Benedict Cumberbatchs ex, Olivia, dumped him because he wanted babies
We’ve got a hodge-podge of Benedict Cumberbatch news, hurray! I actually miss Cumberbatch a little bit. I expected him to do more press on behalf of Black Mass. Instead, I think he only gave a handful of short newspaper interviews, he didn’t junket for the film at all and he only came out for one premiere. Damn it, Batch!
What else? Well, this little piece of Cumberbatch-adjacent news might have slipped by some people last week. According to the Daily Mail, Benedict’s ex-girlfriend Olivia Poulet is getting married. Olivia and Benedict were together for an entire decade and they lived together happily, their families were close and they were pretty much as good as married. They split in 2011, after which Benedict bounced around from steady girlfriends and hookups before Sophie Hunter got pregnant in late summer/early fall 2014. Anyway, the Daily Mail had a few pieces of info about Olivia that I found interesting.
She is the woman who broke Benedict Cumberbatch’s heart —and now she’s engaged to a more handsome Sherlock Holmes actor, nine years his junior. I can reveal Olivia Poulet, 37-year-old star of The Thick Of It, has found lasting love with Laurence Dobiesz (inset), 30, who appeared in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes film A Game Of Shadows as an Austrian maitre d’.
TV Sherlock star Cumberbatch dated Poulet for ten years until 2011, but their relationship is said to have cooled after he said he wanted children. Though the split was, at the time, said to be ‘amicable’, close friends claimed last night it was Olivia who called time on Cumberbatch.
Poulet met Cumberbatch at the University of Manchester, where both studied drama, and they later shared a home in Hampstead, North London. Benedict told of his wish to be a dad in 2010: ‘I have been broody for five years,’ he said. ‘The big question is “When?” I think I’d like it before I’m 35 . . . I would love to have the ability to juggle a career and have a young child.’
Following their separation, the Old Harrovian actor went on to star in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Colin Firth, and his film career took off. Poulet was born in Putney, South-West London, into a high-achieving family. Her mother is a judge and her, brother, Jamie, a neuroscientist. Two years ago, she disclosed she was dating another actor (‘I seem to have a taste for them’) whom she declined to name.
Cumberbatch married 37-year-old theatre director Sophie Hunter in February this year, and she gave birth to their son in June. After her split with Cumberbatch, Poulet was never keen to talk about her ex. ‘We are absolutely grand and adore each other, but it’s just difficult if every interview is about me going out with Benedict,’ she said.
Her new bloke is seven years younger! Sources claim Olivia and Benedict broke up because they disagreed about babies! He was pro-baby and she was anti-baby (or anti-baby at that moment). Do you think it’s harsh that she dumped him over his desire to have children? I don’t know, I think it’s interesting, actually. And it all worked out in the end for Bendy.
Last thing: Benedict has a stalker. Of course it’s a woman. Of course she’s a crazy, obsessed Cumberbitch. Sigh…
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