A Cup of Sanka with Some Side Eye

A place for healthy skepticism and for non nanny fans of Benedict Cumberbatch. Yes, I do think SH is preggo but there are too many issues surrounding their "relationship", especially in regards to timelines. Often will reblog current information already out there and throw in my two cents. Credit given where credit is due. Feel free to send anon. Anon opinion are the opinions of the anons, not me. Hate anon will be reported and dealt with accordingly. Remember... just because you don't agree doesn't mean it's hate.

[deggsbenedish]

People really doubted she would show up? Come on! What would be really cool of her is if she had showed on days when her husband didn't read. But where's the fun in supporting stuff when the spotlight won't be on her (thru BC) I guess? Can't wait until the obligatory photo of him kissing her on the cheek and her looking disinterested. I hope she doesn't read as she's not that good. Viewing past work, she's not talented & you can see why she gave it up and got knocked up by a celeb instead.

What do you mean, she’s not talented?

I remember when she read at Hay festival. Received a handful of polite claps and Naomi Cweb tweeted later asking who the hair tossing bunette was because nobody had any idea. 

[cigarettestobreathe]

Omfg do you have a cap of that tweet?? That’s hilarious. I remember when she first showed up on people’s radars the hair tossing and nose in the air were most people’s initial observations 😂

I watched clips of her in Mumbai Calling the other day and she really is awful. I knew her singing was terrible- no sense of time or rhythm, completely off key, zero breath control- but lord her acting is abominable. No wonder they replaced her after that episode. It was like she was on book and disinterested.

Also of course she showed up tonight. Probably will every night BC does it.

[deggsbenedish]

Found them. Haha. 

She’s never been a good actress so I’m not surprised her career fizzled out before it started. 

[sophiehuntergossipblog]

I had not seen this whole exchange! LOL

Some of us started side-eyeing a long time ago…….

(For those who don’t know, Naomi runs Cumberbatchweb)

[twerkdatbatch]

Reblogging for this entire thread. Didn’t know she was replaced in Mumbai Calling, @cigarettestobreathe. Bahahaha figures.

[cigarettestobreathe]

I’m with the best so I can’t look it up but the Ep is on YouTube somewhere, you should check it out. She’s seriously so bad.

[sophiehuntergossipblog]

I normally hate to link to anything SHC but they seem to be the only source of this and it is sooooo cringe worthy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQS9TmWCkkQ

When I started this blog one of the main things I wanted to do was bring to light her work - so tip of the hat to SHC for doing such a bang up job of that.  Once (truly impartial) people see this crap I think they can decide for themselves.

[annashipper]

JT Anon

So after a year of silence on the matter, when people were accusing BC of one of the most heinous lies a person could pull, Loo was silent. Suddenly her name gets a little muddy, and she is in full force damage control. Nice.

Do I think Loo and BC did the dirty? Yeah. I do. I didn’t before, but I certainly do now. People don’t over react like this unless there is something to hide.  Only a kicked dog wails, and I can hear Loo screaming “I LOVE SOPHIE SHE LEFT ME BREATHLESS PLEASE DON’T TELL FERDINAND IM A CHEATER” from a continent away.

Is this some sort of set up for an end? Maybe, maybe not. I think more than anything it’s Loo trying to get the fuck out of dodge. There is no reason for her to say literally nothing, only to have this reaction when a well read, well circulated, believed celebrity gossip site confirms that she hates SH and that she was diddling the BC dong on the DL when SH was supposedly pregnant w the pillow and she was with someone else. I think setlock is coming up soon and they had to squash this long before then so there isn’t evidence of tension when SH stalks up to set.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“Do I think Loo and BC did the dirty? Yeah. I do. I didn’t before, but I certainly do now. People don’t over react like this unless there is something to hide.”

[cardboardbatch-deactivated20220]

[sideeyesanka]

Of course they did and I'm willing to bet she still has a thing for him. I'm sure he asked her to "help", and she was more than willing, just like her character Molly.

Am I the only one that ever thought that maybe her and Benedict's relationship a lot like the relationship between Molly and Sherlock?

[ucbutudonotobserve]

By the way, what happened to the usual “Nobody cares about what you sceptics think!” stance? If they don’t care, why “give us the finger” with a letter at LL and a couple of tweets?…

Let’s try and be consistent here.

[annashipper]

@thisheartisastone: Don’t know what I’d find more disappointing - her lying or her actually meaning it.

Anna:  This is the Streisand effect we’re watching…  Shame that Loo fell for it, but I can’t help laughing my head off!

[gnanon]

It is sad to see Loo being a part of this, can’t shake my head enough how ridiculous and childish they all are about this! Just shut it and get on with it! Oh, but no! This is the Cumberbatch/Hunter show, they have to be stupid.

[soapy-goes-to-hollywood]

Allow me to do a brief recap of this situation for a better understanding:

For some reason all these people who have been quiet and ignoring skeptics, gossip and BI’s for nearly 1.5 years and who haven’t even bothered to congratulate Benedict on his wedding or his fathership publicly (though they tended to comment on any other pettiness on social media publicly) suddenly feel the need to white wash the reputation of a woman who doesn’t want to be addressed as maternal and who has been accused of being a dubious, fame hungry, gold digger with a unhealthy party life style - the same woman who apparently lost a lot of weight during her pregnancy - even more weight after that, arrives now alone at an event for which organizers kept the list of attendees under wraps, while her alleged husband performs at the very same show, carefully taking care not to appear in the same picture with his alleged wife, only a couple of days after the BI reveals and only a couple of weeks before doing his first DS promos?

Did I miss anything?

Feels like a polite attempt to re-establish her reputation before she waves the red carpet goodbye, hopefully for good.

Well not necessarily for good. If someone finds a talent of hers, feel free to bring her back…. but please not before that. 🙄

[sideeyesanka]

This ^

Sorry Loo, but too transparent my dear. You don't go from 0-60 that quick and no one is supposed to notice? *cackles*. For an actress, you sure are obvious! ;)

[gatorfisch]

Tea Party Time

It’s tea time, ladies and gents!  I want to start off by saying that I am including everything I am allowed to say in this post.  So please do not try to drag more information out of me.  I think you’ll understand why once I’m finished.  

It has come to my attention (and I can’t say how, but it is a reliable source and has been verified by more than one skeptic) that our suspicions that someone must have gotten pictures of Sophie out and about during the “pregnancy” were correct. That’s right…someone was following her around and taking pictures of her at key moments in the past year.  And let’s just say they are damning.  They have been shown to people (including said source) and are now in a specific person’s hand.  This person has contacted and is currently in discussions with folks in the media, but not in entertainment media. One of these meetings involved multiple people seeing the photos and discussing them.  

These photos have not been posted on Tumblr.  In fact this is all completely unrelated to Tumblr and any and all skeptic blogs.  (Except that I was told, after the fact.)  In fact, it’s also unrelated to the entertainment industry.  The people who are involved have no need to ever have access to Benedict or anyone involved with any of his productions going forward.  Also, from what I am told, this person has these photos for something more than just Benedict and Sophie.   I am not at liberty to explain more.  Just know that the truth could very easily come out and soon.  In other words, if they decided to publish these photos, there’s not a lot that Benedict and his team could do to stop them.  And if that happens, both he and Sophie are FUCKED.  

[sophiehunteroctopussyblog]

Mmmm … What does this change? People have pics of Smug Face, I presume, showing her without a bump when there had to be one. So, those persons who have those pics are going to the media. Why? Are those persons intersted to hurt BC? Or are those persons with those pics blackmailing BC? If this is true and BC is blackmailed with these pics and he’ll pays them, we never hear anything about it and it changes nothing. The shamewow can go on and on. Am I right?

[sideeyesanka]

The bigger fish here? To expose Hollywood's farce of fake relationships (i.e. Harvey Weinstein) ans pregnancies to promote actors and films to boost their bottom line & award chances. Benedict and Sophie are just going to be used as examples of such. That's my two cents.

[sophiehunteroctopussyblog]

Reasons …😉

[khanspets]

Like no one can blow up the fake preggo thing so why can't this fact blow up? This is a proven fact this time and she deserves to be called out.

[sideeyesanka]

Oh Sophie. ...got a little too greedy didn't you? When you get greedy you get sloppy.

[coolfayebunny]

Felicity Jones & Sophie Hunter

SNAP !

both in Erdam 2015

[thetownbycycle]

Have to say Felicity wears it better. Sophie is just too plain looking to pull off the loudness of the top which by the way I like.

[sideeyesanka]

I don't know if Sophie looks good in anything. She always looks like a wet mouse wrapped in a drape

[gatorfisch]

the nans are more nervous over the birth reg, trying to insist there is no way to look it up w/o the name of the baby (ha!) and hoping we see them w a baby soon to put us off looking up the registry. too bad it wont, pics w a live baby or not ;-)

No, it will not.  And I just don’t see Benedict going with a stunt baby.  I don’t care how much Sophie demands that, I still have too much faith in him to do that.  

[cumberbees]

Oh please! The woman who demanded to NOT be called *maternal* won’t be going for any stunt babies anytime soon. And with her openly plagiarizing a scholar? In plain terms, *bitch is circling the drain*.

IF the plagiarized author contacts the Guardian, and nothing is done - no public apology etc., things could get very snarky at her 15 minute shindig, with journos showing up just to confront HER about her theft. THAT would mean she couldn’t take her bow, and her fame.

Never thought her actions thru.

[gatorfisch]

So true, and the more I see, the less I want to use “Dumbass Duo”.  I think we know who the dumbass in that relationship really is.

[liedavictorian]

Agree, totally…

[messofastory]

Comparing the text

(Again, still thanks to the mouse anon for getting me the basic text to compare) The last two highlights were quotes from Beckett, so its nothing important - but the first one is direct from Angela Moorjani. 

Left is the guardian, and right is Angela Moorjani

Then these are quotes from Beckett so not really important for what we are looking at. 

However, just to quote an anon I got just now - “The identical words don’t even take into account the heavy paraphrasing of Angela Moorjani work in other parts of the article.”

And the three un-named by her students were Leslie Daiken, Rachel Dobbins Burrow and Grace Mc Kinley West.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/25/happy-days-samuel-beckett-festival-enniskillen-benjamin-britten-phaedra

http://www.academia.edu/2426629/Becketts_Racinian_Fictions_Racine_and_the_Modern_Novel_Revisited

[happilyhardarcade-deactivated20]

It certainly proves she was influenced by Moorjani and did not cite her. The wording in that paragraph is interesting:

But why Phaedra in a Beckett festival? Yes the Racine/Lowell/Britten links were evident, but how to join Beckett and Racine? I had to trace my own constellation of connections from one great artist to another and, without wanting to deny the audience their own chance to join the dots, here are just a few of the discoveries made. In 1931, at the age of 25, Beckett took up a position at Trinity College where he delivered a series of lectures on the modern novel. What transpires from the surviving notes made by three of Beckett’s students is a compelling dialogue between the two playwrights that spans the 300-year divide. Not only is Racine a key tenet in Beckett’s reading of the modern novel, but you begin to see the undeniable influence of Racine in Beckett’s own fictions. For Beckett “Racine [was] as modern as any of the moderns”. Beckett saw the modern obsession with unconscious forces as inherent in Racine’s theatre, remarking that “All his characters evolve beneath the conscious in the shadow of the infraconscient” (that which is imperceptible by consciousness). He goes even further in respect of Phédre, “almost a pathological study in which everything passes in her mind”. Armed with these insights I went back to the piece and now the figure of Phaedra, alone in a vast space of darkness, her story told in a frenetic monologue, a self divided to the point of hallucinations and hysteria, whose only way to “purity” is in death, took on even more fascinating dimensions, with the Beckett/Racine dialogue strikingly relevant.

She’s left herself some room to argue that she didn’t mean to suggest the “discoveries [were] made” by herself, or that she had personally examined the “surviving notes made by three of Beckett’s students,” but that line about “undeniable influence” is the one that’s going to bite her in the ass - why, in explaining Racine’s influence on Beckett, is she not acknowledging the “undeniable influence” of another woman on her own text? Does that not “deny the audience their own chance to join the dots”?

There’s no defense for this. Not when you talk about “undeniable influence” and allowing “the audience their own chance to join the dots.”

[sideeyesanka]

Is anyone actually surprised? Everything she wants the public to know has been a lie. Her education hasn't been verified so not surprised she doesn't know how to properly cite sources. The whole pregnancy has been a scam to ensnare another human being with an offspring that's not theirs. Beat the drums louder....we need to see a retraction and an explanation for this one. The Teflon has to wear off eventually

[cumberbees]

So -- how much has to be *lifted* from an article to be called plagairism?

Is there a minimum, or a maximum, before the label sticks? I’ve never really looked into it (I’ve never had to steal from other author’s, obviously).

Any experts here?

[annashipper]

I know that if I ever tried any of this shit with any of my professors, they would have certainly failed me from the class and reported me to the dean of the department…

[messofastory]

I think there is more of a problem that she does not credit whom ever

[cumberbees]

Why would she credit someone who’s work she’s lifted? Points even more to the charge of plagiarism, doesn’t it?

[happilyhardarcade-deactivated20]

If she attributes it, she gives credit to the original author - plagiarism is stealing others’ ideas without attribution - that attribution style can vary depending on the genre one is writing in, for instance, but to present another’s ideas without attribution is plagiarism.

And I find it ironic that she bends over backwards to credit so many “great men” and then ignores the woman whose ideas most directly influenced what she wrote.

Edited to add that it doesn’t matter how you use those ideas - quote, summary, paraphrasing - you’re supposed to give credit. There are lots of quick ways to do this without resorting to academic citation style, using introductory phrases, for example.

[theunfriendlyblackthottie]

What is this plagiarism scandal with Sophie Hunter?

First I’m hearing about it. Can somebody explain? 

-Violet

[coastalcruisemiss-deactivated20]

I read a lengthy discussion on Tumbler by 2 apparently knowledgable women familiar with the subject stating the SH piece was copied from another source who is an expert in the field. They named the book and author and praised the original piece as brilliant. I’ll try and find it again.

[twerkbatch-blog]

https://www.academia.edu/2426629/Becketts_Racinian_Fictions_Racine_and_the_Modern_Novel_Revisited

[theunfriendlyblackthottie]

Apparently SH stole someone's article about Britten(sp?) for her guardian article. The link is on SoGo. I tried to read SH's version of it but couldn't finish she came off as so pretenious I had to stop.

Was it a big ass word salad?

[sophiehuntergossipblog]

Word salad with bleu cheese dressing and extra bacon bits!

[sophiehuntergossipblog]

Hey SoGo, just wanted to let you know that Olivia Poulet unlocked her Twitter account. Noticed she has recently followed Cumberbatchweb. Interesting.

[sideeyesanka]

Really interesting

[gnanon]

‘The new parents were spotted enjoying some much-needed downtime as they put on an affectionate display at Wimbledon last week.’

Thank you DM!

[khanspets]

“As for the ‘affectionate display at Wimbledon’ I’m guess the missus and I have been doing it wrong for years if the Cumberbatch-Hunter arctic special is gold standard for romance.” - Markinaccounting

[the-fellowship-of-erdemhart]

SURPRISE! A DM article after BC’s night out in town!

He’s currently preparing for his hugely anticipated performance as Hamlet.

But on Tuesday night Benedict Cumberbatch took a break from treading the boards to sit in the audience, heading to London’s Trafalgar Studios to watch his Sherlock co-star Louise Brealey in her new play Constellations.

The 38-year-old actor, who welcomed his first child with wife Sophie Hunter last month, dressed down for the production’s press night as he dashed through a crowd of fans to take his seat.

The star was showing his support for his pal and Sherlock co-star Louise, who plays Molly in the hit BBC1 detective drama.

The talented actress appears opposite Happy Valley’s Joe Armstrong in the play from English playwright Nick Payne which explores ‘free will and friendship.’

Showing his support: The actor, who welcomed his son five weeks ago, was dressed down as he made his way inside Trafalgar Studios 

The play follows theoretical physicist Marianne (Brealey) and beekeeper Roland (Armstrong), who meet at a barbecue and fall in love.Each of their scenes repeat themselves, resulting in different outcomes for the couple. The Royal Court Theatre’s production originally ran at the Duke of York’s Theatre in 2012 with Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins in the lead roles, and ahead of its return to London the play was touring the UK. The Trafalgar Studios production runs until August 1.

A Broadway transfer of the play ran earlier this year, with Jake Gyllenhaal making his Broadway debut in the production opposite Ruth Wilson, who received a Tony Award nomination.Benedict meanwhile will star in the Barbican’s production of Hamlet from next month, with the star currently busy with rehearsals.His prep work meant the actor had to miss last week’s Comic-Con event in California, where the Christmas special of Sherlock was teased by the show’s co-creator Steven Moffat.

Had a good time?The actor was seen leaving the theatre later on that evening on his own

As well as his theatre work, Benedict has also been kept busy with his new arrival after his wife Sophie gave birth to their son five weeks ago. The new parents were spotted enjoying some much-needed downtime as they put on an affectionate display at Wimbledon last week.

The couple welcomed their son at the beginning of June, just days after Cumberbatch was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to the performing arts and charity.A spokesman for the couple, who wed earlier this year, said: 'Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter are delighted to announce the arrival of their beautiful son.' 

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[the-fellowship-of-erdemhart]

Someone I follow re-tweeted this from the Daily Telegraph arts correspondent :- "Hannah Furness ‏@Hannah_Furness · 16h16 hours ago Well Mrs Cumberbatch sounds like an absolute *hoot* to interview." She tweeted a link to the Guardian interview. Oh dear. Guess she won't be doing an interview with her then!.

[hunter-hype-report]

LMAO. So it begins, my friends, so it begins.

[mistresssnarkfest]

Cannot WAIT till the Irish papers *interview* her sorry stuck-up arse lolol!

[wikianonbc-deactivated20210419]

Don’t mind me.  I’ll just be sitting over here doing summa this:

[ummzaksbest-deactivated20210928]

I’ll have another sweet tea recipe soon. I think we’re going to need it.