Richard Armitage in Spooks

[cupcakesandbunting]

I definitely would.

Maybe twice.

i've mentioned this before i went to school with richard armitage.still keep in touch now through facebook.

RA is in the Cats movie of the stage show (with Elaine Paige) but he was a Swing (i.e. understudy) and he apparently did it after leaving drama school - they asked him because so many of the dancers got injured during filming and so he does appear but is very difficult to spot. I haven't got a copy but extensive research on this very topic has been done elsewhere and it's definitely true.

mrstimlovejoy

I think you must be pulling my leg - he's on Facebook???? Never!

Lucky you, mrstimlovejoy.

I know this will sound pompous, but I do feel it's mean to be gossiping about RA's (or anyone else's) sexual orientation on the internet. If he chooses not to live his life in the pages of Hello magazine then we shoudn't (I think) be adding to all the pointless and prurient speculation.

mrstimlovejoy

Answer the major question - is his gay?

He's definitely NOT gay.

Or at least he wasn't in the dream I had last night

Anyway, who cares. We all love him.

as far as i'm aware he isn't he did have a girlfriend recently but they split up
he was always very quiet at school and tbh you would never have thought he would look like he does now.a friend of mine has a major crush on him and has named her ds after his spooks character

Leather trousers

I didn't like it to start with but the long hair in Robin Hood S3 really grew on me (no pun intended).

And the leather trousers...gulp...sigh

I imagine you've already seen this blog, which raises the discussion of his charms to the level of academic discourse?

If you want intellectual, Flowers, how about this for next time Lucas pays a visit to the tattooist

Molon labe

Do we know the significance of all these tats btw? Pardon my ignorance but they are not up to 7th season Spooks on BBC Entertainment yet, so I don't know if they have been explained or are part of the mystery.

I was thinking either....

Da mihi basilia mille

Or...

Apudne te below me?

Sorry - Apudne te vel me...predictive texting doesn't do Latin!

How about a lttile French, too?
Apres moi le deluge
Getting carried away here

There's one very obvious French phrase springing to my mind at the mo!

a la Lady Marmelade?
I have to stop this, it's giving me apoplexy

Explanation of tattoos

www.radiotimes.com/blogs/443-news-richard-armitage-spooks/

Thanks Oyster. I was hoping for some other, mysteriouser, explanation than the prison one.
But I do wonder if they are not telling us the whole truth. Someone there in the comments picked up on the fact that the letters are not Cyrillic script.

Y'know, there's an awful lot of very rude Latin poetry if you know where to look. And I am quite sure that at no point in Spooks are we being told the whole truth about anything.

For you ladies of a lascivious bent, I would point out that on the Radio Times Q&A he mentions having appeared in the Budapest circus wearing (if that's the word) ultraviolet bodypaint. I leave that thought with you.

Not lascivious in the slightest but bloody funny...

Spongebob, anyone?

This is supposed to be RA???!!!

He's definitely improved with age.

Cornish I couldn't watch past the first 7 seconds!

It is very cringeworthy isn't it!
Poor bloke.