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Please watch this horrific Tom Hiddleston advert

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JuneFromBethesda · 31/03/2019 20:14

I can only imagine that he was paid a LOT of money to sell out this badly. My insides are actually shrivelling with embarrassment for him.

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JuneFromBethesda · 31/03/2019 20:15

And then you have to watch this glorious pisstake

twitter.com/PhilNWang/status/1111892343668367360

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Pinkarsedfly · 31/03/2019 20:16

Sorry, but if someone presented me with that for breakfast they’d leave wearing it.

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 31/03/2019 20:17

That is seriously cringeworthy.

Hoppinggreen · 31/03/2019 20:19

That was stomach churning ( and I’m not just talking about that gross breakfast)
You’ve let us all down Tom, but more importantly you’ve let yourself down

NeutralJanet · 31/03/2019 20:19

Almost as cringe as Owen Wilson bouncing on that sofa while prattling on about Shakespeare. I assume the actors think nobody from their home country will see these adverts.

JuneFromBethesda · 31/03/2019 20:20

Did you watch the twitter video? Please please do, it’s SO funny 😁

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JuneFromBethesda · 31/03/2019 20:24

Yes, that Owen Wilson ad was awful.

Tom Hiddleston though - between this ad, and the Taylor Swift nonsense - he needs a new agent!

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EntirelyAnonymised · 31/03/2019 20:28

I LOVE the Phil Wang pisstake, saw it on his Instagram account.

I think Western actors get paid astonishing amounts of money for ads in the Far East (particularly Japan) and they are ‘sold’ on them by being told that their Western fan base will be unlikely to see it (as well as being highly lucrative for a day or so’s work).

TheSpottedZebra · 31/03/2019 20:28

Is he doing it so we don't think the I ♡ TS tshirt was the cringiest thing he's done?
Does he really need the money?
Does his agent hate him?

Poor Tom. He seems nice. He deserves better.

TheSpottedZebra · 31/03/2019 20:30

That Phil Wang seems to have made a career out of slagging TH off. He put him into Room 101 and lots of his material is his ripping on him.

NB I know this, as I read that important news site, Celebitchy.

SlimGin · 31/03/2019 20:32

Made me think of John in Dirty John! I expected the camera to pan round and show a terrified woman shackled to a radiator!

JuneFromBethesda · 31/03/2019 20:40

😄 SlimGin you’re right, it’s like Dirty John’s smoothies

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TaliZorahVasNormandy · 31/03/2019 22:02

I cringed so hard I nearly turned inside out.

TH's career seems to have taken a bad turn somewhere.....I wonder where.

ShpliffenShploffen · 31/03/2019 22:09

Oh dear. I was waiting for a punchline! Grin

Ever since his 'romance' with Taylor Swift he lost whatever (Kensington High) street cred he once had. And that hairstyle makes him look like Roland Rat's posh cousin. Sort it out, Thomas old boy.

He was great in the Night Manager tho.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 31/03/2019 22:11

The man is an actor, he spends his working life pretending to be something he's not, so why can't he pull off wholesome and appealing? That's horror film levels of creepy, you just know that he has cameras hidden all over the house so that he can keep an eye on her while he's 'busy for a few weeks'. Also his hair, WTF?

Crustaceans · 31/03/2019 22:13

It is pretty terrible. But I think the hair may be worse than the advert.

Crustaceans · 31/03/2019 22:13

Yes, @BlackAmericanoNoSugar. Why has no one else commented on the awful hair?

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 31/03/2019 22:15

Is that breakfast (blackberries, carrots, kale, raw red onion, sweetcorn, something red like tomato or pepper and cucumber topped with an egg) something that the Japanese would eat for breakfast or is it what the Japanese imagine an Englishman would eat for breakfast?

MenuPlant · 31/03/2019 22:16

I saw this on BBC the other day but not the actual ad it wasn't linked.

It's fine imo just a bit different and apparently has gone down really well in market it's aimed at and also appears to have gone viral so that's a win for Tom and centrum I would say.

Persimmonn · 31/03/2019 22:16

I saw this in the Guardian article about it the other day. Cringe fest x million Grin

And what looks like a small child’s hands at the end fixing his collar 🤮.

MenuPlant · 31/03/2019 22:17

Small child's hands?

This thread is bizarre.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 31/03/2019 22:17

Sorry, Chinese not Japanese (I think, it sounds more Chinese than Japanese to me anyway).

ShpliffenShploffen · 31/03/2019 22:19

To be fair it must be amazing to be offered a huge wodge of cash for a couple of day's work. Centrum, I'm available if you need me. I can do creepy.

PhysaliaPhysalis · 31/03/2019 22:19

Who has a fried egg on top of blackberries and raw carrot?

Who did all the washing up?

Why did he fuck off again so quickly?

We deserve the answers to these questions.

Persimmonn · 31/03/2019 22:21

Why did he leave with a little half arsed wave? He couldn’t even be bothered to lift his hand up all the way 🙄