Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter made a rare (?) appearance at Wimbledon on Sunday for the Men’s Final, which is where Scotsman Andy Murray trounced Canadian Milos Raonic in straight sets. Raonic played well but Murray was on fire! Benedict looked nice, but Sophie’s dress sort of annoys me.
Many celebrities came out for the men’s final, including Bradley Cooper, Irina Shayk and the Hunterbatches, although I think Benedict and Sophie were in some kind of place of honor in the royal box or close to the royal box. I do know that Benedict and Sophie were part of the indoor greeting line for Murray following his win, which is where this amazing interaction happened:
In case you can’t make out everything, it seems like Murray and Cumberbatch were fanboying all over each other. Murray tells Cumberbatch: “I’m a massive fan. A huge, huge fan.” Murray asked Cumberbatch something like “what are you up to?” and Benedict says “I’m doing Sherlock at the moment.” Andy looked so excited, then he does his raised fist, like he just won a set. So, there you go… Andy Murray is a crazy Cumberbitch!
As for Sophie and Bendy… I’ve been thinking about them a lot in the current situation with The Great & Glorious Tiddlebanging of 2016. The craziness and conspiracies around Hunter-batch were very similar to the current craziness and conspiracies around Tiddles. I believe the post about Benedict & Sophie’s Valentine’s Day wedding is still our most-commented-upon story of all time. But Tiddles is coming for that honor. Tiddles wants to be the biggest gossip story of the year. You know how Tiddles can achieve that? An oopsie pregnancy and a Times of London engagement announcement. Until then, don’t come for the Hunterbatch crown!!
Photos courtesy of Getty, Pacific Coast News.
I hate her shirt.
The Sherlock brown Cumbercurls make me long for for the early days of the show before it turned into a Moffat suckfest. I do not have high hopes for the new season.
“Moffat suckfest” Lol! I feel the same way. I enjoyed the first series so much. With each new installment, I can barely muster the enthusiasm to stream it on the PBS site.
I love her dress. She was the best dressed at the final. She laso had a cardigan which I loved too.
Ditto to the Moffat suckfest! We are definitely in the minority among past and present “Sherlock” fans, I’m afraid.
Yes. Sophie’s dress looks…..maternity. Could baby # 2 be on the way.
She looks so thin I doubt she’s pregnant. Her fashion style is very maternity clothes.
Please. That’s what people have said every single time she’s appeared in a new dress for the past year. It’s just her body.
If Hiddleston is after the Hunterbatch crown, he started with the wrong girl.
I like Sophie and she normally has a good style but not feeling this dress. Can’t with him, he just irritates me no end. Won’t be watching Sherlock, it’s gone from being a good show with great scripts to an ego fest between Moffat and Bendy.
She comes off like a brown-nosing social climbing suck up in the Murray video, the head-tilting action makes her look fake. I’m kinda surprised. I always thought she’d be the kind to snub the social climbers, not actually be the social climber.
He used to be okay before he married her, used to keep a low profile.
I found it odd Benedict didn’t introduce her.
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And like clockwork…
How’s your day going, Meg? Good? Just want to make sure.
When Kaiser posts about Ghostbusters I’m going to post on that too. You’re welcome to join me.
@Felice: maybe he just assumes everyone knows who she is?
It’s possible.
“I found it odd Benedict didn’t introduce her.” So was I, especially as she stood there with that daft smile plastered on her face and her head tilted so far it made MY neck hurt.
“I found it odd Benedict didn’t introduce her.”
That’s because they don’t live together and only convene when the situation calls for it – appointment events, pap walks etc. She may as well be his occasional pal kicking about next to him. I agree that he probably thinks people already know who she is. He’s never made any extra effort in presenting her to people or media (in fact he’s made certain she doesn’t have much of a verbal outlet as pertains to them as a couple, cutting her off from a journo at the Oscars etc.) why start now. Showmance accessory extraordinaire.
I’ve always wondered why he blocked her from the Oscar journo.
He introduces her at the start but wow he talks fast. When she’s shaking Murray’s hand, he says “This is my wife, Sophie.”
She is playing for the camera. And skilled in social skills. Cudos for that. Not everybody can do that.
I wouldn’t judge that too harshly.
Cumby looks rather happy, to be honest. No pics of their social interaction, I suppose? But the don’t seem to dislike each other.
@Karin: I didn’t see/hear that.
I can’t stand her and she seems like a joy-suck, but sometimes I like her clothes. I like that she doesn’t wear hyper-feminine, glammed-up, Hollywood-style clothes. They’re kind of different and usually have some sort of weird, unflattering cut. I think it’s probably that she doesn’t have good taste in clothes or an eye for style (look at the many past pictures of her looking like a mismatched ragbag), and I kind of have to respect that she’s remained true to her strange style (or maybe her uncle, who’s her sometime stylist, is the one with the bad taste). This Wimbledon dress is cute and a little awkward, a bit little-girlish, but sporty and summery.
She is no WAG. She probably doesn’t do the overly-sexy wife-of-somebody clothing style. She doesn’t appeal to the tabloids either like Kim Sears. Her style is more “normal” and slightly business for low key events and more fashionable for high profile events. “business” as in not-lawyers-office. Cumby is the one who wears a suit. I do find that a bit over-the top, to be honest. It is a hot day. And he isn’t royalty nor is he a high-ranking sports manager director type.
On the contrary, she’s always attention-seeking. She wore bright orange when everyone else was toned-down at an evening at Hamlet. And the remember the inappropriate sun dress she wore at the Obama Q&A?
ah the good old times when we thought people couldnt be more attention seeking than Benny.
I feel like Tom and Taylor threads are the new Benedict threads. BC threads would have 100’s of comments and 2 or more thread each day. Now it is Tom/Taylor.. not to mention that the comments sound almost the exact same.
just funny to me.
I didn’t really get involve with those threads. Were they saying Cumbers was a famewhore, or the pregnancy stuff?
It was all microscope levels of examination, theorising, essay-writing. People saying one thing complaining about people saying another thing took over.
Same as Tiddles. Funny for everyone for five minutes. Inordinately interesting to the few for what seemed like an aeon.
It was mostly the same people. Some were funny some were unhinged kinda scary conspiracy theorists. Almost all blamed evil Sophie for forcing Benny to do whatever awful thing he was doing (usually just getting papped or attending an Oscar event). And didn’t he look miserable etc. I know Tom H attended Benny’s wedding I wonder if we will see the four of them on an outing?
The Cumberbatch stuff was mainly inspired by a handful of obsessed stans who couldn’t accept that their fantasy boyfriend married someone else. Take one look at Tumblr, absolutely psychotic raving about widespread conspiracy theories involving the Queen and fake babies. Pure jealousy.
Whereas with Tiddles, it’s mainly people laughing at how very very extra they are.
It amazes me Ben inspires that kind of passion in anyone, much less enough people that there’s a full-on hate-dom for any woman he dates.
The Cumberbatch stuff seemed to be relegated to gossip sites (especially here) and tumblr. This Tiddleswift or Swiddleston stuff is EVERYWHERE! People I know who hardly ever talk about celebrity gossip are talking about this. I see articles on it from all different kinds of social media accounts. The Cumberbatch stuff seemed to be really invested fans (or former fans -_-). Everyone and their brother, sister, daddy, and momma is talking about Twiddles.
Well of course. Benedicts wife is not Taylor Swift. If hiddleston had gotten with a woman like sophie it would have just been interesting to people on Tumblr and a few other places online.
I have to say though none of my friends talk about it, but then we don’t talk that much about gossip generally.
@ THE OG BB
Really I must be hanging around the “wrong” people because nobody I know or work with is taking about Tiddleswift or Swiddleston.
To me they have become honorary Kardashians just like George Cloony and wife was. From my understanding Cumberbatch wanted a Oscar hence the papa walks, unlike Tiddleswift who like the Kardashians, wants media attention and hence the public show and running to the tabloids.
Benny and Sophie are the original Tiddles that’s for sure.
The reason Hiddles is getting more press (AND more grief) is because he actually paired up with someone famous in her own right. The fact that she has notoriously dated every high profile single man she’s ever met, has the press more whipped into a frenzy.
It’s not like BC shied away from pimping out his relationship. He went from being carefully on the DL with his private life, to SUDDEN engagement, red carpet, hey, doesn’t his fiancee look preggers, red carpet, “surprise” announcement of pregnancy, red carpet, formal wedding, paparazzi friendly honeymoon, baby, Hamlet. (BC was hampered in his PR by the fact his fiancee/wife is neither successful or famous.)
Cumberbatch has wanted children for years – completely stupid to believe he was duped – they have been together at the Obama talk, the Opera, at letters live in Covent Garden and Hay and they were lovely together. He has been working non stop for months and they have a small baby so don’t hit parties all the time.
I don’t know about the duped thing. Though they tried to control the narrative, he and his PR folks were just so behind the curve about everything. Didn’t have her on the RC at an event (though she was being papped – and no she’s not famous enough on her own), because they “weren’t engaged YET”. She was clearly pregnant at another event, and then they announced the pregnancy a few days later.
He comes across as so proper about so many things – even wanting to marry BEFORE the baby arrived, but consciously deciding to make a baby before even planning the wedding? It’s hardly impossible, it just seemed weird.
As for them being “lovely together”, meh. Yes, married for over a year, and out in public “together”, but lovely? They don’t act as if they hate or dislike, nor as if they love and adore, one another. “Lovely” has a flowery vibe I simply don’t feel when I see them.
I think people think he was duped because he’s always said he can’t impregnate just any random woman. And he ends up with this sourpuss who asks to “not be referred to as maternal” in an interview. If this wasn’t an oopsie-I-poked-holes-into-the-condom, I don’t know what this is.
Christianna – Well the duped/oops theory was helped along because he didn’t share the existence of/engagement to his “woman I love”, with the world until far enough into the gestation period to turn a pregnancy test solidly blue. Then, they didn’t announce her pregnancy, they merely confirmed what photos made hard to ignore. If it wasn’t an oopsie, he & his team made every timing error possible, so it certainly seemed like one.
Either I’m thick skulled, or your explanation makes no sense to me. Sorry, no offense, it’s late and I’ve had a long day.
No mention of Bradley and Irina’s tiff, which was the best thing about the whole royal box tbh?
it does not come close to her and ronaldo. when he is annoying her.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BGNb4qnj0p4/
Yes!!! It really was
Right?!!
Wait, what are you talking about…?? Must know!
Tried to link to it earlier they had a little argument and the cameras totally caught it just google Bradley Cooper Irina Wimbledon and I’m sure a million things will come up.
The best part about that was how Cumberbatch and Turner (who were seated right next to them) resolutely ignored it. Focus on the tennis, small fixed smiles on their faces. Incredibly English.
“they are also big tea drinkers”
He’s married to a Hunter, not a Sophie Turner LOL
This reminds me of when his engagement was announced (so close to the “secret girlfriend” reveal) and the press insisted on calling her Sophie Turner, and Sophie Turner actually tweeted that she wasn’t the one marrying Benedict.
There’s a whole post about that! Go back to the homepage.
Ugh, that dress is terrible. She looks 180 years old.
There’s way too much going on on that dress. The buttons could’ve been plain white or lose the black details. But maybe that’s just her style she always has too much going on.
I like the print but the cut is bad.
A Donna Reed house dress and her grandfather’s autumn shawl sweater. With 21st century shoes.
Lizard & Sophie are much more animated in this clip compared to the Cambridges in the thread below. Watch the videos together, it’s unbelievable how stiff WK are.
I thought Benedict was animated, yeah. His wife overacted and it was awkward to watch.
Them high fiving was quite cute. Of course the “skeptics” are insisting that the video shows her “throwing a tantrum” and trying to hit him and him wrestling her hand down. LOL!
I can’t stand the “skeptics”, but I don’t think that was high-fiving either.
I thought I was the only one who noticed the desperate head-tilting though! I’m glad some of the non-“skeptics” noticed it too. For a second I thought I’d grown a tinfoil fat there.
Christianna – she has been tilting her head back and forth ever since their very first red carpet appearance after the engagement was announced. It’s her trademark move much like Kate’s is hand at her crotch and in her hair.
Ben and Sophie were together for at least a year before they took the relationship public though, and apart from the initial Oscars PR flumpf they’ve been pretty private. I mean their child has only been papped properly once and he was nearly a year old then. Not really comparable to Tiddles which is basically TomKat 2.0 but without the icky $cieno/Stockhold Syndrome element.
Are you sure? I’m actually asking. Her brother after the engagement said a few months and that was an actual quote I believe.
No, that’s something those crazy Skeptics made up. I just pulled the article to double-check and the only quote her brother gave was this:
“We’re all very happy for Soph – it’s really exciting.”
That’s literally the entire quote, nine words.
“They have known each other a long time, but the romance is recent. It really only took off over the summer, maybe even late summer. It has moved fast, but when something works, it works.”
I’m pretty sure you know that’s not a direct quote, and is actually from so-called ‘insiders’, but just in case, her brother actually said no such thing.
Anyway, I’d forgotten how funny her detractors are. You’d think by now they’d be over it.
I’m just trying to clarify. I’m asking these things for MYSELF. You don’t have to always be on the defensive about her. It’s like you’re worried about something.
It’s not Meg or Lilly who sound defensive to me.
No, they were together at the French Open but not before that. He was all over the place before and during that summer, and she had just moved back from the US.
She got pregnant pretty early on and they made the best of their situation, to the anger of some fans (?)
I don’t think anyone has ever confirmed they were together for any particular period of time much before the French Open, June 2014, (even then, their interactions didn’t whisper, much less scream, “we are here on a date” or “we are falling madly in love”).
Skeptic or nan, unless you have a confirm-able timeline, you are just saying words for words sake. That’s not being defensive, it’s just being honest.
(No tinfoil hat required about the head tilting – or hair tossing. They are hard to miss.)
(fwiw, I think the baby is very real and BC/SH are actually married and I am not expecting a divorce anytime in the foreseeable future)
How do you know they were together for a year before the engagement?
Someone went through his trash and found a tossed letter addressed to her, with his address on it. Not kidding. They went through his trash and told others about it. When they saw her name and his address on the letter, they told themselves that it was fake and surely she hadn’t moved in. And when she showed up with him at the French Open, they were confident that she was NOT the secret girlfriend. Apparently they should have been shagging in their seats, in order for some to think of them as a couple. Still to this day! LOL
IMO, her style is her own. It doesn’t match with mine, but it completely matches his. It took him a long time to get it right. And I mean a LONG time.
“Someone went through his trash and found a tossed letter addressed to her, with his address on it.” Sorry, but that’s the kind of crazy sounding stuff that screams, “proof or it didn’t happen”.
As far as “shagging in the seats”, that’s hardly the standard for people in a relationship, nor are PDAs. I didn’t zip anything about a “secret” gf, or any relationship at all, but remember seeing a bunch of FO pics, thinking, “wow, wasn’t that lady lucky to be seated next to BC”. I got zero impression they were there together. Later, when it came out they were engaged, I reflected how weird dating must be, if you are expected to act aloof and unconnected out in public.
Cosigned, ogg921. Believe me, I was on board already during the “Ben has a secret girlfriend” baiting era and I never heard a whisper about any envelope that was dug out of the trash. The only thing like that was “package-gate,” and that occurred only about a month or two before the engagement announcement. Unless someone has a link to a discussion dating from that time, I’ll believe this was made up to retrofit a “longtime girlfriend” story.
@Lu: Agree about the retrofitting.
Seeing how both Cumberbatch and Murray (and the camera!) are basically ignoring Cumberbatch’s wife (even though she’s grinning and angling her head to be included in the conversation) in that video makes me think about how awkward it must be to be the civilian spouse/partner of a celebrity. Sure, you get to go to cool places like the Wimbledon finals in the Royal box but as long as you’re standing next to your famous SO you’re guaranteed to be ignored by everyone but the most polite of people.
One of my best friends is married to a minor celeb and she’s been physically shoved out of the way by photographers and people trying to get to her husband. It’s awful. Of course that leads to his fans assuming that she’s not with him at events (she goes to all his events, she’s just not photographed much) and speculating as to what that means for their marriage. Like you can judge anything about a marriage on the basis of red carpet appearances!
He could have introduced her, too. This reflects more on Cumby than on her.
How so? Maybe he just thinks everyone knows who she is.
Why would he think that? She is unkown. He didn’t marry a famous or well known person! He would be an idiot to think otherwise… She’s barely papped, only when she’s with him and they don’t seem to lead a very public life.
Indeed. Always introduce your wife.
Happy wife, happy life.
Someone above says that he did.
@delorb: I watched the video multiple times and never heard/saw it.
She looks so nervous there, poor woman. And to think people gave her so much grief for marrying Benny. I want to give her a hug.
She doesn’t look “nervous”, she looks too keen. And Benedict tends to look sour when she’s beeming into pap cameras. That’s what folks are giving her “grief” for.
That’s the vibe I get from her, too. I don’t think she’s gotten used to it, even now. I also get the impression that if it were left up to her, she would have remained a secret.
I don’t think she’s nervous. I’m actually always surprised at how delighted/relaxed she looks into pap cameras while HE looks nervous. It’s like she’s the famous one and he’s the civilian. She doesn’t look “nervous” around Murray at all, just very… overeager.
lol, Sophie is a party girl and socialite from years back and very keen to be known. Nervous she is not. I think many confuse her awkwardness with being nervous. She’s yet to meet a camera she didn’t like.
Andy Murray YES!!
I’m obsessed with Wimbledon’s fashion! Can I borrow her blouse/dress? It’s Winter in Argentina and I’m sick and tired of sweaters and cardigans.
Someone needs to tell Benedict to retire those sunglasses. They make his face look odd(er!).
Her dress is Temperlay and looks quite odd, but she has a distinct style I don’t particularly like. I wish she would change her hair up a bit, it always looks uncombed.
Kaiser – if Benedict had gotten a famous woman pregnant then his own relationship and marriage would have received the same treatment as Tiddles. Benedict indulged in many a pap walk, product placement honeymoon, etc. But I don’t believe anyone besides his fandom, and some blogs, were interested in them and their story.
Yeah I’m counting all Tiddles talk about marriage click bait until I see that Times announcement. Tom is posh. He would do it.
My daughter saw him at a play last summer in London, she said he was very average looking. Not short but not real tall as the tv makes him.
Mostactors look tall when standing next to Martin Freeman and Allen Lech (sp?)
OMG, your name!
I used to be all about this guy 2-3 years ago. But now, looking at these pictures, he does nothing for me. It’s kind of strange how we just get over people one day.
I’m not complaining about it, though 🙂
Me too. Now I just come here out of morbid curiosity because marriage turned him sour.
Ha! I think I’m at the same point. I think people who are still hanging onto the idea that he’s charming are living in the past. Something has definitely turned him sour (well said), and it was around the time we first became aware of her existence, so, yeah, I think it’s the marriage, too.
That’s normal though. If part of your liking/attraction to a celeb is rooted in their looks and/or personality, it’s going to fade at some point no matter what they do. it’s not sustainable and they’re readily replaced. If you’re main ‘attraction’ is their work, you’ll probably stick around unless they get really bad at what they do.
But it’s funny when you think about it because on the celeb side, what they need is the general public to recognize them enough to go see a project they’ve done, not fans who are super into them. Partly because those fans are fickle and partly because there is never enough of them to make anything successful (and sometimes they cause more negative publicity than they are worth too). fandom fame is useless once you’ve been around for a bit
Tiddles will never beat this story because Hunter appeared to trap him with a baby which got all his fans up in a tissy. To get pregnant after 2-3 months is pretty reckless, especially in your mid-30’s. I have a friend who did just that at 35 to a man she only knew 2 months and it has been a hot mess of a situation ever since. Maybe they will make it work given they knew each other in the past, but knowing each other and being with one another are two entirely different things. And like someone else above said, I was a fan 2-3 years ago also, but now I don’t know what I saw in him—partly it has to do with the quickness of everything; I can’t imagine myself doing that or being with someone who is prone to do such things.
Lord, the levels of malevolence directed at his wife are just…. *shakes head*
I am so glad I avoided for the most part the Cumberbatch threads when they were at their most hysterical if this thread is an example of his uberfans having moved on.
It’s really astonishing to me! I saw the Wimbledon coverage of their meeting with Andy Murray, so I made the mistake of a quick check on tumblr to see the reaction. The degree of mean-spiritedness posters use when talking about her is just beyond the pale. Calling her “weirdo”, and attributing the worst motives and most egregious characterizations to insignificant (and probably subconscious) mannerisms. No one deserves that kind of treatment, and the bitterness, I think, really says something about the mentality of Benedict’s fans.
And like several posters above, I used to be a fan. I enjoyed the Hollow Crown, and I’m looking forward to seeing Dr. Strange, but I no longer consider myself a fan of Benedict’s apart from certain roles. But that’s on HIM…not on her.
Lmao you can totally tell who the BC nans and Sophie stans are. But let me guess, you don’t care about Hunterbatch 😂
And Hiddleswift is more famous. They’re even in the printed gossip rags in the US, talked about on tv talk shows. Hunterbatch mostly shows up in The Sun or The Fail.
Oh, my goodness to some of the above.
I love Sherlock.
I think this is the video when they are fighting
http://cumberbuddy.tumblr.com/post/147205268976/the-only-surviving-clips-on-my-phone-from