Benedict Cumberbatch looked gorgeous at the Hay Festival: would you hit it?

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.

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  1. MediaB says:

    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.

  2. GeeMoney says:

    Love him!

  3. PunkyMomma says:

    “I could hug you ’till you dropped”. Swoon. My Otter, my Otter. *thud*

  4. Intro Outro says:

    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!” 😀

    • Ag-UK says:

      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 🙂

      • Intro Outro says:

        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 😀

      • jammypants says:

        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!

      • Intro Outro says:

        @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.

      • jammypants says:

        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.

      • Isadora says:

        @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.)

      • pru says:

        @ 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.

      • Intro Outro says:

        @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!

    • kri says:

      @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.

      • Intro Outro says:

        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 😉

      • kri says:

        Well, even if you find him unhittable, I admire your taste in films and actors!! YOU WILL BEEEE OOONNEE OFFF USSSS……..

  5. Secret Squirrel says:

    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!).

    • Vesta says:

      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…

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        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!!

      • bookwormfoodie says:

        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.

      • Nighty says:

        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…. )

    • allons-y alonso says:

      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!

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        You are obviously an intelligent girl who has wisdom and maturity beyond your years!

      • allons-y alonso says:

        Oh, you :p

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        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*

    • 'p'enny says:

      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.

  6. Nighty says:

    *swoon*
    he’s adorable….

  7. Eleonor says:

    With that voice he could ask me everything. And I mean everything.

  8. Jenna says:

    Nope. 🙂

    • Eve says:

      Me neither…o_O

      • Vesta says:

        So, it’s my hard duty to roll in the hay with him.
        With a heavy heart I accept my destiny… 🙂 oops, I mean 🙁

      • Eve says:

        By all means.

        *throws condoms to Vesta*

      • Vesta says:

        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 😀

    • Anne tommy says:

      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.

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        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!!

      • A.Key says:

        Tahiti!

      • icerose says:

        rumour has it that Benny and the Tommy might be appearing a film together assuming of course Tommy is still yes yes

      • Vesta says:

        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.

      • icerose says:

        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.

      • Vesta says:

        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.

      • 'p'enny says:

        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.

      • Vesta says:

        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.

      • Isadora says:

        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. 😀

      • Green Girl says:

        “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.

      • Duri says:

        I agree with you guys, not a WWI movie, the settings should be contemporary.

  9. MissMary says:

    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.

  10. A.Key says:

    Louise Brealey deserves equal amounts of recognition, if not more! She’s an amazing performer and writer, truly lovely witty person!

    • MissMary says:

      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!

  11. Miss Jupitero says:

    I just wish I could be at the Hay festival….. Sighs

  12. amarbow says:

    Benedict’s humor and warmth are what make him SOOO attractive….wish I could have gone to the Hay festival, what fun!

  13. wik says:

    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.

  14. pru says:

    The curls! The cheek bones! The voice! “Sexy cardigan”! And a dramatic reading of love letters? There is no possible way to resist.

  15. bookwormfoodie says:

    Benedict plus a literary festival sounds like my idea of heaven. He looks so happy and full of joy up there on stage.

    • MissMary says:

      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.

  16. CoffeeCat says:

    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*

  17. Sighs says:

    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.

    • pru says:

      Yup, and a WIDE variety of socks and hats!

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        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!

      • pru says:

        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.

    • allheavens says:

      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.

    • jammypants says:

      Nothing wrong with a man of simple tastes. There’s the everyday look, then there’s the red carpet look.

      • Nighty says:

        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..

      • jammypants says:

        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.

      • Nighty says:

        Oh me too… My fave clothes are jeans and t.-shirt… definitely… but here we tend to criticize women much more than men… 🙁

    • GeeMoney says:

      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.

      • Isadora says:

        Please do it. Anyone who combines this shade of blue with this shade of purple needs a stylist. Put him in something less… colourful.

      • Duri says:

        DO IT Gee Money, I need him out of those chambray shirts and purple pants for the love of god 🙁

  18. Nene says:

    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.

    • FLORC says:

      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.

    • A.Key says:

      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

    • Janet says:

      Me neither. I don’t get his attraction at all.

    • M.A.F. says:

      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.

    • GeeMoney says:

      I fawn over Angelina Jolie just as much as I fawn over Cumby… so I disagree.

    • Michele says:

      Cosign!

  19. Ellen says:

    He looks exact perfection at the hay festival. He knows how to wear things

  20. Katie says:

    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!

  21. melain says:

    He is adorable! Scrumptious even. Imagine the cumberbabies that he will make.

  22. LMB says:

    Would I hit it? Hell yeah!

  23. Nighty says:

    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…!*

    • M.A.F. says:

      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.

      • Nighty says:

        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..

      • 'p'enny says:

        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.

      • Nighty says:

        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.. )

      • Camil says:

        I can imagine this

        Hiddles: (on the catwalk)

        Cumby: (hidden and yelling) Shake it up, baby!

      • 'p'enny says:

        @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’…….

      • Nighty says:

        @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….*

      • Intro Outro says:

        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.

      • M.A.F. says:

        Nighty-damn it. I had a feeling he had already worn something like that.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        @Intro, much agreed on the voice. That modulation just takes me places.

    • icerose says:

      now that would be an event

    • Lilacflowers says:

      @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.

      • Abby_J says:

        @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.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        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.

      • Abby_J says:

        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.

  24. Lola says:

    Why pretend … yes I would.

  25. delorb says:

    This has got to be a trick question, right? Hells yeah! All day, everyday.

  26. Sassy says:

    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 😉

  27. Hello Kitty says:

    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.

    • Nighty says:

      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…

      • Hello Kitty says:

        I think most Cumberbitches are currently lost in a BDSM fantasy. I need a smoke now.

      • Nighty says:

        I’ll join you Hello Kitty…. and we can invite Ben also.. for a smoke, of course,,,

        *plays the innocent…*

    • Nighty says:

      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?

      • Hello Kitty says:

        Enty is American so any non-American is foreign-born! It still works! 50 Shades of Cumby!

      • Nighty says:

        Then they’re misleading people since we’re talking about a British TV series and British actors…. whatever….. it’s the american way….

      • Katie says:

        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

      • J says:

        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?

      • Katie says:

        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.

      • J says:

        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.

      • Katie says:

        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.

    • M.A.F. says:

      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?

      • Nighty says:

        @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??

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        @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…

      • Nighty says:

        Then who was it?

      • Isadora says:

        It’s Sixer! And she uses the gag on Tommy usually…

      • Sixer says:

        ‘Twas me that used to employ the ball gag on Puddletom. I’ve tired of the game, however. So the gag is gathering dust.

    • CoffeeCat says:

      Wait a minute. Fifty Shades of Gray kind of guy? But it’s Hiddleston, not Cumby! Oh, the disappointment… *sobs*

      • Nighty says:

        It’s more Cumby, I think…

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        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.

      • Isadora says:

        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.

      • Nighty says:

        I believe (want to believe) that men aren’t buying the cr*p written there… Let’s hope..

    • MissMary says:

      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.

    • Duri says:

      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.

      • Miss Scarlet says:

        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.’

    • 'P'enny says:

      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.

  28. Naddie says:

    All. The. Way. It just can’t get more than this.

  29. Encumbered says:

    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!

  30. Roberta says:

    Now wasn’t Sixer supposed to be going to this?

  31. CoffeeCat says:

    @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. 🙂

    • J says:

      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!

    • Nighty says:

      What story?? Spit it out girls, all of it… 🙂 Pleeeeaaassse?

      * makes sweet, adorable, puppy eyes begging for mercy..*

      • CoffeeCat says:

        @Nighty:
        Found the link for you, enjoy! 🙂
        http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1212722/board/flat/229074204

      • Nighty says:

        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..

      • Intro Outro says:

        Oh goodness, what a load of BS…

      • 'p'enny says:

        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!

      • Leo says:

        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.

      • MissMary says:

        Woooooooooooooooow that reads like some bad self insert fan fic…

      • Sighs says:

        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.

  32. Sarah says:

    I know, I know, sorry ladies but…is this Tahiti Tom? http://twitter.com/VoteMalcolm2014/status/473192335485194240/photo/1

    • Nighty says:

      Hate the tan.. he looks bad…

      • Sarah says:

        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.

      • Kate2 says:

        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.

    • Vesta says:

      It MUST be Tahiti-Tom! That tan, the relaxed smile…. Damn, the holiday is working out well.

    • 'p'enny says:

      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…. 😀

      • Ellen says:

        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.

      • Isadora says:

        I think he was a blond kid and darkened with age to a light brown/dark blond.

      • pixie-stix says:

        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).

    • Vesta says:

      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…

      • Nighty says:

        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…

      • Isadora says:

        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).

      • Vesta says:

        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… 😉

      • Nighty says:

        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… *

      • Isadora says:

        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.

      • Sighs says:

        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?

      • Isadora says:

        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?

      • Sighs says:

        Isadora- headband. Headband and scarf. He’s gone to Tahiti to cross dress. I bet he’s pretty with some lipstick…

      • Isadora says:

        And smokey eyes! Makes the blue pop! hahaha…

      • Nighty says:

        Love the comments on the scarf and headband… lovely….
        hence the bad tanning..

      • Lilacflowers says:

        His chest appears to have a bit of a burn.

    • Isadora says:

      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*

      • Nighty says:

        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

      • Nighty says:

        Right , lipstick – red or pink? or just gloss? The foundation is already on…

      • Sighs says:

        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.

      • Isadora says:

        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.

      • Isadora says:

        Look, I made him very pretty: http://s26.postimg.org/m0z6phiex/hiddles_tahiti.jpg
        (And I blame you for this train wreck.) 😀

      • Sighs says:

        Isadora! That’s beautiful. A little too beautiful, in fact. What a sweet face…

      • Nighty says:

        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..

      • Janeite says:

        @Isadora,
        Hahahahahahahahaha! You should make that your avatar pic for this site!

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        @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.

      • Intro Outro says:

        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.

      • Old Enough says:

        the pic of Tom made up bears a scary resemblance to Miss Piggy.

    • Koko says:

      I give her this, JA knows how to take a photo.

      • Isadora says:

        😀 You are asking for trouble…

      • Koko says:

        🙂
        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.

      • Ellen says:

        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.

      • Janeite says:

        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!

      • Nighty says:

        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???

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Actually, the woman he’s been seen with most in the past year is Helena Bonham Carter.

      • Nighty says:

        Oh, some witchy hum… nice… she ~bellatrixed him?? Thank God he’s not Harry Potter, or I’d fear for his life… 😛

        *Just kidding*

      • Koko says:

        LOL. Having a wonderful time, wish you all were here. 🙂

    • pru says:

      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?

      • Dara says:

        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.

    • delorb says:

      LMAO! I don’t anything about tans, but I do know they aren’t supposed to look like this.

      • Nighty says:

        @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

      • Crocuta says:

        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.

      • Kate2 says:

        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. 🙂

      • Crocuta says:

        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. 😀

    • Miss Jupitero says:

      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.

      • M.A.F. says:

        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.

      • 'P'enny says:

        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

      • pru says:

        @`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.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        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.

      • Nighty says:

        @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…

    • Primrose Path says:

      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.)

      • Dara says:

        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!”

      • Intro Outro says:

        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! 😀

      • 'P'enny says:

        @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.

    • Duri says:

      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 😛

      • delorb says:

        All I remember is his glow in the dark teeth! Remember that episode? LMAO!

      • TangiersEve says:

        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.

  33. MissMary says:

    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.

    • bookwormfoodie says:

      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 🙂

      • MissMary says:

        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.

    • Duri says:

      heheh yes I heard about this and also she made a dick joke regarding Benedict, one has to LOVE Judi Dench no matter what

  34. From North of Boston says:

    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.

  35. Cumberbeyoch says:

    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.

  36. Nighty says:

    ok.. off to bed, thanks for the laughter… had lot of fun with both Benny and Tommy boys..
    See you tomorrow…

  37. decorative item says:

    I don’t find him fall on the floor attractive, but I like him.

  38. Dani says:

    Ugh those pants kill me.

  39. 'P'enny says:

    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’

    • Ellen says:

      ‘P’enny send them the last hiddles thread. We covered literally everything in it

    • Nighty says:

      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….

      • 'P'enny says:

        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.

      • Nighty says:

        Maybe.. I don’t know… definitely no mean or GF parts, just the funny comments… but still… don’t know….

      • Ellen says:

        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?

  40. Jojo says:

    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.

    • delorb says:

      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?

    • Maggie says:

      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.

    • Jojo says:

      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.

    • Shiv says:

      What a brilliant account JoJo! Thanks for sharing.

    • 'P'enny says:

      lovely – well jealous

    • Intro Outro says:

      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).

      • Leo says:

        @ Jojo, thank you for sharing this! It’s really wonderful to read accounts from events where he can relax and be somewhat himself.

  41. Camile says:

    Cumbemergency — still laughing. If you say it a couple of times really fast it’s a real tongue twister

  42. Velvet Elvis says:

    Why does every single day’s edition of of Celebitchy have to include this guy?! I still don’t get it. smh

    • Maggie says:

      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.

    • NoisyBird says:

      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!

  43. Tippett says:

    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.

  44. betsy says:

    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

  45. Kost says:

    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

    • Raven says:

      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.

      • Abby_J says:

        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.

    • NoisyBird says:

      @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…

      • Leo says:

        @ 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 🙂

    • LoveBites says:

      Pictures @Kost or it never happened…

    • Shiv says:

      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.

      • Noisy Bird says:

        Hm. I wonder that he would be a difficult man to be involved with given his work habits.

      • Daisy says:

        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?

      • NoisyBird says:

        @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.

  46. Noisy Bird says:

    I think Benny is just enjoying himself. Whatever that may mean.