{"id":577847,"date":"2026-05-11T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577847\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:20:12","slug":"benedict-cumberbatch-in-road-rage-clash-with-vigilante-cyclist-on-london-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577847\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘road rage’ clash with ‘vigilante’ cyclist on London street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a> was involved in a heated argument with a fellow cyclist<\/a> on a central London<\/a> street.<\/p>\n

Shocked bystanders watched on as the Hollywood star was called \u201cdeluded\u201d during the angry exchange with another rider near King\u2019s Cross Station.<\/p>\n

Footage of the Doctor Strange and Sherlock actor involving Cumberbatch and a masked cyclist was published by the Sun.<\/p>\n

The row is said to have unfolded at around 5.30pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The A-list star reportedly left his bike and walked across the road to confront the other cyclist amid their row.<\/p>\n

The angered cyclist shouts: \u201cYou\u2019re deluded, You\u2019re lying. I was behind you the entire time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cumberbatch responds with: \u201cDude, you verbally abused me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Benedict<\/p>\n

Benedict Cumberbatch and wife Sophie Hunter (Getty)<\/p>\n

The altercation reportedly lasted ten minutes before the masked man left the scene.<\/p>\n

A fan, who filmed the confrontation, told the Sun: \u201cIt was crazy. It was such a pompous road rage<\/a> it almost felt like it had been staged.<\/p>\n

\u201cBenedict still managed to charm everyone watching even though he was having a meltdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

The eyewitness claimed that the pair blocked the lane while arguing on the busy road.<\/p>\n

The onlooker continued: \u201cThe masked guy was obviously some kind of vigilante<\/a> \u2013 he was really taken aback when he saw it was Benedict Cumberbatch, but he doubled down on his rage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese school kids asked \u2018is that Dr Strange?\u2019 and asked for a picture with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cBenedict said \u2018not at the moment, in a minute\u2019; he was lovely with them, they were awe-struck.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch was involved in a heated argument with a fellow cyclist on a central London street. Shocked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6509,27777,96,59,197665,197664,42109,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-577847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-benedict-cumberbatch","tag-cyclist","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-kings-cross-station","tag-sophie-hunter","tag-the-sun","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}