Orlando Bloom is a Motorcycle Man
Thu, 01 May 2008 at 1:37 am
Orlando Bloom throws on his leather jacket and mounts a custom motorcycle before zooming down a street in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday.
Orly, 31, was spotted picking and choosing between a number of different custom motorcycles at Sydney’s bike store Deus Ex Machina.
Mr. Bloom is in town with his main squeeze, Australian ‘Victoria’s Secret’ angel Miranda Kerr.

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@51
couldnt have said it better. I dont care about the people who say he was “in shock” after the accident. I cannot believe that anyones first reaction -after being in a car crash- would be to call their managment or PR or whatever!!!!!!!! seriously, he didnt even bother calling 911, he just kind of asked someone els to do it. (as if it were their job! helllooooo, DOUCHE !! you just chrashed, not them!) I’m not even going to go into the other countles details/red flags that night.
I tend to agree with you. I don’t think he is a bad man.. I think he was very young and it happened so fast, that he lost sight of who he really is and what he says he believes. While I think he has always been a party animal, and was a bit of a womanizer, I doubt he was any worse tham some guys I know. But then women were literally throwing themselves at him, he could have any kind of sexual favor he wanted and more. And he didn’t have the maturity to realize that yes there can be too much of a good thing, and sometimes it is better to be more respectful of you self and just using women (even if they are willing) isn’t a healty was to live.
I agree the Miranda thing is to try to change his image from a big partier, who drinks and maybe uses drugs, is taking several different women home every night. They are trying to rebuild that image of a nice guy who is respecttful to women and is serious about his career, and it a kind of fun, sweet, and yet a little goofy guy.
They have picked the wrong way to do it. I think more people would have so much more respect for him, if he talked about the accident and the incicdent at the club, maybe admitted he had made some dumb decesion and apologed to his fans for letting them down, along with his friends and family. He would have won over so many people if he stood up and behaved like a man with dignity and humility. He got bad advice, and he should have put his foot down.
Ugh….I havent read past post 150 because all of a sudden the topic seems to be turning back to the accident. Man….I thought the chatter about that **** was over. Clearly some are really hanging on to that night.
I certainly would like to go back to the days of talking about his movies. That was way more fun. And to the person calling him a liar about AN EDUCATION, Orlando nor his people ever made a statement about that as far as I know. It was the writer that chose to add some snarky remarks about him not being in it. And FYI, movie deals go sour all the time for one reason or another. It has nothing to do with wanting to lie to his fans about a movie. Believe what you want, but you seem pretty certain that Orlando is a real ******* with no redemption whatsoever. Geez. You seem very angry.
OK, for the millionth time.
There were more things unclear about that night. Like, VT was quick to let everyone know the other guy is his ex. I don’t know about you, personally I like to do the least damage possible when I break up with a guy, sometimes offer the “let’s be friends” line, but I never go to clubs and parties with my exes. That would be kinda weird. Also, to me VT looked like she was angry at both guys. You know they are sometimes like little boys fighting over a toy.
BTW I no longer go to clubs. Recend trends include women dressing like cheap h00kers, putting their stuff on display, and the dancing styles nowadays with the @ss shaking and hip swirling… makes poor guys nuts. I’m not saying they asked for it, no way does a guy have the right to be indecent just because of that. All I am saying is that if that behaviour makes a man lose it, I don’t like it, but I understand, so I avoid those situations.
Another thing that night is that when they leave the club, a woman is driving, and although the paps start to follow them immediately, at no point do we see pics of someone getting out of the car to change places. We don’t know when and how he got to the driver’s seat and that was always weird to me.
Also, he never personally blamed the paps, it was his cousin who said that. And remember, he was driving a borrowed car, on the right side of the road he might not be completely used to, and he was not speeding a little bit either, or the crash would have been much worse. Personally I guess the lady who was driving first had a few drinks and that is why they decided to switch seats. Why else?
I don’t blame the guy to quietly panic and get away, I have been in a car crash before, and it took some time before I was able to think straight.
Oh, and about the “rep for being grabby with women” bit, well, that too is an internet rumour to me, so while I do not cast it away, I will not believe it without credible sources more than I believe his love and dedication to Ms. Pink Panties of Oz.
I think whatever happened is between those involved and God. We have nothing to do with it none of us where there it’s easy to jump to judgement until your in the same situations.The incedent with vt the same we where not there . If I were his management team they should change his character from a boy to a man.I think he would get more roles he can’t play the pretty boy for life it’s time to grow up and they need to realize that. He would not be in this situation if he would have listened to wisdom johnny gave him some good advice he should have listened. He can change I don’t think he’s a bad guy it’s a case of growing up and growing a set of balls. I do think he will find the women who will love him. Alot of playboys do look a warren beatty, he probaly didn’t think he would ever get married and have children and his wife is a very strong women.
Thank you. You are constantly a voice of reason here. People seem so quick to believe negative stuff that has no more credibility than the hearts and flowers sh!t about him and MK. I agree 100% with everything you say.
@181: how do we know who he called? We don’t. And frankly people react really oddly in those situations. He might have had no idea how serious the injury was. I find that whole conversation being used to damn him to be kind of silly. I have no problem sitting here and poking holes in his public persona and the PR manipulations. But people do need to be careful to not believe their own version of events and recollections. It’s better to stick to facts. As Jaded said, a lot of the stuff people throw at him to crucify him are as much gossip and speculation as the MK garbage.
@182:
They have picked the wrong way to do it. I think more people would have so much more respect for him, if he talked about the accident and the incicdent at the club, maybe admitted he had made some dumb decesion and apologed to his fans for letting them down, along with his friends and family
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What did he do? They released a statement originally that he was thankful to the emergency workers and then he briefly commented on Larry King about the situation. There was no reason for him to comment further. I know some people don’t believe the police and DA of Los Angeles but as long as they are satisfied there’s not much else to say. He doesn’t need to apologize publicly to his fans, he didn’t do anything to them. He was in what amounted to a minor fender bender.
I also have to say, even though I don’t care to re hash this: I love that people say “he only went back because of the paparazzi”. Please, the paparazzi first told him that if his car was drivable he should get in it and drive it! The paparazzi who said he had to go back was trying to get him into trouble. You tell me why they didn’t drop the cameras and help the poor bleeding people? The truth is no one knows exactly what happened but I sure as hell wouldn’t take the photog’s word over anyone elses.
The funny thing is all the angry reactions and condemnation based on gossip are just as bad as the fangirls who believe every happy bit of gossip.
For the record, I am with the people that think this is a PR sham. I try to not believe gossip from lousy sources. You have to sift through it and then determine how true you think it is. Good or bad. Like Jaded, I see the grabby rep as much questionable gossip as I do the glowing stories from the DT.
You might say “oh, that’s bad for his image” so it must be true. However, I have gotten the notion that he/his people want to dirty up his rep. Bad boys are very popular. Look at Colin Farrell or any number of others. Frankly I think after Kate he tried to look like a ladies man.
TBH, and I hate to say it, I know a guy who grabs women when he gets drunk, who has almost no history of real girlfriends. He happens to be gay. Closeted men get grabby to overcompensate. Or sometimes because they think since it’s not sexual it doesn’t matter. Anyone see Isaac Mizrahi and ScarJo at the Oscars a few years back?
That said, I don’t believe gossip from shady sources.
LOL, you KNOW this is a weird place if a silly girl like me gets to be “constantly a voice of reason”! But thanks for that anyway, much appreciated. *mwah*
Some blurb from OLove about Miranda&Orlando visiting the hospital. For once I believe it’s a nice mention and I don’t think it was staged because it’s the imdb user who wrote that and she probably found out by accident.
“He and Miranda made a surprise visit to the Ronald McDonald House at Randwick Hospital for dinner the other day. My little 11 year old cousin is in hospital and my aunt, uncle and other cousins are staying in the house. My uncle went up to the ward where my cousin is and got her and all these other little girls and brought them down to Ronald McDonald House to have dinner with Orlando and Miranda.
They said they were absolutely lovely and they were both so good with all the kids. My cousin had so much fun and got photos and autographs with/from them. It was such an awesome and nice thing for them to do. I screamed when I found out.”
that is nice if its true-hope it is. But I do have to wonder why it wasn’t in the paper like everything else and I don’t believe its because she wouldn’t have wanted that kind of press.
Why not. If that was some kind of accident that they went there I guess it was just a spontanious reaction. I don’t think she’s 100% bad person.
Maybe it will be in DST though I really doubt it because if not the mention of the person on IMDB nobody would know about it.
Perhaps they’re not that bad as we want them to be, lol.
I just saw it on IMDb. I wonder if she’ll upload the photos. Eagerly waiting.
me again, and yes I am being a cynic in every way, but it’s interesting that it says it was a few days ago and that was during fashion week and there was no mention of it? It kind of sounds like a perfect sighting to have after the big mess she made with her big mouth to cool things down. I wish there was a picture. Maybe there will be on but I’m sorry, the girl loves her press and I can’t see why she wouldn’t have the dt or someone else make at least a samll mention of it.
Putting it in blogs is safer so that the hospital won’t see it and say it didn’t happen but if on a blog it can be the persons mistaken identity.
sorry, I may be proven wrong but I just don’t trust her.
It would never be some sort of accident, it would be arranged for any celeb to visit a hospital like that.
One alleged good deed doesn’t make them a legitimate couple or erase everything else. Especially if we don’t know the details under which this occured. I could spin a million scenarios about it that wouldn’t mean MK was a “good” person. As for OB, he’s done this sort of thing in the past so we at least know he has a history of it. Her participation? Might just be mimicking his “causes” like her words now mimick everything else he has said or done.
@ellen, or it’s good old Orlando taking the reins again.
I’d like to see him as his old self and this visit reminds me of that era. Makes you think how come we don’t get more sightings like this, with the Web available for (almost) all.
according to the post it was not an accident but a dinner that they went to there.
Don’t those types of charity dinners make the paper? Maybe it wasn’t a charity dinner but the poster said it was dinner.
Curious. Usually its not dinner with sick children. Dinner would be at night far after visiting hours. You’d generally go during the day, spend time with the kids, bring toys or what not. It could be true, we’ll see if she uploads pictures or if the DT weighs in. Could go either way now. But it is something Orlando has done before.
In the case of a Ronald McDonald House it might be low key because they don’t wanna be associated with McDonald’s. No conspiracies here. So far. Although it would have sounded more natural to my ears is she would have said “Thursday”, for example, instead of “the other day”. Might just be me though.
If they were there together it means they are together. I am far from being shipper but I think maybe they will understand that their actions weren’t taken seriously and now decided to chill out and do something better. If the kids were happy to meet the pair I think it;s fine. I also don’t think it was staged because if it was there would be press as you said and there would be probably other sightings about that.
@dinner - Dinner could be 6:30 pm. Kids often go to bed at 8 pm. Especially in a hospital where illness makes them exhausted. I have kids, I know how their energy seems to disappear during illness.
It’s not just you. I always feel a little suspicious when people can’t give an exact date. Yesterday, Thursday, etc. The other day always makes me wonder if someone is hedging in case another sighting or story pops up from that day.
I’m not trying to be mean or anything but you seem to waffle a lot. If they were there together all it means is that they were there together. Period. Perhaps OB wanted to do this as its something he’s done in the past. And he was going and she decided to tag along. And he didn’t permit her to use it for PR. That’s a possible scenario and in no way would translate to “they are together and in love”.
As for kids being happy, I will bet you anything they were happy to meet Will Turner and probably thought she was just a nice, smiling girl whom they had never heard of. I really doubt an 11 year old cares who some underwear model is. LOL.
And in general, I wonder if most people understand the way PR works in the internet age. It isn’t enough to have pictures and stories in tabloids. You need fan sightings as well. It needs to be a complete operation.
Who wants to bet me that David Jones is an underwriter for the Ronald Mcdonald House at this hospital?
Look, I’m a cynic. If they went and were nice to some sick kids that’s great. But that’s not going to make me decide everything is perfectly normal and that everything else I’ve observed was false.
good point it was left open wasn’t it?
I still can’t see why there would be no official mention of it-not even a blurb. Most things like that do make the press and if it was really a few days ago she was talking up a storm about everything she was doing. Why not that? It was just fit right in with her buddhist and green life style she was pushing.
ellen @199 - Maybe it means they are a legit couple. Or maybe it means they’ve finally hired a PR expert who knows what the hełł she/he is doing and how to make it look real. Sorry, but I don’t believe anything without confirmation from several sources, direct or indirect.
If she talked about it to the press one would say she’s awful and sells kids’ story to be famous and such, right?
It really doesn’t change my opinion of them as an annoying showmance couple but I am trying more and more to see it in a different light because nothing is only black or only white.
If she talked about it to the press one would say she’s awful and sells kids’ story to be famous and such, right?
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Yes, so perhaps in this situation they discovered discretion is the better part of valor. The story is out there anyway, isn’t it? So mission accomplished in some respects.
Does anyone remember a story like this about him and Kate? I swear I do.
It said dinner. Would that mean dinner with the kids or a charity dinner?
If it is false maybe the person who wrote it didn’t think of that-and said it was both. At a charity dinner for the hospital that is usually someplace else and the kids aren’t there. If you go to visit and play with the kids that is just hang out time. The kids don’t sit down to a big table or anything like that-at least from what I understand.
I do think it sounds like the perfect follow up to her saying to much and now trying to backpedal a bit. If it is false you can’t put that in the paper because the fall out from using fake charity in the press would be too much.
@208 To me it came accross that it started as hang out time and then they decided to dine with the kids. There’s probably a cafeteria where the kids eat. The Ronald McDonald house is not like a hospital, it’s the place where kids that receive long treatment can stay with their parents to avoid mental/psychological damage from spending weeks or months apart.
Just read it again. Do they let the kids just run down for dinner like that for an unplanned thing? That really doesn’t add up at all. It sounded like she described and orphanage instead of a hospital.The hospital probably has to be very structured with their schedules. If they are sick enough to have to stay in a hosital they must not be running around too much.
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