Sunday, April 6, 2025

Emma Watson might have given up on her creative writing master's degree

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According to the DailyMail (I know, I know), Emma " failed to finish her creative writing master's degree at Oxford. Instead she has reportedly decided to embark on a DPhil course, Oxford's version of a PhD, likely in English or Literature and Arts."

We already know she doesn't have to be on campus a lot of times to study so I wouldn't be surprised if their "source" simply assumed she quit.


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73 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do we think this is even true?

Anonymous said...

It’s common for students that are doing a masters that along the way decide to pursue a phD that the masters gets “absorbed” in the phD program they are starting. So the work they were doing in the masters becomes their first phD year. Of course I don’t know if this is what Emma is doing but it’s what makes the most sense to me.

Anonymous said...

The same outlet that claimed for months they had "close sources" saying she was engaged to Leo.

Anonymous said...

According to the Oxford website there were 218 applicants for 31 spots last year. Giving up on your masters degree doesn't seem like it would help you get one of those spots. Likely they just saw they got called out on this BS last time and are trying to make it seem more legit by being even more wrong.

Anonymous said...

A PhD (or D.Phil) is a research course. Her masters was in creative writing so there's no overlap for it to be "absorbed".

Anonymous said...

Sorry, I don't know how the British University System works, but wouldn't you need a finished masters degree to start at a PhD?That's how it works in my country.You'd need a finished Master to start a PhD.

Anonymous said...

I mean it's odd she showed up 8n america recently when she should be studying...but source is daily fail and no one else but then again the said 5 years ago she retired from acting and yeah theres been no acting since so....

Anonymous said...

She does have a history of starting and dropping things randomly at this stage but need more sites saying it than them

Anonymous said...

Eden what do you think? How real does it feel to you? Having followed emma so long you probably no better than daily fail

Anonymous said...

The information about her boyfriend is all wrong!!!

Anonymous said...

Why does the Daily Mail often publish wrong information?

Eden said...

My idea right now is that either the Dailymail is bored and making stuff up, or they've been looking for Emma to take photos around campus for their JKR feud story and couldn't find her and assumed she quit. I'd be surprised if she did quit but I don't know her so it's possible.

Anonymous said...

paps have been unable to get her on beaches for at least year now something is going on because previously they got her every summer without fail on holidays in italy or spain or whatever so she is definitely not living her usual life currently as they cant find her and our only pics are candids and no pap shots for months and months

Anonymous said...

they want to own her for something because she never responded to the last round of hate from rowling headlines
and they want some kind of new thing to get a lot of clicks and hate and make her seem like she is failing to their anti-emma audience

Anonymous said...

''The information about her boyfriend is all wrong!!!''

How would you know?

Anonymous said...

''8n america recently ''

8n?

Anonymous said...

NGL i hate daily fail but Emma has been floundering for a while with multiple aspects of her career and this wouldn't be shocking but evidence is lacking currently

Anonymous said...

Probably meant IN

Anonymous said...

wow lol

Anonymous said...

Yeah they're claiming she's been goofing off and hanging out with her boyfriend, except they got the college completely wrong. Oriel is an undergraduate college.

Anonymous said...

There could be a new bf by now and tbh we never saw this bf in months and months since the first sighting

Anonymous said...

This seems entirely based on someone saying they haven’t seen her around much recently. She’s doing a distance masters - they don’t seem to understand it at all.

Anonymous said...

You just know Joanne will tweet 'so much for being Hermione' with laughing crying emoji soon smh.

Anonymous said...

They’ve assumed she’s failed to finish because they haven’t seen her in the common room much?!? What utter tripe

Anonymous said...

god pls dont be real haters and grifters will use this against her so hard :(

Anonymous said...

That only applies to specific courses, and they're listed as that from the start. https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/dphil-neuroscience

Anonymous said...

being an emma fan these days is harder than being in the marines

Anonymous said...

as far as i can see you'd need a masters degree to start a phd course in English or Literature in Oxford. So maybe she applied to a phd course because she already knows her masters degree will be finished in time for the phd to start and her grades are good enough to qualify for the phd course. And the Daily Fail got that wrong. Wouldn't surprise me.

Anonymous said...

Yikes

Anonymous said...

The daily fail get most things wrong

Anonymous said...

ok people, remind me again why we are believing in dailymail?

Anonymous said...

Oxford was maybe not what she was expecting

Anonymous said...

Eden no other sites covered this will you delete if its proved fake?

Anonymous said...

i feel they are trying to smoke Emma out with this and get her to come out of hiding and reveal her location to them by responding to this and showing what she is actually doing so the paps can get on her with new pics every month like they used to

Anonymous said...

Isn’t the Daily Fail the ones that had said she was doing a PhD (which isn’t even the right degree for Oxford) in the first place? She would have to complete her masters to do a DPhil… like if you’re going make shit up, at least stick to one storyline. Also she hasn’t allegedly been spotted with Kieran since December/January. And last time she was it was voluntarily (Tucker’s game). This is their way to lure her out,seeing as shit like this would’ve worked on her when she was with Leo…

Anonymous said...

It’s funny how in the headline they calls her swotty just to go and imply that she dropped out… She’s doing a course that is mostly independent studying with her only having to be on campus for a week at most… Also what happened to that PhD that the Daily Fail said she was working… while completely ignoring the fact that it’s the wrong name for the degree. A DPhil requires a masters…

Anonymous said...

Side note I love how nobody knows anything about Kieran other than scratching the surface of who he is as a person. They keep pushing the same old “things to know about Emma's boyfriend “ type of articles, but it’s always the same thing. Whether it’s her team or their inner circles they’re really respecting Emma and Kieran’s privacy and making it hard for anything to get out. I’m just going to be laughing if Emma later posts a picture of her getting ready for her graduation/ graduation party.

Anonymous said...

She maybe busy in helping with Kirean’s pregnancy, it’s in the advanced stage too. She maybe helping him dealing with those care needed. Even Sophie took to SM to address the issue about pregnancy issues of her friend.

Anonymous said...

Theres nothing to confirm they are still even a thing he's the least seen bf of hers in years

Anonymous said...

If she is still studying what end date does her course have? Probably see then if its lies

Anonymous said...

Oxford doesn't publish the dates of the second year publicly and they have lots of ceremony dates throughout the year, it's not like graduating school where it's just done in one go in July. Technically you can accept your degree any time after completing your course, even years later.

Anonymous said...

It doesn't matter if it's true or not, while it's what she wants (finishing it or giving up), but God, I miss her in movies so much.

Anonymous said...

Maybe (hopefully) she’ll post an update on life on her birthday like she did two years ago?? Maybe announcing she finished whatever project she’s been doing in secret

Anonymous said...

Emma hasn't done anything in recent years, yet every article about her gets a lot of attention, shares, and reposts. So it's beneficial for them to mention her from time to time. Right now, they don't have anything new to write or publish about her, so they're just making things up.

Anonymous said...

Oxford mail says its confirmed she did not finish seems libellous to state this falsely?

Eden said...

Their source is the Dailymail.

Anonymous said...

The UK has very broad press laws. You can only sue media for libel if you can demonstrate that they printed it maliciously.

Anonymous said...

well its daily fail their clear bias about emma watson and a dislike of her could be proven with decade worth of headlines that frame her badly now

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately the fail, like all papers, run everything by a team of lawyers before its published they will have bade it sound speculative enough and used'sources say' somewhere to cover themselves by framing it as talking about a rumour someone else started than a story they created and are standing behind, real weasley moves like that

Anonymous said...

Eden you probably have a large archive of daily mail headlines on Emma would you say she seems 'targeted' by them? like there is an actual campaign to undermine her from them with malicious intent? or are comments often exaggerating here? just curious what you think?

Anonymous said...

Guys kirean is pregnant. Gir some privacy to him. It’s a joyous occasion for him no doubt but stop he has to take care of the baby. I think a little understanding from you all will go a long way.

Eden said...

I'd have to pay attention to what they say about others to know if they're targeting Emma specifically.

Anonymous said...

Has she given up or her course is over. If I am not wrong, it was not a long program.

Anonymous said...

Maybe that stalker showing up on campus put everything on hold pretty sure he broke in there

Anonymous said...

completely unrelated and i might have asked it before, but eden, do you think emma reads the blog?

Eden said...

I doubt she knows of its existence.

Anonymous said...

Imagine Emma knowing the blog's existence and trolling us with fake news lol.

Anonymous said...

Eden we know you are Emma so of course you read the blog XD

Eden said...

SHHH!!!

Anonymous said...

5 more days until Emma birthday post!

Anonymous said...

I was scrolling online the other day, and I saw a student or undergraduate said Emma's mother was their econmy teacher. Isn't her mother a lawyer?

Eden said...

She's been a professor for years now.

Anonymous said...

Which mom?

Anonymous said...

emma's biological mother

Anonymous said...

judging from pictures, Emma takes after her mother

Anonymous said...

Really? At Oxford University?

Anonymous said...

Is there a new video of her dog Sophia

Anonymous said...

Where?

Anonymous said...

If you're talking about the one the fashion insta posted, that's old.

Anonymous said...

Emma followed someone new on IG. Hopefully she will post something soon

Anonymous said...

Who did she follow?

Eden said...

It's possible it's just that someone she was already following reactivated their account.

Anonymous said...

Annoyingly Instagram stopped sorting follows by date added, so unless you memorized everyone she's followed, there's no way to tell.