Richard Armitage finally reveals he has a male partner

Fucking finally. We've been waiting almost exactly five years for this shoe to drop.

I've been waiting for this since he first caught public attention in the BBC's "North & South." I wonder why it took him so long.

That was handled well. Elegantly, not a big deal.

He and Lee Pace were a hot couple.

He's still hot.

nude pics now, plz

He looks a little gaunt in the preview at the link.

How nice. Now who the fuck is this old queen?

Geez, he's only 51.

He was so handsome in North and South. I hate how so many British actors seem to stop giving a crap about their looks.

They don't have to be plastic surgery victims who are peter panning their way into the old folks home. But, a concert violinist wouldn't just leave his violin out gathering dust without ever caring for it.

Full frontal? I just watched it and don’t recall that. (He’s hot as fuck in it, regardless.) Screenshot, please.

Screencaps

Is there a photo of the male partner?

R12 some fans think it's this guy. His name is Jim Gibb.

[quote] Geez, he's only 51.

[quote] He was so handsome in North and South. I hate how so many British actors seem to stop giving a crap about their looks.

You're absolutely nuts.

Armitage looks fucking fantastic for a 51 year old, and even more so because he's British.

I would hit that in 2 seconds flat!

Richard doesn't even have any wrinkles.

His skin looks very youthful.

He was so good in Berlin station. so said he had to leave to do shit work.

r13, he's cute. They make a handsome couple.

So what ever happened between Richard and Lee Pace?

They seemed really into each other.

The partner, Jim Gibb.

I'm so glad my years and years and years of trolling an obvious gay man have finally given me the strength to accept myself.

THIS is news?

R19- He looks like that bland chubby-ish guy from HBO's Looking.

How fucking brave to come out..................................................................................now.

Armitage caught my eye (and kept it!) when he first turned up circa 2008 or so in the Brit series Spooks which ran in the States as MI5.

This photo is from the first episode in which he appeared in the role of Lucas North via which Armitage became a leading member of the cast. Sad to say, as MI5 ran its course, the writing fell into an up and down pattern of irregular quality and his part eventually flamed out via poor writing, imho.

He first caught my eye in North & South on the BBC. That voice!!

I dare say that Richard Armitage comes across as a gracious, low key & private person and that he will never post thirst traps photos/videos of himself frolicking in the sun with his (latest) partner or with other hot men as is far too often the case with the tiresome & sun-bleached you-know-who.

Shut it, R26!

Well finally! That only took decades.

I'd much rather look at R27's thirst trap crotch pics to be honest. Luke Evans is fucking hot!

Luke Evans is made of rich Corinthian leather.

[quote] He looks like that bland chubby-ish guy from HBO's Looking.

Jonathan Groff?

This is Jim's ex?

[quote] Armitage has a male partner

At first I wasn’t sure whether he was a male because while you don't see many dwarf women, they are, in fact, so alike in voice and appearance to dwarf men, that they are often mistaken for dwarf men. And this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no dwarf women, and that dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground!

Spoken like a true little person.

The sex scenes in Obsession are extremely awkward.

Surely there's a typo in that quote - they must have met each other's PARENTS, not each other's PARTNERS?

Is he a top or bottom?

Richard's boyfriend looks like a total bottom.

And if you know anything about Lee Pace, you'd know he's a big gurleena whose legs go flying in the air, the minute he enters the bedroom.

R11 that's full back-tal not frontal.

R35, I think it is just poorly written rather than wrong. The two co-stars have met each others partners was my understanding.

Everyone has a right to be happy. Live Life Freely. :-)

Anyone remember when he had a beard for years and they were rumored to be married?

R24, I think he looks much hotter now. As someone in his 30s, I find men way hotter in their 40s and 50s. Men in their 20s often look like they just came from high school.

R41, he's clearly a former member of the Hugh Jackman school of handsome women.

He was the second-hottest dwarf.

My condolences to the members of The Armitage Army - a particularly unhinged group of fraus - who for years have valiantly asserted and defended their man’s heterosexuality.

One of the most handsome men ever. Good for him that he can finally live his life freely. Looking forward to his future projects.

What do you think about his talent? Good actor?

I think he's a good actor. I like him in all the roles I've seen him in.

[quote]Sad to say, as MI5 ran its course, the writing fell into an up and down pattern of irregular quality and his part eventually flamed out via poor writing, imho.

It was great the first couple seasons, but really dropped off when Rupert Penry Jones took over. Don't get me wrong, I loved him, but the show itself was starting to go downhill. By the end of his run, the show had lost steam, but it definitely jumped the shark during Armitage's run.

He's a fantastic actor who could do so much better than these Netflix gigs.

Oh look, Dl right yet again. Henry, shawna with your ugly beard camilla, hugh and your masc beard etc. You're not fooling us.

Right again! Goody for you troll! I had never heard of R Armitage and S Heughan until the trolls of DL started endlessly having fits over them. Hysterically outing them and trying to imply an army of "fraus" were claiming they were straight, posting this bullshit THEMSELVES. Homophobically and manically posting anything that might seem "feminine' about them, as if that were some barometer. Only on DL would trolls who troll GAY MEN over and over claim be the victims. Poor trolls. Poor suffering trolls. Did the "fraus" steal your imaginary boyfriend?

Critics branded him boring when he did the Ocean's movie.

Fuck them, he should be a bigger star. Loved him in The Stranger.

I wonder who the DL trolls will try to out next? Another Richard? Straight, "Het" Richard Simmons? I heard he is slightly fem. And look at the way he walks, and the way he talks, and and and....

Richard Simmons is straight, and everybody knows it!

I too am another frau, not connected to the previous frau, who believes that Richard Simmons is a fully functioning heteroseztual. I can feel in in my cuntbone!

We'll always have the red-blooded pussyhound Bradley Cooper to dream about!

I am also a frau who is always on The Data Lounge, and not affiliated with the other fraus who just posted about being fraus. Richard Simmons is not gay. He is a sensitive man who just wants me to lose weight so he can marry me and have the straight sex that he craves from my full figured frau frame.

Did I mention I'm a frau.

Liberace and Charles Nelson Reilly just never found the right gal!

I saw Richard Chamberlin have the sex in The Thorn Birds. He is another het, straight Richard who is a straight.

just finished watching his new series, obsession for his sake, if he had a buff body, the show would hv been bearable. The age of the actors getting away with whatever they look like are gone. It's was a glorified erotica. Invest on ur body, even if u don't hv the face or fade away

See, I was right all long! They are gay and I know they are GAY because they are gay.

r58 r60

Really? REALLY.

Insufferable.

r64

Wasn't he John Proctor in The Crucible?

r37 Really. Want the whole Lee Pace 'surprise' when he came out was not that he was gay; but that he wasn't. He explicitly said he dated men and women. There was a woman who he was seeming to date when he broke up with Richard.

I doubt he ever seriously dated a woman

r67 r68

R67 HAS to be a frauen. Gurl, Lee Pace has never touched a pussy in his life

R67 LOL like anyone believes that aside from deluded fraus like you. He's gay obviously, he wouldn't marry a man otherwise. He'd marry some frau and fuck men on the side. How naive are you?

Who? Is there a reason for me to care congratulations to him and his partner now that they can come out of hiding.

Lee Pace is a PUSSYHOUND! Much like our lady of the DL, Miss Lindseybelle Graham.

The fight in Hannibal's finale was basically a threesome. Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy, and Richard Armitage getting all handsy and stabby and then Siouxsie sings about Love Crimes.

Richard Armitage is primarily a character actor onscreen, and he is also primarily a stage actor. British stage actors and character actors age naturally.

DLers are so mystified by this concept These actors want to play roles for their whole lives believably, and only 4% of Americans--and far, far fewer Brits--have elective cosmetic surgery during their lifetimes. So if they look pulled and stretched they can;t play most people believably.

There are only a very few places in the world where people (and then only a small percentage of them) have plastic surgery. But because DLers often inhabit these places, they are mystified why other people do not get plastic surgery.

Who is Richard Armitage's husband?

Google has no answer.

R76- it's adviced to get botox once u reach 25, i have been putting off my appointment bcoz of my needle scare for 4 years now

Richard Armitage has a nose like a battleship.

It arrives on stage a minute before he does.

Good for him I guess. The reporter worked hard to work it in as subtly as they could, but at least it's there.

Did he ever deny it?

Think he waited until his mom died to come out?

R81 Yes :(

r71 Im gay. All im saying is HE has said he isnt gay. As more the fact he has married a man meaning he cant be into women; lots of bi guys do. Who was that NPR guy who was long time married to a man and then had an affair with a FEMALE producer of his show and has now had a child with her? He was 'gay married' and STILL went out and fucked pussy. I also see guys on grindr looking for MFM threesomes and you go to their linked insta and they have the gay flag in their bio and pics of their husbands and #gay.

Lots of bi guys live very 'gay' lives........until they dont.

Dont hate me, im just telling you how many bi men operate and Lee has made it clear he isnt gay. Just like the fem crackhead Antoni from queer eye - mostly dates men now, but had a long term relationship with a woman after having a long term boyfriend before that.

[quote]Dont hate me, im just telling you how many bi men operate and Lee has made it clear he isnt gay.

He made it very clear . . . to the very gullible, such as yourself.

r84 except you would probably have said the same about antoni; 'omg he is on a GAY tv show and has a BF'

R83- link these insta fake gays here

Lee Pace has a group of """former""" fangirls who act like he betrayed them after he came out, but they still follow everything he does obsessively (and also think his husband is Satan incarnate).

I wonder if Richard's fanbase will develop such an environment.

R1 Nah, WE really haven't.

Does anyone know who ended it, Richard or Lee?

I thought the middle seasons of Spooks, with Richard and especially Hermione Norris, were the best.

I especially loved Gemma Jones as the surprise double agent.

They're remaking "Fatal Attraction" as a series ??!!!! This is the moment, I'm back in the game!

(sung) "I've come home, at last...and this time will be BIGGER!!"

R83, well, if you're using anecdotes I know plenty of self-proclaimed bi guys who haven't been with a woman since 1989....

R92 I've met so many of those self-proclaimed 'bi guys'.

It's sad that so many of them were/are so ignorant of their own nature. I think they belong to a different generation and will be dying off over the next 30 years.

Of course, the coming generation is equally lacking in self-awareness.

This thread has been insufferable for at least the last 50 posts. Hopefully the troll is sleeping it off.

Richard Armitage needs a nose job like the beautiful Ari Drennen.

It is extremely cool.

What are those two dents on his forehead?

Fucking FINALLY! I've been waiting for him to come out for years.

Why? What was then going to happen? You would finally NOT be a cunt?

“I love the conversation with the younger generation,” he tells Radio Times. “I love the idea that whatever gender, sexuality, the fluidity of who you love, how you identify, is not fixed.”

He doesnt believe in 'labels'.

What a relief that huge worldwide international mega-star Richard Armitage has revealed he has a male partner. What an earth shattering revelation. When I think that millions of baby gays in Datagarten who have been clamoring for Richard Armitage to reveal that he has a male partner can now go to all those hot new Richard Armitage movies and be thinking that they too can reveal that they have baby gay male partners and can become huge worldwide international mega-stars, I get a surgically implanted tear.

R67 When Lee said he dated both sexes, he was not expecting to be asked about that. He was obviously nervous if you read his answer, and trying to minimize his homosexuality. Several of Lee Pace's friends went on to refer to him as gay when they talked to the NY Times shortly after that interview was released. Which would be odd if they saw him date women.

I'm not a huge fan of the "no label" thing but it does seem to help some older people who don't want to say the words, "I'm gay". Personally, I find the word "gay" immensely liberating rather than in any way confining.

[quote] Personally, I find the word "gay" immensely liberating rather than in any way confining

This is well put; every gay man should feel this way.

[quote] Personally, I find the word "gay" immensely liberating rather than in any way confining

It's not liberating to those who believe that it makes their ambitious goals impossible to achieve, like, say, becoming an A-List actor. Lots of business people still insists for it to be true.

Once upon a time, coming out, would have made it impossible to achieve even the smallest of life goals, like getting a decent job with a decent salary and be left alone living your life. That has changed, thankfully. However, people who "think big" still face bigger hurdles when they come out as gay. And quite a few people rather choose the easy way than the more challenging, or riskier, way.

I remember Lee Pace's friend, Judy Greer, was interviewed as part of an article about him. She referred to him as gay.

Do we know who his boyfriend is?

Yes. It's Jim. See upthread.

It's you and you know it.

R31 His is small compared to Armitage's honker.

R74 That was the sexiest fight scene I’ve ever seen. Hannibal was a treasure for gay men who like to look at more than just high school twinks in crisis aka Heartstopper. Bring it back!

[quote] What are those two dents on his forehead?

What, someone can't have an imperfection on their face?

Good for him. I hope they're happy.

Gurl, we been knew!

That appears to be quite the love machine he's got down there. If that's flaccid, erect must be magnificent.

I never discuss being gay with people. I think it's obvious, but I don't want them prying into my private life. If they ask if I'm married, I say no. If they say, 'Just never met the right girl?' I'll say, "Something like that". If they ask about kids, I say I have 5 cats. Etc.

"love machine"

MARY!

Why not just call it a pocket rocket?

Turgid member?

Because I was raised right.

So who was the top and who was the bottom in his relationship with Lee?

[quote]Because I was raised right.

And you seem to have aged even farther to the right.