Tom Cruise
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: New York, USA, 03 July 2020
- Associated with: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman
Katie, who is due to give birth any day, has already promised Tom she will deliver the child in complete silence, and she will also have very little contact afterwards. A source told Britain’s Closer magazine: "Katie respects Tom’s dedication to Scientology. She is devoted to him and wants to bring up the child the Scientology way."
L. Ron Hubbard - the founder of the strange sci-fi cult - writes in the religion’s creed, that all followers must live by, that new born babies must not hear their mother speak for a week so they will not associate their voice with the trauma of birth. The creed also states that immediately after leaving the safety of the womb the baby should "be wrapped somewhat tightly in a warm blanket, very soft, and then left alone for a day or so" and no medical examinations must take place within the first week of the baby’s life.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are having a baby girl - April 03, 2020
The Hollywood couple are busy decorating a nursery for their unborn tot and spent $20,000 on bedding and furniture suitable for a daughter during a massive shopping spree, giving away the sex of the child. Heavily pregnant Holmes took delivery of her haul from Petit Tresor, a trendy boutique in Los Angeles. The store’s co-owner Samantha Winch told America’s Access Hollywood website: "It’s very easy to rack up an expensive bill especially when you are as excited like Katie is and it’s your first baby."
Among the items chosen by Cruise and Holmes, were wallpaper featuring classic nursery rhymes, a $178 nappy bag, a stuffed elephant, and a faux-mink teddy bear complete with several items of designer clothing, including a $155 shawl. The shop’s other owner Nina Takesh said: "The bear was adored by Katie and Tom. And Katie can’t stop squeezing the elephant." The couple’s first child is expected this month and will allegedly be born in complete silence in accordance with the rules of the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a devoted follower.
Tom and Katie have swapped rings - Mar 16, 2020
Tom Cruise and fiancee Katie Holmes have reportedly swapped rings in a bizarre Scientology ’wedding’ ceremony. The Hollywood couple - who are expecting their first baby together - allegedly gave each other bands emblazoned with triangular Scientology symbols during a boat trip last July.
The couple were heading to Aruba to celebrate Tom’s 43rd birthday when they held the service. Actors John Travolta and Kirstie Alley - who are also followers of the religion - were among guests at the ceremony, which is thought to have been held on the cult’s ship, ’Freewinds’.
An insider is quoted in The Sun newspaper as saying: "Katie wore a flowing white dress and Tom was in a black suit as they exchanged rings during the brief 30-minute ceremony. "The couple then walked across a tiny bridge - a Scientology symbol for the journey to total freedom." A spokesman for Cruise said: "All I can say is they are not married in any sense of the word."
Katie Holmes asked Victoria to be her birthing partner - Mar 08, 2020
Katie Holmes has allegedly asked Victoria Beckham to be her birthing partner. The screen beauty - who is expecting her first baby with fianc? Tom Cruise this year - reportedly wants the former Spice Girl to be by her side when she goes into labour.
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Born in Syracuse Tom grew up in relative poverty following his father’s departure from the family, the actor has since claimed that he suffered abuse before the split. While Thomas III refused to pay child support, Tom’s mother Mary Lee Pfieffer moved her son from city to city, eventually settling in New Jersey where Tom, who once aspired to become a Catholic priest, then a Wrestler, took up acting. His first role was as lead in a High School production of Guys and Dolls.
1981 saw Tom take his first acting role, alongside Brooke Shields in Endless Love. He followed this up with increasingly important roles before in 1983 appearing in Risky Business, the underpanted lip syncing scene of which brought him to the attention of movie goers worldwide as well as to Director Jerry Bruckheimer who asked Tom to star in his next project. Rumour has it that the actor turned down the role of fighter pilot Maverick in Top Gun but in 1986 there he was on our screens, ready to become a cinematic icon.
As the 80s rolled on The Colour of Money, Cocktail and Rain Man ensured Tom’s place at the top of the Hollywood A list, taking him in to the nineties able to demand huge pay cheques for his work and earning him Academy Award nominations (for Born on the Fourth of July). In 1990 he met Australian actress Nicole Kidman on the set of Days of Thunder who he would soon work with again on the less successful Far and Away. Fresh from his divorce from Mimi Rogers, whom he had married just three years earlier, Tom whisked Nicole up the aisle before embarking on a roll call of more ’serious’ film work from The Firm to A Few Good Men and Interview With The Vampire.
1996 proved a successful year for Tom. He began a long relationship with the Mission:Impossible franchise and earned himself another Oscar nomination for the unforgettable Bruckheimer release Jerry Maguire. But this time seemed to mark a turning point for America’s most personable lead man. In 1999 he and Nicole took on the bizarre and controversial Kubrick movie Eyes Wide Shut which he closely followed with the Oscar nominated Magnolia which saw a further move away from his usual ’arrogant nice guy’ roles.
In 2001 the Cruise/Kidman van screeched to an unexpected halt. The couple, who had two adopted children - Isabella and Connor - were divorced just before their tenth wedding anniversary. Nicole, three months pregnant, later miscarried. Tom was soon in love again, this time with Vanilla Sky co-star Penelope Cruz with whom he was linked until 2004. He continued to create box office successes, from a second Mission Impossible movie to Collateral and Minority Report.
Following his split from Penelope Tom became ever more vocal about his beliefs as a Scientologist. The controversial religion was expected to affect his 2005 outing, War of the Worlds, however whilst the film still managed to net millions, Tom’s religious ramblings coupled with his unexpected relationship with Dawson’s Creek and Batman Begins actress Katie Holmes, sixteen years his junior, saw his own popularity wane.
Tom’s pro-Scientology and anti-psychiatry comments, a very public battle with Brooke Shields and some truly over the top, overacted protestations of love signalled the end of Tom’s relationship with Paramount pictures with whom he had worked as a Producer. Paramount weren’t the only ones to go off the actor either. The newspapers and magazines who not so long ago loved him and his movies turned against him, branding him a laughing stock and turning up the volume on the gay rumours which have plagued Cruise for so many years.
Tom and Katie carried out their fast forward relationship under the glare of the press - first bringing baby daughter Suri in to the world in April 2006 just a year after they first met, then marrying in November of the same year.
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November 2007