Tom Hiddleston goes solo, returns to LA after spending a few days in NYC

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Here are some photos of Tom Hiddleston at LAX yesterday. He flew in to LA from New York (he left via JFK, and there are photos). There were a handful of Twitter sightings of Tom in NYC, although I have no idea why he was there for a few days. It seems like he might have flown out to New York on Sunday, maybe? Maybe he was there for interviews, maybe he was there for pleasure. There are also rumors that Taylor Swift is in Nashville this week, so the idea that Tom flew back to LA to “be with Taylor” seems… wrong? Since I don’t want to put too much stock in Twitter rumors, I’ll just say that I’m getting a particular vibe from Tiddles in the past few days. I don’t want to jinx it, but I think I might have been right: they won’t even make it to the Emmys.

As for other internet rumors, “a source close to Hiddleston” told Gossip Cop that the rumors of an impending breakup are BS. Celebrity Dirty Laundry has been running “exclusives” about how Tom and his team are trying to break it off with Taylor Swift and her team, and that Tom’s team is now feeling like The Glorious Tiddlebanging has not been great for his career afterall. But Gossip Cop says it’s crap. So who do you believe?

What else? Tom has been named The Rear of the Year for 2016 because of his butt-flashing in The Night Manager. Blah. And I didn’t get around to posting Tom’s interview with Nerd HQ at Comic-Con. Here you go:

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Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

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  1. Grace says:

    He is looking better. Less sun damaged or better photo?

    What’s this ‘the rear of the year’ business? Is Tom going to get a bronze, rear-shaped trophy for his mantelpiece?

    • maria 2 says:

      *lol* all I was thinking was SUNCREEN TOM, SUNSCREEN!

      • Becky says:

        Maria, me too I wish he would put some sunscreen on his face. A decent factor 50 preparation will minimise any more damage.

    • Mrs. Welen-Melon says:

      How about Suede Shoes Wearer of the Year? HIs shoe game operates at Jennifer Garner level.

    • Browniecakes says:

      It’s instead of the 0scar

    • phaedra7 says:

      Yeah, it’ll probably be a big AZZ trophy, with the inscription “For A BOOTIFUL Performance In The Night Manager”! Congratulations to the Hiddlesbum!

  2. pikawho? says:

    Is the house across the street from his in London for sale right now? It doesn’t even matter if its not, I think it will pass into new, cat hair covered hands pretty soon….

    • Aussie girl says:

      Cue the psycho shower scene music 🔪🚿

    • Christin says:

      Just remember — it’s called savvy real estate investing. 😉

    • Miss Jupitero says:

      I don’t know about across the street, but there is a villa for sale right around the corner from him on Steeles Road for a cool £6,750,000. Maybe the lovebirds will upgrade?

  3. Jane says:

    Someone pass the popcorn…this might implode soon.

  4. Whatabout says:

    There’s pictures on Instagram of Tom leaving a hotel in beverly hills on Sunday. Which is interesting….

    Taylor currently has two homes in Beverly Hills. So he couldnt crash at either?

    • Sue says:

      He didn´t stay at that hotel, just Tay´s driver brought him there to pick up Luke, he stayed at Tay´s LA manson after SDCC, or so I´ve read…gossips gossips 😛

      • Diana says:

        Ehm….” He didn´t stay at that hotel, just Tay´s driver brought him there to pick up Luke, he stayed at Tay´s LA manson after SDCC, or so I´ve read…gossips gossips” it sounds …. like beard

      • Fa says:

        It look like he was leaving the hotel with his baggage wasn’t look like a person being dropped at the hotel

      • Whatabout says:

        He was carrying his bags. Maybe they’re staying there together?

      • Becky says:

        In the pics he’s carrying his suitcase and putting it into a car. It wasn’t clear if he was being collected or was just moving his bags.

  5. Pegacorn says:

    Hey, he’s wearing a new jacket! Yay!

  6. LaraK says:

    Why are his pants so tight??? I can see his Hiddles!

    Also, I’m with you. This will end soon, and spectacularly. I think he liked Taylor, but the overwhelming backlash was not part of the bargain. Seriously, who in their right mind would become a laughing stock for someone they have been seeing for a month? I don’t care if you genuinely like the person. You run from the train wreck! Run fast!

    • Lana 567 says:

      How is he a laughing stock. Yes the I heart t..s t shirt was super lame and cheesy but I think you’re exaggerating a bit. The guy still got nominated for an Emmy. Whether he and Taylor stay together or break up they will both be fine. This is a bump in the road for them. They’re white and privaleged. People like them always survive.

      • LaraK says:

        Oh, absolutely they will be fine long term, but I don’t think the short term panned out like he expected.

    • seesittellsit says:

      Personally, I think they’ve been seeing each other much longer than that – they just went public a month ago, for whatever reason (cough). He’s just recouping some “individual” celebrity here before the Taylor’s Aging Toy Boy narrative got too out of hand. No breakup, at least till one month after Emmys, and I think he’s going all the way with this. Probably picked up a ring in NYC.

      If I had any money, I’d pay a visit to Ladbrokes.

  7. AlleyCat says:

    HOW WILL THEY SURVIVE DAYS APART?? Seriously, is this the longest they’ve been apart since their make out on the rocks? Is Taylor freaking out right now? I would be shocked if they did break up though, I’m expecting her to be with him at the Emmy’s.

  8. K.C. says:

    Gossip Cop vs. Celebrity Dirty Laundry? Hahaha. I’ll pass.

    His new jacket is quite nice, and more seasonally appropriate (the quilted one seemed a bit heavy, no?). Alone time is healthy, especially if she plans to return to Australia with him. The guy hasn’t had a chance to breathe from the day they went public. But I still think they’re in it for the long haul.

    • Chef Grace says:

      Agree. He is in it for better or worse. Can’t hurt him, plus the perks are too sweet to pass up.
      They shall emerge, Emmy ready, to slither down the red carpet…

    • shelly says:

      I concur, I have always thought the relationship was genuine, albeit mutually beneficial publicity wise.

      Yes some of the photo ops have backfired a bit, (TH on the waterslide looking like a malnourished pensioner who forgot to put his false teeth in) but it has been extremely newsworthy, and if they keep their heads down, and are still together come Christmas (which I think they will be) they can count this Summer’s shananigans as a win.

      Call me naïve but I still believe in Tiddles.

    • Luca76 says:

      Yes I still believe in Tiddles. It’s been what 4 days since they were papped together? C’mon.(and I’m still sad they toned it down I really, really miss those over the top photo-ops).

      • K.C. says:

        I do too, Luca! I miss the days when I could wake up and mindlessly scroll through Twitter for new pics to delay getting out of bed. Good times. Before all the drama began, they brought me such lighthearted joy. Le sigh.

      • Luca76 says:

        Yes le sigh. Those pics were gossip gold.

    • CFY says:

      Agreed. Whatever is going on, I think the only way through this is through this, you know? Marriage and babies. Then they get to claim they knew they were being ridiculous but hey true everlasting love, and when people ask her about this oh so terrible time in her career she can deflect and say she was busy falling in love with the love of her life. That’s how I’d approach it, anyway.

    • Christianna says:

      It’s winter though in Australia.

  9. Chef Grace says:

    And Ass of the Year goes to………….

  10. Mia V. says:

    They should study the case of Hiddles, whom lost his sexiness as soon as he tried to improve it by dating a famous woman.

    • pikawho? says:

      I know you’re partly kidding, but I 100% think this case should be studied by entertainment public relations majors. It had all the ingredients for a (business wise) successful celebrity romance but the public was not willing to play along as usual. Every attempt to push the story just made it worse.

      • Moxie Remon says:

        No science needed. Nobody can stand Taylor.

      • BluBare-E says:

        I think they already have. It comes under the course called “Any Press is Good Press”.

        They might have to revise the text book though citing Tiddles as a case with inconclusive adversarial results.

        Term papers due on Monday. Late papers will be given the same grade as the rest, including emails with pics of online gambling wagers or drunken water sliding (clothes optional).

      • BluBare-E says:

        “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”

        -Oscar Wilde

        PR 101 and degree right there – at Tom’s agency at least.

      • BluBare-E says:

        For advance degrees and doctorates see admissions page for Trump University.

    • Browniecakes says:

      Dont forget the W beefcake photos.

      • shelly says:

        The one of him sliding half off the bed, was pure gold. He looked like a furtive adolescent caught having a crafty w*nk.

      • RUNSWITHSCISSORS says:

        I forgot about the paper undies photos! One website (dlisted?) said he looked like he was in a doctor’s office waiting for a prostate exam.

      • Sixer says:

        PAPER KNICKERS!

        Best thing to come out of Tiddlesbanging.

      • this_dis says:

        I still don’t get the season why Tom specifically got dragged for that photo shoot, while all the other actors who participated in the exact same photo shoot, with the exact same theme, walked scot-free with exactly zero name calling and body shaming thrown their way. Other than mere random circumstance.

      • Sixer says:

        Because he got the post on here and the others didn’t. And also because he was wearing PAPER KNICKERS.

      • this_dis says:

        @Sixer I know. That’s related to the random circumstance.

      • Becky says:

        ThisDis, because he got involved with TayTay and her silly staged, exaggerated photo ops, fast-track romance roll-out so he’s opened himself up to ridicule.

      • Sixer says:

        ThisDis – he got a post on here because he is a popular topic on here and the others weren’t. It wasn’t some global plot to ridicule him. LEGS, who is commonly written about here, did a laughable photo shoot and got laughed at. No more to it than that.

  11. CidySmiley says:

    Gosh he seriously lost his appeal. I still can’t decide if it’s for publicity or not. Because I could totally seeing it being a contract but I could also see them both be over excited puppies together.

  12. lilacflowers says:

    But you don’t have the best picture! LEGS with one leg up in the air, the Hiddlesbum on display, as he removes the grey suede boots to pass through TSA at JFK!

    I want to know what play, where and when. He has been hinting at it for months and does so again in the Nerd HQ interview before burying the answer in all that rhetoric about playing different parts at different ages.

    • K.C. says:

      I KNOW! It’s happening. Sooner rather than later, perhaps, and that’s why he doesn’t have anything officially lined up after Thor 3.

      • lilacflowers says:

        K.C., very few of the actors in the MCU have worked lined up after their current projects. Check Chadwick Boseman, Renner, Evans. And as of a few days ago, the only ones listed for Infinity Wars were Brolin and Hemsworth. I think Marvel blocked off months of time for many of the actors in the MCU, including Tom, for Infinity Wars.

      • phaedra7 says:

        @lilacflowers. Many fans are hoping for a *repeated on-screen interaction between Cumby and Hiddles, whether it be:

        (A) On Sherlock, as the 3rd older brother
        [Check out: https://youtu.be/3Y6Ffufch7I%5D; or

        (C) Loki vs. Dr. Strange.

        We can take our pick or have both!
        *{War Horse (2011 film), directed by Steven Spielberg}

      • Dara says:

        @phaedra7 – not this fan.

        If you had asked me a year ago, I would have said playing the 3rd Holmes brother was the worst idea I had ever heard. Now, thanks to Hiddleswift, it’s only the 2nd worst idea I’ve ever heard. Never would have figured that in a million years. But it’s still a bad idea.

    • Luca76 says:

      I’m thinking its a limited run on Broadway and that’s why he was in NY. Maybe Hiddleswift’s going to the Tony’s next year.

    • Gingerly says:

      Broadway really seems to be a possibility, right? If so, I prefer a modern one. If Hiddles wears a tank-top with “I HEART **”, that would be just fine, as long as his performance is good. He never shoot for two films simultaneously before whether he worked for a Marvel film or an indie film. Definitely not good at multitasking. He indeed has to wait for Marvel to make their mind about Loki and shooting schedule.

      • shelly says:

        The Wifebeater tank top would be perfect for playing Stanley, in a street car named desire.

      • popup says:

        I’ve got my hopes up for Broadway, too. But he’s no Stanley. He needs about 10x more testosterone to pull that off.

        For a modern play, I’d rather he take on something that’s more on the level of Constellations.

      • shelly says:

        Popup the wifebeater tank top gets the part of Stanley…TH can play Blanche ;0)

      • Gingerly says:

        He once played Mitch in his college years, but I am happy to see his Blanche, with 40s Mississippi accent.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        He shot his scenes in Exhibition while simultaneously doing TDW but distant locations makes doing more than one at a time.

      • EscapedConvent says:

        Gingerly,

        Hiddles as Blanche? That would make ma mouth wat-uh.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      @Phaedra, I know some are rooting for that but I am not. There are lots of others I would rather see him reunited with like Jessica, Tilda, Chiwetel, Ewan McGregor, Ruth Wilson, Alison Pill, Tom Hollander, Judi Dench, Michelle Dockery, Julie Walters, Olivia Colman. Just about anyone but that guy.

  13. seesittellsit says:

    Since you asked . . . I’ll never see TH in the same light again, whether it’s “real” or “PR” because I despise this slice of American pop culture and I’m saddened to see a really bright, classy, talented, highly educated mature man sucked into it. He’s not obliged to listen to Beethoven string quartets when he’s out running to prove his bona fides as Better Than That, but we’re talking running with a certain crowd here . . . so who do I believe? Believe imminent breakup is BS. From a PR standpoint, real or not, even if this has been bad for his Serious Actor career (and it has), and he wants out, it will be worse PR if he gets out now. So he is going to have to stick it out for a few months, milk the relationship for whatever attention it has left (i.e., Emmy Red Carpet Glory With Swift On His Arm), and then quietly let it dissipate. But I’ve always figured it’s possibly a beard situation, and in that case . . . not only is an imminent breakup BS, look for the massive rock on Swift’s left hand at the Emmys. Maybe that’s what he was doing in NY. This is just a careful distancing while Swift’s current problems dim, so he doesn’t get too tarnished. And to diminish the impression that Swift has him glued to her hip and he hasn’t got any self-agency left. No breakup till at least a month after the Emmys if he wants out, and I’m not at all sure he does.

    • Erinn says:

      Honestly – I think this whole thing is a hell of a lot bigger in the gossip world than it is anywhere else. You’d think there was video of him throwing puppies off a cliff, or rolling around in a mountain of cocaine with Lindsay Lohan.

      MOST people don’t follow this stuff as closely as we do on sites like this. This relationship has been a blip on the radar for most folks – and I REALLY doubt that the old fogies that are on the voting committees care all that much about who he’s dating. If anything – they might hear his name more often and maybe that’ll help.

      I don’t think this has damaged his career. Yeah, sure. He’s cheesy as hell in some of these photos… but he’s always been cheesy. If you watch him in an interview, he can go from super intelligent and thoughtful sounding to full on cornball at the flip of a switch. When I go to youtube and type in “Tom HIddleston” and wait for the auto fill to pop up… Taylor Swift is one, sure. It’s still not the top result though, and the others consist of “Crimson Peak Love Scene”, “dancing”, “impressions”, “funny moments”, “James Cordon”.

      • Caitiecait says:

        First, this relationship has been spoofed/mocked on late night television with Bill Maher and Steven Colbert, so it is safe to say that this relationship exists outside the gossip columns.

        Second, the Emmy voters aren’t just old guys, they are peer groups, which means that the performers vote for other performers and the secret judges who can only serve two consecutive years as a judges who get the final say on who wins.

        Third, I highly doubt that TH wins his year. He is up against Bryan Cranston, an Emmy favorite, and Courtney B. Vance and it is Courtney’s year.

      • Luca76 says:

        Erinn I am in complete agreement. He is being compared to Tom Cruise and Ben Affleck but both of them had gave a series of public interviews and had meltdowns on TV. OTOH Tom wore a t shirt once. Talk shows gossip and the public at large may laugh but there is no lasting effect to this unless one or the other or both do something very public on a national stage. We see that other celebrities that love the paparazzi and set up photo ops are able to claim that they are ‘private’ and chased by the paps. Most in the minivan majority will accept that and move on. Also if you go back and look at how fandoms reacted to Benedict Cumberbatch’s marriage, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes etc there was bound to be a meltdown no matter who Hiddleston dated. Now everyone is lamenting that he isn’t with Elisabeth Olsen but if you look at the comments when they were spotted together they weren’t pretty. It’s worse because it’s Taylor Swift but it was always going to be a full meltdown amoung his fans.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Erinn, you’re being sensible. That is NOT allowed!

      • spidey says:

        Oh Lilacflowers, does that mena I can’t be sensible either?

        But you know what that say this side of the ocean? This week’s news next weeks chip paper.

      • K.C. says:

        Erinn, completely agree. And either way you slice it, the heckling that first ensued about Tiddles will disappear shortly A) After they break up, or B) If they simply stay together. Gossip has a short shelf life. By the time Kong rolls around, no one will care THAT much about their relationship. They’ll care, of course—she’s hugely famous and has a solid spot in pop culture whether she’s on tour or taking time off. But it won’t be damaging for him in any way, other than fielding the random Taylor question. He wore a silly tank top. He made out with his girlfriend on a rock. Successful actors have been caught red-handed committing far more serious crimes than being a goofball. Which, as Erinn points out, has always been one of Tom’s most prominent personality traits anyway. He’s equal parts Intellectual Actor and Hammy Goofball, and that has always been the case.

        Seems to me like he is happy, getting more recognition, and gearing up for the Emmys and promotion of some major roles. His life is good right now.

      • jammypants says:

        @Erinn very true. No one around me cares and they know I like Tom.

      • sarah says:

        Outside of social media, i am not sure enough care about tom si his overall image has not been damaged … As he doesn’t really have one

      • BluBare-E says:

        [Tom] . . “rolling in a mountain of cocaine with Lindsay Lohan.”

        aaahah

        Omg. That was great. Thank You.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        Yeah, I don’t know why it was such a big deal for him to wear the shirt–Idris Elba was given a shirt with I <3 AH on it (the interviewer's initials) and when asked just chuckled and said 'of course he would wear such a shirt' if he loved the person.
        That Guardian article on the pageview-driven business model for 'journalism' keeps getting proven more and more true every day.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        Caitecait–BC’s ‘overexposure’ was spoofed in the New Yorker, but nobody’s talking about it now. This, too, shall pass.

  14. Sixer says:

    Only in the world of celebrities could you possibly need your team to help you break up with someone. The rest of us say “You’re chucked. Bye.” Not ‘ard. I don’t know if I love, love, love this idea of a team breaking-up with conferences about how to do it, what to say, and which gossip outlets to call, or hate, hate, hate it. These people aren’t actually real, are they? They’re all made up by the Gossip Fairy.

    I shall be HIGHLY disappointed if we don’t have more loved-up Tiddlesbanging. If LEGS abandons me and the Hallmark archive now, I shall consign him to the wasteland I sent The Bloke to after his polo shenanigans.

    • Bonzo says:

      Oh noes… I bet The Bloke is already regretting his monumental mistake and has his team fervently trying to find you so he can make a dramatic show of repentance. Betcha he’ll bring the dog to up the cuteness and sympathy factors. He may even bring the customized ball gag you got him, in the hopes of makeup sex.

      I think TIDDLES is still very much ON and that we will be getting pap shots of them in LA before they both head back to Oz. That’s what my magic 8-ball is telling me at least.

      • Sixer says:

        The Bloke is forever dead to me. I’m immune to teams.

        Boring Tiddles pap shots are no good to me either. I need her storming the set of whateverfilmitisbeingmade (forgot already) because she can’t do without him from 9-5, or um… ooh! I know!

        The Papped Proposal. He’s on one knee. We are wondering whether he’s proposing to her, or to the cameras. That’s my Tiddles ambition. The Papped Proposal. If it doesn’t happen, I’m sulking.

        Imagine if he married the entire pap industry! That would be my heaven.

      • Bonzo says:

        *puts tinfoil hat on at a saucy, crooked angle*

        If she goes back to Oz, I wouldn’t be surprised if you get The Papped Proposal in late August with VMAs on the 28th and Emmy’s three weeks later.

        If he marries TSwizzle, he IS marrying the entire pap industry.

      • shelly says:

        Please make it so.

      • Sixer says:

        He’d better not do it when I’m on my hols in Italy!

  15. Rocío says:

    If they do breakup, it’s going to be messy as hell. She can afford another bad headline. Let’s prepare for Swift Hell!

    • Grace says:

      Or quietly slip into the night and come back the saddest woman who’s been wronged, publicly humiliated and dumped, and publicly humiliated. Sounds more and more like a Greek tragedy even as I type.

    • Dara says:

      See, this is what I don’t understand. Does Taylor need it messy? Is that what her fans want from her? Why market this relationship as a Forever Kind of Love right from the jump? She’s been roasted so many times for romances crashing and burning you would think she would want to avoid all of that again.

      Wouldn’t it have gone over better if they had downplayed any talk of being super-serious? What’s wrong with two people meeting, hitting it off, and since they both had some free time they decided to spend it together having some fun. If it turns into more than that great, if it doesn’t then it’s no big deal, they part as friends and move on with their lives.

      • Browniecakes says:

        Dara – four thoughts. 1) no one corrects someone on Taylor’s level. It’s the Emperor’s new clothes, 2) she wanted to show everyone how fast she could rebound, 3) her 2 bffs, the real ones, Allison just got engaged and the other one got married and she needs to get in there and 4) Tom thought this would last from June until he left for AU. Both their calendars were open so at 150% as only Tom does things and with her money have a over the top globe trotting romance – then part company

      • Grace says:

        Perhaps Calvin bruised her ego? All the guys she dated before were a month or two tops, he was the first long-term boyfriend, I gather? And this guy never let it be forgotten she wasn’t his type. And all this talk about her being the asexual barbie, the clinger…

        There was an element of overselling in the early narrative, so much as it felt like harlequin covers being shoved down everyone’s throat. When it got to the paper knickers and water slide photos, it became weird. Anyway, they hit it off, Tom pursued her so hard that he went to Selena concert (without a gun pointing to his head). The cheesiness, PR maneuver aside, it almost seems she’s really proving to the world she’s desirable and wanted.

        Plus the possibility of making it a ‘rare connection’ than having her seen as a jumper between highly visible relationships. Her fans ate kabourised jellybeans from her palms before, why wouldn’t they now? Plus it could depend on how the contract is negotiated between both of their teams. (I am not using the term ‘contract’ to suggest this is a fake relationship, not going there. But I would assume someone like TS would have contracts for anyone so much as crossing her pathway just so that nothing goes unplanned.) Maybe Tom is considered the less powerful of the duo so he has to hustle hard for it, i.e. meeting the family, which categorically backfired because, hello, Authenticity vs. Sincerity. I guess it’s bad timing as well. She hasn’t planned on having her creditability bombed when they first started photo-oping.

      • The Understudy says:

        @Dara
        I would doubt she truly wants it messy. I would think she really believes every time she meets a new guy that he actually is the one, despite how many times it’s not turned out that way she remains optimistic because she is an overachiever and gets what she wants mostly. Tom is probably as unlike anyone she has ever dated before just like she is unlike anyone he has ever been involved with. I wonder if she often fell for a prince who turned out to be an a-hole, Tom arrived as a bona fide prince and she is still feeling like a princess. If it lasts it really is worth the mocking they have taken, her fans will already seem to love him.

        Tom has gone right along with her rollout, the narrative that she feels safe with him seems spot on, he is not going to bad mouth her if it does end, whether it’s a monumental break up or a slow burn out. What has she got to lose? Either way it’s an emotional journey she can use as inspiration for new material.

        I still believe the only way this ends is if she ends it, maybe she realises she does not want a prince, she wants a cool dude or a guy with some edge. I see him helping her mature in a way and by the time she hits 28 they’ll either split or be married and making babies.

    • JenniferJustice says:

      If so, it would only make for her next and best blind item song EVER!!!! I swear if she wrote such a song and just said one telling word or name like “tiddles is gone” she would sell more records than she ever has before. I think regardless of her ego, her career would hit an all-time high. Oh, and a video to match with a Tom doppleganger either in paper underwear or with an “I ‘heart'” T-shirt, please let it be so, and….I will surely die.

  16. Browniecakes says:

    The fact he’s flying commercial instead of Taymerica Air mean anything? LA probably means back to AU. My money is on she goes too. She’s had some days to deal with her issues. Whether or not his heart is in it, if we are talking PR she needs to get something in the win column before he can bolt

    • Pegacorn says:

      She better return to Australia. Pataky hasn’t gotten her photo op yet

      • Zapp Brannigan says:

        The possible combination of Swift and Pataky in one pap shot is mind bending.
        Make it happen universe.

      • shelly says:

        I love Pataky, she won the lottery and is not ashamed to rub the World’s nose in it.

        But what with Tiddles and Cyrusworth both stealing her thunder lately, she needs to up her Instagram game.

        Perhaps she and Shifty can pal up and practise yoga poses with the cute Hemsworth toddlers.

      • popup says:

        Oh, Pegacorn, you’ve given me the biggest laugh of the day so far. We must remember Elsa!

        I would be shocked if Tay deploys her private jet for a boyfriend’s solo travel. That’s for her and her five bodyguards.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Don’t leave out Miley!

      • JenniferJustice says:

        Yes, yoga poses and wearing super high waste yoga pants pulled right up to their boobs, because well, the fashion must be Tay Tay and Miley….

  17. Mira says:

    He probably flew back to LA to calm Swiftie down after she didn’t get nominated for the VMA.

    • Bonzo says:

      See the Swifty post… there are good arguments being given that she didn’t want to get nominated this year.

      • Mira says:

        Hahaha! So the spin is that she wasn’t nominated because she didn’t want to?

      • Bonzo says:

        It would draw people’s attention to the backlash of SnapchatGate. Better to lay low for awhile and use her love life for publicity instead. I’m still predicting an engagement in the next month. She needs a better headline than her Kimye feud.

      • Mira says:

        So you think she decides if she gets nominated?

      • OhDear says:

        Did she even release anything during the nomination period this year?

      • Erinn says:

        I’m kind of mixed with this one- a lot of award shows ARE pure PR work. Teen Choice Awards for example – I know it’s not some illustrious award show but still – all the voting that anyone does really doesn’t matter. In the fine print it showed that all the voting does will advance 4 of the nominees, then the people running the show pick who they want to win. There are only ever 5 nominees – so all the voting does is knock one person out of the running – the rest is done behind the scenes.

        Again – I know the Teen Choice Awards aren’t comparable to all award shows – but it still makes you think. PR forces definitely play a big role, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that there’s a combination happening – her videos that are eligible aren’t great, and her people aren’t putting a push on being considered.

      • Luca76 says:

        The VMAs would have loved to be in on the controversy the same way they were on the feud between Miley and Nikki last year. I think it’s probable that Swift opted out.

    • phaedra7 says:

      Another click-bait article from The Daily Fail (and possibly other outlets). She hasn’t made any recent videos to qualify this year’s VMAs anyway. All of stories of Tom traveling to be with her for consolation is just rubbish. However, she could be working on something, as we speak, re: her Tiddleshagging for her kid-tweenie fans to continue to idolize and pen fanfictions about.

      {“We won’t get fooled again!”–The Who (from their album, “Who’s Next”)}

      • OhDear says:

        Apparently she had three (“Wildest Dreams,” “Out of the Woods” and “New Romantics”) that were eligible this year.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      Unless she flew to LA last night, she is in Nashville

      • justme says:

        According to the fans who follow her jet, she went to Burbank last night. He left the airport, possibly heading to Burbank (where the private jets land). So they are probably going back to Australia on a corporate jet (not hers – it is not able to go that distance). They can avoid the paps that way. They were in full-throated cry when he arrived at LAX last night, “do you regret dating Taylor Swift because of all the drama?” “are you getting married?” etc. He just kept his poker face on and walked on through.
        I personally think they really do like each other. If the only scandal this guy has is that he wore a silly shirt on a beach for a few minutes, it is not a big deal.

      • Noname says:

        according to her diehard fans that track her plane, it was in LA last night (or Burbank). I think they are flying back to Australia.

      • M.A.F. says:

        You can’t take international flights out of Burbank. It’s a small airport.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        M.A.F–it’s actually an international airport. You can fly direct (one stop, but no aircraft changes) from Burbank to Sydney.

  18. Christin says:

    When this love fest started, several guessed it would be a summer fling (over by August-September). I still think that’s possible. However, when the public finds out is another story.

    Little seems authentic in celebrity universe. This may end up like Miley’s breakup and others, where there is an obvious fizzling, it’s anyone’s guess at when the real parting took place. They’ll likely announce a split when it benefits one or both the most, PR-wise.

  19. MP says:

    Maybe the contract only has X amount of fights per month and he’s topped his quota?

  20. PatriotsPower27 says:

    I don’t see a break up either and I’m really wondering what the people who do predict a break up are seeing. From my ledge on this window, I see a “couple” reading the tea leaves and are cooling down the public display to create an aura of mystery. It’s a win-win: keeps them in the news while everyone guesses what’s really going on (exhibit A: this article) meanwhile it gives them an opportunity to get to know each other (or not) below radar. Taylor has not uttered a single statement since Receipt-Gate yet she is still in the news. We have never ever got such clear pap shots of Tom at the airport before which makes me believe that not only is he enjoying this spotlight but he is in it for the long haul.

    • BluBare-E says:

      You make a very strong case. Makes a lot of sense.

      Do you think they’ll go as far as an engagement?

  21. Lela says:

    The Swifties that track the private jet claim Taylor is already back in LA…

    Maybe cos I’m not a fan of either i kind of believe its real, just beneficial in promoting them both as brands too… Tom gets a higher stateside push, and despite all the shit Taylor has covered herself in she has managed to shake off the pining for Petty boy Harris that was pushed after their break up… *Shrugs*
    What i can’t do, even with Celebs i dislike, is this whole wishing/hoping/preying for a break up, screams bad juju to me, it’s the same as wishing misery of anyone… I think there is enough of that out in the world already.

    • Browniecakes says:

      I wonder why she didn’t pick him up in NY. Or why he did’t fly to Nashville first. Then on to LA and then AU?

      • MI6 says:

        Ditto. The logistics of these outings have been very odd.

      • Dara says:

        The whole cobbled-together travel scenario is just off somehow. Why indeed didn’t he fly to Nashville to catch a ride back to LA on Tayforce One? It wasn’t because he was on a connecting flight to Oz, he’s walking out of LAX so he must be stopping in LA – the paps wouldn’t have caught him otherwise. And why didn’t the jet take him to NYC to begin with? It stopped there before dropping whatsherface in Nashville. The Swifties insist he and Luke had to be in NYC for a business meeting and couldn’t wait for the jet, but who has urgent business late on a Sunday night? Her jet arrived in NY only a few hours after his commercial flight did.

      • Lela says:

        @Dara Apparently her brother spends more time in NY than Taylor does, and they think thats who was dropped off late night before the plane returned to Nashville. There is also a report the private plane they used to come from Oz is waiting in Burbank so who knows….

        I have to admit though i am impressed/scared of their tracking skills. It makes you wonder if its not only fans who take advantage of it, kind of explains all the bodyguards Taylor surrounds herself with.

      • bonzo says:

        I bet he was missing the ease of traveling Tayforce One. Someone posted a video of the arrival at LAX and Tom was asked by a pap if he regretted dating Taylor with all the drama she causes. This is what he can expect as long as TIDDLES is a thing.

      • K.C. says:

        Perhaps she also had some business to attend to while he was doing Comic Con and they just decided to meet up back in California once they were both finished with what they needed to do? I don’t get what’s weird about that.

      • Dara says:

        @K.C. – maybe not weird, but definitely not efficient. If the Swifties are correct, Tayforce One mirrored his movements almost exactly, just a few hours later. If the jet had to drop baby bro in NYC anyway, why wasn’t Le Boyfriend allowed to hitch a ride? It’s not like he’s a stranger to her family, they partied together in RI and the seemingly-planted stories in the tabs made a big deal about him getting the seal of approval from mama Swift. Coming back from NYC, Tom easily could have flown to Nashville and gone the rest of the way to LA with Taylor (assuming she was on the jet when it went from Nashville to LA), but instead he flew solo all the way.

        My tree-hugging soul wants to buy carbon offsets just to counteract all of the whirlwind cross-country jet travel that has been going on.

      • jammypants says:

        @Dara “Tayforce One” I can’t lol! Please keep these coming! I’m still recovering from “Taytanic”

        @bonzo, “Someone posted a video of the arrival at LAX and Tom was asked by a pap if he regretted dating Taylor with all the drama she causes. This is what he can expect as long as TIDDLES is a thing.”

        Sad and true

    • popup says:

      Oh, my word. They haven’t been apart a single day since this whole thing began in mid-June, which is far weirder for a brand new relationship than being apart for four days. Seems a documented reunion in LA is imminent, anyway, or so I’m hoping!

      • Sue says:

        Siamese twins? Traveling separately but glued together for the rest of the time? I think some Swifties would catch them somewhere in NY, RI, LA if there were really together all the time. There were some tweets about TH in restaurant alone = without her etc. But you see, they /she can do this low key if she wants. Nobody knew how and when they left Oz before SDCC, so…

      • popup says:

        @Sue You mean Tay was followed him to New York and then back to LA in her own plane while he flew commercial so that they got to stay together but not photographed? That’d be one way to keep the relationship under wraps. Causes more conversation on gossip forums like this but they don’t get reported in People, ET, etc. Could be a shifting PR strategy now.

  22. Dippit says:

    I think the contract (and both teams’ PR strategy) was cobbled together too hastily for the roll-out of this ‘relationship’. Whether this was because TS needed to minimise the embarrassment of another failed coupling (Calvin) or TH only had a short window to try to secure Bond and capitalise on the exposure of TNM (or a combination of both) they rushed before the Is were dotted and the Ts crossed. Any chance of it appearing “authentic” was lost.

    TS is used to faking her life in the public eye; TH seems as willing to fake for his own “authentic” but has less experience of curating it all under so much glare. That’s why everything seemed to follow TS’s pro forma for a ‘relationship’ – she has more practise.

    If they are to continue the contract they need time out of the public eye to re-lay the foundations for such a PR relationship which usually takes a bit more work from both teams than was put in at the beginning. They need more brainstorming sessions over the production storyboards.

    The question now is is it worth it for either of them or should the storyboarding now be about how best to fade and save face.

    As so few of their fans and the wider public have bought into this, and add hits to both their reputations (his mainly because of the ‘relationship’, hers moreso from external forces), the whole thing seems, to my eye, to be very much in diminishing returns for both of them already. Will an Emmy RC and/or an engagement really convince anyone that this isn’t just two fakers faking on a grand scale.

    I guess there’s always a joint Vogue cover and spread to go, but still…

    That said, I’ve had Wintour as an initiating player in this ‘relationship’ since the off.

    • Browniecakes says:

      TnT never kept the fans guessing. It was in our faces from the love on the RI rocks photos until last weekend. No time to see if the ‘rumor’ of TnT was going over positively or negatively with the fans before the ‘yes they’re a couple’ rollout.

    • Sixer says:

      I’m into this curating authenticity lark. What would the job title be? Curating Authenticator? Authentic Curator? Or would we throw caution to the wind and make it Aurating Cuthenticator just to keep everyone on their toes about what exactly we were planning?

      • Dippit says:

        @Sixer I see a whole new career in Aurating Cuthentication for you. I’ll be Btorysoarding Co-ordinator if you’ll have me on the team.

        /We couldn’t do a worse job than the one done thus far.

      • Sixer says:

        We could create a new inrustdy!

        We just need a Deb Wesigner to get us up and running and flog our services.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Decide what you’re doing and I’ll draw up the legal paperwork and oversee catering

      • Sixer says:

        You are hereby engaged as our Cegal Laterer. I thank you. You could also be our Looking Cawyer if you like?

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Cegal laterer be I!

      • bonzo says:

        Can I be the Chief Cean Bounter?? I’m ace at abacusing.

      • Sixer says:

        Mais bien sur, mon compere. You’re in!

      • Poisonous Lookalike says:

        I’ve been doing deb wesign for a very long time and would be delighted to sog your flervices!

      • Sixer says:

        A full complement already!

        Since LEGS has proved abominable at curating his own authenticity, I think he should hire us. Like, yesterday.

      • M.A.F. says:

        Every business needs a historian and I’m your lady.

      • Sixer says:

        Oh my gosh, MAF. You are our Hithentic Austerian. How cool is that? (I know there’s a vowel amiss, but I like this one.)

  23. MI6 says:

    Image is everything and at the end of the day, I don’t think Tom is going to let his one true love, work, suffer for the foolishness of the “heart” (which I do not believe for one second is involved here. Look a bit lower).
    His carefully crafted image can’t continue to take the hits, and I am quite sure being used as increasingly desperate Taylor’s personal security blanket is going to get old fast.
    Stage 5 clinging is over before the Emmys.
    She’s back together with Calvin before the holidays.
    I think we should start a pool.

    • RUNSWITHSCISSORS says:

      I really hope you’re right, @MI6. Seems that Barnacle Barbie has reattached herself to him in LA. If she goes back to AU with him, that will be very telling.

      • MI6 says:

        And very stupid for a variety of reasons.
        He has more to lose at this point than she does. Someone, I think it was Ennui, said it best on this site that he “jumps in 150%” and doesn’t think before he leaps. A little distance and immersion in work would only help with the eventual and much-needed extraction.
        I have a feeling Luke is NOT loving this one bit.
        “Barnacle Barbie” 😉
        I think of her more as a remora.

      • Bonzo says:

        MI6, the same could be said of Tom, attaching himself to a much bigger fish. And he has described himself as a 150%-er when he’s excited about something new.

        I think we’ll be seeing evidence of her back in Oz. They gotta get engaged before the Emmys.

      • Browniecakes says:

        What else does she have to do?

  24. Gingerly says:

    Buzzfeed has an article about a poll focusing on the feud (it seems to be conducted by a decent survey company) and it says that 75% of US people heard about it, 55% don’t know/have no opinion, 34% pro Tay, and 8% pro KK. Not saying that the poll was accurate. But after reading it, I came to feel curious about how many people know/are really interested in this couple and even have some opinion about it. They have been exposed for about 40 days, but it’s anyway just one of those celebrity datings and does not have controversial elements.

    • BluBare-E says:

      Plus how much this is overshadowed by 14+ days of the circus that is our national party conventions.

      Nobody is going to beat out this show. It’s just unfortunate Tiddle timing.

  25. what's inside says:

    Tayto is alive and well….engagement Christmas and wedding Valentine’s Day or in June for the blushing bride. She is planning it as we speak and probably is fielding dress designers, that is why she did not accompany her unky wunky stunky.

  26. Hannah says:

    He’s more orange than orange- Oprah😂

  27. Rux says:

    I just have a theory/wish/ironic end to all of the Tiddlesbanging? What if this is great for Tom’s career a la Jennifer Aniston sort of?! Stay with me, what if he spins this into HIM being the victim of Taylor’s manipulations and rides this sympathy wave all the way to several Banks?! Probably on a ton of high paychecks to some decent movies and some bombs with big fat paydays.

    • Phoebe says:

      Thing is, in our society, it’s not good for a man to look like he got manipulated by a little girl and needs our sympathy. If he plays the victim he’ll be seen as meek and sad and not a “real man”. If he wants to be an action hero and be the lead guy in big movies, that’s not the reputation he’s going for…unfortunately the longer this goes on and especially after that “I heart TS” tank top, that’s the one he’s got.

    • sarah says:

      Depends. Is Tom ready to Say Taylor was “uncool”? If not …

  28. Bread and Circuses says:

    Which friend was it that Taylor was super-tight with up until the press started suggesting they might be lovers?

    And then Taylor dropped that friend like a hot potato and you barely-to-never saw them together again. If they were just friends, that must have felt incredibly cruel, to be dumped over press optics.

    I think Tom might be in danger of the same. Things definitely feel chillier than they did during the whirlwind loved-up European vacation. I think Taylor’s concerned about how it’s all playing to the crowd.

    Also, I didn’t think they were strictly a PR couple until someone pointed out the smooching-on-the-beach photos came out literally the day before Kim K and Kanye announced they had video that proved Taylor lied, and Taylor had a saved message to put out as her “reaction”, so she knew it was coming.

    Now I do think the Tiddlesbanging is staged. And since the relationship isn’t distracting anyone anymore, they haven’t got much incentive to keep pushing that storyline.

    • Luca76 says:

      Except that she’s still friends with Karlie Kloss so

    • spidey says:

      I do wonder how much Tom was in on the whole story.

      • jammypants says:

        If he didn’t realize it before, he sure does now. I didn’t mind them as a couple, but that Kanye video revealed how she constantly thinks of PR angles. Now I don’t think Tom is anymore than her PR fodder.

  29. guest says:

    nah they will last

  30. Abby_J says:

    I joined Tumblr (Someone please come save me from myself), a few months ago because one of my friends made me, and while I don’t follow a lot of people, or have a lot of people follow me, I have a friend who has been posting the most hysterical stuff since this Hiddleswift started, about Taylor’s crazy fans.

    They track her plane, they speculate what she had for breakfast, It’s crazy. I’m not just talking about the tweens who don’t know any better. I’m talking grown women who are stalking flight apps to see where she is.

    I have no idea how accurate they are, but according to them, her plane left Nashville late last night headed for LA, so if it’s true, they probably are going back together.

    That said, these people need mental help. Before her plane left, and while Tom was in the air, they were all up in arms about why they weren’t together, and what it meant. If she wasn’t going back with him, why didn’t he stop by Nashville and say goodbye? They were even speculating that because they spent 24 hours apart, it meant that she might have realized that she wanted Calvin back.

    Girls, this isn’t how it works in the real world. People have responsibilities and jobs that they must tend to, and even when you are truly, madly and deeply in love like Hiddleswift, you are gonna be apart some times.

    I hope none of these whacks marry someone in the military. I haven’t seen my husband in four months, except through a computer screen, and we are still very much in lourve.

    • shelly says:

      Jesus Abby that’s scary, there is an advert for an online betting company here in the UK that says ‘When the fun stops, STOP’ Maybe some of those loons should take it on board.

      It sounds like some people are way to invested in this, and its weird. I like it on here because it seems to be mostly good natured piss taking, with a healthy dose of snark thrown in. I haven’t come across anyone who genuinely cares deeply about two consenting adults doing whatever it is they are doing. Fauxmance or true love its just a bit of fun.

      • Abby_J says:

        I agree, Shelly. It’s insane. They NEEDED her to be going to Australia. It was like life as they knew it would be over if she didn’t. They had to be together because Tom is so perfect and blah blah blah. They were making me hate Hiddles, and I am a fan!

        Then again, I spent an hour following the rabbit hole that is Tumblr, reading what these crazy people were saying. When I was done, I thought about how much time I just wasted on it. Haha. )

      • Browniecakes says:

        Tumblr and me – come for the new candids; leave when the fan fiction begins

      • Abby_J says:

        @Browniecakes

        Does that mean you won’t come read my Hiddeswift fan fiction? It’s so dreamy! I have a whole new one where they are tasting wedding cakes and some gets on Taylor’s nose and so much love and hilarity ensues. It’s sooooooooooooooo sweet!

        Okay. Back to reality. I do love the pretty pictures, though.

      • jammypants says:

        @shelly, people are also speculating down to the technicality of Tom coming from the airport, going to the Beverly Hills hotel to pick up Luke or if he stayed at Taylor’s after Comic Con. It’s weird.

  31. spidey says:

    The phrase GET A LIFE comes to mind doesn’t it?

    Can you believe some people?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9-jnW4Umv0&feature=youtu.be

    • popup says:

      That woman is dripping with self-hatred. Before she asked the question, she gritted her teeth and said in a loud whisper, “I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.”

    • Bee says:

      You would HAVE to wonder what your life had come to, honestly. For Tom, AND for the paps asking uber embarrassing questions. Both should be questioning their life choices.

    • Browniecakes says:

      She could have mentioned the Best Ass win and really made Tom’s day.

  32. Guesto says:

    Tom getting ‘arse of the year’ is an unexpected joy.

  33. RUNSWITHSCISSORS says:

    If there’s a proposal (and I’m still hoping it won’t happen), it would have to be something very public for the paps, and wildly extravagant.

    How about hiring a sky writer? Then again, as long winded as His Nibs is, most of it might dissipate before the pilot was finished. Or the wind might turn it into something totally different, like “Surrender Dorothy.”

    • Christin says:

      A team of skywriters might work. It could take six planes for him to cover the words HE would need to ask ‘marry me?’

      • saltandpepper says:

        Note to skywriters: ‘I, Tom William ‘Rear of the Year’ Hiddleswift authentically ask for your authentic hand in marriage ye authentic Taylor Alison Swift. Will you authentically be my wife, like authentically?’

    • THEPELICAN says:

      Lol Surrender Dorothy?!!! 😃
      Do you live in Oz RWS?

      • RUNSWITHSCISSORS says:

        Ehehehe no, I don’t live in Oz – but I do live in Kansas!

        I’m waiting for him to wear a pair of red suede shoes so he can click his heels together 3 times and scream, “There’s no place like London!”

    • popup says:

      “Dear Taylor Swift, please marry me. Regards, Tom Hiddleston.”

  34. shelly says:

    Tom needs to brace himself for more pap snark at airports and such like…The money shot for the paps is getting their target to lose his temper and snap and they can be pretty brutal about what they shout in order to get a reaction.
    Tommyanne will need to toughen up.

  35. lexx says:

    Hiddles could be rehabbed if, post taylor he dated a Alicia Vikander, FKA Twigs or other cool girl type.

  36. MI6 says:

    ,,,did Tom win Ass of the Year for his bum or for being Taylor Swift’s boyfriend?
    #samething

    • TotallyBiased says:

      The voting for rear of the year occurred prior to HiddleSwift. So next you can imply he wouldn’t have rec’d this high honour if it had been more recent!

      • MI6 says:

        Lighten up, Fuzzball.

      • Becky says:

        TB, he wouldn’t have had the piss taken out of him as much though. The ridicule in the press – Guardian, NYT, Telegraph, Vulture – has been to do with his involvement with Swift.

  37. ennuiarethechampions says:

    I can’t believe Tom’s butt didn’t tweet to thank all the people who voted for it. Tom’s butt doesn’t seem to care about its fans anymore, even though we made Tom’s butt what it is today. I think fame has changed Tom’s butt. It’s very sad.

    • BluBare-E says:

      Yes, either fame has changed Tom’s butt, or Tom’s butt was never really Tom’s butt at ALL. Tom’s butt has just been faking being Tom’s butt-the nice guy, and Tom’s butt-the serious actor, and Tom’s butt the Thespian Butt. Tom’s butt’s been lying to us all along, and this it the Real Tom’s Butt.

    • MI6 says:

      😅😅😅
      Implants
      How dreadfully inauthentic.

    • FW says:

      But Tom’s Butt knows what it does and is committed to it and doesn’t care what other Ass thinks and that should be ok. #authentic Butt certified

    • lilacflowers says:

      @ennuaire, I don’t want to think about Tom or anyone else’s butt tweeting.

      But Tom’s butt is authentic.

    • Dara says:

      Ever since Tom’s butt got drunk at that party and came home with a snake tattoo, Tom’s butt just hasn’t been the same. Longtime fans can tell just by looking that Tom’s butt is desperate to get rid of the snake, but it cannot find a graceful way to remove it without permanent scarring. In the meantime, Tom’s butt has lost is usual perky demeanor, it’s bouncy joie de vivre is nowhere to be seen.

  38. Zav says:

    Its amazing that she just vanish whenever she wants to… all those fake PDA is just to distract ppl from kim GQ magazine. If they so “authentically” in love, why hide? When Tom wears that “i heart TS” tank top, every news, newspaper, magazines, blogs and gossip sites thought it was embarrassing for a 35 y/o. Now he thinks his career wont be affected.. sure. What a joke.

    • spidey says:

      If he had worn a t-shirt supporting ISIS his career would have been affected, but wearing a silly t-shirt at a party I doubt it very much.

      • shelly says:

        I agree its not a career ending move, it has just damaged his image a bit.

        In the high court of judgemental opinion, being uncool is probably seen as a worse move than doing drugs or getting caught with a prostitute, in the skewed world of fame looking silly seems to be a worse crime than being bad.

        People quite like a screw up, especially if the actor concerned gets his act together, does a Mea Culpa on a talk show, and gets a good part in film or whatever, Robert Downey Jnr being a prime example.

        Wearing a silly vest, with a heart painted on your arm in face paint, like a six year old at a birthday party is not a good look on a 35 year old man, but TH will get over it. I don’t think the work will dry up, he’ll just have to endure a bit of piss taking for a while.

        Normally the main stream media wouldn’t have picked up on it, but because he is with someone so high profile, people are sticking the boot into him, not just on gossip sites but in the papers and on TV.

    • Sophie says:

      So true.

    • Zav says:

      alright, i admit defeat

      • MaybeLater says:

        No, you’re not wrong. His career will be affected because his image has been affected and those two are inexorably linked in the acting world and in Hollywood.

        How his career will be affected remains to be seen.

      • BluBare-E says:

        @MaybeLater

        His image has mostly taken hits among a portion of his fans and among tabloid gossip circuits. As for the rest of mainstream US, his image hasn’t really been hurt because they never knew who he was much less what his image is.

        In HW what’s going to matter more is that now more people, especially of a certain demographic, know the name Hiddleston. Tabloid embarrassment goes away after a while especially when most people don’t really care and don’t think he’s an A-hole. So it really won’t be something that is remembered by most, except for tabloid gossipers.

    • MaybeLater says:

      Off the top of my head, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, Huffington Post all had articles about the t-shirt seen around the world.

      Those aren’t tabloids. Three are respected broadsheets and the other a respected news outlet. And none of those were enamored with the t-shirt or TH’s antics. Some subtly dragged him, a few outright mocked him.

      It was embarrassing for a 35-year-old. And it will not have done his career any good. The negative impact remains to be seen.

    • BluBare-E says:

      @MaybeLater

      I think you’ll find those publications, especially Guardian and Telegraph are not as respectable as they once were. In fact their *respectability* is plummeting faster that Hiddles or Tiddles and any other celebrity fiasco combined. If you read the comments when they run a Tiddles story half of them are criticisms of the publication and journalist for running yet again, another non-story, non-news item merely for the clicks.

      This is a phenomenon with most all news publications right now. Traditional journalism is almost nonexistent now. Only a few publications staff investigative reporters and fact checkers, and maybe just two in US have staffed correspondent journalists.

      Because of the shrinking of traditional press papers, the remaining established pubs are online mostly now, but they are finding it very difficult to acquire paying customers because of the nature of the internet where people can just do a search and find information for free. This is why these formerly “respectable” pubs are now resorting to tabloid celebrity click baiting tactics.

    • MaybeLater says:

      Do you live in the UK, BlueBare? The Guardian and Telegraph are as respectable as they have ever been. Don’t make me laugh. Just because they’ve mocked your precious boy doesn’t make them fit for fish. And tab or broad, doesn’t matter, he’s been mocked and this relationship questioned across all media outlets.

      • BluBare-E says:

        I don’t need to live in UK to see all the comments on their site of readers complaining how their reporting standards have lowered with the increase of celebrity, click bait style journalism.

  39. FW says:

    See no evidence that they’re going to breakup. Everything Tiddles goes too fast. I stop predicting what is going to happen. just sit back a while and I’ll know. For example, I know they flew in AU via commercial and returned to LA via private plane. So I know they can travel under radar without any pap photo. They can fly the private plane long distance. They chose to fly commercial probably because they wanted the grand welcome party at the airport.

    are they going back to AU together? is there a proposal? we, too, will see. very soon;)

  40. freebunny says:

    Hiddles always looks like he’s about to cry. He has a crying rest face.