“We can’t manipulate time or space in the way that someone like Doctor Strange can, with his powers in this film and beyond – but we can definitely practice mindfulness, we can practice the ability to be present, kind, considerate, and strong and resilient, true to what we believe – and I think we all need to find what that is these days, but I wouldn’t want to escape what’s going on in the world now by going forward or backwards.” – Benedict Cumberbatch (x)
Spare us the hackneyed platitudes BC, you are neither mindful nor compassionate towards yourself. You are resilient but ultimately weak-willed and have done nothing but go backwards since this farce began…
“We can’t manipulate time or space in the way that someone like Doctor Strange can, with his powers in this film and beyond – but we can definitely practice mindfulness, we can practice the ability to be present, kind, considerate, and strong and resilient, true to what we believe – and I think we all need to find what that is these days, but I wouldn’t want to escape what’s going on in the world now by going forward or backwards.” – Benedict Cumberbatch (x)
Spare us the hackneyed platitudes BC, you are neither mindful nor compassionate towards yourself. You are resilient but ultimately weak-willed and have done nothing but go backwards since this farce began…
And Sophie totally looks like she’s looking at the love of her life playing with their baby, doesn’t she?
Staged AF and PSd to hell and back too. I am willing to bet that these were going to be published along with the article in the Fail but were pulled ATLM. Now why would that be? Because it’s a PR tug-of-war with BC in the middle, following the suggestions of people who are utterly incompetent. Add HW to the mix and it gets even crazier. It is entirely possible that they couldn’t agree on what to do so one side just dumped the photos. Boy oh boy is this going to get messy and ugly BTS…
I don’t mind the endorsements. He’s not the first celebrity to endorse brands, he won’t be the last. What I do have a problem with is the fact that his coat tail riders (I’m looking straight at you Baity Joe) have no tact, and it ends up being waaaaaaaaaay too obvious.
At least we still get DressesInTheDarkBatch whenever he’s not trying to prove he’s a real family man whose wife and children are not PR stunts, so there’s that… ;o)
That is all true. @annashipper. Your nonny has got a point here. I think the same about MF and BC. They are just professional colleagues, but not friends. Martin does not like what has become of BC. It is the opposite of what he believes in.
Sigh. There’s a difference between being a paid spokesperson and being a sneaky spokesperson, though.
Exactly, everyone knows celebs plug stuff but when they try to be overly sneaky about it? It looks like they are trying to fool their audience and it also gives the impression that we only matter as consumers. If your thirsty friends are constantly piggybacking off you as well? You are going to lose a lot of credibility along with respect…
So, HW is putting all his money on a lame horse. We know it won’t win and that HW will take it out on BC. HW is like the Donald Trump of the movie biz, a narcissistic manchild, petty and vindictive. BC is done for unless Disney stages a PR and legal intervention. They better get a move on…
Some of the positive things we’ve heard about BC is that he’s a hard worker who goes above and beyond what is asked of him during filming. He’s got a good sense of humor and is nice…provided he’s in a good mood that day which is a lot less frequent since the ShamWow started. Bad things we’ve heard (including set leaks) BC can also be mingy, neurotic, paranoid, snappy and arrogant. He’s developed a bit of a divatude which I hope, for his sake, is temporary…
As do I. The source of it is none other than…Newscorp! Publishers of The Times and The Sun but The Guardian has less than flattering things to say about this project. Nigel Farage himself is said to be Executive Producer, connect the dots. So either this is HW stupidly trying to drum up hype for TIFF or Team Soso is at it again…
No I don’t agree, obviously. But people need to see what this mess is doing to his reputation .
I’ll tell you what isn’t cool Nonny, the fact that a ‘pussy-whipped luvvie’ is precisely the image that PR is putting out there. I know that as a skeptic I am sick to death of it, if the genders were reversed SoFail would have gotten torn to bits by the public. Simply put BC is a man who seems incapable of standing up to and breaking free from a visibly abusive woman with NPD. A man who has let fame go to his head and who has adopted the worst traits of his miserable SO. I believe BC to be better than that but he needs to start showing a backbone. Is that enough of a clarification for you?
Could be. Maybe to counter the Daily Mail article?
MM is a freelancer who’s done work for DC, Icon, Image, Marvel and Top Cow comics. MM’s last Marvel adaptation was Logan, he’s banking on adaptations of his own ‘Millarworld’ titles via 20th Century Fox and Netflix for most of his future earnings. The wording and emphasis of the tweet is more in keeping with SoFail’s camp. Implicit racism of the type MM exhibited isn’t Disney’s style either. PR firms like KC rep some big names so asking for a wee favor from someone like MM isn’t that difficult. If they did that it’s a clever way to make it look like it’s from the opposing camp…
Hey team Z, you might want to get your stories straight before unleashing your plans.
A 4.5 day ‘vacay’….after which BC was papped eating ice cream back home with some dudebro. SoFail is emphatically referred to as “Mrs. B Cumberbatch” and MM is Scottish so I’m also going with Team Soso for this bit of PR fiction. MM’s also a right twat for suggesting that he’d feel safer with a pussy-whipped luvvie and a career felon than with the native Majorcans. I’ve got Spanish relatives and Mark is a perfect example of the ‘guiris’ we love to hate. Fuck off to Corsica next time so you can get stabbed, thanks.
A lovely closet Skeptic sent me proof that not only Ben was scoffing down ice cream at leafy Hampstead yesterday, but also that Seb had seen a picture of him scoffing down said ice-cream and knew that he wasn’t scoffing down said ice-cream with his wife.
Let’s take this from the start, shall we?
At 01:44 in the morning, the Fail publishes this article, and the closet Skeptic who shall remain anonymous catches a glimpse of it on pressreader.com. The first article published on the Fail during the night includes a pic of Ben scoffing down ice-cream. Because… ice-cream:
The write up is the same as the one that the Fail kept on the later ammended article, although Seb or an eagle eyed editor on the Fail must have realised the above picture shows Ben in the company of a brunette man with man hands, that’s wearing men’s clothes, who’s not wearing Weirdo’s engagement and wedding ring, and who’s taller than Ben.
So they take down the pic at 8:48 in the morning:
and replace it with a picture of Ben in Sherlock garb, but keep the write-up from Seb the same:
Because … as we’ve already established… Seb is a believer (LINK).
By the way, we know that Seb had seen the pic that would accompany the article, because he mentioned Ben’s baseball cap and sunglasses, as well as the blue shirt. The fact that he also mentioned black jeans tells me the pic might be a full body one.
I’d just like to know why the Fail paid for the rights to a papped pic but chose to forego using it in favour of using one of Ben dressed as Sherlock. Was it because they’re pushing a certain narrative? If so, who dictates what the narrative Seb is pushing will be?
A great big THANK YOU to the wonderful closet Skeptic who had the forethought to screencap from pressreader.com!
First things first:
Oh. My. God! This is hilarious! Hahaaa! They took down that very tightly cropped picture, did they? Hahaaa! Well, it didn’t really match the text anyway. Now we have a pretty picture of Sherlock instead!
P.S.: I kinda know what they meant about ‘scoffing’
P.S.2: What the hell is this mess again, PR???
Look at it this way, if The Sun and The Fail can fuck with Prince Harry by printing outright lies on behalf of MegIT Sparkle? BC doesn’t stand a chance. Why do you think I strongly suspect London PR firm Kruger Cowne of abetting both famehoes? They seem to have a special partnership with those rags…
Hi Nonny and thank you for the LINK! I care! A LOT! 😀
So… PR has now replaced baity unverified twitter sightings with baity unverified Fail sightings. And the Fail, being the beacon of hard hitting journalism that it is, actually went ahead and published. COOL!
I have questions. So many questions:
Did Seb run into the Dismals himself and they refused to take a selfie with him, or did someone call this in?
Was it uncle Harvey?
Was it Karon?
Was it Weirdo?
Was it Ben?
Why are there no twitter sightings, no facebook sightings, no instagram sightings (no linkedin sightings even) of Ben and Weirdo walking through leafy Hampstead enjoying their ice creams? Was Seb the only one that saw them? Does this mean he’s one of the few true believers?
Were there Trees Of Proofiness™? Or at least Leafs Of Proofiness™? This was in “leafy Hampstead Heath” after all.
Was there a tandem bike involved, or was it just tandem-bike-less ice cream scoffing? I’m asking for a friend. Her name is Ballsy.
Isn’t Seb aware of the fact that Ben is not self-styled anymore? Did he miss the coverage of Baity Joe’s store opening from the Fail four months ago? LINK
Does the lack of pictures mean PR have finally realised Weirdo can’t be trusted not to smile straight at the paparazzi during pap walks?
Does the lack of pictures mean Weirdo is on holidays and couldn’t be bothered to fly into the UK for crystal clear sneaky pics at the festival or a pap walk in leafy Hampstead?
Does PR not realise this sighting on the Fail would be a great opportunity for them to leak at least one clear picture of Weirdo at the Wilderness Festival?
Couldn’t Weirdo get a new pair of sandals to sell?
Why weren’t any of the pillows with Ben and Weirdo at leafy Hampstead
Doesn’t Pilo deserve ice cream?
Doesn’t Pilo 2.0 deserve sunlight?
And of course that brings me to a whole other list of questions which I’m not gonna ask. Instead, I’ll draw a parallel and allow everyone to come up with their own questions.
According to the Fail, Pilo 2.0 was born on March 3rd. That makes him 5 months and 11 days old. By the time Pilo was 5 months old, we’d already had:
A “sneaky” pic of Ben pushing a hermetically sealed pram through leafy Hampstead on Father’s Day (when Pilo was 21 days old)
A pap walk on Pilo’s christening (when Pilo was 3 months 13 days old)
A pap walk through leafy Hampstead of Ben and Weirdo running errands with Pilo (when Pilo was 3 months and 18 days old)
Dearest Intern, tell Karon to tell Ben to tell whoever is coming up with ideas to prove Pilo 2.0 is real that they’re slacking.
Also, thank Seb for starting my day off with a giggle! 😀
Ballsy: I
thoroughly refuse to stop pouting until I finally get pics of the Dismals +
Pilos riding a tandem-bike with ice-creams. The bike sightings without pics from Atlanta =
pouting. Ice-cream eating reports from
the Daily Fail – with a full description of Ben’s attire, without a full
description of So-Fail’s fugly shoes she’s shilling this week – again without
pics = pouting.
At this point I will
accept nothing less than a 2 page spread in Vogue of the Dismals + Pilos on a
tandem-bike, all tucking into individual tiny Häagen-Dazs ice-creams, with
every item of clothing worn by all listed by Designer, including the name of
the Bike manufacturer. There also needs
to be at least 4 trees of proofiness.
I will remain pouting
until that happens. Chop to it PR!
I want that SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!
Now wouldn’t that be a sight!? Aww, how all these tender moments remain hidden from us even after 3 years…aww.
Hahahaha. Not even lunch break yet over here and I am giggling already……..:-D That is so funny.
eww, the royals of oddities
We asked for ice-cream and the Fail delivered an unverified sighting sent in by someone on either PR team. A shame they didn’t plug some shop! Judging from the BI reveal and birth info fuckery? I suspect it was Team Soso. 2 out of the 3 flat out make BC look bad, this latest blurb makes it harder for the Rat to pry her off of him. I wonder if he has to pay her every time she gets her name printed next to his? Probably…
(please post anon) yeah, but lets remember, didn’t BC grandparents have a lot of money? didn’t they pay all those pounds for his education? even if he paid them back, its not like he had to pay back some back at huge interest. even if he went on to pay for his education, home etc, thats pretty easy when eventually youre making millions and can be debt free before 40. i don’t know what a “golden crib” is, but this man has had basically every advantage in life handed to him, one way or another.
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I think his dad’s parents had money, nonny. But this change doesn’t sound like something Benedict would do. If it was, we’d have seen it all along. I smell fuckery…Zero fuckery. I think your reaction is exactly what she was going for, too. It just shows how desperate she and her cronies have become.
What.A.Surprise. This has SoFail’s hoofprints all over it. First she tried using a BI to repair her rep while belittling BC’s perfomance in Hamlet. Now her people are trying to make him out to be a posh wanker…yo Disney/Marvel PR:
