Blind Item #1
So, you have a boyfriend that is going through financial problems and having to hide money in various shell companies. You just found out you are pregnant. Your income is not going to get you through. You get a call from an old friend who used to help you make connections that a foreign born A list actor is looking for some company and you would be perfect. You see your chance. You seduce him the first night so the pregnancy story will work. A month later you tell him you are pregnant. He now is not only giving you money which you funnel to your boyfriend, but the actor even marries you because he is a standup guy who won't leave his pregnant girlfriend single.
Sounds rather Cumbersome.
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ReplyDeleteI know fact is stranger than fiction but these Cumberbatch blinds are getting crazy. However nothing would surprise me.
ReplyDeleteThis. Did. Not. Happen.
ReplyDeleteI neither care nor don't care for Mr C. But really? Really?
G'mornin Dena & Brin, Cumbersome(love the nickname btw) fits but,as ive said before,gotta be B.S. b/c if we know & Enty knows then Cumbersome & his people would OBVIOUSLY know.And if true he simply gets an annulment b/c marriage was based on Fraud committed by Sophie... in short,B.S. unless there's an annulment once baby is born & blood/dna tests taken.
ReplyDeleteoh...& Good Mornin to @ ITF,@Poppy & @ Violet too!!! : )
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ReplyDeleteHow does it work, is the name on the birth certificate the dad legally ?
ReplyDeleteSo what happens when the baby is early…and I read somewhere she still lives with the boyfriend...
Definitely Cumberbatch/Hunter. But seriously, these BIs are getting more and more crazy. This is entering fanfiction territory, tbh.
ReplyDelete@Misch,you probably read it here Feb10th/Blind #9. -Re:your other query-if the baby arrives prematurely yet is a healthy bouncing 9lb.bundle of joy then Sophie's got some 'Splaining to do....
ReplyDeleteAnother make believe story IMO. I dont buy it. But yeah the blind pertains to Cumberbatch and Hunter.
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ReplyDeleteChaining the popular Cumber-guessed/revealed blinds together from the past year, they all seem to be part of on ongoing narrative, where all the pieces--unbelievably--fit.
Usually Enty fan fiction is not as cohesive, or at least much more inconsistent.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Or...alternatively,he doesn't care whose baby it is &/or they have an arrangement..Either way,he has certainly heard all this gossip,the rumours,whispers,the BI's,etc.
ReplyDeleteUmm but confused because why would she need connections to someone she's known for years? They have a group of mutual friends. This seems to be part of the fan fic where he's the poor victim. So he didn't hire as an escort this time but it was a blind date? The blinds dont bother me as much as the inconsistencies do.
ReplyDeleteCould be true and BC might suspect someting is up, but maybe his PR doesnt want to do anything about it until after the Oscar campaign?
ReplyDeleteLong shot but if this is older gossip - Kerr/Bloom. If not like the Cumberbatch guess.
ReplyDelete"why would she need connections to someone she’s known for years? They have a group of mutual friends." They may have worked on something in 2009 but that doesn't mean they kept in contact with eachother. And I really don't think he's all that close to some of the friends they share. Andrew Scott and James Rhodes, yes. Gambles, Eloise, and the rest of that pretentious trustafarian bunch that he also somehow knows? Doubt it.
ReplyDelete@van,then wouldn't he have just stayed engaged thru next Sunday,Oscar Night & then wiggled his way out of it somehow afterwards??
ReplyDeleteAlso: I don't think Enty ever meant that Benedict himself hired her as an escort. It's just that she was one in the past and she used it to her advantage to get some money from a director a few years back.
ReplyDeleteFanfiction and exaggerated, maybe, but it could also have a grain of truth to it.
Some people are suspecting they might have had this wedding planned since the beginning and he wasn't able to back out due to contractual obligations.
ReplyDeleteSounds weird, I know, but it makes sense with the Oscar vote timing: Engagement announcement 2 days before US oscar campaign kicks off, wedding a few days before final Oscar voting ends.
Besides, I think that booking a church wedding on Valentines day,would be something that has to be done super early whether or not you're a celebrity.
I agree with everything you said @back again!
ReplyDeletelol this so did not happen. Enty you gotta stop accepting blinds those crazy Cumberbitches who can't deal with 'their boy' getting married. Their obsession with his preggo wife is making Directioners look sane.
ReplyDeleteFalse. She returned to London in May, appeared with Ben in Hay in late May. If this were true, then she should already be pregnant. We have the same pregnancy August-September somewhere. Not suitable history - by the time they have seen each other for several months.
ReplyDelete@van, Gambles was with him in coney Island trip a few years back. And they both know David Birkin. Plus what was the whole secret girlfriend thing in April last Year?
ReplyDeleteEven on The Isle Of Wight? He could've easily paid off another couple to move their Ceremony back or forward...even by mere hours..maybe??
ReplyDeleteAll I know is that I saw Frank Randall from "Outlander" at their wedding & I swear he looked like he was looking for Claire amongst the thickets.
ReplyDeleteBut it's supposed to be a pillow baby, not a real baby, right? Hahaha.
ReplyDeleteBut if this is true she would have 5-6 months pregnant at the engagement announcement.
People on Tumblr are now speculating this blind is a plant, because she really can't be pregnant, and this blind item is a future excuse for an out of the marriage without actually telling people why they broke up. Weird.
Why do people say she is/was a prostitute? According to Wikipedia, it sounds like she's been extremely busy studying theater internationally, writing, directing, and winning the Samuel Beckett Award. In fact, she sounds like the artistic equal of Mr. Cumberbatch minus the popular BBC series, and therefore, a logical partner.
ReplyDeleteThis cumberbatch stuff is getting silly..and I normally adore the ridiculous. If he saved a bus load of orphans clutching puppies, he wouldn't be the Oscar favorite, and yet people think a pregnancy is a vote getter? You have to spread the word you're dying, and you have to be Liz Taylor...only way it works.
ReplyDeleteIt's been suggested that Sophie wasn't even the "secret girlfriend" that was hinted at early in 2014. From February to April he was frequently seen with a woman named Lady Kinvara Balfour. Sophie came onto the scene in May, and didn't seem to be actually dating him until the summer.
ReplyDelete"So, you have a boyfriend that is going through financial problems.."
ReplyDeleteThis can't be Cumberbatch. He just bought a $10.5 million house in Hidden Hills, Ca, a story that's been all over the web this week with lots of pictures.
Another BI says that she lives with her long term boyfriend, not Cumberbatch. But everything sounds silly now.
ReplyDelete@slim shady, dissecting all the fake blinds here is quickly replacing the fun that used to be had guessing correct answers, lol
ReplyDeleteThey may have reconnected in May but it seems like they didn't become close with eachother until around July- when the French Open took place. But even then she wasn't seen frequently with him, and she was in Dublin while he celebrated his birthday in London. Don't you think a serious girlfriend would spend time with her boyfriend on his birthday? August-September she was all over Scotland with a group of friends, while Benedict was in completely different locations.
ReplyDeleteIt's so damn confusing.
Wikipedia is definitely not a reliable source and can be edited by anyone, just saying. I searched her on there right when the engagement was announced and none of those accomplishments were on there until pretty recently. They were only added when all these articles talking about how benedict is her "trophy boyfriend" came out. Like this one, for instance: http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/2015-01-13/benedict-cumberbatch-sophie-hunter-baby-mama/
ReplyDeleteAlso, a lot of her accomplishments have been proven to be false or incredibly exaggerated. Like the the Samuel Beckett award was given to a production group she was working with, not her alone. And the Lacuna Theatre has even released a statement saying she is not actually affiliated with them at all.
No. He was in Dublin with friends. She was in London with the guy leader of the choir (photo proof)
ReplyDeleteAll those you saw on instagram aren't proof, you don't know for sure when they're taken. Just when their posted. And one of them said throwback Thursday and some were posted 630am. Who takes pics at 630am? Can I vote that that March be benedict free March. There have been way way too many of his blinds.
ReplyDeleteObviously Sophie Hunter
ReplyDeleteBoyfriend w financial troubles = Matthew 'Gambles' Siskin
Old friend = Harvey Weinstein
Stand up person who marries you believing it's actually his kid = Benedict Cumberbatch
@NW1, I think we have a winner. The part about Matthew having trouble with money still doesn't add up for me though. Matthew released a smashing debut album 'Trust' in 2013. Regardless, thanks for interpreting this blind correctly. Now if we only knew whether it's really true or not that Enty knows more about Cumberbatch's kid than Cumberbatch does...
ReplyDeleteChristopher Tietjens, Parade's End. Swish. Nothing but net.
ReplyDeleteI know where this came from, in fact I referred the person to CDAN/Enty so it's legit. Don't be so quick to call things 'bs' k? Sophie's babydaddy is Gambles, she pinned the kid on Benedict and now he's married her to save face. He probably has his doubts but the truth will come out once the DNA test is done. Benedict is not going to raise another man's kid and Sophie is probably going to ask for a nice sum to leave quietly. He can either give in or openly accuse her of fraud.
ReplyDeleteHarvey Weinstein produced the failed play she directed, ENRON. I thought perhaps, Harvey figured it'd be an easy way to make up for the bomb that it was.
ReplyDeleteLMAO, oh boy have you drunk the Kool Aid. There are people in the know who have dissected SH's CV, read their comments just for laughs. You will find that it's full of hot air much like Sophie herself. Actual opera people calling BS on her claims and even a theater gal who worked with her in NYC called her an entitled novice. But wait, there's more. Folks in NYC AND the UK including a sex industry insider confirmed that SH was a high-class 'working girl'. HW knew about it and that's how she financed her lifestyle for the most part.
ReplyDeleteI am now wiping my computer screen of the coffee I just spewed. Best line of the comments hands down!
ReplyDeleteAh ok, thanks for correcting me on that. Must have switched it up in my head because it's just so much to remember!
ReplyDeleteYour talking about "dontcallmejane"? A quick blurb about cdan on the daily mail means you referred her here? Did that lady even know what cdan means? This blind means she was 5-6 pregnant when they got engaged.
ReplyDeleteThere was like 20 producers on that play. I doubt Harvey put in that much money.
ReplyDeleteGood to know. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI just knew that was one of their connections and Harvey is shady as hell.
Gaston, I agree with you there. Benedict has said repeatedly in the past how much he admired and identified with the character Christopher Tietjens, so now that Sophie pulled this stunt on him, it makes sense that he'd start playing Christopher IRL.
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ReplyDeleteIn the book , Parades End didnt the baby end up actually being his?
ReplyDeleteThese BC blinds are made up BS to please cumberbitches or whatever they are called. Utter BS, imo. His fans for some reason are going to great lengths and would grasp at any made-up story to deny the authenticity of his relationship. I mean, there might be some questionable things, but this is too much. Judging anyone who buys this, tbh. Reminds me of 1D fans who want everyone in the band to be gay.
ReplyDelete[…] Blind Item: So, you have a boyfriend that is going through financial problems and having to hide money in various shell companies. You just found out you are pregnant. Your income is not going to get you through. You get a call from an old friend who used to help you make connections that a foreign-born A list actor is looking for some company and you would be perfect. You see your chance. You seduce him the first night so the pregnancy story will work. A month later you tell him you are pregnant. He now is not only giving you money which you funnel to your boyfriend, but the actor even marries you because he is a standup guy who won’t leave his pregnant girlfriend single. […]
ReplyDeletePerhaps he will nickname the child of the woman he married;Pengwings and won't be too greatly bothered by nosey public opinions...^ - ^
ReplyDeleteIt could also be Holmes/Cruise. I always say KH was shady as hell.
ReplyDeleteI call BS. What kind of guy marries a woman with her past (i think there was another BI about Hunter being escort) without paternity test? Even Cmberbatch can't be that stupid. Seriously, there is nothing weird about this relationship. he knocked her up at one of the first dates, he decided to do the right thing, but at the same time, being in the awards season, he milked his private life to the fullest. That's it. no escort, no Weinstein, no secret boyfriends, just Cumberbatch and his messed up idea of how Oscar campaign should look like. I give them 6 months till taboids start to publish articles about "trouble in paradise" and another 6 months till they fill for divorce and enter a very public and dirty custody battle.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't make sense for anyone the way it's written. It would make more sense if the pregnancy happened after the red carpet girlfriend stuff started. Guys do think with their dicks sometimes, but wouldn't you be a little suspicious if the first thing your red carpet gf wants to do after meeting you is screw without a condom? Maybe it's Cumberbatch (he is gullible), maybe it's not, but I just can't see it going down with anybody like this.
ReplyDelete+1 @ Yahti. Someone he barely knows says he made her pregnant and he just ups and marries her without a paternity test? Anyone that clueless can't even manage to tie their own shoes. This blind is total fiction.
ReplyDeleteThe guy involved may not know about prenatal paternity tests, or it may be too early to get one. And yeah, if it's Cumberbatch, I can see him being that gullible; he's had a stream of people using him, and Hunter is surrounded by experts in the art of using people. But if it's not him, it would have to be someone just as gullible.
ReplyDelete@dancer, surely someone he knows, a family member, close friend, agent, publicist, any number of show business savvy types, etc. would have argued, aggressively, against a rising star marrying a near stranger based entirely upon her word. There's no way this blind is true.
ReplyDeleteI'm calling BS on these blinds.
ReplyDeleteThere's gullible and there's completely simple. I don't think Benedict is simple! In fact, I think he's a very intelligent man. Neither would he think he had to marry his baby mama in order to get an Oscar. We're not living in the dark ages!
Plus, if it was so easy for others to find out Sophie Hunter was a high class call girl, don't you think he could also find out? And if he knew, don't you think he'd realise others would know soon enough?
If he came out as gay, the fans be denying the possibility of that too. I really think that they would prefer him to be asexual, like his Sherlock character, and can't accept that he might be romantically attached to anyone. Hence these stupid rumours.
Do you really think that man has a lot of good support right now? He looks like he's got toothache and he's alienating fans in droves. He's surrounded by users and famewhores. Whether the blind is true or not, whether it's about him or not, he needs smarter, better help NOW.
ReplyDeleteHe didn't know about Katia, even though he was able to get clear of her pretty quickly. That said, he didn't have an Oscar campaign on at the time that required him to look straight in a hurry. And I've seen fans begging the man to come out already. I think he's really kind of close with guys, myself, but I'm a former fan-- his comments about people with autism did it for me.
ReplyDeleteFirst time poster. Even I have to jump in and say that this story makes no sense. Anything is possible but I am just seeing a slideshow of different backstory possibilities, trying to see what fits.
ReplyDeleteThis is starting to feel more like some sort of pitch session at a PR brainstorming meeting, trying to decide which narrative to go with. "Benedict Cumberbatch: Shenanigans in Santo Domingo! You Will Be Shocked!"
Exactly. Amnio is optional, many mothers opt out because of the risks involved and to be on the safe side it is done at 15-20 weeks. SH may have said ok at first then deliberately revealed her pregnancy at PSFF putting BC in a bind. He couldn't force her to go through with it afterwards. If she was already pregnant by someone else she was 3-4 weeks further along than BC thought. What could he do at that point? Start a paternity dispute in the middle of award season? No. So he married her to save face while knowing full well that if a postnatal DNA test proves that it's not his he will be granted an annulment. That is his out.
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