Friday, August 12, 2016

Laura Haddock shows svelte post baby figure glam floor

They welcomed her first child in December.
And after enjoying some time with their new addition, Sam Claflin and his stunning wife Laura Haddock are making the most of BAFTA weekend by hitting another party on Saturday night.
The Hunger Games star and his actress wife dressed to the nines for the Lancome Nominees party held in the regal surroundings of London's Kensington palace on the eve of the awards ceremony.

The flowing, long-sleeved  number was nipped in at the waist to display a hint of the blonde beauty's curves.
Laura kept the rest of her look simple, sweeping her locks up into an elegant up do and adding a bright pop of lip colour.


Sam, who will be seen next in the big screen adaptation of Jojo Moyes' novel Me Before You, was suited and booted in a navy three piece teamed with a white tie and checked shirt.
The besotted couple couldn't help gazing at each other and cuddling up close as they posed for photos at the star-studded celebration.
Laura confirmed the couple had welcomed their first child when she attended the Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica last month - her first red carpet appearance since revealing her full heavily-pregnant figure in November 2015.

Sam, 30, and Laura have yet to confirm whether they welcomed a boy or a girl and have therefore remained very quiet on their first turn as parents.
The couple met in 2011 and it was love at first sight for Sam, who said in October last year: 'My wife, Laura, is undoubtedly my best friend. We met at an audition for My Week with Marilyn and there was an instant spark.
'We found out we had the same agent and then bumped into each other the next morning at [a London Underground] station.
'I didn't know anything about her other than that her name was Laura, she was very attractive and she seemed lovely. But I went home, woke my friend up at 7am and said, "I just met the girl I want to marry. I love this girl like, I love her. She's perfect."'
And, like a fairytale for the digital age, Laura later tracked Sam down on Facebook, four months after their first meeting.
They married in 2013 and actor Sam said it was the best decision he'd made, explaining to The Edit: 'Getting married was easily one of the greatest achievements of the past 12 months.'



How Did Sam Claflin & Laura Haddock Meet?



Before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie joined the Celebrity Secret Wedding Club, the Hunger Games' Sam Claflin wed Laura Haddock in a ceremony that would've gone completely under the radar... were it not for Instagram. At that point in mid-2013, Claflin had already garnered attention on the Internet for being, essentially, an attractive Englishman for his supporting roles in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Snow White and the Huntsman. So, once Insta shots from his quiet nuptials with Haddock surfaced, they made it to Tumblr, and the jig was up. But how did Sam Claflin and Laura Haddock meet in the first place? Let's explore the love story of these theatrical Brits.

The couple got hitched in a private ceremony on July 30, 2013, right as the groom's star power began to rise. Claflin was set to star in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Finnick Odair that fall — a highly anticipated and career-making role. And, he was famous enough that people on the Internet cared that he got married to an equally attractive lady. Combined attractiveness aside, the couple's adorable story will make you love them even more.

Haddock herself is an actress. While most of her credits are in British television and film, Haddock played a small role in this summer's biggest film. Haddock was Meredith Quill Star-Lord's mom in Guardians of the Galaxy. Mind. Blown. Naturally, this couple's story begins in a scenario all too familiar to actors: the audition room.



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Claflin told Yahoo! about their professional meet-cute, which he described as "the sickliest story ever." Well, you be the judge:

I walked into an audition room, I saw her and I knew. I’m not kidding for the life of me. She was reading in for a part and it’s my fourth free call. I’ve done previously three auditions with this other girl reading and this girl walked in and I walked out the audition, couldn’t care less if I got the part. I called my agent, I said, 'Mate, I am in love.' He’s like, 'How did the audition go, mate?' I was like, 'No, no, you don’t understand. I have just met the woman I want to marry.' Then, that evening, I want [sic] to a party in East London and — the story goes on for hours. {Laughing} I went to a party in East London and at 5:00 a.m., I stayed up all night having fun with my friends, got on the first tube or the subway home, got the subway doors opened at my stop, she was standing there.
Sure, this is adorable and awkward and straight out of the rom-com playbook. But, this is how I image it went down:

Claflin walks in and sees Haddock, and has one of those love-at-first-sight realizations. But, this means he can't blow it.


So, Claflin tried to be all suave to impress her.


He can't seem to read Haddock's mind, despite their instant connection, so Claflin leaves the audition a bit flustered.


I mean, wouldn't you if you just met the person you were going to marry and didn't do anything about it? But, what's meant to be will sort itself out. So, as luck will have it, they meet again — of all places, in the London tube. (Talk about a Missed Connection fantasy come to life.)

This time around, Claflin weighs his options. Should he play hard to get?


Should he show off his strengths?


Spear-wielding might be inappropriate, given the setting. In the end, he decides he must fight... for her attention.


And it just so happened to work out for the lovely thespians. I mean, do you think she really needed that much convincing?


Claflin reflected about his wedding with Haddock a year later. He told Glamour UK,

Getting married was easily one of the greatest achievements of the past 12 months. To have a wife with such [a] wondrous, creative imagination, who planned every inch of it, made the day all the more special. Every five seconds I find myself falling harder and deeper in love with her.
A year in, they're still ridiculously adorable.



Sam Claflin and Laura Haddock finally reveal their baby's gender

Sam Claflin and his wife Laura Haddock have finally revealed the gender of the first child, six months after Laura gave birth in December.

The couple, who generally keep their relationship very private, have kept the news about the baby son close to their chests until recently when Sam revealed that he would be spending Father's Day with his wife and baby son.



Sam revealed the couple share a baby boy

He told People magazine: "I'm filming so much at the moment, I don't get the opportunity to spend as much time with him as I'd like to. So I think after Me Before You finishes - which is just before Father's Day - I will have a bit of family time.

"Just with the little man. I don't know what to expect - I have no expectations. I've never had that to look forward to before. I always thought, naïvely, that I knew what it would be like. I always thought that I'd understand. But it's like another level of love that you've never experienced before."

He continued to chat about his six-month-old son, saying: "You can't describe to someone unless [they’re] in it…The rewards are just endless. He's literally the best thing that's ever happened to me."


Laura gave birth in December



The Hunger Games actor is currently promoting his latest release Me Before You, which sees him play a quadriplegic with limited movement who is cared for by Louisa, played by Emilia Clarke.

Speaking about the challenging role, Sam told EW: "I think playing Will was undoubtedly probably the most challenging thing I've ever done in my life. I honestly was an emotional wreck pretty much the entirety of the film.

"One of the hardest and most challenging things about this job was actually keeping a straight face during the scenes in which our characters weren’t meant to like each other. I had a fake beard on, and all I remember is sort of trying to hold it down because every time I'd smile, it would pop off."

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Laura Haddock

Laura Jane Haddock (born 21 August 1985) is an English actress. She is best known for portraying Kacie Carter in Honest, Bethan in The Colour of Magic, Lucrezia in Da Vinci's Demons, Natasha in Monday Monday, Sam in How Not to Live Your Life, and Alison in The Inbetweeners Movie.

Early life[edit]
Born in Enfield, London and raised in Harpenden, Hertfordshire (where she attended St. George's School),[1] Haddock left school at the age of 17 and moved to London to study drama.[2] She trained at Arts Educational School in Chiswick.[3]

Career[edit]
Haddock made her television debut in the television pilot Plus One, part of the Comedy Showcase 2008.[2] Her other television credits include The Palace, My Family, The Colour of Magic, Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye and Honest, playing the lead role of Kacie Carter. She also appeared in the pilot episode of Life Is Wild, the American version of Wild at Heart.[4] She also starred in adverts for dot tel. Haddock played the lead role of Natasha in the ITV1 comedy drama Monday Monday, and appears in series two and three of How Not to Live Your Life, replacing previous female lead Sinéad Moynihan.[4]

In 2011, she appeared in the Cinemax/Sky TV drama Strike Back: Project Dawn for two episodes playing the kidnapped daughter of an illegal arms dealer. She stars as Lucrezia Donati,[5] the mistress of Lorenzo de' Medici and lover of Leonardo da Vinci in the 2013 series Da Vinci's Demons.[6] Haddock's theatre credits include Famous Last, which formed part of the 2009 Sky Arts Theatre Live! project,[7] and Rutherford & Son at Northern Stage.[8]

Personal life[edit]
Haddock formerly dated actor Richard Fleeshman.[9] She married actor Sam Claflin in July 2013.[10]