Okay you guys. It’s time to get back on our normal gossip schedule. Everyone needs to bring their A-game. This is not a drill!!! Here are some photos of Benedict Cumberbatch and his fiancée Sophie Hunter at last night’s Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala. We haven’t seen them on the red carpet together since December 7th, when they attended the Moet British Independent Film Awards. So, what’s happened in the last month? Well… just my opinion, and this seriously hasn’t been confirmed anywhere: Sophie is starting to show. I think Sophie entered her second trimester sometime in the last month.
Here are my three reasons for why I think Sophie is knocked up. One, while it’s not unheard-of to see an actor’s date wear a baggy, sacky dress to one of these events, the fact that Sophie is also positioning her body in a weird way while holding her clutch conveniently in front of her mid-section seems like she’s trying to hide something. Two, the idea that Sophie is more than three months pregnant simply makes sense with the weird timeline for these two. They were dating for a few months and then BAM, she gets knocked up and Benedict proposes, because he’s old-fashioned about knocking a lady up and making her his wife. Three… she just looks pregnant to me. She’s glowing, her boobs look bigger and she looks swollen in the baby area.
So, if she is knocked up (she is), congrats to Sophie and Bendy. What a proud Otter Papa he will be.
PS… I’ll cover the other photos from Palm Springs tomorrow. This is just our BREAKING OTTER NEWS feature.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Ugh.
They look so unbelievably boring.
So… is it safe to say I am not the only one who doesn’t get the fuss on these two? besides the horrifying amount of posts about them which screams oscar campaign.
Can’t wait for Oscar Season to come and GO.
I don’t get the fuss over them either. He’s boring and a snob and she seems to like the spotlight a little too much. Now, if they did or said something interesting or scandalous, then maybe I’d be interested in them. So I basically just came here to say WTF lol.
Her bump is far more believable than Beyonce’s ever was.
Call me crazy, but I’m genuinely happy for them. He reminds me of my brother, so he has zero sex appeal for me, but as so, he seems like the kind to have been flirting with marriage, discovered a pregnancy and happily made it official. I’m guessing they’ll have a sweet wedding, likely just after the birth, and be a cute family to watch. Please have a ginger baby!!
They look like brother and sister. I don’t get the Cumberfuss either. He has a weak chin. Unattractive to me in a man.
Yeah, he looks proud. Like he’s just been poleaxed.
Well, add “poleaxed” to my vocabulary. Who says gossip is mind numbing??
“Poleaxed” has been around for decades.
“Poleaxed” 🙂 I’m going to make that my word for the day!
The Bendy non-fans are out in force at the start of this thread! I am not a fan,not a detractor, I have certainly not followed all the posts about his body language and attitude indicating the relationship is all a fraud, but he does look pee-ed off here, but am not drawing any major conclusion from that. Her dress is unpleasant though. If there is a Cumbersprog in the offing, this site will spontaneously combust…
Not pregnant. Just a bad fashion choice. As expected from her.
He still looks miserable.
And since all of this silliness has reached a new level of WTF, I think I’m done reading and commenting about this for now.
When even the Fail isn’t commenting on it in their article this morning, I give the rumors less credence.
She’s pregnant, give it up folks. That’s the only reason he’s engaged to someone he clearly doesn’t even like. It’s a crap dress, but you can still see it’s not just air under there, it’s belly, and if you think it’s fake just to troll fans, then I think that’s a bit OTT, even for HW. Surprised someone said it out loud, really. Cue announcement in about oh, one week….
and still he is NOT in a hurry to get married 😉
But isn’t that even more depressing? He walks around looking like his house has burned down for the past three months and he used the engagement for PR and now this? She could’ve easily stayed away? There’s no law to say that SOs must always accompany on a red carpet? She could’ve easily stayed away from photogs and now everything is being timed towards the Oscar campaign finale.
Why would he do that? Capitalising on this mess for publicity is the most depressing element of all.
He liked her enough to have unprotected sex with her 🙂
Oh honey, they don’t have to like you for that.
If she is pregnant she did a bang up job of announcing it last night. There no way all THAT wasn’t orchestrated by her alone, he looks embarrassed.
@moodgirl:
They don’t, but it wasn’t a one-night stand so he must’ve liked her more than enough to engage in unprotected sex for a while. He’s not dumb, he knew what could happen.
There is only one surefire perfect method of birth control, otherwise pills fail and condoms break. One would think he would be smarter than to be completely unprotected.
…if its even his.
@Artemis – You have inside knowledge about their sex life? Spill please!
HA! Mood Girl, you’re such a brat in the best way.
I’m with Artemis on this one though. No one here knows what went on privately that’s true. But he was seen in public with her more than once. If he was just having a good time…why even go out in public with her (before even the oscar campaign)?
@Tulip – 😜 No self respecting woman would give up cookies and never see the light of day with a man. Based on my knowledge and experience with men, if a woman is giving up the goods a man will have no problems taking her out in public. Since Sophie was apparently giving up the cookies so early in their “relationship” – again, based on my preference in conducting my life – Ben had no problems being seen with her. What did he have to lose? Oh, he found out too late.
@moodgirl:
She didn’t get pregnant instantly (IF she’s pregnant) and secondly pregnancy usually results from unprotected sex. So I just applied basic logic. And like Tulip Girl said, he was seen with her in public before they became official. Hardly a one-night stand, hardly a man who doesn’t like that person.
Like tone down the crazy.
@Artemas – Speaking of toning down the crazy, like everyone on this site you are making assumptions. You have no earthly idea what these people were doing and when so stop trying to sound like the authority that you are not. This is entertainment, we are all guessing, no one knows a thing but them.
@gang,
They were seen together way back during the French Open. You know, all those pictures of them acting normal. Oops, I mean, MISERABLE, LOL. Plus she’s known him for years. It was not a one night stand. He was not embarrassed to be seen with her. He just didn’t put on a huge show for the cameras. Not before the engagement and not now.
And while I know it hurts some people that he’s found a wife and she a husband, this seems less about some Oscar campaign (again, why would voters care?) and more about two 30 somethings whose clocks are ticking. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best. Congrats to the happy couple. Here’s hoping the baby is healthy.
Defo pregnant. Just saw another angle on Tumblr.
Which photo, the one shot where the camera seems to be at an angle? Would you like a photo of my belly? I’m just as big as her: I’m on the rag. And I’m much younger than her
that has to be most hideous dress i have ever seen and I thought Fergie had bad outfits in the 1980’s. Please someone get her a stylist – my eyes are never going to recover from seeing that pattern.
Well, don’t forget that she’s an opera director. I could swear that the dress is a stage costume from Mozart’s “Abduction from the seraglio”.
I’m more concerned about the fact that his hair is way too short for the upcoming Sherlock Christmas Special.
Lol yes, or something from that hippie-Sevillian Glyndebourne’s production of La Nozze di Figaro…
I believe @’Penny’ she is trying to land herself a position on the “worst dressed list” for 2015, and she has an excellent start.
agree – Her selection of dresses seems to deteriorate with every appearance, I cannot decide if she is going for a dated royal look, cover the bump or a misplaced avant garde look which we know has failed her in the past.
She must have every designer clamouring to dress her and still she get’s it all wrong.
Exactly.
I understand that Spencer Hart also provides a bespoke service for women. Just sayin’ …
Or they did, before Cumby bankrupted them, demanding free suits!
Hi, curls! Good to see you!
Hi, E.C.!
Yes, I was on a veeeery long no-Cumberbatch diet in 2014. Still haven’t lost a single pound, but have missed a lot of fun on C.B.
Octopus ahoy!
I swear to you all that my grandma has that exact same muumuu–er, “dress” in her closet. And she’s like, over seventy. And wears them because it gets HOT down in Jackson.
I was going to say that she’s dressed like Mrs. Roper. I’m feeling 70’s love this week but not so much for this. Love her shoes tho.
It does have a 70’s flare to it but I doubt that pattern was even used in the 70’s.
All hail George and Mildred…
Muumuu shamers!
But the Comet does have a long way to go, muumuu-wise. She’s like a dowdy version of Camila Batmanghelidjh.
I love the dress but that might be because my boyfriend banned me from getting any mumu dresses myself. I’ve always loved a big ol’, crazy patterned mumu dress!!
Yeah all jokes aside, I’m slightly bedazzled by her get up here. She looks like a sister wife in long shift dress from the 20’s by way of a Sonny & Cher concert.
Where’s o’kitt and extra-strength kitt or plain kitten? She is Our Lady of Muumuus.
She’s busy Scotch Guard-ing her favorite muumuu as she will be watching football all day and will be serving her signature double vodka soda hot wings. Very messy.
I thought maybe she was on a Dessert Hardy bender. Hey, when Kaiser writes a lot of curlybatchy stories, that makes her on a Bendy-Bender, doesn’t it?
YES, MIMIF–she looks like a colorful sister-wide. Hahaha.
That has to be the most Phyllis Diller dress I have ever seen on a red carpet. O.o Did someone say Mrs. Roper?
This garment gives muumuus a bad name. I think the fabric took a look at itself in the mirror and suffered a schizophrenic moment: peplum, no, ruffles, no a leg slit…no! I will be the comet of everything!
I now believe it all – the pregnancy, the coming wedding, the grand love story… Whatever. He looks more human and rested, and hopefully he is happy about the baby. She still gives me all the wrong vibes – smug and snooty and but frankly I stopped believing he is intelligent given the stream of absurd quotes of the last few months, so they’re probably well suited and will be just fine together.
I was thinking that it looked like the wallpaper in my aunt’s bathroom, circa 1974.
But grandma’s muumuu does it too. Almost as funny as when the hipsters appropriated plaid, and my grandfather’s flannel shirts started selling for three digits….
At first, I thought “hot down in Jackson” was a euphemism, because when I was hugely pregnant, I took to wearing muumuus around the house sans underwear, because it “gets hot down in Jackson” and the breezes I occasionally got were nice.
(It was my grandmother who bought me the muumuus. Grandmothers know, man!!!)
LOL!
If she is, hes having a baby with someone hes spent probably a sum total of less than 3 months with and thats being generous and including post engagement so……that bodes well. He looks thrilled ……………
I just cant with her whole look. Its appalling.
If she is pregnant he would be very smart NOT to marry her. Don’t create two problems out of one and it’s obvious that a marriage between these two wouldn’t last five seconds.
Now maybe we know why she has an attitude, is so smug and thinks she’s in control – she has the golden ticket. I do have one question: Why would he announce his engagement so soon and drag her around at the beginning on the campaign season when he just as easily could have waited? It wasn’t mandatory that she be around.
I agree with you Moodgirl. Bad enough to be saddled with financial commitments for the child for the rest of his life, but a failed marriage would even be worse. I went through a divorce nightmare myself and I’m pretty sure that a high profile one like this would get pretty vicious. Conspiracy theory time-anyone else think the relationship went south over pre-nup wrangling?
Don’t you guys know that catering to the Minivan Majority by playing “happy families” (as Ben Affleck did during last year’s Oscar run) or at least showing people that one is in a “stable” relationship gets one brownie points with members of the Academy? Despite what you see in movies and the lifestyles of many of these actors and celebrities, Hollywood is actually quite conservative.
@anon
I get what you are saying, but really? “saddled with financial commitments for the child for the rest of his life,” Ummm….Pretty sure that if she is pregnant, he should have thought about that when he was perfectly happy to be saddled with HER on him.
“Conspiracy theory time-anyone else think the relationship went south over pre-nup wrangling?”
If she truly is pregnant then YES, that may have been where things went south but maybe he just thought he would have a short summer romance and never in his wildest dreams did he think it would end like this.
Yep, definitely pregnant. Congrats!
Agree with you, she’s pregnant.
Congratulations to this beautiful and talented couple
I can give a pass on thinking she’s beautiful, ‘cos that’s all subjective innit. But ‘talented’? Nope. He is talented and she most certainly is not. Objectivity rules on this one.
Count me in as a believer, everything points to baby bump here.
@Kat,
how do you know she’s not talented?
@Lauli
Umm.. Because I’ve seen her attempts at acting, I’ve heard her attempts at singing, I’ve seen her rolling around the floor with an octopus and a prosthetic bump in the name of ‘art’. I’ve read reviews of her plays which have been complete stinkers.
One particular where she played a journo/photographer pointed her out as the only weak point in the play.
And her her stellar turn in a short lived itv show remarked that if she and her equally talentless costar were to have physical contact then they may start a fire due to their woodenness. I’ve also seen video footage of a couple of the appalling Avant garde plays she’s been involved with.
Maybe the burden of proof should be on you? What have YOU seen that convinces you she’s talented?
@Kat BOOM. Love it. 😉
Yeah there’s no way that woman is not pregnant.
I agree. Look at where she’s holding her purse. Failed attempt at hiding the bump. And yet the conspiracy beat goes on. LOL
@delorb
Huh? I really don’t understand what you’re saying there.
Do you seriously believe her intention was to ‘hide’ with that tiny little bag, whilst unnecessarily standing in front of a gang of photographers at a public event whilst wearing a dress that hugs her stomach?
She was quite clearly drawing attention to her stomach. I mean…like…100% that’s what she was doing. It blows my mind that anyone could be naive enough to think she’s genuinely hiding anything.
And why do you reckon there’s ‘conspiracies’? Because this has been so staged since she appeared and he’s looked so miserable. The alternative is she is pg and he’s is miserable as hell about it, a man that’s always a wanted to be a dad, gets to be one with someone he was dating for a few months and seems to have little affection for.
That something you think is good? From where I’m sitting, it all looks like a huge mess and the worst thing of all, is it’s blatantly 150% being used to try and bag him an Oscar. Awful.
It’s interesting how the bump is all over the place size-wise. Like she has shitty styling or something. Meh, I’m side eyeing the whole relationship, pregnant or not, and not entirely on the prego train because the pics are either a bump or a bad dress, so I’m not willing to commit either way.
I still call a split by the end of the year, either way.
+1 ,MissMary.
Also, these photos confirm that this is either A. pregnancy engagement or B. PR sham( She’s deliberately trying to spark rumors, no real couple would do that.) So True Love Forever is out of the window from this point on.
Let’s remember, the dress is 1. loose, 2. drop waist, 3. shiny. 4. She’s deliberately sticking her stomach and bum out. 5. She’s wearing high heels 6. She doesn’t look bloated anywhere else. 7. The clutch could have neon light on it, it’s so obviously trying to point to her midsection.
Drop waist, loose, shiny, peplum, ruffle… it’s like every bad fashion idea in one dress.
Benophie *shudder* has a pic up of literally seconds before “the bump” and there’s nothing nearly so pronounced. If even a supernanny is saying yeah no prego, you have to wonder. She’s one of the “omg cumberbabies” die-hards.
Ingrid and MissMary, had to stay away from all this for awhile. Ingrid, ITA, they are a joke now. Definitely hope she isn’t pregnant but they sure want the rumor mill to spin. It’s sad and pathetic. Seems to pointless to add that her dress is hideous and her smug look is even worse.
Renee: Right now I’m meh. If she is, she is, but I’m still not seeing this lasting. They still look like they’re being anally electrocuted when they stand next to one another, and everything points to using the relationship for PR if not being a PR set up in it’s origin. It’s sad and makes me want to not watch his movies if this is how he’s doing PR now. It’s off putting. Prego or no, in love or no, his PR is just…creepy.
Missmary- agreed. It’s ugly, and it’s really turning me off him. Sads.
MissMary: Creepy is a good word for it. I just needed to stay away from all things BC for awhile and yet, here I am again….maybe I hoped this was all just PR and it would end sooner rather than later.
Still, it’s pathetic at this point to use a possible pregnancy for PR or to just play it up on her part but I guess that’s what they want to do. If there is a baby, that’s just sad. I’m at the point where I can’t stand to see these two anymore. So, if she is pregnant, she flew to LA with him to walk the red carpet and cause rumors? Nice…
Extremely high heels do make your bum stick out, and tilt the pelvis a little but that doesn’t explain the bump filling out the fabric extending past her bust. Should have just taken out an announcement the day before this FF!
if u consider that preggo she looks 7months along atleast 6. did they have sex behind the FO stands?
When he wasn’t with her last night he was freakin’ adorable, that’s the guy I miss.
Oh hey – ITA. IF she is pregnant they should have announced before last night so there wouldn’t have this wild speculation and she wouldn’t feel the need to put on a show worthy if her own Oscar. Karon should have taken care of this way before now. Again, just poor planning to go along with Ben’s MASSIVE poor planning.
@mood,
I thought people didn’t officially announce until the 3 month mark just to be safe?
Everyone thought she was preggo last time too, and then we saw shots from the side and it was very obviously no bump. I need to see more pics. How do you go from completely flat stomach to looking 5 months in a less than a month? Her posture and cut and fabric of that dress are very unforgiving, not to mention ugly as sin.
We shall see…if she is and he looks that miserable with her, I feel sorry for that baby.
I think that’s more likely than not a food baby.
Christmas turkey baby.
Even I’m still sporting a bump (well into next month I think. I need to go to the gym)
For me, it is less the pictures than the video of her walking. There was clearly a bump. Yeah, it could be from Christmas. I would look preggers right now in a low waisted dress. I think pregnancy. don’t think they are a really tight happy couple. Time will tell. Regardless, get thee to a stylist woman. He poo pooed focusing on wedding to popsugar saying he was focusing on Sherlock. Speaking of, we aren’t getting Sherlock hair for Xmas special, are we?
Yes, funny, he went from wedding arrangements coming along just fine, while shaking his head ‘no’ when asked at the ES awards, to “one thing at a time”, as in “I’m filming now so I have no time to get married”. WTF is this game……
Food baby – Over at SoGo there is a photo (photo shopped) of a baby wrapped in a burrito wrapper from Chipotle. Funny stuff over there. 😄
I have no idea if she’s pregnant, so I am voting for food baby until I find out otherwise. I look pregnant, too, after all the eating I did over the holidays. If I could, I would hide behind stacks of books, an oversize purse, potted plants, etc., while wearing a tent dress until things return to normal.
Submited one to sogo with pics from some CN BNF I think r cut from HQ and she looks very PG.
I don’t know whether to feel sad or not, after the holiday break I don’t even care about Ben that much. Like, whatever it’s, whatever you want.
What amazes me constantly is the nannies, like as long as this woman could give him a child, as long as hes nominated, nothing matters.
All the nannies are offering to babysit any kid, what they really need to do is offer to pay for kid’s therapy….jeez
What amazes me are the crazies who think EVERYTHING has to have some sort of dark tinge to it. Woman a man has been seeing since May gets knocked up in September, so he pops the question. But nope, it can’t be as simple as that. Now the kid will need therapy, he’s miserable, will do anything to get an Oscar that he’s currently already heavily favored to win, she’s controlling, smug, having someone else’s baby and untalented. Its like some people are taking this way more personal than it needs to be. Yes, this is a gossip site, but there is gossip and then there is weird speculation. This is all laughably weird speculation. Tin-foil hat territory.
Are you the same Delorb I’ve seen on imdb? If you are, then that explains a lot. ..
Why call people ‘crazies’, btw? Have you made the same comment to your pals on IMDb, ‘cos I reckon you should.
How about- woman been dating man since June, but spent very little time together during that period since his work schedule is so packed. Despite man’s ‘fierce privacy’ he takes woman to one of the biggest sporting events in the world on a date, to sit in front of the press.
Even biggest nannies at Hay festival who saw man and woman say they looked v disinterested in each other.
Convenient press comments made alluding to man and woman, including her mummy telling people to ‘watch this space’.
Man and woman indulge in pathetic and transparent ‘look, look, we’re together, but not quite together, but please notice me!!’ at LFF.
Man and woman announce engaging in national papers two days before he embarks on the first leg of his press tour for Oscar glory. Man looks miserable as sin and woman joins him for every single red carpet she can, where he still looks miserable as hell and they exhibit very little warmth.
Woman has tantrum in front of press and treats his niece like a handmaiden. Man makes very obviously scripted, awkward and bizarre comments about her to the press.
Now woman turns up in the final leg of the Oscar campaign playing her ‘I’m here, look at me, photograph me, but don’t look right here (points there)’ in a hideous and stomach hugging dress.
Story so far?
That’s the version I think most people see and I worry about the naivety of anyone who can’t, I really do. And if you don’t think he’s using this for his campaign..then I give up.
The way they act, especially Ben, makes me think even if shes PG, it’s not his probably.
That was my thought also, that maybe it’s not his and there can’t be any proof till it’s born, after which he would have been deceived and can easily get rid of her with no guilt. Hmm.
Wouldn’t he have waited until he had proof to announce his engagement?
@moodgirl If that’s the case, maybe he didn’t hv other choice when he knew it? Like it’s already end of oct the camp is going to kick off and she has been the rumored GF for sometime, a PG fianc is better than a PG GF?
Would it matter though?
People said the engagement was for his Oscar campaign, how could they be that stupid to get pregnant when they didn’t even know he would get nominated? As far as I know, he’s got no real chance of winning at this point so it would be an extremely dumb PR move on their side. To risk having to raise a child with somebody he ‘doesn’t even like’ seems completely ludicrous. I can understand an engagement, you can cancel that shit after the Oscars are over and even stretch it a bit so it seemed ‘real’. You cannot cancel a damn baby.
He’s an adult, not everything a celebrity does is calculated.
As for their PDA, I would be very cautious too to attend RCs when you have that many crazy ass fans dissecting every little move to justify their obsession. Everytime I lurk on these threads, I’m amazed that such a boring person is getting that much attention.
No one really knows what’s going on, of course. But if everything about this relationship wasn’t so weird and manufactured, people wouldn’t have thought the engagement was for an Oscar campaign anyway.
Also, ditto to ‘crazy assed fans dissecting every little move’.
I think he’s courted it. This conversation wouldn’t be happening at all if he hadn’t times the engagement announcement for his press tour and now she’s playing the ‘look at me, don’t look me’ with the attempt to look as though she’s covering her stomach, despite standing in front of photogs and wearing a very stomach hugging dress.
It’s also not about PDAs. Nobody expects that. It’s just general warmth and chemistry. Just not there.
Hasn’t she always played the “look at me but don’t look at me” game ever since she came into the picture, starting at LFF?
Why is her face always so smug? You didn’t cure cancer, girl. You just bagged yourself an overhyped, pretentious actor.
Chill. Clearly you loathe her, but she doesn’t look smug at all. That’s just her face. Besides should she cry on the red carpet or something?
I 100% promise you it’s not jealousy or envy. I don’t like him at all. I didn’t even know who he was until I started reading articles about him here and I don’t watch Sherlock. I don’t think my comment was mean, I honestly think she always looks smug. As does he. Most of the time his answers during interviews give me permanent eye rolls. So please, spare me. Don’t paint me as a crazy loon for this guy, because I’m not. Now for Jaime Dornan, that’s a different story.
Why so full of vitriol? She’s not smug, it’s called smiling. I think you need a happy pill.
Totally agree with you K and Jaded.
But I was wondering a happy pill or a pill against envy?
Ha! I wondered how long it would be before ‘envy’ was played here. But why, of course. Anything less than glowing compliments has to be down to envy because of a man.
God, it’s depressing that women actually think like this.
@kat,
once again i totally disagree with you.
It’s totally and utterly a question of envy and silliness.
Lol
I’ll wait here for you, Lauli. You can come back to me when you’re ready to have an adult discussion on this and not just blindly insult every woman on here who has the gall to have an opinion which doesn’t fall under the fawning category.
Can we please keep this one civil? I don’t want this thread to go all wonky again.
Oh, come on. She’s got a smug look.
Agree, she’s smug. But it’s her natural look.
Have to agree here too. She looks very smug to me in all the photos I’ve seen of her.
She always looks like the cat that ate the golden canary. He looks like he could kill himself.
It’s not like she’s the most attractive thing either…
Don’t care if she’s preggers or not but god that dress is hideous. I need to cleanse my eyes with Persil Automatic. And what’s up with the unkempt 1980s hair? Her look is an unmitigated disaster through and through.
Please refer to Knightley, Keira on how to wear interesting print dresses that slay on the red carpet.
YES. Her previous appearances with the ‘Batch weren’t too bad–she looked like she’d combed her hair, did her make up–it was just that her dress was kinda ugly. But this is just AWFUL. It makes her look way older than she really is. Like he’s marrying someone old enough to be his mother…..
I”m old enough to be his mother almost and I wouldn’t wash my windows with that dress….
THIS.
I don’t care about personal stuff (not my business), but crimes against fashion are totally everyone’s business. Or else why stand there being snapped?
I’m a perfect dresser, which is why I can sit here and judge 😉
@Beth Was taking short break, just want to say hi to you ; )
Went to see the theory of everything, ER is nice indeed! And though haven’t been able to watch whiplash, I got the soundtrack ; )
There’s one she looks extremely PG, and the dress really is… so ugly.
Lol I may be blowing my own trumpet but I’d like to think I have a keen fashion sense too and I just cannot with this hideous look. I love intricate print dresses and am known among my friends for wearing them and she is giving us a bad name with this fugly rag.
@Angie: Hiya! I haven’t been on here much through the holidays. Hope you had a good break over the Xmas and New Year too 😀
There’s only one reason anyone would choose to wear that: to look pregnant.
If she’s not, this whole baiting is beyond disgusting.
@Beth Tbh as I was curious about what the dress really looks like, I searched for sometime but hasn’t had any luck, I was thinking maybe it’s too bad, LOL I lv print, especially digital print, they could be very detailed and beautiful. One of the things I have been wondering all this time is who the hell is doing her style. Since the pr is apparently taking notes from here, why they can’t just go and find some good one to do it?
It’s always nice at the beginning of the year LOL, at least something to look forward to. XX
The pattern on that dress is more interesting than her past red carpet choices. The cut and design, not so much.
I always thought the floral dresses weren’t as bad as everyone said, I quite like those. This dress though, is super ugly.
Oh the interwebs meltdown here and in tumblr will be of epic proportions..
Is it just me or do they look like the Ropers from Three’s Company?
The mumu on her actually makes Benny look like Norman Fell.
YES! I said something last night that it looks like she stole the dress from the Three’s Company Experience studio tour.
OMG, SPEW TEA.
Best comment yet.
Yes! OMG, that’s exactly what it looks like. 🙂 Mr and Mrs. Roper…LOL
Definitely could be. Why is everyone being so negative? I haven’t kept up with the Cumberbatch posts because they are just too long, but don’t people like her?
They seem miserable together, especially him. That’s my beef, anyway. He lights up like a Christmas tree with literally every other person he sees, and with her he gets #jawseyes and becomes an animatronic robot.
I’m not like a superfan/Cumberbitch (is that term still being used?), although I love him in “Sherlock”, and know next to nothing about his personal life/dating habits (beyond the Russian who tried to play him for a couple of minutes), but they just seem completely disinterested in each other, which is why it’s so WEIRD, and gossipy…..I’m not saying that they need to grope each other or make out for the cameras, but if I didn’t know any better, I’d assume they were two colleagues who worked together on a film, couldn’t stand each other, and had decided to play nice for the cameras….
It’ll be interesting, that’s for sure. And just based on my initial impression of Cumberbatch, he seems to be someone who REALLY lets loose (has horrible fashion sense, gets excited to see his favorite celebs–jumping up and down at the Oscars behind Bono, is an ‘interesting’ dancer,etc), and has fun–not quite so serious as he would have us believe, so I would’ve thought that he would’ve been over the moon about Sophie, and have a ridiculous grin on his face every time they were together–especially after getting engaged.
@Virgilia Coriolanus
I would imagine him to behave as you described, too. Maybe he matured? I think some actors “recently” matured and act less goofy: Cumberbatch, Avoy since he became a father, Fassbender around 2013, Hiddleston more recently.
I LOVE Comet Sophie. You should stop by more often, GoOdnames. Sixer is the Rosetta Stone of the thread and she teaches us a foreign language and Astronomy, lol.
I hear her signature drink is AMAZING!
I know – it leaks over to other threads, and I feel left out because I don’t get the jokes, but it’s like that nightmare where you forget to go to class and then it’s time for the exam and you’re just too far behind. Maybe I should get a tutor.
Just call everyone a “Bloody Tosser” when you are mad at them.
They always look miserable/lacking of chemistry together, he always looks more animated with every single one else not related to her.
Except for the church one, there has never been any pics of them outside red carpet after the enGAGement.
They always drop their hands the moment they finish shooting.
Does this look like the couple, especially with the supposed to be PG woman who is 36, who r expecting the first child to you?
I have more chemistry with the dentist who did my last root canal. They can barely stand to be together, never arrive together, and then look at him snogging and hugging all the other people he’s with, it’s so obvious.
Thanks, everybody. So it’s a chemistry thing. She’s a good mixed drink, and he’s an excellent snack, but they just don’t taste good together. Got it.
Lol
They are PERFECT together: Like an amazing Zuppa di pesce and a spirited comet (cock) tail. Don’t listen to the h8trs, GoOdNames.
I r confused.
Okay, in summary
Sophie made an artsy “roly poly fishhead” video, which we all enjoyed enormously.
If you haven’t seen it, you must, but you also need to see this as a primer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpUVAcvWfU
Sophie is EVERYTHING, all the stars and the universes to infinity. The most exceptional, delicious and intoxicating cocktail was named after her.
Now you’re up to speed, Tosser. :p
Breaking my *no comments on Cumberbatchian posts* rule to stomp my feet and remind
@kiddo that we had all long ago agreed that Bill Murray is EVERYTHING. This comet business is clouding your judgement. I want.
@Tateru – Ropers reference is brilliant
@GNAT – I have a hard time understanding this all myself but they all seem very animated about it so that cocktail must be amazing.
(I’m just in it to talk nonsense and lighten the tone. Well, and suck up to Kiddo).
Sixer, if you are speaking nonsense then that is my native tongue.
Sophie is EVERYTHING. Bill Murray is EVERYTHING. Bill Nighy is EVERYTHING. There are we all covered now?
GNAT – I’m not negative. I am the Comet’s number one fan! I am thinking of founding a new religion and calling it Cometarianism. It’s like Rastafarianism but without the dreads and reefer and with dresses that reflect the glorious panoply of every single thing to be found in an infinite universe.
Kiddo – I do my best. In this case of the Comet Stone, there’s no Memphis Decree. It’s a Weinstein Decree (I think, but I keep forgetting the identity of the villain of the piece).
Virgilia – this is OT but if you have nefarious ways of viewing British TV, may I suggest, as a fellow Roald Dahl fan, you look out the BBC’s festive adaptation of Esio Trot, with Dustin Hoffman as Mr Hoppy and Judi Dench as Mrs Silver? It’s as cheesy as can be but you know, it’s Christmas-time, so we need cheese, right? I just made the Sixlets watch it and even they melted out of their adolescent too-cool-for-school-ness.
All – meh. I don’t want to play with Comet progeny unless I get FOR-REALZ confirmation that turkey basters and multiple fathers (to include the Hiddlesburp) were involved. Until that happens, Comet progeny is BORING.
And, so be it. *bowing down to the guru.*
Um, thanks for clearing that up.
*gives up*
Hiddlesburp is totally incapable of using turkey baster and keeping quiet about it. By now he would posting videos wearing a floral shirt, guitar in hand singing “and baby makes four”.
I blame it all on Fassy you never know what he is up to.
@Sixer, Hiddlesburp’s facial expressions toward the happy couple back at the ES theatre awards seemed to indicate befuddlement and a touch of fear. He seemed to take much comfort and joy in the company of Helen McCrory and Damien Lewis.
Lilac, do you have any links? I didn’t see the three of them in the same place, just him and Bendy, looking like old buds.
@Oh Hey, sorry, no, I don’t have any links. Anna Wintour was also in the pictures with them. TH looked like he was doing the “obligatory must take picture with Anna Wintour because I’m a nominee and her father started these awards but I don’t know why BC and that woman have to be in these pictures too because he’s not even nominated so I’m just going to pose here because I’m supposed to do so.” The pictures of the after party with McCrory and Lewis have been popping up a lot more lately and they all look like they’re having a blast. No sign of the “happy couple” in the party pictures.
Short answer: no, some people don’t like her.
No they don’t like her. Not liking her because she’s stolen your crush is one thing, what’s going on here is quite another. Its like a switch was flipped. One minute those people who liked him, now don’t (because of her). Those people who never liked him, now despise him (their cover is because of her, but they’ve always hated him).
In order to keep up the hate, they have to assign negativity to her or him at every turn. “oh here is a split second snap-shot of him looking happy. its because she’s not with him.” “here is another second in time photo and he looks miserable. its because she’s with him.” I’ve had my picture taken mid-blink and I look totally drunk, meanwhile I don’t drink and haven’t taken a drink in decades, but pictures don’t lie, right?
Weren’t conspiracy theories as crazy as some that are being bandied about laughed at around here? Lady Kather told us she was leaving (IMDB and Benedict) and I laughed for almost three days. That’s how much fun this place used to be.
delorb. They don’t look miserable ‘one second in time’ that is being edited out of a whole bunch of pics of them laughing together. They look miserable all the time in all the pics, and there is not one where they laugh together.
If it was unplanned it sure would explain most of the weirdness of the past few weeks and the fast engagement. What century are they living in that they have to get married because of that??
If it was planned and they are acting so odd, I feel bad for the kid.
Still hoping it is just a bad dress.
It’s all about public image IMHO. And some people are still getting married because of an unplanned pregnancy.
Benny is an old fashioned guy, especially with Oscar eyes upon him, who would marry the woman he knocked up. Because that’s the kinda guy he is. If there were no movie and no Oscar campaign this wouldn’t be happening.
That’s sad. So when all is said and done he is stuck with a bossy wife that he clearly doesn’t like and with whom he would never have imagined himself with in a million years. All for Oscar.
I think she is preggers too, in the side angle pics her stomach goes out further than her boobs.
Her boobies look much larger to me, so I’ll drink the Kool-Aid. Otter pups on the way – an event I find quite surprising as I truly believed Ken and Barbie had no genitalia.
LOL!!
She does look pregnant. The placement of the purse is also giving me that vibe.
congrats to them. If true they have an exciting year ahead.. baby (maybe) wedding (maybe) Oscar (maybe)
so lots to look forward to..
I think she’s stunning and I dig the dress. /runs/
Stunning? I know everyone has different taste, but cmon now..
Stunning in a sort of ‘two by four to the face’ kind of stunning?
A Comet Sophie on the house for kai!
Maybe ‘stunning’ is too strong a word (English=second language and stuff), but I find her very, very pretty. She’s ‘my type’, I guess. I thought she was Margo Stilley at first. I don’t care for the way she’s ridiculed around here and usually skip those threads. Will def skip the next one.
People are being more critical today because she wore a dress where the designer just threw fabric on a sewing machine and slammed on the pedal. Usually people only use criticism based on actual interviews, images and eyewitnesses of her behavior. It’s honestly no different than the flack that Kim Kardashian and Gwyneth get on here.
At the same time, I get suspicious whenever posters I’ve never seen before suddenly flock in whenever there’s an article specifically about her and give her blind compliments.
I don’t hate the dress, either. I guess that lands me firmly in the minority, though I typically don’t line up with CB on fashion. In terms of styling, though, I think hair up would have been better with that relaxed crew neckline.
I should note, I am terribly biased towards clothes that look really comfortable. May muumuus still be a thing for old ladies when I am an old lady.
I don’t have a mad hate-on for her, but that dress? No. Just no.
I’m calling preggers too. Def uncomfortable and odd placement of the kinda cute clutch over the HORRIBLE dress.
What a beautiful couple!
Boy, he wants an Oscar desperately. Go, Benedict!
He’s never gonna win. Never at least before Michael Fassbender.
He could score some golden globes though. He met a great role.
I agree. Just saw Birdman and he was fantastic. Also he needs to play someone completely diff from his real self (eg
No posh plumb in mouth, etc)
This will be me done I think commenting about him. Had enough😳
So they are going to name the kid Oscar? lol
Harvey Comet Cumberbatch.
Harvey comet oscar cumberbatch. Two middle names like dadda. LOL
Harvey Cometbanger. Yeah. Let’s have one of those.
Like I said on t’other thread. .
1. That dress/monstrosity would make anyone look pregnant. Loose with a band underneath the stomach and the long flapping strand skirt bits pull down on it.
2. She absolutely knows this and if she wanted to cover up, she could’ve worn an empire line style or indeed stay off the red carpet and not be photographed like so many other people do who want to stay out of the limelight.
3. The little bag held awkwardly in front of her stomach was so blatantly done to draw attention there.
Either way, she’s using it for attention and to generate gossip and that’s just gross. I hope she’s not but it would go some way to explain how utterly miserable he’s looked these last few months. Nobody tries for a kid after a couple of months so it would clearly be an accident if she was and he apparently lives in 1876 and rushes to marry if so. Not quite the fairytale family life he’d hoped for. Sad,really.
All this coupled with her tantrum at the ESAs and her treatment of his niece along with her appalling ‘art’ and the excruciatingly blatant manufacture publicity stunt this relationship has been since June?
Nope all the way.
^^ THIS. Everything.
If she is, she is, and it’s no skin off my back but if her real life persona is anything like what we’ve been shown, I hope shes not just because that poor kid will be miserable.
How did she treat his niece?
The hobbit prem. She left emily walking behind her while she grinningly strolled down the red carpet talking to some handler woman. She also had emily carrying her clutch bag.
In other words Sophie treated Emily, Benedict’s niece, like a common servant and was extremely unprofessional to Karon, his PR rep.
Since past behavior is a good indicator of future behavior Ben is in serious trouble. Maybe Sophie did this all because she could get away with it, everyone is being held hostage to the woman carrying the cumberkid.
Yeah, as I work in textile/garment related industry, was quite curious of the design of the dress, especially the front, when I was searching for it, I saw some similar patterns, and this style really is bad, does make woman look like having a bump LOL
And it does need a very high wheel to go with, which I don’t think is a good idea for PG woman in her age.
Some of you kids have some odd ideas about pregnancy. Why shouldn’t a woman ” her age”( 36 is hardly elderly) not wear high heels? Show me the science! So silly!
@Garfield
I was older than her when I had my son living here in London they had a “special” high risk mid wife team for mature mothers (over 35) I thought a slap will come soon. I never felt old and I still don’t and my son now 14. If she can work the heels then good on her I can barely wear them not preg.
He better have a damn good prenup, and if he tries for that I think Miss Sophie might bail
The first round of Oscar ballots just went out. Coincidence? LOL-some of the papers are gushing about Sophie’s taste and style. The Express talked about her hair being in a glamorous loose updo -just looked unbrushed to me. PR anyone?
I already posted this but UGH.
I like her shoes though.
+1 on the shoes, only.
God, why did she bury those shoes under that hideous dress????
Really sick of watching this lady get dragged because of people’s stupid obsession with him.
Um nobody is being ‘dragged’ because of an obsession with him.
This whole thing has been a cluster£&£& since the get go and she’s far from likeable.
Believe it or not, people can and do have opinions on other women which aren’t influenced by their feelings for a man.
^ +1
She’s far from likeabe? Do you know her? Do you judge people by a few pics? This is really far from likeable.
@lauli
*sigh*
No, not from ‘A few pics’.
She behaved disgustingly at the ESAs, embarrassing him in front of the press and treating Karon appallingly in the process.
Treating his niece like a hand maiden and not even acknowledging her at hobbit.
Two non fans remarked that she was ‘snobby’ when they met him and she was there.
The pretentiousness of her work.
So no, haven’t met her but doesn’t seem likeable to me. Don’t expect everyone to agree and I don’t care if they do.
How about you, Lauli? What do you find so likeable about her?
@kat
I like the fact that she’s real and doesn’t pander to silly fans who are making a mountain out of a molehill and making up things like the pr scheme.
Stop taking the bait.
@ Toni it’s so crazed right? The poor girl I wouldn’t have thought anyone could be treated worse than Eva Mendes.
@luca
Yep, that’s it ..keep the blind ignorant misogyny coming, that’s great.
We should be farting rainbows all over this ‘poor girl’.
Not sure what’s so ‘crazed’ about having an opinion on someone’s behaviour but I’m damn sure crazed is drawing pictures of him and her, making them cakes and scrapbooks and delivering hampers to his agency.
Kat, you seemed to have highjacked my misogyny comment. Whoever behaves as you wrote above is as feeble minded as those who’ll soon talk about a Harvey orchestrated shotgun wedding.
@cibele
Sorry, but what the hell are you talking about? How have I ‘hijacked your comment’?
And what exactly is so ‘feeble minded’ about what I’ve written? Specifics please.
I’d suggest that feeble minded are those who are so obsessed with the guy and creepily fawning over him that they don’t see what’s in front of them.
He’s miserable as sin and if she knocked up, that’s likely why. He looks like a man about to realise his dream of becoming a daddy? Nope.
And I’d definitely question the faculties of anyone who doesn’t think everything is being used for publicity purposes.
And what are you talking about, ‘Harvey shotgun wedding’?
Yes, he looks like a mas about to realise his dream of becoming a daddy.
Or at least I hope so. Lol
Kat girl, be polite. Slow down also. I wrote that the feeble minded cupcake bakers are as dumb as those who’d think that this is a shotgun engagement.
Whether CUmberbatch is miserable as sin or not I wouldn’t know, as I’m not too familiar with the various iterations of his mug. At any rate, he’s engaged, he’s having a child, life goes on. Why get stuck in the drama?
Well, Lauli we’re gonna just have to agree to disagree here then. To me, he looks the most miserable I’ve ever seen him and has done for a little while now.
But I will agree, that I’d ‘hope so’ too, of course I would. But for now? Not seeing it at all. I just find that sad, really.
Dragged???? This dress would look terrible on Angelina Jolie.
@Toni I agree
Lady?
That dress is so atrocious I almost like it. It’s different. Now I want a Kardashian to wear it.
Also, congrats to them. I don’t know why there’s this assumption that she got accidentally knocked up. People over thirty have contraception figured out, you know. Rather it was a deliberate decision, you wanna have a baby , yeah, let’s.
Also, the Comet has great legs.
Who in their right mind tries for a kid with someone they’ve only been dating a few months and most of that they were apart? If she is, of course it’s an accident.
I don’t think there’s any ‘of couse’s here, just speculation. If it was an accident, good for them, they’re having a baby. If not, they’re still having the baby, one that is wanted.
Well he’d have to be totally demented to choose to impregnate someone he’s seen very little of and been dating for a few months. And no, a baby with someone you don’t know that well and seem to have very little chemistry with, coupled with his attitude the last few months, I’d say it wasn’t very good for him at all.
@cibele,
agree. Very happy for the couple and very good for him.
Not so good for the overinvested fans like kat. Lol
Stop taking the bait.
@Kat
There are people who do that, I know of an even younger cuple that decided to have a baby less than 6 months into a relationship, they are still together, 5 years later.
And people’s perception of time, appropriate length of dating and such things sometimes changes in their thirties.
I did.. well the “trying for baby after dating only a few months” thing at least. And I hadn’t known my spouse for many years before that. We were together about 8 months before we started trying. We’ve now been married for 30 years and have two lovely kids. I was also in my 30s when we met.
Garfield,
But I’m guessing you spent quite a lot of time with your SO in those few months.
BC was away working majority of the few months they were dating.
It’s a bit of an assumption isn’t it, to think you know the amount of time they’ve spent together? Just because a photo hasn’t been taken and put in the tabloids doesn’t mean something didn’t happen. You’ve no idea her schedule to travel and see him, do you?
@claire
Um, nope. It’s fact. He was working abroad for a great deal of that time.
Are Benedict and Sophie living together? I ask that question because maybe the reason he does not look thrilled in pics with her is because Benedict is in shock at some of her fashion choices.
As for her being pregnant I tend to believe it is the way she is standing and that horrible dress she is wearing that is giving the impression.
Either way it certainly keeping people talking about BC and then maybe check out his movie.
UNFORTUNATELY, all this stupid drama over the shotgun engagement and the pregnancy has really taken away from the message of the movie, which should really disappoint Benedict in the long run, because his mission with this film was to tell Alan’s story and give him the recognition and the compassion he deserved. This so cheapens what should have been a really magnificent story and film, very unnecessary.
Agreed @ohhey
“Are Benedict and Sophie living together? I ask that question because maybe the reason he does not look thrilled in pics with her is because Benedict is in shock at some of her fashion choices.”
Have you SEEN what he wears?! He’s had some outfits that are perfect and spot-on for the occasion, but many more of them could use some work, namely of the “Throw out everything and start over” variety.
Daily Fail didn’t even mention her looking remotely preg, though the comments were full of it. Usually they’re the first ones on top of that.
Her *bump* looks lumpy, like a loaf of bread, not an actual pregnant belly. :)-
Daily fail has been playing nice since the beginning. Cannot imagine why…
clothes stuffed. maybe some socks
then it was the mirror-one of the papers alluded to pregnany
She has an amazingly long neck. I can’t stop staring at it.
I agree… we’re lucky she isn’t overstretching it today like her previous red carpet photos. It’s what bothers me about her looks.
And she still can’t smile properly – eddie r & his wife were also there and beaming toothy smiles. They are royally constipated!😝
She deliberately smiles with her lips closed to hide her teeth. Little bit of an overbite. I was looking at her pics going back pre Ben on some website and there was not a single picture of her smiling with teeth, ever.
Then I saw that video of that bad movie they made together on you tube. She flashed full teeth and I understood why.
well instead of paying £2000 for awful dresses she should invest in some veneers or a brace. She’s going to have to get used to red carpet walking
:-p
Eddie was a adorable on Graham Norton new years eve.
I’d say definitely pregnant. For a first baby? She’s probably five months along. Congrats!
May the child look like mama.
Arg. Her style is so unpolished. And that hair? Girl, come on now.
I am still on these two have never seen each other naked train. Will think this until more conclusive evidence comes up other than a loose dress. Know when you are being baited.
So now it’s blousey dresses to get people staring and speculating? Whatever. These two are just so… odious. *In best Vamp Willow voice*… Bored now.
As I see more Oscar buzzed movies, TIG keeps dropping down my best picture list. After screening Grand Budapest hotel several time, that movie should be showing up on all the major award lists and all the crafts categories. Absolutely brilliant.
Lv Grand Budapest, I just like that sort of movie, very interesting, laughed a lot yet was quite touched also. And the casts kept on surprising me.
Yes. Saw it recently and was amazed what a visual treat it was; Wes Anderson’s best since Rushmore. That said, I loved it as a cinematic piece, but I really didn’t connect with the characters. All too loathsome/stiff/stylized. Wes should direct & pick the story, but let someone else write his scripts – he seems to have remained juvenile in an uninteresting sort of way.
I wouldn’t be unhappy if this dude ends up being right about how GBH would do at the Oscars:
http://deadline.com/2015/01/oscars-grand-budapest-hotel-awards-1201339759/
I thought his comments about having the votes from the crafts branches made a lot of sense.
In other (less comet-y, grumpy news), Boyhood is out on DVD Tuesday and I’m renting it. Missed it last summer due to running up and down big piles of rocks. We’ll see if it replaces GPH as my favorite so far this season…
it was the deadline in who wrote the article about Harvey’s campaign and they mention the controversy around some of the films credibility and name TIG as one in this article,
I just find it hard to understand how you can say you wanted the main focus of the film to be on Bletchley as opposed to the gay politics impacting on his death and then make up complete scenarios in the Bletchley section which never happened.
It is a lot more experimental than GBH.
Well… I will only say one thing regarding her “bump” (I don’t like speculating about unconfirmed pregnancies in “older” women) BUT since the engagement was announced to a GF nobody knew about, I’ve been expecting photos/vids of a bump to show up. This has been my belief since day 1 and the reason why I believe they will marry (in love or not).
Since he loves Tiejens so much… are we really surprised? People can have oopsie pregnancies and not marry… but for someone like BC, whose image and public perception means EVERYTHING, of course he will marry her. If not he would be, to Acadamy voters and so-called Middle America, a british actor with a pregnant girlfriend he was secretly dating for 6 months, tops.
If that’s a food baby instead of an actual one, it really does change nothing. And she should get a stylist or maybe ask KK for advise in disguising a pregnancy bump more effectively.
This ^^^^ and a bag of chips.
I normally go for the ‘pasta baby’ option in these situations, but imho Sophie is deffo preggers. The – hideous – dress, the clutch placed over the tummy, the ever so slightly plumped up face. All the signs are there. Plus, you can actually see a bump under all that ugly fabric, and for such a slim woman, it’s way too much to be explained by a hearty lunch.
Yup, it’s Cumberbaby time!
Until Maury weighs in, I remain faithfully in the not pregnant, horrible fashion camp.
I’m sitting next to you lol.
We shall have mark and colin bring us cocktails and fluff our pillows missmary! Its going to be a hilarious next few months
Even the nanniest of nannies says she’s not pregnant.
So he said he ws going to the Mediterranean but went to Caribbean instead?? so smart
Again its HIS holiday. NOT their
The nannies are crapping themselves because it just MIGHT be true….denial ain’t just a river in Egypt, you know…
I think I am staying with the not pregnant group.
@ellesbelles, sorry, but Mark and Colin made it very, very clear some time ago that they would not bring anything to anyone on the BC threads. Just too stressful for them. They do keep the self-service machines on the sidewalk fully stocked.
me me.
I’ll wait until Karon’s comment. Hope it never comes…
Even IF she is pregnant am I just wrong to think how horrible a person she is to turn this into her show? She didn’t have to stand there holding a stupid a** clutch in front of her stomach, drawing as much attention to herself as humanly possible. Karon could have taken care of the announcement IF she is pregnant but she just couldn’t wait for that. HE and his colleagues are there to accept an award, she couldn’t for one second let it be about him? Geesh.
Wearing a different dress would have worked or stay off the red carpet and just go inside already. It appears that she is determined to make him, and every person important to him, look as foolish as possible.
I agree. And this wasn’t even Benedict’s night. It was the whole cast’s which makes this so…ugh.
This is either their way to get more headlines and/or trying to get the doubters to shut up, her way of staying in the headlines or she’s pregnant and milking it. If they wanted privacy, she could have stayed away, or they could have announced during the holidays (like JGL, Helena Bonham-Carter).
If she’s pregnant, I feel sorry for everyone. If this is PR stunt (which wouldn’t surprise me at this point), shameless and disgusting.
Also noticed that Eddie posed solo as well as with his wife (as most stars do), but BC doesn’t. Why? Yeah, she really seems like shy flower… dear god… She’s making sure she’s in every.picture.
@moodgirl
I agree. It seems odd to me that so few people are shocked that she/they are turning it into yet another ‘look at me, don’t look at me’. Like I said, if she wanted to keep whatever a secret, she could’ve avoided the press and photographers, but she turns up wearing a dress that accentuates all stomachs and does the cursory, holding a little bag right in front of her stomach in a gesture of privacy. Give.me.a.break.
Round two of the campaign starts here. If she is or isn’t pg, it’s despicable that she’s using it to court attention in this way.
@moodgirl. I think that explains the expressions on Morton’s face and the brunette next to him as they’re off to the side staring at BC and SH.
@elles, deary, with you on the no-pregnant train! This whole getup is just so wrong. I am gonna be quiet after a rant on the other thread. But seriously I am having trouble understanding this woman’s *style* – for the lack of a better word. She has the kind of figure fashion should love and yet she chooses clothes look like that? She does realise that whole ‘look great in a sack’ is a figurative speech that doesn’t have realistic implication, right? NOBODY looks good wearing a sack, floral or print.
I’m sitting with you. I’ll wait for an official announcement. Although the dress doesn’t bother me. I would never wear it, but I am not offended by it.
In fairness, I should mention that I am fashion dumb.
Ben-PLEASE add a bottle of Visine to your kit. Red eyes all the time bring up way too many questions.
they’re so perf. The baby might get dad’s eyes and mum’s hair. what a beautiful creation it would be..
Hearts eyes!!!!11
One with a very long neck and face (or as BC so poetically put it “some inbreeding weirdness”)
#sorrynotsorry
Oh good lord, I wouldn’t wish his beady little eves on any child.
I wouldn’t mind the iris color.
This beauty from USA Today:
“Cumberbatch was just off a plane from his holiday in the Caribbean, and brought his fiancée, Sophie Hunter, who wore a flowing purple-and-gold print gown. “Are you too cold? Let’s go in now,” he said, sweetly looking after her as they walked the red carpet together.”
1. His holiday?
2. So she’s cold in Palm Springs but fine in London in December without a coat? Good to know…
3. Why the first time the lovebirds supposedly travel together, we have no pics from LAX? Suspicious…
4. Sweetly? I remember USA Today’s hard hitting journalism from the first RC GAG interview… some fluffy fluff right there.
Bringing this gem over from SOGO
“Are you too cold? Let’s go in now,” he said to her as they walked the red carpet together>>>> OMG lol. I knew this campaign would pick up speed but this is just ridiculous. Anyway soooofeeeeee doesn’t feel the cold, hobbit premiere anyone? Ah well, so much for Turing being the new focus for promo, still seems that Sodious is being promoted here. Nice dream while it lasted. Sorry, Alan. Let down once again at a time when your injustice really could’ve been told to the world.”
My heart truly breaks for Alan. He deserved better than this mess.
er this is what is selling the movie so alan gets out there
ultimately no one here in the us cares about turing enough to use him as a selling point, although the campaign has been mixed on that
Alan is getting isn’t getting out there though, j. Sophie Hunter is getting out there.
Ben has been using Turing as a selling point since the film premiered to the point of patronisation.
The New York Times apparently just ran an article tearing the film to pieces in the way it has promoted Turing or something like that. I have not got a link but it came up on post discussing Weinstein and his campaign and how some are getting annoyed by it.
The film failed to come up in their critics Oscar prediction lists for best film but Benny came up around third in all three,
No one saw her with him in Jamaica, The Turks & Caicos. Only “sightings” of him.
So, he WAS off the plane, she was not with him for the holiday?? hmmmm?
He said he was going on holiday but he mentioned Greece. Way to throw a decoy, B.
I don’t think the press cares enough to follow him anywhere, so the decoy was unnecessary. If he was in the Caribbean with the likes of Bieber, paps crawl all over the place around XMAS time. His popularity is not a list. That makes the front cover press coverage of this crap even weirder.
its Caribbean NOt Mediterranean folks 😉
What was that about earlier where there was supposedly a visual of BC and Karon in the backseat of the car, but no SH? Where’s she been? Arriving seperately? Do other SOs travel apart from the star? Just curious.
No, they are usually/always in the same car.
To be fair, she could have been in the front seat (maybe Karon and BC had business to talk about?). But it’s still weird. Everything about this is.
Also, the holiday quote wasn’t direct. But what a weird way of phrasing that in any case..
Karon and Ben are ALWAYS in the back seat.
I do NOT think she’s pregnant. If (and it’s a big if) she is, it cracks me up that people would think it’s planned? They are saying women don’t trap men with pregnancy any more. What planet do these people live on? Women trap men more than ever because’s there’s not much stigma attached to it any more and you don’t even have to marry the guy anyway. He just has to send the checks every month and the govt will throw him in jail if he doesn’t.
Anyway, I don’t think she’s pregnant. It’s a bad dress and in that pic that everyone is claiming is the proof, she only looks pregnant on one side!
That Caribbean holiday? An American writer would never refer to a vacation as a holiday. It’s USA Today, really? Take with a grain of salt.
@tsmiv.
^^^^All of that!!
It did look like the bump was leaning massively to one side. Odd. Mine didn’t do that til the last couple months because I had a 9lb roly poly inside.
IF she is I think he realizes he’s been trapped.
Sighs, her bump seems to have same properties as Beyonce’s famous bump…
Re the arrival: There’s at least one tweet saying she was there first and went inside to wait for him to arrive.
All else: YES the bump does seem very… mobile, doesn’t it? In my “real life” I work with prego women a LOT and that’s no a typical feature of pregnancy… Not till the end when you’re ready to pop anyway and the kiddo is trying to make more room (usually on your bladder).
Agree with you, tmsiv. I get tired of the misogyny label if you suggest she may have trapped him if she’s actually preggo. How difficult is it to say “Oh don’t worry, I’m on the pill(just neglected to take it for the last two weeks).” And why wouldn’t a failed “artiste” living on her parents’ dole be looking for a quick score? I would ‘t put it past her.
Gagworthy, Ingrid, I am glad I am not the only one to think so……
It can get cold in Palm Springs. I know it the desert but in the winter when the wind gets going, it can get bone chilly. As some have pointed out, American writers (people in general) do not use the term “holiday” when describing a vacation. And no pictures from LAX? BS.
My parents were just in Palm Springs. It’s been snowing there and is terribly cold. Chill.
It’s such a great city. It’s best to vacation in March and April because it’s warm but not too warm.
Can I go on the record and ask that we PLEASE stop referring to other ladies who happen to be expecting as “glowing”?
It gives me the willies and not only because in my life experience it’s proven to be entirely untrue. (I’ve had a lot of girlfriends who have had babies in recent years and while pregnancy is incredible, miraculous, etc. they would be the first in line to tell you that while pregnancy did a lot of things to their bodies, making their faces or all over skin “glow” was never a part of it!)
Idk why but the term kind of freaks me a little-particularly when the media attempts to use the combination of flawless highlighter application and great lighting as some sort of evidence of an impending baby 😂
All that said, I completely agree that the usually very lithe Sophie’s belly is looking quite round here….Congrats! (Maybe?)
It’s different for everyone. I personally had the most fantastic skin when pregnant, which is not normally the case. I’ve know others who had horrible skin. Hormones are strange things.
@PJ, while pregnant, my sister’s skin would either break out or go ashen. At no time in any of her pregnancies did she ever glow. At the end of the sessions of child-birth classes for her first pregnancy, the expectant mothers all waxed poetically about how wonderful it was to be pregnant. Not my sister. She was the last to speak and shocked them all by announcing that she felt like a beached whale, hated every second of being pregnant, and couldn’t wait for it to be over but was dreading the second when she would be responsible for this little human. She’s had three kids and she is a wonderful mother.
Your sister sounds like a realist, like me. I don’t have kids but am thinking about adoption. I can see a tiny face but also childcare costs and college tuition bills. Realist.
@moodgirl, she definitely is. No romanticizing of motherhood at all but she and her husband do have fun with the kids and they have done a good job.
well it worked for me -I was totally hormonal with a glow and an air of relaxation even when working but my sister in law was the opposite -she looked haggard and worn out so it just depends on your makeup.. Mind you re versed it after the birth.
I doubt I had a glow. I was grumpy as hell until both kids were out of my belly and I was able to roll out of bed again in less than 10 seconds.
Icerose, I saw Ibsen’s Ghosts last night on DTO. I see why you were crying in the lu afterwards. I was riveted and thought that must have been a pretty scandalous play back in the 19th century with all the talk of free love, syphilis and subtle reference to incest. I didn’t realize that Richard Eyre directed this until the closing credits. He was my favorite of the HC directors.
Enjoyed Private Lives for a good laugh. Much Ado, Dolls House and All my Sons next…
I was happy as a stoned sheep but the first 3 months post pregnancy were stressful as he was a premature baby.I did leave him out side the village shop and returned home before I realised I had forgotten him.
Having seen the Dolls House Ghosts is a bit of an eye opener -you can see why he is considered one of the more controversial feminist play rights in his time. And yes to Eyre well. I was second row and the intensity of the performances was incredible. I felt he made the more complex of the plays accessible.
Do catch the Globes 12th Night as it is just pure comic genius in a very accessible ,innovative physical way,
icerose, I like to go back and forth between comedy / drama so 12th night it is. Just purchased it for the family as we’ll enjoy multiple viewings of it, I’m sure. Thanks for the recoms!
“I did leave him out side the village shop and returned home before I realised I had forgotten him.” 👀 What?
@Moodgirl-he was in one of those huge old prams that had belonged to my mother in law and back then in quiet villages/town leaving your pram out side a shop was pretty normal. We did not worry about baby thefts in the early 80’s.
It was in the very early days after the birth when I was not getting much sleep.It was quite a big shop so I wandered around -did my shopping and then walked home which was just up the road, Got inside and though s….I forgot my baby. Went back and he was fine. Everyone knew the pram and where we lived so he eve might have made his way home without me going back. Life was like that in village/towny places back then,
Eeesh. Well congratulations to them, it really does seem like a little bump.
As for fan reaction…sometimes your fans can be the scariest people in the room. If it’s fake so be it, it’s better not to fuel his efforts, if not then poor woman. Someone mentioned Eva Mendez and yes, some men with cult followings are really dooming their SO’s to automatic hatred.
I do get really fed up of sweeping comments like this. It’s really unfair and so reductive and lazy.
Of course crazy fans who pour hatred exist but anyone who’s actually bothered to read these boards and threads will know that very few of those exist in here. It’s mostly intelligent people who are just utterly confused by the way he’s been acting since she came on the scene.
Yes, I think we all realise we could probably be doing something more productive with our time, but that doesn’t make any of us ‘scary’. Far from it.
Dismissing everyone as ‘condemning SOs to automatic hatred’ is just unfair and plain wrong.
If he’d behaved normally, had a normal relationship and looked even half as happy as you’d expect, then nobody would question it and I think majority of people in here round be happy for the guy.
I find your (collectively, not singular your) comments very immature. Your evidence is sooo flimsy. The guy is not “glowing” or “beaming”, lol. That’s your proof that this is a forced relationship? Damn, people are living in romance novels or Disney movies.
To clarify…there is also the reaction of his fans on Tumblr and other sites. Furthermore I’m comparing this issue to a trend that seems to follow some men, if I go in a George Clooney or Ryan Gosling post it’s the same thing. Fervent determination to discredit when one can never really know the workings of someone else’s bedroom.
If it’s fake then the raging is only fueling his goal, he’s getting attention and speculation where he wasn’t before. If it’s real then he’s human and not the character we see on TV. So far little proof has been offered either way for all the anger.
Why is it immature to look beyond what the media presents? And let’s be honest, nobody needs to look that far to see he doesn’t look like someone who has a warmth or connection to her, nor does he look like a happy man about to be a dad or husband. That’s just a fact. He looks miserable. I don’t know why, course I don’t..but he’s not over the moon about something, that’s for sure.
And when has anyone used the words ‘glowing’ or ‘beaming’? Nobody expects that, but for him to not look like someone’s just sicked in his coffee, would be nice and it’s a shame that it’s seen as ‘Disney’ to expect it.
QED. Projection, lack of self-awareness and life experience.
As to the use of those words, I didn’t make stuff up, so it is to you to find out. Go to a random older thread, type in the search keyword, and you’ll have your answer.
Woah that’s kinda patronising.
Lack of self awareness and life experience? That’s some judgment over a huge bunch of people you’ve never met.
Seems a shame that you frown on people who dare to comment on some pretty glaringly weird behaviour. Doesn’t take Carl Jung to work out something’s up.
Also, I’m really not responsible for one person’s use of the word ‘glowing’. But my point was, you can’t really sweepingly apply that to everyone. Very few of us think he should be ‘glowing’.
Yup, patronizing but honest. Again, if your (collectively) proof is the lack of ‘chemistry’ then there’s a silly tendency to think body language is science, and to confuse tantrums for real life. And you’ll understand why I don’t sit and reply to every one of you and chose to treat you as a collective voice, since you guys seem to agree with each other.
Wow. Even more patronising.
I never mentioned body language, but you don’t need to get pseudo sciencey to see there’s very little warmth and affection there. And actually, tantrums ARE real life, so I really am not sure what point you’re trying to make there.
I don’t follow Cumberbatch at all; I only really notice pictures of him on Celebitchy. So, it’s a clean slate on my part. FWIW he always looks stone faced when he is with this woman (fiancée, I guess?). Not exactly a sizzling couple.
Obvious even to a newcomer. Thank you.
*tiptoes into Cumberwhatzit post*
She looks beautiful! All glow-y
*tiptoes back oot*
She is wearing a lot of make up as she always does on red carpets. I don’t get where people get this idea that she goes for a natural look. You can see she’s got false eyelashes on in some of last night’s photos.
Stop taking the bait.
And lipliner.
I always thought ‘glowing’ was a euphemism for nauseous and about to hurl….
and sweat from carrying a bowling ball on your pelvis.
or hormonal in a stoned kind of way.
I swear we have an old tablecloth with a Provencale pattern that looks exactly the same as that dress. I’ve always liked it, but maybe I should’ve turned it into a dress. I could’ve been such a trendsetter. Maybe I should learn to sow and get myself to some RC event. Or perhaps not…
i had the almost same printed frock when i was 5
Then you were fashion forward! I sadly not… 😉
P.S. Anyone else seen the pics of Benedict and Eddie together? In one of them he looks at Eddie like he’s the love of his life. And yet with Ms. Sodious… But of course I’m just a jealous hater…
And with Allen and with Morten and with Andrew and with Keira and with Felicity and with Sienna and with Amanda… I could go on, but I think I made my point.
But yes, we are crazy, jealous, sad humans…
(Love the Eddie&BC almost kiss photo from TIFF. BC’s looking at him like there’s no one else in the world)
I know, those two are great friends and hold each other in high esteem. And he does always get along so well with everyone he works with, at least it seems so. He’s much more guarded around his life partner. But I guess that’s considered to be normal. *Shrugs* I just don’t know anymore.
Sophie does NOT seem too popular not only with people within his circle but also with others not closely associated with him – you can see the side eye or strange looks thrown her way. You can’t piss off that many people without good reason. I don’t think we are too far off in our assessment of her.
Don’t hate, but do the psychics on this board want to weigh in on this?
Good question.
I don’t usually focus my “inner eye” on these types on things, because a) I read celebrity gossip to unwind and turn my brain off (that gift is relentless) and b) it isn’t especially gratifying to contemplate wether these relationships are staged, b/c almost all celebrity relationships that are in the public eye have some element of fakeness to them. Typically, the people who are serious about their relationship guard it from public scrutiny.
That being said, there are certain elements that I can’t avoid seeing, and I would be willing to go on the record that something is definitely off about this pairing. It could be a fake relationship, fake engagement/ pregnancy, he could feel stuck with her because of an unexpected pregnancy, etc. I feel like he is definitely uncomfortable with something. It could also be as simple as feeling the need to publicize his private life, and that is not his preference. A lot of celebrities who get high levels of attention try to better control the flow of information (and how much they are followed by the paparazzi) by being a bit more open, with mixed results.
The thing that sticks out the most to me about the relationship is HER energy. He is a bit of an open book, and not especially emotionally guarded for a celebrity, or an actor. It just isn’t his style. I think his personality is infectious, and comes across in his performances, and interviews, hence the huge following. (Although I have only personally seen him in Sherlock, and usually avoid these threads. I think he seems like an interesting person, but has become a bit overexposed.)
Her energy is however very guarded to me. She seems especially stiff, and has some of the hallmarks I attribute with someone who is very controlling. This could also be attributed to a number of factors, some more benign than others. It is not uncommon for someone with a lot of emotional energy to end up with someone like her, as a lot of us seek balance in our relationships.
At the end of the day, the thing that bothers me the most is that they look so much alike. If you told me they were identical twins (impossible for a boy and girl, I know) I would believe you. I know people can be attracted to qualities they are used to seeing in their parents faces, mothers especially, but sheesh- this is borderline creepy.
Now that I have put this much focus into it, I am now getting a gay or asexual vibe from him. probably more asexual.
Thanks Lily, these views are always so interesting and your’s sounds right on point.
I’m really interested in the logistics of the coming weeks. BC will be doing a lot of transatlantic flying back and forth. Will Ursula and The (PR-)Bump?
It wouldn’t look good for a pregnant lady (real or PR-pregnant) to fly back and forth.
So will she miss the Globes? SAGS? Critics? Doubt it.
Will she stay in LA and shop more “look at my bump” dresses? Well, it wouldn’t be very nice thing for a daddy-to-be to left his pregnant fiancee alone in LA.
Decisions, decisions…
According to witnesses (popsugar has a tweet up from one at leas), SH was there first and BC arrived solo… I’m thinking she was fed ex’d in for the ceremony and will be put back into storage till the next one.
There’s also a video of the arrival. BC gets out, Karon gets out. No Ursula.
Just how that works? How they are a couple and arrive in different cars? I don’t see any other explanation than she flew from UK/NY and he from the Caribbean. I think Karon might have been with him if we are going with her tan. LOL.
MissMary: that’s just bizarre. Why don’t they arrive together if they’re a couple?
Umm, because they are not a couple in the real sense of the word.
Doesn’t he always have the same expression on red carpets? When does he look happy?
If she isn’t pregnant that is a dress that would make you look pregnant. Clearly an interesting and very vibrant style choice. It looks like one of those hidden message patterns , maybe there is a secret message there, like not really pregnant just trying to fool you.
It just came to me about that T5 spa “sighting” , I don’t know what’s the traditional there tbh, but for CN PG woman, spa is not really recommended…
I used to be an RMT when I was working through grad school and you CAN get massages whist pregnant but there’s some types of massage that are not recommended.
And all those people who supposedly spotted him in the Carribbean on Twitter, don’t you think they would have mentioned if he had been with a pregnant woman?
Yeah good point! Was she spotted at all? Or do twitterers typically not mention SOs?
If he was spotted with a pregnant woman, even if they didn’t know who she is, they’d have mentioned him being with a.) a woman and b.) a pregnant one. And speculated that she was his cousin, Viki, etc before settling on SH.
Gorgeous couple! The only thing I would change is her hair. As for the dress, she’s totally preggo!
Just a theory. Maybe its that time of the month for her. The last time they were on the red carpet together was early December right? It’s early January! It’s a possible theory, she’s bloated. I don’t believe she is pregnant and if she, poor Ben. Marriage is not going to save this relationship.
+ The Holidays aren’t necessarily good time for dieting.
+ Camera adds 10 pounds.
Loved the pic on SoGo where someone circled Benedict’s bump. LOL.
i bloat too. very much around the midriff. thats a very good theory indeed.
I keep saying this. When it’s that time of month I bloat up so much my boss stares at my stomach. I am as thin as her and its easily goes past my flat chest. Taking laxatives brings it down a bit but not completely.
I have seen a pic of her having a larger belly than this one (it was an old one – and not the fake pregnancy one). She is going towards 40, constant flatness of the belly at that age usually isn’t something you can count on anymore. The “bump” seems the same as in previous pictures – not larger.
If she is pregnant and it is his – he has officially one of the stupidest and tasteless penises walking the surface of this planet. It won’t last and my sympathy goes to the baby.
“Stupidest and tasteless penises”
Rofl! Love it lola
Oh and your first point was also good lola. Most of my early 30s female friends are no longer flat stomached
This is true, I never thought of it. If we saw her on the red carpet on December 7th, how did she get from nothing to appearing to be what some say is four or five months pregnant in less than thirty days?
Some women don’t show until their fourth or fifth month. I didn’t, and she’s taller and slimmer than me, so it’s entirely possible that she didn’t “pop” until recently.
No, there was def something going on in the belly area when wearing the red flowery and the poopy brown dress but there was def noting going on when she wore that blue flowery dress (both times). I think she is a bit bloated at times (aren’t we all?), is also a bit squidgy in that area and is posing like a diva on a fricking comet (if you look from at a picture from the side, her pelvis is ridiculously inclined forward). If I am honest she does look preggers in this dress (which smartly covers waist area).
Belly during pregnancy changes all the time – inflates and deflates – for long you can show nothing (at least other people do not notice) and then boom the belly and boobs significantly grow over a couple of days. There is no way anyone can predict how far a lady is into the pregnancy unless they are a OB/GYN with accurate monthly cycle data and ultrasound evaluation of the fetal gestational age. Everything else is just very stupid assumption.
Whatever is going on and she is indeed knocked up, I hope he is smart enough to demand a paternity test. And if she is and he thought it was his, despite all the weirdness in the last months, I think he wouldn’t treat the mother of his first child so badly and with such disgust. Not being over the moon in that situation is one thing but being so disgusted by her – no, I really don’t think so.
In three weeks?
When the belly starts growing it grows in a visible and noticeable manner (quicker if the lady starts showing later in the course of pregnancy). There are some variations, but it grows. If she started showing in the beginning of Dec, she would be larger by now.
But you are missing something: the poopy dress was leather/fake one holding things together and still from a side there was belly as there is in this instance … the difference is that this dress is very loose and doesn’t show waist area.
God, I hope I am right:-)
Just gotta say I love all these comments. 😁 Whether for or against, I love all the discussion… this is quite the show!
As for me, I’m on the preggers train. I do hope they don’t get married, but I think they will. Still giving them 12 to 18 months, based purely on the speculation that she hasn’t seemed to pass the ‘family’ test and they always seem so, well, ‘business-like’ on the RC… which is the ONLY place they’re ever seen together.
I know — I love reading Cumby threads!
I think she’s pregnant too. I just can’t imagine why she’d TRY to look pregnant if she wasn’t. I know people here think she’s an attention whore, but seriously? Enough to pretend to be knocked up? I just don’t buy it.
Well, in some photos, she does look pg… but what do I / we know… only time will tell… But if she is, I don’t think it was planned at all…
My goodness, but that baby won’t be wanting in the chin department.
LOL!!!
My two cents: She is amazingly tall and the two of them are about on the same level as far as being attractive goes. I don’t care what he does in his personal life, I just enjoy his amazing acting.
She’s five foot seven according to her bio via her agent. That’s…average.
Since when. I’m just a tad over 5’5 and am above average height. The average height is about 5’4.
BTW, there are some iffy pics going around Tumblr which are most likely photoshopped so she would look bigger. Just a warning…
Ta for the heads up Ingrid. Reading your posts this weekend, also ta for your level headed commentary as always
Yikes. Seriously?
I saw those! Yikes.
Of all the comments I like the one from madly, who has insider knowledge of Hollywood pr relationships, the most:
Know when you are baited.
Also need I remind everyone it was only the last post kaiser was quoting a likely new interview where he said he wants kids of his own “someday”?in other words, it’s not on the table now.
Happy to see his “one thing at a time” response to any alleged wedding
ITA. The fade out has begun… (why is he changing his message? In Dec he was still bringing it up himself…)
Gotta love HuffPost headline (for once they are on message): Benedict Cumberbatch Says Wedding Planning Not A Priority
Thanks Claire for your comment above, BTW. *blushes*
I like the sound of it…but I still don’t trust his words, so use Caution. He could be trying to throw us off. And He may have planned his secret wedding during the holidays and could happen soon. Possibly after sherlock filming. Especially if she is pg. We just won’t know til announcement.
Yw Ingrid. Btw have you ever noticed how the headlines and article content on cb almost always lead off our comments in the previous post? Confirmation bias from the gossip “authority” here, lovies. (hope that’s the right psych term)
Lazy Sunday afternoon for me, and this thread is crazy! LOL, some comments are ummm, kinda ugly, with the trapping etc. Can we just generically wish them well, instead of this 1950s shiz? I know it’s Pollyanna, but it’s better for the soul.
It’s a bit idealistic to pretend this is all normal but if that’s what suits you, you’re welcome to think it.
It’s bound to be a talking point, considering they were dating for a very short amount of time and seem to have little warmth.
I think most people on here do wish him well, that’s the point. It’s better for the soul to pretend everything is tickety boo, but when it clearly isn’t, that doesn’t make the weird crap go away.
Point, head, above, whoosh. I like bitchy banter, I don’t like Mad Men era assumptions. I’ll stick to my rosy well wishing. I don’t see anything weird or crappy about these two, but I’m really not in the know.
Wow, the patronising is rife here today. I fully understood the point, thanks.
I’m not sure why you see people’s speculations as1950s?
They’re not outdated and it’s pretty naive to assume these things no longer happen.
As I say, everyone’s welcome to think what they like, but if you haven’t really kept up with the way things have panned out, then it won’t be that easy to see what’s truly so odd about all of this.
I’m 99% sure that trapping men has been a subplot of several reality tv shows.
Nooo, what did I do, engaging? You guys are scary. Forget I was here.
Well that’s a perfectly rational response to the conversation we were having…
And you think everyone *else* is scary?
@cipy – I agree with you but I astonished – and disgusted – that two adults near forty didn’t use birth control. Really, they should BOTH know better. And NO, they did not plan this, nannies.
I completely agree with your choice of words: astonishing and disgusting (but I would say it for every age or any one who is having sex and is not committed and not wanting a baby/STD as a result).
Aside from the fact that no form of contraception has a 100% success rate outside of total abstinence, how do you know they didn’t plan it? Were you hiding under the bed every time they were knocking boots?
Yes, I was hiding under their bed while they “knocked boots” and I heard him say he didn’t want a child with her. How else do you think I would know?
yes more people need to be aware that babies are a common side effect of sexual intercourse….
Ben has been broody for so long, he found a woman who took him at his words. It is that simple. It will be so funny if one day we find out that Ben trapped her by punching holes in the latex. 😂 I cannot stop laughing at the idea. What is so wrong with this relationship that seems to make rational people irrational? I really don’t get it. Who cares! As the song from sherley bassey goes “this is my life”. In their case, “their life”. Whether they settle, have an arrangement, find passionate love, mature love or compagnionship. Let the chips fall where they may! In the meanwhile enjoy his work and deliciousness (for those who enjoy him that way). Lol
He trapped her! I didn’t think of that. But that must be why he has looked so chipper and happy these past few months. Thanks for cueing us in.
OUCH but still funny.
Little OT, but about campaigning: my best friend is medical sales rep. The entire purpose of her and her job is to make sure doctors remember the name of the drug when they are prescribing drugs. Her job? She just visits them, brings them gifts and shakes hands and smiles and gets paid very well. Thats all.
So very much like the award season. They can’t force voters to vote but they can make sure his name is remembered. BC can’t be in LA to do that so he’s present through the press which in return needs new headlines. Hence the gag and the preggers dress.
So I think there’s a good chance she’s not actually pregnant. It’s not like Harvey said “oh well, you don’t have the time. Better luck next year”. No way.
@Ingrid That’s what I’ve been thinking all along. It’s really just about keeping his name in the headlines. I really think it just falls into the “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” category. It doesn’t matter what is said or written about him as long as his name is mentioned often enough.
After last night’s show, I’m more convinced than ever that is for show only. Why was she even there? He’s going to be in LA for 2 days, go home for Sherlock and then back to LA for 2 days for the Globes next week. He doesn’t need her there to accept an award, but he needs her to create a stir and get some headlines written about them. I don’t know, but this just didn’t seem like an appropriate event for them to go all red carpet event pictures if it was a real romance and she is eating. it. up. How did they go from not wanting to be seen together at LFF to “we can’t get photographed enough” at red carpets? I just don’t think he’s Hollywood enough without her. I don’t think Redmayne is Hollywood enough either, but he’s not working for Harvey.
So much for HW changing the direction of the campaign back to Alan Turing. Devil’s Advocate: Maybe she went because he is too embarrassed to break the news and she doesn’t want to be seen in a few months pushing a pram down a London street.
I definitely feel like he’s embarrassed by everything going on.
just curious but does anyone know annickpass new url?? She might’ve provided new clues as to what’s going on or rather what they are trying to tell us!!
I really don’t get the fuss over this guy. Granted I haven’t watched Sherlock. The only thing I’ve “seen” him in is as an animated British wolf in Penguins of Madagascar (and I didn’t even know it was his voice until the end of the movie). I go to a few gossip sites but nobody seems to cover him as much as CB! Lots of Cumberbitches I guess here?
I don’t really care about his new fiancée or new baby. She seems harmless. I doubt this pregnancy was meant to be part of an Oscar campaign, but it is convenient timing for him. Good for him if it works out.
Brother and Sister. They could be twins.
WARNING: Shameless threadjacking below!
Bendy no longer puts a smile on my face. This lanky Brit does, however:
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/entertainment/tom-hiddleston-will-rule-the-big-screen-in-2015.html/?a=viewall
That smile brightens even the gloomiest of the days.
Yum!
@MtnRunner BLESS YOU!
I miss him so much.
Lets hope so and he will also break our hearts as the tortured lead in Crimson Peak. I think I am going to get my ““It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” moment in 2015.
Mind you I cried on and off on the Theory of Everything. Eddie Redmayne is translucent and he won best actor at Palm Springs or where it was they were. Quedos to David Thewlis.My grownup Harry Lloyd was lovely and Maxine Peake shone in small parts as well
TIG got best ensemble which nice because it is great to see Strong, Goode and Dance recognised.
Best threadjack ever! Hello, fellow dragonflies, are we prepared for 2015? 🙂
I’ve been ready for months. I’m greatly in need of a Bendy cleanse.
Well done Mtn Runner….I’ve been reading a new tumblr blog by someone who lives near him and hearing people describe him in person is making me quite weak in the knees..
That sounds a little creepy….
Whether to believe her or not is one thing but it still It makes for a more rational read than the Bike sight which attracts some real crazies who seem to stalk everybody who was remotely linked to Tom.
However the bike sight is now focussing more on the elderly prim virgin birth of cosmic Sophie and Richard Armitage’s sexual orientation.
The new sight is what does he order in the café etc etc etc,
The new site is also BS. She reports what she knows just by what she has seen by going to the cafe. It is the internet-people believe what they want.
A stalker creating a blog to report alleged knowledge and his personal business is now a good thing for Hiddleston? Are you all crazy?
No wonder we don’t see him out and about. Obviously he can’t even have a coffee at his favorite cafe without a blog being born to cover it. If you like him, respect him and let him be.
UGH!!!
I have started catching up on Sherlock. I like it and he is good in it. I still like the OLD B/W movies so that is my pulling point.
His film is doing well at the BO.. I think he is pretty assured a nomination. Whether he wins or not who knows. I just don’t think this man is doing a PR stunt for an Oscar. Look I get fandom.. I’m a brangeloonie and proud to be such. Won’t deny it. It just takes me back to when they got together. Every picture was analyzed and dissected to the end. If they touched or didn’t touch what does it mean. Are they not smiling.. why? are they smiling too much? why? he doesn’t look happy. She is trapping him. He looks happier without her. He looked happier with someone else. Why is she with him at this event; why is she not at the event. he looks so miserable. I don’t know.. they look like a couple together happy on a RC with cameras flashing in their faces.
I guess I’m not that jaded.. I think they look fine together. Maybe they are reserved or not I guess photo assumptions depend on whoever is looking at the picture. Maybe they are not the type of couple to show a lot of PDA.. I just don’t think he needs to fake a love affair to get an award.
Look I’m not a fan and I will accept that the fans know more about him than those of us just peeking in on occasion. But maybe he is happy.
I can’t tolerate Angie and Brad. I think she is more than a little off and I do not believe he intended to have a life with her and a million kids but just wanted to see her naked. They were so low class in the way they conducted themselves but now she wants to stick her nose in the air.
If all he wanted was to see her naked, why did he stick around to make a family of six kids with her?
Umm, because he had a family of six kids. After the first one, really two or three, where do you think he was going to go?
I don’t care about Cumby but I am enjoying the meltdown. Explode, little heads, explode….
What meltdown?
I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you from the sound of the booms.
Greenhouse gases. It’s horrible. We should really do something about big corporations and pollution.
I agree with you Felice. It’s time for the goverments to do something concrete (and stop taking bribes from oil companies.)
I haven’t had much of a winter so far but we have freezing rain right now. It freaks me out. There’s a tumblr post about how we can power the whole world through solar energy in the Sahara but I don’t know how true that is.
I live in Scandinavia and currently no snow. In January. What is happening?
I live near a major beach town and the state wants to put turbines right off shore. Just what we need to see. BS.
I actually like turbines but maybe because I don’t live around areas that have a lot
Fracking is allowed in national parks so who knows what will happen next. The consumer will never benefit from lower prices, the companies will jack up the costs no matter how cheap it is for them. Where I live the consumer bears almost the total cost of services, even the poles that hold the lines. How many months must I pay for the same pole? Shameful.
LOL!!!!!!!
Bump watch is the worst way to determine if someone is pregnant. Do you know how many times Jennifer Aniston is pregnant looking and it ends up being nothing?
She could be menstral , bloated, had too much sodium, drank a lot of carbonated water, gained weight over the holidays. Or it could be the dress, or she could be pregnant.
At this point we don’t know. I usually feel sorry for actresses because this kind of speculation feeds eating disorders, but I would be lying if I said they don’t use it to play the game. Kinda think she is playing to the obsessed fans a bit. Otter fans are easily riled up.
At the end of the day, wait for confirmation.
But man are there a lot of new posters here today, hi interns!
Oh gosh of course she’s doing it deliberately. Pg or not, she’s using it for attention and that truly sucks. The cursory holding of the little bag in a ‘don’t look at this area of me, don’t try see past this bag.’ Is transparent.
Just disappointing he’s involved in these games. Very tacky.
Since they apparently didn’t arrive together maybe he didn’t know what she was going to do. From the look on his face he obviously didn’t know what she had planned to wear.
I saw the JA photo on SoGo and she looks about nine months with twins in the picture BUT she wasn’t pregnant. There is also a photo of Sophie on that site and she looked about nine months.
she looks pretty and glow-y even if that dress is……..a thing. But I get it – she’s probably a few months along which lines up with a semi-surprising engagement. Good for them! He’s been keen on having children for a while now hasn’t he?
Yes, good for them. He is allegedly having a baby with someone he obviously can’t stand but we are all very happy for them and for the baby who is (if there is one that’s BC’s) going to have divorced/separated parents who even now can’t even look at each other. Happy, happy, so happy.
And the enGAG wasn’t semi-surprising: it was shocking … and seeing how much they like each other is even more shocking and sad. But so happy for all of them, so so so happy.
Being keen on having a baby doesn’t mean that you knock up just anyone you seem to dislike and be happy about it afterwards. One of the most important things you can give to your kid is to love the other parent – but concluding from their pictures that doesn’t seem to be a problem here. lol happy happy
The odds for pr/preggers are about 50/50 but I’m staying in the pr camp for now because of this ^^^^^
Of course it is 50/50 from our perspective. No matter how we weigh what we see in the videos&pictures and what we conclude from them … it is objectively still 50/50.
Said it upthread and i’ll say it again. The last cb post was about an interview kaiser said was new (and even if it isn’t the point still stands), in which he said he wanted kids “someday”, and then we have a backflip with this new post based on a dodgy photo, and everyone laps it up without questioning the lack of consistency.
I don’t think we can believe everything he says. I think he is really unhappy and more than a little embarrassed.
I think she was referring to the site.
Cumberbaby!!
Nanny!!
Butthurt !
Well, well. The desired effect of the latest stunt has been noted by the press. https://twitter.com/camillalong/status/551743267268997120
It’s all rather embarrassing. BC just cannot go back to insisting he values his privacy after this circus.
I don’t have a Twitter account so can’t see it; will you give me an overview please. Thanks.
Journalist from Sunday Times (online, so maybe tabloidy?) tweeted photo from last night with “Is there a Cumberbaby on board?”
Thanks gg but oh.my.god. It will be all over the place in a day or two. There is a photo either on SoGo or a professional site where he is looking at her stomach like he was, up to that point, totally unaware of anything unusual. Like he hadn’t seen her in a while and was caught off guard. I think he went on vacation without her and I would find it hard to believe they even live together.
So you think maybe it isn’t his, or does Benedict not *know* where babies come from?
@moodgirl. Iooked at that picture and thought he was looking at her shoes. Or he could have been musing “My god, I look sharp as hell and she looks like something the cat dragged in.”
@gg – More like the look I gave my bff when she was pregnant and I hadn’t seen her for a while because we live three hours apart. I had to do a double take.
I think she is gorgeous. And I love love love him as an actor. So happy for his engagement and I love that she wears funky stuff on the red carpet looks like shes happy and glowing as well. As for him looking “miserable”…if he smiled all the time you all would say “see told you he was miserable look at that fake smile”
You think she’s gorgeous? … Well..good for you.
She’s ‘glowy’ because she has a lot of make up on, her face doesn’t even match her neck.
‘Funky stuff’… Well that’s pretty accurate.
And re: your last point, um…there was a time when he did look pretty happy actually and ..nope, nobody accused him of ‘a fake smile’
I guess my taste is as good as Benedicts, cause he sure seems to think shes hot too.
Um. Ok.
@Howbout them apples
Good luck with finding her equivalent (whichever gender you are looking for). It is going to be difficult. Or, you just wait a while … until the end of March or so, then you can have her (I hope you are loaded, it seems money does tricks for her).
Stop taking the bait.
@moodgirl why after someone says something nice about this woman you say “stop taking the bait”… I get to have an opinion and voice it on a website, Like anyone that thinks this woman is nice or good looking or has at least one redeeming quality…we are trolls. everyone… look out for the troll, she’s baiting you by saying nice things…
Don’t take the bait.
Definition #1 in Merriam-Webster for funky.- having an offensive odor
Astonishing number of new posters today. And all Sophiephiles!! What are the odds?
a lot less than 50/50 LOL
I’m going to start sending bills for services to HW. Seems she’s finally decided to fly with him. After we query why she never travels with him. :)-
Where do you see this?
Dailyfail
Funny how they didn’t get papped arriving (probably didn’t arrive together!) but conveniently get papped leaving, holding hands and looking “inseparable” Link on SoGo
I have to give them credit, they’ve really stepped up their game.
If I was just checking in on the gossip about BC, I would look at those photos of last night’s RC and on the Daily Fail and be absolutely convinced they were a happy couple. They’re standing much closer together, finally being papped flying together (holding hands no less!) and actually *appear* to be normal. So well done to the PR, LOL!
It’s only because I’ve been around since the beginning of this year that I can put their recently discovered PDA into context.
Still on the fence, but leaning towards REAL, just because there are a few things that don’t add up in my head if this were all fakery. But that’s just me.
Still predicting 12-18 months (I’m mean, I know, but I can’t fight intuition). If they have a baby it’ll be a girl. 😀
Zero intuition. Zero reasoning.
Oh? How so?
I’ll just say one thing since I’m still on the fence–that is one ILL fitting ring. The Fail pics show it pretty much sliding around her finger. How it doesn’t slip off of her hand is the real mystery.
Really???? Still? You’d think he’d have gotten an i’ll fitting ring (not sure what was hard about finding her ring size before buying it in the first place) fitted in the months since
Don’t fingers swell during a pregnancy?
Her knuckles are bigger than phalanges. She can’t wear rings different than “ill fitting”.
Nonsense – especially with expensive jewelry, you can have hinged backs put on them that open and close, especially for people with arthritis and larger knuckles. If it was a problem they could have fixed it by now. I’m guessing she doesn’t wear it all the time.
Em, it’s normal for your knuckles to be slightly wider otherwise everyone’s rings would be sliding off, no? Plus and engagement/wedding ring isn’t the kind of jewellery you normally take off regularly, at least most I know don’t.
I have freakishly tiny fingers and my engagement ring had to be taken in. It was done a few days afterwards but having said that it still swings around my finger when it’s really cold out but when I do remove them, there are little indents from wearing them. Hers has never looked like it fit properly but that might be the way she likes to wear it.
I’ll say it: Maybe the HW angle was wrong; he had absolutely nothing to do with the personal relationship of BC and these two simply got engaged so quickly because she was pregnant. Simple as that. The silly stuff at LFF and the missed photo opps in Edinburgh were simply kerfluffles that had nothing to do with anything.
They started hanging out in June, moved too quickly considering the fact that they didn’t spend all that much time together OR he really wasn’t that busy last summer and most obviously had too much time on his hands. She gets pregnant in August in what is probably adds up to mere DAYS of casual dating. Sidenote: Nasty. Why grown people don’t use birth control is beyond me. Especially Ben because he had so much to lose.
He finds out in September and in October decides to announce it to keep from having a pregnant companion back in London while he campaigned during the season. The reason why his friends and family aren’t communicating is because they already know and everyone has agreed not to discuss it. And the big question as to why he was livid when he first got to the states is simple: He has now obligated himself to a forever relationship with a woman he obviously doesn’t know well, doesn’t like and fathered a child with. And he was shocked, angry and sad. And it showed.
The other option is that she isn’t pregnant and just had a crappy dress. I, having never been pregnant, simply can’t understand how a person can look pregnant four weeks after not looking pregnant. I know someone tried to explain it but it still doesn’t make sense to me.
Somebody punch holes in my theory please.
There’s a thing called abortion and it is legal
Sorry to say, but this makes the most sense to me. BC started looking grumpy in October, right around the time they would’ve found out. And the lack of commentary from friends and family also adds up.
I think these two are ‘together’ because they’re trying to make it work, hence the lack of ‘loved-up’ vibe they give off. I can’t see BC being happy about an abortion, not at all. And we’ve no idea how SH feels about that issue. She is 36, as far as a baby is concerned, better now than never.
I imagine the pair of them are going to give a relationship their best shot because, as you mentioned, if they’re having a child together, they’re going to be in each other’s lives for a very long time.
As for PR: this was still TOTALLY used for it.
I might buy it if I was convinced she’s pregnant, but I’m not. But we’ll see in the next few weeks I guess. The media build up is still why I’m on the PR train. Remember her mother and “watch this space” in September.
@moodgirl
Wish I could punch holes in your theory.
Strictly for PR would leave no room for anyone to ever respect him again.
It would explain the quick, unexpected engagement.
It would explain pissybatch.
It could even explain some of her behaviors.
The only form of birth control with 100% success rate is abstinence and I doubt many of us thought that was happening.
As a kid of a “do the right thing” marriage, I hope they seriously think about actually getting married. If they are really in love, then go for it but if not, just co-parent. Don’t put a kid through growing up in a house with that kind of tension. It’s not fun. I lived it.
Other things fall into place as well, most especially his comment on being ‘coy’ about potential ‘Cumberbabies’.
The ‘leak’ to the tabloid about how SH was already pregnant and that’s why they’re marrying.
SH rarely being seen out and about. Anywhere, it seems.
And on Good Morning America, wasn’t he asked about potential children? And a fan caught a side-shot of BC looking rather grim and sad-faced?
The only thing I can think of atm that would be a potential hiccup in this theory is that SH was photographed at the ESAs carrying a wine glass.
But as Tsmiv said, this is just wild speculation on our parts. Hell it always has been. But the pregnant theory is really the one that joins together BOTH sides of this debate in so many ways. A real relationship, yes. A happy one?
Well….
Tbh I’ve been thinking about this also, and the worst scenario is, it’s all true, it actually has nothing to do with HW, it’s just Ben uses it for camp. And we know that, his nannies don’t care about it at all.
It explains his coyness about babies does it?
So tell us how it explains an interview he just gave when he said he wants kids “someday”. It was in the previous post here on CB.
Everyday this is becoming more like tumblr. INGRID AND HBIC AND MADLY AND KT COME BACK!
@Claire:
LOL. Good point. I forgot about that.
But when was that interview done? I’m really asking. I honestly don’t know. If it was before November…?
And, to continue being devil’s advocate here (please don’t throttle me) one could stretch ‘someday’ into ‘someday, maybe late May, early June,’ LOL.
Just saying.
Listen I know I’m beating a dead horse but kaiser thinks it was new. If it was from pre Nov, , which is dubious, it still suggests he is using protection and would mean he knocked her up when they looked like they hated one another. none of that makes sense. And dead horse again: this is only gaining traction bc of kaisert’s headline: she writes based on our commentary in the previous post to provoke maximum traffic, it’s been obvious for a long time.
Aand one more thing: don’t underestimate the echo chamber factor here. The pregnancy speculation started on tumblr before the engagement was even announced, ladies here were predicting it would be part of the pr campaign, I’m sure their pr team reads what these sites say, and all it took was speculation on here the otherr night for kaiser to make a post and then it jumped from there. The circular confirmation bias here shouldn’t be ignored
Hmm, I see your points. Particularly regarding generating traffic. *points to herself for commenting*
I did, however, miss the speculation on pregnancy being a PR strategy, but then, there have been A LOT of posts. 😉
I think I went with the notion of pregnancy because I think it checks so many boxes. I mean, BC has BSed people before in his interviews, yes? Saying one thing, saying the opposite in another interview, or doing the opposite of what he says. Perhaps the ‘someday’ comment was just a throw-away comment.
LOL. I’m thinking about this WAY too much. Time for bed. 😉
I heard my name…
She’s either pregnant (49% chance) or they are trying to make us think she pregnant, headlines and because it would explain this clusterf*ck perfectly (51% chance).
I’m giving the PR 1% more because of the timing is So. F*cking. Perfect. All of it coincides with TIG Oscar campaign.
Ingrid surprised you’re almost convinced when you’ve always been vocal about the dodginess of their whole relationship
Claire, I said from the beginning that this is either PR or oopsie engagement. The PR narrative gives more material to speculate on, pregnancy is just “wait and see”. And truly, it could go either way. But true love forever this ain’t.
I was clueing for looks with LAX pics and SH’s coat’s other side, not the one she’s holding (and holding up, I must add) but the other one, does go straight over her seemingly very flat stomach.
BTW, have you read the Dlisted article. I was laughing so much. ” Oscar voting ends in February, so from now until then expect these two to get married, divorced and married again” . Read the whole thing, brilliant.
@claire. I imagine plenty of women have been pregnant w/o a “relationship”. Just a bang, with NSA intended.
Haha that sounds hilarious. Is that the same one with all the sexually explicit jokes? Can’t tell if they’re throwing shade on his fans or skeptics like us, or maybe a different article?
Claire, yes. They are throwing shade on everyone and I love it. That’s how you do it.
Us skeptics can take a joke, you know. Not sure about the nannies…
Airport pics are just proof that Harve is ramping up the campaign. They both disappear for week, no credible sightings anywhere, no pap pics of arrival in LA, and now paps just happen to see them? Really? Really? Really? As @Madly said, “know when you are being played.”
Why is it strange they’ve been photographed at the airport when every pap knows he was at the awards gala?
Why weren’t they photographed at the Caribe?
You are not reasoning.
It’s not strange. It’s right on schedule. Campaign in fffffuuullllll swing.
This thread…
Congrats if she’s pregnant. Good for them.
The LAX pics, especially the 3rd one, her ring is loose as hell. And is it me or she only has one coat? It’s the same at Hay, church I think. So as frugal as these two are, that kind of showy ring??
It’s a different coat. The Hay one did not have epaulets. I actually like the coat (not the color, though), but overall I think she looks a bit too cool for school here.
Right, and the colour is different, the hay one is darker.
I like coats, but that style is a bit long to me LOL
I don’t know what to say about her dressing sense, some says maybe shes too cool to care about fashion, but that’s not the case to me, shes dressing inappropriately, like summer dress in winter, and this, taking into account that they r going to take an intel flight, that polka dots look like pajama to me…
Did you notice that he was wearing a matching polka dot pyjama top underneath his cardigan? Oh, l’amour …
It’s the coat from Quaglino’s and the church. The clutching it closed is interesting. Or baity.
Baity, as it appears she could button it if she wanted to. Maybe she to knew she would have to take it off in order to go through security.
Someone found a picture of the dress on sogo. It’s roberto cavalli and the model even has a bump.
Good sleuthing koodles. How does one apply for the job to find designer dresses for FishStick to make her look pregnant to bait the tabs? I want that job.
Also what pic were you talking about last post that broke your heart?00
To each their own. He looks far more put together than usual for a flight, (almost as if he expected to have his pic taken.) She looks like she put her boots and coat on over her jammies. And hells bells people, the dark glasses indoors thing…we see you, you know we do…
Forgot to @Ingrid, so we don’t hv the pic arriving at LAX, but leaving instead LOL
because we asked for them . LOL
Yes LOL
So I was thinking, theres no holiday pics is probably because that didn’t happen? Bens not willing to go that far?
OH DEAR GOD with lax pics. Staged as hell. LOL
1. I have seen a fair amount of pap pics from lax (BC and others) but not once have I seen those stairs. So they just decided to take a looong stroll outside the airport? *facepalm*
2. Where are your bags? You don’t carry them at all now? Oh, you wouldn’t be able to hold hands…
3. The coat shows your boobs, but it seems not to do that with you bump, lady!
4. Stop baiting! Announce it or stop this. Dear God.
(BTW, she now has an excuse not to attend GGs and so on… Interesting…)
Yes absolutely. As were the pics of him going to the airport in toronto in sept. I think he only held a passport. No bags. who does that after spending a week overseas LOL
Claire, IIRC, he went to Toronto airport straight from premiere, so that would explain the lack of luggage and his suit. But usually he carries (at least part of) his own luggage. Now Karon is in the background gathering their stuff while these two take a romantic stroll through the airport. But as we know, SH is allergic to carrying her own stuff (except when her clutch is handy for sparking pregnancy rumors, then she doesn’t seem to mind. But now she needed her two hands to hold BC’s hand and her coat, because those things doesn’t have buttons, you know).
Of course these pics are not staged in the sense that they were actually flying out and so on. But it’s very clear BCSH were cooperating with paps and giving them good photos (high-res, good framing and focus, taken from the right distance) while usually BC just runs through the paparazzi sea straight from the car to inside (badly framed, not focused and taken from close distance.)
Also, as it’s been questioning that whether shes w him or not, like he went for holiday, shes in NY maybe? Haven’t seen them leaving or arriving together blahblahblah, now that we have the leaving together LAX pics. Perfect!
And yes, this is the first time I see an LAX pap pic like this, if without title I may not even know its LAX.
And Karon’s got to be in her fifties, at a minimum, and she’s left to deal with the luggage while two healthy 30 somethings take a leisurely stroll? Sheeesh!!
No NY or London airport pics yet? Interested to see where he dumps, excuse me, drops her off.
@Alice – Best laugh I’ve had all day.
I hope she pops just in time for Oscars week. I want to see that bump in all its spherical glory! I want to see that skin glow and that pre-natal vitamin enriched hair to shine under the bright lights. I want to see him put a ring on it and and have her rock lead the way as she floats down the red carpet in a stunning ivory pearl umpire waist gown. I want to see Benzedrine hold her Alexander McQueen clutch so she can rest that square-cut diamond ring on her baby bump and let it be known. She got this.
yaaaaaaaas!!!!
I think the dress is just baggy and would make anyone look pregnant.
What bothers me is how many people claim that she “trapped” him with a baby. Really? He could have covered it up. He is responsible for himself. No one is trapped any more. They just pay child support and get on with their lives. He is way too miserable looking for anyone to think he is really having a baby. Even if he is not happy with her, he would be happy about a baby.
The pregnant ploy yesterday surely deflected the pay for play rumours. #justsayin 😉
I agree. I’m in no way a fan of miss snootybritches or her fashion sense (that dress is Cavalli, which I’m shocked Miss Avante Garde would wear) but the escort stuff and the trapping him thing, has made me very, very uncomfortable.
Ive said this from the get go as pregnancy rumours started almost immediately given the odd nature of their non dating then engagement but….I hate the idea of people accusing her of trapping him.
Its 2015, he doesn’t *have to* do anything, if she is and he wanted to propose then that’s on him. The whole thing is odd as all hell and he is 100% using the relationship for PR (anyone who thinks he isn’t, or he is some innocent puppet unaware of what is going on, is delusional) but calling her an escort and accusing her of getting pregnant with the sole purpose of trapping him, is offensive and misogynistic.
Spot on 🙂
I don’t know. While I don’t think it’s the case here, some women do ‘accidentally’ fall pregnant, it does happen. I wouldn’t say that’s misogynistic, just a fact. In the same way as saying some men who knock up women and disappear isn’t a generalisation on male behaviour, it’s just what happens sometimes.
And that silly escort stuff was based around that nonsense blind item, nobody actually came up with that themselves.
Yeah we are living in enlightened times with no stigma but there are people who do think they should do ‘the right thing’ in the face of accidental pregnancies and end up in loveless marriages. It’s does still happen, as ridiculous as that is.
But yeah, they are both 100% playing up to the press and using whatever they have for the campaign, and in a strange way, I think if their relationship is real, that makes it even worse, to be using something supposed to be special as a tool for getting some press. That’s just sad.
+100000!! MTE
I think Kat, the issue I have is folks accusing her of purposely getting pregnant, in order to trap him in a loveless marriage, as if in this day and age that was a guarantee a man will propose and stay with you or he is some poor helpless sap. He’s a grown up, who if she is pregnant did his part in that process and I say this as someone who is very meh on her in general and side eyeing the HELL out of their whole relationship.
The escort stuff I saw wasn’t mainly on here to be fair but elements did creep in.
IF SH is pregnant:
Maybe it’s the Catholicism in me – Hate me if you will but if SH is 36 years old and hasn’t gotten pregnant up to this point, even after living with other men, I am highly suspicious that she suddenly turns up pregnant after two weeks with this guy. If she started having sex at even twenty, which is late for most people, and managed to avoid a pregnancy for 16 years I refuse to believe that she didn’t know how to use birth control and wasn’t in control of her situation.
Are they both at fault? Absolutely. BC especially since he had so much to lose. He’s a pure idiot for having unprotected sex with a woman he knew for a couple of days however, since a woman will always bear the brunt of an unplanned pregnancy, it is ultimately her responsibility to protect herself. With few exceptions, I don’t believe in accidents.
Last photo, looks like a bump. If true, Bendy, MAKE A HONEST WOMAN OUT OF HER ASAP dude!!!!
W magazine. What the hell?
http://cumberbum.tumblr.com/post/107213549011/benedict-cumberbatch-keira-knightley-on-the
Keira looks amazing to me in anything. I like vibrant colors so i like BC’s yellow sweaters and sneakers. as for his looks the less I say the better..
Oh, Keira is a goddess. She would have rocked even the Roberto Cavalli monstrosity. Speaking of that dress, it’s prestigious designer 2015 collection meaning she has a stylist and they picked out that dress (and the clutch) on purpose. I think we have our answer.
What on EARTH?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHA
His face and body language in that yellow jumper one, it’s almost Rik Mayall in Bottom.
Honestly, I 100% did a genuine burst of laughter
ETA they’re all very odd pictures, not just the BC and Keira ones.
Horrific. The worst shoot he’s ever done. Sweet Jesus.
he’s not even the worst now that i’ve seen them all, he got off easy! what weird pics
OOOOOH NOO
I guess we will move on to new thread soon?
Sometimes I just don’t get these fashion magazines, I know they r aiming for that sort of effect, cool? stoic? different? but it doesn’t mean it will be good on everyone.
OMG, its so terrible.
So where are the Heathrow pics? OR she went to edinburgh/NY?
I think they only landed a few hours ago or are still on the plane. Too lazy to calculate. Also, they might have not been spotted (although I’m sure paps are watching flights from LAX) or if she isn’t with him, Harvey could have been shopping for the pics (studios/managers do buy the pics themselves sometimes), might also explain the missing LAX arrival photos.
I am sitting next to woman who helps keep me sane, Iam trying to make her laugh right now
another gem by HRH 😀
god my tea tastes like warm water now. YUCK
Haha! He can’t say her name. “Brilliant to have something that I think is more important.” Have something?
“Also, I’ve got things that are more important for me going on now in my life. I’m sitting next to one of them right now, my fiancée [Sophie Hunter] – she’s a helpful tool [laughs]. I said that to make her laugh. She’s a helpful asset! She’s a lot more than that. But it’s brilliant to have something that I think is more important than myself in my life to focus away from myself, you know what I mean? That brings me into a good space.”
Where is this quote?
I think he should just keep his mouth shut.
At this point I’m concerned about the lack of Sherlock hair. Has Ben really grown too big for his signature look?