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  • Is Ben Whishaw gay, who is his partner?

    Is Ben Whishaw gay, who is his partner?

    Actor Ben Whishaw was made a household name due to his appearance in Bond films, London Spy and A Very English Scandal, but what else do we know about the actor?

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    James Bond and London Spy actor Ben Whishaw has also appeared in the new Paddington-the-bear films playing the inquisitive bear himself. In 2017 year he starred in the acclaimed A Very English Scandal. In 2015 he starred in London Spy which earned him a Bafta nomination.

    Is Ben Whishaw gay?

    It seems as though Ben Whishaw is gay and not bisexual. In 2014 he talked about his coming out experience saying it was “intense” but that ultimately everybody around him was supportive.

    Is Ben Whishaw married?

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    Here is Ben with his husband Mark, inbetween the pair is actor Naomie Harris.

    Ben is married to his husband, Mark Bradshaw. They got married in a civil partnership in August 2012. Although he’s is notoriously secretive about his private life, telling Out Magazine in 2011 that actors have the right to privacy and mystery. He said, “I don’t see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities”.

    The couple met around 2009 on the set of Bright Star where Whishaw played the role of English poet John Keats.

    His husband Mark Bradshaw is an Australian composer who is best known for his music for television and film. He was working on the film Bright Star when he met his future husband.

    CREDIT: (C) WTTV Limited – Photographer: Joss Barratt

    How much is Ben Whishaw worth?

    According to Celebrity Net Worth Ben is worth $2 million which is about £1.56m

    How old is Ben Whishaw

    Ben was born October 14 1980 which makes him 38. He was born Born in Clifford, Bedfordshire, England, UK.

     

  • Who is Ben Whishaw and is he married?

    Who is Ben Whishaw and is he married?

    Ben Whishaw was made a household name in the critically acclaimed spy drama, London Spy in 2015.

    CREDIT: Denis-Makarenko bigstock

    Ben Whishaw has also appeared in James Bond films playing Q as well lending his voice to the new Paddington films playing the inquisitive bear himself. Last year he starred in the acclaimed A Very English Scandal. In 2015 he starred in London Spy which earned him a Bafta nomination.

    Is Ben Whishaw married?

    Ben is married to his husband, Mark Bradshaw. They got married in a civil partnership in August 2012. Although he’s is notoriously secretive about his private life, telling Out Magazine in 2011 that actors have the right to privacy and mystery. He said, “I don’t see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities”.

    The couple met around 2009 on the set of Bright Star where Whishaw played the role of English poet John Keats.

    His husband Mark Bradshaw is an Australian composer who is best known for his music for television and film. He was working on the film Bright Star when he met his future husband.

    CREDIT: (C) WTTV Limited – Photographer: Joss Barratt

    Is Ben Whishaw gay?

    It seems as though Ben Whishaw is gay and not bisexual. In 2014 he talked about his coming out experience saying it was “intense” but that ultimately everybody around him was supportive.

    How much is Ben Whishaw worth?

    According to Celebrity Net Worth Ben is worth $2 million which is about £1.56m

    How old is Ben Whishaw

    Ben was born October 14 1980 which makes him 38. He was born Born in Clifford, Bedfordshire, England, UK.

     

     

  • Ben Whishaw, Russell Tovey and Alan Cumming join stellar cast for Gay Britannia

    A stellar cast is to appear in BBC Four’s Queers. Ben Whishaw, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Front, Russell Tovey, Gemma Whelan, Ian Gelder, Kadiff Kirwan and Fionn Whitehead will star in eight 15 minute monologues.

    Curated and directed by Mark Gatiss, Queers sees eight new and established writers respond to the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act which partially decriminalised homosexual acts between men. The series will be broadcast as part of the BBC’s Gay Britannia season this summer.

    Taking in 1957’s Wolfenden Report, the HIV crisis and the 1967 Sexual Offence Act itself, the monologues will explore some of the most poignant, funny, tragic and riotous moments of British gay history and the very personal rites-of-passage of British gay men through the last one hundred years.

    In ‘The Man on the Platform’, Ben Whishaw (London Spy, Spectre) returns from the trenches of the First World War, whilst a hundred years later, Alan Cumming (The Good Wife) reflects on gay marriage in ‘Something Borrowed’.

    ‘More Anger’ finds Russell Tovey (Him & Her, Being Human) playing a gay actor in the 1980s, and Rebecca Front (War and Peace, Humans) contemplates her very particular marriage in ‘Missing Alice’.

    Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones, Decline and Fall), Kadiff Kirwan (Black Mirror, Chewing Gum), Ian Gelder (Snatch, Game of Thrones) and Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk, HIM) appear respectively in ‘A Perfect Gentleman’, ‘Safest Spot in Town’, ‘I Miss the War’ and ‘A Grand Day Out’, each examining the very different attitudes and social changes in gay men’s lives over the century.

    The plays are written by Matthew Baldwin, Jon Bradfield, Michael Dennis, Keith Jarrett, and Gareth McLean, who are writing for television for the first time, alongside established screenwriters Jackie Clune, Brian Fillis and Gatiss himself.

    The 8×15 mins series was commissioned by Cassian Harrison and Mark Bell, Head of Commissioning, Arts and is made by BBC Studios. The Executive Producer is Pauline Law.

    Queers is being produced in partnership with The Old Vic theatre who will stage all eight of the monologues in July, in the run up to the television transmission. Tickets for the live staging are on sale now, with casting to be announced.

  • Ben Whishaw Has Changed So Much In Just 7 Years

    Ben Whishaw Has Changed So Much In Just 7 Years

    Actor Ben Whishaw has changed so much in just 7 years…

    Below: Ben in Cannes 2015

    CREDIT: Denis-Makarenko bigstock
    CREDIT: Denis-Makarenko bigstock

     

    The out and proud actor, who wowed British audiences earlier this year in the gay spy drama, London Spy has certainly matured in the last 7 years.

     

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    CREDIT: -Makarenko-bigstock

    Ben in Cannes 2009

    This picture snapped in Cannes in 2009, the 35-year-old actor (then 28) shows how Ben has certainly matured a bit in seven years, but he’s still definitely a hunk and is still the proud owner of his famous thick, tousled dark hair.

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    London Spy narrowly missed out winning a Bafta earlier this year, after This Is England ’90 won best the Mini Series for Channel 4.

  • Ben Whishaw’s London Spy Misses Out On Bafta

    Ben Whishaw’s London Spy Misses Out On Bafta

    The highly acclaimed British drama, London Spy has missed out on winning a Bafta.

    CREDIT: (C) WTTV Limited - Photographer: Joss Barratt
    CREDIT: (C) WTTV Limited – Photographer: Joss Barratt

    The highly acclaimed London Spy, starring Ben Whishaw has missed out winning a Bafta after This Is England ’90 won best the Mini Series for Channel 4.

    The series was also up against The Enfield Haunting for Sky Living and Doctor Foster for BBC One.

    London Spy was the gripping gay spy drama about two men who became romantically involved after a chance meeting in London. The series starred Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Mark Gatiss and Charlotte Rampling.

    Meanwhile Transparent, starring Arrested Development’s Jeffrey Tambor won Best International for Amazon Prime.

  • Ben Whishaw Up For Bafta For Gay Spy Drama, London Spy

    Ben Whishaw Up For Bafta For Gay Spy Drama, London Spy

    Out actor Ben Whishaw have received a nomination for the forthcoming BAFTA awards.

    CREDIT: (C) WTTV Limited - Photographer: Joss Barratt
    CREDIT: (C) WTTV Limited – Photographer: Joss Barratt

    Ben Whishaw has received a BAFTA nomination for Leading Actor for his role in the spy drama London Spy – a drama which follows a gay Londoner looking to solve the disappearance of his boyfriend.

    Speaking to THEGAYUK about the series Ben said,

    It felt incredibly fresh and I didn’t know what on Earth was going to happen, or what sort of a story I was in even.
    I think it’s a fascinating story, a fascinating series, because although I think it is a thriller, it doesn’t really conform exactly to what you expect a thriller to do. It creates its own version of that genre.

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    The series itself, London Spy, has been nominated for Best Mini series.

    Along with Ben’s nomination, Cyril Nri was nominated as best supporting actor in the Channel 4’s Cucumber.

     

     

  • INTERVIEW | Ben Whishaw

    INTERVIEW | Ben Whishaw

    Ben Whishaw ‘s star is rising. Fast. He took his first role in a film at the age of 19, but it wasn’t until he starred in the juggernaut franchise of Bond that he became somewhat of a household name.

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  • TV REVIEW | London Spy

    Ben Whishaw in a gay spy thriller? What’s not to like?

    CREDIT: (C) WTTV Limited - Photographer: Joss Barratt

    CREDIT: (C) WTTV Limited – Photographer: Joss Barratt

    The cute and slightly broody looking Q from the Bond franchise in a new 5 part programme, in part inspired by the Gareth Williams case of the body in the bag, and in part by a 1960’s CIA handbook about covering up a murder by using an accident?

    Right up my street and no mistaking! We are less than 1/2 way into this programme, and am firmly gripped. I love programmes that throw up more questions than they initially answer, that keep you guessing, that offer false scents, false trails and you end up with no idea how it will all end – bit like life really. It starts with Danny, played by Whishaw, a 20-something in dead-end jobs who parties, flat shares and doesn’t have a steady boyfriend – a bit of an every-gay, nothing special, just living his life.

    A chance meeting early one morning with the enigmatic Joe/Alex/Alistair (Edward Holcroft) and suddenly love creeps into his life. Joe is secretive with no family, a job he doesn’t want to talk about and Danny laps it up – even when Joe fronts up and becomes Alex. Danny has a close friend in Scottie (Jim Broadbent playing an older gay in quite a respectable way) and confides in him about Alex and then after 8 months, the two finally meet. Fast forward to a possible romantic weekend away, and suddenly Alex disappears. Danny and Scottie have a heart to heart and Scottie’s past as a spy comes out, along with his suspicions about Alex and his area of work.

    Danny then receives a mysterious package at work, and so begins a game of cat and mouse.

    A key to Alex’s exclusive apartment complex leads Danny to discover a decaying body, a sex dungeon (but in the attic) and his boyfriend’s possible secret life. After questioning by the police and the assumption the body is that of his boyfriend, yet another identity comes out and Alex becomes Alistair, together with a whole other life and a family.

    Episode 2 introduces the iconic Charlotte Rampling in a role made for her – queen of her very own castle, a model of decorum and a woman of few words, but all packaged with a tinge of menace.

    Enter Alistair’s family. Where is this going? Who was Alex? Is he really dead? Why is Danny being watched, and by whom?

    The next 3 episodes promise more unanswered questions before the finale, but I intend to savour the acting skills of Ben, and the flashbacks to his handsome and taciturn boyfriend Joe/Alex/Alistair – along with Jim Broadbent’s superior character, who for me, reminds everyone that gay life doesn’t end at 40.

    If you like your spy thrillers with a realistic edge, watch this!

    London Spy is on Monday nights at 9PM on BBC 2

  • FILM REVIEW | Lilting Reeks of good intentions but never really takes off.

    Junn is a rather disgruntled 60-something year old Chinese woman who has been co-coerced against her will into moving into a care facility for Seniors by Kai her son. The opening scenes of this wee British drama see the unhappy mother berating her only child for her present predicament, which is, exasperated by the fact that although she has lived in London for decades she has never learned to speak English. ★ ★

    It is soon revealed that Kai had recently died under mysterious circumstances and what we are watching now are in fact her memories. Richard who was Kai’s boyfriend for the past few years feels it’s his duty to take over from his late lover and starts to regularly visit Junn in his place. The trouble is Junn never knew her son was gay (or refused to admit it anyway) and really loathes Richard who she felt usurped her place in Kai’s life. And to make matters worse as Richard cannot speak Mandarin, the two of them have no way to communicate.

    When Junn gets hit on by the home’s resident lothario, Richard seeing a glimmer of hope of some happiness for the perpetually melancholic Junn, hires a translator to help the lovebird’s potential courtship. It also serves as a means for him to start a dialogue with the old woman too, which is no easy task, as she seemingly has no concept of the fact that Richard is grieving for his loss too.

    It’s a very slight story and as it is essentially about these strained relationships between different cultures and generations, a lot of the emotions literally get lost in the translating. Richard seems to spend much of his time in tears whilst on the other hand Junn just sits and stares with he big wide eyes.

    This debut movie from filmmaker Hong Khaou reeks of good intentions but never really takes off. He had the good fortune to cast veteran Chinese acting legend Pei Pei Cheng as Junn, and had managed to snare Ben Whishaw to play Richard. Most indie films would kill to get stars like this, but in this case, Whishaw’s uneven performance seemed to unsettle the balance between him and the other actors, particularly Andrew Leung, who played his on screen boyfriend Kai.

  • FILM REVIEW | Lilting

    ★★★★★ | Lilting

    Lilting is a gently moving piece about bereavement, grief and colliding cultures, beautifully scripted and played and directed with a sure hand by Hong Khaou.

    The way in which he dovetails past and present, real and imaginary, whilst making sure the movie flows seamlessly was really quite special. He was immeasurably helped by some superb performances, especially Ben Whishaw’s deeply broken Richard, reeling from the recent loss of his boyfriend Kai, a performance superbly seconded by Cheng Pei Pei, as Kai’s mother Junn, a Chinese-Cambodian woman who has never come to terms with the English world she was thrust into.

    She has never learned to speak English and Kai was her only connection with the alien world she finds herself in. Despite their closeness Kai had never felt it possible to come out to her, leaving Richard with the impossible task of wanting to do right by his lover’s mother without divulging the true nature of their relationship.

    Wonderful supporting performances too from Andrew Leung as Kai. Peter Bowles as the Englishman Junn befriends in the home she is living in, and Naomi Christie as Vann, the translator Richard employs for Junn.

    Subtle, poetic, almost unbearably moving without being mawkish, this is a must see.

    Available to buy / view on: Amazon | Amazon Prime | iTunes

  • FEATURE: 10 Celebs Who Came Out In 2013

    It’s been quite a year for celebrity outings, and as yesterday was National Coming Out Day, we decided to highlight the wonderful celebs that came out in 2013.

    Coming out is never easy, especially when the world’s cameras and press are following your every move and your career could fail because of it – so we applaud these celebs for coming out in 2013

    Robbie Rogers

    February 2013

    In February Footballer Robbie Rogers came out after posting a blog entry on his website saying, ‘Secrets can cause so much internal damage. People love to preach about honesty, how honesty is so plain and simple. Try explaining to your loved ones after 25 years you are gay. I always thought I could hide this secret. Football was my escape, my purpose, my identity. Football hid my secret, gave me more joy than I could have ever imagined’

    Jodie Foster

    January 2013

    Hollywood royalty, Jodie Foster finally ended years of press speculation when she came out during her acceptance speech at the 70th Colden Globe Awards. In the speech Foster said: ‘I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age. In those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends, and family, co-workers and then gradually, proudly, to everyone who knew her.’

    Matt Dallas

    January 2013

    Former “Kyle XY” came out of the closet to his fans in the beginning of 2013, via Twitter – when he tweeted about his engagement to his partner, Blue Hamilton.

    Jason Collins

    May 2013

    One of the world’s most famous Basketball players came out as gay in May 2013. He said that he chose to wear the jersey number 98 in tribute to Matthew Shephard who was a victim of hate crime in 1998. Collins called the number: “a statement to myself, my family and my friends.”

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