Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Today's Blind Items - The Stranger
So, the paps are trying their best, but have failed to figure it out so two tabloid reporters have been assigned to follow this newly married couple with the A list movie/television actor who is an Academy Award winner/nominee as the groom. Apparently there is a man that has been spotted several times with the wife, but for only brief moments. The paps have seen the man and have photos of him, but have none of him with the wife because she comes out of nowhere, they don't meet in public and the meetings are usually under two minutes. The best they have got is a fuzzy shot through some dark windows a couple of times. The tabloid reporters have been trying to buy security footage from the places, but either have not had luck or there is nothing good on the video. Is he the lover? A blackmailer? He is definitely out of place.
Cumberbitch and sophie
ReplyDeleteCumberbatch/ Sophie
ReplyDeleteMr X main blind lol:)
ReplyDeleteCucumber and sophieeeeee
ReplyDeleteProbably her drug dealer
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ReplyDeleteAnd the strange man might be the real baby daddy!
Cumby?
ReplyDeleteAmal Clooney
ReplyDeleteGeorge Clooney, Amal, hasn't she been reported to having or had an affair with that Wikileaks troll looking guy Assange?
ReplyDeleteRight - but he's locked in a consulate somewhere I think. I do think this is Amal, though. She just got hired by a Greek shipping guy or something. I saw it on BBC, I think. A lot of the cases she works on require stealth.
ReplyDeleteAack, Washington Post
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/world/shipping-magnate-foots-the-bill-for-amal-clooney-to-represent-greece/2015/03/03/5755c1f0-c180-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html
The Depps.
ReplyDeleteOh, don't get me wrong, I wasn't insinuating Assange was the guy, just pointing out her bad taste in men...chuckles, thanks for the added info!
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't say foreign born so probably not BC and Sophie. Also it would be a short term thing as they still pretty much live in London and are just honeymooning in CA and Bora Bora. Also, an affair while pregnant? That is wrong on so many levels and the drugs option is worse! Clooney sounds plausible, his wife is always out and about on her own.
ReplyDeleteIt's prolly Bendy. GC's isn't newly married and he doesn't do TV. Methinks Sophie meets with the real babydaddy to discus monetary transactions and the like. Maybe Bendy suspects something's up but wants to gather evidence for legal reasons. This dovetails with the last BI about Sophie conning Bendy.
ReplyDeleteAmal is a fabulous guess!
ReplyDeleteClooney would probably be better described as A+ mostly movies, no?
ReplyDeleteDef Cumberbatch. I don't think Clooney is referred to as a movie/television actor. I can't imagine Sophie is using drugs while pregnant, and if she was having an affair I doubt they could conduct it in under two minutes at a time. I wonder what's going on.
ReplyDeletemy first thought too @kno while reading this... i don't think sophie is so sophisticated or sly in the art of diversion
ReplyDeleteGeorge & Amal just got married less than 6 months ago-that's newly married to me..& he's very well known for his T.V. on E.R. esp.since he stayed on ER & fulfilled his Contract w/ER even though he was becoming a big well known movie-star & hollywood hunk--i still think of him as Movies/TV because of his loyalty to ER
ReplyDeleteI don't live in Usa or Uk so I know very little about this Cumberbatch guy. Only name and face because Oscars or some awards show, I don't remember. So can you call him A list actor? Well maybe then if you just consider the Uk and Usa.. Clooney did a well known tv-show ER and after that he's been in movies so you could call him movie and tv-actor.
ReplyDeletenot necessarily recently...Monuments Men last foray-- & he didnt even show at the Oscars for Gravity but his current one he's filming Coen Bros. "Hail Caesar" may get him back to A+..(Tomorrowland & Money Monster...not so much imo) hahaha
ReplyDeleteNot BC...he has only been a nominee, not a winner.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Amal?
Not BC though....
I find those websites about faking pregnancies and detailed how-to instructions on prosthetic bellies very interesting. Of course movies have been doing this on screen for some time. Didn't Sherlock Holmes say something about the difference between seeing and observing? Hmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteCumberbatch/Hunter.
ReplyDeleteClooney is A+ at the least, and his wife would be rated higher, too.
Usually when Enty says nominee/winner it means the person could be a nominee OR a winner. So yes, it could possibly be Cumberbatch.
ReplyDeleteBC is an Oscar nominee. It doesn't necessarily mean nominee and winner, is one or the other.
ReplyDeleteMan, is he a magnet these days for gossip! But how can he not, with the personal life plastered all over (like that will get him any awards, I believe Zero is the exact number he got for TIG), and now with him and his new Shot Gun wife calling the paparazzi every other day.
AH! I did not know that...I'm new here.
ReplyDeleteYea, that makes a huge difference....Thanks! :)
Eh...I'd have to agree then...yep...
I understand amal's people give paps schedule of when they're to take her pic..maybe a few wouldn't play along...I think his first cheating pics would be much more interesting.
ReplyDeleteNo problem!
ReplyDeleteWhere is that blind? I've been looking but can't find it =/
ReplyDeleteI know. BC, I like his acting and voice workd and was nice to read his interviews, hear his work and see vid's. He normally used to stick to his projects and craft.
ReplyDeleteNow lately wondering what all the fuss has been about when I read an interview a bit ago and it really did not seem like him/his style I wondered what was up...i thought maybe it was just an off interview or something.
Lurking elsewhere it really seems to be his head is up his ass....
Too bad, he seemed about as normal as anyone in the biz could manage to be...which I know can be tough, but lately...really BC...enough....get a grip, it is not hard. It's Hollywood and acting and the tide goes up and down...sakes alive!!
Yea, him just wanting attention for the wrong reasons...
Am I the only one here freaked out by the stalking the press is doing on these people?
ReplyDeleteAgreed. I think if someone is going to get popped first in that couple, it is going to be George.
ReplyDeleteMoney is still on Cumberbatch/Hunter for this one.
The paps could follow me all day and catch me having 2 minute meetings with all sorts of men. Doesn't mean they're my drug dealer/father of my baby/lover who my husband knows nothing about.
ReplyDeleteYou mean the one implied by this Blind Item or their pictures of late?
ReplyDeleteBecause all of their latest 3 paparazzi encounters, the one with the Jaguar promotion by the ocean, the whale watching and the latest one from their honeymoon are all set up by BC/SH people, maybe to prove their are not shot gun (yeah, right), maybe to avert the attention of his big Bafta/SAG/GG/Oscar failure. And what a failure that was.
So don't feel sorry for them, BC was supposed to be one of the great actors, but now I think he settled for being a celebrity.
the clooneys are in nyc filming now
ReplyDeleteplus we know george has his stash of men he keeps on call
so i'm thinking this is amal's lover they are trying to catch a photo of
It may be a race to the finish for the Clooneys' This relationship is going nowhere, they either finish it amicably, shake hands issue a press statement pressure of work, rushed in to quickly, irreconsilable differences, the usual blah blah blah. Or it's gloves off *cough* and first one caught out wins.
ReplyDeletePeople who tend to these celebs and stars life and those whom wait on them hear things and give tips to the press..
ReplyDelete@ Ace, try February 10th--Blind Item# 9
ReplyDeleteThe anonymous shipping magnate is a lie. Her uncle Ziad Takieddine is money laundering through her chambers... Read about the notorious arms dealer criminal Ziad Takieddine. He imports weapons from Russia via Libya into Middle East & Pakistan, India.
ReplyDeleteThis guy was arrested by French government for money laundering $70 million to Sarkozy in 2007.
He uses Doughty Street negotiations for an outlet for his money. His money is the "shipping tycoon" outlet.
No Greek. Lies by her PR team & a cover up.
she replaces smoking (which she allegedly quit "cold turkey" at Clooney's request) with powdering her nose.. Needed the confidence too...And to stay fashionably thin. She was normal weight when her contract was signed on Oct 24, 2013 at Berner's Tavern in London, with Geoffery Robertson QC, her boss as witness..
ReplyDeleteDirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Someone needs to powder her nose. She lost 30lbs from when her contract was signed on Oct 24, 2013 at Berner's Tavern in London.
ReplyDeleteShe was told to quit smoking too. But she still does stealthily.
Dr Feelgood...dealer...White Lines... how obvious can it get.
Clooney's big break came as a TV idol.
He's still producing big time. Just signed up Marisa Tomei to play Gloria Steinem in a series.
NO. She didn't go to NYC at all. It was lies released by her PR team to Page Six.
ReplyDeleteExtreme elaborate processes to convince.
She flew straight to London after LA. Arrived LA on Feb 15th for the Asanebo photo-op. Flew back to London on the eve of the Academy Awards.
"Newly married" and award winner/nominee seems to point to Cumberbatch/Hunter. The tabloid interest in their marital stuff right now is hot, and I think "award winner/nominee" is meant to be either one not both, to avoid too much explicitness. Plus all the other BIs there have been about the possibly stunt/likely shotgun/privately not Thrilling Love BIs about these two (which I totally believe, this smelled from Day 1). Cumbers has been papping his personal life out like mad for quite awhile now to sell the "Shotgun? Where?!" narrative and get away from looking like the 38 y.o. dupe of a savvy bitch whose life was in the toilet looking for rescue. Clooney/Amal don't really count as "newly married" any longer and the tabs don't care about Redmayne/Bagshawe. I'd go with Cumberbatch/Hunter.
ReplyDelete@ anonymous leak......is that u Randy Gerber?...LOL
ReplyDeleteI'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt on that comment about Sophie :) and assume you were being ironic - b/c she was bloody sophisticated enough to get knocked up by Harvey Weinstein's 2014 "It Boy" at 36 and snag herself a life while hers was dwindling. She's been running with Weinstein's crowd for a long time and lived with Conrad Shawcross for two years. Not sophisticated or sly enough? Pull the other one mate.
ReplyDeleteWell getting the pregnancy bomb dropped on him late last Aug. by a woman who knew she had him over a barrel because of award season looming probably didn't help. That woman has cost him and big - w/out all that pressure to recalibrate the whole year for baby/formal wedding (I just love a 36 y.o. 7 mos pregnant bride in a long white veil in church, don't you?) he might have been able to pull off a campaign like Redmayne's.
ReplyDeleteShe has to be pregnant for real or she's got nothing. No baby/no child support/no fat settlement in a few years/he's a laughingstock (or a bigger one) he can kiss a lot of his hard work over the last ten years goodbye. No, for both their sakes their has GOT to be a baby there, God help it.
ReplyDeleteSecond that. Besides, although Clooney does have an Oscar, it's been a few years. Nah, this has to be a more recent pairing. And as it smelled from the first, I'd be surprised if Bendy isn't more than suspicious, but some arrangement was reached loonggg ago. They're just setting a public stage, maybe for the child's sake eventually. People keep forgetting there is a child involved her.
ReplyDeleteClooney, here's why: "paps have tried their best....two have been assigned to follow them......"
ReplyDeleteI know Cumberbatch is on TV here in America and I know he's considered quite talented and he has a female following BUT if this is in America, and I'm assuming it is, Clooney is the only one of these two that would have that much trouble expended to expose him. Cumberbatch may be a bigger deal in England but he's not at that level here.
Nominee/Winner could mean Bendy.
ReplyDeleteHe was nominated for The Imitation Game (best actor) and was a cast member of 12 Years a Slave, which won best picture.
I'd be very interested to see the pics of the mystery man, even if they don't have any of him with Sophie. If it is one of her former BFs, the bloggers would be able to identify him pretty easily I would imagine. C'mon, paps, let's see the pics! Wonder if BC knows of these secret meetings?
ReplyDeleteSophie Hunter. Maybe it's the make up/prosthetic artist popping in for maintenance on that fake baby belly.
ReplyDeleteThat's very true. If you showed Cumberbatch's photo to 100 people on the street in America, 99 would have no idea who he is. None. (And if it's any consolation, they don't know who Eddie Redmayne is either, and he actually won the Oscar -- no one really cares who wins Oscars, or remembers them, because Oscar is so elitist.) People know and recognize Clooney, Downey, Streep, Hanks, Will Smith, Julia Roberts...not Cumberbatch. He's nowhere near on their level, He's just not that big here. He has his little screechy following on Tumblr and other fan sites, but only the most ardent fans go there and mostly screech among themselves. I was looking through the usual scrum of gossip magazines this past couple of weeks, and there was nothing about him getting married, because who in the USA cares if some British celeb they don't know gets married? I can't imagine paps being actually hired to follow him or Sophie, LOL.
ReplyDeleteYes I like this guess. This is a woman who the press would follow closely, and would want to investigate in this way (for multiple reasons). I can imagine the British press getting this lead and going after her.
ReplyDeleteOnly Cumber-bitches obsess over Sophie, and while that particular conspiracy is fun there's no way the press are obsessed with it.
^ Amal Clooney I mean.
ReplyDelete@Yeahsure,hey there,no benefit of the doubt needed.I hear what you're saying & i agree with you if 1/4 of all the whispers are to be believed==which is why I was very specific.I did NOT say Sophie wasn't sophisticated or sly in the art of 'deception' as you're enumerating above. I opined that she wasn't as sophisticated in the art of 'diversion'-- a very different skill--& one that,imo,Amal surpasses Sophie in...again,just my opinion & really,who cares.it's a silly B.I. right?? ; )
ReplyDeleteCan't believe the tabloids go this far. I'm nosy but this is just an awful practice.
ReplyDelete@TopperM, no..i was thinking the same thing-very princess diane--except i figure if we are getting this Blind,then all those involved are clearly 10 steps ahead..it's a game.The paps get called,they get the money-shots,they get paid.The rogue guys eventually get blackballed.
ReplyDelete....well he does now.
ReplyDeleteI would quite easily put my bet on George Clooney. I can claim this for various reasons:
ReplyDelete1. Continuous gossip about his sexuality.
2. Multiple GF's (read models), none of them serious.
3. Abrupt wedding to a complete unknown woman.
4. Political aspirations for which he got actually married.
For above reasons I would send paps around to follow him (and her), if I was an editor of the gossip publication.
I'm sorry to say is that Benedict is not popular enough for such following. What Benedict needs is a private detective and a good divorce lawyer. I hope he's got a pre-nup.
OK I won't argue the point - but there's little I wouldn't put past Ms Hunter - if she's shown anything, she's a survivor. As for how "silly" the BI is - at this point, I'm not so sure, re these two but for sure it's not world tragedy. . . .
ReplyDeleteWith the amount of shade coming out in the MSM openly viewing the whole thing as a PR/stunt gone bad, I'm not so sure it's just cumberbitches. I don't consider myself one. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!
ReplyDeleteNot quibbling with both your basic points, but the thing is, Clooney isn't considered "newly married" and a "groom" any longer, and the tabloid interest in the Cumberbatch marriage (agreed IN THE UK and that's what the BI didn't make clear) has ramped up considerably since the engagement and marriage. The man who is the more recent "groom" and an Academy Award winner/nominee is Cumberbatch. And Clooney's name would have been followed by A++. I wonder if Enty left off the usual hint about "foreign born" because it would have been like printing Cumberbatch's name . . . I don't this Clooney is seen as a "newly married groom" any longer.
ReplyDeleteClooney's well over just "A" list and you may still think of him as a "groom" but I don't the rest of the public does. Too far our and he's at least A++. And as he married for political purposes and Amal knows this it's likely she'd be much more careful than this.
ReplyDeleteHow is this not considered stalking?
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter.
ReplyDeleteBen has been acting weird lately, since they got together and especially since they got married...he hasn't been comfortable or relaxed at all, so there is something going on behind the scenes. What it is? We don't know yet..and maybe we never will.
However my suspicion is either Benedict is on drugs and the man is the dealer,
or else Benedict is gay and Sophie is a beard for him and the man is Benedict's Boyfriend.
The man is meeting with Sophie not Benedict. It's probably someone like Gambles or WRW, an ex-lover who is getting some of Bendy's money through Sophie. Why would Sophie pay that guy to keep quiet if Bendy already knows that she was a hooker? Simple, Sophie and conman are in cahoots and he could be the kid's real father as per the last Blind Item.
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