OlderSat, 27 December 2008 at 9:47 pm
Orlando Bloom is Deus Ex Machina
Orlando Bloom rides off on his “Beverly Hills Ducati” motorcycle as he leaves a church on Saturday (December 27) in Los Angeles.
The 31-year-old British actor wore a jacket from Deux Ex Machina, which literally means “god from the machine.” Back in May, Orly shopped at Sydney’s bike store Deus Ex Machina in Australia.
Afterwards, Orly reportedly went out with Aussie model girlfriend Miranda Kerr and got into a fender bender.
10+ pictures inside of motorcycle man Orlando Bloom…
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“What does ‘celebrity’ have to do with whether or not a relationship is real? Does Orlando have to completely retire from all forms of show business to have his relationships become real to outsiders?”
Of course he could have a real relationship even if he wasn’t a celebrity. He could even have one with Miranda.
I didn’t say he needed to retire. But would all the shippers get to write comments in blogs about him, if he is no longer known as a celebrity.
Lets say he and Miranda did get married sometime down the road, are all the shippers going to still be here throwing stones at all the haters, and will the haters be claiming that it’s a showmance.
Would you be able to do that to someone who isn’t famous?
Fame can and does fade eventually.
The question is will he still be considered famous when and if he does ever get married.
He could not get married to anyone ever. Look at George Clooney.
Yes, he might not get married and he might not have kids, and I can’t help but wonder what’s wrong with his fans -or better said, followers- if it’s necessary that he has kids or marries to demonstrate that he has a real relationship. I can’t think of any other celebrity that has followers behaving like this. It was the same with Kate Bosworth, and their relationship lasted some years.
I don’t think anybody is throwing stones at the haters, pointing out obvious double standards and logic gaps is something different, IMHO.
It’s such a shame that Orlando has such irrational fans, I feel sorry for him…..what other famous actor has fans that hate his girlfriend so much that they would pretend he is having a showmance rather than be happy for him …….look at Brad Pitt, his fans mostly love Angelina and support him 100%………instead poor Orlando has loonies that make up elaborate conspiracy theories about his relationship with MK and basically call him a liar and a fake…..some fans!!!!
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“if it’s necessary that he has kids or marries to demonstrate that he has a real relationship.”
Orlando does not have to prove anything to anyone.
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“look at Brad Pitt, his fans mostly love Angelina”
How often does Brad mention Angelina - not because he has to - but because she does mean a great deal to him.
How often does Orlando mention Miranda?
No one ever said Orlando had to do anything. If a guy mentions his girlfriend or wife, I would hope it would be because he genuinely wants to and she is on his mind so much he can’t help but at least acknowledge her existance.
Not because it is in his “job” description as the “perfect” boyfriend or husband.
Orlando may never work again he may retire SO WHAT? That doesn’t give anyone the right to name call him or say his relationship is fake just because he isn’t working The fact that he isn’t working doesn’t mean he is using his relationship for publicity he could have done that with Penelope Cruz ,Kirsten Dunst,Jennifer Aniston after all they have Hurvane not to mention Alen working for both of them that would have been perfect .
“How often does Orlando mention Miranda”
How many interviews has he done since they started dating?
The only interviews that he has done in the last year have been in relation to his charity work. Hardly the place to mention your hot new girlfriend.
And just how many people would be screaming about him lying about wanting privacy if he did mention her?
Once again, a damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.
“Why they are together, and the extent or their relationship is no one’s business but theirs.”
If they don’t want the any part of their relationship to be anyone’s business but their own, then they should stop inviting the public into their relationship. Anyone wanting to keep a relationship private and out of speculation would not parade around in front of paps, publicly comment on gossip blogs or discuss it in interviews like they have. If they didn’t want the relationship to be anyone’s business, they could do that like many others have, but then, they wouldn’t get any of the attention they crave, would they?
Of course he doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone, my point is that something’s wrong with his followers if THEY recquire that he gets married or has kids to believe that he’s in a relationship.
What’s your obsession with publicly announcing that he’s with her? He doesn’t have to and he has never shown any indication of wanting to comment his personal life publicly. Cool if Brad Pitt has, he is not Brad Pitt.
@258, he has never commented anything at all, that they comment in gossip blogs is a fact only in your imagination, and for the last time, if their pap pics are set ups, so are all Hollywood’s, no double standards please.
I see we have once again come full circle….
“parade around in front of the paps”
Like Leo and Bar, and Jake and Reese, and Tom and Gisele, and Johnny and Vanessa, and Toby, and Hugh, and Mark etc. etc. etc.
Name ONE couple in their generation who is successful at avoiding the paps 100% of the time. And no, Cher doesn’t qualify.
James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff.
Now, please provide examples where Johnny and Vanessa have done pap set ups every 4-5 weeks like clockwork. Where Bar has discussed Leo’s boxers in an interview. Where Tom and Gisele have announced their vacation plans.
Fine, then say that all celebrities are famewhores except for those two. The exception is not the rule.
I don’t have much interest in the celebrities you mentioned, still I know that Bar met Leo’s parents in Barcelona. I also know that Vanessa used a painting by Johnny Depp that he did for her as the cover of one of her albums (just imagine the riot if Miranda did something like that). But yes, saying that she bought some boxers to Orlando is a total rape of his privacy, that Orlando uses underwear is top secret.
James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff really aren’t good examples to use for comparison. Ann-Marie is not well known at all, and James is just now becoming known as someone besides Mr. Tumnus. James is a respected actor, but he just doesn’t generate the media buzz that Orlando does. James has never been a heartthrob, or the #1 hottest bachelor. And they don’t live in NY, LA or London, so they stand less of a chance of being caught by paps. Try using someone closer to Orlando’s situation.
Johnny and Vanessa can “hide when they want to”, so any time that they are caught, it HAS TO BE A SET UP. Right? Isn’t that how it works? Bar hasn’t discussed Leo’s boxers, but they sure have been “caught” in compromising poses on the beach. The pic with her between his legs, comes to mind. It was on a beach, so she/he/they MUST have called the paps. No pap hangs around on a beach, right? And Tom and Gisele have spent quite a bit of time lately denying engagement rumors. Sound familiar? How are they different? They are “caught” on the street quite often. Famewhores, all, I guess.
Justin Timberlake and Jesical Biel would be a close comparison. And they are photographed muuuch more that Orlando and Miranda.
Hilary Duff stole Mirandas fugly lace bag! No wonder we havent seen it lately.
@263
From the mouths of the paps themselves:
“many “hidden camera shots” are well rehearsed set-ups”
“Another photographer, who did not want to be named, estimated that as many as 80 per cent of photos of celebrities supposedly caught unawares are actually arranged in advance by their publicists.”
(The Independent)
“News editors like pictures which present celebrities caught off guard — so these are then staged for that purpose but the reader is not told that the sense of drama is obviously fake. ”
“Quite a few of the snatched pictures we see in the papers were in all probability staged for that precise purpose. Photographers sometimes work in league with celebrities. They arrange an unusual photo-opportunity, the photographer sells the picture and a storyline to go with it and then the two of the split the proceeds. ”
(Spinwatch)
and of Jason Fraser, who “caught” Orlando and Miranda in Venice:
“The celebrated photographer Jason Fraser, who has enjoyed exceptional access to celebrities, is known to work on what can only be described as arranged photo-opportunities.”
“But as Fraser reveals, in reality very few of his subjects are “off guard” at all. “In a huge number of the photographs I take,” he says, “the celebrities…how can I put this…aren’t exactly surprised when the pictures appear in the newspapers afterwards.”
(BBC news)
So, yes, the majority of times a celebrity is “caught” by the paps, they are aware and it has been arranged. If making excuses, denials, and justifications that Leo or Tobey or Jake gets “caught” by the paps as well keeps your fangirl pedestal intact, then knock yourself out. But that does not change the fact that Orlando and Miranda are famewhores who are p!mping a relationship for attention and publicity by staging photo ops with paps AND planting sightings AND talking about it in the press. They may not be alone in their actions, but they’re famewhores nonetheless.
“MANY “hidden camera shots” are well rehearsed set-ups”
“Quite A FEW of the snatched pictures we see in the papers were in all probability staged ”
“Photographers SOMETIMES work in league with celebrities”
Somehow that doesn’t equal your statement of ” the MAJORITY of times a celebrity is “caught” by the paps, they are aware and it has been arranged.”
These statements imply that, in fact, the majority ARE NOT arranged.
Many, a few, and sometimes, does NOT = majority
“In a huge number of the photographs I take,” Note, he said that not ALL of the ones that he takes, or even the word “majority”, and he is just one of MANY paps.
You have a theory, but not the proof.
You think that they are famewhores, fine. But you haven’t proven your case. Not by a long shot.
I don’t believe that most celebrity pictures are staged. If “most” of them were staged, paps wouldn’t do things as waiting for celebrities outside clubs, restaurants or their houses for hours, and the places known as “paparazzi hot spots” wouldn’t exist. It’s not that I think celebrities never do set ups, but I think they must have a goal, for example in the cases of celebrities with doubtful reputations that want to be papped as they wish to be seen. In the case of a person like Orlando, who has never talked about his life and his dislike for paps is obvious, especially after how they behaved with the car crash, and besides with no benefit for him, I doubt it.
That doesn’t help your case anyway, as most celebrities don’t have fans that call them famewhores all the time.
According to denverpost.com Orlando was seen with Miranda in Aspen renting a house, on the 1st of January.
Please those people aren’t Orlando’s fans just negative people who need to spread hate towards a stranger like Orlando
“as many as 80 per cent of photos of celebrities supposedly caught unawares are actually arranged in advance by their publicists”
“very few of his subjects are “off guard” at all”
“a huge number of the photographs I take the celebrities aren’t exactly surprised when the pictures appear in the newspapers afterwards.”
80% arranged in advance, VERY FEW caught off guard, a HUGE NUMBER are not surprised= MAJORITY.
Great, you trust the words of a photographer that won’t reveal his name and I will trust what I see, and what I see is that paparazzi do wander around places known as “hot spots” to see if they can snap a celebrity -and why should they if nothing less than the 80% of the pics they take can be obtained without moving a finger-, wait for them outside restaurants, their houses, their hotels, etc -again why bother?-, and some even drive carelessly to chase after a celebrity, like the ones that made Orlando crash.
“According to denverpost.com Orlando was seen with Miranda in Aspen renting a house, on the 1st of January.”
Yeah and I’ve seen Big Foot walking around at my local Walmart the other day.
It’s amazing to me how an online news sight can claim to have seen two celebrities and expect others to believe them when they have no pics to back them up.
Maybe someone should let them in on a new invention sweeping the world…..its called….a Camera!
It’s an enormous coincidence that a columnist that writes for the denver post mentions a sighting precisely now, a week after Orlando was seen buying a snowboard.
There were reports of them renting a house in Aspen even before the first of the year.
And, I see, we are back to the hypocrisy…..
No pics, it didn’t happen.
Pics, it is a “set up”.
Oh, and what a coincidence….they bought snowboarding equipment, then went somewhere they could *gasp* snowboard? Yeah, like that would ever happen. That was sarcasm, in case anyone is in doubt.
Oh, and #271
“AS MANY AS 80 per cent” = as little as 1%
“very few of his subjects are “off guard” at all” = very few of 1,000 = 200???
“a huge number of the photographs I take the celebrities aren’t exactly surprised when the pictures appear in the newspapers afterwards.” =Why would they be surprised to see the pics. They were there when the picture was taken, do they not think that it will be sold? No, didn’t think so.
Try again.
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