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Skydiving in New Zealand
Lots of great photos (golly he looks excited) of Ben doing a tandem skydive having finished filming for The Hobbit in New Zealand.
www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-09-04/benedict-cumberbatch-reenacts-the-reichenbach-fall-from-15000-feet
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Wow, that looks like he's had a lot of fun. I wonder if I'd have the guts to do this. 
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Re: Skydiving in New Zealand
These are the moments when I'm glad that we will never have any kind of 
relationship .
I'm a chicken, I would go crazy with a boyfriend or husband with all those exciting/hazardous hobbies! 
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Re: Skydiving in New Zealand
Mattlocked wrote:
These are the moments when I'm glad that we will never have any kind of
I'm a chicken, I would go crazy with a boyfriend or husband with all those exciting/hazardous hobbies!
I second that!
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Re: Skydiving in New Zealand
Another really good article about the skydiving with many more photos. Funny what he says about the 'effect' of skydiving as he is not the first person I have heard say this. 
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2204379/Benedict-Cumberbatch-shows-daredevil-thrills-skydive.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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Re: Skydiving in New Zealand
Wow, that looks like he's had a lot of fun. I wonder if I'd have the guts to do this.
Maybe if BC were holding you.
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Wow, that looks like he's had a lot of fun. I wonder if I'd have the guts to do this.
Maybe if BC were holding you.
Ready to go. Where's the plane?
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Wow, that looks like he's had a lot of fun. I wonder if I'd have the guts to do this.
Maybe if BC were holding you.
Ready to go. Where's the plane?
Who needs the plane to fly once he's holding you?
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Yes. But first we'll have to get up there. Or I'll just skip the jump and go straight on to the holding bit.
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"It is what it is says love." (Erich Fried)
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Re: Skydiving in New Zealand
Naa... it will be the other way round. Stay on the ground, start the "holding bit" and then.... flyyyyyyyyy......
(Just imagine Susi jumping from the plane with Ben - she will never land!!)
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Naa... it will be the other way round. Stay on the ground, start the "holding bit" and then.... flyyyyyyyyy......
(Just imagine Susi jumping from the plane with Ben - she will never land!!)
Just fly the friendly sky …
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"It is what it is says love." (Erich Fried)
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Re: Skydiving in New Zealand
That article was funny. I mean it's fine, except that the New Zealand dive was the second time he'd done sky diving. The quote was from when he did it the first time. Apparently Daily Mail is somewhat of a nonsense tabloid over there? Like they're going "OMG Benedict hasn't done anything for us to write about lately let's find something!"
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Thanks for the pics, Davina, and the article! Poor darling, I promise to never take his picture in Tesco at one in the morning. (chance'd be a fine thing I'd ever have the opportunity.)
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Re: Skydiving in New Zealand
What is this incomprehensible phenomenon of jumping out of perfectly good airplanes? 
I swear I wouldn't jump out of pane if it was crashing! I know people who have done this, people I once thought sane, and they too claim to want to do it again. I can't speak for the "effect" that it has but I would gladly would on the ground, where we belong, and help him out with that.
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