Hollywood A-lister, ELLE writer,
YouTube sensation – Tom
Hiddleston’s cult status is evident
on every platform. And, as ELLE’s
Annabel Brog discovers, he’s not
afraid of revealing, well, everything
When ELLE’s Editor-in-Chief Lorraine Candy was at Wimbledon
last year, she rather naively tweeted afterwards: ‘I sat next to actor Tom
Hiddleston and his girlfriend Jane. He’s a very funny man.’ She has never
– bear in mind this is a mother of four who edits a fashion magazine, which puts
her high on a certain demographic hit-list – been trolled like it. The responses
veered between righteous fury that she had outed Hiddleston as being With
Girl- friend, and rather bloodthirsty expressions of envy that she had, you know,
talked to him.
Tom Hiddleston inspires fervour in his fans. He’s an extraordinary actor who has won universal acclaim
– his roles include feckless Prince Hal in the BBC’s The Hollow Crown; sweet, doomed Captain Nicholls in
Spielberg’s War Horse; and currently the blood-drenched warrior Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse – but
it’s his performance as pallid, sociopathic god of mischief Loki in the Thor and Avengers Assemble films that
catapulted him into the stratosphere. To put it in context: Hiddleston recently donated a pair of signed Converse
to the Small Steps charity auction, alongside the likes of Mick Jagger
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