squad. It’s these times when it seems she’s trying too hard to portray herself as having so much fun, or being a fun person to hang out with, when it really seems like immature teenage behavior/poses that I see on my young teenage daughters social media. Two of Taylor’s friends recently posted one of them pulling down her shirt to expose her sports bra and bragging of her boob job, while the other pretended to lick her boob. I just can’t see Tom Hiddleston hanging out with a group like that. But when Taylor is by herself, she seems to act much more mature (then again that convo with Kayne was full of “like” this and “like” that – which again is young teen talk)
@virginfg
Yeah, I agree. I think most of the flack he got for the IloveTS tank was because of TS and her ongoing parade of fakery. Her pr image machine has passed its limit of public tolerance. That and her social media and squad behavior have made her an open target for scores of mockery and scrutiny. Anyone that gets tied up with her is a potential target too. Any misstep is ammunition.
I don’t think Tom knew how adolescent she and her friends are. I don’t even think he knew what a “squad” was. Not that it would have made a difference. He still might have chose to go along anyway and just wait out the TayAmerica / friends situation.
I think Tom ruined it for himself. Not Taylor. Taylor was just doing more of the same, but Tom decided to famewhore it up and ruined his own image. We should put that on Tom, not Taylor.
Tom’s NOT a famewhore. Tables the one who loves media attention. NOT Tom.
Hahha OK keep telling yourself that
Wow. How much further is the media going to stretch this thing?
This was only and ever about making Calvin jealous and had “rebound” written all over it. Hopefully the boys learned something valuable from this mess because she’s hopeless.
That is all.
PS I love how he looks like he’s trying to escape in the first photo
Probably when reality hit
😅
Ah. That’s the airport ramp in Australia. He ran down the ramp, leaving her in the dust, until the slow moving body guard got in his way, even then she couldn’t catch him. There’s video of her reaching out and trying to grab the backpack but she couldn’t reach.
Saw that
*snort*
Probably emblematic of Tom’s relationship behavior at this stage anyway
Chase them until they turn around
Then run like hell
😉
Not that I blame him in this case
I agree
Oh, god, they’re back.
🙂
A nice diversion from the real news…
Being with Taylor kind if taints you as a dude I hate to say. Calvin, Tom, John (blech), jake, Harry any others? You’re kind of asking for world speculation about you in her lyrics.
It’s true, you can Google Taylor and get stories about Taylor. You Google Tom and you get stories about Taylor.
There is no LEGS joke I could make that would be funnier than that last paragraph, Kaiser.
*slow claps*
I join in as well. Best run on sentence written ever.
You have needed that since the Build-a-Bear engagement dreams went up in a puff of choux swan dust.
I will never get over no Build-a-Bear. All that foreplay and no bloody pay-off.
But we will always have the swan shoes
http://www.irregularchoice.com/us/collections/swan-heels/savan-b.html
Sixer, agreed! I too suffer from ongoing fever dreams of a build-a-bear engagement and wedding plans. We were robbed! Also Kaiser, I think you nailed it and this is exactly how it went down. My gosh I need this after last night’s debate. I woke up truly sad and down this am, told my hubby no more hurricane or election coverage for my own mental health!
I want staged photo ops with fake romance, swan shoes, flowers, and a ring! We deserved build a bear and a ring. I also want some gingham in there somewhere stat@ Colin, I need you!
This story is hilarious. But I still maintain that Taylor and Adam Eppie Calvin Nuke Lalouche Harris were over by the time he did the interview with Ryan Seacrest in April.
I really miss the days of Hiddleswift. With the awful election, and the depressingly vitriolic Brangelina breakup their brief summer fling/publicity stunt/gloriousness seems so long ago
MTE
Summer is over in more ways than one.
I really want some new gossip, new hookups, award season is coming, they all have to have someone to pretend they are soo sooo in luuuuuv, TayTay, you must not disappoint us, hook up with Calvin’s manager or Toms stylist. Do something!
Yay I would love this to be true, but sadly I fear it is the last desperate attempt by a trash journo, to wrinkle some mileage out of Tayto.
Next instalment, Taylor finds out that Tom mocked her choice of shoes, and hated the red ensemble she wore to the Selena Gomez concert.
Tom is such a mean girl.
Taylor’s PR people finally found a way to make her look like the victim again! Poor wittle Taylor…seduced by a liar!
I see that A Ninsider/A Sourcecloseto/ A Closefriendof/ have been busy again.
What a load of twaddle. And given they have now be split longer that they were together, why would anyone think it would be of interest.
Drink please!!
I laughed way too hard at your comment. I particularly love A. Ninsider and that’s how I’ll read it from now on.
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I don’t know why either PR camp is pushing this thing. It’s dead Jim.
Who has a song coming out? Given the flack Tom got, wouldn’t he want it to all go away?
Yes, why would Calvin want to push the news that he was dumped? Of course, there is the possibility that nobody’s PR was involved and InTouch may just be trying to get ad revenue through clickbait?
Now who is being sensible? 🍷
But being even more sensible than normal did Tom and CH mix in the same circles? Would Tom know any of the people CH is alleged to have hit on?
@spidey, and it would have to be a woman who was in one of the same locations as Taylor during late July/early August.
@ lightpurple – We need Hercule Poirot!
@spidey, isn’t Branagh playing Poirot in the new Murder on the Orient Express? The plot thickens!
@ lightpurple Yes he is.
Kaiser, that was the best paragraph ever! OMG, I couldnt look away. lol
Will we be able to tell who’s who on the next album – Calvin, Karlie, Tom?
Brownie cakes, she would do well to have a song with some great lyrics but nothing specific enough to pin it down. I keep thinking about Carly Simon’s ‘You’re so Vain” which ended up being about 3 separate men. Every few lines referenced a different man but the underlying them was the same. Such a great song! OK totally unrelated but someone here will know, how long is the longest time that TS has been single?
Write ten blind item songs that can be applied to anyone. We can just pick a person then.
More fun. LOL
There were so many more scenarios to publicize, it was too brief. We didn’t get a carousel ride, picnic in a park with requisite romantic rowboat photo ops, any red carpets, no secret midnight matinee. SIGH! I think we should start our own PR consulting firm veranda crew. We have the talent and quite possibly the connections…
Hi Little darling! Waiving and toasting 🍷! Like me I think you were up late on the debate threads, glad Kaiser opened the bar for us! She’s had better political commentary than most major networks. I’ve needed a safe outlet to vent. We will always have Loki…but that photo shoot did give us those slippers and my faves. the only blondes he truly loves anymore, Calliope, Esmerelda and Yvonne who understood the summer of madness.
LOL of course it’s Tom’s fault now, of course.
As a total aside, for those James Norton fans – a new series “Wild West – America’s Great Frontier” has just started on BBC2 – narrated by James Norton.
I think Norton was totally overshadowed by Paul Dano in War and Peace. But I recently watched Series 1 and 2 of Happy Valley, and Norton was very very good in it. Good looking guy, doesn’t float my boat, but very convincing performance.
He was so good I had to duplicate my comment….
Both Dano and Norton were very good in the “War and Peace” as well as many in the supporting cast but Lily James was absolutely awful. I still haven’t forgiven her, or whoever cast her.
cue ch & ts getting back together. girl no need to explain yourself, we all know you two are perfect for each other.
They are all middle schoolers so this is probably true.
Naw, PR relationship timed carefully to distract from Kanye showing the world Taylor is a liar.
Calvin was an obstacle to the narrative, and that’s all.
Yeah Taylor, as if. Act your age. Using PR and press to play favourites among ex boyfriends is just ….middle school.
Seems to me someone *cough * TayTay *cough* is setting up the “Calvin and I are back together” narrative…
What do I win?
“Taylor started to feel like he was using her,” adds the source.
He was using her? To what, tarnish his own career & image?
He thought it would be a good idea initially to help get his name out there.
It wasn’t. He got his name ‘out there’ alright with the unfortunate side-effect that everybody was laughing at him.
He is a famewhore in my opinion. If he wasn’t he would have said no to the whole stupid shooting match. Unless he’s a bit gullible of course…
When Tom was coming back from Comic Con some female reporter was yelling to him, “Do you regret dating Taylor and all the trouble she causes?” After the Kanye reveal. Good on him for not responding, but damn, not what he signed up for, possibly literally.
I’m completely over this little “summer” fling and any story linked to it, I imagine Tom is too.
But does anyone else miss the “hot” bodyguards?
Perhaps they bonded with Tom and he can hire 1 or 2 of them.
This is probably EXACTLY what happened.