Here are some photos of Tom Hardy filming Legend (the Kray brothers film) in London today. He’s sitting on some kind of dolly or something, and I’m including a photo of his on-screen wife too, played by Emily Browning. I’m enchanted by the ginger child behind her.
According to multiple reports out of the UK, Tom got a serious injury on the set a few days ago. Apparently he was filming a fight scene and “Tom went over on it pretty hard. He’s a tough guy but you could tell he was in pain. They didn’t take any chances and carted him off to hospital for an X-ray.” All of the tough guys on the crew are giving him hell about it. Meanwhile, I think I’ve hurt my ankle too – it seems sort of tender, although I took an Aleve and that seems to be improving the situation. Will keep you updated!!!
Meanwhile, Tom was recently asked what kind of “guilty pleasure” TV shows he watches when he’s home in London. He said:
“I’m into Come Dine With Me at home, religiously. I’m an absolute fanatic. I put it on for the dogs as well when I go out. They’ve got to feel that someone’s in the house. I really do like Come Dine With Me. It’s great people-watching. I’ll steal characters from Come Dine With Me because they’re real people. I take something from everybody.”
As well as Come Dine With Me, Tom confessed he enjoys Dinner Date, too!
“Oh yeah, I watch that, it’s great as well. I am an absolute sucker for that. Guilty pleasures are good. There’s so much serious going on, it’s nice to offset serious with not so serious.”
From what I understand, Come Dine With Me is a cooking competition. I HATE cooking competition shows! I used to watch Bravo’s Top Chef but I stopped because it just got too boring and the challenges were often stupid. That being said, I enjoy watching cooking shows in general, just not the competitive ones. He’s right – cooking shows are sweet relief from watching the news.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Pacific Coast News.
Come dine with me is more a “let’s go and nosey round people’s houses and watch them fail to get along with other people” show. It’s main strength is from the sarcastic narration more than actual cooking. It’s quite funny (but also, very late-2000’s and so I’m totally over it now).
I wonder if he watches the Great British Bake Off? I bet he does.
Come Dine With Me is my absolute favourite, it isn’t like MasterChef its more informal and the hosts get drunk, they fight and the narrator is an absolute legend, he is hilarious, i can spend my Sunday afternoon watching it back to back.
Yeah Come Dine With Me is completely different from those other competition shows. To me it’s not even a real competition show. The contestant are Cray and the narrator is amazing. It’s just a really funny show.
The narrator also narrates a children’s TV show, called Big Barn Farm. Listening to the sarcastic, snide voice from Come Dine voice various animals as they trot round the farmyard is surreally wonderful. Especially the donkey. Or Madame the Cow.
I love CDWM, too. I love that people so unwittingly expose themselves when hosting a dinner party, and the alcohol means they lose inhibitions very fast, too. Some of the characters are like Rob Bryden had a bad trip… but they’re all real.
Tommy’s gonna come over and we’re gonna watch a Chopped marathon with my hand is down his pants. Mmmhmmm. That’s what’s gonna happen, SIXER.
Yes. Well. It might take a day or two for me to recover from this startling news. You’ve got 48 hours. Then I’m having him back.
Sorry, girls, but Tom is tied up right now…all of the pleasure, none of the guilt.
I take it you already saw the new shirtless pics of him? The one with all his tattoos covered up and you can REALLY see all his glorious muscles?
I agree, all the cooking shows he wanted if I got to be dessert.
Where are these glorious pics to be found?
I hate the Canadian version of Come Dine with Me, the British one is funnier. Tom for the win.
The British one wins hands down.
The Australian one is amazing, though. They’re so much more direct – Brits snark with fake politeness, while Aussies tend to, as my father once put it, “call a spade a bloody shovel”. Both national traits have huge comic potential.
Oh noes! Not Come Dine With Me!
I. Did. Not. Read. This. My. Love. For. The. Bloke. Is. Intact.
(Fanty, if you see this – HERE is my perfect topic for an open letter. A tumblr coming your way soon.)
Come Dine With Me isn’t really about the competition at all. It IS people watching. I can see how an actor would get inspiration from it. Particularly once they’ve become so famous they don’t get to interact with “normal” people on the regular anymore (I don’t think Tom is quite there yet, though).
I wish my face was “some kind of dolly or something”.
*cough*
Ahem…I mean…Hope your ankle feels better Kaiser.
When we lived in London, mr sighs and I were obsessed with Ready, Steady Cook. And I don’t even like cooking shows. The british ones are better than the American ones.
This so-called injury happened last week when he supposedly kicked a bar stool, but he was walking fine again the day after. The Sun is just creating drama again for internet hits.
Pictures of Tom sans Ink can be found here:
http://thaac-on.tumblr.com/
This man can show off his pubes in selfies, rant 8 minutes long about pants and still charm the knickers off a nun. He is pure sex on a stick.
Aaaaaanndd you just listed the main reasons I like him. That and his tattoos. Sigh.
Couldn’t agree more. Plus the fact that he is the Gary Oldman of his generation. What a talent!
I’m loving Bobby Flay’s BBQ addiction right now, he always has something that looks amazing on the grill and his cocktails seem awesome too. And I still watch Diners Drive-ins and Dives. I use to be obsess with the Food network in general but not so much anymore.
I can’t get enough of Chopped. Hands down the best cooking competition show on TV (America). Man does he have nice lips. Nibble, nibble, nibble.