Showbusiness agent Tony Fitzpatrick did not mince words and said that Cumberbatch’s honor was a “political decision” made purely for his celebrity status. He noted, “In the old days of showbiz, you had to be in the business for decades before you got honoured, now it’s to do with the size of your audience. It’s about making money. Benedict Cumberbatch is flavour of the month so it’s a political coup for whoever awards him the honor.”
What was that? Skeptics are all ‘crazy’? If that’s not an industry warning to tone down the famewhoring I don’t know what is. Either way it’s not going to look good. If he accepts he better put on his fireproof suit. If he declines ATLM it could go either way. Either it’ll be seen as pure damage control or he may earn PR points, especially if he uses that to push for the pardon. To think that all of this would have been avoided had ‘someone’ not spilled…
