When is Benedict Cumberbatch going to begin filming Doctor Strange? He already pulled out of The Lost City of Z (Charlie Hunnam took his role) and Marvel has a November 2016 release date set aside for Doctor Strange. Considering the CGI and post-production needed for all of Marvel’s films these days, I assumed that Strange would be The Batch’s next project, that he would start filming sooner rather than later. But Benedict spoke to The Daily Mail’s gossip guy and Bendy says he’s going to spend the next few months “nesting” with his new wife. O RLY?
Benedict Cumberbatch can’t wait to prepare for the arrival of his first child – and the best role he’ll ever have, as a dad. The Oscar-nominated star told me that he’s counting the days until the awards season is over so that he and his new wife Sophie Hunter can ‘do some nesting’.
‘I’ve been on muddy fields and on horseback playing Richard III for the BBC and I’ve been on more flights to Los Angeles and back than I can count. All of that has been special, but I’m ready to have a couple of months to ourselves to prepare for the baby and do some nesting. It’s a real-life role, not a part,’ Cumberbatch told me.
Cumberbatch told me that he’s going to jealously guard his ‘nesting period’ with his wife because by late May he will be preparing to rehearse a production of Hamlet that begins previewing at the Barbican Theatre in London on August 5. The play, directed by award-winning Lyndsey Turner, boasts Cumberbatch as the Danish prince.
Although existing tickets have already sold out, producer Sonia Friedman has determined that 100 seats per performance will be made available at £10 each. Details on how to obtain these tickets will be revealed later in the spring. The Cumberbatch Hamlet will be filmed and shown at more than 550 cinemas in the UK and beamed around the world, I can reveal, on October 15, two weeks before the run ends on October 31.
‘It’s just a great way of making the play accessible,’ Cumberbatch said.
Friedman added that the NT Live initiative gives the ‘opportunity to thousands of people who are not able to see our limited run at the Barbican’. She hopes that the October 15 broadcast will be ‘an electrifying evening’ for UK audiences watching the show ‘in real time’.
There’s more about the live event, but you get the idea. You will be able to see Benedict on stage, as Hamlet, on October 15th in various theaters. As for Benedict wanted to nest with Sophie… well, I guess. Sure. I thought he would be filming Doctor Strange in that time frame, but I guess he’s more focused on getting to know his wife and changing nappies.
It will be interesting to see how many pre-Oscar events Benedict and Sophie do this weekend. And I am legitimately curious to see what Sophie wears to the Oscars. Benedict is a presenter too! So we’ll definitely be seeing a lot of him on Sunday night. I’m assuming he’ll probably attend the BAFTA LA event this weekend too – most of the British actors attend that event during Oscar weekend.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Another Cumberbatch thread, another day of missing trains, single digit temperatures, howling winds, and threats of thundersnow here in Boston: the New Antarctica.
Also, Captain America: Civil Wars is filming this spring and Marvel only films one at a time.
Thank god it’s Friday at least amirite? I wore so many layers today I can’t even put my arms down like Robin Thicke.
On a side not I’ve also become a “reverse rider”. By that I mean riding the train to the opposite end to assure room.
True. But I’ve found Friday nights the most difficult to get home. Layering up now. I’m almost out of oil and no idea how the truck is going to get down my street so the T platform might be preferable.
And we’re getting “wintry mix” on Sunday. That means gobs of slush falling from the sky during the Oscars.
It’s ridiculously cold in FL Too! and we are hothouse flowers as it is so I too have enough Layers that i feel Like Mariah Carey Looks on the daily ( Like an Overstuffed Tamale)
Also THEY ARE PROBABLY GONNA DRESS IN FANCY COVERALLS CAUSE THEY LOOK LIKE INBRED SIBLINGS THAT GOT MARRIED OMG
It’s supposed to get cold here in Texas this weekend too. Uhg. It’s already blowing like mad too.
I don’t miss the days of heating with oil. We get to join the wintry fun this weekend too… we have a winter watch from 5 o’clock tonight until 5 a.m. Monday morning and we may get a whopping foot and a half of snow here in the high desert.
For QQ, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic
I feel so sorry for all of you, having to endure such vile weather! We in Australia hear about it regularly, and it boggles my mind how you all cope! I hope Spring comes very, very soon!
And, what? I leave home for a 10-day “family bonding” cruise – with no internet access – and come back to discover that Mr Cumberbatch had a quickie wedding! I’m going to have to go back and read all the Celebitchy news I’ve missed… Eh, good luck to them.
In the words of noted Science Laureate Rust Cohle, ‘Time is a flat circle and we are trapped in eternity, doomed to repeat our lives over and over again.’ *smashes beer can with bare hands*
I’ve been driving to work as it is so much easier than riding the T – I am lucky to have that option. Today is so cold that I decided to use my car as a portable freezer and stopped at Trader Joe’s to stock up on their really awesome frozen food that I could just leave in my car during work.
Anyhoo, the best movie to compare this all to is The Day After Tomorrow. And I could use me a lil’ Jakey G. to get me through this travesty of weather…
The Day After Tomorrow cracks me up. Let’s go to the NYPL and burn 7 miles of books in a fireplace in 2 days. They couldn’t pull anywhere near the amount of books they supposedly burned off the shelves in that time.
Yeah, it was a silly film but I only watched it because Jake was in it…
Ah, I kinda love Emmerich films. Realism is something you have to suspend the moment you buy your ticket, the storylines are almost offensively ridiculous and disaster-movie-101, but there’s something really charming in the way his films aren’t even a tiny bit embarrassed about their faults. It’s just pure popcorn-movie entertainment with spectacular pictures and always surprisingly good actor choices for his cardboard characters. I mean, I don’t think a lot of people could have pulled off that super cheesy presidental speech in ID4, but Bill Pullman did. Or make that high school romance love story Jake G. has in The Day After Tomorrow somehow charming. Or escaping near death for the 12053425th time in a row with a nonchalance like John Cusack. In the end I somehow think not even Emmerich himself takes his movies seriously. *lol* It’s all just good fun.
(Except Anonymous which I think was seriously engaging and quite underrated imho.)
They burn 7 miles of books in the film? Uh, interesting. I do like that film. Every time I watch it I keep adding to the list of books I wouldn’t mind going Fahrenheit 451 on (all the Twilight books in the library would be the first to go).
Lilacflowers – I thought of you and Kitten this morning. We got a website mod request come in from a customer saying “hello from the iceberg formally known as Boston”
There are icebergs in the harbor. I saw some Monday.
That’s so ridiculous. We’ve been back and forth with whiteouts today, and 20 below freezing. I have to take the dog out on multiple foot high drifts to go pee. While not pleasant, we’re not Boston weather, and we’re not PEI right now – so I have to keep reminding myself it can always be worse.
Please define “cold”.
so that’s where winter went *waves from Sweden*
My family in Idaho accused me of stealing their snow
Here in Ontario not too much snow lately but this morning it was -25 celsius (-13 F. for those south of the border) with a wind chill of -40. It’s been the coldest February on record with the highest temp being -9, absolutely balmy! So much for global warming…a new ice age maybe?
You know.. there’s this theory that global warming actually causes a new ice age in some areas because the melting pole caps drop the ocean temperature and especially the gulf stream.
Yeah, I don’t know if it IS global warming, but weird temps are to be expected, both high and low because of global warming going forward.
@Lilacflowers-perhaps and other Bostonians-I live south of you in Berkley. Ran out of oil on Tuesday, no heat til Wed night. Had to get a front end loader to dig me out so I could get oil. Was stuck at work through storm (I work at a hospital and we were required to stay) and literally waded into my house through waist deep snow with a couple of chest high drifts. But at least I don’t have to deal with the T. Worst mass transit system I’ve ever ridden. Especially the B line. Boy this weather reeks. Already have leaks in my house – can’t wait for the melt and slush.
Yep. Nesting. For a few months. Because it takes a few months.
“[…] the best role he’ll ever have, as a dad”
Guys, I threw up in my mouth a little bit…
Also, “It’s a real-life role, not a part” – groundbreaking piece of information!
I really don’t understand where that quote came from. Well obviously. I think most people think parenting is quite serious. If you feel the need to legitimize your future as a parent something is wrong.
Did he think he needed to explain that it is “real-life” to others, or to himself?
Good for him for at least trying to spend some down time with Sophie before the otter baby arrives and takes over.
This is so obvious, preparing for possibly not winning an Oscar. Damage control, playing everything down like “TIG, Turing was just playing a part, every day business. See, now I have bigger fish to fry, preparing for my real life-role as a dad, I don’t need a lifeless golden statue”. For someone so ambitious like him, subordinating everything real life under his Oscar campaign in the last few months, this sounds crooked. But it was forseeable.
My most important role…being a mom! Hello every actor out there. Almost always damage control against the uncertainty of parts and prizes.
Agreed merski.
Seriously, what is this smarmy sound bite crap? Just talk like a normal person FFS!
oh god he’s turning into Natalie Portman.
(only he is not getting an Oscar for this, no way)
I think Sophie can barely stand him as it is, I’m not sure how happy she’ll be to have him around so much. Then again, I haven’t had my cup of happy (coffee) yet, I’ll be more optimistic in an hour.
I was just thinking the same thing: Sophie looks like she can barely tolerate his presence so having Mr. Motormouth keeping the delicate flower company almost sounds like comedy of errors in the making.
So true when I was looking for a husband first on my list was always “can barely stand him” and isn’t that every woman’s dream? Of course it is…you guys have your pulse on the whole marriage and relationship thing don’t you?
New here – I’ll split the difference w/u: pulse on all of it, NOT, but hon, sometimes a cigar really IS a cigar: this was a shotgun engagement & I think she did it to hook a big fish; she doesn’t reek with affection for him and this smells. He’s a workaholic, and (acknowledging this is distance analysis) I think she values him for WHAT he is not WHO he is. Woke up at 36, bio clock tick’g, no hubby, failed career (if we’re being honest) & suddenly there’s BC, no longer an unknown but Sherlock, Khan, an Oscar contender, and Weinstein’s new IT boy. Suddenly a woman who’s been around the block for eons gets pregnant in five minutes? Really? I mean, REALLY? Wish neither of them nor child ill, but . . . REALLY?!
You hit the nail on the head.
Well done Cumbertwit. Now’s the time to get to know your baby’s momma.
#facetiousnesson
Get to know each other. That should end it sooner rather than later. But it’s getting harder and harder to believe anything he or his flak says.
I agree. Hence the “everyone was shocked” that they married. Idk. I say let him be himself. Charming & gentlemanly wasn’t fooling me anyway. I bet he is snarkier than anyone on this site.
I have to say that airplane outfit Cumby is wearing is spot on. He looks comfy and stylish.
I love how it’s phrased, “getting to know his wife” because they don’t really know each other that well or for very long, eh?
Cumby talks too much these days. Anyway it is the pregnant women who get the urge to “nest” few weeks before the birth, not men. Excuses..excuses.. Cumberbatch. But do stay home and feed her, she needs to eat for two, looks like she is eating for half.
Maybe he thinks he’s pregnant as well.
Men get the urge to nest as well, actually.
Pengling – the males sit on the eggs as much as the females.
Oh yes! They’re having little, tiny penwings – who will wear little, tiny jorts!
Pengweens peasants! 😀
Both she and cumby need to eat. Their thinness is alarming, and does not look healthy.
What?? Surely you are joking. They both look slim and healthy. I think we are losing perspective on what a healthy weight looks like these days…
We were getting ready to move 2 weeks after birth, so we sort of de-nested. Don’t ever do that, btw. Move while having a baby. Not a good plan.
That sounds stressful!
It was a cross country move too. And the hubs had a new job. I don’t think I realized how stressful it was until about a year later when I realized I hadn’t slept more than 3 hours at a time for that past year. Never again.
I’m not sure I’m buying this. He’s got to be doing something to prepare for Strange. If he’s filming after Hamlet finishes in Oct, that only 13 months until release. Has Marvel ever completed anything in that short of time?
it leaves about a year between starting principal shoots and release, if Strange starts filming as soon as his play ends. Age of Ultron started shoots in March 2014 and is getting released in May 2015, so the timeline is similar.
(and Guardians of the Galaxy was pulled off in less time, iirc)
GardIans of the Galaxy was one of the worst Marvel movies I’ve seen. Perhaps they should have spent more time on it.
I liked Guardians but I do agree that they should have spent more time on it. Lee Pace was wasted to me & his characters back story was not fully realized to me.
My company just put through a bunch of work with an FX company that Marvel works with regularly and they were saying how they’re all taking vacations this summer because Marvel pushed back Dr. Strange to the end of the year, which means they have an early-summer void before stuff for Captain America: Civil War starts rolling in. Based on some casting sheets that have circulated and what the FX guys said, I think Dr. Strange won’t film until the end of the year, after his Hamlet run is over. That will be hard on everyone, because it gives them barely a year to do the whole movie, but Marvel ran into similar issues with Ant-Man and no one has complained about it, so I assume they can handle the work flow. They usually utilize something like 13-15 individual FX companies throughout production, which allows them to compress their timelines because they spread around the work load. Everyone in LA hates Marvel because they tend to dominate the best FX talent for months at a time, but that’s a really smart idea.
Marvel employees are well known for putting in long hours to meet deadlines, without a complaint. If Bendy starts whining about how busy he is, not being able to see his baby, blah blah blah, he’s going to continue to look like a spoiled, entitled twat.
Yeah, but working with those companies, going into their offices and knowing actual employees doing the work, you often hear stuff that never gets out to the wider public. Iron Man 3, for instance, was a disaster and had everyone tearing their hair out right up until the last minute, but I didn’t really see that reflected in media coverage of the movie, and to this day, I don’t think even pretty hardcore marvel fans are aware of how much difficulty they had finishing that movie. I didn’t hear anything like that about Ant-Man, though, or Guardians of the Galaxy which I think also had a short timeline, which makes me think that they’ve figured out how to manage their workflow better so avoid a repeat of Iron Man 3.
In general, though, I agree. Actors shouldn’t complain about how hard making a movie is because even if they do experience legitimate discomfort (like suffering an injury or working in extreme climates), they are never the hardest working people on a movie.
@Algernon – I heard that Iron Man 3 or Thor 2 (do not remember which) was such a mess they needed a rewrite while the deadline was looming.
These films take so much work to be completed, I’m not surprised.
I don’t know about the scripts (although I think I read that Thor 2 didn’t have one), I just remember we had multiple FX companies cancel commercial contracts in 2013 because they were red-zoning on Iron Man 3, and we weren’t the only production company left out in the cold during that time. There was about 10 weeks when practically no FX work got done because everyone was working on pulling Iron Man 3 out of the fire. It was *crazy*.
Algernon, I find your account of the FX companies and Iron Man 3 really interesting – not a hint of that leaked to the public, that must be some tight ship up there. And it was Thor 2 that needed reshoots but at this point reshoots are also standard procedure for Marvel, though the script was so meh :/
I hope these movies make their 100 million plus opening weekends, because if ever a company’s employees deserved their bonus, it’s Marvel. And Cumberbatch had better take a few tips from Hiddles about how not to come off as a spoiled whiny brat when there is an entire company of people working much harder than he ever will, to get this movie out and make it look good.
@oneshot
You don’t hear FX techs gossiping much because their jobs are already so precarious. They cannot afford to be perceived as the weak link in the chain or else they’ll lose vendor contracts. If I hadn’t been in those offices hearing people talk about it first-hand, I never would’ve known, either.
I suppose I should clarify that they don’t publicly complain about the insane workload. Bendy is prone to whine when he’s burning the candle at both ends. Considering the fact that he chooses to be a workaholic and over extend himself, not to mention he’s paid handsomely in comparison to Marvel minions, he needs to put up and shut up.
LCOZ film date conflicts with hamlet, not strange
baz is a gossip guy though so grain of salt
Well, this is interesting. Not.
And I don’t buy it. With Hamlet rehearsals, then the stage production AND Marvel… good luck being able to breathe let alone “nest” and change nappies. I hope SH gets all the help in the world with the baby, because she will need it.
That’s why the heading say nesting for a few months.
Key word, ‘ few months’.
Given what we’ve seen from they’re public appearance I’m gonna say this is a couple who does better when they are apart. They’ll probably last longer together that way.
Yes, but that keyword is the problem. If you nest before the birth, and SH is evidently closer to birth than they let on, and he IS busy, those ‘months’ might turn into one.
Problem is, he says A and does B. He might nest forever or just hire someone to be with her while he works.
Why would she need lots of help? Plenty of “civilian” women manage with new babies just fine without lots of help and without lots of money and in many cases with no man around. She has no job, really nothing to do except care for the baby.
Because if he is so busy with work, how much would he be able to help her? I’m not saying she is useless or unable to care for a newborn by herself, or that BC will leave her alone and isolate himself, but I pressume she will need at least some help, especially if she can afford it. After all, she is not a “civillian” woman, is she? She doesn’t work and still manages to retain a certain lifestyle, and marrying him certainly ensures it.
Feed the baby, change the baby, get up in the middle of the night. Big deal!! Maybe it would do her some good to actually do some work once in her life.
Ok, Alice… All I meant, and I suppose you will disagree with me, is that some women do find that overwhelming. An aquantaince of mine left the hospital with her firstborn after 4 days, got home and 30 mins later was calling her mother because she was scared, overwhelmed and couldn’t cope. And this while being in a LT relationship and her partner on paternal leave.
But whatever, I do get your point even if I don’t agree with it.
I would totally get help if I were her. Why not? They can afford it, BC won’t be much help (because he’s either away or probably – as a lot of actors – a big child himself) and it’s always easier WITH help. It’s right, a lot of women manage without a partner and without help, but I’ve never heard such a woman say it’s easy. So I don’t really get the point of saying she should have no help because other women don’t have either. It’s like saying the richer part of this world shouldn’t live in houses with central heating and plumbing because a lot of people don’t have that and they manage to have jobs, families, culture, etc. too.
@Isadora – or saying things like “eat your food, people in Africa are starving” as if my eating the food will help at all.
A lot of people don’t like SH, myself included, but that doesn’t mean she should be attacked over EVERYTHING.
And I agree on BC not being much help. I suppose rehearsing and performing such a play like Hamlet does not allow for much free time or “mind set” for a change of lifestyle the baby will cause.
she won’t need help. Other parents take care of their kids themselves all around the world, why would she/he be any different. She will WANT help thou, because she seems like a lazy person.
She might need help, that’s my point. Will she get help? Will she want help? No way of knowing.
^^^ yes, this. Maria. Just because someone has been coddled and pampered throughout their life I don’t know why anyone would think they should continue to be coddled and pampered just because that’s what they’re used to. If she needs help, let Mama Hunter get off her duff and change some nappies.
Why would she need help Cee? I’m honestly asking. The vaaaaast majority of parents do not need help, nor do they have the means to buy them some sleep time. So why would ben & sophie? Because they are “upper class”? Because they can buy it? Soon there will be a person who takes precedence in their lives, they better get used to it. And the child needs it’s parents, not some bought help.
I certainly didn’t have help, and my daughter was a premature and so called “difficult” baby in terms of eating and sleeping ( more accurately , not doing those things). I was wrecked for months, and too bloody right I’d have help if I had Bendy’s money.
@Anne tommy – I was that kind of baby too and my mother had to rely heavily on her stepmum, my father, and a nanny because my dad had to go back to work after 2 weeks and I’d get ill due to not eating or sleeping. They had the money for help, they got it.
Look – I understand what everyone is saying. I have not experienced motherhood or pregnancy and I doubt I will. But I have met many women who have and they all had different experiences. If SH wants to, she will get help. BC will be working like crazy because that’s what he has chosen to do (or the baby kind of wrecked his diary) and maybe Mama Hunter, like someone mentioned, will be there to give her a hand, or maybe not. Maybe SH will feel she doesn’t need any help, or maybe she will. What does it really matter is she does? Her lack of carreer or work ethic and her laziness has nothing to do with becoming a mother.
@Maria – IDK why you brought class into the conversation. Having the grandmothers/hired help, help out is only for the upper classes? I do agree that a woman who has no “regular” job (or job at all!) to return to has more freedom and privilege than a working mother, however rich or whichever class she comes from.
@cee I totally understand what you’re saying. Having your first child is one of those things that, despite the fact that many, many people have done it before, you can never tell how is going to go for you. Everyone’s experience is so different. Of course she could do it totally on her own if she had to, but having help (even if it’s just family) can make the experience much more enjoyable, and feeling supported as a new mom, with the exhaustion, and crazy hormones, and coming up against challenges on a daily basis that you feel ill equipped to handle…every woman should have some sort of support system in place if she can. Can you survive without it? Absolutely, but it all goes by do quick, is best to put yourself in a position to enjoy it. I understand what you are saying.
My buddy gave birth in december and she was working at her stressful shitty office job until the eight month 8am-6pm and she could barely reach her desk due to her stomach.
she had no choice because like most women, they have to earn money. Now shes at home all day with the kid, she certainly doesn’t need someone else to help look after her. but she’s already worrying about how to afford childcare when she has to go back to work.
I won’t be crying any rivers for Hunter.
Oh so much envy… They have the money to get help, so it’s totally their choice if they want to do that. And it’s not like they robbed a bank for it or used your tax dollars, it’s the money every single one of you helped earn through buying cinema tickets, DVDs, theatre tickets, watching Sherlock etc. So if BC gets pretty wealthy in the process and should decide to pamper Sophie and the baby like a fucking Disney princess, then I don’t know why people cry in outrage now.
Btw help can also mean someone cleaning the house, doing laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, etc. = stuff that’s not related to the baby. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you give your child(ren) to a nanny and see them the next time when they’re 18.
@Isadora and lirko – TY!
I side-eye this couple so much, especially BC with his BS, but I feel some people are just outraged or reactive over absolutely nothing and find ways to attack SH based on ridiculous things like a first time mother getting help because her husband, whom she barely knows and they do not have the benefits of a LT relationship, will be working like crazy with little time to spare when the kid is born and everyone has to adjust to a baby and a change of life.
I’m not saying every single woman needs help, I’m only saying some women feel like they do and they are lucky and privileged to have the means to acquire it, especially if they have careers (and no, I’m not considering hers to be serious). In no way I am saying SH feels entitled to any of this. We have no way of knowing this. I refuse to judge a woman becoming a first time mother and her actions and needs (and this is why I respect single mothers so much!)
That is all. Time difference means nobody will see my reply, haha
” They have the money to get help” Lol. I think you’ll find *he* has the money to get help.
And puhlease? “Envy”? That’s pretty darned offensive to people who think you should be absolutely capable of looking after one baby on your own like most women do. It’s crap- all to do with envy. Do you really think all mothers are wishing they had more money so they could pay a servant to share the nappy-changing and coking duties with. Also ‘cleaning’? lmao…baby or no baby, i’m guessing that chick has never hoovered anything in her life. My gears are seriously grinded when i see women who dont work, getting a nanny in.
@cee
how is this an ‘attack’ on her? it’s quite rightly people being pissed off at the suggestion she needs help. she has it easier than most women. she hasn’t worked during her pregnancy and she wont need to worry about getting back to work due to money either. people are pissed that anyone can suggest she would need help, theyre not envious. And that’s totally their right. If i relayed this scenario to my poor pal, she’d kick serious ass.
Totally agree Isadora. You know what, people need jobs as nannies or as ” housekeepers”, it’s not necessarily what everyone would want to do but it puts meals on their table and clothes on their kids. I was a single parent who had sweet FA (that’s ” nothing” to the non- Brits) in terms of money but I don’t criticise those who can afford it and who choose to get assistance. Having dissed my daughter as a pain in the ar@se as a baby I should add that she is 36 now and the best.
I believe he’s genuinly looking forward to being a father. That does not mean he he is in love or that it will last for ever. I’ve seen it before with other people. That said, I hope they are happy and give this baby a happy Cumberhome
My grandma always says “it takes a village to raise a child”. They are going to need help when this kid starts walking & talking, lol.
That’s not your grandmother. That’s an African proverb she snipped.
Isn’t it interesting that this week Daily Fail has had less than flattering coverage of BC and now he’s giving them exclusive interviews about the oh-so-private baby. Damage control much, BC?
I bet you he will be “nesting” for about two days after the Oscars and then it’s same old shoe store openings again…
Haha. That’s what I was thinking. He’ll be home for a week and then hosting some movie awards in Eastern Europe in between store openings and athletic events.
Evening Standard alluded him to be a less than posh than a posh-o, given the Harrow vs Eton aspect in today’s edition…
I have read that!!!! And yesterday the Evening Standard said Eddie deserves to win it. It used to be all Bendy here Bendy there, maybe now the tide has turned 🙂
Nesting?! Now there’s an idea. I wonder why he didn’t think of that before having a baby ans getting married? lol
Welcome to the Cumberbatches reality tabloid show: A Life Backwards.
Sleep deprivation is going to hilarious with this one.
Can’t wait to hear what comes out of his mouth! I know that when I am sleep deprived I lose the filter that runs from my brain to my mouth. Very dangerous, indeed!
😀 True! Oh my.. the interviews will be a sight to behold…
Sounds about right. It’s going to be hard enough trying to spend any time together once his schedule picks up. Might as well enjoy the next few months of calm.
I’m just here to say, I’m so grateful for National Theatre Live!
I live in central Europe, been to London only once, so there’s no way in hell I could ever see a play in its original language, English, and with a celebrity cast no less. I mean, I watched a screening of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” with Richard Armitage literally last night, it was amazing. What a day to be alive! (no sarcasm, obviously)
I would have been intrigued by seeing something else he did on stage, but Hamlet is not a favorite of mine…and lately, these last few years, it seems as though someone and their Aunt Tillie is doing yet another production of Hamlet.
Yes, Joanne_S! I would never ever have travelled to London to see him in Hamlet as I wouldn’t even call myself a “fan” (I just like Sherlock and have a mild interest how his career will develop), but I might go and see it now at a cinema near me. I like Hamlet and as I’m not from an English-speaking country I also don’t have the Aunt Tillie problem Maria A. mentioned. *g* We have our own playwrights that are probably played to death, but not THAT much Shakespeare.
@Joanne_S – I still have a case of the bitters about The Crucible not being broadcast in the US. It’s not one of my favorite plays, but it sounds like it was a first rate production on all accounts and Richard Armitage is yummy…er, I mean very talented.
@Isadora – I’m on the fence about Hamlet, I might go see it if it’s in a theatre nearby (I’m in the Western US). I’m curious to see how BC does with Shakespeare. Personally, I think he’s a little on the old side to play Hamlet, but so are most of the actors who’ve played him in recent memory. I’d like to see a young 20-something try and tackle it. Max Irons anyone?
Kevin Spacey is doing a limited run as Clarence Darrow soon, directed by Thea Sharrock – sort of a farewell as Old Vic artistic director. That is the performance that I would sacrifice a (small, not medically necessary) body part to see live and in person.
Max Irons is in my good books (for reasons I won’t disclose here ;)), has about the right age and is a cutie, but I’m not sure if he has the acting chops for such a role. I have never seen him in anything! So maybe he has, but I’ve read rather.. mixed assessments of his talent. *shrug*
But yes, BC is a bit long in the tooth for Hamlet and also not the most thrilling choice to me. I’d prefer him as Iago for example. In a few years and Oscar seasons he’ll be ready for Polonius. 😀
Max Irons is a plank of wood. Ben Wishaw was the perfect age and was a great Hamlet, but the best hands down was David Tennnant: a truly riveting performance, both energetic and deeply emotional. And he was BC’s age.
How did I miss Wishaw as Hamlet? He’s perfect for it. I’m on the fence about Tennant, I’ve seen a few scenes but haven’t watched the full play (it’s online somewhere). He’s right on the cusp of age-appropriate for me, but he’s still got a boyish quality in his face where Ben does not. Don’t get me wrong, BC will do a decent, maybe even a good-to-excellent job, but it will be interesting to see who they cast around him.
@darya I saw Tennant live. His energy was spellbinding, you couldn’t take his eyes off him. At the To be or Not to be, you could hear people breathing. He got a standing ovation from everybody, including the members of the press (it was press night) and he really deserved it.
Seeing it on film does not capture the magic of Tennant live.
And the entire production was pure gold.
As for Ben, I don’t know. Personally, I think he’s a year too late. Last year was the time to do it.
We shall see. I hope they cast Gary Oldman as Claudius. I love him truly, madly, deeply 🙂
Their baby is going to turn out looking just as odd as the two of them. Though part of me is still surprised it’s a baby and not going to hatch out of an egg the way I would have expected of lizards.
Though I do find it interesting, how different people’s faces come together in their offspring. Cumbersome’s parents were quite good-looking people, too, weird to think they produced him. (Ma Cumberbatch was quite beautiful in her younger days!)
I would tell him to get a paternity test first thing, once the baby is born, but since they both look so much alike it might not matter so much!
a paternity test? Did the start of her pregnancy overlap with her being with another man or something?
Anyway he might not even care, he has been making noises for years about wanting to be a dad, you really think he would go for something that would tell him he doesn’t really have a baby after all? Shared genes or not, I predict he is keeping that baby lol.
She was photographed with a lot of different men last summer, most if them not B.C.
@moodgirl, I think your dislike of Sophie overruled your common sense. We are not in Saudi. We don’t automatically assume that a woman sleeps with every man she is seen with.
I find the paternity digs especially childish .
“I find the paternity digs especially childish .”
why? They hardly had a LT relationship. Could’ve only been at dating stage really. It’s not childish to ask that question, contrary actually. Adults should be thinking about these things. I’ve seen a couple of male pals caught this way. You can’t police what people are gonna choose to speculate over. free country an’ all.
@moodgirl – wtf! I would probably be “photographed with” several men in a year if I were a celebrity’s gf too. But I expect better of 21st century people than the assumption that I am sleeping with all my male friends/people I spend one-on-one time with. Or that any other woman, even one crazy enough to hook up with Cumbers, is sleeping with men she is photographed with.
(unless there was obvious romantic body language involved, of course)
She was associated and photographed with different men – sitting on one guy’s lap, arms entwined with others, giving the appearance that they were couples – poses not normally affiliated with “just friends” associates.
I am a lady so I do not conduct my personal life in this fashion because I believe that we are judged on appearances no matter our intention and I do care about my reputation. I also have a man for whom I have the utmost respect and would never cause any embarrassment. There’s no way that I would pop up with an oops baby and have a whole album of photos with many other men taken around the time the baby was conceived. We are all free to live our lives but others are free to judge us and they do.
Mood girl, unrelated to the subject at hand, paternity tests and so on, but that description of womanhood you just put forward is so sad. A woman fearing slut-shaming and politics of reputation, ugh, I was hoping we left all that behind.
Who is we?
General vague we, we as a society, we as women who could stop judging each other to no purpose… you get the idea.
No, I don’t get the idea. I judge. I have a federal job and need permission to work it. Family, co-workers, military personnel, friends, federal agents all commented on what they knew of my life. We are judged every minute of every day, personal misbehavior can ruin you.
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s children come to mind.
But… “ugly” people do have beautiful children, so who knows? Hopefully we will not see the child. I don’t understand why some celebs feel the need to overexpose their children.
yes, the baby could have throwback features of its grandparents, after all. And I would prefer not to see it either. Yes, they WILL end up papped with the baby at some point or other, even the most low-key celebs get papped, but I doubt Cucumber’s baby mama will court the cameras to the level that, say, Blake Lively does.
@oneshot – right now IDK how much of a famew***e BC truly is lol
But hopefully the child will be able to grow up far away from cameras and papps. Like Martin Freeman’s kids.
@Cee – yeah, I don’t even know how many kids Freeman has or what they look like But admittedly, he doesn’t have Cumberbatch’s rabid fanbase and was with his partner for years before Sherlock.
Growing up as a pap target is no life for any child (I personally am glad for no more sightings of Suri Cruise).
A couple of months of nesting? If he actually said that, then the theory that she got knocked up in August would be true. My Sept 6th conception had a due date of May 24th. Sounds like they expect her to deliver before then.
Weren’t we taking bets on an earlier thread? Late April/early May was my guess.
April 17th, it’s my birthday.
Let’s start a baby pool!
I’ve got April 20th.
I think she’s been tenting her clothes so people won’t know how far gone she is.
April 1st would be so fitting.
I wish it was april 1st so nature can play a nice joke on these two show ponies, but i’m going with may 6th. Considering the timeline he’s given us, she must have realised how gullible he is between Hay festival and the FO and decided to go for her meal ticket in early august…if the kid is his.
April 26 for me
That’s on time with the Royal Baby. Dear lord the magazine articles on that potential occurrence.
I’ll take April 19 – it’s my latest obsession’s birthday.
Nesting is code for “flying under the radar in order to obfuscate the baby ‘s birth b/c daddy’s embarrassed at the timeline of conception, engagement and marriage.” Quite frankly his concern is rather justified. And I say this as a fan of BC’s and one not prone to conspiracy theories.
Or that eight pound “preemie” I’ve been predicting.
As someome who was born a premmie and was kept from my mother (and she from her child), I hope they do not use that excuse.
Just own up to the fact you married pregnant. This is the 21st century, not the early 20th FFS.
If he truly wants to distort the timeline, then I suppose photos from his wedding were not sold. But Sunday will be a good indicator as to how far along she is. No tent in the world can hide a 3rd trimester bump.
I think the fact that they were putting out early summer as the expected date means they were trying to suggest it happened close to the engagement, rather than in July or August after a couple of dates.
Xazi is exactly right, never thought of it but they are definitely going to try and lay low to hide the obvious. He is trying so hard to spin this since he found out I bet his brain is working overtime.
Let’s start a pool! I’m going for May 5. And I think paternity was established before the engagement.
Let’s think… I say… my guess is April 24. Seems like a nice date and makes for a stubborn Taurus baby. 😉 I guess she got pregnant some time before the engagement and they took a bit of time to see if they click enough to go the next step and really tie the knot.
(But my theory is also that they have been dating since early 2014 and the “secret girlfriend since a few months” rumors from April were true. Rebecca Eaton outed them in early June, so I guess they were already a stable couple by then if people in the theatre/tv crowd knew about it.)
@Isadora.
Seriously?
“Dating since early 2014?” – Ummm, No!
Please explain, all of the other women he was seen with up until late August/Early September? Please explain, why he spent so much time with Kinvara Balfour?
“Secret girlfriend” articles were just clickbait. They said “Secret girlfriend” was not in the industry and had a serious career. Sophie is technically in the industry and does not have a serious career.
“Rebecca Eaton outed them in early June” – There is no proof that she said anything. IF she did we do not know the context. (Joking around? Sarcasm? Etc?)
“I guess they were already a stable couple by then if people in the theatre/tv crowd knew about it.” – Who? Who knew?
Do you think they were dating while she lived in NYC? I thought she didn’t move back to the UK until May?
And I thought she was not at his birthday party in July. And wasn’t she spotted in Scotland for most of the summer with other friends(men)? Very weird for a “stable couple”. Not weird for a casual fling. At this point they’re just trying to put lipstick on a pig.
I really wish people would stop talking about those ridiculous ‘secret girlfriend’ rumours put out by that ONE dodgy showbiz spy site, which also published the pregnancy story in December. There was quite clearly a concerted effort to start the gossip mongering but there very clearly wasn’t a secret gf and if there was, it certainly wasn’t her. She wasn’t living anywhere near him and he was all over the place working Oz,Malaysia etc.
And please stop talking about that stupid comment from Rebecca eaton, which nobody actually heard, verified or quoted verbatim. That silly woman made a throwaway comment about his fans and the whole internet believes it, runs with it and weaves/fabricates it entirely to suit their own narrative. It’s fantasy land.
Literally makes no sense whatsoever. Why is it so hard for people to accept that they quite clearly weren’t dating until late May at the earliest?
I don’t know why IMDBers and nannies can’t see, or accept, that these two had a short fling and she got knocked up after a couples of dates. They barely know each other; no stable couple would display such atrocious behavior in public as these two idiots.
Oh dear, now I’ve started something… It’s just my personal theory!!! You don’t have to believe it, agree with it, think it’s the gospel or anything! 😉 I could be totally wrong and that’s fine too. I wasn’t at BC’s birthday party so I have no idea who was there. And I hope he hadn’t a fling with every woman he was pictured with (and she with every man she was pictured with), because phew… that would make for a very busy sex life.
It’s still funny how I’m immediately a nanny and obsessed fangirl for saying what I said. Of course I must be! Come on… if I didn’t occasionally read CB I would hardly know who this guy is.
“Nesting”= get to know each other.
Nesting = seeing what you’re in for, day in and day out. I doubt they’ll look any happier together when they re-emerge into public life. Children are like setting a bomb off in a relationship.
Bah, you beat me to it!
Bendy is hoping he ‘ll be nesting with Sophie and OSCAR.
Are you trying to tell me he suddenly grew a pair of balls? O RLY?
Not a snowball’s chance in Hell on that one.
ETA: my reply was to Green is Good, but I guess it fits with A.Key’s as well!
My guess? April 30th
When I was nesting I wanted no part from my husband. He got in the way. Nesting is a mom thing. Maybe some dads pull it off but I wanted to nest alone!
My huz didn’t care except for the practical stuff like furniture and natural childbirth classes. He was happy to let me decorate, do the registry, set up the room etc. He just wanted to hold his kid and get on with parenting.
I seriously doubt that after marrying Sophie that Ben would do a paternity test. It would be way too embarrassing to discover he married her for a kid that wasn’t even his. I think he’d prefer to assume it’s his, which is likely.
@Mtnrunner-I’m pretty sure he knows it’s his. Hence the 12 week wait.
I do too, anon121. But if he did not confirm paternity prior to the engagement, I seriously doubt he would now that they’re married. It would highly embarrassing for him to learn and admit publicly that the child wasn’t his, especially when it appears the pregnancy is what triggered the sudden and short engagement.
What difference does it make when she got pregnant? Maybe she got pregnant the first time they had sex.I’m sure he knows how babies are made.Obviously they want to be parents or they could have had an abortion.Obviously he wanted to get married since he proposed to her.I can’t wait to see him carrying his baby , hopefully in a Baby Bjorn.
Just leave it, Kim. BC said something really harmless, yet ther are still over a hundred mostly negative comments, going as far as questioning his paternity.
I think most people come her to criticize him, with reason or without. It istheirversion of fun.
I’m with you Kim, I think they both want and are excited for the baby and there must be something there as he did not have to marry her in this day in age.
Sad to say it, but a Baby Bjorn (on stage during rehearsals for Hamlet) may be the only quality time he gets with the baby in the beginning. I hope that happens, because his schedule seems awfully busy to get to know his newborn well.
life isn’t that black and white tho. I don’t want a baby yet but if I became accidentally pregnant there’s no way I’d have an abortion.
Thank you Kim.
Of course it matters when she got pregnant. And no, I have no interest in seeing pictures and for his and the child’s sake, I very much hope that doesn’t happen.
Although I suspect his crazily inappropriate fans will be furiously decrying pictures, if they appear, with their left hand and heavily right- clicking and saving and with the other.
He’ll spend the next few months getting to know her.
Yep, do everything out of order; get knocked up, get engaged, get married, then get to know each other. That almost always works out!
Man do i hate it when humans use the word ‘nesting’. You’re not nesting, youre painting a nursery and putting up a cot. Stop trying to be twee.
As for him – SHUUUUUUUTTT UPPPPPPPPP. Has the not received the memo from himself yet about how private he is? Musta got lost in the post, ‘cos he’s been confused about it since early november.
I’ve never heard this expression before and I agree with you it sounds utterly dumb.
That, and I also hate baby bump.
I hate any abbreviation of the word pregnant. And when a woman is described as glowing.
I love that we’re just days away from the Oscars and there’s a post up about one of the contenders (one with an admittedly minuscule chance to win). And yet you scroll through the first couple of pages and they’re all about the weather.
Because that’s how exciting BC is right now. Less interesting than the same weather we’ve been dealing with for the past couple of months.
He’s sold his private life to promote his career and no one gives a crap. Good Going.
Was it worth it, Bendy? LMAO.
That’s Lilac for ya. She rarely talks about the post when it comes to BennyAnnE. She’s here for snacks, Comet Sophies and keeping us abreast on Boston weather. Bless her.
Have you seen counterpunch.org’s critique of BC and TIG? The writer also calls SH his ‘publicity stunt wife, a Weinstein production, no doubt’ (ouch) and there’s another article floating around that calls out the Weinstein agenda…Poor Ben
I just read it. It’s brilliant. There, to all the naysayers, someone who isn’t his fan who’s saying the same things we’ve been saying all along. (Though I’m not so sure Publicity Stunt Wife aka SHun, is a Weinstein thing.)
“With Selma on the ticket, I think Cumberbatch has no choice but to duck his head in shame, though I’m sure he’ll show up on the red carpet with his Publicity Stunt Wife at his side (another Weinstein Production, no doubt). It’s a damn shame the guy doesn’t realize it doesn’t work that way anymore. You don’t have to get married to win an Oscar. In fact, you don’t even have to be straight. Maybe if Cumberbatch came out of whatever closet he’s in, he could stop tying his own noose (and becoming a real life manifestation of the tragic character he plays in The Imitation Game).”
“the Cumberf*ck”
@toodlee45 – she lost me the moment she wrote that Beat Picture and Best Director should be split, with Director going to DuVernay who is not nominated.
“critic” fails to revise the list of Nominees and her Editor does not see it.
“ready to have a couple of months to ourselves to prepare for the baby”.
So, baby due in a couple of months then?
Yep. Pregnant end of July or beginning of August?
So they waited until 12 weeks to announce engagement? Do you think it would have been less of a PR bomb to drop if they had announced sooner, i.e. not 2 days before his press tour, and gave the story some time to settle before he was in front of 98230498230984 cameras for weeks on end?
Or give the pregnancy time to stick before making the commitment?? Much more likely, methinks.
Don’t you mean ‘give the commitment time to stick before making the engagement’? I’m pretty sure the baby’s real, but not so sure about the longevity of this marriage.
I meant what I said: that they waited the 12 weeks requisite time before getting engaged. If “the crazy love bomb” had hit him, as BC says, he would have got engaged straight away, instead of waiting 3 months into her pregnancy.
I’m late to the show and have just watched a few bits of the times talk from Monday. I noticed how skinny Benedict has become -the shirt is swamping him! And did anybody else notice how much he looked over Keira for help and guidance? Sometimes she confirmed what he said and she kept nodding to him. I hope she was only his cheerleader because he was tired and jet lagged. And the running off to the loo at the end was just embarrassing and unprofessional. Or was it just an excuse to finish?
+1 Embarrassing. Keira’s face, too. That actually pushed me from cringey amusement to actual concern for his wellbeing, thinking his body (stomach) is showing all the stress he’s trying to hide. =/ TMI, sorry, etc.
He always had to lose weight for Sherlock, but now he looks unhealthy because he’s aged 5 years in 1.
I’ve been saying ten years, but do you think he has enough self awareness to really look in the mirror and see what’s happened to him in just about seven months time. To compare pictures of himself from 2013 when he could pass for early 30s to now when he looks mid 40s, minimum. This does not look like a happy man. I simply do not understand the nannies who ooh and aah over the last six months and can’t see how unhealthy, stressed he is.
This from the man who spent his honeymoon with Jimmy Kimmel. Hilarious.
There are a couple of pics from the good old days with BC holding newborns (2 different ones I think) and looking totally enthralled and joyful. While I agree with all the side eyeing and snark about both of them, maybe looking at his own baby will straighten him out and get priorities in order with or without her. Get back to being an artist/actor, make your living, enjoy life, maybe.
I wish Black Panther was coming out next year instead of Doctor Stranger. I want to see Storm and Vixen and Static Shock and Icon and Black Lightning and John Stewart and so many more. But they only release White Male Superheroes 😤 It’s so boring 😑
Do you think she’ll go for drugs, lamaz or hypnobirthing which the latter seems to be the big trend in NW3 at the moment. Imagine yourself happy and you will birth a happy baby….
My guess is its going to be a water birth! He was spotted a few months back looking for bathtubs. And of course you know otter and octopus love water. 🙂
Water births don’t happen in bathtubs.
Some people do. Bathtubs, whirlpools, inflatable kiddie pools, big pools. You’d be surprised…
I really hope they are happy in private. In public there is a sadness around them and I think it is from so many people disapproving of their relationship. It is a little sad.
If they truly love each other I doubt many people would disapprove of their relationship. The fact the public can see it too is what makes it sad. But perhaps they’ll eventually learn to love one another. Give it time.
I think most people who are his fans hope for that but don’t see it to be likely. If the thoughts of strangers who you never have see can make or break your relationship, then it isn’t very strong. The only people who disapproval could affect a strong relationship would be close friends and family, no one else would matter. Especially for celebrities people say all sorts of stuff, stop reading gossip sites, googling yourself, and man up or find a new career.
Do people really buy a “they’re unhappy because fans don’t like them as a couple” crap? I’m sure little of that flows back to them and even if it does it plays little part in it. They’re miserable because of their own decisions not our opinions. Seriously, think.
By all eyewitness accounts they looked unhappy long before anyone knew they were a couple. So nope.
Think about their behavior, and his facial expressions, since LFF. They act like cats and dogs and don’t care who witnesses it. Sophie behaves like an idiot in public so that people will see her attempt to make Ben look bad. Sad.
Chicken or the egg first? Did he always look uncomfortable out of fear of the fan reaction to her and the relationship, or was he uncomfortable from the start because of the relationship itself and then the public noticed? Or was it the former which then became a self-fulfilling prophecy when he couldn’t unclench? I hope every couple is able to be as joyous as they feel without public perception intruding.
Re disapproving: Were people really disapproving until lately? The media has been very kind, especially to her (comparisons to Kate Middleton). I thought the majority of his fans were ecstatic about all his dreams coming true and Sophie being their queen and all of that? Even some of the more, um, reserved fans were appreciative of the fact that she isn’t an impossibly gorgeous 20-something model and instead is someone he already knew, is his age, has a thoughtful creative job, and all of that.
One thing I know for sure is that the narrative about his “crazy fans” and “crazy lady fandoms” can be a very convenient excuse that few tend to question, and I think it has misogynistic underpinnings, so I like to tread carefully when painting with that broad brush. 🙂 For instance, I’m sure he’s happy to believe and repeat the line that any “ebbing” in his fan base is entirely attributable to “crazy cat ladies” being heartbroken about his marriage, while ignoring the possibility that plenty of well-adjusted people who followed his work are just sick of his arrogant and entitled attitude.
” has a thoughtful creative job,”
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He looked mad as hell when he got off the plane in LA on November 7th. And they both looked pissed at the NY premiere of TIG. Their NY premiere behaivor is what really sparked skepticism.
Who knows? To be honest, from the little I knew of BC, I was one of those who did not even think of a possible pregnancy; I though he got engaged because he was madly in love and I expected him to be his usual bouncy, jump-up-and-down kind of happy. Instead, he’s aged a lot in a few months and has been grumpy and pissy as we’ve never seen him before.
Plus, it turns out the lady was pregnant already when they got engaged. Nothing odd about this, but put it all together and it doesn’t scream big love story.
Wait, Hermi, you said “I though he got engaged because he was madly in love and I expected him to be his usual bouncy, jump-up-and-down kind of happy.”
How can you say that when you claimed back in July you saw them at a performance of the crucible, and she was repulsed by his PDA attempts, and you thought there was no way they were in love or dating?
Yes, I did.
And I did.
Which is why, if you remember, you thought I was playing you.
Because I had not read a single thing about BC (I had a very bumpy period in my life, no time for reading and such) so I thought between July and November they had fallen in love. It seemed odd, but I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Then, I went and read a ton of articles and saw photos of them, and went back to my original position. Which is why now I am so very skeptical about anything that man says or does.
One of my friends, posting the DM link to the story on her Facebook feed captioned their nuptials “brought to you by The Weinstein Company and heralded with a 21 shotgun salute worthy of an Eastwood-directed fim climax”.
Couldn’t have put it better myself.
Priceless!
Is this the Apocalypse or the End Tmes? A thread on Eddie Cibrian has almost as many comments as this one. Or is everyone just dead tired, waiting for Sunday?
That honeymoon shore photo could not be more staged lmao.
I just saw that. It’s a nice photo, but if the spot was so secluded, how did they know BC and SH were there?
*sighs*
Apparently, the Sun will have an exclusive on the Glumberbatches’ honeymoon (with pics) from tomorrow. Which in my book means dontcallmejane was telling the truth.
No way someone as snobbish as Bendy would sell his soul to The Sun, if there wasn’t a very, very good reason. Now we need to know what this reason is. Come on, journalists, start digging!!!!
I wouldn’t bat an eye about the source if it weren’t for the fact his PR leaked nothing to the sun before the whole Jane thing. Also, where was the photo taken? I hope they stayed the eff away from my favourite California sea escape (which ben’s been to before).
How do we know dont call me jane is not a pr plant from SH team? Coz all this exclusive can only benefit her while she’s still with BC. And the sun would never have made such a deal coz she’s a nobody, so her team possibly could have purposely given Sun dirt to get her foot in the door.in exchange for exclusive with her and BC. I just find it hard to believe BC would start playing along with the paps now. On the other hand I can see the famewh**ing continue until the release of TIG DVD end of March, i think.
How can she be a plant, when she’s suggesting that SH is a w**re?
The deal is with BC’s people, who according to dontcallmejane, have traded a photo exclusive for silence re. SH’s past peccadilloes. It makes perfect sense to me.
More sense than believing BC would give an exclusive to The Sun,
The Sun?????? I mean, The Sun??????
@Claire Pacific Coast Highway
exclusive photos, when you’re talking paps, just means the sun paid a little extra to the pap for sole printing rights so no one else can run the picture. it’s not like giving an exclusive interview to a traditional paper.
bad pic though, you want faces to prove it’s them
Who is dontcallmejane?
@madly When the DM posted the article about wedding, dontcallmejane commented the following:
“Well I have a confession/warning and may as well say it where I know it’ll be seen without intermediaries. I anonymously tipped off The Sun weeks ago on Sophie. We have mutual close mates. They told me something awful about why she’s with Cumberbatch, and who she was scr**ing while with him and when she became up the duff. The Sun didn’t run the story, but they received a “legal letter” from Cumberbatch’s people about the wedding. I have reason to believe they used my tipoff as leverage to get exclusive information in exchange for The Sun’s silence. Lesson learned for trying to “blow the whistle”, even if it’s for something inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. I’m becoming disillusioned with everyone and everything celeb and media…horrible people all around. Anything for a nice paycheck. ”
Now the Sun has this exclusive, and we are scratching our heads….
@j They say they will have more tomorrow, so we’ll see…
So if dontcallmejane is legit and SH was seeing someone in addition to BC when she became pregnant (no judgment!), then the paternity and date of conception (i.e., how far along she was when they became engaged) questions do become relevant. Especially if they got engaged before paternity could be established. It also becomes relevant that the marriage could be annulled if paternity proves that it’s not BC’s kid. Just saying. *girding my loins*
@mosby I don’t know what to say, but it all seems too much of a coincidence. I doubt the truth will ever see the light of day.
LOL I know right! Sponsored by Jaguar and exclusives from the Sun.
It makes me believe that anon comment is true and because fans were wondering if they really are on a honeymoon PR delivered.
Dontcallmejane is looking more and more credible. It’s getting scary. Yikes.
LMAO@ The staged “Honeymoon” photo.
(From The Sun)
“HEART-THROB actor Benedict Cumberbatch and his new wife Sophie Hunter take a break from their honeymoon road trip to share a tender moment together by the sea.”
The couple, who are expecting their first baby in the summer, parked their convertible Jaguar in a secluded spot with ocean views.”
Oh maaaaaan. *holds head*
I can literally see that man’s credibility throwing itself off that cliff.
And the Sun was there.
My laugh of the week 😀
I thought DorkyBatch was entertaining, but The FamewhoreBatches are even more fun. Never change, BCSH!
Benedict, Sophie, CumberFetus, Jaguar and The Sun -one big happy family!
maybe Karon took the picture? There’s no way they can pull off lovey-dovey look without her direction!
Haha!! Some funny comments from Tumblr..
“So secluded that the paps happened to get them on camera….totes for realz.”
“LOL!!!! and they stopped to pose for pics in front of paps????”
“Is this an ad for Jaguar or an actual picture? Fucking creepy if you ask me. Really? You can’t close the door when you get out? So really, it’s just a quick, let’s look at the ocean photo-op, get back in the car, and hide wherever we’ve been all week.”
“Parked their convertible jaguar in a secluded spot with Ocean views.” If it’s so secluded how did the paps find them? And how did they know it was them from behind? And how nice they managed to get the Jaguar in there and show off that nice sports package w/ red leather interior.”
Just had to get that Jaguar ad in. Bendy’s got bills to pay.
Just when I thought he couldn’t get any more famewhorey….
lol great comments. You know SH also left her window open when they were first paped at quaglinos restaurant back in october! Those were obviously set ups too. And it seems car commercials is the best gig she can get, so she’s already practiced for this….expect tomorrows pic to be epic.
paps? paps normally don’t bother with shots without any face, since you can’t know who it is for sure. that’s like 101 stuff lol
anyone can sell a photo, video to the sun. you submit right online for a price quote
@j Maybe it’s part of a set and that shot with their backs to the camera is the initial teaser. I suppose we’ll see…
j,
ah c’mon now. You really believe some random happened to be across a quiet coastal road from them, recognised them from a distance whilst they affected this pose from a car catalogue and decided to take a pic and call the Sun (the same newspaper with aaalll the wedding info) to see if they wanted it a few days before the oscars. lol. Umm no.
still kinda odd, mosby. like a real pap wouldn’t bother including it in a set, at least in my experience. thats why you dont see that too often
the paper will only buy so many, and a pro will take shots the whole time with a digital, so they have loads and loads…you pick the best to sell to get the most cash. the paper isn’t going to spend the time sorting through all your pics, so you gotta make the best set yourself
@ Ingrid WhoreyBatch is the best. So naff he’s almost cool. Not quite, though.
where did i say that?
you can send a person who isn’t a pro; they’d likely submit like everyone else since they wouldnt have an established arrangement with the paper. it could be a control measure since pros aren’t above trying to get each others’ leads
pardon me for pointing something out, apparently
@J
“paps normally don’t bother with shots without any face, since you can’t know who it is for sure. that’s like 101 stuff lol”
What are you talking about? Paps take pics of Celebs from behind/from the side all the time.
side is fine, profile
back is ok if they’re showing profile, face again, or you get someone else in their with clear face, like their kid
it’s all about faces. that is partly why LAX paps, for example, get right in, because many celebs know this and do sunglasses plus face downward and/or hat
Sorry, J. Not having a go, i just thought that was what you meant by non pros.
no worries, jojar pinks. i should have been more clear tbh
So where can I see the pic? The Sun is subscription
@J Am I understanding you correctly: you’re saying you don’t think it’s a pap shot, but not suggesting it’s a random passerby?
I guess it would make sense for them to have someone “inside” take the photo so they have more control over it, as opposed to having an arrangement with paparazzi who might be too aggressive.
Pro photographers take back shots of celebs all the time. Not all pro shots are super HD close ups. The ‘grainy far away shot’ helps to sell that they weren’t complicit. Pro or not, these are 100% set up.
This is more than just being set up. This is entering the realm of surreal for whoring out one’s private life. Maybe it’s the carefully placed Jag that did it or their pose, in contrast to their sour behaviour all these months, but can anyone name a celeb whose done something like this?
Tak- it’s at sogo
Yeah all the way on page 5 already! That actually looked pretty sweet. They’re touching anyway. And some lunatic took a picture while they were driving of BC in his car also driving. Lunatics. So that could have been just as passerby that took that. It looks like it was taken from a ways away.
Invadertak,
Are you serious? I’ve not seen such a blatantly set up photo op since the Kardashians latest display. You really think a passerby noticed him and decided to pull up across the road on the lucky chance that he and she flung their car doors open and stood arm in arm gazing out to sea? All sold to The sun, who coincidentally got all the details of the wedding, and released on Oscars day.
As someone said, grainy crappy pics are often purposely done to give the effect of ‘not being professionally done’.
Sweet is the last thing this is and I’m wondering if the man has lost his mind or maybe he was always an apprentice katie price. I thought the pre Oscars wedding was all he had left. Obviously not.
@Kat
All of that!!!!!
@InvaderTak
A “passerby” did not take that photo. It’s quite obvious that it’s a Pap photo and/or a staged photo.
@Kat I am beginning to think he’s not firing on all cylinders. I wish some of the fans tomorrow night would say “Who are you and what have you done with the real Benedict Cumberbatch?” It’s like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Wanna bet Karon took this photo? He is working SO HARD to make this story fly I am surprised he hasn’t lost his mind.
Kat, the first time I skimmed your comment I thought you said “someone decided to pull up across the road on the lucky chance he flung her into the sea”.
This is late in the game to ask this but I’m surprised no one else brought it up: Colin Firth hired a strategist for this campaign. Can we find out if Benedict did the same? Any strategist’s track record might point to whether he was always a Katie Price in waiting or whether this is purely damage control for a friend getting knocked up. There’s a third option that I’ve entertained that’s somewhere in between the two, that some career strategist (not necessarily an Oscar campaign one either) told him that all factors combined (looks, age, filmography, state of the industry), this is what he needed to do to become more than what the red tops called him on his wedding day: “TV detective”
This little subthread reminds me why I love you intelligent, skeptical ladies. I wish we can keep in touch outside of this website, even if sporadically!
Kat, the first time I skimmed your comment I thought you said “someone decided to pull up across the road on the lucky chance he flung her into the sea”.
This is late in the game to ask this but I’m surprised no one else brought it up: Colin Firth hired a strategist for this campaign. Can we find out if Benedict did the same? Any strategist’s track record might point to whether he was always a Katie Price in waiting or whether this is purely damage control for a friend getting knocked up. There’s a third option that I’ve entertained that’s somewhere in between the two, that some career strategist (not necessarily an Oscar campaign one either) told him that all factors combined (looks, age, filmography, state of the industry), this is what he needed to do to become more than what the red tops called him on his wedding day: “TV detective”
@mosby: yes, you got it.
Going to jump in and say yes, Claire. They’re having cohesion issues, maybe not working well together, but you can see classic Weinstein, Cumberbatch’s normal PR and a third type I can’t identify in the campaign by just looking at the things that have occurred.
No idea if the third is a campaign strategist or career developer. Your campaign strategists work until right after the Oscars no matter what your chances.
Thanks for the interesting reply KT. Can you talk some more about what you know about campaign strategist and how involved they may have been in orchestrating this relationship and or it’s public image?
Even funnier – apparently there’s a tweet on Ballsy/SoGo from Jaguar suggesting that this is part of a Jag ad. This is starting to reach Adrien Brody territory! Ben – I never took you for a famewhore!
That “honeymoon” shot is so obviously and pathetically staged, it actually makes me laugh out loud when I think about it.
I have a terrible feeling we’ll be seeing a kiss photo tomorrow, either in the Sun “honeymoon” pics or on the red carpet. After all, the Royals have a kiss photo op on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their weddings, so why wouldn’t the Otter King and Queen Comet? (Get the barf bags ready)
We have challenged them to kiss, so they will. With tongues.
Do octopus have tongues?!
An octopus has a barbed tongue called a radula. They use it to scrape an animal out of its opened shell.
I don’t know why but that made me laugh.
🙂
@apple – Oh my, that was my laugh for the week!! 😄😄
You can tell this is a set-up shot because you can’t see any part of Sophie’s body that would give their story away. She, and her belly, is carefully hidden behind the car. Too easy. Another clue, real couples aren’t all over each other like this, it’s so fake. Like their hand holding in the airport. Papped all the way.
real couples do hug like that, but real couples don’t usually arrange a painfully staged shot into the worlds sleaziest tabloid of themselves while doing it. I guess it makes sense that the sun covered the wedding so they should cover the honeymoon too.
keep it classy, dude.
That pic is so anonymous, I might have thought they hired two actors to imitate them if The Sun didn’t say they had more photos. Though didn’t someone say wedding photos were forthcoming to the tabs and then nothing materialised? We’ll see.
That pic is so anonymous, I might have thought they hired two actors to imitate them if The Sun didn’t say they had more photos. Though didn’t someone say wedding photos were forthcoming to the tabs and then nothing materialised? We’ll see.
BC is selling it like the rent is due!
He has to pay for that new house some way.
Nah, he didn’t buy that dumb house
Isn’t there a Weinstein pre Oscar party tonight. I presume they’ll be at that
> I meant what I said: that they waited the 12 weeks requisite time before getting engaged.
@hermi and Mosbi. Where any of you ever pregnant? 12 weeks i.e. 3 months is about the time pregnancy starts to show. There is no way she was 12 weeks along in early November.
I would say she was 6 weeks at most at that time, counting back from January, because she did look like 3-4 months pregnant in January.
CB posters have been wrong about everything else so far. So, no big deal I guess. I am just tired reading these claims when they are so obviously wrong.
Well, I guess we shall see. As for what you said, my mum (a very slim woman, like SH) was nearly flat until the 4th month. And so was my best friend with her first child (she too is very slim and long limbed). I too hate when people generalise. Not all pregnant women are the same.
Time will tell.
If she’s due in April/May, she needs to be showing.
Well, she’s showing now! For a slim woman, she’s pretty big now. And she was quite big when photographed in that Cavalli dress at the beginning of January. So?
“CB posters have been wrong about everything else so far.”
Huh? what have people been ‘wrong’ about? As far as i’ve seen, people have just said this is a ridiculous media baiting circus and tbf that looks the case from where i’m sitting.
I’ve also not been pregnant but have a ton of friends/family members who have and none of them showed at three months. There’s every likelihood she was 12 weeks in nov. Either way, it he clearly proposed and rushed to marry because of a pregnancy and that is a baaaad move.
There is no way someone 3-4 months pregnant would be able to pull off that leather dress she wore in November/December? Leather is very unforgiving and highlights every curve.
As for ‘wrong about everything’ reference, somebody on the previous thread had a good list of everything people have been wrong about. I had a good laugh reading it.
I will repeat: my friend was flat until 4th month, FLAT. You could not see anything.
um, 3 months pregnant, you still don’t show. like i just said.
And she did have a stomach in it. quite clearly.
Sorry, ive been on most of these threads lurking of late and ive not seen a ‘wrong about everything’ list. i think you may have imagined it. you’re very welcome to post it here though and prove me wrong.
Anyways.. i still dont know what you’re talking about? there’s nothing to be wrong about. i guess some people said he wouldnt marry her because they guessed he’d like to stop looking like he’d been cursed. that’s it really.
folks have said he looks like hell and this is a horrific pr explosion of nonsense. err…not sensing any wrongs there tbh.
but please, do enlighten me with this weird list drawn up by cuckoo no1 fans *flashes image of annie wilkes*
Jojo, my previous reply got stuck in moderation, for some reason. But the comment I am referring to, if you want to read it, is on the previous thread at February 19, 2015 at 9:51 pm
I have been pregnant. I did not start showing until 4 months. And I’m very short. A lot of taller, slimmer women won’t show til 4-5 months.
There’s been some good stuff here. But yeah, gotta say some of the perceptions about how the industry works, fandom’s impact/importance, etc. are off.
EN – I cant see it. Youll need to paste it over here.
Its not fair to say we’re wrong about everything when BCs publicists are lurking in these threads doing everything they can to prove us wrong. We pick out their mistakes and they FIX it in their next red carpet appearance. We speculate things that are missing and again PR delivers. We’re mere observers of this clusterf**k, all we can do is watch and wait til one of us points out something off and everyone follows suit and PR again does the damage control. Its really out of our hands. Three things we were right from the beginning SH was in the running for the red carpet gf, engagement = definitely pregnant, entire relationship used for publicity.
To say we were wrong about a lot is to have extremely selective memory. You’ll see on reading the history we always entertained a range of possibilities to explain this hot mess while the nanny fans were busying lapping up every PR concoction put out by these two. And many of our observations were accurate.
In the video of her walking with Benedict on the BAFTA red carpet she waddles. Considering how “popped” she looked in the video and photos I would have guessed she was closer to six months at that point.
How can she be waddling and popping when at that Valentino show she was practically flat?
Of course those fake theories are crazy, but it’s an odd jump, that’s for sure. She certainly seems to enjoy looking a lot more pregnant than she is.
It does seem to be a game/performance to her, that much seems clear.
I don’t know how or why. I only shared it because that’s what it looked like, that’s all I can say, really.
After they announced the pregnancy I just stopped trying to guess what was going on -since it was fairly obvious why they were engaged- and I just observe now.
Hopefully this is approved and you can see the link, it’s to a video of them arriving at the photo section of the red carpet and where you see the waddling.
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/exteriors-of-benedict-cumberbatch-and-sophie-hunter-on-news-footage/463187138
And just to add, Hilaria Baldwin announced pregnancy in January with due date sometime in the summer. She documents her progress on Instagram and you can see what she looks like now. She looks pretty much the same as Sophie. And Hilaria is as fit and as skinny as anyone, so she wouldn.t be showing too early. I think she is about 5 months along now, I think Sophie is about the same with due date late May/ begging of June.
As stated by someone everybody is different. I’m 5′ tall. At the start of my pregnancy I weighed 86 pounds. The day I went to deliver I weighed 101. I didn’t show until nearly the 8th month. I once had a picture of my mother taken two weeks before I was born. You can’t tell she’s expecting. Not everyone starts showing early.
BTW. Check the latest pics on SoGo. SH looks like she might deliver before the Oscar ceremony concludes.
Like to add that you second shows sooner than your first.
Also, for everyone saying her boobs would be bigger….my boobs never got a stitch bigger until a few hours after I gave birth (then they just turned into balloons). Every single pregnancy (even with the same person) is completely different. There are no sweeping statements of, this happens to everyone! Except of course that the belly is hard, not smushy, like Beyonce’s. 😉
k, she actually looks smaller than she did at bafta or whatever the last do was. I’m not on board with any baby fakery tosh, but she sure seems to vary in her size and not in no usual way either.
I agree it’s a little odd. I’m no pregnancy truther. It just annoys me when people come up with all these reasons she couldn’t possibly be pregnant. Like, she doesn’t have any veins on her chest! (I didn’t until after I gave birth). She’s bony up top! (Some people actually lose weight other than the belly at pregnancy). She doesn’t have swollen ankles! (I didn’t until about 2 weeks before I gave birth, and even then it wasn’t much).
I don’t like her one bit and I’m not defending her personally, but I don’t like people generalizing, saying thing like, if you don’t have/do blank, you’re unhealthy or not really pregnant. And most of the people saying these things have never been pregnant. It’s never what you think it’s going to be.
I’d also like to point out that Kate Middleton barely looks pregnant and has been wearing similar outfits to miss octopus. Nobody is saying she isn’t pregnant.
I’ve gone back and looked at pics, and I can only find one pic that makes me scratch my head (that one at Valentino). And even that one, a pic of her from a different angle shows a belly. The rest of them can be due to what she’s wearing. If you zoom in on pics from the GG, the sash around her is not tied tightly. In fact, it’s very loose. I really think she’s been wearing looser things to hide how far along she is.
Oh i saw the white teepee. that was hella weird. there really was no hint of any bump there at all.
Ive always thought the baby was due sooner then reported (latest I thought was very early june but I think will be sooner than that) so I think Benedict wants to spend some quality time with his child before he starts Hamlet which Is going to make it harder to see him/her properly for a few months (martin freeman said he found it hard when he did richardiii hes got 2 kids). Plus Benedict has always said how much he wants kids since he was young.
I’d really like to know what Ben’s relatives (mom, dad, sis, etc), colleagues (setlock) think about his situation… Do they also think it’s a lame PR snack, fake love or sg?
Just wow.
http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/isle-of-wight-meats-and-minghella-sorbet-on-the-menu-for-benedict-cumberbatch-and-sophie-hunter-76569.aspx
The article mentions the Seely family. Any Brits care to elaborate on why that’s relevant?
Also, shout out to Billy Bob Thornton, latest example of how you can be very famous and have an actually private (“private private”?) wedding.
She is far too skinny to be healthy during this pregnancy. New pap pics. Either she’s a medical oddity or she is too stuck up to probably take care of herself.
Go to SoGo immediately for the latest hilarious staged pics. I especially love the gas pump one.
PS. In these pics she looks 10 months pregnant.
I laughed at first, but I really think he has lost his mind. WTF happened to him? This woman is a leach.
Happy Oscars Day Cumby. Good luck buying back your soul from the Weinstein’s on monday morning. Im sure it’ll be fine. I saw a film about this once and it all turned out great in the end. i think..
tho, don’t do the pap shots again. only a few people emerge with dignity from that and you ain’t any of them.
He pumps his own gas? Where’s all the security he needs to fight off all the privacy invaders? Even the daily fail made a snide comments about that. And she has no fashion sense whatsoever does she?
That pumping gas pic? Comic gold. Is he a laughingstock yet? Because after these staged pics, he should be.
In the second photo, you look closely, is he looking at the pap? Am I seeing that correctly?
As an aside, I don’t believe I’ve ever in my life seen a couple hug like that at a gas station. It looks like a hug you’d give if you were consoling someone? What was the problem, gas prices?
eta: My cousin is 5’9, has always had a lean figure and didn’t look that skeletal when she was pregnant. I know every woman is different and I’m not trying to shame Sophie but LAWD.
Yes, it looks like he cuts his eyes towards the camera. That’s usually her role. She’s slipping.
“What was the problem, gas prices?” LOL!
Some people are wringing hands because voting is over and they’re suddenly getting lovey dovey: just a thought that it’s not about voting but the fact all eyes are still on th- err…him.
@tsmiv2: got in my mind that in an open letter the CBs had some requets to SH; in the 3rd point their list:
“we know you’re a theater director, so all of us theater nerds want to take a field trip to London and see you direct Ben in EVERYTHING.” She’s directing her avant garde play in real time – which is so forced, that it’s sweat smelling.
Nofertari my response got lost I think: I was saying maybe they know making their moves based on what we say is part of their PR strategy: it gets us talking more which increases his internet popularity which increases his overall exposure. It benefits them to mess around with us: changing bump size, Matthew Siskin throwing tantrums at fans, her bad attitude etc
@Claire. got it. we watch them, they watch us, so we’re cooperating. and You guys (who make those hilarious perceptions ; ) just fix what their PR f*cked up.
(and somehow SH reminds me a bit to Vanity Fair Becky… their nature)
Hi nofertari, I’m actually suggesting the opposite! We’re not fixing their pr eff ups. Rather I propose they may be effing up on purpose to get us talking to increase his internet chatter. It IS what boosted his profile to begin with after all. And if he pulls off the unlikely tonight and wins best actor, I’m going to vomit for real. I’d like for his Buddhist butt to have some nice karmic payment for selling himself out like this.
@Claire But the Sun???? Why not sell to the Telegraph then? (just one instance) The Sun is vile and I never would have picked him for someone who would stoop to that. The man was always asking people to care about real political issues, instead of mindless gossip. And here he is, selling out like there’s no tomorrow.
The telegraph doesn’t publish pap spreads.
what if they wont be there tonight, because somehow the baby “got bored” all the ado, and decided to come sooner…
Lmao! The “honeymoon” pics are awkward/hilarious. She is wearing one of his hats. Benophie Daily has already made a side by side pic (Benedict wearing the hat and Sophie wearing the hat) Benophie Daily and AnythingBatch are beyond obsessed with Benedict and Sophie.
The former is generally accepted to be her unofficial PR account. Not sure about the second.
Oh baby, how fake is that???????????? And he’s so into it that he keeps his hand firmly in his pocket. Just to make double sure he doesn’t accidentally touch her.
Seriously, how much do we love Wh**eyBatch??? Please never change a single thing for me, not if you care for me. LOL
ps were these in The Sun?
If you look closely he’s not even pumping gas. The trigger should be flush with the handle but he has his fingers in between.
*rolling with laughter*
Is she giving him a h*nd job while he is pumping gas? That picture is weird. And i am pro this relationship, because it is his business, mistake or not. That picture at the gas station still screams too much for me. It looks fake. Maybe she cannot take her hands off him. He is Not my cup of tea! Give me mark strong. Now, that is a man.
She saw a pap. Either that or she called one. Then it was cue the hug at the gas pump. He isn’t even pumping any gas. Look at his fingers on the handle. Pshhh.
she’s probs going for his wallet. ..
he needs to get used to that.
Perfect!
LOL Maybe that’s why he had His hand on His pocket. To keep her hands away from His wallet!!
^^^ thissss!!
“There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.”
Oh too true….
Also, shout out to Billy Bob Thornton, latest example of how you can be very famous and have an actually private (“private private”?) wedding.
His 6th marriage and to the woman he has lived with for years and they have a child. Kudos to him but he might not have a gaggle of “fans” trolling all his friends, relations and colleagues social media accounts for the tiniest hint that “something is going down”.
IF BC had married on 5th November, rather than getting engaged no one would have known until the deed was done. But he wanted the big build up for Oscar season and he’s had it.
Haha. Oh Maggie, you never disappoint. I also think you want to look up the meaning of the word ‘trolling’ because you have it wrong. Very wrong.
I’m surprised to see you here actually. I thought seeing as these toe curlingly staged bunch of pics emerged, you’d be afraid to attempt to defend them.
Cumberbitches are clearly made of tough stuff.
And trying to make a feeble point re: billy Bob, HUGE stars get married all the time without press attention. Much MUCH bigger than bc. It’s actually not that difficult and if you for one minute think he didn’t have every intention of the press knowing about his Oscar wedding then I am aghast and agog.
Purely as a point of order, without taking sides in this particular argument, Maggie used the term trolling correctly. The Oxford English Dictionary gives several meanings to the word –
1. To fish by trailing a baited line – which could be applicable in a metaphorical sense, if you are fishing for information.
2. To carefully and systematically search an area for something – haven’t we all been doing that lately?
3. Making offensive comments online to deliberately upset someone or provoke them into an angry response.
what does any of that have to do with actually being private and not telling the press where youre marrying tho? nothing.
I’ll tell you outright ive not been systematically searching an area for anything, so cant help you on that one.
surely the fact that many of her friends and some of his have been deliberately baiting info publicly online cant be ignored. hell, look at this oddball stylist for a kick off.
douchebags acting like attention starved kidlets on social media. much much class..
Trivia time. It turns out I know a lot of people who knows the lady who wrote the counterpunch article.
And?
Lately she was captured by wearing his scarf, hat, sunglasses, jacket… his whole wardrobe? (what a cheap & cheesy way to prove to the world their true, deep love. I thought they already left the teenage era w/ all of those clichés.)
Wondering if he had known a year ago how will his (private) life change, would he have done it in this way anyway, or manage it more carefully?
its so they can prove they truly live together. They even share one luggage to prove they stayed together in one room! And they’re only doing that to prove it to his fans, so casual observers would even recognize his stuff.
ugh, just like those couples who dress to each other… OOOHGOD! I truly hope Ben never will take on any floral cloth… hawaii shirt…
for me that’s healthy where both partners can keep their personalities, and feel no compulsion to wear, use each other’s stuff to prove anything to others so wittingly as they do.
TBH, Ben is fine when dressing for the RC, but his casual wear is not exactly stylish. So I’m pretty sure he’s one pap shot away from a floral shirt.
Jorts!!
maybe he will borrow some from her… + flipflops.
and/or one of those (truly) nice blue coats… or that brown which has no sleeves.
Listen, if he has to go down that way, at least he could start wearing dresses. To make it truly interesting. I would love to see him in that white nightshirt she wore in Paris. Come on Ben, you know you want to.
He could rock the PSFF get-up!
a bit back to their luggage… on the latest airport photos (if i remember correctly) those didn’t seem so big or heavy, and so full-fed to get a trolley. i think any normal man could carry that amount.
But if you were using two hands to carry luggage, how could you hold fist for the paps?
eeerr… hm… okay.
how about this: the wife embraces into hubby’s arm. or he carries those w/ one arm, and the other one is free for holding… anything else – hands, arms, shoulders, fists.
but after this, i don’t know how many experiences they have about relationships… : / seems not so much.
I hate to say it ladies but the Jaguar product placement and all the other phoniness in this relationship makes me go back to that theory I have time and again: she’s on a contract like Katie Holmes was to Tom Cruise. If so there’s terms on the minimum no of years they’ll be together and possibly number of kids too.
Ewe if that’s true. Just….ewwwwwwe.
Ikr
ugh. How pathetic would you have to be to agree to that?! Not being able to find yourself a wife, you have to rely on a matchmaker is one thing, but to use it for publicity especially when there’s a child involved is pretty sad.
Interesting. Seems the siskin tweet was prophetic.
Which tweet?
Wow. These photos. Just wow. Embarrassing doesn’t to even begin to cover it. How are the hardcore fans coping with trying to defend this one, I wonder. Are they even trying or do they realise it’s just a futile exercise now?
Yeah that lisibelle chick on twitter who does nothing talk about bc on there was asking jaguar if it was product placement and they replied: if the nannies are asking about the financial angle of this relationship something is rotten in denmark. Also what’s the name of the car company she did an ad for? That wasn’t out of the blue: there has to be a connection with him. This relationship has been corporately underwritten from the start hasn’t it?
It was SEAT I think. No idea if they have a connection to Jaguar but I doubt it.
lisibelle is *far* from a nanny, believe me
good to know!
Can I just say that looking at his pics from this time last year almost makes me weep? Where has that man gone?
Will he ever be back?
I was reading William Boyd’s Any human heart, when he says he hates time, how it corrupts things. I suddenly feel the same way. Sorry for the sad post. 🙁
yesterday i’ve just checked this site first posts about him – and just quickly the followings -, and as time goes forward the changing is easily observable… looking at his photos and that waggish smile from his eyes just fading away… (or maybe that’s how i see now, coz maybe i’ve read too much speculations here… cant decide.)
After these staged pics and Jag USA product placement (nice touch leaving the car door open, BTW), how can people still think this relationship is real?
I don’t think the general public is aware of the concept of the PR relationship. I don’t think even most celeb followers are either. Anyhow most of these fake relationships don’t end in a marriage and kid, I think that’s why. Maybe BC stipulated that had to be part of the contract because of his personal goals like he was saying a year ago. I get the idea he’s regretting all this.
Also I agree these photos and along with the jaguar product placement in the wedding, it’s now obvious to even the fawning fans and general public she’s a PR wife. Am I a terrible person for saying it’s a relief? It’s a bit better than BC marrying someone after a few months of a real relationship. But I still feel sorry for him that his handlers thought this necessary to maintain the career he wants.
Claire, you’re right. If I hadn’t been following this so closely, I would’ve believed the lie too. I think this was PR from the minute she was dropped into his life. All I will say about the pregnancy is that I’m sure he’ll love having a child. He’s always said he wanted children.
I see she got a Valentino dress to wear for HWs party last night. Shocker.
I’m really curious to see the wedding photos on Vogue, or Hello magazine.
Also, I still think this is the payment for what The Sun knows about one or both of them. And the Jaguar thing is only the cherry on the cake.
I doubt Jaguar set up the pic. If they had, the ocean view would have been better and in the gas station ones, you can barely see the car. They were certainly staged, but not by Jag. People need to look at their clothes in the pictures. In the first ones, she has on a jacket and he has a long sleeved shirt, in the ones with the coffee, they have both shed layers. So the photographer followed them for a few HOURS and the weather warmed up. If they didn’t want to be papped, they could have lost the photog or just posed for a couple shots and went on their way. But they didn’t do that, did they?
He had a PR girlfriend and diddled the help. He never intended to knock her up but she saw a golden ring and snatched it. That’s why he furious and she’s smug. I wonder why these men, who are supposed to be smart and famous, always end up with nobody trash? Ego?
Kat. They are coping just fine, just hunky dory. Something’s wrong with those of us who can’t see the tru wuv, doncha know? It’s because we’re all jealous of SH, jealous that we’re not her. Yeah, that’s it.
Those photos and article seem to be first and foremost a car advert, and second an advert for their relationship.
The Sun is the most vile tabloid along with the Daily Mail. The fact that they confirmed the pregnancy to the DM after the number of times BC has slagged the paper off specifically in interviews seemed really hypocritical. Now there are what look like very staged pictures in The Sun with obvious product placement. I think once you become tabloid fodder in the UK, you start to lose credibility.
I agree. Sadly he seems to be going the jude law and hugh grant route. I wonder how he’ll get out of being a tabloidwh**e?
Wow, the new pictures with the Jag on display and the awkward embrace while he pretends to pump gas. I’m at a loss of words. It’s so out of the realm of normal and spontaneous. It’s like finding your Christmas presents hidden in the closet the week before Christmas. “Come on now, we all know what this means”.
More goodies from The Sun “Quotes” from his Parents.
“Benedict’s Cumberbatch’s parents have backed his rival Eddie Redmayne to win the Oscar for Best Actor at tonight’s ceremony. The Imitation Game star’s proud mum and dad, Wanda and Timothy, have joined their son in LA before tonight’s film bash but don’t expect him to beat hot favourite Eddie”
“Benedict has had a busy few months and I’m so happy for him in every way. I’m already a grandmother but there’s a big gap and I can’t wait.” (Wanda)
“I’m very proud. As an actor we understand how hard he’s had to work to get to this point.” (Timothy)
“I’m already a grandmother but there’s a big gap and I can’t wait.” (Wanda)
What joy! What gushing! How thrilled Wanda sounds! Actually, it sounds like she said the least that she could get away with.
“Has had a busy few months” is a mom’s polite way of saying “What the hell happened to my son?” I think she is expressing concern for him. The last few months would be overwhelming for anyone.
“I’m so happy for him.” Not one reference to the DIL.
@Alice: hopefully after they reading your notice, they will correct this mistake (too)… ; ) sooon.
Tim’s comment is like “yeah I know he sold his soul, but such is the life of an actor.”
when ppl reading between the lines… the cliche shows the other side of its meaning.
Apparently his parents are in LA, and finally quote from his mom.
“Benedict has had a busy few months and I’m so happy for him in every way. I’m already a grandmother but there’s a big gap and I can’t wait” wanda ventham
I wonder if he’ll take his parents and leave SH at home?
I guess they had to answer all those “where’s wanda?” questions.
And now his parents are giving quotes to The Sun. I’m getting more and more convinced that The Sun has some kind of dirt on SH and/or BC and the “leaking” of the order of service from the wedding, the honeymoon pictures, and now interviews with Wanda and Timothy (all of them exclusive to The Sun), are all some form of payment for not spilling any dirt on the “loving” couple.
I think so, too.
Well, it was The Sun that Jane said she contacted with information. Maybe they took it and ran with it. But you know if one tab has dirt, the other rags will start digging. Something will leak.
The red tops will have to have done their due diligence – particularly after the Levenson enquiry – so they will have made sure that any story/information they have is backed up with evidence (photographs, written statements etc..). My money’s on her and the possibility of him not being the father or the entire relationship/pregnancy is fake.
When you sell your soul to a Rupert Murdoch newspaper you are trying to hide something that will ruin careers.
My money is on her too: to many holes in her CV and her timeline is hazy to say the least. Too many men and places, when she was supposed to be in a steady relationship with him. In London.
Besides, he was happy and cheerful just before the GAG, so it’s hard to think this mess is unrelated to her.
Benedict’s stylist (still milking it) just Tweeted a photo of Benedict’s front row Oscar Tickets.
As if we didn’t know he was attending! Did he get a stylist when Spencer Hart went bankrupt? Gosh he’s frugal. It’s quite annoying this baiting going on.
@amy, maybe someone, or we, just should tell him how awkward what he’s doing.
does anyone know/think maybe he’s dressing up SH too for RC?
nofertari he did mention getting her that cavalli dress, so yeah, I think he’s dressing them both. I doubt BC would pay for two stylist when he is already paying for hair and make-up.
He’s the one responsible for that crap dress at PSFF??? He just went even lower in my estimation.
as i suspected, tnx @amy. coz the floral theme vs brown leather, black bafta outfit roughly hit each other. the latter much more a man’s styling.
@Alice: i dont think so. floral is SH.
oh I hear Valentino is sponsoring her dress for the Oscar, courtesy of Wintour so I’ve no doubt the dress will be lovely. Her dress last night was Valentino as well.
Erdem must be so hurt – tossed aside like a used kleenex.
Bunch of classless sycophants. There’s posh, there’s middle class, there’s chavs and then there’s Ben’s bunch of hangers-on. It’s worse than Wolf Hall! Seriously, are these adults? Because they behave like spotty 12-year-olds.
I would really hate to have someone’s nose that far up my butt.
Doesn’t the fact that The Sun has quotes from his parents just confirm that the pap shots were staged?
So, The Sun just happens to be the only paper to get exclusive ‘pap’ pics of them on their honeymoon, but also just happens to be the only paper to interview his parents on the same trip?
And this is the paper that one of his best men works for?
And when BC officiated at this guys wedding he happened to give an interview about it to…the Sun.
To me it looks like they are well aware a lot of people and press are dismissing their relationship as a PR stunt or shotgun wedding. It looks like there’s some trade off with the Sun in that we’ll give you info on wedding and honeymoon if you paint a positive image of our relationship. The article they wrote about it being a ‘Batch made in heaven’ was so OTT.
the SUN brings the Light into our “pitiable” life to SMILE : )
*sarcasm*
otherwise: why is it so common that a talent at the beginnings so natural, fresh, honest, hate papas, but love ordinary ppl, then later switch into famew*hre mode: love paps, media, but less care about ordinary, normal ppl…?
What a guilded cage this guy is putting himself into. No matter the reason why he has this relationship with the sun (and it is pretty clear he does), once you open that door, you can’t close it.
Did his father mentioned how excited he is about his first grandchild? It is not his mother’s first but the baby will be his first, no? Am I correct? Did he have children from a first marriage or something? He should be over the moon, if this is his first time being a grandpapa.
I think T and W had been married 10+ years when Emily was born, so I’m sure he considers her his grandchild also.
Sounds like that dontcallmejane person from the DM comments was right on the money (no pun intended). Has she posted anything more? Oh how I would love to hear more from her.
well it wasn’t just jane who seems to be in the know. A guy name tomspense on twitter called sh a sl*t on the day of the engag. I think this guy was also at the wedding coz he tweeted about having spotted BC in his hotel on IoW. So the plot thickens….
Amy
No. He didn’t call SH that. He didn’t refer to her at all. He seemed like a teenager and likely just happened to see BC at the hotel. Pretty obviously is not personally connected to anyone.
Really? I missed that one. OMG! It’s better than a Mexican telenovela.
So-anyone else finding it funny that the private newlyweds spent the first few days of their honeymoon doing a jag commercial, doing a Star spread, and voicing a video game (Ben).
Also, With so much side eye going on at events that Sophie attends with Ben, I wonder if Wanda s going to sit next to her at the Oscar’s so she can bitch slap her if she gets out of line.
So how’d they have the time to go up the coast? they couldn’t have left until Tuesday and they had to be back by Saturday. Where’d you hear about the video game and star spread? unless you mean sun
Apparently, Benedict’s co-presenter tonight is his big crush, Naomi Watts. I wonder if she’ll get a death stare like S gave to KK at the BAFTAs.
Come on, you! He’s happily married, dontcha know?
And it’s funny he said he finds Naomi attractive because of her talent; I’m just looking forward to him saying the same about SH.
Holding my breath.
I believe at some point he said SH was a great director and actress. There were no reports on how many vodka shots he’d had.
You have to be off your face to call her a great actress. Director I don’t know, but she can’t act for toffee.
oh come on, he already found out what her real talent is when that stick turned blue! Enough said.
SAVE NAOMI
According to the Daily Mirror (another red top) Ben took his parents out to lunch in Hollywood on Saturday but la belle Sophie didn’t join them. Interesting. . .
She was pumping gas at the station….
The pic at the gas pump reminds me of that pic of Brittney Spears and KFed on the balcony. You know, the one where she is grabbing his crotch. LOL!
Now you’ve said it and that’s what we gonna get next: the happy couple on a balcony and SH grabbing the Cumbernuts.
I go get my beer now. And some popcorns.
beer and nuts
Dr. Pepper & veggie pizza
The Pap photos/Jaguar Ad must have worn her out.. Lmao!
“Benedict, 38, who wed Sophie Hunter on Valentine’s Day, treated his mum Wanda and father Timothy Carlton, to a slap up lunch on Saturday afternoon at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont.
While pregnant Sophie wasn’t there – she was probably recovering from their long 350 mile drive home from their honeymoon at the Big Sur”
She was not too tired to be at the HW dinner though. I wonder why.
Just waiting for a picture of WV and SH next to each other. Cue the body language experts.
Or getting prepared for Oscar red carpet eventevent.
after lunch they maybe visited her: “how are you darling? have you got everything what you need to feel comfy?” and later maybe SH & Wanda prepare together for the big night. imagine they comb each others’ hair, exchange makeup tips, talk over what to wear, etc…
And how did they know about Big Sur? Unless they went off the speculation here.
@Alice, check SoGo.. she has one of the two WV and SH with BC
Don’t they look like a couple of wild and crazy party animals? Is Wanda side-eyeing Sophie there?
He hid her in the trunk of that Jag so reporters wouldn’t be able to get a quote out of her like they did his parents. Don’t worry I’m sure he fed her leftovers from the doggy bag – most likely garlic bread! 🙂
She was wearing a Valentino space dress (pre-fall 2015) at the TWG party last night.
Perfect for Comet Sophie.
*gigglesnort*
God, if this s*it was anymore predictable! We say jump and they jump.
Wanda was at the same party last night. BC sat between them!
I’m totally sticking with my April 20. She is totes 7 months.
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My favorite research/stats website has made Oscar preditions. Funny they don’t perceive Cumberbatch to be a strong contender yet still used his image up front. hmm… I guess selling it is working in some ways. Or maybe the 538 guys are fans too ;)?
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/a-data-driven-guide-to-the-oscars/
Have you seen the pic of Ben with Keira on sogo? Wow, he just exudes happiness when he is with her, it’s almost inappropriate compared to how he acts when he is with his “new wife”.
From The Guardian: ““For reasons that are not entirely clear, Cumberbatch’s contendership has dropped like a stone, supposedly leaving the field clear for Redmayne.”
It’s pretty clear to me.
Pretty clear to them too…
Watching E! is like sitting at the gossip table in intermediate school. Childish foolishness.
I love the person on twitter who said SH is not wearing a dress, but the red carpet! LOL
Where? Haven’t seen her yet
@sighs That ubiquitous stylist has posted a photo on twitter. Ben is in a white jacket, cue the waiter jokes.
TFOE has the pics. White jacket/controlled hair on him, red one-shoulder on her, Karon’s girls relatively covered.
Daily mirror says the comet wore a “daring’ dress. I guess they didn’t see the modesty panel. Over the top pda for the pr.
Is there a photo up yet? I don’t see anything on SoGo.
Has anyone seen the photo on SoGo of BC, SH and Wanda at the HW party last night? Does Wanda look, I don’t know, kind of irritated?
I didn’t see all three. Is it really far back? Couldn’t find it
She seems to be giving Sophie the side-eye.
Something appears to be wrong. Maybe she is upset with the photog but as an actor she should be used to that.
@**sighs** page 5 / 6 at this moment…
Wanda looks mad in every picture of her, even in ones with just her and Benedict. I swear, the woman doesn’t know how to smile.
This picture is actually one of her better ones.
Sophie was brave to marry Benedict, I would’ve ran away after one look at Wanda.
Maybe Sophie figures she will eventually control everything and cut out Wanda and Tim. In the selfie they took Sophie is standing in front of a shorter Wanda. Common sense and good manners would make me stand behind her, considering the occasion and the height difference. Strange how both Wanda and Kiera looked unhappy with Sophie.
I predict this will not end well and Ben will be worse off for connecting with her, she will not make his life better in the end. This happens will you marry self-centered people.
EN,
Rude much? Wanda’s lovely and I’ve seen her smile in plenty of photos. The Chelsea flower show ones for example.
Kat. Of course those smiles were all in the BS(Before Sophie)era. Maybe the simplest explanation is she just can’t stand Miss Hunter.
Never mind. I got it. They all look tense.
And bored. BORED!
Wanda’s left eye is looking at the photog but she is giving the side-eye to Sophie with her right. That’s some serious stuff right there.
Aw, that was a cute peck on the cheek. Sophie looks good but I’m not liking her hair. Nicer than Hannah’s dress, tho. And BC looks like a waiter.
There’s a shot of the whole fam taking a selfie. They all look happy.
Missed the peck. I’m sure someone will make a gif
The pics are already all over tumblr
The nannies won’t miss that one.
oh god noooo. red carpet kisses are so unnecessary and fake – that one particularly so. i lose more faith in this dude everytime he overdoes these red carpet things. it’s just painful.
what with that and the staged pap pics, im kinda done with him this weekend. and possibly for the rest of this year.
That is the most awkward peck I’ve ever seen. He still looks like the guy forced to take his wallflower cousin to the prom. Where are his eyes looking? Not at her, maybe the ceiling?
@Toodles45
“They all look happy.”
Please tell me you are joking?? Wanda did not look happy at all. That peck was so awkward..
They both look terrible. He’s white as a ghost and she’s wearing Julius Caesar’s toga after the stabbing. Joe the stylist sucks.
She wore that dress to hide the fact that she is further along than they claim. Unfortunately, the dress that she wore the night before the Weinstein party clearly shows that she is at least seven months, possibly moving into the eighth? She is way beyond six months. Pregnant in July, seven months in February, which means she got pregnant right after they got together. No wonder he went over the cliff.
But if that is true (pregnant in July) why was her belly totally flat in October/November?
July 30 conception = April 20 due date. Tall slim people *usually * show later.
That’s only three or four months. I’ve never been pregnant but most people don’t even show at three months?
Your weeks go by the date of your last period, so a July 20 conception would be counted from about July 15. Mid October would be 3 1/2 mo. Mid November 4 1/2 mo. Etc, etc.
Oh, and to comment here on something on sogo… Yes, in 3rd trimester you can see feet/arms sticking out and the belly shifts when the baby is rolling. Mine would go from side to side. It was freaky.
He was only in the UK for a week in July.
Very late July early aug. Post sdcc, Italy. Or mid July. Sogo has the 21st on timeline for TIG trailers released. Maybe they made their own trailer. Lol!
*it only takes a few minutes*
😉
@tsmiv: only in UK one week in July. And the plot thickens…
@*sighs* “Yes, in 3rd trimester you can see feet/arms sticking out and the belly shifts when the baby is rolling.”
They should teach that in high school sex ed. Sigourney Weaver, anyone? Yikes!
Ha! Totally Alien. I didn’t get quite as much feet sticking out because I had an anterior placenta (in front of the belly instead of closer to the spine), but man could that kid lurch. Towards the end I was convinced he was doing full out somersaults.
I have the most problem with her earrings for some reason. They just bug me, I guess it’s the way they clip. I know it seems a small detail. The toga -stapled dress doesn’t bother me as much, maybe it’s the color . He should have gone with classic black, no question.
Absolutely, tsmiv. Her hairstyle is very aging and not flattering to her face. As for BC – Joe Woolfe, fail, fail, fail. And when will they realize slicked back hair is not his best? Free the Cumbercurls! Long may they wave!
And her dress? Just draped fabric. Saturday’s was much better.
IA, Sophie should’ve let her hair loose and Ben shouldve let his hair do that delicious swoopy- curl thing. I can’t stand when he slicks his hair back. That all black getup he wore at the GQ awards was HEAVEN imo (especially with the scruff), but it may not have worked for the Oscars
WHY does he keep cutting his his hair so short?
because he’s a lazy guy lol i feel him on the hair
i’ve got the same sort of hair and i purposely keep it really long so i don’t have to style it. he can’t keep it that long, it wouldnt look good, so his option is pretty short unless he wants to spend time on before he leaves the house every day
“Julius Caesar’s toga after the stabbing”
This comment is gold. Also she’s not tall, ladies. She consistently shows to be 5’6″, 7 if you wanted to be generous. It’s her heels. She once listed her height as 5 9 and that’s consistent with showbiz inflation norms: 2 or 3 inches.
yup she would stand taller than BC with those high heels if she were 5’9 so she has to be about 5’6.
I guess everything about her has been bigged up, not just her CV.
Go to TFOE and check out the ten panel pic set. Look closely at panel three. BC is on the riser being interviewed. SH is in the background with a sour expression on her face. Her homing instinct for cameras must have failed her.
Look at SoGo – he does the obligatory touching the belly then kisses her hand and she looks like she could spit on him. Dude, I am a romance addict but give it a rest. It’s over the top but they just don’t know when to stop. STOP.
Reading sogo you’d think they were a real couple because everyone thinks they look like a real happy couple. Are you saying that’s not true LOL?
Just saw Kiera, who is sitting next to Sophie. KK is hanging on to her husband but it appears to me that she has left a lot of room between her and Sophie – you can see the actual chair – and KK has her back to her. Looks kind of deliberate, why not sit up like everyone else and not hang on like the guy is going to run away?
The red carpet display was OTT and cringeworthy. Like pretty much their entire relationship, it was all for show. Fake and phony and weird.
LOL too funny. They never interacted on the red carpet during all those events did they? I wonder if Ben spilled the beans to her. And if he wins tonight, I’m throwing my TV out the window.
I am begging that Michael Keaton wins.
I noticed that. Keira’s about to jump into her hubby’s lap. Get me away from all the crazy! I don’t want to be associated with that!
And for contrast, ER’s wife and FJ seem to get on famously.
Actually they did interact, if you include red carpet stomp offs, ugly side eye, curious hand holding and arm snatching. TBH, I’d rather see the old behavior than this fake crap, at least the nastiness was real.
*shrugs*
My thoughts this whole time is that he’s a PDA-er and she’s not, and/or she’s anxious or something at these things but trying to get used to it, so they’ve been working toward a medium.
I finally saw the pictures and there’s no hand on the belly. It’s fingertips on the belly. Fingertips! Not a full on palm like you would expect for a baby that’s imminent at any moment. Add this to the LAX fist holding and I’m wondering if she had an immaculate conception. They seem to avoid any normal physical contact and just bring out the minimum for the cameras.
Since before the Oscars we speculated that a cringey kiss would be the next camera op, what do we go for now? Do we want to see them getting down and dirty? I’m sure it could be arranged just as a photographer is passing by. Ideas?
@Alice Someone on Tumblr said she had her hand between his legs when the cameras cut to them briefly during the show, so maybe they’re finally getting out ahead of this thing! (Joking.)
Oh moodgirl I meant interaction between SHUN and Kiera. All those events they were both at. In other news, what the heck does fellowship of erdemhart mean?
When I saw the seating arrangements I thought it was very cruel to make Keira sit next to Sophie. Why not use her husband as a buffer? I don’t think there’s any love lost. I get the impression SH dislikes all of BC’s female friends.
From the looks of it I can believe there is a problem there. I can see her trying to separate him from everyone, including friends and family. Wanda doesn’t look too happy.
@moodgirl, Wanda looked so bored/meh, maybe she just has RBF
How could she be bored when her son was up for an Oscar?
Sogo needs a pictures only button. I hate digging through anons and commentary.
Not that many pics only posts on Sogo….or so I have heard
David Oleyowo looks like he was parking cars before the ceremony. Why did his wife not tell him he looked like an idiot?
FFS WikiAnon is back. Ugh! Why? Why?
“I’m going to try and get people back on the straight and narrow. Unfortunately I was no where near the right mindset to do it before, but I’ll try and see how I go tonight.”
Well that was a short mourning period I must say. Very brave of her to return from personal tragedy so quickly during these trying times. That statement is whacked. I hope that in real life that person is a troll doing this for sh!ts and giggles and not a real nut case.
Or people trying to make us look bad. I still find it hard to believe there are people that mad in his fandom, and that’s really saying something
Well. Someone needs an Oscar for effort.