I included a Daily Mail link to these Benedict Cumberbatch photos yesterday, but I thought I should go ahead and do some coverage because YAY, we got some of the photos. Also: Benedict left Buckingham Palace and walked straight over to the awaiting journalists and chatted with all of them, so there are lots of videos of Bendy speaking about his moment with Queen Elizabeth. Quick question: was a morning suit mandatory? I realize there is probably a strict dress code for investitures and anything having to do with a day at Buckingham Palace, but it seems like most of the men were just wearing single-breasted suits. Does Benedict get extra points for wearing the formal morning suit?
So, yes, Benedict was back in England (after a week in Nepal filming Doctor Strange) to receive his CBE, an honor one rung below a knighthood. Benedict has spent years cozying up to the royal family, you know. He’s an ambassador with The Prince’s Trust, he goes to fundraisers hosted by Prince William and he gets invited to random palace garden parties too. There was some concern that Prince William would be doing the investitures on Tuesday, but no. The Queen did them herself. So now Benedict had a moment with the Queen and now we’ll have to refer to him Bendy Batch, CBE.
As for the many words spoken by Benedict, he spoke to the BBC about his investiture: “It’s fantastic, it’s quite nerve-wracking, there is nothing really that prepares you for it.” He also said words about how he believes the Queen’s staffers are Sherlock fans and something something Hamlet. He also talked about how getting the CBE will not get him to pipe down, that he’ll continue to use his platform to say things like “f—k the politicians,” saying: “I’m certainly not going to change who I am because of this, it’s certainly a huge honor but I will still speak my mind about things that I feel are right or wrong in the world when it is appropriate. Now would not be the appropriate time.”
Here’s a video of Bendy speaking about the refugee crisis and whether or not he’s gotten flak for being outspoken.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Good for him.
Are we sure Sophie Hunter isn’t related to SamCam? There is something about them that is so similar.
She looks like a mix between SamCam and Princess Anne. It’s the longish face.
That dress doesn’t help; it is dowdy and ageing.
Yes. The mouth is pure Princess Anne.
Shallow gene pool, LAK, shallow gene pool.
Yep that gene pool wouldn’t keep a tadpole wet.
Only in the “upper” class, dahling. One must marry into one’s own income bracket and/or perceived British pedigree. Nothing less will do.
What a snob…he was good in Sherlock but always seems to overact in anything truly dramatic.
It is the way they wear trousers: they end above the ancle. They show off their ankles to the world. It is like saying: “I am so slim and long-legged that the trousers that fit are too short for me.”
Personally I find it slightly ridiculous but … well… just clothes.
Here Samantha Cameron in high tide trousers
(because when you go through high tide water you shove up your trousers)
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http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/SamCam+back+on+the+school+run+z9kIGH0biigl.jpg
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That’s just a bad dress, right? Because she sorta looks pregnant again.
My first thought, too. That’s a baby bump – it’s an awfully high drape from the bodice.
Maybe she is pregnant. The man has always waxed poetic about wanting lots of kids and they started later, so….
Or it’s just the dress. Who knows.
Could be. But it could also be that she’s a normal over 35 year old woman who is not necessarily going to bounce back to a totally flat stomach. I feel like actresses continue to perpetuate that myth.
I was thinking this too. Nothing wrong with not being super skinny soon after giving birth. But I don’t like the dress, it’s kind of frumpy. I love the hat and how her hair is handled.
And I dislike morning suits in general. They make all men look ridiculous.
When you’re sliding towards 40, there’s motivation to have a couple of kids in short order, since the risks increase with age. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if that’s a baby bump.
These two look boring as hell. Is that just the way all the poshies look when they’re doing poshie things??
Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory looked like they had a fab time when he got his medal/honour/whateverdoohickey, but they always look like they bring the party wherever they go so that’s no surprise.
I have a giant throbbing girl crush on Helen so I didn’t even mind the feathers on her coat.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2850457/It-s-like-prefect-Damian-Lewis-calls-OBE-honour-huge-surprise-says-feels-new-pressure-responsible.html
Those two look like they’d be a hoot, Dara. And we know that he-who-shall-not-be-named-on-a-Bendy-thread can party like a pleb as well. It’s no wonder he’s good friends with the Lewis-McCrorys. I bet they throw fun dinner parties.
I love Helen too. And she’s a great actress as well. No, not everybody at these events looks like they just stepped out of an Addams family movie lol.
Another member of the Helen McCrory Girl Crush Club here!
It’s funny, but I like Lewis more because I know he has the McCrory stamp of approval. If someone as fabulous as Helen thinks he’s the bees knees, well then he must be.
I will be inconsolable if it ever turns out they aren’t hopelessly devoted to one another. If he’s been secretly doing the live-in nanny or she’s hooking up with a theater director or co-star there is no hope for humanity in general.
I can totally imagine him not daring to cheat on Helen. She looks like she could kill anyone who dares cross her. Fantastic lady.
I think the bodice is not hanging properly because of the heavy material – the lace bit looks a bit ‘plastic’ plus she’s probably still recovering her figure from the birth, it can take a while.
Trying to remember how I felt about getting pregnant again when my oldest was five months old…[meaningful pause]
If this woman really is pregnant and it is not an accident (again, FFS lol), then I admire her…nursery staff for making her choises so easy.
As someone who had four children in four years without a nursery staff or even family close by, some people like their children to be close together and the mom’s age does play a factor. Also, not everything has to be planned to the hour. For us, it made sense to be open to possibilities and take life as it came.
I think they look great. Congrats to Benedict.
Except she was at Wimbeldon not a week after and was insanely slim, slimmer than now then. I guess it’s been 6 months, but most doctors wouldn’t recommend getting pregnant immediately after the first. Which to me raises a few questions.
David Tennant’s wife had three kids (no multiple births, three separate pregnancies) within the space of four years, and she was pregnant when they first got together seriously. Had the same “shotgun, obviously it won’t last” comments as Ben and Sophie. Some people, when they decide it’s the right time for a family, they go all in.
Actually, they were together long before that. People did know, at least people who move in the theatre and TV circles (I’m talking about David Tennant and his wife).
By the way, they just had the 4th. Congrats!
hermia – they weren’t actually. It was a huge surprise to his uni mates that actually went to the engagement party. It was a shotgun and they’re trying to make it work. So the story they knew each other – they ran in the same circles had some previous work. But it wasn’t dating or anything permanent. The oops – made it so. That’s why they were so uncomfortable in the beginning – trying to figure it out – just as many couples try to figure out boundaries as well when they first start out. They just did so more publicly. And have shared receipts on this before – specifically the engagement party and oops it was a shotgun.
OK, I’ll be more clear: We (myself and other friends) actually saw them together as a couple when she wasn’t pregnant. I don’t know how his friends could be surprised. Maybe surprised she got pregnant? Don’t know. Still talking about Tennant, by the way. Not Bendy, of whom I know nothing.
David and Georgia started “hanging out as friends” as she put in it summer 2008. They casually dated off and on for a couple of years. She found out she was pregnant in summer 2010, just after he’d moved to the USA solo. He spent a few months “dithering” trying to decide whether to stay in the USA and co-parent the child travelling back and forth, or whether to move back to London and start a serious relationship with her (confirmed by the director of the Hollywood film he was attached to at the time, that he kept changing his mind). They moved in together in December 2010 and the baby was born 3 months later. They got married later that year. Then she had two more babies in quick succession.
Their fourth child is David’s adopted stepson, who Georgia had when she was 17. He lives some of the time with his “dad (not his bio dad, but Georgia’s former partner, who raised him).
They def dated for a a year or so before she got pregnant but just weren’t in a very serious (i.e. living together or making plans to live together) relationship. They only moved in together and got engaged because of the oopsie and it took him a loooong time to man up and commit to her after he found out she was pregnant.
The weird thing with Tennant and his wife was that he completely pretended she didn’t exist, for years. Like not only never walking red carpets together, but walking down the street apart to avoid being seen together, entering and leaving events separately, and banning journalists from mentioning her. He walked out on interviews when the journalist didn’t even ask a question, just casually mentioned her like “I’d like to invite you and your wife to come to whatever.” And he spends most of the year in America or Canada and the family always stay home in London. Odd situation.
I don’t know much about Tennant (does he still never, ever talk about his family?) But I’d like to hear more receipts about the engagement party. I agree they seem more comfortable than a year ago, they seem to have figured it out.
WhatsUp, do you mean DT’s drama school mates? He never went to university, but his drama school degree was issued through the University of Glasgow.
Froop – when he starred in his first big American project a year or two ago he suddenly went from pretending his family don’t exist, to pimping his kids on American media. He practically never mentions his wife (and when he does it’s really unflattering, like saying she refused to give him permission to attend Wimbledon Final because it was her half-birthday) but he tells stories about his kids whenever he’s on a chat show.
If she’s pregnant, I’m having triplets. We can’t complain about ridiculous beauty standards and then turn around and call every woman pregnant whose stomach isn’t concave. This irks me.
Preach it, Kai!
Great point.
It really looks like just a little of post-baby weight still left on her tummy. In real life nobody would even notice it, but on camera everything is amplified. This is why actresses and models starve themselves.
On a somewhat related subject, I like opera, and most of the best singers are really not that good looking, and often are overweight.
But amazingly after a few minutes of being jarred by their appearance, you get into it, and can really believe in a true love story between two not very attractive people. In real life, we are not models, and we are just deserving of attention and love and happiness. While in the movies the perception is that to be loved you really have to be amazingly beautiful.
If we started to see more “normal” people in the moves and on red carpets and I think people would get used to that.
@EN – I think it’s the cut and fabric of the dress. That chevron and where it’s placed does nothing for the design of the dress and her figure. If you look back at her orange dress on press night for Hamlet, she was slim.
I get a bigger belly than that every time I eat wheat, and I’m pretty tiny.
Having said that I half wish she was, just because the stan meltdown would be hilarious.
Amen. God help her if she’s pregnant again. 2 under 2 and you want a career? Nannies and help aside that is A LOT.
With that kind of dress I seem pregnant too. And I am very flat usually. Lol
Stop mumbling!
That dress is Burberry apparently… Not a fan of it. That arrow panel appears to be sitting in the wrong place, should it sit under the chest? Its creating an empire line which, yes makes anyone look pregnant.
BRING BACK THE POCKETS
Burberry fashions are terrible. I’m talking marchesa level terrible.
What they are great at, is trench coats.
Yes, I think I’d rather see her in pocketed Erdem than that dowdy thing that makes her look 50. Pairing it with opaque stockings is odd too. I’ll give her points for the hat, though.
Bendy looks nice in his morning suit.
I love the hat, and I also actually love the sleeves of her dress and the main fabric. I think the color is lovely, and the lace flower thingies give an interesting texture. I just don’t like the dress itself. She looks pretty.
Burberry make good coats, shoes and shirts. Dresses – no.
If they can’t make a dress that looks good even on a tall skinny woman then it is a designer issue.
Exactly, I mean she has a good figure and can wear most stuff I would say.
I’m convinced someone on the Burberry design team has a pathological case of boob envy and is determined to punish any woman who dares sport a rack larger than an A or small B cup. Only someone with the figure of a fence post could wear their designs and still look good.
The black tights are a big NO for the outfit, she could have worn the dress with nude tights and pumps. Not a fan of those shoes. However, the hat is cute and a great alternative to most hats/fascinators worn to these events.
I’m glad she’s mixing things up and not dressing exclusively in Erdem. I usually don’t like outfits that seem to come out straight from a season’s catalogue.
Ugh, nude tights are seriously not fashionable in the UK, they’re super frumpy. Black tights with a coloured dress are fine – if you look around on the tube it’s what practically every woman is wearing. I’ve been told Americans find it really weird, which I don’t really understand.
Agreed. I only ever wear black opaque tights. They go with everything and keep you warm. Nude tights are just for frumps.
Black tights with the right dress are fine, i just don’t think this dress is the right one.
She looks pretty, but the dress – I don’t know – it just looks frumpy, not her usual style(and we’re all experts on her style, lol). BTW, I guess I’m not firing on all cylinders. I’ve only seen the waist/hip up pics. Where are the tights/booties shots, please?
How are nude tights for frumps? They are nude! They look like… nothing.
I’m not saying black is wrong, here or in general, but the whole “nudes are for frumps” thing seems very weird to me. Someone posted pictures of Daniel Lewis’ investiture above, and his wife is wearing nudes or almost-nudes (they seem a little milky, but it could be the flash, hard to tell), definitely not blacks, and she looks anything but frumpy.
@timbuktu , incidentally the queen was wearing nude tights with black pumps. ))
Yes, fashion standards/ assumptions are different from country to country, this is why CB such a fun place. You get 360 degrees review from all around the world.
@suzanne, I saw full body shots on tumblr, I am not sure where they originated from. Probably from DM as I saw some references to an article there.
@EN. Thanks!!
If you match the nude hose to your skin tone and make sure they are sheer enough and not shiny, they almost make it look like you have a bare leg- but better. Not frumpy at all.
I could be wrong, but I believe the official Buckingham Palace dress code calls for hose and closed toe shoes. I wonder how many actually abide by that instruction. I could have sworn even Dame Angie wore hose to her investiture, but after closer inspection her legs do indeed seem to be bare, and she’s wearing peep-toe shoes on top of it. To everyone’s surprise, the Queen managed to emerge unscathed from the ordeal of being in the company of a pair of naked women’s legs.
They look like step off a historical movie set but they both look good. And bravo to them for keeping up a dress code for the royal visit. Maybe Kate could take notes 😉
Killer fascinator.
Yep. Love it.
Love it as well.
I don’t usually like those things, but this one is fab.
Agree! Love the veil too
Pregnant.
Why would someone so called “progressive” accept such a thing?
Because it’s a civil honour. It’s not a gift from royalty. It’s like saying you wouldn’t post a letter because the stamps are issued by the “Royal” Mail or you wouldn’t spend coins because they are issued by the “Royal” Mint.
as an artist and a progressive he is not supposed to rub shoulders with the powerful and accept their little gifts. if we want to have an equal world we must take the power from the powerful and not play nice with them and present them as cool in the publics eyes but shun them and dont hunt after meaningless “honours” and silly show business awards.
> as an artist and a progressive he is not supposed to rub shoulders with the powerful and accept their little gifts.
Here is a funny thing in politics, if you want something done you have to rub shoulders with those who control power. It is counterintuitive, but it is the only way to get anything done.
@Saphana
Apologies. I thought you were coming from a ‘Queen gives the honours herself’ perspective. I see what you mean, now.
@ EN
Alternatively, you can end up as the liberal fig leaf for what the illiberal powers-that-be are doing, which I believe – even if I missed it at first – is partly what Saphana is saying.
It’s so cute that you think artists and progressives don’t have power structures and mutual back scratching.
What is it the pigs said in animal farm? All artists are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
It’s the way of the world. Has been and forever will be, but it’s cute you think otherwise.
I don’t honestly think he’s *that* progressive, I mean he’s always liked to hob knob with the poshos and rich folk despite his protestations.
I get what Saphana is saying– but then I am so far on the left I am hardly on the radar. I doubt though that bendy is all that progressive.
Speaking of lefties.. ooh, Miss J. I was hoping to see you today. The Bodleian has bought the only extant copy of Shelley’s Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, and they’ve digitised it so that it FINALLY is accessible to all of us.
http://poeticalessay.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
Just for you!
Well some lefties are real lefties with principles.Vanessa Redgrave for instance famously turned down a damehood. .
Bendy is a well meaning guy but hes not a real leftie who puts principle in front of social aspirations.
To be quite honest i think its ridiculous that every other popular actor seem to get one of these, these days. Most of them should not be given one until they are older.
I believe his end game is a Knighthood. So yeah, he’s not really proggressive (in the terms used by the OP). He likes recognition and works towards it. Nothing wrong with that. He plays it down to appeal to those who like to tear people apart for their background and relative poshness.
@LAK–There are ways of disagreeing with people and correcting them without being condescending and saying things like “it’s cute that you think so.” Being respectful never hurt anyone.
On the Bendy and Sophie front–he looks fantastic. Great hair. I like her dress. Pretty color.
Agree LAK.
Here’s a funny thing about artists in general: many have refused the queen’s honours and nothing’s happened to them. On the contrary, they are super successful (just look at Danny Boyle). Benny though is the traditional type. It’s nothing to do with “getting things done”.
Tippet: you are too cute!!
A correction about “real lefty with principles” Vanessa Redgrave: it’s rumored that she rejected the damehood. Just RUMORED. But she definitely accepted her CBE. You know, just like Cumberbatch.
Hey, Sixer, thanks for the book link! Thank you, thank you!
EN: True sometimes….but then that necessary shoulder rubbing rubs off in other ways, and sooner or later you are no better than the rest. It always happens that way….look at our Congress.
I agree. But I think meeting those in power half-way and treating them as people helps a lot. Being a fire breathing firebrand is good for creating buzz but then somebody else have to go behind the scenes and placate the offended politicians.
As for Cumberbact himself, I think he is very ambitious and also very sensitive regarding status. It doesn’t make him a bad person in my eyes, but I think it is obvious. I think his want of status might something to do with attending Harrow, where were so many privileged kids and he was pretty much a nobody. It can really have impact on a child and want him to get even or better, and not have his own kids experience the same kind of inequality. It is not something that always even rational or understood by the person himself/ herself.
EN, ITA. However, his children will also be the children of an actor. There’s nothing distinctive about that in terms of status. However, if he were to secure a Knighthood, perhaps that would make a difference to him. Money, class and pedigree are different things to these people especially at schools like Harrow and Eton
They look every bit like the stereotypical posh couple. Not that’s a bad thing, they just look…stuffy or something. Reserved. Blah
Edit: Humorless. Or humourless since they’re Brits. That’s it. Like really deep seated humorlessness. Like it’s not just a passing mood but a huge contributing factor to their personalities.
LOL
Haha that is funny except the Brits are known to have one of the humours in the world (monty Python etc) it’s just because of where they are, don’t think any of us have eaten kedgeree since the 30’s! I read on Twitter they were crowd surfing at an even after that.
Kedgeree for breakfast will do that to you.
He looked more lively with Olivia.
Their faces are ironic.
*eyeroll*
Americans just don’t understand irony.
/Hopefully they understand satire, or that joke is going to fail badly 😉
Head, Parapet. All I’m saying.
Got it, don’t worry lol
I must say that if there is one thing I DON’T associate with Brits it is humorlessness (with or without a “u”). They are one of the two most humorous peoples I am aware of (the other are the Jews).
Very Much This!
justme – I think Invader was only invoking Britisherness because of the spelling of humor/humour. She was saying they happen to be two humourless-looking Brits, not casting comment on a general British humourlessness. Or that’s how I read it, anyway.
What Sixer said. It was a spelling joke not a joke about all Brits everywhere. Badly phrased on my part; apologies for that.
Plus one! Love British humour!
@Sixer, @InvaderTak — ok – I see that I misread it. It’s funny because I had just been discussing with my husband (after watching some Gilbert and Sullivan) that one of the most admirable things about the British is their sense of humor (or humour!) So I guess that just set me off!
But I see I was wrong about the intent – sorry!
They have the look of a posh, married couple who just sent their last child away to boarding school and now when they’re alone, they’re slowly realising that they have nothing to talk about with each other.
It’s just the formality of the posed photos. In the videos they’re cuddling, giggling, and she even pinches his bum at one point.
@Fluff, They don’t, she don’t, but you Nannies see what you want to see….jeez
Don’t be ridiculous. The videos speak for themselves.
I never saw him and his wife together before today, but I thought they looked very loving and cosy? And yes I saw the ‘butt pinch’ video too. LOL.
I don’t know that loving and cosy are words that I would choose, but the more I see them together the more I think they are well-suited for one another. Despite what the crazy corners of his fandom may hope for, I think they will be together for a long, long time.
She looks completely expressionless and he looks sedated. Or the other way around, I can’t tell. Like there’s no spark behind the eyes.
My otter is everything in that suit, and his missus looks good too.
May I just say, she looks lovely.
Can somebody with more fashion sense & knowledge tell me if black nylons are OK for that dress in this situation? I’d never make that combination, looks all wrong to me, but my style is different so I’m not sure.
IMHO they’re not needed with this dress as it’s already quite reserved, they look too heavy especially with the shoe/boots. I believe flesh tights are always expected when meeting royalty or something like that, the sight of bare legs makes the Queen kill orphan kittens or something.
I do love her hat though.
That is what I thought too – she had a choice of nude tights or black tights. I think nude tights would’ve been even worse because the look would’ve been disjointed.
Lighter black tights? Maybe? But then it really gets into area of being too serious about a simple subject of tights.
Nude tights and a different shoe would have made this look better. The boots and tights don’t go with the dress.
I like the shoes but they do not go with that dress and the opaque tights really don’t go. Nude stockings or a pale sheer in a color that doesn’t jar with the dress (gray?) with a different shoe would have been better
Agree with y’all that nude stocking and classy pumps would have been more appropriate for the occasion.
I’ve always wondered if pairing black tights with lighter dresses (both in color and sometimes in weight) was a “British thing.” Many is the time I’ve looked at Brit celebs or model tabloid picks and seen them wearing flowery summer dresses with opaque black tights. It’s not something I’ve seen elsewhere. So I didn’t even bat an eye at Sophie’s choice as the dress is at least fall/winter weight and has the dark edging and chevron. That being said, not a fan of this dress (it’s both dowdy and cheap looking- like an inexpensive knock-off of a retro macrame design) and the ankle boots seem too casual for the event and the lovely hat/fascinator.
Eh, of course it’s popular elsewhere, including many US magazines. It’s a big fall thing, usually advertised as “transition” or “how to wear your summer dresses in fall”. I was recently on Anthropologie and same photos were there as well. Vogue often has such photo sessions, etc. Light, sometimes flowery, sometimes with geometrical pattern, dresses and all kinds and colours of tights – opaque, patterned, etc. Slightly diffrent but similar in having both the light dresses and opaque thights is the Gypsy style.
Yes, in Britain it’s very fashionable to wear black tights with a coloured dress – most women in London wear black tights with everything. Nude tights are associated with older people.
This! Black tights are everywhere in the City, not only London, it’s normal in most parts of Europe.
Well in the US nude tights or rather pantyhose/nylons are also associated with older people or an extremely conservative work environment. Most go without tights or hose in the warmer weather (and some fashionistas opt to go without in the colder weather as well) or wear a coordinated color opaque tights with colored dresses. I have gray, heather blue, navy blue, rust, and purple tights in addition to black tights for winter and fall.
Hate the fugly dress, but I truly and thoroughly hate the silly fascinator hat. I curse Waity Katie for popularizing those ridiculous things. She looks like a parody of a stuffy posh lady.
It;s not Katie, it’s always been fashionable in this country and for the life of me I can’t see why.
I need someone to explain. They make me want to throw things.
Regardless of what Sophie is wearing, (I think they both look great), this is a great honour for Benedict, so good for him.
His work with charities and towards crises like the Syrian refugees is very commendable. He’s obviously fiercely dedicated in his convictions and gives zero f*cks about getting flak for it. Go Bendy!
Although it’s an honour they give to everybody and their dog nowadays. Mostly to do with how much money you make for the country.
I was asking myself that, bc. this is how this superficial society works, be an overpaid Actor and you will be Honoured.
I know he looks like a bug, but I can’t figure out for the life of me which bug I’m thinking naming of.
I don’t get why or how anyone finds him attractive. His wife is too pretty for him.
But I do appreciate his political comments.
I know what you mean – I think its the Magician in a Bug’s Life! LOL xx
praying mantis
Why is his wife wearing a tablecloth with hooker heels?
LOL!!!
😀
You can tell she’s posh, very skinny ankles.
I like him as an actor but him and his wife look like a Tory politican and his wife.
Go ahead Sherlock. Speak your mind about politics. I am planning on rolling my eyes and ignoring you like I do every other Hollywood liberal.
The part I loved best is when he said something like he will keep speaking his mind despite the CBE. Maybe it’s bypassed his attention that NO ONE except for his most loyal fans and the Daily Mail cares about what he thinks. It’s not like Cameron is quaking in his boots.
And if he wanted to make a point, he could have rejected the CBE, like many liberals have done and will continue to do.
I like a man who takes a stand, it’s only when it’s so half-baked that I think “just shut up and do your job”.
The mayor of London apparently cared. And the folks that helped raised almost 200k pounds fortunately cared too.
Apparently is the operative word. And people in this country give a lot to charity. The thing is: where does the money go?
Oh, and I forgot to add the very very best part is when he says “I will speak up only where it’s appropriate”, as in not at the palace.
If people had protested only where appropriate women wouldn’t yet have the vote, to name just one instance.
As I said, protesting yes, but just so he doesn’t bother anyone who may be useful to his career. What a courageous man. Not.
I love her hat, and that blue is a color she should wear more often. The opaque tights and ankle bootie pumps ruin the lines I don’t care how “cool” they are. The dress itself is kinda drab. And if Cumbers bothered to read the papers, he would find out that the entire rest of Europe is in crisis and most of the populations of the host countries are aghast at what’s been shoved down their throats by Merkel and the EU’s failed policies. After all, Cumber and Soph are perfectly safe: no one is going to house refugees in tony Hampstead. His kid is never going to have to wait two weeks to see a doctor. Germany’s taxpayers are looking now at a 21 billion pound bill, and Sweden is implementing border controls at midnight, and borrowing money abroad to pay for what it has to do now. And the far right is on the rise across Europe. All thanks to ivory tower luvvies like Cumberbatch.
That’s what making me really angry about this blabbing overpaid Actor, i live in Germany, nobody asked us and 80% of the refugees are young Men….1.5 Million People more, as if we had not enough problems, I’m not a Merkel Fan, that was a Big Mistake, we will face alot of very bad problems……He will live in his wealthy enviroment and never face any crisis, what an idiot, he should really shut the f****k up.
And only talking is so cheap, as long as he is not DOING anything, i don’t take him serious.
Given that you seem to be up to speed on everything Cumberbatch you should know that he is actually doing something.
And if you live in Germany you should be happy Cumberbatch is campaigning for the UK to do more instead of letting Germany to be stuck with doing everything.
If countries plan together and create wars then they can at least deal with the refugees.
The reason why it’s a lot of young men is because families have had to sell everything and maybe can only afford to pay for one person to make the journey. I’m not going to get into the politics but these young men are being forced to fight, families are choosing to send these young men so that they secure their future and save them for the front lines. Hopefully these young men can educate themselves or find work and help their families. Being from Germany you should be very empathetic to the travesties of war and refugees as your country created so many not to mention the holocaust. Show kindness open your heart as that is the only way humanity can move forward.
I’ve heard first hand the atrocities of at least a dozen refugees from all over the world, and as a human I couldn’t just dismiss their excruciating pain I hope that we never know what it feels like to leave everything and everyone you know and love.
War is a business like any other in the world, it’s cost is human life and dignity. There was no Middle East conflicts before oil discovery. I met a men from Congo and he said that his village was in a area where coltan was abundant and saw these mercenaries come rape, torture and kill, then these multi national companies come and start mining, even employing survivors ( mostly children) to mine.
“There was no Middle East conflicts before oil discovery.” Do people actually believe this? There has been turmoil in the Middle East since the beginning of human civilization and there will always be turmoil regardless of western intervention.
I heard there was a weird crowd surfing video with these two at some party.
I don’t think so…. Nanny Fantasies, like usual….
It was an immersive theater show called You Me Bum Bum Train (yes really). Hard to get tickets, unless your name is Ben C.
You Me Bum Bum Train
They STOLE the name of my future memoirs!!
The gits!!
Just watched an old episode of Midsomer Murders, ‘The Maid in Splendour’, from 2004 and thought the pretty girl who played the barmaid looked familiar, and it was Mrs Cumberbatch .
So What? Whats the Point?
That she is pretty?
Just looked this one up on imdb and oh my, *le sigh* beautiful Raymond Coulthard is in it…forget Benny Cumberwhatsit….This guy is talent personified and so underrated (or maybe just not overexposed?) I’ve been crushing on him since I was a young teenager and saw him in Emma with Kate Beckinsale. I want to see it for him and for Sophie, considering I’ve never actually seen her face move from that one expression she has in all the CB’s pictures of her with BC.
Did you also notice the absolutely atrocious acting? There was like a 10 second delay between the camera being on her and her beginning to “act” in the scene. Wooden. No wonder she switched to “directing”.
Give it a rest, stan
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That she can’t act? 🙂
Before you come after me, she knows she can’t act. Which is why she’s directing instead,
PS Didn’t realise Sloaney said the same thing… lol