It’s been DAYS without a Benedict Cumberbatch post! I missed him. Benedict and Sophie Hunter were photographed in California a few days ago (I think?), going on a whale-watching trip. Go here to see the photos. This didn’t seem as obviously pap-friendly as the now-infamous Jaguar advertisement/photoshoot, but I do have to wonder: how do the paparazzi know that Bendy and Sophie are going whale-watching? Seriously? I would understand it if they were pap’d at the Ivy or on Robertson, but it feels like someone is giving a tip-off to someone else. Speaking of Benedict’s publicist, E! News says that Benedict and Sophie are now in Tahiti for a 10-day vacation/honeymoon.
After a whirlwind wedding and the Oscars, Benedict Cumberbatch and his new wife, Sophie Hunter, have finally found some downtime to properly honeymoon! An eyewitness tells E! News that the Oscar nominee and his pregnant wife are on a 10-day honeymoon at a five-star resort in Bora Bora. But as soon as they got to the island, Benedict immediately put on his tourist hat (we’re assuming he left his Sherlock one behind)!
“Benedict looked so excited to be there and was snapping pictures with his camera,” the eyewitness tells us. “They were given pineapple-infused water and beautiful flower leis that they immediately put around their necks and smelled the fresh flowers.”
The amenities don’t stop there, of course. The source adds that the “first-class service” has everything they could possibly need delivered to their water bungalow in order to let them relax in private. In fact, they even had door-to-door service with a boat “dropping them right off at the deck of their water bungalow” from the airport.
“From the time they arrived, they rarely left their bungalow,” the eyewitness adds, noting that they arrived to Tahiti on Feb. 24. “Benedict had his arm around Sophie and was in awe of the beautiful water and their surroundings.”
Because Sophie is expecting a little Cumberbun, she was able to “put her feet up” while her The Imitation Game-starring husband enjoyed swimming with the fish!
“They lounged around on their deck everyday and went swimming in the clear water. They had breakfast on the deck in the morning and it lasted for hours,” the source tells us. “Then they napped on side by side on their chaise lounges. Benedict went snorkeling whenever he could and Sophie relaxed and put her feet up. She is well into her pregnancy and looked happy to have down time.”
This sounds like the vacation right out of our dreams. Although relaxing on a tropical island, the A-list duo did experience one day of rain, but they handled the dreary weather in the best way possible: massages in their room! These two really know how to make lemonade out of lemons.
“They really seemed in love and like perfect partners. He was doting on her and rubbing her back and her pregnant belly,” the eyewitness adds. “She was making sure he had sunscreen on and always re-applying it on his back. They had a lot of time alone and really enjoyed the slow pace of life and not having to do much.”
This reminds me of the kind of press given to Duchess Kate visiting various hotels, resorts and spas. It has the same overenthusiastic “sponsored advertising” that is just tit-for-tat for celebrities ad royals. The hotel or resort will give Benedict and Sophie a reduced rate (or a free trip) in exchange for being okay with letting the hotel use their name in press releases. The only thing I find odd is that the name of the resort isn’t mentioned here – all we know is that they’re at a “five star resort” in Bora Bora. So who leaked all of these details? The resort? Or Bendy’s publicist?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
“Tahiti, it’s a magical place.”
Well, he is under contract now, isn’t he?
@Lilacflowers: I was quoting Phil Coulson from the first season of Agents of Shield! In that show, Tahiti was not was it seemed. . .
I love that line on the show. Especially the time when Coulson says it and stops mid-sentence, realising he does it every time someone mentions Tahiti.
Yes, AustenGirl, I know.
Sorry, Lilacflowers! I don’t want to be that person who explains a snarky comment to someone who already got it.
Can’t we find a pic of Otter in his snorkel gear?
There were quite a few on popsugar but it looks like they’ve been taken down since
SoGo has a way of accessing the cache version, & you can see them.
I think they are still up on tumblr. I saw them this morning and in my defense I am home with a case of flu that could make a hippo keel over. The defense rests m’lord.
They’re on BTT, SoGo, TFOE, probably others.
Manyshadesofgreen tumblr
Of course they are all over Tumblr. They must have known – especially since AnythingBatch so helpfully linked to them – that people would spread them on social media and it would not matter if they were later “pulled”
That’s good – can we here on CB now go on a 10 day cold turkey without any Cumberbatch threads????
Yes please. My sister agrees too
Yes EASI!!!
Yes please! Better yet, lets go for 10 years!
how about 10 months? I didn’t miss him.
We could give up Cumberbatch for Lent. 🙂
+10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Yes, please, take a long break from bendy! It’s been so nice to see him not plastered all over celebitchy.
You can always refrain from clicking. Just sayin.
either. tourism boards get on on this stuff too, so you don’t need a specific resort name since so many of them offer the same services
Ahem.
Muppets
Lead in sold-out Shakespeare play
The Hollow Crown
Marvel contract
Peerage
Bora Bora
Sounds like BC really wants to be somebody else.
I’ll just pour myself a Comet Sophie and be over there, waiting for tonight’s ice storm. Because we haven’t had an ice storm. Thunder snow, beige booty shorts guy (yes, saw him Friday), but no ice storm.
Lol, yes it looks like it no?
Ssshh! Don’t tell his most ardent fans. They always insist it is the other way round.
NAGL on either fan set.
Say it isn’t so?!
What’s peerage in connection to those two?
Sophie Hunter is in the peerage so marriage confers it on BC. The other actor, whom BC seems to be trying to follow/imitate, is a member of the peerage through his own birth to a mother who was in the peerage
Is there anyone in the world who actually cares about peerage anymore?
I think people would be impressed by inate talent and hard work.
How important is this still in England?
Hunter and BC are just genealogical footnotes on reference websites, since Hunter’s not of the inheritable peerage ilk. TH has actual peerage.
(And this can’t be serious. Really?)
How is she in the peerage and how does it affect him?
I always thought he was in it for the Sir.
Crocuta. –
Not remotely.
cee, she’s in a popular genealogy peerage/nobility project website because her grandfather was military
she’s not in the actual peerage though. her family has no titles, no “sir” for him lol
the rest of this is a little silly imo. uk actors run in small circles
It matters when you aren’t and the actor whose life you’re copying is
@Lilacflowers – who is he copying? I don’t get half of what is being said LOL
@ Cee – Hiddles. It’s a joke because a year or so ago it was said by Cumberfanshiddleshaters that Hiddleston is following everything Ben does. Lately they’ve swapped positions.
But Bora Bora really is a funny addition.
Are you sure re the peerage through his mother -he is not in the peerage register as far as I know.Looking at his background i only found a master of the hounds type position
@icerose – if you mean TH, he is. I checked yesterday LOL And read that his youngest sister is engaged, so congrats to the Hiddles.
These threads are enlightening. Now I know what peerage means LOL.
HAHAHA.
Someone else has a spread in Empire magazine about one of his movies coming out this year. Where is that thread?!
Yes, I want to be on that thread!
Is any of this true?
Thetownbycycle.tumbler.com/post/89529494962/the-dish
While I can see the trust issues, the guy would have to be better than Meryl Streep to hide some of the other stuff.
I’m not going to the site, but usually that one is full of crap. They’ve been busted more than once lying. I think the site runner even addmitted they got bad information or were lied to once. they’re up there with wikianon for nuts. Anyone care to summarize?
I think most of the items on that dish have been more or less debunked.
From the top of my head here:
White substance: most likely makeup from the people he hugs
A diva in the hospital: he probably wasn’t his usual charming self but the guy just substantiated injury at work – who could blame him? And someone did cast doubt over which hospital he actually went, which didn’t fit the information described in the dish.
Whether he has a cat: who knows?
An alcoholic: a social drinker doesn’t make an addict; if that’s true, Bendy should have been in a rehab by now.
Whether he bangs co-stars: who knows? But I’d like to think those people too know professionalism to some extents.
JA: …….. (scratch 2346 words) don’t know and not touching that one.
Sam: ……. (scratch 3457 words) turns out to be bad information and somebody got catfished.
Anything else anyone like to add?
Please let’s not promote that crap…..
@Madly, all of it has been debunked with easily found facts. The “sources” are all friends of friends or friend of crew member or friend of hospital worker who was off-duty. The real purpose seems to be to garner attention
Agree with Ava. Let’s not promote sites like that. I looked at it once and it struck me as a bunch of lies by those that want to slander TH. Like blind items, nothing can be proven and it’s easy to make up a story and post it there. Just some deranged fans (and we know he has his share) who feel spurned by their imaginary boyfriend talking smack about him.
I recall from 2013(?) threads, there was a poster here on CB (Miss Thing) that was apparently feeding a bunch of lies about Tom and she was subsequently busted.
I’m loathe to believe the unsubstantiated dirt on other people, but will happily believe the nice things people say that don’t contradict my impressions of them. That’s the way I’d want to be treated if I was the one being slandered.
That site is totally unsubstantiated.You just have to look at the misquotes from the Nuffield that people have posted
If someone did start spreading rumours re Tom’s hospital visit they broke every confidentially agreement and could be struck off.The fact that it was never taken seriously means it is all hokum.
As to his love life he is a grown man but quedos on him that he manages to keep it private.
@Madly, if you aren’t familiar with the site you linked, here’s the run down. TOBY formerly known as Anti-Susie, but since there’s no more Susie, she changed it to TOBY when BoraBora hits. And then there’s a blog called EggBenedish, claimed to be inspired by TOBY (or that it’s the same person who opened TOBY), giving out dishes regarding certain Benedict. EggB was one of the very first of all those BC skeptic blogs now in the form of Wikianon and BTT etc etc. EggB existed before SH came to the scene, but since then all those BC skeptic blogs populated Tumblr sphere, EggB closed her blog, I guess she serves her function. TOBY used to be solely about Tom, but she slowly ran out of things to say about him and starts her own view about the whole BC saga and ventures to other actors now.
You know the guy’s really been off radar way too long when even that unsettling venting blog has become boring and lacking in imagination. Shit my neighbors are way more interesting and weird than that dish post, and I’m not exaggerating, thin walls…
Still, some people really shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet…
Thanks to everyone for their explanation, thought as much. You can only fake and fudge your image so much before the cracks come through. I usually can spot them, but for some reason, with Tom, I want to just enjoy from a distance, so sometimes it is harder to spot things.
what does thetownbicycle mean, is there any meaning behind it?
@Valois, it means what you think it means.
Valois-
The Town Bicycle = Everybody’s ridden him.
Thank you for explaining : )
Ridden whom? Hiddleston? This sounds so stupid.
I never heard of that phrase before, it’s something you don’t learn in language school 😀
Valois, when you see something like this, google Urban Dictionary and look it up there. It’s usually listed.
You forgot Comic Con Lilac. How could you. It included dancing too.
Whale-watching while pregnant seems like the LAST thing I would ever want to do, but then again I get bad motion-sickness and morning-sickness.
(Now, the eating breakfast for hours thing seems more like it.)
I totally thought the same thing. I have been on this hell ride for 8.5 months now and I still get slight morning sickness and motion sickness. Most days I can barely drag myself from bed to sofa and back. How do these ppl find the energy/desire to go on exotic holidays while pregnant? Plus, what about the disease carrying mosquitos?
Cause she doesn’t have a real job.. I would have loads of energy if I didn’t have to deal with the nonsense of everyday work life, pregnant or not LOL. She looks as if she is about 7 months in her bikini photos maybe as she is slim she looks bigger but she won’t be able to travel much longer unless she gets a Drs note.
AG-UK,
Yep. I’ve had several friends who all had to work full time right up until a month before birth. Most women do need to earn money to live but that’s obviously never been an issue for sophie. Her pregnancy has been one long extended holiday and some awkward photos.
Nur hope the last 2-3 weeks go ok for you x
@Kat
Working isn’t the issue just all the flying around for health/safety for airlines. Just thinking about all the back/forth she has done is exhausting. I am travelling at the end of the month and I can’t wait to get there but the 10 hours on a plane isn’t thrilling me now but I am in seat 30A not 1A. I guess she should get all the summer sun she can as it’s not necessarily a given living here (:
Back rubbing and showing off six-packs. Good for you, Benny. (Side note: I don’t care.) I am here for the comments. Where is the stand for alcoholic beverage and snacks? – I would be in that corner if anyone needs me.
There are vending machines over that way. The staff refuses to work on the Cumberbatch threads. But here, have a Comet Sophie.
What is in a Comet Sophie? Rum? Vodka? Fan girl tears?
Absinthe and whatever else you want
@lilac, after seeing Kingsman this weekend I’m frankly shocked and disappointed that Colin and Mark have refused service for Cumby threads. I would have thought they were made of sterner stuff. I have a few quibbles with that movie so can’t quite recommend it, but I found no fault at all with Colin and Mark- oh, and that new kid was aces. Big future for him I think.
@Darya, if you go back and look at the threads from the start of this relationship going public/sort of to the engagement; you can see that things were at an absolute frenzy, with people who had previously declared outright hatred for Tom because BC was an unerring God suddenly screaming: “at least we still have Tom!” and elbows being thrown and kicking and stabbing and outright hysteria and the snack table would be emptied OR overturned as soon as Colin had it filled; same with the bar and it was getting dangerous for any of them to try to reach it, what with the fighting among posters and assaults on any British male who was deemed a worthy substitute. So, for the safety of all, Mark ordered things scaled back and when even that didn’t work, they installed the vending machines and declared all Bendy threads off limits.
I think everyone are here for the comments 🙂
Yep, I go straight to the comments. Thanks for keeping it so much fun, ladies!
When I saw the pap pics yesterday, I kept coming back to see if they’d posted them here yet, just for the comments. Twitter is fun but the level of snark on here makes it feel like home 🙂
Me, too, three or four. Comments totally rule here!
Fill ‘er up. I’m back on a Comet Sophie bender…. again.
*fist bump*
MtnRunner, it’s not called a Comet Sophie Bender, it’s a Comet Sophie ‘Bendy’.
Kiddo, I can’t imbibe a ‘Bendy’. It’s not a stiff enough.
BUUUUUURN!
That write up is hilarious. Its like a brochure.
Do paps normally hang around in Bora Bora in case a celeb is holidaying there?
I got laughed at in the Oscar thread for suggesting she was probably nearer/just at 7 months, having seen a couple of the pics I’d like anyone to say she’s only 5 months and keep a straight face. He’s only made it more obvious by trying to cover it up like it’s something to be ashamed of.
It depends. They will scope out popular vacation spots at peak times or come it tipped off.
Celebs getting papped under their control is pretty normal, even more private celebs do pap walks, but the tourism angle here is curiously strong yet too general to get a comp vacation plus it gives away when she’s due, so…genuine leak is quite possible.
I agree, there’s no way he proposed after she became pregnant. And this 10 day honeymoon almost proves that he did in fact have time in his schedule and he could’ve married after the oscars if he wanted to.
EDIT: sorry typo, I meant BEFORE she became preggs
True, never thought about that.
Not quite, Toodles45. This is when LCOZ was originally filming, Jan-April/May. It didn’t get moved to the summer until January.
Cel,
No way did lcoz have anything to do with his decision to marry on the penultimate weekend before the Oscars. Just no way.
Kat, too late for maximum voter impact. Online voting has really changed how soon people vote.
Damage control, sure, but they knew the Oscar wasn’t happening already.
Cel,
I don’t think it was actually for the purpose of votes. It just seems like it’s a narrative to be spun.
The paps were there waiting for him and there’s one shot of his arrival where he’s looking directly at them. These were arranged in the same way that the pics of them spontaneously hopping out of a car and staring wistfully out to sea and awkwardly hugging whilst eyeballing cameras at a petrol pump were.
Nobody is papped this much by accident. Seems he’s still keen on trying to force this down everyone’s throats as a love story and hasn’t yet realised that his inability to say or do anything naturally with regards to her, has been his biggest downfall.
He really needs to shut up and go away.
And as for her getting pregnant after the engagement – surely nobody on earth thought that?
What I don’t get – excuse me while I take a huge sip of the drink Lilac handed over – is what’s so shameful about having a baby/getting pregnant before putting a ring on it? If she just got pregnant, kept it quiet and they got married after the award season, at least his credibility would be still intact. People don’t like it when it’s blatantly obvious someone is spinning a yarn to their faces – yes, Benny, you should know this, it’s your line in Miss Marble. And I don’t buy this as his bidding for the unborn baby’s sake. Does he really think the child won’t put two and two together one day? Trust me. The child is gonna figure out even before he realises.
Ya know the old saying: “It wasn’t the crime, it was the cover-up”? If they had just announced the pregnancy and engagement at the same time in early November, so what if it was good for PR, slipped off to a Registry Office and got it over with immediately, he could have focused on the bloody Oscar campaign and they could have saved the formal celebration for after the damn Oscars instead of the constant hints about the wedding, and when, and “On hold” and “one thing at a time” and then the leaks for the wedding and it taking place on Valentine’s Day, 8 days before the damn Oscars, with a 36 y.o. 7 mos. pregnant bride in a long white veil to keep hammering home the “Not shotgun” narrative that no one believed anyway . . . it would all have played much better.
Lindy I think quite a few of us, or at least me, thought she was seven or eight months along. I’m thinking July for knock-up.
I’d still say 7 months but later into it, she seems to have popped even since the Oscars.
The exact question I was asked was “have you ever actually seen a pregnant woman”…eh yes and this one was clearly into her 7th month.
It just ruins the true love narrative and shows it for what it probably is. No shame, nothing unusual. The only person drawing attention to it was him in all honestly.
That’s what I looked like at 7 months. I had an April baby, and got pregnant in July… so your predictions make sense Alice and Lindy. I agree that they should have just announced it with the engagement to not make a huge spectacle of themselves. Oh well, too late now.
Yes, me too, I got asked whether I had ever been pregnant etc. when I mentioned that he only proposed after being sure it would “stick”, And so it was.
You won’t hear any snide remarks from me! I definitely think this kid will be born soon.
She is definitely NOT 5 months pregnant. Reason enough for them to bury these photos. Doesn’t go with the narrative.
This reminds me of That 70’s show, where the mother says “I never thought I’d be able to say ‘Laurie got married’ without adding ‘and the baby came early!'” 😀
Ah Kitty. Who can forget her comment after Steven calls Laurie a slut. “steven, it’s not nice to be so…..truthful” Slut shaming a side, that’s a funny comment 🙂
Like I said on the last thread, I don’t get why people are claiming they want to hide how pregnant she is. It makes no sense.
She made a big deal out of being on a red carpet and wearing a dress that highlighted the bump, it could’ve been hidden for much longer. Or if she wanted to stay out of the spotlight completely, she could’ve not gone to every single red carpet to be photographed.
Kat, I’m not saying they want to hide the fact she is pregnant. He said they got engaged before she was pregnant, these photos debunk his statement. She was past the 3 month mark when they got engaged, and by his own words, The Times ad came out the day AFTER he proposed to her. That is all.
If anything, they want to give the illusion she is not past 4-5 months because it doesn’t fit with THEIR story.
But then what would be the point of her?
Cee, I think the follow up of narrative could be that they got engaged much earlier, say last summer, than the announcement of the engagement, in November, which would make sense if he wanted to make it public closer to the Oscar race.
She only highlighted the bump on the red carpet ONCE – at Palm Springs. And you will remember that a few days later they confirmed the pregnancy. I think SH was trying to force his hand and get him to announce already. Who knows, maybe she thought he was getting cold feet about the whole thing.
Distended,
They only started dating in June though. He’s clearly a bit of a tit, but I don’t think anyone would buy that he’d propose to someone he’d barely seen for two months.
@Distended – By his own words, they placed the ad one day after they got engaged. They got engaged in November, not early or late Summer.
I have nothing against couples getting married because of a pregnancy. I’m just saying they have tried to spin this into
1. whirlwind romance ie engagement when she was kept like a dirty little secret.
2. OMG we’re pregnant! As in “we decided to get married and then we found out she was actually pregnant”
The timeline is messed up. She is further along than they want to admit. And I don’t believe she spent 3-4 months not knowing she was pregnant.
Just bringing this over from the last thread:
I don’t believe “they” were trying to fudge it. “He” was trying to fudge it because Mr. “I can spot ‘em from a mile away” couldn’t spot this one from a foot away. He’s obviously embarrassed and ashamed that a fling or one night stand resulted in his having to drag around this dead weight and career killer. She’s only too happy to show it, going na na na na nah the whole time.
I think they knew she was pregnant by the time BC’s MIL shared her cryptic “Watch this space” comment (mid-Sept). Pretty weird thing to say, if she was only talking about the guy her daughter had been dating for maybe 3 months – unless something else was going on.
They started dating in June? I thought it was something like April. And where was it said that they placed the public announcement only a day after the proposal? Must have missed. Anyway, whatever ‘this’ is, it was heavily shilled for public consumption.
Agree to disagree guys, but I think she was wearing some bulky maternity style gowns. I think Keira did too, but I don’t think Sophie was showing off her belly as much as Blake Lively or Molly Sims did in more form fitting gowns.
Distended They would like you to believe it was April or even earlier, but BC was still running around with Kinvara(and probably others)in April. No sighting of SH until late May at Hay and then in June at FO. At FO everyone, even the nannies, thought she was a stranger or an old, not close, acquaintance because of their demeanor and body language. They looked utterly bored to death with each other. A look that continued up until the past six or so weeks when he suddenly switched to OTT ooey gooey behavior(when cameras are present). I guess after three months of rehearsal he’d finally learned his part.
@alice – “couldn’t spot this one from a foot away”… you made me laugh!
@ogg921 – completely agree. I too figured the pregnancy was what the MIL was referring to.
I don’t know if he was ashamed, but I daresay he was probably disappointed. Someone made some reference to his shady character and OP dodging a bullet, etc. I can’t fault the guy for being disappointed in the way things played out. They weren’t dating long and it doesn’t matter how long ago they worked together… they still didn’t really didn’t know each other very well.
Who knows if it was casual or a fling, but it was certainly unplanned. And I’m guessing not the way he’d hoped his marriage would come about.
And in the end, he did marry her, which he didn’t have to do. They are making a go of it. Good luck, they will need it when the kid comes and upends life as they know it.
But yeah, staged. I wish the PR would just stop. Time for them to actually go radio silent and nest.
BTW, the “E” insider post at SOGO about Ben’s interview requirements post-engagement is priceless.
I agree that her mother knew that she was pregnant on Sept 13. That tabloid blabbibg was a warning to B: you better make it legal or we’ll blab some more to the tabloids. Why would a mother talk to a tabloid about her 35 yr old daughter’s love life? There’s only one reason. It’s called gold digging.
@Miss Melissa, yeah, that post was an interesting read. It was like, dude, you knocked up a woman before putting a ring on it, it happens, not the end of the world, but trying to make fetch happen and not succeeding? Bad form.
Tsmiv- I think you hit the nail on the head.
Thanks to Google found the honeymoon pics. I agree with other poster, Comet Sophie is way more than 5 months pregnant. I’m thinking 7 months.
I concur. That timeline would mean he definitely waited until she had reached the 12 weeks stage to propose. And presumably knew she was pregnant when they didn’t walk the red carpet together in October because “there was no reason to show off to the world”.
It’s just like a fairytale.
How romantic. Even before the pregnancy was announced, the not walking together 3 weeks before a publicly announced engagement made zero sense.
Surely better to walk it as partners, then the engagement wouldn’t have given everyone whiplash. It would have had a more natural seeming course and seemed less….reactionary haha.
It seems to me that Otter had no intention of marrying Comet if she miscarried in the first trimester. Geez, there’s nothing more romantic than getting engaged once your baby daddy knows that he’s stuck supporting your kid.
MtnRunner: 1000% this and been saying all along. It is the only thing that remotely explains why she did not walk with him at LFF. She passed the 1st trimester mark sometime between then and Nov 5
gg, I remember how baffled all of us were as to why she walked the red carpet at LFF, but not with him. “Don’t notice her as she comes out the front door of the hotel to a line of waiting paps.” “Don’t notice her as she gets an escort to the red carpet where she’s sure to get filmed and photographed.” but “notice her and talk about the close relationship she has to him to be treated as a special guest.” Yet, he feeds us the cock and bull story about not wanting to show off for the world, when it appears he was just waiting for her to pass the 12 week mark a few weeks later.
Olivia and Anna have got to be breathing a collective sigh of relief that they’re not stuck with someone so shallow and disingenuous.
I have said consistently that the 3 month timeline was as much about establishing paternity in addition to viability. So much for the love story of the decade. Sad. Just own it Bendy.
MtnRunner Do you remember his RC interview at the LFF? He was asked if he was good at keeping secrets. “Yes,” he answered. “Even from your mother?” “Oh, yeah!” LOL!! As far as I’m concerned, the secret was out the day that surprise engagement was announced. It was the first thought that came to my mind.
Alice: And Karon could not have grabbed him faster and pulled him away from there! LOL
If there is anyone who deserves a lengthy vacation somewhere warm and tropical and with plenty of strong mixed drinks at the ready, it’s Karon! And Emily, too.
Green Girl I’m sure K and E are reveling at the thousands of miles separating them right now!! They’re probably hitting every spa and massage parlor in London.
At least 7, probably pushing 8. LOL so much for “we don’t know the sex of the baby YET”.
These comments are both insightful and hilarious! You guys know your stuff 🙂
And as has become routine for these two as they go on selling their “There Was No Shotgun This Is True Love Of Course I Proposed Before She Got Pregnant Ten Minutes After The Relationship Started And Am I An Authentic Hetero Or What – Oscar? What Oscar?” narrative, paps were carefully on hand to take oh so private photos that try to fend off the crazies insisting she isn’t really pregnant (didn’t work they still claim they can see a fake prosthesis) – but by doing so he contradicted his own claim the engagement and pregnancy happened simultaneously – b/c that woman is in her 8th month which means she got pregnant sometime in late July and he told everyone they didn’t do the TIG premiere in London last October b/c “we weren’t engaged yet . . . The whole thing is clearly to draw attention away from the shotgun aura with him as the 38 y.o. dupe and Sophie as the duper. It’s not working.
I saw the photos of her in a bikini and that huge belly, with very thin arms and small bust and she looks at least 13 months pregnant!! Or is it twins? Carrying very low, which is usually a male. Benji is putting sunscreen on her back and frankly he’s not looking too great either. Something almost repulsive about these two. I think I’m suffering from the morning sickness she seems to have magically avoided.
Oh, and by the way, it is illegal for a pregnant woman to be on a whaling boat. Someone actually took a photo with the warning sign prominent behind the couple as they enter the boat. It’s also not great idea to take a plane that late in a pregnancy.
Somehow it seems that neither one gives a rip about the welfare of the baby.
Or they’re acting like teenagers who got unlucky after a backseat poke. irresponsible.
I feel it is very rude to take pictures of her in her private place while pregnancy…….not ok. Ps I was all belly too. Some people don’t gain weight everywhere.
They hired the paps. No paps go to Bora Bora without being called.
The whale watching stunt was “off” but re flying, you can fly up to 36 weeks if you’re having a normal pregnancy (“high risk” is a generalization for any pregnancy five minutes over the age of 35), they just don’t want you on the plane in your 9th month when you could go into labor at any time. It’s only 7-1/2 hours from London, and I’m sure they went first class so she was comfy. I just find their antics nauseating and Cumberbatch at this point massively overexposed and still looking silly not only over how she duped him, but how hard he’s tried to cover that up. My guess is she was about 5-6 weeks along in late Aug., early Sept. when she dropped the bomb on him, probably due in early April, so the flying would have been OK.
She dropped the bomb on him at the GQ awards (I bet). And he got blind drunk. Then waited months to propose. Just in case. A real prince charming.
No way 7 1/2 hours won’t get you on that side of the world from here more like 20hrs + unless you left from LA.
It is 7 1/2 hrs flight from LA, I checked it yesterday. London to LA is about 11 hrs, I think
“The only thing I find odd is that the name of the resort isn’t mentioned here – all we know is that they’re at a “five star resort” in Bora Bora.”
The Popsugar article states clearly they’re at The Four Seasons. Isn’t this the same as Pierce Brosnan’s sponsored trip to Hawaii?
Oh my! The DM has a story about a Cumby look-alike that is 16. Girls from all over are after him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2977233/The-Imitation-Game-Teenage-lookalike-Benedict-Cumberbatch-bombarded-messages-thousands-women-world.html
LOL! His own kid won’t even look THAT much like him! But maybe he should think about what/who he was doing 16 years ago, haha.
LOL ! loved this line:
Accommodating Tyler tells fans who stop him he’s not Oscar flop Cumberbatch, but happily offers them his signature instead
Oscar Flop Cumberbatch – oh dear !!
LOL!!
I get PTSD in the fandom I belong to when the words “Bora Bora” are mentioned. Heh.
The last time I read the words Bora Bora, I was laughing my ass off, fist bumping Puddletom and pouring myself a Fizzy Hiddles.
Ahhh, the memories…
Hiddles + GF must have really enjoyed their trip to BoraBora, perhaps they recommend it to Cumber & Octopussy. (dropped my bait, waiting for the inevitable SHE’S NOT HIS GF MMMKAY!!!11!)
Bea, you little baiter, you! Let’s stir the pot, shall we?
*mischievously laughs and rubs hands together*
Y’know, since she surfaces for a snap every 12 months, perhaps we’ll be treated to another meltdown in June. Dare we hope? Night Manager should be wrapping by then.
I’ll make the drinks if you pop the corn. Deal?
Oh yes MtnRunner but only if you promise to Heimlich me when I choke on my popcorn laughing.
You got it, Bea!
@mtnrunner- those were the glory days weren’t they? I remember them well. I also remember a fair number of folk were convinced the mystery girl with him was his sister until presented with photographic proof it wasn’t. The sister theory had me laughing for days- I would have been seriously disappointed in our guy if his BB getaway had been of the platonic variety.
Darya, I read the comments here after the fact as I wasn’t on CB back then and had no idea who he was until a few months later. After discovering HC and catching up on his old posts, the reports of tumblr melting down during his BB holiday had me quite amused.
I was glad to hear he had a banging vacation. He needed to relax after working non-stop for months on Coriolanus and Crimson Peak. Good on him.
What goes into a Fizzy Hiddles if I my ask?
InvaderTak-
My version is a champagne cocktail — with gin, sugar, bitters and blood oranges. Two and I’m good and sauced. Very sexy drink.
Fizzy hiddles sounds yum yum. Like the man himself.
We need to include ginger (ale) in this drink somewhere….When he is fuzzy he’s ginger fuzzy.
Like these??
http://www.absolutdrinks.com/en/drinks/with/ginger-ale/
Can we all resolve now to keep our wits about us if something equally juicy happens in the Hiddles-verse? Don’t get me wrong, I still expect most of us (or maybe just me) would lose our collective sh*t, but at the end of the day celebrity gossip is supposed to be fun (and funny) and not to be taken seriously.
Besides, if things get truly out of hand we’ll lose drink service. The recipe for a Fizzy Hiddles sounds de-lish but I have absolutely no intention of making my own, and by the sound of things I’d be incapable of fine motor control after two of the darned things. @mtnrunner – they’re served in the traditional flutes, yes? Tall, slender and elegant just like their namesake. And I approve of the ginger ale idea @InvaderTak, it goes perfectly with the overall theme. Oh, and I’ll join @Bea in rousing the rabble by suggesting he’s about due for a torrid on-set romance with a co-star.
OMG I can’t decide whether I want JA to make a triumphant return or TH to have a torrid affair with the older Egyptian goddess that plays his love interest in The Night Manager. But what I want most is a sex tape.
Darya – Yes, the Fizzy Hiddles require flutes, dear.
TH being a more guarded person than BC leads me to think that we won’t see something of this sort happening with him. But we’ve never seen Tom campaign for an Oscar either. People can pull a 180 on their fans, like we saw with BC. I would love to see Tom step out with someone special, but I have a feeling that it won’t happen until things settle down a bit for him and not until he’s close to getting hitched to the person. He seems mighty focused on his work, so he may have the time or energy for anything more than a casual affair.
Bea – I’m all for either of your two suggestions. If it happens, we’ll meet here and toast the Tumblr meltdown together.
He really needs to piss off. I’m totally fine with his career flopping for a while. Btw, she looks anorexic. I saw those back photos.
No, she just looks slim. I hate when anorexic is used as a descriptor and/or insult (maybe because I had addressed to me).
Having your vertebrae sticking out that much along with seeing the ribs and lower back is not just “slim.” I’m “slim” too and I still have enough tissue to cover my back.
As a former anorexic, she would look like that – BUT then again, if you are that slim when anorexic you also don’t get your period and hence no pregnancy. Six months, no period for me, and I had a bony bottom/back/slim hips in a swimsuit during that time. The excessive slimness seemed to happen after the baby was popping, so maybe she’s trying too much to manage diet and this is the result. Not really anorexic, but not really as healthy as could be. But then again, i’m not her doctor, or a doctor, just someone who was anorexic for a while.
That’s where I was getting at, ‘sup. Using anorexic as a casual descriptor or insult is a dick move. It would be like me describing a round person as obese, which would be unscientific and hurtful at the same time.
Okay I’m sorry. I won’t use it but it was really shocking to see how thin she is.
I do think she’s managing her weight a bit too strictly, like there’s no weight gain at all, which seems a bit off to me. But as long as the baby’s healthy it’s okay I guess.
“Having your vertebrae sticking out that much along with seeing the ribs and lower back is not just “slim”. I’m “slim” too and I still have enough tissue to cover my back.”
Yeah it is actually, some people are built differently than you. Not everyone is “slim” the same way, shocker I know!
Vogue KIND OF hinted that the relationship between these two is a stunt. My question is: why would he need to do that if his career is already going well? The guy was just nominated for an Oscar (doesn’t matter that he didn’t win), so the validation, I would think is there.
So why THIS??
I don’t think it’s a stunt. I do believe they were actual lovers, just not that serious and then she got pregnant by accident so everything moved fast. No shame in that. But also not the most romantic love story ever written. Props to him showing his support by marriage, tho. In such short relationships that is reassuring for her (although it doesn’t really mean anything).
Crocuta, I respect your opinion, but I think “lovers” is the wrong term. I think they dated, (& him not even exclusively), had sex and she ended up pregnant. “Lovers” puts too romantic a spin on things.
Oh, I always understand lovers more like people sleeping together but not necessarily dating, so it’s not a particularly romantic term for me. 🙂 What I meant was they actually had a relationship (as opposed to some people thinking she was planted by Harvey Weinstein), albeit a short and perhaps not an exclusive one (I really have no opinion on that although I’m familiar with the gossip) and then an oopsie happened. But they’re trying their best to make it work, so good for them.
@Crocuta
The gal with the long blonde hair at secret cinema was also spotted on one of his photo shoots this year. Someone had a comparison photo and caught a blonde in a ponytail. It was not Sophie, and not exclusive.
I tried google that but found no pics (except those from 2013 but that’s too early anyway). About 2014 there’s only hearsay. Anything more substantial on this blonde?
IMDb have BC&SH listed as “after a year of dating Cumberbatch’s engagement to theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter was announced …”. This seems really stretching the length of their relationship.
Imdb is full of lies. The day after the engagement was announced her imdb was taken over and filled with bs and pics of her with him at the french open it then got gradually filled with loads of pics of them together and more lies about her work achievements.
They dated since the summer last year and she got knocked up a few months into it. That much is obvious, but there’s a clear attempt to paint it as something more substantial for appearance sakes, hence the weird crap he keeps saying.
The whole thing is weird and I very much doubt he’d choose to take a new girlfriend to such a public event as the french open, which is one of the reasons why everyone thought it was some kind of awards season beard, along. To be honest, I think she started off in some form as that and things went…awry.
The only thing I’d change about Kat’s post is that judging by her belly, I think she managed to get knocked up right off the bat and not after a few months.
And I looked at her imdb page after the FO and it was a ghost town. Nothing, nada, nichts, zero. I’m not sure there was even a photo of her on the page. She was a total nonentity until she hitched a ride on a star. Nice (non)work, if you can get it.
Anyone with an imdb account can edit an imdb entry, the problem is that others go in and edit it back. The real problem is at Wikipedia, where the lie that Sophie is related to Jane Birkin has been added to the entries of everyone in the Birkin family. (Just because the rumor was published on one website, that gives them a “reference” to use…..argh.) They have also gone in and added Sophie to Tim and Wanda’s pages. And on Sophie’s page they still say she is going to be at the Aldeburgh Festival this summer – which they have confirmed is not true. (She *may* be doing something at Aldeburgh later in the year but not at the more prestigious festival.)
With the famewh*ring that’s going on its so obvs a profile boosting stunt to get those Hollywood leading roles – roles that he is desperate for – so desperate that he sold his private life. This problem is is that this PR campaign has been executed very badly, very amateur and its made him look like a twat.
He needn’t have done it like this. Should have just waited till Dr Strange came out and left the rest to the Marvel PR machine, who would have done a much better job.
A stunt in terms of being used for publicity, yes.
I think adopting some kind of antiquated Victorian duty psychology and ‘doing the right thing’ by getting married because of it, is a disaster waiting to happen. Some couples fall in love very quickly, but this has been nothing but awkwardness, utter lack of any synchronicity together and a very VERY hard attempts to sell it with some odd actions and even odder words. This doesn’t say whirlwind love, this just says, ‘shit, I suppose I better marry you then’.
That’s entirely his problem and his life but he dragged it out into the public and asked for the scrutiny.
People are being too nice right now. I want to see blood.
Felice. Just wait until they actually have to day to day live together. Just imagine the boredom, the dead silences. Just imagine his attitude toward her if he gets knocked on Hamlet because of lack of sleep or lack of time to rehearse. When it gets to the nitty gritty, it won’t be pretty.
Well, let’s say, if you want to put anything (including a grain of salt) into Enty’s BIs about the start of this relationship, that it was somewhat calculated at the start with an eye toward the upcoming awards season, and NOT a sudden realization by each of how totally GREAT the other was and “How come we didn’t know this when we played a married couple in Burlesque Fantasies in 2009?!” but went off the rails when Hunter got herself knocked up. I don’t believe the baby isn’t his, but I do believe that once she had him over a barrel at the start of awards season (award nominee refuses to marry PG girlfriend! Girlfriend spills beans on BDSM tastes of award nominee!) – and you can’t force someone to terminate – it went into from minor stunt mode to “Well, let’s make lemonade out of lemons.”
I find it truly difficult to believe the “by accident” thing, She’s 36, doesn’t have kids and accidentally gets pregnant by the first massively famous guy she dates? Nope.
And he’s 38 and never got his long-termers pregnant either. Well. they are self-supporting working women with their own successful careers. Guess they weren’t so desperate for a sugar daddy.
Well. I think Olivia wanted to wait. When they were still together he gave interviews saying he wanted kids, and she (later on) mentioned she would have them one day (i.e. not straight away).
Lucky escape, methinks.
I don’t know, I think that’s going too far. Accidents happen. That’s life.
Yeah, they do. I just don’t believe this is one of them.
Eh, I replied to the wrong post. Moved the comment already. Nothing to see here, move along 😉
Dear Benedict,
It’s over.
It’s not me, it’s totally you.
Kind Regards,
The Internet
This!
It’s my suspicion that killing off the “Internet Boyfriend” “Dorkybatch” boy so beloved of the nutjobs on Wiki and BTT and Carmen1969 (they still insist if THEY can’t find a registration of the marriage, the wedding was a stunt, too) was part of Cumberbatch’s intent with all of this. He is pushing 40 after all and cutting himself off from the Cumberbitches, Cumbercollective, Cumberbees, nannies, etc. was one upside he could look for in all this.
I have thought that from the beginning. He wanted to shed the fangirls even though they made him the internet sensation that he was. He wanted to be a serious act-or. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you, dude.
He really thought he was something in Hollywood but in reality (as a fan I will admit this) without his internet following, he is just another face in Hollywood. Nothing special.
Seeing him shill on behalf of Marvel and Dr. Strange is really going to be interesting. I hope he finds his inner dork again or I suspect any PR he does on behalf of the film might backfire. If the BC from the Penguins/Tumblr Q&A comes to the party it’s going to get ugly.
So paps just happened to be in Bora Bora snapping pictures of them this weekend? Sure.
Did the sneaky paps catch the Comet topless or did she conveniently cover up her rack for the cameras she knew nothing about? How timely that the pictures surfaced on Monday. This vacation tells me that he timed his pre-Oscars marriage for maximum PR impact.
I have this sinking feeling that these two famewhores are going to pimp out their kid to sell the Happy Family narrative. All that remains to be seen is how long they can keep up appearances or how long until the rumors of infidelity start.
Doubtful, they’re likely done. Pap shots are often used for damage control, and the honeymoon is the tail end of that narrative for the general public. You’ll hear about the baby being born, as there’s no way to entirely hush things that will become public record anyway.
[I should note I’ve no issue with celebs using paps, as they all do it, even if it’s just the occasional pap-walks.]
Gotta disagree, KT. ‘All’ celebs DEFINITELY don’t use the paps. The ones who truly don’t want the fame and attention don’t.
I’ve got to respectfully disagree, Kat, but I do genuinely admire your idealism. Even private ones have a pap walk or narrative-selling photo pop up on the oft occasion, if there’s enough interest in them to make their photos worthwhile to take.
Fame on its own is the ultimate goal of say, reality stars, because they can’t gain anything else. Anyone with talent and a solid history, on the other hand, usually has some level of fame already. It’s usually the byproducts they’re after, which is everything from more money to some control and project grace.
You are wrong.
Yours truly,
A Holllywood PR professional
The symbiotic relationship between paps and celebs is pretty well-documented, even private ones who hate them have used them, like Phoenix for selling his relationship with his young girlfriend. *shrugs*
I’m surprised we haven’t seen official wedding pictures. You’d think People or some other magazine would have a picture or two.
Wait for it wait for it wait for it . . .
We’ll see, KT. I’d love to see the two of them disappear, but since so many think that they’ve married for all the wrong reasons, why wouldn’t they continue to use the paps to prove their love is real? It will be interesting to see if Comet begins getting papped in London once the kid is born, even though she was out of the public eye in between red carpet events the past 6 months.
I’d guess the fake pregnancy narrative, MtnRunner, since that’s pretty damaging, or some things have gone awry press-wise. Combo of both.
His PR or whoever is advising him isn’t doing the best job. Too reactionary for my taste.
It’s so good to see the same 50+ crazy fangirls post on every single BC article on every single site. Get over yourselves and find a therapist God knows you need one.
So, based on your comment, stop, you come on this GOSSIP website and read every single BC article, you read all the comments, taking note of the names of the commenters and then decide it’s your place to tell anyone THEY need a therapist? Pot->Kettle->Black.
Touché Phoebe.
@ Phoebe, + 1!
Someone doesn’t understand what a gossip site is.
I’ve been on Celebitchy a long time and I like dishing as much as the next person but this vitriol is really bitter. It’s always what celebrity seems to be about – build somebody up and then knock them down. Don’t know anything about the woman but I think they look quite sweet together. If they’re trying to cash in, so what, people have to eat and save up for the future ’cause you never know how long it’s going to last. And based on how fast everyone here seems to turn on people, not a bad idea?
Besides, he was absolutely adorable with his friend’s baby, I can’t wait ti see him with his own!
I’m with the others who think you guys have gone way too far on several celebrities here. It’s so hard to read the comments because you guys need to CHILL. Who gives a crap if it’s fake or not- he wasn’t going to marry you anyway.
Trash addict,
This is a gossip site. A once private celeb is now selling himself to paps. Please don’t tell people they’re not allowed to talk about that. And actually no, most serious actors manage to eat and survive without getting the press on speed dial.
I also think you’ll find that most people here aren’t the superfans that you appear to be. They have no interest in seeing his kid, they just wish he’d go back to actually being the private person he pretended to be and stop trying to force the public to swallow he’s living a fairytale. It’s ridiculous.
If we’re so crazy it doesn’t bode well for your sanity that it bothers you so much to make such an abusive and inaccurate post
Thanks for the ageist b.s., hon, and the only person who needs a therapist so far as I can tell is the 38 y.o. actor who let a calculating bitch who’s life was on “empty” hook him with the oldest trick in the book. Meanwhile, ummm, you’re here commenting, yes?
Hush, some kids are too cool for gossip. Haha! Your comments always make me laugh. One thing I will say though, yes, she made her moves passive-aggressively here and there but he was the fool who ate all that right up. They’re equal in this. The reason I am convinced that their child will know sooner than he thinks is I was unplanned too. Which is why his behaviour troubles me. If the child finds out, it’s much better to tell him or her: ‘you were unplanned initially but we love you.’ than let the child find out his parents did a massive campaign to sell their love story. This is not for the child. It’s all him and actually says a lot about him that he has to save face this way.
gracie, gotta disagree a bit. years from now, skeptic blogs will be full of dust, old gossip pages buried or gone. the happy narrative articles in legit mass publications will remain.
it’s one thing to handle that matter among family and friends and tell your kid privately, another thing to have a whole world of strangers know. regardless of their intent, it is better for the kid this way
The happy narrative collides with the reality of facts. The kid will put two and two together. Eventually.
The way Jane Fonda found out her mother had committed suicide was that a girl at her private school told her after hearing the gossip. It was quite scarring, Jane said. It comes out sooner or later.
Every picture of BC’s wife, even when’s she smiling, looks like she’s screaming internally.
She only seemed to smile with her posh, pretentious friends on their 365 days a year holidays. And on the RC her smile could best be described as like rictus.
@Distended
It’s highly unlikely they were dating in April. He spent almost the whole month doing the OzCons. He spoke to journalists off the record in late April. SH was living in NY until May.
They probably had something going on at the Hay Festival. It was billed as BC and friends, so he probably got her the gig. It had to be very early days because of his schedule.
Then the FO. They were probably dating casually then, as he was about to leave for Boston to film for a month.
There wasn’t much time for them to be together prior to his return from Boston around his birthday in July.
He went to SDCC a few days after his bd. He was also, by his own admission, was filming Jungle Book at this time.
This all spells casually dating, or possibly even hooking up, since he was working during this time.
He said in an interview that he proposed the a day or two before the announcement in The Times appeared.
Whether it was intentional or accidental, it was incredibly fast. That’s why their initial interactions seemed so off, they didn’t know each other that well. The spinning of this as an epic love story came from him, as did the fluffing of her cv. He had to make her seem worthy of him, which says a lot about him.
Clooney and Pitt are his role models. Look at their wives’ accomplishments. It was very important to him that SH be ‘spun’ as an Oxford educated theater director. When her most recent ‘work’ was appearing in a budget car ad. Do directors do those? Hmmm.
Your timeline seems pretty good. My only quibble is the CV fluffing coming from him, per se.
Yes, the PR works for the actor, but they’re also advisers with ultimate performance goals. They won’t undertake something just to satisfy an actor’s whim if they do not believe that is the correct way to go-you see reps quit over this, actually-meaning they sold the idea to him and her. And probably not as fluffing, either, but consolidation/clarification.
You don’t pay your PR rep to watch everything they do, that’s like cutting your lawn after the landscapers came. But, of course, that is exactly why actors run into problems sometimes.
Excellent post Charlotte. This was truly a rushed and effed up “affair”.
there was also the date with the blonde at the National Theatre during this time as well, which really points to casually dating and knocked up. Not really romantic, but hey, he wants kids and now he has them. She seems to want other things, and hey, now she has them too. Best for both parties.
Thanks for the info, Charlotte. Eh, mucha suerte to them, they’re making their own bed, so to speak.
I personally think they met up in NY several times. There were multiple pictures of them in NY in 2012 which people simply chose to ignore because if didn’t suit their narrative.
@EN “There were multiple pictures of them in NY in 2012”
Pictures? What pictures? The Coney Island pictures? Sophie is NOT in those pictures. She was not with him/the group..
Lmao.
ummm…nope, theres literally no photos of them at all before late may 2014, which is pretty obviously the earliest they dated. thats kinda…fact? i dont know what fairytale youre hoping for here, but they dated in the summer, she got instantly knocked up. fact right there.
he was seen with alice eve loads in nyc dec 2013 – she was filming with the lovely chris evans there. then he went to la for a month then off to malaysia, oz etc.
lol @ your ‘suiting narrative’ comment. gurl, thats some strong irony.
@EN You are the one who said it was impossible she was more than 5 months pregnant. I guess it didn’t suit your narrative. 🙂
The only photo I have seen of Sophie and a man – taken in NYC and in 2012 – is of her and Gambles! She is definitely not in the Coney Island photos
@hermi, I cut you deep didn’t I so much that you remembered my one comment from several weeks ago?
I actually said ” There is no way she was 12 weeks along in early November.” And I still believe it. Actually in the subject of the paternity test, which was being discussed back then, I imagine the test takes a couple of weeks to process so she would have to be somewhere around 14 weeks at the time of engagement. That would put her due date at the end of March/ very early of April. And I still don’t believe that is the case.
On the subjects of photos, it pays to sometime to leave the depths of twtiter/ tumblr hell where the same photos are being recycled over and over.
I can’t believe you people keep going on about M.S. when his worst crime is being at the same evens as Sophie as her friend, but you haven’t yet discovered a photo of Max Osterweis trying to kiss her.
Anyway, what do I care, I have a real life to live. Have a goodnight you all.
@EN Being young I have quite a good memory, I can remember even things said a month or two ago 🙂
I wasn’t talking about paternity tests, just about the fact that when they got engaged she had passed the 3 months stage, which is quite clear now she had. If you have seen her belly and still say impossible, well, who’s twisting facts now? 🙂
Anyway, why do we have to argue? She will have her baby and then we shall see. Either way, it shouldn’t be long now.
How romantic! Sophie is probably having lots of loving right about now 😉
Erm…Doubtfully.
Are Gambles and WRW on Bora Bora?
LOL!!
One of them is probably getting a cut of the photo revenue.
Never quite understood the adoration, or the current disdain, for him, so I’m going to wish them a nice trip and call it good.
Exactly. Good luck to them and the baby on the way.
There have been a lot of things that have bugged me about this relationship and marriage of my former favourite actor. But what has really bothered me the most (and a lot has bothered me with this whole situation) is how he is dissing his fans. By stating that Sophie is the only fan he cares about or needs is really disrespectful to all the fans that got him to where he is in the first place. He wants to get away from being internet famous? Then he shouldn’t slag all the people that got him famous in the first place.
Those statements from his mouth were just mean. And he’s been quoted saying this a few times. Does he really think he would be where he without his fans? And from reading this and other websites, many people are turned off by his and his wife’s behaviour of late. I would say that he needs his fans a lot more than they need him. What Peppa said above was bang on…don’t bite the hands that feeds you. Just so bad mannered on his part.
Go have your wonderful life with your wonderful wife Bendy. But you won’t have the life you want (and your wife obviously wants from all the photos you’ve leaked out lately), if you keep saying that you don’t care about the fan base that got your there. It’s not like your wife’s career is going to keep you in the lifestyle you’ve both grown accustomed to.
There’s definite complaints to be made about things he’s said re fans and wording, but no, strangers wouldn’t matter over someone he knows. An older actor worried about his fanbase would just be an embarrassment, honest, that’s for teen idols.
I will quote Martin Freeman: “Benedict can go f*ck himself”.
I don’t believe Martin said that.
He’d be better off right now if he had b**ped himself. He’s had about seven months of misery, then child support and alimony yet to come. Remember how, after TIFF, he was tipped as the guy to beat for the Oscar(Eddie Who?). All the glowing magazine features, the tv interviews, the radio interviews, the absolute Golden Boy. Then the announcement 11/5, then Pissybatch lands at LAX 11/7 and it’s been straight downhill from there. She has been a pox in his life and I hope he is aware enough to recognize that at some point. They won’t ever be Olivier and Leigh or Bogie and Bacall or even Brad and Angie, so give it up, Ben.
@hermi @marie Wasn’t there a video of Martin saying that? He was being interviewed about one of HIS projects and the subject of B came up and that was his retort, IIRC.
Go see the video on youtube. Can’t post the link, but it’s there. There are actually two versions of it.
Really, it bothers you that he is dissing his fans? It is nothing more than you deserve. All of you are dissing him. Fair is fair.
At least he doesn’t go around spreading rumors about any of you.
And you seem to have forgotten you’re on the same gossip site with us. What do you think we are talking about? The gospel? As regarding to BC, if he doesn’t want his life talked about, he shouldn’t have put it out there. It’s that simple.
@EN How do you know that BC doesn’t gossip about his fans. I’m sure he does. In his own way.
I love it when people act high and mighty and yet do the same things as the people they are dissing. Good luck with that.
” By stating that Sophie is the only fan he cares about or needs ”
lmao. wow, i thought he’d said all the weirdest things about her he could possibly muster, but this is a whole new level of freaky. its not ‘dissing’, its just really, really weird. what a stupid and childish thing to say. what normal serious 38 year old actor says shit like that?
He’s said the support from fans is nice repeatedly, but the only support he truly needs is from her, in response to really inane questions about his fanbase.
Like I said, really just a dumb controversy when you think about it, because yes, the support from people you know is clearly going to matter over imaginary support from total strangers. It’s a common sense answer. Could have been more thoughtful, but still 100% common sense.
Her support didn’t win him a thing, so it may be 100% common sense in his private life, but in his job (the one that brings home the money they are spending as we speak) he needs his fans. Nowadays, with the ever growing importance of social media, he’s playing a dangerous game and he’d better shut his mouth. He can think whatever he wants, but doesn’t need to say all of it out loud.
And in my opinion, he didn’t say in answer to the inane questions, but because he was frustrated as he witnessed Redmayne win it all. It’s like watching a baby having a strop.
@ C
its SO not a normal thing to say. its just really weird and its crazy childish. why drag her into it? all it was was a q about the fans and anyone half normal would say ‘yeah theyre great. i appreciate it’. done. nobody expects him to value the support of people he doesnt know over the people he does so to give the answer he did just made him look really really strange. tbh he clearly just saw an opportunity to shove her into the answer in his oh so private manner and try and prove how much of a great relationship it is. tho he doesnt seem to have the brain powers to realise that it has exactly the opposite effect.
um, it was back in november, hermi, before redmayne won anything. keaton was still front runner then
the rest i can’t speak to, i never thought his fandom was doing much for him tbh
They look very cute together.I hope the child won’t look like a little lizard:)
Lovely. I am looking forward to seeing the baby.
Congrats on the twins
Have you seen today’s blind item on CDAN?
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2015/03/todays-blind-items-the-stranger.html#comment-3152426
Some are saying Amal/Clooney, but quite a few of the commenters think it’s Cumby/The Huntress. Just leaving this here…
They’ve been trolling the skeptics with their blinds. Not even speculating. The skeptic blogs would have a discussion about something (mainly the escort stuff) and the next thing you know there’s a blind about it. Sogo even had a discussion about it.
Enty accepts tips for his blinds, and supposedly he has quit law no so the site is his only income. It is becoming one big circle j*rk: fans send in blinds, blinds get clicked on by the same fans. The advertisers are happy, at least
I’m glad the pictures have disappeared, Ben treasures his privacy, and I don’t think for one minute we’ll see pictures of the baby, Martin & Amanda won’t let any pictures of their children be printed, and Ben will be the same. Like the wedding, that’s his private life.
The pictures haven’t disappeared. They’re all over tumblr.
@Marie Wanna bet on it? I wouldn’t if I were you.
The narrative they thought of fawning fan girls didn’t happen. People were saying it was all staged. the photos stayed up until that happened. It still feels staged, and maybe they realised it was now becoming a farce as is his career?
or comedy of errors… a lifetime british drama.
sometimes i think the whole speculations are just a kind of understanding ppl’s behavior, but other times i feel it’s a part of an accepting process, digest what happened with this guy… the more you talking about the subject, the easiest way to put up with it. (maybe)
could be. at the end of the day though, they’re strangers and i know I don’t even know half of what is really going on or went
i will say that t swift fandom drama article does remind me of how ricidic this stuff gets sometimes lol
but have to admit the comments are often so striking & insightful, they make me giggling, like others, as i’ve read : )
but enjoy the most there are posts w/ impartiality – i mean sometimes defend/feel for BC and/or SH, and there’s place too to analyze their hapless behaviors…
true, Nofertari
it is interesting, i just think some ppl get overinvested
What an unattractive couple !
For the people who wonder why he got married before the Oscars, even though voting was closed- he wanted to change the narrative.
It was pretty evident, even to his mother, that he would not win. But with the wedding he could say ” I am the biggest winner, cause I have a new wifey with child”.
On the RC nobody talked to him about losing, they asked about wife and child…so he did not have to answer how he felt about losing to the younger brit actor. Instead he talked about the sunshine he carried around with him everywhere. So over the top, as usual these days.
If what they carry around is called “sunshine” then I rather have “rain, thunder, lightning, hale, snow, ice etc…” with me at all times.
Oh, and also, no PDA on the Bora Bora pics, they must have gotten the message that the gas station make-out-session wasn’t really believable.
Except that his PR instructed most of the RC interviewers except for the Oscars NOT to ask him about his personal life. . .
Well Oscars was the only one that mattered so doesn’t really make a difference what previous red carpet interviewers were allowed to ask.
I would have preferred to see him gracious about ER, talking about the amazing actors in his category and the privilege of portraying Turing than having gone to the lengths he did to get attention drawn to him and his personal life.
I remember last years Oscar ceremony, how much fun he seemed to have, and how genuinely touched he was by Lupita Nyongo’s win, for ex. I am have such trouble reconciling that person with the calculating attention whore from this year. (Not to mention reconciling the leaked description of the secret gf with the serious career who wanted to stay out of the limelight as long as possible; with the fiancee/wife who hasn’t missed a red carpet, manages to hold her hand to showcase her rings and went from dressing to downplay her pregnancy to accentuating it back to minimizing it’s appearance).
Exactly, being gracious would have suited him much better than this wannabe classy, old Hollywood, glamorous “IT” couple charade they tried to sell.
I wish he had left her at home and just enjoyed being with his proud parents. Or at least include them. Seeing the picture of his dad walking behind them was very, very sad. It would have been so lovely to see him walking the red carpet with his parents. They are the reason he was there to begin with.
He has become a completely different person since last years Oscar. What a shame, he had so much potential. I hope he wakes up soon.
He looks ill to me.
JP,,,,uggghhh, see above
A linguist who can’t punctuate? How curious!
I specialize in pattern recognition and also forget to use the period
Your “z” and “period” are consistent — I’ll give you that.
Wow, she looks 7 months pregnant now and I didn’t think this until I saw the bikini pictures.
Has anyone seen the Daily Mail report by Piers Morgan where he claims Benedict Cumberbatch called him an odious man behind his back? In Ben’s defence: He’s not wrong about Piers.
Yeah, it was discussed here on a previous thread and pretty extensively on SoGo tumblr
Oh! Thanks. I’ll check the article. Must have missed it.
Not too much a fan of skeptic blogs but that SoGo one seems positively sane compared to what the hell is going on on those other ones.
I am clearly late to the boat, but those people look well, not very bright and not very on the level.
This is a train wreck! BC is now all about his “private” life, not about his works.