Tom Cruise

Profession: Actor
Place/Date of Birth: New York, USA, 03 July 2020
Associated with: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman

Despite their star-studded ceremony, the honeymoon plans weren’t quite so simple - they were reportedly changed five times in the run-up to their big day.

"They couldn’t agree where they were going," the source added. "Initially Tom wanted to bring the two older children, Isabella and Connor, with them on honeymoon, but it didn’t happen in the end. Katie really wanted it to be just the two of them."

Also the actress’ dad Martin was apparently upset that the wedding was conducted by a Scientology minister.

"Katie’s dad is very religious and wasn’t happy. Eventually, Martin persuaded them to include a blessing from a priest too."

TomKat’s Maldives honeymoon - Nov 21 2006
A government official in the Maldives has confirmed that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have arrived in the country for their honeymoon.

"Yes, they are here, I can confirm that," said chief government spokesman Mohamed Hussain Shareef, adding that, "They have gone to one of the islands, but this is very, very secret."

The couple, who flew 4,500 miles from Rome to the Maldives on a private jet with baby Suri, reportedly packed around 40 pieces of luggage and lots of toys according to an eyewitness.

Although the Maldives is a tropical paradise, comprised of 1,192 tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean, the couple may have to endure a few rain storms during their romantic getaway.

"It has been raining heavily the past week and there are predictions of scattered showers," said Shareef. "However, right now there is sunshine."

An official from the Tourism Department said that Tom and Katie’s exact whereabouts has been widely speculated by both islanders and tourists, with an underwater restaurant receiving a flurry of bookings after the couple were rumoured to have made a reservation there.

Local journalist Ali Siraj, said he heard that the couple was staying in a yacht.

"There are many big boats here, which are like floating resorts and I have heard a rumour that they are staying in one of them," he said.

TomKat’s Hollywood wedding - Nov 20 2006
Tom Cruise’s extravagant Italian wedding to Katie Holmes has been branded a stunt - after it emerged the couple married in LA last week.

Tom’s spokesman confirmed a legally binding ceremony had already taken place in the US by the time Tom and Katie exchanged vows in a castle at the weekend.

The spokesman said this was "customary for couples marrying outside of the United States," the Sun reports.

On Saturday, Tom and Katie enjoyed a Scientology service at Odescalchi castle in front of family and friends.

Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Lopez and Will Smith were among the guests who applauded when Katie walked down the aisle.

But according to the paper, the locals were offended when the couple failed to smile and wave at them.

The Mayor of Bracciano, Patrizia Riccioni, told the Sun she was now considering withdrawing the honorary citizenship she awarded Tom and Katie just days ago.

"It would have been nice for them to stop and wave," she said.

Local Catholic priest Nicola Fiorentini was upset the wedding was conducted by a Scientology minister.

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Biography

New Yorker Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3 1962) may have reached the heights of the heart throb-o-meter in the eighties but since his split with Nicole Kidman has ruined many a young woman’s fantasy with increasingly bizarre behaviour. So where did it all go wrong for the sofa leaping strange one?

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.
upated December 2006
February 2008

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