At first I thought this was going to be Code Red Cumbemergency because I couldn’t find these new photos of our lovely Benedict Cumberbatch, but as luck would have it, I found them. Benedict attended the Hay Festival in Britain for two days of dramatic readings. It was a festival of words, literature, letters and Benedict. I wish I could say that I really, really cared deeply about what Benedict was saying. Alas, I only really care about how he was saying it, with the Cumbercurls, the tight white t-shirt, the surprisingly sexy cardigan and his general adorableness.
Apparently, Benedict’s performances were THE tickets to get at the festival. Lots and lots of Cumberbitches showed their support for our Lizard King. The director of the festival even admitted that most of the people there had come specifically for Cumby. And here’s something nice: it was all for charity. The money raised from Benedict’s dramatic letter readings provided much need funding for several literacy charities. Apparently, Cumby and Louise Brealey (Molly from Sherlock) did a series of love letters from a British soldier and his girl and everyone in the tent was completely charmed. Here are some very short videos I found. HIS VOICE.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Yes, yes a thousand times yes, especially if he reads me some letters by Chris to Bessie. If you haven’t read any of them, you are missing out.
I’m sure he’s a fine actor, but I find nothing attractive about him.
Love him!
“I could hug you ’till you dropped”. Swoon. My Otter, my Otter. *thud*
Ohh looking VERY good, Mr. Cumby! And for a wonderful cause, too! However, I *still* am not sure I’d hit it, even though I gave up and am finally watching Sherlock and laughing my a$$ off at “The woman… The Woman woman!” 😀
If that’s the 2nd season Belgravia episode that is the BEST one for me. Would I hit it dont know now but he loved his blue shirt I don’t know maybe I would 🙂
Yup! I was underwhelmed by eps 1&2 of season 1, but ep. 3 was brilliant! Ep. 1 of season 2 seems to be just as awesome, sooo much fun 😀
It just hit me. I think there’s ever really only 1 episode per season I enjoy and would rewatch. Still a good show though!
@jammypants:
Imo the writing is somewhat shaky. It’s brilliant in some places – and then you have a woman tied to a chair facing a weird crossbow-like structure with a ridiculous two-men scuffle taking place right behind her and she’s not even trying to tilt the chair and simply fall to the ground and thus get completely out of the line of that arrow’s flight?! I mean, really?? 😉 I could take that from a 70’s film, but not from something as sophisticated as BBC’s Sherlock is aiming to be.
hahahaha! InnieOutie, just my thoughts exactly! Another thing to add was the way Sherlock got shot in season 3 episode 3. It was so overly done. Talk about over execution!
Besides as few over the top directorial/writing decisions (and things they overlook), I have the say the production values and cinematography is quite lovely.
@Intro: Haha, exactly my thoughts! I was sitting in front of the TV and literally shouting “drop down!” *lol* (Have I ever mentioned that I’m way too invested when I watch movies or TV series?) Other than that I did like this episode very much. I think with the Chinese background of the story it captured something that’s also present in the books (a typical fin de siècle orientalism).
The Belgravia episode was nice, however I couldn’t get over the fact that it was… too sexy. Not generally, but I love my Sherlock Holmes as a quite asexual thinking machine. However the phone password was very clever (too bad I already knew it due to the internet).
My favourite episode might still be The Reichenbach Fall. I love Jim Moriarty. From the third season I’ve only seen the first episode yet, so nom major spoilers please! 😉 (you can spoil all you want after next week, I just have a bunch of things to do right now and can’t watch Sherlock. It’s incredibly sad.)
@ Intro Outro – thought the exact same thing. It was so annoying!!
The second episode of every season always seems to be a bit lighter, fluffier. They’re always just about solving the crime and don’t contain as much seasonal arc related story line.
@jammypants:
Thanks for the spoiler 😀 Nah, just kidding, I have read the books and I knew he would feign his death, and in the books he let Moriarty’s accomplice shoot his hand and pretended to fall then. I’m looking forward to how they have written this whole scene in the film. And yeah, I agree with you about production, it really creates a ton of added value for the series.
@Isadora:
I really like oriental flair, I even studied Japanese for some time but had to give up for a number of reasons. However, I thought the Chinese allusions in ep.2 were too trite. It’s again the well-beaten Chinese mafia/triads/White Lotus etc etc. =/ Not my cup of tea.
I LOOOVED ep.1 od season 2! It was soo well-done and perfectly acted! ^_^
Andrew Scott is excellent, I am looking forward to other eps, too busy currently but hopefully tomorrow!
@Intro trust me darling, you will be taken by the Batch sooner or later. Well, you’ll begin wishin for it, anyway. I love him.
I’ve already seen him in 5+ films AND in Frankenstein, so I’m pretty sure by now that he won’t become any more hittable for me 😉 But I very much appreciate him as an actor and I hope my apreciation will only continue to grow 😉
Well, even if you find him unhittable, I admire your taste in films and actors!! YOU WILL BEEEE OOONNEE OFFF USSSS……..
You know you have reached a certain age in life when you start to say things like “wearing a sexy cardigan” and you actually do find cardigans sexy!! My teenage self would be rolling her eyes and thinking “as if” right now!
But oh, he is fine!! That white t-shirt is wonderful and that voice is really amazing. He needs to do nothing but dramatic readings of love letters and poems until his next film starts (not counting Boston as that is not “his” film and was very last minute!).
Squirrel, I know you love cardigans so much, that you’ve built a cozy nest in another man’s black zipper cardigan.
I agree with you suggestion about his activities before the next film. It would be a suitable summer job for him…
well lets face it, it’s what is underneath the cardigan that is what is really sexy!
Only Ben could make a 1980’s denim shirt throwback look that good! Someone give that boy some cowboy boots, cowboy hat and a piece of straw to hold between his lips.
Yeehah!!
I like the professorial vibe that the cardigan and the glasses give him. I think “theater professor” is another job he needs to add to his list.
He could ditch the maron /purple or whatever colour those trousers are….. Love the cardigan, though, and the rose also….
I want him to offer me a bunch of roses (no need for a wall of flowers, just a little bunch – half a dozen…. )
Squirrel! Hello!
I respectfully disagree. There is no certain age where the love of cardigans begins. I’m a 20 something cardigan fiend! So much so that our beloved T.Fanty linked me up to the twitter ‘Hot Cardigan Wearer’. It’s magical. Much like this post. That voice. those letters. Boom!
You are obviously an intelligent girl who has wisdom and maturity beyond your years!
Oh, you :p
And if you are moving to London, I might need a crash pad one day so keeping in sweet with you!
Best friend!! *bats squirrel eyelashes coyishly*
cardigans are not sexy, Alan Partridge and golfers come to mind. However, men in sexy cable knit warm navy jumpers…. mmmmm nice to snuggle up to.
*swoon*
he’s adorable….
With that voice he could ask me everything. And I mean everything.
Nope. 🙂
Me neither…o_O
So, it’s my hard duty to roll in the hay with him.
With a heavy heart I accept my destiny… 🙂 oops, I mean 🙁
By all means.
*throws condoms to Vesta*
Hmmm, what should we do with those…
We are trying to be eco-friendly and use only organic string to tie those hay bales we are rolling.
But I guess we could use some natural latex ones to do that job!
Thank you, Eve 😀
I still check out the “Benny-would you?” posts on the grounds that I usually like quirky looking men and on the expectation that one day the answer will be yes but it’s still no. I won’t hi… jack by mentioning the “yes yes yes” guy, someone else will probably do that.
I think your name kind of gives it away, but bless you for trying to not be the first to mention To…. Ohhhhhhh, nearly did it!!
Tahiti!
rumour has it that Benny and the Tommy might be appearing a film together assuming of course Tommy is still yes yes
That rumour is always going to be my favorite rumour about B & T.
The second best would be that they’ll buy together the ice cream maker Ben&Jerry’s and change its name to Ben&Tommy’s…..But seriously, they should work together again, so I hope it happens sooner or later.
Vesta it was in the radio times who are reasonably reliable but as yet no funding and no announcement of stars although from Ben and Tom have supposedly put there names behind it. It’s a film based on a world war 1 novel Journeys End . Ben would play the leader/hero recounting events in the future. Tom a younger enthusiastic officer.
Mind you if it was April 1st I would have put it down as a joke.
Thanks for the tip icerose. I checked that and yes it’s pretty full of ifs & maybes & coulds, but it’s a nice one. Better than many other rumours floating in the ether, so that’s at least something.
I would love them to be a film together but not a WW1 epic, they need to be in the british Starksy and Hutch, or the male version of Cagney and Lacey or some kind of cop-duo comedy, they would be brilliant.
Besides, no way are their diaries going to coincide for years! Cumby is chocker for 2015 and who knows what Hiddles got planned… he must have Thor 3 hanging over his head like a six-month axe… 2015 or 2016.
And, i bet any plans he may had dropping in on Kevin Feige last week before his hols, must of been impossible considering the mess Marvel were in with Edgar Wright.
Oh ‘p’enny, I’d like some sort of cop-duo too, but I fear it’s a too big thing to wish for. But something (anything really!) contemporary would be great…
You’re too right about their schedules. Sigh. Someday, someday.
Yes to the ice cream, no to the WW1 film. They were already in a WW1 film together (that I won’t see), so why another?
Have you seen the #haneke4antman stuff on twitter? It’s hilarious. 😀
“I would love them to be a film together but not a WW1 epic, they need to be in the british Starksy and Hutch, or the male version of Cagney and Lacey or some kind of cop-duo comedy, they would be brilliant.”
I would watch this like it was my job.
I so want Cumby especially to do something that’s not Deadly Serious and/or an historical film. In my dream of dreams, he would be in a Frat Pack film. He definitely has the comedic timing to do something like that.
I agree with you guys, not a WWI movie, the settings should be contemporary.
Every day and twice on Sundays.
The vid of him and Louise Brealey reading the Chris and Bessie letters is lovely. They work so well together and have great chemistry with their acting. There’s also the recording of him on Friday reading the short story written by that 8 year old girl which is surprisingly good for that age range. The Iggy Pop letter was awesome too lol. I really think that, if he ever said eff it, I’m only doing stage stuff from now on, he’d be happy. He seems to love the immediate audience feedback, and he’s a great stage performer.
Louise Brealey deserves equal amounts of recognition, if not more! She’s an amazing performer and writer, truly lovely witty person!
She really is! People know her either as Molly or as that nurse on Casualty ages ago (her character gave birth in a car, iirc) and don’t realize she’s a very accomplished and wonderful stage actress as well as a character actress on telly. And a playwright!
I just wish I could be at the Hay festival….. Sighs
Benedict’s humor and warmth are what make him SOOO attractive….wish I could have gone to the Hay festival, what fun!
Damn, once you’re hooked by this guy there’s just no going back, the effect doesn’t fade. I will click any link to see new photos of his gorgeous curls, those eyes, those lips. Sigh. Read me the phone book darling.
The curls! The cheek bones! The voice! “Sexy cardigan”! And a dramatic reading of love letters? There is no possible way to resist.
Benedict plus a literary festival sounds like my idea of heaven. He looks so happy and full of joy up there on stage.
This. I wouldn’t be surprised if he “retired” from films when he’s older and just does stage for a while (and the occasional film cameo or supporting role, lol). He seems to really thrive on the immediate audience feedback and the energy of being on stage.
More pictures: http://londonphile.tumblr.com/post/87318988501/more-http-www-walesonline-co-uk-news-wales-news-h
Is it just me or the guy looks exhausted? Apparently, that Polish woman doesn’t do him any good. *clutches pearls*
LOL I was wondering when the mystery girlfriend would be mentioned!
In all seriousness, he’s supposed to be off to Boston either today or tomorrow to film his parts in Black Mass so I bet he’s going to look even more tired by week’s end.
Hmmm….love bite?
http://cumberbuddy.tumblr.com/post/87284170984/londonphile-listen-to-benedict-cumberbatch-on
Nah, shadow. It’s not in any of the other pics from the festival.
Ahh… this is the only photo of him shot in this angle.
That explains why he changed his shirt! LoL
I’m really starting to think if you went in his closet, it would just be a long line of purple pants and blue shirts, and perhaps a few suits. Maybe a white T or two.
Yup, and a WIDE variety of socks and hats!
Don’t forget the velvet. There’s velvet in there somewhere too!
And when he’s home alone, he pops on his “Star Trek” costume and pretends to be Kahn (or is that Khan?) again because it was soooo good to be a baddie!
Over accessorizing his little heart out, I’m sure he would throw a velvet scarf over that tight Khan outfit. Cut the chances of getting a cold while keeping the vocal cords toasty warm so he can repeat the “I. AM. KHAN.” line over and over again to perfection.
Yes, chambray shirts and purple skinny jeans, drawers of white tees, a row of black learher oxfords, a row of white knicks, fip flops and two shelves dedicated to his flat caps.
Well at least he knows what he likes.
Nothing wrong with a man of simple tastes. There’s the everyday look, then there’s the red carpet look.
Can I be mean a liitle bit mean @Jammy?
If it wasn’t Benny, but a woman we would be criticizing her so much…. We really need to balance things a bit more… don’t you agree? n
I’m not criticizing your comment, but OUR (me included) behaviour….. A woman with simple tastes would be criticized..
For me personally I wouldn’t criticize a woman’s simple taste. Why? Because I’m rather simple myself :p
I do understand what you mean though.
Oh me too… My fave clothes are jeans and t.-shirt… definitely… but here we tend to criticize women much more than men… 🙁
LMAO!
But on a serious note… I would give ANYTHING to be his stylist. When I would finish with him, I’d have him looking like a million dollars.
Please do it. Anyone who combines this shade of blue with this shade of purple needs a stylist. Put him in something less… colourful.
DO IT Gee Money, I need him out of those chambray shirts and purple pants for the love of god 🙁
HECK NO!
I find him utterly unsexy.
All the fuss about him here. I swear if he were a woman,the reverse would be the case.
No for me as well. The question keeps getting asked and the same small number of posters keep saying yes while the rest of us wonder why.
At times he’s good, but gorgeous? Sexy? Lord no! He’s like the A-sexual best friend.
And the same people post over and over that they wouldn’t. Meh.
I really think Kaiser’s Cumberlove is the reason why. And us few who agree are so appreciative.
While I do find him attractive, I agree about the part of it being reversed if he had been born a woman. I guess us girls are just less shallow than most boys. Well at least some of us are:P
Me neither. I don’t get his attraction at all.
I don’t understand it either, he is not my cup of tea. To me, he is one of those who don’t photograph well but on video, I can understand the appeal.
I fawn over Angelina Jolie just as much as I fawn over Cumby… so I disagree.
Cosign!
He looks exact perfection at the hay festival. He knows how to wear things
I love the Hay Festival, and he and Loo Brealey did a wonderful job. Get such a kick out of the letters they present every year!
He is adorable! Scrumptious even. Imagine the cumberbabies that he will make.
Would I hit it? Hell yeah!
Read the comments and @Secret Squirrel… I’m kindda mean girl… so Benedict has to walk the catwalk alongside Tom Hiddelston..
*Now the post is complete… laughing naughtly…!*
But it fits. If he is not too into filming in Boston maybe he could jump the pond for the fashion show. What would he wear though? I picture him wearing a smoking jacket with velet pants.
Tha last time on the catwalk Ben wore a black robe and held a cigar in one hand and a scotch in the other… 🙂
And my point was actually mentioning TH since everyone was trying to avoid him… Threadbomb..
No benny on the catwalk with.hiddles, he’s done enough fame~games for this year. its hiddles turn to grab a few headlines again.. been too long.
But the two with Fassy, McAvoy, all the avengers would be the perfect catwalk… for all girls, all tastes, all personalities….
*making a spoiled child’s face when denied her fave toy.. )
I can imagine this
Hiddles: (on the catwalk)
Cumby: (hidden and yelling) Shake it up, baby!
@nighty i’m in a selfish mood.i am kicking everyone.off the catwalk, just for tommy -strutting & hiddlebum-wagging. Hours of solo tufty-fluffy hair flirting for his audience….then i launch the ‘auction’…….
@Camil, no… Tommy on the catwalk, Benny reading love letters (who needs music on the catwalk)…
One’s body, the other one’s voice…
*melting here….*
Nooo let Tommy keep his voice! I love that hoarse undertone to his voice and I love how he modulates his voice – from young and innocent to sultry and dangerous.
Nighty-damn it. I had a feeling he had already worn something like that.
@Intro, much agreed on the voice. That modulation just takes me places.
now that would be an event
@Nighty, no, please no. I need my catwalk view of Tom uninterrupted and if it must be interrupted, then it needs to be to somebody I find attractive. This guy can walk with somebody else.
@Lilacflowers
Maybe we should have Hiddles and JLM in the show, and they can practice walking for us nightly. 😉
I do like the idea of all the Avengers walking. I imagine RDJ would ham it up, and I suspect the same of Mark Ruffalo. I can’t decide if Jeremy Renner would take it seriously or be a ham too. Chirs Hemstworth……Well, it wouldn’t matter what he did, as long as they put him in swimwear.
Oh, and just so I am not totally hijacking the thread, I love his voice, and usually love him in videos, but the pictures don’t do it for me, so I am gonna have to pass on the Cumberlove for now.
Abby_J, Hemsworth would totally have a lot of fun with it. He’s a funny guy. If pushed Renner could probably get into it too. And then, there’s my super secret husband Chris Evans. But yes, let’s make Tom and JLM practice for us.
Sounds like a great plan. I’ll start picking out a selection of casual wear and swimwear. 😉
Lets be honest, Chris Hemsworth doesn’t need to do anything, really. Just walk out in swimwear and just stand there. The money would start rolling in for the charity.
If Chris Evans is your super secret husband, I think that I will add Sebastian Stan to my rotation. He is the dreamiest Mad Hatter that I’ve ever seen.
Why pretend … yes I would.
This has got to be a trick question, right? Hells yeah! All day, everyday.
Never, ever in a million years. While he does seem like a sweet guy, do not see the sexy AT ALL. I’m more of a Timothy Olyphant or Charlie Hunnam kinda gal 😉
Yesss….I’ve been waiting for a Cumby post so I could write this. Enty had a blind item and the popular guess is Cumby.
#271. This Downton Abbey actress went on a few dates with this foreign born almost A list mostly television actor who every woman seems to love. She says they split because he went all Fifty Shades Of Grey on her and she is more of a turn off the lights and close your eyes kind of lover. Benedict Cumberbatch/Laura Carmichael
http://goo.gl/25xqZf
Conjecture, rumour, fiction, wishful thinking, whatever it is, I’ll take it.
Oh Laura… you don’t know what you’re missing… a little bit of that (excluding physical violence might actually be interesting…. hands tied up with a soft silky tie…. blindfolded…
depends…
(if it envolves chocking and things like that, no way… )
My pc says that link is dangerous in terms of virus…
I think most Cumberbitches are currently lost in a BDSM fantasy. I need a smoke now.
I’ll join you Hello Kitty…. and we can invite Ben also.. for a smoke, of course,,,
*plays the innocent…*
Oh, Benny is not foreign born….. so can’t be him…
Allen Leech – Irish;
Robert Bathurst- ghana; But none ar almost A-list…
Did she go out wth Fassy?
Enty is American so any non-American is foreign-born! It still works! 50 Shades of Cumby!
Then they’re misleading people since we’re talking about a British TV series and British actors…. whatever….. it’s the american way….
Yep, Nighty, it seems weird! Unless they’re referring to a US-born actress on there, like Elizabeth McGovern.
IDK I don’t think BC is mostly TV or almost A-list, so…no idea who either person is supposed to be LOL
Not too long ago CDAN did a master post of the grading for the celebrities. BC was down as a B-list (helped in part b/c of TFE doing so badly). So, could be him, could not. And he was only seen standing next to this woman at a concert once, and they left separately, if I’m remembering correctly.
I tried to post the link the other day and the mods removed it, but there was an interesting post over on IMDB in the “hilarious girlfriend gossip” thread from someone who apparently knows his PR minder and has the inside track on some of his less than savory behavior. Did anyone else see this?
Think I know what you’re talking about, J, but it’s not worth a bother. The initial ‘source’ turned out to be a known teenage troll. Kinda figured at the time, tbh, because the ‘inside info’ literally made zero sense.
Thanks Katie! I don’t know if it makes zero sense but it does seem totally contradictory to everything else we’ve seen/heard. And it seems weird that the source would be a friend of his publicist – seems exactly like the kind of stuff his publicist, of all people, would not make public.
No problem, J! I meant it made zero sense from a business prospective, I’d guess the source didn’t know how that stuff worked when she made it up.
Kids, if this came from that Crazy Day and Night site, you have got to take that site with a huge chunk of salt. They are always so vague that anyone can fit into the mold of what they are trying to say. Plus, there is more than one British/Non-American actor on TV on any given network.
And what grown woman has sex with the lights off? Don’t we get past that once we are out of our teens?
@M.A.F. lol, that’s true, but she could be shy.. ihihihihi… or this ould be an hyperbole…
It’s so silly…but interesting….
Let’s get the gags…
@SecretSquirrel where did you put the gags… you were the last one who had them in that date with Benny boy…. or was it with Tommy boy??
@Nighty – Sorry, you must have me confused with someone else. I NEVER use gags (unless you mean the “badum-tish” kind!). I like my boys to be able to talk/cry/yell/purr/whisper etc. The last time I handled a gag was to lend one to Mark Strong for the whole Sean-in-a-boot situation. Come to think of it, he hasn’t given that back yet. Hmmmmmmm…
Then who was it?
It’s Sixer! And she uses the gag on Tommy usually…
‘Twas me that used to employ the ball gag on Puddletom. I’ve tired of the game, however. So the gag is gathering dust.
Wait a minute. Fifty Shades of Gray kind of guy? But it’s Hiddleston, not Cumby! Oh, the disappointment… *sobs*
It’s more Cumby, I think…
I’m not getting into the whole “who could it be” debate, but can I just say that I think it is sad that men are reading that book and thinking that is what all women think/want. Its trash imo and is a fiction novel, not a reference manual!
And yes, I am being hypocritical as I haven’t read it, but have heard plenty about it. Won’t go near the movie either.
I’ve read 2 of 3 books (couldn’t go further, it was too horrible) and I still don’t know why this book has become kind of synonymous with some naughty BDSM action. They are not into it just because they are into it, but because he has a childhood trauma and that’s his way of coping and she wants to appeal to him (or change him and have a “vanilla” relationship). But she starts to cry when he spanks her (still doesn’t use her safe word) and they break up afterwards. It’s all kinds of twisted. Horrible book… bah… I need brain bleach.
And I seriously doubt that men read this book. Some probably get their idea of “naughty action” from porn which is not really better, I’d say.
I believe (want to believe) that men aren’t buying the cr*p written there… Let’s hope..
I don’t know… I’d say Hiddles if he did more telly mainly because he’s been rumored to be into being submissive. Or at least into pain.
Submissive?? Pain? I gotta a whip… 😛
Come to Mama Hiddly!!
PunkyMomma is putting on her Dommy gear right now . . .👠👠
oh no, I am sad if this is true because I actually liked them together. BUT Benedict is into kinky stuff has made my night lol.
The ‘he went 50 Shades on her’ comment in the CDAN post was a hint. Cumby had lunch with Dakota Johnson, the star of ’50 Shades.’
Matt Smith is dating a Downton Abbey actress, but I wouldn’t say he was near A-list or all women love. But ex-downton abbey actor, Dan Stevens, the one with blue eyes, that people adored in downton abbey, [not me] that left to work hard in America maybe the one.
All. The. Way. It just can’t get more than this.
Oh my effing word…BC is still at Hay and has been onstage reciting the Bard with Judi Dench!!!! In the same maroon jeans and cardigan, of course, but …. who cares about that! Oh, for a video of this magic!
Will there ever be a video available? I’ll donate to this charity.
Now wasn’t Sixer supposed to be going to this?
I went. But earlier – the first few days. I go every year for work.
@J
“there was an interesting post over on IMDB in the “hilarious girlfriend gossip” thread from someone who apparently knows his PR minder and has the inside track on some of his less than savory behavior. Did anyone else see this?”
I did! That was that “garlic bread story”, right? Not even remotely believable but hilarious. 🙂
yes! Five course meal and two bottles of wine by himself? Isn’t this the same man who’s said in multiple interviews he can’t finish a bottle alone without getting a hangover?
And apparently still hung up on KE. And a total man-whore. I don’t know. I want to call BS. But on the other hand I sort of love the dirt!
@J
“But on the other hand I sort of love the dirt! ”
And who doesn’t? *innocent smile*
Totally do not buy the KE thing but manwhore I do lol.
What story?? Spit it out girls, all of it… 🙂 Pleeeeaaassse?
* makes sweet, adorable, puppy eyes begging for mercy..*
@Nighty:
Found the link for you, enjoy! 🙂
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1212722/board/flat/229074204
Wow… lost track of the *bleeps* and in love with KE and… so many mistakes
gotta love the expression “u feel me” – supposedly, do you get my drift?
Oh wow.. thanks… worth reading… poor assistant who had to split the bill…. ahahahah …
The comments are even better..
Oh goodness, what a load of BS…
that is a load of BS, wish people wouldnt make this stuff up. it’s not even sensible, there is no grain of truth. it is total DL/Lipstick Alley/fan fiction/ pi’d off fan-made up pants!
Honestly, I saw that when it first appeared on IMDB and followed the link. Stopped reading when I saw it was written by a barely 13-year-old girl living in a small town near New York.
Woooooooooooooooow that reads like some bad self insert fan fic…
Hahahaha. Was that even in English? Omg don’t link this to any social justice websites!
Lmao! That was a fun read, though. It would be even more fun if I were 12.
We really need to insert the garlic bread into our Benny lexicon.
New hiddles photo http://torrilla.tumblr.com/post/87523586455/vote-malcolm-2014-tom-hiddleston-says#notes
I know, I know, sorry ladies but…is this Tahiti Tom? http://twitter.com/VoteMalcolm2014/status/473192335485194240/photo/1
Hate the tan.. he looks bad…
I don’t like the tan either. Maybe he has to look like this for HR? But it’s still a month away for that.
Yeah, his tan line around the hairline looks strange. Like someone tried to apply bronzer and didn’t get close enough.
Maybe he got burned and this was his attempt to even it out so he didn’t look like a lobster in the picture? Yeesh.
His hair does look cute though.
It MUST be Tahiti-Tom! That tan, the relaxed smile…. Damn, the holiday is working out well.
i just posted further up about this twit! i think it’s wonderful love the tanned face, pale chest. such a ‘brit abroad’ but i love the hair!!!! i hope that quiff just gets more curly and lovely.
the blue shirt!! does that need an iron? or is it a new special chambray borrowed from cumby?
oh his eyes look very blue…. 😀
He’s got a new shirt! Now I want to see if he’s wearing pattern shorts with it 😉
Love the quiff too. His natural haircolor seems to be light brown then.
I think he was a blond kid and darkened with age to a light brown/dark blond.
He looks rested and the smile is through the tips of his hair. Blue really is his color and I’m wondering if it’s the one he wore in Paris (recalling a video of him walking down the street, but not positive).
Hahaha, Nighty. But you know that’s how naturally pale people look like after a succesful holiday in a sunny place. Weird tan and a bit absent-minded look as a whole (just my personal experience though, I’m very pale).
The other option would be a sunburn…
No, it’s not @Vesta I’m pale, light brown hair and hazel green eyes,.. I don’t get tanned like that… never in life…. I’m as pale as he is…
Some pale people (esp. blond ones) tan and others do not. You can’t generalize with this… There are even gingers – who hardly ever tan – who can do it. Fassy for example (although he’s barely ginger without beard).
I wasn’t trying to be that serious in my comment. In reality different skin types react in their own ways to sun, I’m very aware of that. I was kind of half kidding about a “successful” sun holiday. It’s the cliche that you “must” get a tan, and any tan will do… 😉
Both me and my mum, she’s paler than me, blue eyes and blonde and we both get very very tanned… and don’t get sunburnt…
*lucky me… *
Oh, I misread you, Nighty, I thought you wanted to say pale people don’t tan – and not don’t tan that weird lol.
Can’t offer a real opinion on this, I never tan. I’m the vampire skin type.
I know true blonds that tan well. It does look like an odd tan on him though. I think because the face is tan, the neck is white and a little further down is pink. Maybe he fell asleep with a scarf on?
Who wears a scarf in Tahiti? Maybe the mystery lady put a dog collar on him *lol* ‘p’enny, too much leg humping?
I always thought Tom has a sh*tty make-up artist but unless he put on bronzer for the photo he has naturally weird tan line on his forehead? What’s up with that?
Isadora- headband. Headband and scarf. He’s gone to Tahiti to cross dress. I bet he’s pretty with some lipstick…
And smokey eyes! Makes the blue pop! hahaha…
Love the comments on the scarf and headband… lovely….
hence the bad tanning..
His chest appears to have a bit of a burn.
Bad? No, I think he looks relaxed. And whatever he’s done with his hair (longer and.. straightened?) I think it totally works!
And ladies… that’s a new shirt, isn’t it?! *shock*
oh for God’s sake, his tan looks weird, you actually see a white line near the hair, very pale on the neck, he looks like he applied a too darker foundation badly,,,
Ilove him, but he looks funny… lol
Right , lipstick – red or pink? or just gloss? The foundation is already on…
I think he’d be a red type person. Like Swifty. Not that it would look the best on him, though. Gloss would suit him better.
With the blue shirt, I’d say pink. And his lips are really better with lipgloss, I think, although I’m usually not a gloss person.
Look, I made him very pretty: http://s26.postimg.org/m0z6phiex/hiddles_tahiti.jpg
(And I blame you for this train wreck.) 😀
Isadora! That’s beautiful. A little too beautiful, in fact. What a sweet face…
Oh my God @Isadora… I’m going to have nightmares… I was going to dream about Benny and Tommy and now, there’s a 3rd one, who’ll hunt my dreams.. Is that Jane?
Maybe we should start calling them Tarzan and Jane..
@Isadora,
Hahahahahahahahaha! You should make that your avatar pic for this site!
@Isadora – So wait… The woman seen at the airport with Tom may well have been… Tom?? I can picture a whole Mrs Doubtfire moment where he keeps disappearing into the loo and coming out as a woman, then back to change again into his good self for a pic or two.
HAHAHA Isadora, this is hilarious 😀 And I wouldn’t be surprised if your manip ends up on Tumblr and people will believe Tommy actually went full drag queen for whatever occasion – like those manips of him sitting in bathtub or naked on the floor in his Adam wig lol.
the pic of Tom made up bears a scary resemblance to Miss Piggy.
I give her this, JA knows how to take a photo.
😀 You are asking for trouble…
🙂
It’s a process of elimination. Home made sign tells me this photo was taken on holiday. I would be stunned if he took his sister to Tahiti for 2 weeks and that leaves the only other women he’s been seen with this past year. He does look rested, that’s a positive.
Actually he has taken his sister on holiday fo that long before.
However if it is JA she’s clearly more interested in fanbaiting his fans than insuring he has sunscreen on.
Methinks at least one (or possibly more) posters are having fun at the expsense of us here. Throwing out rehashed gossip once again to see if anyone takes the bait!
Janeite, I’ve said it on the last Tommy’s post somewhere… I think Jane Is one of the commenters here…. HI JANE!!!! How’s the jungle???
Actually, the woman he’s been seen with most in the past year is Helena Bonham Carter.
Oh, some witchy hum… nice… she ~bellatrixed him?? Thank God he’s not Harry Potter, or I’d fear for his life… 😛
*Just kidding*
LOL. Having a wonderful time, wish you all were here. 🙂
I think he looks good, but in truth, I never think he looks bad! I’m loving hair a bit longer and his eyes are so blue.
And whether his skin color is from the sun or make up, I think his tone looks more natural. (I’m a blond and I only get pink/red in the sun – it can take hours for the color to turn – that’s what it looks like to me.)
He always has that line and I think any make up artist would do a better job of blending – so I don’t know – could it be from a hat? I think he runs wearing one, doesn’t he?
I can so relate to the odd tan lines – any time I go out in the sun for more than a few minutes (no matter how carefully I apply sunscreen) the oddest spots end up pink/speckled/nearly burned. I’ve even had that pale line on my forehead next to my hair – it was not a good look for me. No way to avoid the strong sun if you’re in the tropics unless you stay inside or under a palm tree and where’s the fun in that.
On a lighter note – I do love the blue shirt in that pic.
LMAO! I don’t anything about tans, but I do know they aren’t supposed to look like this.
@delorb… you just cracke me up : I don’t anything about tans, but I do know they aren’t supposed to look like this.
AHAHAHAHAH
It looks like a normal tan of a person with similar skin type than mine who was applying sunscreen on the face but forgot to apply it on the chest, and then went out with a hat on and mostly in T-shirts, but not always. So normal guy-on-vacation wardrobe. He looks like me every first 3 weeks of summer. I hate that.
Not saying it’s not a bronzer, it could as well be, but some of us do get these patches naturally and my colours are similar to his.
The problem isn’t just the tan line, it’s that the COLOR of the tan on his face is…off. It’s dark brown and the rest of him is red or pale. It definitely looks like makeup applied really badly.
He’s such a handsome guy, but unfortunately the sun doesn’t suit him. No big whoop. I still dig him. 🙂
I’m not sure. Again, it could be make-up, he’s certainly had episodes of that on premières, but he looks suspiciously like me in the summer in both colours and in patches, so I wouldn’t be too fast in passing judgements (in this case!).
I’m naturally light-brown-hair-pale-skin-type and my mother is a redhead which shows in me too. I apply sunscreen on face and arms and legs, so parts that are always exposed, and I normally get this kind of brown colour (not really sunbathing, just walking in the sun). I usually also put sunscreen on cleavage, but I have different tops so sometimes I get caught by the sun in some places and if I’m lucky it’s just mild red. And my neck, no matter what I do with it, stays milky white. Position of the head and the sun I guess?
So Tom’s patches and colours do look awfully familiar. Not all of us are blessed with perfect skin. Now I wonder if people see me at the seaside and think: Look at that crazy broad, she’s wearing make-up to the beach. What a nutjob. 😀
This is massive, dreadful sun damage. He also looks disturbingly thin. It looks awful. He does look rested and happy at least though, and I am glad for that.
He really does not the know the meaning of “sunscreen is your friend. it will give you a tan while protecting you”. The photos last year from Cannes Film Festival really did show just how damaged his face really is.
And his weight looks fine to me. The only time he looked skinny was while he was making OLLA.
he had gorgeous freckles at Cannes last year, and his hair was a lovely shade in the sun, against the blue suit. Very very handsome. But, yeah he does look skinny, again. Think he would fatten up on holiday, eating too much fresh food and not enough puddings.
I like him with a lot of a colour, and [loki pale] people are being a bit mean about his white forehead stripe, though, he’s always had it, look at the old pics of a couple of years ago. [fan selfie ones] It’s just that his hair is way off his forehead at the moment, when normally he has a few curls covering it up. I hope the longer hair means he is growing it again, so suits him longer. but who knows, wait till he gets back to the UK, and see if he hits a proper hairdresser and see if he gets scalped again.
I was going off him, til I saw that pic yesterday. ;-D
@`P`enny, I’m with you on the shirt, hair and skin color!
He has had the stripe for years. I’ve never seen anyone with skin discoloration like that before. So many of us grew up before SPF’s were popular and have skin damage, so I think I would have seen something like that before. He’s probably just too busy boating around the Tahitian waters reciting sonnets to tropical fish to bother with a sunscreen & hair combing, and got a little pink .
I think he looks good – well rested.
People tend to skip sunscreen/sunblock on the forehead because it can run down into the eyes and burn and wearing a hat will result in lines where the hat ends. I’ve had similar lines across my forehead. And for some of us, sunscreen just doesn’t do it, it has to be full sunblock of a really high spf.
@Lilac it depends on the sunscreen… I use ISDIN, it’s in gel, so it doesn’t run down…. and it has to be one specific for the face because of the eyes. Of course if you apply the body suncreens in your face, that will happen… Two sunscreens- one specific for the face,and one specific for the body.. always…
RE: The odd forehead tan…it’s the receding hairline. Dude clearly got some massive sun damage back when the golden retriever/noodle hair was in full effect. Now that his hairline is snaking upwards, he has that weird white stripe. He needs a good dermatologist and some propecia STAT. (Would still hit it, pause to apply SPF 50 to it, and hit it again, though.)
Dear Lord – Primrose, I think I snorted iced tea out my nose when I read that last sentence. And to quote the Three Stooges (or was it the Marx Brothers?) “I resemble that remark!”
YES! I was just thinking of writing the same thing about the receding hairline and the skin being whiter there namely due to this!
Hiddles obviously has to take particular care of his face AND forehead – which he doesn’t – which just begs for the following question: if he’s with a loving GF, why the heck isn’t she taking more care of him? 😉
Seriously though, my husband is naturally very pale. When we have a seaside vacation, I *always* remind him to put on sunscreen, heck, I put it on him myself because he just forgets to do that/doesn’t care as much as I do about his skin.
If there’s a GF there and she doesn’t give a damn… Hiddles, call me, I’ll fly over with the strongest sunscreen and show you how to protect that beautifully pale skin of yours! 😀
@intro
his GF is doing what I would be doing, sleeping by swimming pool, recovering from his leg-humping, while the energetic puppy is off running the beach and catching fish.
I love Tom’s hair in this pic, but oh honey that’s such a bad tan like what’s up with that white strip of line near his hair line.
Funnily Tom’s tan is reminding me of the time when Ross from FRIENDS got a fake tan twice 😛
All I remember is his glow in the dark teeth! Remember that episode? LMAO!
I’m noticing the folded back nails on the right hand in Tommy’s photo. No manicure for many days. And the long hair. And the uneven tanning problems. And why does a guy who sneaks out of his Toronto hotel to get his hands and feet mani’d and pedi’d give up grooming for a couple of weeks in Tahiti? S. E. X. So hopefully that’s NOT his sister he’s with. He’s got back-to-back sister-loving roles in his current movies (that’s “Crimson Peak” and does everybody know Robert Laing’s eventually shacking-up situation in “High Rise”?) Wouldn’t want our sparkly unicorn boy to start having unsavoury rumours attached to him–LOL–a la Cumby.
OMG I am laughing my ass off… apparently, he “popped the question” about RIchard III to Judi Dench while she was taking audience questions. He’d approached her about the role in the play ages ago but she’s been eh about it so he, apparently, put her on the spot and she agreed, lol. Was it a set up? WHo knows, but it’s cute.
It was cute even if it was probably a set up. She seemed game for it and it sounds like they chatted for a bit onstage and had some fun with it. I certainly wouldn’t have turned him down 🙂
Apparently he was a “special surprise audience guest” for reading Twelfth Night with her after his “question from the audience”. I’m sure it was at least, in part, set up between the two of them since actually doing the show would mean agents and such being involved in the final say-so, but still cute to have happened lol. And it’ll be a good “theatre story” for interviews one day.
heheh yes I heard about this and also she made a dick joke regarding Benedict, one has to LOVE Judi Dench no matter what
Would I? Absolutely!
Intelligent, literate, fantastic voice, great hair, gorgeous eyes and smile, plus many other physical attributes? There are so many things about this guy that appeal to me, it wouldn’t have to think twice.
For the life of me I do not get this guy’s appeal.
I don’t care for his looks, but his voice is nice.
That’s OK, birch. There are plenty of us who do !
I’ve always had a thing for English men anyway since age of 14 watching Monty Python. His voice is dead deep and sexy, twinkly blue eyes, hell of an actor and funny. For the women who don’t dig him,fair enough but don’t burst our bubble.
ok.. off to bed, thanks for the laughter… had lot of fun with both Benny and Tommy boys..
See you tomorrow…
I don’t find him fall on the floor attractive, but I like him.
Ugh those pants kill me.
I am thinking I am going to send a print off of the best Celebitchy threads on Benny and Hiddles/Cross threads and send them to their agents, in a card with love. Because some of them are really funny and I think they would love to read the funny stuff, from lovely otters, to bunkies and to garden parties and murders in the jaguar boot.
I wonder if they see the funny side? ‘evil grin’
‘P’enny send them the last hiddles thread. We covered literally everything in it
I kindda doubt it!!!
There’s a limit to anyone’s sense of humoour when it comes to ourselves..
Also, afterwards, we’d have to change our nicknames here, because they might decide to stop by from time to time….
why change our nicknames? I would love to be a fly on the wall and see if they get to know us, and which ones of us are nice, which are the snarkiest and which are most evil and mean. LOL! No, I would edit out the mean stuff, and GF stuff.
Hiddles thinks tumblr is a dark and dangerous place and only dared visit once three years ago. Benny on the other hand has a filthy sense of humour and likes Reddit. So CB is sort of in the middle.
Maybe.. I don’t know… definitely no mean or GF parts, just the funny comments… but still… don’t know….
We have to keep Sean Bean in the boot comments. Somewhere in a Benny, Hiddles and Fassy thread Sean Bean always turn up!
I kind of hope She sees our comments about her being a fangirl/fanbaiter. People would like her if she stopped. so in a way it would be helping her. That’s not being mean is it?
I promised you a Hay report so here it is. Saw BC do Letters Live both Fri and Sat. Absolutely f-ing fabulous. The videos don’t do justice to his stage presence by a long shot. He doesn’t get enough love for his substantial comedic skills. Loo Brealy was also incredible and their chemistry is off the chart. On Sat they did a cute thing after the last letter where they skipped off stage holding hands, like kids. Sounds silly but was clearly spontaneous and adorable.
I didn’t get to speak to BC. I could have because I was really close to him several times, but he was always surrounded by minders or other people and I just didn’t want to bother him. But I walked behind him so close at one point that he must have felt my breath on his neck. Also sat right behind him at Rhodes’ concert. He is bulkier than you would think, not overly tall and frankly more beautiful irl than I could have imagined. He looks like he’s been created by aliens attempting to create the perfect human but getting it just slightly wrong. The skin just a little too translucent, the eyes a little too far apart and a little too bright. Glorious!
He also was incredibly sweet to everybody who met him. As I was walking behind him a couple of children asked for his autograph. It was impossible because he was in the middle of a massive crowd (imagine a rock concert) but he was so sweet about it and spoke to them in the gentlest voice you could imagine. I couldn’t help but smile. It was very obvious that he loves children. I made a new friend there and she spoke to him after the Judi Dench thing and he was really lovely to her, chatting with her for a good while.
The experience has only cemented my admiration for him. I love that he has simple tastes and isn’t spending all his money on nonsense. I love that he came to James Rhodes’s concert (which was brilliant and hilariously funny) with muddy shoes and no minders. I love that he wears the same two blue shirts all the time, and wrinkled pants. I’m so sick of the materialism displayed by most celebs that he’s like a breath of fresh air. On a side note, I call complete BS on the girlfriend rumour because surely he wouldn’t be hanging around in Wales for three days without her, and go out dancing without her, if she existed. Especially since he just about to go abroad again. I wish I could report something negative about him to help you purge yourself of any cumbercrush you might have, but I’m afraid that he appears to be flawless, physically and otherwise. People say he even smells great. The bastard.
Thank you JoJo. Your first hand account is much appreciated. I think some have said that he’s started bulking up for a role. Perhaps the new Johnny Depp film?
Thanks JoJo. That was a lovely account of your Hay experience and it is always nice to hear about first hand encounters with Benedict.
I would have loved to be there.
You’re welcome. Hay was a great experience over all. I also got to see Ian McEwan, which was pretty damn cool. Benedict came across as being lovely and down to earth. Haven’t heard anybody report anything but great encounters with him. I got the distinct impression that he is a bit of a clown at heart and likes to make people laugh.
What a brilliant account JoJo! Thanks for sharing.
lovely – well jealous
Such a beautiful account, thanks @Jojo! And glad you enjoyed yourself! It is even more precious in the light of what that journalist tweeted about him being intentionally rude (which I’m now willing to conclude might be based on their previous history of interactions).
@ Jojo, thank you for sharing this! It’s really wonderful to read accounts from events where he can relax and be somewhat himself.
Cumbemergency — still laughing. If you say it a couple of times really fast it’s a real tongue twister
Why does every single day’s edition of of Celebitchy have to include this guy?! I still don’t get it. smh
I don’t get all the Kardshian posts either but I just stroll on past and ignore them, as I do anything else that doesn’t interest me.
I adore these posts. I dont really post, but reading from these wonderful posters keeps me sane at times and feeling like I have Cumberbuddies! I love Benedict Cumberbatch!
I still don’t understand this “is he sexy or not” debate.
Sexy is entirely subjective. I’m wondering how old the majority of the posters are here, because that seems very much a debate wirh which younger people seem to be preoccupied.
Benedict Cumberbatch is a sexy person. It’s all about the whole package, his charisma and talent and just the uniqueness of him. It’s not quantifiable. He just exists and is sexy.
Great report on Hay. Thank you. The videos of him at Hay are fantastic
Here’s a few more of him. One of them shows him skipping off stage with Louise
http://youtu.be/SQgL7iuhL4I
http://youtu.be/SDB1me1jVt8
Ben is a girl, curly brown hair, he was with her today on “A View From The Bridge” with Mark Strong, it’s not a friend, because after the show they left together in his car
Wow, Benedict sure has been busy with the ladies this past month. The blonde on the Lower East Side, lunch with Miss Johnson, the Polish creature at the film festival, Monaco with Lady K, and now this mystery brunette at the cinema…and all on such a tight schedule with so much travel. Surely they can’t all be the “secret girlfriend”.
I can’t find any other mentions of this girl but if it’s true, I wouldn’t think much of it. He’s clearly comfortable going out to shows with female friends, as he did with Louise Brealey a month or two ago and has done in the past. And leaving an event in the same car doesn’t seem like proof of anything. It’s quite sensible to me that he’d give a friend a ride home if they don’t live far (especially given his comments about preferring to carpool), but maybe I’m too old to understand these things anymore.
It is the same person. She wears wigs, has an expert make up artist, and can even change her height! 🙂
Okay, so the other women are probably just to throw us off the scent of the super secret girlfriend.
@Kost- where did you find this info, might I ask?
@Abby_J – exactly what i was thinking. she might be the better actor of the two! I wonder who this dynamo is…
@ NoisyBird, I’m not Kost, but I think I know where he/she got it from. Two Russian girls went to Strong’s play at the Young Vic, saw Benedict and wrote about it on a Russian forum. You can follow the link from e-l-e-n-a-t Tumblr.
In short, he came alone, met up with a group of friends, including women, kissed and hugged all of them (yes, these are the details these fans got into). After the play he was at the bar, standing with the curly-haired woman and waiting for Mark Strong and the other members of the cast to join. He hugged and kissed all of them, they talked, drank and then he left the theatre bar with the curly-haired woman. He also talked to fans and signed a few autographs.
No one mentioned the car, that they were together or that she is his girlfriend. I’m sorry if I misinterpreted Kost’s post due to the language barrier, but it really isn’t an accurate account of what happened.
Basically, it’s a non-story and I usually wouldn’t even bother following it up or writing it up. It’s just that I’m really miffed at and bored with all these nonsensical “reports” and stories that seem to be appearing here lately (and judging by the style are coming from the same person). I’m all for gossip, that’s why I’m here, but constructing fables based on stalkerish reports/Instagram photos is not my thing.
@Abby_J, I think you nailed it 🙂
Pictures @Kost or it never happened…
I did see someone else on Twitter saying they saw him with a ‘pretty brunette’ at a play called Privacy on Thursday (day before Hay) however they appeared to be ‘arguing’ and he was apparently rude to the fan who tweeted.
Hm. I wonder that he would be a difficult man to be involved with given his work habits.
Well, if I was in the middle of a disagreement with a friend (either romantic or platonic), I wouldn’t be too happy about being interrupted, much less having the fight tweeted for the world to see. Can’t blame him for being rude under those circumstances.
Noisy Bird, isn’t the gossip that Cumberbatch’s work habits were a major factor in the breakups with both his recent girlfriends-of-record?
@daisy- Youre totally right. Id be angry too. I dont really have any idea about the reasons his past relationships ended, i wouldnt be surprised if that was the gossip though.
I think Benny is just enjoying himself. Whatever that may mean.