O – Casual RA or dressed-to-the-nines-RA?
No question. I present my case:
Casual he’s all smiles.
Pete the Banker by Lucas North
Formal? With an F for frown!
I rest my case.
Casual all the way!
ETA: Nobody says it better than Kathy:
Guylty Pleasure 
Ode to Dressing Up, Or Down
I like him in a t-shirt,
Or covered in dirt.
Wearing tight jeans,
He haunts my dreams.
I like him in a tux,
Which costs big bucks.
And he’s a beaut,
In a tie and suit,
But like him the best,
When he is undressed.
Kathy Jones
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Kathy, you are a treasure! Truly a pearl beyond price. And, for what it’s worth, damn correct, too.
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Bravo – exactly my thinking, too, Kathy… I just didn’t want to be graphic *hehe*.
This ode needs to be kept for posterity – I’ll add it to the post later, with a customary pic as background 😉
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Glad you’re liked it and we agree: his perfect outfit is his birthday suit.😏
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You have made your case very convincingly, dear Guylty! I can but agree with you. His smile always gets me. Excellent photo choices; they make facing Monday slightly easier.
WTF is up with that “awkward 1” photo? It is HILARIOUS! Maybe we need a post of goofy/geeky RA? He is adorkable is so many ways.
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Glad you like my argument.
As for “awkward 1” – I have a little collection of photos where you can tell RA feels really awkward… Whenever I need a laugh, I look at them. Sounds mean, but no. It just reminds me how far he has come and how comfortable he nowadays looks at shoots and events.
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The one where he lounging in um robe and boxers or shorts-where is that from? He looks very debonair though dressed up esp the Paul Smith shoot just smolders sexiness so sweetly! Thank you for these swoonworthy pics this morning. Makes waking up to a Monday much better!!
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That was in rehearsal for Love Love Love in NY. Jeepers, imagine waking up to *that* *dies of a stroke*…
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Oh yes thump thump thump I would be mega happy waking up to him in any way 💗💗💗😍😍😍👏👍
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Goodness me Guilty, I can’t keep up! Personally, I would like him any way I could get him, but how lovely to be out and have him all dressed up and frowny for everyone in the crowd, then get him home and shed the formal layers; with him giggling as they go… 🙂 (Has it suddenly got a bit warm in here?)
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The temperature has definitely risen. Yes, that sounds like the ideal scenario. Would suit all occasions from casual to formal wear.
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NEKKED!!!!!
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Yes, yes, yass! Nakey Richie!
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I knew you would say that 😉
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Any of the above. Although…that Mad Men suit in Wellington? Swoon. And he was smiley and happy that day, too. Come on, Guylty, you’ve stacked the deck a bit with the frowns to suit your argument. 😉
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Besotted, Hahaha! At least there are some bearded pics in there! I love your Mad Men comment. I’m watching the series now… on S3!
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Beards? Damn, I completely missed that. I was looking at other parts of the picture…
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😂🤣so was I but I thought we were wearing you down some or you were throwing us a um bone hmmm😉😘👏
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Nope, I’m afraid any kind of insistence makes me usually resist even stronger *evil laugh*
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Hahaha it’s the German !! Are you always up this late or do you suffer from insomnia like I do? Don’t get me wrong I love that you reply to our comments at any hour just want to make sure you get your beauty rest😘
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It’s about an hour past my bed time. I am up because I needed to bake bread for tomorrow’s breakfast. It got delayed because I was at the theatre tonight…
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Oh that’s right R3 ! How was it? Are you going to write a review?
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It was absolutely brilliant, Michele. And oh, good idea. I hadn’t planned that because this blog really is meant to be RA-only, but there *is* actually a connection to him, so why not.
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Guylty definitely tell us what you think. I love play reviews and you’re a great writer. Would be interesting to compare productions between R3 and Hamlet besides the acting like costumes,staging, directing. Just s thought 😉😊
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Thanks for the encouragement, Michele. I think I will. At least I have already thought of a title for the post, so that a start is made 😉
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Yes, please, to a review of R3!
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Okidoki, convinced. That may be something for tomorrow then.
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Of course I did. I go by the old adage that you should only trust any statistic that you have falsified yourself…
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Wise decision!!
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Benefits all, right? 😉
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Kathy has nailed it as usual, but you’ve all said it so well before me. I do have a soft spot for Pete the banker though. And I’m not particularly fond of baseball caps. 😦
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I liked Pete The Banker’s interaction with Ros..the way he looks at Ros in the building entry and the kiss was so sweet. I kinda wished the writers had pursued that story between her and Lucas more instead of Sarah Caulfield.
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I agree, Michele, Ros was cool. I can feel a Spooks rewatch coming on. 🕶 📡🔫
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Jenny I’m doing it now S8 Ep3 I watched last night he’s hottie hot hot in them jeans!!😉😍😍💗💗👍
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Ok guys, hold your horses. I have been thinking of calling a community re-watch of Spooks with subsequent discussion. Would that be fun?
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Yes yes yes even S9 I would be curious on thoughts about Lucas morphing into Bateman. It could make for very very interesting debate! 👍👏
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Exactly. Incidentally, I have never been party of a community watch, so I’d be curious to do that, too.
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I haven’t either or a book club or a movie club gosh the possibilities 👍👏😉
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Exactly! We can keep ourselves occupied for the next year or so…
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That sounds wonderful. Don’t know where I’ll stash the husband for that but I’ll figure it out. 🤔
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Best. Plan. Ever! I’m in on the #Spooks!Watch2018.
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Great. See latest post!
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I can see the attraction of Pete the Banker. I mean, just the other day I was extolling the attractions of the Russian Oligarch – who was also dressed in suits…
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Hmm the Russian Ogilarch was so sexy rolling the Rs and striding in his expensive looking suit 😍😍😍💗💗
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Exactly. That’s why I overlooked the suit and concentrated on the arse instead. Ooops, the Rs, I meant ☺️
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Oh god the arse oohh more thump thump thump I like his snarky sneering look as the Russian Ogilarch so sexy. He reminded me of Sir Guy hip swaying thru Nottingham. What a great visual!!!
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Very Sir Guy, you are right.
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👍😍👏💗🤗Sir Guy just is da bomb!!
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There is, of course, no right answer to this but I’d like to take this chance to declare my undying love and affection for RA in sweaters. 💋💋
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Kate, thank you for including some beardage pics with his sweater look esp #3. That gleam in his eyes and sly smile are dream worthy swoon swoon…
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That sweater in pic no. 3 is my favorite. I love, love, love it!
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He really does know how to work that sly smile, doesn’t he? I wonder if they taught that in drama school? Or does it come naturally to the preternaturally gorgeous?
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I bet it’s innate. It’s really not fair how some guys got it all but you won’t hear me complain.
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Yes in all those pics above he talks with his eyes and his smile and his sneer and his hands and his hips and even those infamous sunglasses. Clearly the camera loves him even he doesn’t always think so!!!!
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It is gratifying to be surrounded by such wise and knowledgeable women! #ScruffAndSweaters #CuddleUp #ThenRipItOffHim
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LL, most especially your last hashtag!!
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Ladies, I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you. 😵😉
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Kate it’s always good to let IT out, repression is baddd esp OOA!!!!!
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What am I gonna do with this? No, I will not falter. 🤐 Lalalalala, there is no naughty comeback in my brain. Nope, none, none at all!!
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🤣🤣😘I feel bad you are up late again!!
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Not as bad as I feel this morning! J/K
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Oh no! Can you nap today?
By the way did you listen to his mini interview of The Snowman? No ratty white T and no jeans they look like cargoish pants or chinos. No baseball cap either 👏🤣
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I’m a terrible mapper. It never ends well (i.e. major grumpy Kate!) but I will survive.
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Also, yes, I saw it. How dare he ruin my white-shirt-audio conspiracy theory. 😉
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🤣🤣you need to tweet him!! Must be warm in London still no jumper in sight!
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They need to turn on the A/C in the recording studio. I long for some lovely knitwear. *sigh*
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Right Kate!! He looks so cuddly and huggable (more so than usual) in knitwear!! That studio looks depressing though where the interview for The Snowman takes place and he doesn’t have his usual Audio props out: ie water bottle, coffee mug, Ipad or at least it doesn’t look like it from the video.
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Whahaha! I am evil! I don’t know about all seven deadly sins but I sure have one of them covered.
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Hehehe…I thought you’d like that one. I suppose I should be more respectful but what the hell. He can afford to buy himself a new sweater. Oof…what I could do to one of his fave white t-shirts.
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LL yeah I assume the consensus here is 👍on the white T but I wish he would expand his color sphere and go for more Sir Guy colors of black and steel. The images you put in my head with the #cuddleup and #thenripitalloff sent me into a tizzy in such a gooood way😍😍😘💗💗💗
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You’re clearly to blame for that Snowman audio outfit with your black and steel, missy! 😉
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Yeah I don’t like the brown diarrhea shirt he has on either and then instead of nice skinny jeans or even a looser fit blue jeans he has these 90’s looking chino or maybe even cargo type pants on which are bunched up in um certain places (although that I didn’t mind like his robe and boxers pic above) but he looks piqued in the face and the whole scene just depressed me. Like I want to fly to London (with you all of course) and not mother him but take care of him -feed him, dress him, shower with him.. He just seems down. I can’t put my finger on it but something just not right?!
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I saw that and since jumpers (!) qualify as casual wear, I fully applaud your specialist choice!
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Haha. Thanks, I’m glad you approve. 😺
An American jumps into his sweater but an Englishman will sweat in his jumper! (You’re welcome!)
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Nice one 😂
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You two are so sweet and funny. I feel like I’m eavesdropping on a telephone conversation or a lunch date between you both my head just bobbing back and forth as you two banter away. 👍👏🤗
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Hehe, the comment section is conducive to such banter. In fact, many a double act has been formed this way. CraMERRY and I used to have one such, in days gone by 😉
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GuyMerry 😃
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Yay, indeed.
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And people say us Djermans aren’t funny. We’re friggin’ highlarious. 😜
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Yep. They just all believe the stereotype… However, it makes for a great surprise when we *do* turn out funny.
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Both of you are so funny like you finish each other’s sentences. You could take it on tour: half English and half German. You both are creative and well um there is a wealth of material out there that has an established swoon base so ticket sales would go thru the roof!!👏👍🤗
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I have often wondered whether a double, stand-up comedy act based on this whole middle-aged fan girling thing would have legs…
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Yes actually I think it would be delightful. I don’t know either one of you but I feel like I do now and not just Richarding. You both seem to have a lot in common besides German and foreign born hubbies. Worth mulling over at the very least.
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Hehehe, deffo.
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Whahaha! I just laughed so loudly that I woke up the little old lady cats. We absolutely need that standup act!
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Well, if that play in London (or somewhere else near) *ever* happens, then I will make sure to meet with Kate and we’ll do an impro show. Ha!
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Actually, I have legs for days. I’m 5’11 so I ain’t nothing *but* legs. We could call it “ChaRActer studies in midlife. Join us for the second leg of the tour!”
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Kate, ChaRActer Studies in Midlife brilliant title!! Good job there!
You’re just a tad under Richards height
You can Eyeball him then!!
Me, he be looking down 🤔😉
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Yes, if I ever meet him, I’m either gonna be mute (Mute Twins Act w/ G.) or say something ridiculous like “Lucky I’m so tall. At least you don’t have to stoop for a change, right?” 😳🤦🏻♀️
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Kate I’m 5’5 and a quarter so he can gaze at you with his blue grey eyes and you can direct him to Guylty who can give him her dazzling smile and she can point to me as he cranes his neck down and flashes his Harry grin if he’s not being moody…
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I am not that much taller than you, Michele (5’6″). But here is a piece of wisdom from my limitless pouch of experiences (…) – I have found that RA at the SD never really seemed as tall as he actually is! Ok, it could’ve been that I was standing on the curb outside the Old Vic in London while he was gliding past on the tarmac below, but my impression was that he was almost making himself smaller in order to meet his fans and not overwhelm them with his presence.
(That impression might be entirely wrong, though. On second thought, I think I never dared look up when he was standing in front, for fear of being blinded by the sun…)
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Yes, for me too he seems not really 6,2 or 2 1/2 or whatsoever but I‘m 6.0 and the difference in height is not sooo immense 😏
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So you can take the lead here at the SD and we will be behind you as you break the ice with him first since you will catch his attention first no doubt!! 👍👏💗😘
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Yeah know Guylty that description would make an excellent ficlet. Images of Richard as Zeus gliding on the tarmac make me 😀! What a great metaphor you used !!!
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Especially in NY I felt a sense of the inaccessible demi-god gliding by on invisible tracks….
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Well, in that case you are the legs and I am the… I don’t know… the stump??? (5’6″ and shrinking. Yeah, I’m that age where it feels I am already shrivelling up.)
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I’m sure you have other attributes to contribute where I fall short!
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Whahaha! I would kill to be taller. I’m only 5’4″ so I have to stalk tall people in the grocery store.
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I’d love to get something off the high shelf for you one day! It’d be an honor.
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That’s so kind, Kate! And much appreciated. I’ve gotten surprisingly adept at lassoing things with my purse strap. It probably looks hilarious but what the hell, a short girl gotta do what a short girl gotta do.
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It’s true. I have been told that I’m *even funnier* in English. I believe that.
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LOL, yeah, I get that comment, too. We are freaks!
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Well then, let’s proudly fly our freak flags together!
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Jumpers rock!! He wears them very very well even under blazers which I’m not fond of that look on most men.
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So glad, you choose our special favorite awkward1. So fantastic memories…. 😂😎
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I know, I know. I will never EVER forget how much fun and laughter this picture (and particularly the *other* one) has given us. In that sense and perversely, it is one of my forever favourites… 😂
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Ladies, it’s like in the good old times when I see you commenting so intensely. Believe me, that’s the best reason of being a member of this fandom: the other crazy languishers 🙂
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Hahaha 💗💗👏👏👍👍that’s an awesome thought!!
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Exactly. Don’t you miss it??? *frantically tries to entice CraMERRY back into the fold*
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My first response when I started reading this was “casual” RA, and I’m drooling away at the pics. Then I get to the formal wear, and I remember the BAFTA LA tea party pics, and my answer is then suit, suit, suit! So I guess the short answer is no – I can’t choose. “He” is my favourite look.
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That is so well-said. Indeed, “he” is my favourite look, too.
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I concur! Well said, indeed. He is utterly scrumptious. Although, tbh, in the recent promo video for the audiobook of “The Snowman,” he looked a bit thin. He needs a sandwich or two, our man. Maybe made with your homemade bread, Guylty? 😉
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He can come to the comedy-act/get-together fan extravaganza and we’ll make it a potluck. We’ll have him back to his old self in no time! 🍲 🍜 🍔 🍕
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With him as the allure it will sell out in no time. I’m sure he would be tickled pink at a potluck esp if he had his steak tartar and roasted chicken available!!!
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Yeah, totally agree that he was looking tired, thin and exhausted. Poor baby…
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Exhausted from reading all those Audio books or hauling the money from them to the bank? He’s not filming BS3 right so I would have thought he would look more Proctor hunky chunky unless he is prepping for a role in which case I hope it is juicy and worth the wait. I think this thin exhausted look doesn’t suit him at all.
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No, I think he is still grieving, hence mentally tired and not in top form. The Proctor hunky chunky look is not his “natural” form either, I think, but in that interview he looked less than his usually strength. Understandably so.
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Yes you are right and it’s been almost 6 months since his mum’s passing and if he is living in London now there may be so many reminders of her… I do have a fondness for hunky chunky look— more rugged and those nice big arms ahhhhh
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The chunky hunk is definitely dreamy. *raaawwwrrrrrr* a rrrrrrrreal man… 🤤
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Ah you are so adorable!! I’m getting a visual here ….. (hmmm)
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That was the feeling I got also, that he is grieving. Quite understandable, of course, but he did look exhausted. He obviously is one of those people who doesn’t eat when he is stressed. There was something so bittersweet about the way he was talking about “The Snowman.” It seemed that he has very fond memories of it, or maybe the idea of his mum reading to him in general was making him so wistful. Definitely made me want to wrap him up in a cozy blanket and give him a (sort of) non-lustful cuddle. And a sandwich or two.
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I felt the same. I just wanted to give him a hug and a home cooked meal.
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I hope this doesn’t sound crude but I wouldn’t mind giving him a lustful cuddle or two or three…
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LL, that’s a great idea. That whole interview look was depressing to me. He was incredibly sweet discussing his fondness for The Snowman which I will have to get for my nieces now but he needs some pampering and there are a host of eager beavers to provide that assistance right?!
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Casual, definitely casual, and sprawled on my sofa…thank God it can’t talk. Yes I know I’m late but I’ve been having a lovely couple of months having fun.
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And that’s the best place to be. Both on the sofa. And away having fun 🙂
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