So you think that Ben wanted an Oscar enough that he hired someone to be his red carpet girlfriend and then has proceeded, over the course of several years, to convince his family and colleagues to drop information to the media in support of the fake relationship, fake marriage, and fake children? And you don’t think it is just an unplanned pregnancy subjected to incredible levels of scrutiny? Occam’s razor: Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.
I believe Harvey Weinstein thought he could get a multitude of Oscars for The Imitation Game and convinced Benedict Cumberbatch he knew what the best way for him to get one on the way would be. I think Harvey Weinstein would have been right about The Imitation Game by the way, had the year been 1996 and not 2015.
I believe Harvey Weinstein used Benedict Cumberbatch (a man whose name is clickbait gold) to market a film that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. LIke I said, it wasn’t 1996.
I believe the red carpet girlfriend was Harvey Weinstein’s idea because he needed to shape Ben’s image into something conventional the majority of the Academy members would vote for.
I believe Sophie Hunter was presented as a red carpet girlfriend choice by David Birkin who, at the time, was married to one of her best friends: Eloise Fornieles.
I believe it didn’t hurt at all that Harvey Weinstein had connections to Sophie Hunter as well. To be fair, she looked like a shoo in for the part on paper.
I believe Sophie Hunter was tried out as a potential red carpet girlfriend at the French Open, but that idea was dropped when people assumed Benedict Cumberbatch was attending the match alone. That’s why he kept dating blondes well beyond the French Open during the summer, and seen out in public with them.
I believe as time moved on and Kinvara Balfour dropped out of the game, pressed for time, Benedict Cumberbatch decided to give it a go, and with Harvey Weinstein’s go ahead, Sophie Hunter was introduced to the world as the mysterious woman who’d stolen the internet boyfriend’s heart.
I believe the engagement announcement was Sophie Hunter’s idea and that’s why Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch’s name wasn’t printed correctly on that notice.
I believe Benedict Cumberbatch was starting to have second thoughts on the whole matter, but then was stunned to see Sophie Hunter reveal a mis-shaped bump on the red carpet at PSIFF. His face and her face on that red carpet speak volumes.
I believe he refused to confirm the news of the pregnancy and Harvey Weinstein realised it generated a whole lot of buzz around his leading man’s name (the main selling point of The Imitation Game), so Sophie Hunter was allowed to keep baiting while Benedict Cumberbatch looked pissy and Harvey Weinstein was rubbing his hands while feeding the tabloids with blatantly set up pap walks.
I believe a deal was struck between Benedict Cumberbatch and Harvey Weinstein where if he lost the Golden Globe, he would confirm the pregnancy just in time to rake in the votes for the Oscars.
I could go on for pages upon pages Nonny, but I won’t because I’ve already bored myself, this post is long enough as it is, and I have quite a few more asks to get through.
If you’re still interested in what I believe, you may go through my archive. You may also find multiple visual aids in my archive, explaining why I will never believe the pregnancy that led to the birth of Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch was real.
Anyone who saw that “look-at-me-I’m-finally-relevant!” expression on Sophie’s face when she “revealed” the bump wouldn’t need convincing that the entire enterprise has been a crock.
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Very good summary Anna and you know HW uses NDAs. After I saw BC fiddle with the first prosthetic twice and then saw SH sporting a second fake belly at that LL dinner this past December? Coupled with the mountain of evidence we have gathered as a community? I had no doubt that SH had pulled a long con via blackmail and was further securing her payout via not one but two “shelf babies”.
