Benedict Cumberbatch Reacts to Benedict Cumberbatch Getting Engaged
It was a big day for big news: Election results! That kid from Target doing something! But on Twitter, the most important story of the day was that actor Benedict Cumberbatch got engaged, causing the entire Internet to erupt in a state of complete higgeldy-piggeldy. Here’s how some of the star’s on-screen doppelgängers took the news:
"Erm — hold up now. He did what, exactly? In a newspaper?”
"No, no — this has to be a misprint.”
"One day, he’s our beloved, attainable, non-betrothed English muffin, and then — poof! — he’s taken from us.”
"Stolen away by an avant-garde theater director!”
"Well, there’s always Matt Smith."
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