Here are some photos of Tom Hiddleston out in New York on Friday. I’m assuming Tom and Taylor Swift took her private plane from Rhode Island to Manhattan on Thursday, and now they’re loved up in her West Village rental. Taylor’s penthouse is undergoing extensive renovations that will probably take months to complete, so in the meantime, she’s renting a five-bedroom townhouse with an indoor pool at a cost of $40,000 a month – you can see the photos of the new place here. While the décor seems a bit gaudy and ornate, it’s a nice little love nest. Imagine all of the Tiddlesbanging happening in every room.
Anyway, Taylor is acting as sugar mama, big time. She’s basically giving Tom – who is posh in his own right – a tour of her mega-rich lifestyle, from Rhode Island mansions to $40K-a-month Manhattan rentals, from private planes to chauffeur-driven limos. In these photos, Tom was leaving to the gym and being picked up by Taylor’s car and driver. There’s video of the paparazzi asking him annoying questions as he briefly made his way to Taylor’s car too:
He seems annoyed. Which brings me to my initial reaction when TIDDLES first broke on Wednesday evening: that Tom might not have known what he was getting into. It’s one thing to be a single guy and show some interest in dating Taylor Swift. It’s quite another to get thrown into the deep end of publicly dating one of the most famous women in the world when your staged photos make it onto the front page of one of the largest newspapers in Great Britain. And not only is Taylor incredibly famous, but Taylor is famous for being boy-crazy and literally crazy when it comes to dating/boyfriends/relationships. It wouldn’t surprise me if the intensity scale went from zero to BAD BLOOD YOU ARE MY ROMEO WE ARE NEVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER in the space of three days. Will Tom tap out? Will he play the “baby, I’ve got to fly to Australia for work, let’s hit pause on this and see where we are in six months”??
Also: I have no idea if it’s just some weirdness with his shorts or if he’s really excited to be getting pap’d, but Hiddles does look… um, bulgy?
Tom Hiddleston rolls up to gym in Taylor Swift's plush car after flying into NYC on her jet https://t.co/aEvP5LY7RX pic.twitter.com/rzIqVryWXd
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) June 17, 2016
Photos courtesy of Getty.
I found out yesterday that my friends sister, Jane, was seeing Hiddles up until recently… Apparently she is rather upset and fairly miffed at this turn of events.
Um, what?
That was my response! I couldn’t ascertain whether she was ‘dumped’ for Taylor or whether they were over and she was upset because he moved on with Taylor. He was at Wimbledon with Jane last summer and stuff after that.
He was at Wimbledon with Jane in summer 2013…? And it looks like they were over by 2015 as Tom was in some kind of relationship with Lizzie Olsen until at least December. Pretty sure if Jane had been with him at Wimbledon 2015 someone would have noticed – the only places saying this are newspapers who have got their timelines massively incorrect.
Celebs can hide if they want to.
Celebs can’t hide at Wimbledon.
Which Jane? Oh my god please let it be JArthy.
I Really love Jarthy with Tom Hiddleston.
Of course, this is all a big cover up scheme to let Jarthy hide in plain sight while simultaneously alienating his rather rabid fanbase – brilliant!
I’m thinking of poor Josh Horowitz tho, crying in his bed alone…
HAAAAAAAAAA! Yes!
Actually, it is all a big cover up to hide his ardent affair with Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
Tomilla. Hot as hell.
Tomilla- hehehehe
A quick Google search would show that Tom was at Wimbledon with Jane in 2013. Tom went with his PA last year, and that’s the time Lizzie Olsen was around so I don’t think she would’ve been too happy about that.
Yeah, I got the Wimbledon one mixed up! As I said, I couldn’t work out the exact nature of the current relationship between them, a few things said made me think there was something current(ish) about it but, clearly, I could be very wrong!
If you go back and look, Tom was linked with Lizzie Olsen most of last year, so if Jane was dumped it was ages ago and surely she’s had time to adjust by now.
And if you are friends with her sister why are posting about it on a gossip site ?!
To be fair it would totally suck to have an ex that dates actresses and pop stars and is on the cover of tabs with his new fling.
You don’t say? My brother’s friend sister-in-law dog walker former college roommate Uber driver knows a girl named Elizabeth who goes by Lizzy…
I snorted. Thank you.
Thank you another snort here 😂
My boyfriend has a Jane’s Addiction CD that he uses as a coaster.
Lilacflowers, I’m dying here – best riposte of the day!
@Ladhdidahbaby, thank you. And I much prefer that he uses that thing as a coaster instead of forcing me to listen to it.
“college roommate Uber driver”
omg, that’s gold. thank you.
Sigh. Nice try, but do your research next time. JArthy doesn’t have a sister, though she has a brother named Tony.
How do you know these things?
Bulge is probably from a jock strap. The shorts are an awful idea, he has chicken legs. And he knew exactly what he was getting into, he is one of the thirtiest celebs. Can we not pin this one on the woman for once
OMG! Heresy! He *is* LEGS.
It’s more pin the tail on the donkey than picking one of these two hilarities to pin stuff on!
Looks to me like he’s going commando in those shorts.
Me, too. Not that I was fixated or anything…
Goodnames, not that I’m an expert but doesn’t sports gear have an integral support, but it still moves around a bit
Hat would make sense – like men’s swim trunks, sort of net thing?
Who wears a jock strap outside of the sports arena?
who wears suede shoes on a beach to get papped with a break-up song pop star?
Life is a wonder of mysterious things that get solved in six months. 🙂
This is true. However, Hiddleston seems to have a very limited closest so I wasn’t surprised about his shoe choice for the beach photos.
I think I have the suede shoe thing figured out.. it said they were Aquatalia brand – which our favorite Doolittle Duchess favors and that brand sells waterproof suede shoes.. so the shoes are actually waterproof.
I’d like to know why Hiddles didn’t have proper athletic socks for his gym outing. It looks like he’s wearing knee high socks pushed down to look like athletic socks. Odd but maybe he likes to work out in dress socks? lol.
Agree. I’m getting a little tired of reading of PR outings, where people accuse the evil woman of tricking the poor innocent man. I’m sure they are equally PR-thirsty.
That is a really awful photo! The legs are only stunning when he’s wearing fancy suits. The socks are dreadful, too. Why is he doing this dumbass stuff? How can you go from classy to “crassy” in a few short days? Can he live this one down?
My first thought was he was skipping the gym on leg days. Well, actually, my first thought was he must be a grower, not a shower, then I noticed his chicken legs.
He looks much better in a suit.
Grower, not shower? ROFL. That got a howl out of me.
“And he knew exactly what he was getting into”
I agree. The casual “Yeah, man,” is hiding his extreme excitement at being inducted into the top-10-clickbait news stories of the moment. And I’m willing to bet he has a google alert on himself and reads fastidiously every single night. I still think he’s talented and don’t dislike his earnestness and strategising but I’m watching with interest to see if he’ll cross over into the super annoying, loss-of-cred line, which he seems to have for many.
I thought he said hey man
“Hey, man” is his standard acknowledgement of paps who get really close. He said: “hey, man” and some tabs are trying to spin it as “yeah, man”
As much as I am over this pairing already, I have to thank Taylor for giving us a nice little reversal of the sugar daddy trope. Something in me loves seeing Tom, a 30 something year old man, getting treated to the good life by sugar mama Swift, who’s still in her twenties.
I agree!
Yes, me too!
I’m lovin it! 🙂
This is so delicious, I hope their relationship lasts a few months.
But isn’t he actually mega rich posh aristocracy? His mom’s a blue blood and I bet his family’s cash and his own rivals that of Swift.
It’d be perfect if he were some poor unknown dude, but he can literally afford everything Swift has.
Nah, I doubt it. Even if his parents were that wealthy, they’re also still, you know, alive. He’s rich, but nowhere near Taylor’s level. Very few people are.
Doubt it. He’s not poor by any stretch of course, and certainly started out with a nice trust fund to jump start things (he bought a house in North London right after graduating from RADA), but his net worth is estimated at only 8 million. Tay Tay is is a completely different league with a net worth of about 300 million. Judging by his lifestyle choices (Jags, Belsize, Moët, Bora Bora, etc.) I think he definitely aspires to what she has though.
Damn, I underestimated Swift’s cash worth. Really, she’s THAT rich?? I never thought she was that famous, I pegged her for lower level cheesy pop fame.
Blue blood doesn’t necessarily equal wealth.
Miss J, I think that net worth figure is out of date, especially with the advance for Skull Island. As for the Jag, I was under the impression that was a freebee, or part of his contract with Jaguar.
So it’s perfect really…he can move straight from his moms to Taylor Swift’s house. She’ll even send a car for him apparently…
Come on, he’s a B-list actor at best, and his family might be posh but they aren’t super wealthy. He might as well be a Starbucks barista compared to her, money-wise.
Rebecca, I am sure that the figure on Celebrity Net Worth is either out of date or less than accurate– it’s an estimate after all. But I am also certain that he is still firmly a B-List actor, and I doubt very much the Kong added up to a huge leap in his net worth.
His net worth isn’t peanuts by any means, but it is vastly behind Tay Tay’s world of private jets, full-time staff, and seaside mansions.
“I underestimated Swift’s cash worth. Really, she’s THAT rich??”
She currently makes around $80 million a year. I’d chop 1/2 to 1/3 off those Forbes etc estimates though since they’re usually over the top. I’d guess she’s around the $200 million mark. Tom’s from a well-off family and has aristocratic roots and I think he’s the one who likes to get it out there how blue-blood his mother’s side is, to sell the image of the English gentleman. But he’s nowhere as wealthy as she is as the poster up there said.
@Motion
No Tom does NOT talk about his family or his “heritage” at all really. It’s usually brought up by some journo trying to bring up his privilege as click bait in UK media sites. They go crazy over this. BTW he’s not a “Blue Blood” there’s no royal ancestry like Kit Harrington or Rose Leslie. His great, great, grandfather or uncle was given Baronet honors and made a lot of $ for King & Crown.
@Miss Jup
I thought he bought the North London house after Thor?
Oh yes she’s going all Beyonce on us…if he hit it right I might take him on a flight…on my private plane…is she gonna drop him off at the mall? Do you think next date will be at the Red Lobster?😂
Haha! The Eddie Cibrian comment made me laugh out loud.
Love this thing !
Swifty as the ultimate feminist LOL…who knows how many men could deal with that…
(man with a career obviously)
Soo…we should talk about Hiddlestone as “the trophy boyfriend” I presume…
Right??
Haha somewhere Eddie Cibrian is crying himself to sleep…
Shelley, your comment gave me my first chuckle of the day so THANK YOU!
@Rachel: That is a very good point, and I think you’re on to something.
@Shellycon, your comment is hilarious, and made me choke on my coffee. You have hit the nail right on the head. I will have a word with the gossip gods, and see if this can be arranged. A devilish triangle between Swifty, Hiddles, and Slick Eddie, would make this summer season one to remember. Can you just imagine the apoplexies that would result from all camps involved. With the dreadful news in the world at the moment, this palate cleanser would be just the antidote needed for temporary relief from more serious/weighty matters, IMHO.
Shellycon, good one! 😉
@Shellycon – Brilliant! No wonder Eddie looks more haggard than usual lately. What could have been… LOL
Eddie needs to start running ‘his’ social media accounts and pose with cute cats and handwritten cards. Pronto.
Poor Hiddles. I guess he wants to be A-List badly, but is already considering if it’s worth it. And I really feel sorry for her. I know she has eveything most people wish for, but it will be really hard for her to find a man who is able to endure her lifestyle.
They’re like Bennifer 2.0. So boring already.
Taylor has made it pretty much impossible to date a decent man. a smart down to earth guy would never go close to her. she will only attract men who are interested in her fame and money and wont care if she sets up photo ops and writes songs about them.
hard to feel bad for her, she got mega rich selling out her ex boyfriends who pretty much all were gentlemen and never said a word.
we also dont know if Taylor is even looking for a man. im not saying she is a lesbian even if lots of people think that but Taylor does neither seem to be interested in a relationship only in the attention and money it gets her and most women are age arent into relationships anyway.
Were they all gentlemen, though? Me thinks some NDA’s and cash were involved, especially after she got mega famous. That absolutely nobody has talked about her, even after the ridiculous songs she writes about them, reads more like she shut that shit down rather than they gallantly took the high road every. single. time.
Or they know she’s batshit crazy and are so relieved to be away from her that they let her say whatever. For Pete’s sake one was a Kennedy and another was in arguably the biggest band in the world at the time One Direction. Those guys don’t need the money. They’re afraid IMO. Hiddleston looks miserable now that he is with her. Harris looks like he has a new lease on life now that she’s gone. He’s laughing st TMZ’s questioning of whether or not they’ll get back together. All this woman’s exes treat her like the plague. And…apparently the car was seen delivering Hiddleston back to his hotel not to her rental.
But there’s something, no? It’s not just chivalry. Maybe it isn’t money, but there’s a reason her exes don’t do a whole lot of talking. Actually I’m kinda surprised at how much Calvin Harris has been yapping about her, her other exes pretty much had a one sentence statement and that was it while she dragged out her woe-is-me act in public.
are NDAs in such matters even enforcable? especially when one of the parties writes songs about those matters? 🙂 i think NDAs work better in business matters.
lets say someone famous wants to talk shit aobut some other famous person, they wouldnt do it directly but through a publicist. so i dont think an NDA would be enforceble. even if you arent famous you could give papers interviews and they would write “an insider”. it would only keep you from publishing a book or doing interviews.
they are usually used to intimidate regular people into not giving out info on celebs but for someone as famous as her ex partners it should be possible.
and as i said, taylor writes songs about them, she would face immense backlash if she sued them for the same thing.
i guess its more to do with not wanting that attention and knowing of Taylors influence in the music industry, yes One Direction was big but their days were always limited. it also does not look good to talk about an ex in public if it isnt very positive.
most celebs never have kiss and tells so its not that surprising.
there is also obviously the fact that at least some of those relationships were fake. dont tell me she conicidentally falls in love with every (possibly in the closet) teenage heartthrobs thats big at the moment.
Wren, even if there were NDAs involved, that reflects badly on Taylor to me, not the men. She’s allowed to write blind-item songs stringing all of her exes out to dry (Kanye West’s Wife did have a point about her perpetual victim crap), but then makes them sign paperwork promising not to say anything? That’s some double-standard, manipulative bullish!t (hypothetically, I know we’re just hypothesizing here), and would only speak to her scheming, self-serving nature imo. She obviously has drive and a great team of people making her into the brand she is, and I respect that. However, I will always maintain that –personality wise — Taylor Swift is a nasty piece of work.
I don’t know that she could have looked into the future 5 or 6 years ago and known this would be her life. I imagine she thought it would give her success, but I doubt few people who make it this big can predict the challenges and barriers.
I would feel bad for her if she wasn’t stage 5 clinger to every guy she’s with. You cannot tell me that EVERY guy she dated did her wrong. Sometimes you have to look in the mirror and wonder if the problem is you not them.
And considering that I know a couple of people she dated pre-fame the stage 5 clinger thing is who she is
Calvin Harris doesn’t seem to think that. I don’t know, I just think it’s hard for her to find a decent man who would fit into her lifestyle. But maybe she doesn’t want that for her life.
Some people enjoy the drama. Decent guys are “boring” because where’s the fun in a partnership of equals where there’s no games, no showboating and nothing juicy to pour over with your friends?
I’d say “poor Taylor”, but I’m fairly certain she’s getting exactly what she wants. If she wanted a “decent, down to earth” guy she would go about the whole relationship thing much differently.
She’s everything some wish for? I wouldn’t want her even as a friend.
He already looks knackered and it’s only like day three…
The lifestyle, the cats, the endless posing, all those squad bints hanging around all the time day and night…and then there is the songs dear god the songs about every relationship issue she might encounter on the arduous Tiddles journey, imagine when he leaves the toilet seat up, towels on the floor, smelly socks and all these other things most of us have to endure but cannot write revenge songs about…I think I am exhausted too!
Am I the only one who feels he’s looked tired and overworked all year? He should have taken a real vacation instead of doing this bullshit with Swift.
Don’t forget the swan cookies!
She must be knitting him a sweater as we speak or better yet teaching him to knit.
Run Tommy boy -run!
His legs aren’t that skinny. He has a very lean build. Chris Evans is the one that is forever skipping leg day. As for the socks they’re awful. He needs to invest in some different type of socks. I don’t think he and Taylor will last long he does look annoyed by the attention but he should’ve known this would happen. He will cut and run pretty soon. He seems like the type that doesn’t like too much attention or only wants when talking about his work. God help him though when he dumps her because it won’t be good for him. When things ended with Jake even though she wrote an entire album about him it didn’t affect him that badly because he is on the Alist.
@Lana 567
“He seems like the type that doesn’t like too much attention or only wants when talking about his work. God help him though when he dumps her because it won’t be good for him. When things ended with Jake even though she wrote an entire album about him it didn’t affect him that badly because he is on the Alist. ‘
Maybe he IS the type?
Jake was more established in US than TH is now I guess? Jake keeps delivering good performance in good movies after beig attached to TS. No drama. I like Jake even more now. (so this is a second time TS “dates” my fav actor.)
In TH’s case, I have no idea how this will go because I judged him wrong. I’m curious though. wait and see and have a lot of popcorn ready;)
“I guess he wants to be A-List badly, but is already considering if it’s worth it. ”
I’m guessing he thinks everything is worth it. As for Taylor, she seems really immature, as Jake Gyllenhaal hinted. There were those leaks of him “feeling the age difference.” She just seems like the incessant type that Woody Allen loves to hate on in his films (see Rachel McAdams in Midnight in Paris), but a teen version (yes I know she’s 26). But maybe TH and TS’s mutual nerdiness is the common factor.
Seriously though, he is so good looking. 😍
He reminds me of Leslie Howard, who played Ashley Wilkes in GWTW. Swoon. So English.
GNAT you may have ruined Hiddles for me forever with that very apt analogy. I dislike the Ashley Wilkes character intensely.
OMG, whenever I watch that film I yell at the screen “how unrealistic is this – who in their right mind would pine over Ashley with Rhett Butler chasing after them, you’d have to be blind!”
I adored Leslie Howard, very underrated actor. Go beyond that awful GWTW if you want to see more. No, not in the same league. Sorry Tom.
@Size and A.Key
Oh, the character was a total wimp, I agree, but I thought Leslie Howard was very handsome on his own. In the book, Scarlett was at war with her true nature. She wanted to be refined and ladylike (like her mother) but she was more brash and passionate (like her father). Her love for Ashley wasn’t real – she loved him because he seemed so mysterious and unattainable to her, plus looked awesome in riding pants. When she realized that he was basically a spineless weeny and that she and Rhett were made for each other, it was too late.
Leslie Howard was so miscast, he was in his 40s when Ashley was supposed to be in his 20s so you never got what Scarlett saw in him but he was her childhood crush and what she tought men were supposed to be like and she was too immature and stubborn to not realise he was not right for her.
Such a great and apt comparison. I never fancied either one! Hiddleston seems nice tho.
GWTW has been my favorite book since I got it for Christmas at age 13 and read it in two days. Love the movie as well. Though I thought Leslie Howard captured the emotion of Ashley in the movie, I did always think he was much too old to play the character.
Check out Leslie Howard in The Scarlet Pimpernel, where he gets to have his cake and eat it too, playing the fop one minute and elusive hero the next. He also played Henry Higgins in Pygmalion in its first film incarnation, pre-My Fair Lady – Rex Harrison.
No you’re off on your classic British (type) leading man actors.
Stephen Spielberg nailed it when he cast Tom in War Horse saying he thought he was the “reincarnate of Errol Flynn”. And Benny-Batch fully agreed too.
I find him much more attractive in motion, he can look a little goofy in still photos. And I adore his voice.
I never saw the “good looking” thing but he has lovely blue eyes.
I thought he looked annoyed at first, but as others have said, he didn’t have to use her car. He’s probably enjoying this. You only have to google Taylor Swift for a minute to know she’s papped everywhere, all of the time. If he’s so smart as his fans like to say, he knew exactly what would happen.
If he’s staying on Cornelia Street, and is working out/getting a smoothie in Tribeca, it actually would have been quicker to walk, and/or take the subway one stop. This is about getting photographed.
Good to hear from someone who knows the neighborhood. 🙂
Call it for what it is, Fanty!!!
You must know that area pretty well too, Miss J. Cornelia is off Bleeker, between 6th and 7th. Do you know John’s Pizza? It’s right there. It’s a gorgeous bit of the west village. And tiny streets, so it must take real dedication to get an SUV down there.
I know that neighborhood well– when I go to NYC, I stay at the Jane right near the high line, about a five minute walk away. Cornelia st to TriBeCa is a ten minute walk past beautiful buildings on a perfect day. Driving that is just silly. I wonder whose idea it was to use the chauffeur, his or hers? And who tipped off the papa as to where he was working out?
You are correct. I love the West Village and Johns of course.
Fact is celebs can be in NYC in relative obscurity. Locals tend to not bother anyone and there’s no paps hanging around unless there is an event happening or they get called. But the paps don’t chill outside restaurants and such like they do in LA. And definitely not in the narrow streets of Tribeca This was a pap stroll.
T Fanty, there was some suggestion he was staying in a hotel, not at her rental?
T.Fanty — so true!! You are the Unmasker! I was like….what? Car? There? Totally a pap moment.
Coulda sworn the pics of him entering the gym (Reebok?) were off Broadway. Right around the corner from Dean and Deluca…
But yeah, Legs be thirsty 😉
@Elaine …Yes, looks like Broadway & Broome, so SoHo actually. I live just a couple blocks from there. Still no need to take a car from Cornelia Street. Very quick walk. Not sure which gym it would be though. There’s a NY Sports Club but I figured a celeb would go with something more posh. Like an Equinox, maybe, but that’s Crosby & Prince.
I can’t believe that they might actually be dragging out the “just came from the gym” schlock again. I STILL giggle to myself when I think about her “just been at the gym” pap walks where she would come out of the gym in full makeup, wearing some ridiculously overdressed for Manhattan at mid afternoon look and 5-inch stilettos, clutching a smoothie. Now she’s got HIDDLES doing that exact same walk, minus the clothes. I liked him better when he would just go for a run, like a normal person. This whole thing just seems so…MANAGED.
Thanks for the info. It’s kind of hilarious how unimpressed the people around him are. I would be so embarassed, but in celeb-land, I guess that kind of treatment makes them feel important?
Everything is pretty tacky once you put on your glasses and look more closely. The gaudy overpriced over decorated apartment devoid of personality, the swan pastries covered in whipped cream to hide the fact that they don’t actually lookalike swans, the oh so athletic fierce runner Hiddles using a chauffeur to go to the gym which is only ten minutes walk. And paps on speed dial!
Don’t you just love it when ‘gym rats’ have to picked up at the door? I have a few co-workers like this. Spend hours at the gym, wear Fitbits to track steps, etc., but must have a close parking space or have their ride pull up to the curb as they exit work.
I too was surprised at how unimpressed the people walking passed were. I guess New Yorkers are used to rich celebrities being pap’ed. Or they don’t know who he is. Either way I would have been staring at the pap chase like it was a train wreck.
He seems pretty annoyed for a guy in a mega franchise and dating the most pap friendly celebrity. Careful what you ask for I guess. But he does look a bit ridiculous next to Taylor “I’m still 15” Swift. Especially since he is much older and looks it. It’s like father-daughter territory based on the imagine they put out to the press and their fanbases.
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
It’s like a fresh new joy each day!
And we get to have cake!
And we get ‘mildly annoyed flaring nostrils’ God – he’s beautiful when he’s angry.
Oh Sixer, I am so sad for him……I see a Ben Affleck/JLo trajectory in his future!
McAvoy, please don’t go the same way…..
(Ehm…am I the only one getting Sixteen Candles vibes here?)
http://austinstudentfilm.com/films/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Sixteen-Candles-Farmer-Ted-Moments-farmer-ted-2481067-1600-900.jpg
Now I can’t unsee this. Just like I cannot unsee a Lee H. Oswald resemblance with Calvin, which I noticed early on.
Oh, I get the vibe beyond that with Farmer Ted. LOL – great comparison!
….right??
Underwear pictures! Today’s fresh joy is underwear pictures
Sunday brunch is being served. Later, we’ll have some New York pizza.
Two weeks until Australia. Less than one until Brexit vote.
Alert! JArthy temptation at 12 o’clock! Must. Not. Be. Tempted.
I have LOADS of food – ostensibly for Father’s Day later on but can share. Sad to say that the choux is profiteroles, not swans. Sorry about that.
I jumped over that too. The least one could do while trolling is get the year right.
I actually prefer my choux as profiteroles so I don’t feel guilty about killing swans. swan killer, I am not!
And Happy Father’s Day to Mr. Sixer and Mr. Sixer Senior, whom I trust is making good recovery from his surgery.
wondered why JArthy was being wheeled out at this very, very late stage thought it was me very out of the whole loopy thing anyway hope ditto @ Lilac and hope Mr Sixer Senior is recovering well.
Volunteering specialty hand made truffles for soiree….
Profiteroles means never having to say you’re sorry.
Thankee! Good news is that the surgery appears to have worked. Bad news is that Mr Sixer Senior is proving to be an even more recalcitrant patient than feared. Hence banquet levels of food (to shut him up for a mealtime at least).
@ Sixer
Pleased all went well…..enjoy the banquet! 🙂
Oooh!! Hand made truffles!
Glad the surgery went well. Not surprised about the recovery behavior.
Glad Mr. Sixer is doing well enough to be annoying. Just stuff more food in his mouth and count to ten. 🍕
Also would help if JArthy even had a sister. 😂
Is he allowed to be annoyed when he looks like this pap walk was sponsored by Nike?
Hahaha
I think he is just acting because we all know how much he is loving all of this circus.
He spent a long time picking out that t-shirt…..
Totally, Miss Jupitero!
IKR? He needs to learn really quickly!
I can see Taylor’s PR people schooling him. ‘We don’t get cross with the Paps dear…..because we called them…..you must give them something’…..
@ T. Fanty:
Missed the logo from a movie production company on his shirt?
I noticed that. The Nike logo seemed oddly placed.
Eve, hurrah, where you been? Haven’t seen you for yonks. Hope you and yours are doing well. You are right, LEGS t-shirt would have been selected with great care. He is nothing if not a true shiller/company man, to the bitter end. I suspect that this huge bump in his profile has hit him with the force of a thousand tornadoes, I am sure his head is spinning.
@ Antipodean:
The same, my dear. Depression and severe anxiety controlling almost every single aspect of my life. Have I mentioned that it takes so much effort for me to leave the house I’m apparently unable to get out two days in a row? That’s right. Even when I HAVE to see a long list of doctors. I keep scheduling appointments and cancelling them at the last minute.
Today I managed to take more anxiolytics and have been calm for the most part of the day. You could consider it even a relatively “good mood”…unless, of course, a certain character from Game of Thrones doesn’t die tonight. Seriously, if Ramsey Bolton lives to be in the next season I’ll RIOT!
@Eve, thanks for letting me know how you are doing, I do appreciate it. I hope you don’t think I am creepy, I am really not, it’s just I always like to see your moniker, and in spite of what I know you go through on a daily basis, I always love to see your comments, and you usually make me laugh. The very bestest medicine!
I agree that Ramsey needs to be dispatched with HASTE, and I will also be up in arms if he is not topped by Jon the pillow weeper. Maybe even the mother of dragons will have a hand in his demise. That would be perfection. We will know by tomorrow, I expect the internet will go WILD. As an aside, have you ever seen the programme Vicious on PBS? Iwan Rheon plays a very funny, wimpy character that is simply miles away from Ramsey. It is quite strange to see him in a comedy, but he is very good in it. I think you would enjoy it, and for a bonus it also has Derek Jacobi, and Sir Ian McKellen, and the luminous Frances de la Tour.
Isn’t it terrible news about Anton Yelchin, he was such a special actor, and far too young. When will it stop?
Take care of yourself our Eve, and come back soon.
@ Antipodean:
Don’t worry. I opened myself to everybody here when I mentioned my suicide attempts. It’s just that I was tired of lying by omission every time I showed up after a long time away from CB.
You’re right, I’ve wondered why you’re always so worried about me. But, as I said above, *I* decided to tell what was going on with me. Whatever happens, it’s on me.
Thank you for your attention. Sometimes I feel like I’m the loneliest person in the world.
P.S.: Just read about Yelchin downthread. Like one of my friends said: ” 2016 has began really angry”.
P.P.S.: I live in Brazil. We don’t have PBS here but the show could be aired by another channel. I’ll keep an eye on it. As Ramsey I find his acting really flat, not much range. Hopefully “Vicious” will prove me wrong.
@antipodean, his character on Vicious is so far, far away from Ramsay Bolton.
But Eve is right! Ramsay must go and he must go TONIGHT! And he probably won’t.
*Sorry: “2016 has begun (…)”.
Not to thread jack.. but Vicious is available on Amazon as well. It’s a great show and love Ash. The show is very funny – especially the Christmas episode where Ash cooks for everyone.
Eve – I too have anxiety and have days where I can’t leave the house. Not the the level it absorbs you but please know, you are never alone 🙂
@ Cricket:
Thank you, dear. I know it’s not the same for everybody. All I know is that none of them is a pleasant experience.
the interior design of that apartment is so horrible. she has no taste really. it looks like her old money granny died and she got her apartment
I think (hope) that’s how Taylor got the apartment, not her own style. It’s shocking, that something so expensive could be so ugly….
Do you see her Hollywood home in the Vogue video? You can see that it is expensive with expensive furnitures but it is tasteless
I Kinda liked her home in the Vogue video. It was a bit stuffed, but it did feel very warm, unlike other celeb homes which are usually too modern and too cold.
Haven’t seen the H’wood home, but her NY apt (not the rental, though it’s not much better) was far different than I imagined when I saw it in her squad photos.
the weird thing is that the architecture looks modern but the interior is so off…. nothing seems to fit really
One can be intellectually brilliant and dumber than a rock emotionally.
Like I’ve said before, be careful what you wish for. He deserves this for being so impetuous but I am starting to feel sorry for him.
Yeah he didn’t walk in completely blind but I think it’s been a bigger shock than expected. He looks genuinely tense in these pictures, the jaw clenching is pretty obvious from some angles.
Can’t speak for him, but I know more than one person who is practically an intellectual genius and absolutely dumber than a rock in relationships. It’s maddening because it’s like “how could you not have foreseen ANY of the myriad problems you’re currently whining about?!” One dated a known druggie then wondered why he was always off using, legitimately confused.
Oh he is loving the hell out of this. The most attention he has ever gotten.
This may seem weird, but I cannot wrap my mind around Taylor having sex. It really doesn’t seem like something she would do or be into. Some people you can look at and picture the sex being hot sweaty fun, or even just basic, but not in this case.
Yep, I find them both to appear asexual so this might suit their arrangement.
Me neither. She tries to be edgy and sexy and it has such a derp factor to it if you look at it from another perspective. She is also into these staged “cutesy” pictures that just make me SMH. I’m still trying to get out of my mind the swam blow up floating device holding her and Calvin in that pool awhile back. What is she going to photo-op next with Tom? Everything is too contrived, and frankly nauseating as h***. I will not be surprised if Tom loses Bond over this (if he is actually that seriously considered).
Their next planned photo-op will be Taylor rowing them in a little boat on an infinity pool in the Hamptons, while Tom lets his pale hand trail in the water and recites Elizabethan verse to little ducklings who have been private jetted-in (her jet). After the invited paparazzi have taken enough totally candid and un-posed photos, Twittles will jet back to Rhode Island. Their romantic evening will end with Hiddles reading sonnets to her kitty cats. 😻
@EscapedConvent That is bloody brilliant. Once the kittens have fallen asleep Tom and Tay-Tay will go out on the terrace and will dance under a perfect full moon and millions of stars sending stellar light upon their magnificent budding love-affair. Tay-Tay will whisper in his ear, “You are my only one”. Tom won’t be able to respond, because Tay-Tay will shove one of her homemade cookies into his mouth and insist that she is the boss.
Jane,
Hahahaha!
I am anxiously awaiting her 4th of July photos and how he will be incorporated.
In all seriousness, is it possible he never truly knew her image is at least 10-years younger than her actual age?
Christin, no. It’s a five minute Google search.
@kai – I agree, but he claimed to be relatively unaware of anything other than “shake it off” when asked after the Met. It’s hard to believe he hasn’t been aware of anything to do with her love life and songwriting history.
I did Google her name and “is” (which normally brings up interesting search terms), but hers were unsurprisingly sweet. He’d have to dig more specifically.
He’s claimed a lot of things, but I think he does his research.
Exactly…now if you look at Jason Momoa for example – hot sweaty fun 😉 But Tiddles…meh, not so much..
OMG that man is savagely sexy.
It’s probably like two blond praying mantises getting tangled up in one another.
Hahahaha!!! You win the internet today T.Fanty darling.
Holy f*ck!!!
That’s EXACTLY what I was going to post. Every single word.
P.S.: Based on their hilarious dance moves in that Gala whatever, I do NOT want to see any “accidentally” leaked sex video.
Lol, I want a video. That makes me sick, I know.
Ha! T Fanty, I do wish we could post photos on here. One of my colleagues held a vote for a class pet. The Year 4 class chose praying mantises. She got two, in a beautiful enclosure. I used to take my class in to visit from time to time, and actually have a few photos of the two stick insects ummm,, entangled. As my pupils were only in Year 1, and it wasn’t a Child Protection lesson, the best I could do, when questioned about their antics, was say that it appeared the enclosure was getting too small for the gangly insects… I wish they were still there – we could name them Taylor and Tom, because they definitely are very similar.
@Annakist Praying mantis dancing (aka mating) ritual… (at the Met Gala, perhaps?)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2777671/Trap-dancing-Praying-mantis-looks-like-s-gyrating-attract-mate-ll-later-bite-head-off.html
Well, seeing how the female rips the head off the male once she is done with him…
There’s an interview with Taylor where she says she knows she’s not overtly sexy and that’s okay with her. I liked that. I tend to think she’s probably a freak. When you’re so overtly controlled all the time, you have to let loose somewhere… (But then I also think Gwyneth Paltrow is probably a freak. Maybe I’m just sick in the head.)
Yes, right at the time when she released her bustier and mini-clad Katy Perry Hate Anthem and was on tour wearing over the knee stockings and crop tops. Riiiight.
Good point, she keeps trying… I’m so used to popstars not wearing any pants, I don’t even notice it anymore.
Yes I think she’s a freak too. I had a friend that seemed very innocent but she told me about all the freaky stuff she liked to do. Sometimes the ones that look the straightest are the freaky ones in the bed.
I don’t know…Both the sources from Calvin Harris and harry styles said she wasn’t very sexual.
See I can picture Goop being a take charge freak giving sloppy bj’s and gargling with unicorn tears.
Same. The thing about her isn’t just that she isn’t overtly sexual like many young female pop stars. It’s that she is totally lacking in SENSUALITY. Do you know what I mean? I think it’s fine, hell even a bit refreshing that she doesn’t show tons of skin most of the time. But that isn’t the reason I have trouble picturing her as a sexual person. She just gives off this sterile, asexual vibe. So while I find this whole Tiddles thing amusing the idea of Tiddlesbanging is both perplexing and kinda..gross to me. lol. It seems so wrong lolol
I just don’t see Tom getting out of this all it was sold to him he’d get.
Small bulge – maybe the pap was attractive.
I doubt “Tiddlesbanging” is a thing – cocoa and goodnight at the guest bedroom door, maybe.
Slumber party is what I envision.
Welcome to the A-list of the perpetual High school set, TH.
Hiddles is way too smart to not know exactly what he was getting himself into. He pursued this. This Is exactly what he really wants. Limelight and lots of it. Order lots of jugs, Lilacflowers– this boy is thirsty as hell.
True, but I still think he’ll only now be realising the extent to which Taylor is in the directing seat on this little production.
Even his solo jaunts to the gym will be micro-managed by her people. His PR life is now hers.
Pleaseeee he is not a teen .He is 35 years old .He plays with his fans and the medias about his private life since a moment
@ Dippit:
Your second paragraph: perfect observation.
I also believe this, I like Hiddles and think he is a talented actor but he is thirsty af. From his try hard interviews, playing his rabid fan base to his dancing bear thing, he has always given me that “i want fame” impression
or maybe this is his personal Brexit vote strategy….just in case
gotta get the citizenship!
I really can’t imagine any Tiddlesbanging (lol) going on, just because they both seem so sexless
Oh 100% this. They separately and jointly have the charisma and sex appeal of a sodden cardboard box.
Urgh, I can’t with this. Someone make it stop! 😬
*** Legendary***
I simply cannot imagine being so rich that I’d think nothing of blowing $40k/month on a temporary apartment. Lordy.
MTE. Seems like such a waste. At least buying properties is an investment and the lavish rennovations create jobs, but renting a massive home with bedrooms you never even use, I don’t get.
Thats like 5 or 6 month’s salary fr a normal person lol
For a teacher that is 1 year’s salary after taxes, union dues, insurance and TRS taken out. I should know, I’ve been dealing with that for years.
Jane, instead of a year’s wortth of housing, clothing, food for the kids, etc, one month with an indoor pool!
But seriously, it’s her money to spend how she chooses, and I’m sure she gives to charity as well, but even as a mere plebe I feel guilty about my daily Starbucks budget, like I could be more frugal and maybe do more with what I have.
I think, or hope, that even if I had that much money, I wouldn’t just throw it away like that. So wasteful.
Wasteful is taking a private jet round trip from NYC to Rhode Island. The Amtrak Acela stops in Westerly.
Very true. My husband rides the Acela because business pays for it, but I ride the local 😡
I wouldn’t do it, either. Oh, I might splurge on a few things, but not numerous properties to maintain and private planes for short hops.
I’ve noticed how some forever A-listers by name start selling off properties when they get in their 40s and 50s.
@GNAT, the Amtrak local still has a bar car.
@lilacflowers
Hmmm, not as bad a I thought!
To be fair to her, she requires a certain amount of security as far as the building goes, and has to house several live-in bodyguards and probably an assistant or two.
You are nice and that’s a good point.
Also, he had had bigger bulges……
Hahahahah!
You made your bed, mate…
Now let’s wait until he starts complaining about his privacy being “invaded”.
No, don’t get to complain this time. No man can have a photo op with Taylor Swift and think he would be left alone by media circus. Suck it up. Don’t acknowledge or deny, then maybe this can go away as quietly as possible.
It might be like tapping a naked Ken and a Barbie together…on the other hand, I have known people like this-people who you look at and think “Must be a dead bore in bed” and then SURPRISE!!! Out come the ball gags and peanut butter M&M’s. So we will never know. Til the sex tape come out.
Peanut butter M & Ms are an orgasmic experience all on their own.
“peanut butter M&Ms” – LOL
Ah, the paps are probably screaming vulgar things to him about ‘how is sex with Taylor’ ‘ did she cheat on Calvin with you?’ ‘how does it feel to be kept man?’ ‘Are you packing today or are you just happy to see us?’. You know.
The one on tmz they just ask him how he is and if he and Taylor are official.
One of the recent articles (DM, I think?) quotes a paparazzi who said that they have an “unspoken agreement” with Taylor and her bodyguards- they behave (eg not scream vulgar things) and she gives them good pictures. They work together.
A few celebrities work that way. I’ll give you what you want but there are conditions type agreement.
Oh dear god! Please say it isn’t so…….! This is what he’s reduced himself to? Actors should be careful what they wish for…….
My thoughts are part of the weirdness of this, is their fan demographics are so dramatically different.
To me hers seems to be the selfies rule, everything is so perfect types and teenage mean girl wannabes. His is more cerebral, cool to be geek chic and for the most part older independent women. Where as Calvin fit more into her demo, Tom clashes with it.
I now know way to much about Taylor than I ever cared to and that is odd. Why I do have to know all about it , when I’m not a fan of hers? ButI guess the rub is, if you’re going to be a fan of someone, the person they’re with becomes a sort of extension of them.
For instance, I have to say I found myself wondering where or what she was doing when he was getting pap’d at the gym.( ugh!) I think a lot of fans( on both sides) and some media are having this problem. Bizarro.
That the beach pics were strong enough that he can be papped and talked about without her? He may have done this for a boost.
It’s weird, because I felt Tom made an effort to shake off his tumblr teenybopper fangirls and now he’s introduing himself to a whole new generation of them?!
Well, I guess he’ll just have to “shake it off”, all over again.
I see what you did there 😉 The jokes just write themselves with these two, don’t they?
I doubt they will be as intense as his core fans.
I don’t really think he has appeal in the teen demographic anymore .Most of the comments from her fans are that he looks or is old. It doesn’t help that he isn’t the youngest looking 35 year old. For them he is like their dads.
They liked Calvin for her much more, he also has much younger fans in general. Hiddlestons fan base seems to be made up of older women as @Meee4 says.
“His is more cerebral, cool to be geek chic and for the most part older independent women”
which is why this thing is so terrible for him. his target audience, male an female, is at the Guardian, which is mocking him, at the Daily Best, which is mocking him etc etc. the people his image should appeal to make fun of him now and call him out on his thirst. thats a little problem if you are trying to play the educated guy, your fans will see faster through this than 10 year old screaming girls.
Taylor just looks like Taylor always has but Tom lost a lot of respect for being so thirsty.
I wonder what effect this will have on the Girl Squad. Taylor seems the type of girl who is all into her girlfriends when she’s not with a guy, but ghosts them as soon as she’s hooked up. Plus, Tom is 100% prime beef and a number of her thirsty squad members would love to get their hooks in them. So she’s got to keep them away.
I think they have been together a lot longer than a couple of weeks. Tom and Taylor are practically living together and taking vacations together. Using her driver also seems really personal. Maybe Tom will be into it but it seems like Taylor is once again moving really quickly, even for celebrity standards.
That would imply Taylor has cheated and whatever happens i am sure no one wants that
They met at Anna Wintour’s house the night before the Met Gala. He returned to London the day after the Met Gala and was seen/attended events/did interviews in London consistently on a near daily basis until he returned to the US, flying into Los Angeles and then Philadelphia for the weekend of the Wizard World Convention. After which, he returned to London. She wasn’t in London, nor was she in Los Angeles or Philadelphia when he was there. Just the time line.
As usual Lilac, you are a fountain of knowledge and the voice of reason!
@Secret Squirrel, not only was he visibly in London but he was visibly in London TOUCHING that Camilla. That’s where the real scandal lies.
Secret Squirrel did you see my grovelling apology to you on an earlier thread? I I wasn’t being sarcastic at you when I said TNM needed concentration. I was mortified that you had taken it that way.
@ Lilac. I guess he moved up from future queen to actual queen of pop! Camilla seemed to love Tom’s attention so went up in my estimation!
@ Spidey. No grovelling was necessary and no offence was taken! These threads are good for people to consider other viewpoints and opinions (and of course share funny thoughts and stories!).
The time difference often means I don’t get to partake in long exchanges so I put my opinions in quickly then seemingly disappear!
Secret Squirrel, I haven’t seen you much around here (though I also come here more unfrequently,,) How have you been doing?
Thank you Secret squirrel, I feel better now. Hope you are doing well.
@ Solanacaea. I see your comments from time to time and remember the great fun we all used to have on these threads. Nice to see so many still hanging around and of course new faces too. The time difference is the main reason you don’t see me much these days. I can’t sit up half the night having a great time online with all of you then front up to work the next day alert and ready to conquer all in my path!
@ Spidey, it was never a problem!
What Lilacflowers said – he was spotted in NY a week ago, he was in London before that so they’ve been seeing each other a week.
This is the longest first date ever.
I am with you on this, Louise. I think the MET gala was just a more official arena to create the narrative where they met… Because this level of thirst is unreal and embarrassing, even for Tom Hiddleston. IT is very possible they met weeks or months prior the MET gala…
Sure, when he was filming in the swamps of Vietnam.
@Lilacflowers: Everything is possible when one finds true love, 🙂
So, they found true love months before they actually met?
@lilacflowers: do you really know his schedule 24/7 and his connections?!
As of right now, we all believe they met at MET gala and they have been on Taylor Swift “Warp speed dating” style. But we never know…
@Miss M, his schedule over the last six months has been fairly well documented, almost on a daily basis.
Miss M, normally I’d agree that the public at large never knows every move a celeb makes (nor should they) but Tom’s schedule in recent months may be the exception that proves the rule.
Since mid-March, he’s been on the promotional tour to end all tours for three separate projects that released more or less at the same time – he spent weeks criss-crossing the US then went home to the UK and had more appearances, which means his whereabouts are easily known- no crystal ball required. Before that, he was filming in Vietnam, Australia and Hawaii. So yeah, it’s possible he and Taylor may have met earlier if they happened to be in the same city at the same time, but that would be unlikely imo.
No way of knowing for sure. A public timeline doesn’t account for his private time, so they could have met or been talking before the gala.
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those beach photos showed a couple that has intimacy, not a couple on a first date…
Those beach photos showed a semi-professional photo op-stager with a professional, trained&experienced actor who fakes things for a living…. Not saying you couldn’t be right, but let’s not put too much into “body language”.
Lilacflowers/Dara/Kai, agreeing with most of what you’ve said. I still think they met at AW dinner 2 days (?) before the Met Gala. No doubt they’ve been in contact and sexting up until last week.
However I don’t think you can know someone’s schedule even if they have a high profile. I remember on the US promo there were days at a time where TH didn’t have any appearances, eg the days before the WHCA dinner and Met Gala, and he could’ve been anywhere.
Miss M, he was spotted in NY the Friday before in the West Village by 2 different people apparently 2 blocks from TS appt. From the description I’m guessing that was the 1st date,
There’s a video of Taylor getting onto her car after the pre-Met Gala dinner at Anna Wintor’s house that Tom and Idris were also seen at, at she says “nice to meet you” to them. That was definitely the first time they met. This is a flash in the pan.
He has tiny little chicken legs.
Yes! He shouldn’t skip leg day and I thought he had a better body, actually.
Maybe I’m too spoiled because as a rabid football (soccer) fan I’m used to see nice well-formed legs, most especially now with the CA and the Euro going on…
hahaha +1
Football – you were right first time. There is no such thing as soccer. 🙂
In fairness to him, he’s probably in slim down mode to play Loki in a few weeks.
He doesn’t have tine anything. He’s 6’2″ and is a runner. He also works out to tone his arms/abs and overall strength. He doesn’t workout for body building purposes cause that’s not his body type which is lean with only moderate build in the upper body. His legs look skinny because of the shorts and the socks here, but his legs would never look too built up even if he tried because his muscles are long and sinuous. Actually his thighs are pretty big and solid, but it’s hard to tell cause his legs are so long, hence why some of us here call him Legs.
I like his legs. Yes they’re on the slender side, but his entire body is quite well proportioned – not tiny, little chicken legs at all. Right now he’s the most built he’s ever been since first auditioning for the role of Thor back in 2009 and then had to lose 20 lbs to play Loki.
I can’t imagine following someone down a street like a puppy, asking them idiot questions. I would feel stupid AF. Dude, aren’t you embarrassed?!
I agree. I try not to judge anybody working for a living, but I could never be a professional pest.
But most of it is staged these days, isn’t it? It’s very much a cooperation. I feel like paparazzi don’t deserve the bad rep they get… This is just a photoshoot. Tom’s the one who should feel stupid AF.
Well, that’s a good point. I shouldn’t paint everyone with the same brush. I’m talking about the ones who yell mean things to get a picture of someone crying, etc.
I think they’re worse in LA maybe and it probably depends on the celebrity. Taylor looks like she’s on a runway in almost every “candid” picture. She’s clearly on good terms with the paps.
I was just reading an article where a pap was revealing secrets of the trade and says most of the celeb pics we see are very much staged. Even the non Kardashian ones. I think the ones where people are truly caught by accident are very very pricey
Some are worse than others. Some do say vulgar things to celebrities, camp out at their children’s school, prevent them from driving, swarm their car while it’s stopped at a red light, and/or chase them in their car which can cause a major accident. In the hay day of Paris Hilton, the paps were weaving in and out of traffic.
Yes and no, CornyBlue. They still will wait outside of events and certain airports without needing a tip because those are guaranteed quick money shots. Plus there’s also those who are not yet established, and they don’t get tips normally but instead try to find celebs (mainly a thing in LA but also happens in London and other major cities).
Paps don’t want to admit they follow people because it’s bad for their image, so most will say it’s all staged when talking to the media.
When Giselle moved to Boston, the Boston Herald assigned photographers to camp outside Brady’s house. The paper (and other papers everywhere) also try to pay hotel and restaurant workers to tell them who is staying or who has reservations and they either send staff photographers or call paps. Boston sees lots of celebrities because of movies being made here, major hospitals (Adele’s throat doctor is here), and universities and four competitive sports teams. Friends in the hospitality industry tell me that they get bribe offers from paps all the time but their employers are very, very strict about confidentiality and they’ll lose their jobs.
I’m sure LA is worse. We do have a few paps but the autograph guys are THE WORST. Less money in it and they work in teams so lots of competition. They hang out near Central Park and bounce back & forth between Trump Tower, Mandarin Oriental, The Ritz. And they are vicious…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6cxRttFf6M
Steven Tyler getting harassed by autograph hounds & paps in NYC. I’ve met him at this very spot on a separate occasion, and one other time in the E. Village and he is the sweetest, most generous guy who is more than happy to sign autographs and take pictures if people are respectful. So the fact that the video ends with him threatening a guy shows you how bad the situation was. In fact, I think he’s too nice because the video also ends with him saying, “I’ll give you what you want” when, after that craziness, he doesn’t owe them a thing. That is his bodyguard (ex-Boston PD) who gets put in a chokehold.
The other guys from Aerosmith (except Joe) are all (too) good about signing and will sign 20 or 30 LP records each time (!!!) they enter/exit the hotel. Yet, these autograph hounds will outright tell the other band members that the LPs are worthless without Steven & Joe’s signatures. Obnoxious a-holes.
I’ve encountered both Tyler and Brad Hamilton a number of times here and Boston, and yes, they are always extremely nice and friendly to people. Joe Perry, not so much.
Well he should have known before going so public with the relationship that he will never be merely more than Taylor Swift’s boy toy. I am also so damn angry at people making him up to be this god who has lowered himself to Taylor’s level. Like how did you not know this dude was a famewh*re
Also everyone who dragged Lizzie Olsen for calling paps or whatever.. hope yall feel bad now
You’re so right, it’s hilarious the man has waited for this moment, he can now fully embrace his inner famewhore. All his fans who accused Mrs Olsen, well now we all know who is the thirsty one. This pap walk could have been easily avoid if he wanted to, he loves this, and as a gossiper I enjoyed shameless famewhoring.
@ T. Fanty:
Wonder if this will last longer than “Cavill–Cuoco” fiasco.
Man alive, he’s a famewhore level 9!!! And here we were thinking he had regrouped but boyfriend misses camera lenses more than Johnny Deep loves scarves (who, or his PR team at least, might be quite content the media attention has shifted, albeit briefly, from his mess).
I don’t think this relationship is going to last a long time. I doubt it will make it to the 6 month mark or the 1 year mark.
He doesn’t seem to be the ‘kept man’ type, yet she appears to be a bit of a control freak.
Now, as for him being the next Bond.
He is going to have to start working out hard core, get some colour on his pasty skin as well. My goodness, in these shots he looks like a high school kid.
I don’t think he needs to bulk up for Bond. If he was still in the running for that, I think he’s probably been taken off the short list – maybe because of the shameless famewhore antics of TayTo?
Maybe he really enjoys letting her call the shots…for now anyway.
If she flies him to Australia in one of her private jets, I guess we’ll have a clearer picture. Yuck. I just threw up in my mouth thinking about that.
I need coffeecake and bacon to get the foul taste out of my mouth.
TayTo!!!! I 💕It!
Add in Pa for paps the ever present +1 in Tays love life and it’s PaTayTo
Em, I don’t think it will hit the 3 mth mark, he’s about to disappear to Oz for however long for the Thor 3 shoot.
Seriously if he starts screeming “privacy!”next week that will be really funny. He is quickly becoming one of those actors who has a very strong presence. Everytime Tom the actor comes on screen I can’t get lost in the performance and believe in the character because Tom the person is just too much to get over
nope, he fully understand what the price for dating someone like tay2. and he still wanted it. I mean, TS romance stories are all over the internet..
but seriously, all the fun gossip aside, I fell kinda sorry for him and Im not even his fan. Never ever crossed in my wildest imagination that actor Tom Hiddlestone being picked up by Taylor Swift driver..
like seriously??
when this romance over, TS will be fine. She’s smart and ready with another manuever… but TH ?? I am curious what will happen to him.. he is good actor imo
Nothing, things will just carry on as before.
Yup. He resumes work in two weeks for several months in Australia. Then, likely to Georgia to film work on Infinity Wars, even though Loki probably dies for the third time in Ragnorak. Loki never stays dead and he has another film on his MCU contract so he’s probably in Infinity Wars in some capacity. He has two potential blockbusters coming out next year, spread out over six months. Although, the Thor films aren’t Marvel’s most lucrative, they still do just fine at the box office in comparison to most other films. He has been hinting at a return to the stage soon. The second round of pap pictures on Friday showed him coming from business meeting of some sort; maybe Marvel, maybe not. He hasn’t broken any laws, beat up anyone, sent anyone unwanted pictures of his anatomy or left abusive voice mail messages any where. He kissed Taylor Swift on a beach. His career will be fine.
I believe he is under contract for six Marvel films. Seems the Infinity Wars would put him at five.
@MAF. He has done one Avengers and two Thors with the third Thor on the way, so yes, Infinity Wars, which is two films, would close the MCU out for him. Chemboy’s contract is done with Infinity Wars too, unless they resign them, which I think might be possible with Chris at this point but not so much Tom.
@ Lilacflowers “He hasn’t ………………… sent anyone unwanted pictures of his anatomy ”
So that’s his latestest crime!! 😆
@MAF, Infinity Wars is two films. Some actors will be in both; some actors will be in only one. I suspect those in only one will be the ones with only one film left on their contracts. (Chris E & Chris H)
@Lilacflowers- So Infinity Wars is split into two. Wasn’t Captain America: Civil War suppose to be two films as well?
@MAF, I heard rumors of that early on but then they decided against it, even while they kept adding more and more characters. That sounded like it would be too bloated to work but ended up being very entertaining.
Now I’m leaving to prepare myself for Ramsey Bolton’s death tonight. Come on, Jon Snow, don’t let me down (though I preferred Ramsey’s being killed by his own hounds).
*WAVES*
Eve darling,
🙌🙆💖
@ EsCon:
:* my lovely.
@ GoodNamesAllTaken, M.A.F. and Kai:
Don’t worry, I won’t spoil anything.
I have so wanted those hounds to decide screw the food, you’re just too big of an ahole to live. Chomp.
I have to wait until Tuesday. If anyone here spoilers me, I’ll come to your house and punch you in the face! (sorry to get aggro, but the antici…………pation is killing me.)
You may want to stay clear of this place tomorrow.
*Adjusts hockey goalie mask over face*
My gut is saying that while the fight will be epic, Ramsey will not meet his end. Littlefinger will show up and screw everyone. This is what my gut is telling me.
That is the one thing that has pissed me off about George RR Martin and the show runners, some times the good guys do actually win. It doesn’t always have to be about the bad guys coming ahead.
@ M.A.F.:
I’m hoping against all hopes but yeah…I feel the same as you. They’ll keep that asshole for last season and we’ll see more of the same: sadistic smiles, Lego toy haircut and releasing the hounds on everybody he doesn’t like which is pretty much EVERYBODY.
Nymeria. I’m hoping for Nymeria to swoop in out of nowhere and rip his throat out. But yes, his own hounds would be satisfying too.
We are stocking up on snacks.
Since Arya is now heading home maybe Nymeria can finally make an appearance.
this!!!
My guess is that Hiddles had NO IDEA what this would be like, when he made his move on Swifty. Welcome to the Three-Ring Circus that is Taylor Swift’s love life!
Swifty’s desperation is amazing to watch
How is this Swift’s desperation? She is not even in the entire pap walk lol
She truly annoys me, but it’s laughable how many here are treating this situation like Tom is a 16 year old naive boy who is being tricked by the older, rich vixen. He’s a thirsty famewhore and for years his internet popularity has made me scratch my head. His presence makes me cringe in the Thor films and that’s nothing compared to his dancing monkey interviews. Say what you want about Taylor Swift, but she’s never pretended to not care about being famous or playing coy about wanting her picture taken. Tom needs to take a seat. And lots of commenters here owe Elizabather Olson an apology.
@CB @Meryl
I don’t owe EO any apology. I never accused her of calling the paps. I did criticize her for whining too much about the problems of fame and paps in general. I understand where she’s coming from, but she knew the how the game works just like Hiddles before she chose to pursue a big Hollywood career.
Sure TH is actively pursuing a higher status in HW. So What! It wouldn’t matter what he does, you would still rag on him as you’ve always done regardless.
He doesn’t look annoyed to me, or rather he does, but not any more annoyed than he usually looks when there are photographers around and he’s not working. He’s got his paparazzi game face on. If you look at other photos from similar situations, he’s got that same expression almost every time; coming and going from LAX, leaving the Ivy in London, near home a few weeks ago – hell, even those uber-staged puffy-coat photos in Toronto a few years go – all the same. This may be another case of a staged pap walk, but nothing about his demeanor is different.
Of course he looks annoyed, he probably got briefed on how badly he’s being reamed for this PR stunt and how much it has backfired on his career/image.
I was just thinking the same thing. Of course he looks annoyed, he has to play the part. Otherwise, imagine the reaction of him smiling with glee in those gym pics at all the attention he’s getting & his name getting out there to the majority who don’t know him in the states because they never saw those Marvel movies or whoever made Thor. Time will tell. He just can’t be that stupid to not know what this would all mean which makes him a famewhore, even if he really is interested in Taylor, they could’ve not been seen if they chose to.
Don’t usually follow Hiddles. Can someone explain the JArthy references?
Taylor and Tom in Australia will be gossip gold… I hope she goes with him. I love the comedy this pairing’s desperation brings.
Just to clarify: Are we sure they met at the Met gala?
That’s the official story. There’s a video from the dinner the night before and you can hear her say to him ‘It was nice to meet you’ or something like that.
Rapunzel, Jarthy = Jane Arthy, a record executive Hiddles took to Wimbledon a few yrs ago. He denied a relationship in an interview but there was the odd sighting of them together. When a pic was posted online of them together on an exotic holiday in 2014, there was fandom meltdown.
Ugh he looks so old! Reeceding hairline, no lips, scrawny legs.
What is she doing with him? She can do so much better.
I’ve got stuff in my fridge that will last longer than TnT.
I think Tom only thought up to ‘can I get a date with her?’, not beyond. And Taylor, she already crossed the finish line. Got back at Calvin, got a date with hottie Hiddleston, got to show off how great it is to date her to him and the world.
Maybe he has to do a few photoshoots before she lets him get to second base.
Browniecakes, that’s wonderful! I like TnT much more than TayTo.
I’m waiting to see if LEGS flies commercial to the Thor set, or if Little Miss Purse Strings gives him a lift – and stays a while. Blech.
Apologies for my snark today…it’s father’s day and mine passed away at Christmastime. Really miss him a lot. I’m consoling myself with food.
Condolences dear. *virtual hug*
Bless you AND your snark. Both are most welcome. 😚
Hugs. So sorry. *Passes virtual pint of Ben & Jerry’s through the internet ether.*
Snack and snark away. That’s what makes this so refreshing, because most of us agree this is deliciously ridiculous.
Thank you all for your kindness! Pigged out on raspberry coffee cake and bacon; steak tonight!
I shouldn’t feel too sorry for myself. I can always count on shenanigans from LEGS and lots of insightful and amusing comments here! 😂
Not a Hiddles fan but this is strangely making me, if not like him exactly, find him not quite as bland and eye-rollingly tryhard as I usually find him. There’s something kind of interesting about a guy who’s tried so hard to create such a sophisticated, serious and private image so publicly embracing one that makes a howling mockery of everything he professes to be.
I almost admire the risk he’s taking.
you mean he dropped the mask and everyone now knows how fake he was? personally i wouldnt call that interesting.
You sound a little (lot!) more invested in him that I am.
I don’t find him appealing either as an actor or a person but, as I said, I’m kind of intrigued at this new unexpected direction his ambition has taken and am curious to see where it goes.
I think it’s funny how some want to rant that just because he would hold back and not ‘tell all’ about his personal life that he is accused of wearing a mask and being fake. Give me a break. You guys sound juvenile, like you should be in Taylor’s girl squad yourself.
“A howling mockery” is priceless 😅
After (way too) much deliberation, I’ve decided his emotional naivete and thirst for fame has resulted in him being used as a pawn in this little PR game. Time will tell but that’s my hunch.
I agree that emotional naivety may play a part in this but I think this is much more the result of him realising he could disappear off the radar permanently unless he actively does something to keep him above the international radar.
I see this as a sober and strategic – with risks!! – reckoning on the part of him and his agent.
I think you’re right MI6. He may be book smart but he still seems a bit naive in some areas. Or he just didn’t expect all the fallout.
I didn’t realize his Hank movie is already DVD-ready (early July – hmmm…). Seems like that was received with crickets, other than the grandson yapping about it. Maybe he’s truly desperate for broader name awareness.
So much for feminism
People here will do anything to keep this perfect image of this dude alive. Of course shes the one that lured poor little dude into her web of spin and PR. Give me a break the dude is pushing 40.
Vic– I agree, Tom was not some innocent lamb played by the devious Taylor. I’m laughing at the notion that this guy, who has been ensconced in the Disney PR machine for years, doesn’t understand how the game works.
But, I must say, 35 is not pushing 40… I’d say pushing 40 is 38 or older.
Right? Did he need to drive to the gym ( a 10 min walk) with HER car and HER driver? Did he need to go by HER private plane or be at HER house. He’s following her around right now. His fans shade her as the devious master mind behind this stunt. I can’t with grown women infantilising a mid thirties male just to desperatly preserve an image they made for him. Dude is as thirsty as they come.
Clearly you don’t read the comments before typing your own.
Oh really? Because I see lots of people saying how he didn’t know what he got into. Like he looks pissed because of the paparazzi.
Please! Calvin had that pissed look all the time too, and we all know Calvin was super thirsty for that A list fame.
Nobody who is truly private dates Taylor. Both of these guys want to be A list they use her as a short cut. Then they or their fans complain that she is too public for them ? Really?
yeah most comments mock him or are disappointed by him.
wow
I can’t with this 😂😂😂
http://images.j-14.com/uploads/photos/file/166216/taylor-swift-tom-hiddleston-idris-elba.gif?crop=top&fit=clip&h=700&w=700
Not even TayTo can kill my love for T. Hiddy (although believe me, I AM side-eying him big time over this whole debacle).
In sad, unrelated news, just read on my twitter timeline that Tom’s costar in OLLA, Anton Yelchin died in a freak accident this morning. Only 27, which is no age at all.
Oh no!!!!!!!! Just saw this…how horrible. :”( He was a lovely actor. My thoughts and sympathies with his friends and family.
Just came to say the same thing about Anton. Terrible news. Only child, died on Father’s Day, aged 27. Sigh. Life really is too short.
That is terrible news. Loved him as Chekhov in star Trek. And so young! RIP.
RIP, Anton 🙁
“Only 27, which is no age at all.”
I feel like it’s the age at which my life began, something I reflect on every time I think about all the influential/successful people who’ve died at 27 (and younger).
I only know him from the new Star Trek movies, but it is far too young to go and very sad.
This weekend started off with comedic gold with this PR stunt thanks to Tom but now it ends on sad note. Anton was taken way too soon .
I am very glad he tweeted for Anton
https://twitter.com/twhiddleston/status/744638851017285632
I was so sad when I saw that. I loved him on screen. He was such a great actor.
So tragic. What a horrible thing to happen.
The problem with hiddles is he thinks he’s a leading man. There’s evidence he is not. All the movies where he is the lead bombs.
Now he finds himself at 35 left behind by all other Brit boys in his generation. Cumber, hardy,,redmayne, ejiofor, fassbender all have Oscar nomination they are in the big league.. Hes highly ambitious …He’s balding..soon he won’t even be considered for leads. So what does he do? Enter Americas pop princess.
Sadly I think it’s misjudged. You don’t need social media or a famous girlfriend to make it as an actor.. Cumber, hardy, ejiofor, or redmayne have all managed fine without it.
The irony is he said he wants Damon’s career, but he’s more of an Affleck right now.
It’s strange that apart from Eddie’d brilliant OScar winning performance,there isn’t actually that much on his Cv and he doesn’t appear to have a lot coming up either.
And both of Eddie’s Oscar nominations were for period pieces. Don’t know how much Less Mes made but that too was a costume/musical affair. Only time will tell if he can do contemporary films.
Well, he’s got three Potterverse movies coming up. I don’t think Redmayne is going to have any trouble with name recognition ever again. The first one opens, what, this fall?
Well that’s a lot of harsh reality. I got nothin’.
Except the Bond rumors are heating up again…this is getting grosser by the minute
He does well as a leading man in the theatre, doesn’t he?
It’s been too long. Or feels that way. He needs to go back. Only one wish I have other than him on a stage performing, I hope to see him doing something other than Shakespeare for a change. Not that I have issues with iambic pentameter but for once – it would be nice to see him not uttering lines that have been uttered many times before.
Well he did Chekov too with Branagh, but I guess those lines would have been said many times too.
“…enter America’s pop princess”? Was that a bad pun?
He did say he wanted to do a rom com. This must be it
😅
The fanfiction that has written itself. That one.
No major movie nominations / awards, no Oscars, Baftas, Emys, Globes, no major film festival awards (Cannes, Venice, Berlin…) And Kong Scull is his first big leading role ever. His last movie, Hank Williams biopic was a failure, Crimson peak was a huge movie with big expectations but it didn’t do quite well at the box office. These are just some of the facts. Yeah, I know, hes ‘a well respected theatre actor and he had some decent movie performances too. But I think that guy doesn’t deserve the amount of praise and the attention he gets. And yes, he’s a ageing, AND balding:-)
He has an Olivier, he’s been nominated for a BAFTA. Lots of other Brit award nominations, but until recently he hasn’t been in many of the sorts of movies/tv that get major US award attention. We’ll have to see what happens.
Affleck has a screenplay Oscar and directed a Best Picture Oscar winning film. Not a bad career.
Tom just had a major hit in British television, but let’s ignore that and talk about his hair!
I was his fan when Avengers came along, then I started to feel him and he went sour. I decided to give him another shot and he goes and does this. Lost all my respect for him, what a shame. I truly thought he cared more about artistry than fame.
Where is Taylor? With her dad? What is next for her? We know TH is doing Thor 3 (and she is doing Loki) but tour, album, charity stuff?
Is any press better than no press at all? I wonder. I typed Hiddleston into Twitter and Hiddleston Respect came up – it was “I’ve lost all respect for Tom” tweeted over and over.
I’ve been wondering the same thing. So far, no pictures this weekend. Lame.
After all this negative fallout, they may be holed up in her rental apt., using a personal chef or ordering takeout. I’m sure there’s an entire herd of personal assistants who can fetch things.
I know, snark, snark, snark…
Hahaha! This won’t go away for Taylor anytime soon!
The new story is that Calvin has already written a break up song about Taylor. And the source says Kanye and Calvin are going to work together on Calvins next album.
The (some of them, at least) comments in these threads are at a cumberbatch level of awfulness.
Hardly any artist is at Swift’s money level. She will be called a sugar mama with anyone she sees/ dates.
I did not post that at KW thread,
But I find hilarious that he is filming himself (and probably his family), documenting their life as if he were a legend. I found it terribly egocentric and pretentious on Beyonce, now West doing the same!!! At least, if he has some level of critical thinking, and if he ever listens to himself, he could hopefully reflect on his crazy behaviour.
Tom is in Europe. He wrote a sweet post about Anton and the time stamp places him there. Not London, an hour later, Mallorca with Mum? Paris with Taylor? Hmmm
How can you tell he was in Europe? That boy sure gets around.
Wait. I just looked at his post. It said it was posted at 2:11 pm, 3 hours ago. That’s LA time. Unless I’m looking at this wrong. Currently it’s 5:20pm LA. Time.
Doesn’t Twitter time stamp based on where you and your phone/computer are rather than where the Tweeter is?
i’m in EU and my computer has east Asia time. His tweet shows published at 2:11pm, 3h ago.
if in LA, do they fly again in the private jet over weekend? can we expect more pap walk?
@Dara, that’s what mine does; it posts the time where I am on people’s tweets. I was unaware that could be changed?
I think it shows the time where your phone is. So I believe Dara is correct.
I’m betting if they got on her plane together again we’d have had pics of that by now. Pap’d are on probably on red alert for them now. Ha ha!
Unless Taylor knows Hiddles has the Bond gig and she wants the theme song I can’t see any connection these two would have to sustain a real relationship. Nothing in common at all. It’s weird.
Hiddleston is a great actor who seems to have a great future in front of him. I haven’t heard the best things about her but I don’t know much about her really.
What I do know is that they are both young and want to have fun without thinking where the paps are hiding. 1st time they were pictured they were near her property at a public beach. Seems like a romatic spot Swift would want to take advantage of paps or not.
People are needlessly going nuts over this and there are some people who are being particularly nasty about it and its bewildering me.
Tom seems to be a decent guy and I hope he (and she) can deal with this without becoming too cynical and jaded.
I hope he realizes that hes accountable only to himself and not anyone on this thread or any other social media.
Internet can distort things but II am pretty sure majority of his fans don’t care that much.
Far too sensible. 🙂
@verdant agreed
Definitely. I suspect Hollywood is not as coincidental and honest as many stars would like us to believe, but I also don’t think everything is controlled down to the tiniest detail, either. I think the conspiracy theories lean too hard on the “it’s all PR” cynical side of the spectrum sometimes. Particularly regarding these two separately, so as a couple it’s a mess. I think they like to control their image. As they should–they’re in the public eye, and if they care about their careers (which they clearly do), they’ll continue to monitor what they put out into the world and put their best foot forward. They’ve both been pretty honest about the fact that their lives aren’t all sunshine and rainbows, but there’s a level of negativity they don’t care to put out there for public consumption. I say good for them, and I’m happy if they’ve found something in each other, whatever that might be.
He’s not annoyed, he’s trying to play it cool, lol.
He’s enjoying it to me. It’s almost a smirk he’s giving.
@Dara. You may be right. I don’t really know enough about it. Maybe someone else does?
I’m hardly a Twitter expert, but took a quick look at the settings on both my phone and my laptop. My phone has no option to set the time zone that I could find, but it’s an option from my laptop. If I change timezones there, the timestamp on the tweet changes and then changes back again when I reset to my own time zone. Bottom line, he could be tweeting from anywhere.
he looks cute
@Meee4. IF he flew to LA and IF it was on a private plane than they probably flew into Van Nuys which is what most private jet owners do. Privacy and less congestion. I’m not sure the plane I saw in the RI pics could do that?? Looked small to me, but what do I know.
Sorry, I really wasn’t being serious. If he or she or they really wanted us to know they are, we’d know a la RI rendezvous. Lol!
They are so cute together though. I applaud her for dating and enjoying her youth. She should date as many men as she needs to until she finds the right one. I also want to hear a new song soon!
@lilacflowers. My iPhone autocorrects the time when I travel but my laptop does not. But I don’t have a Mac which may change the time.
But neither is giving you the time in the time zone where somebody else is tweeting.
Eve! Eve! Eve! Game of Thrones! OMG!!! Eve!!!!
YAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!
What’s going on? My internet is acting funny.
Long threads tend to act strangely and things land in bizarre places.
@ LilacFlowers:
I wish it’d have been more graphic (screaming in agony till his last breath). The scene was too short!!! I wanted more gore!
I was gripping my pillowing, throwing it across the room, biting it. My poor pillow. But my goodness. I can’t remember the last time a show had me screaming at the TV. Oh, wait. Season 1 episode 9.
GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
*Watching again now…wheeeeeeeeeee!!!
I watched it again as well. I found myself wanting a different outcome for a certain character but alas. It was still the same. 🙁 But damn, I was still excited and hooked.
Dany. Yara, Sansa. RULE!
Yo, guys, can you pleaaaaaaase wait for the GoT-thread? Thanks.
Swifty is a stage five clinger. Hiddles is in for a bumpy, crazy ride.
Maybe they met each other and felt an attraction and are now having a nice romance.
Too crazy?
Now you’re being reasonable and sane. Reason and sanity have been in short supply here.
Thank you, Tara and lilacflowers. It’s not even funny how venomous some comments are on this thread (and, yes, a bit insane). I really get why Swift tries desperately to be in control of her media portrait, and why Hiddleston went into social media hiding after having engaged with fans generously for years. It must be scary.
Yes Misa, I’m thankful to hear that not everybody is pulling out their pitch forks and skewers just cause they see an opportunity to qualify their “righteous” indignation which is really just an excuse to be irreverently mean and cut people down with their false justification. After all, they’ve “ALWAYS known” how the true character of these terrible celebs..
Today I ate coco pops. It’s real true love between me and that bowl mad nothing will stop it
So KittyKat is CooCoo?
😂