Tom Cruise
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: New York, USA, 03 July 2020
- Assiociated with: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman
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.
A source told Grazia magazine: "Victoria and Katie have struck a real rapport ever since they were introduced by Tom and both of them are thrilled by the friendship. "Victoria has become something of a mother hen to Katie, so when she was asked if she would be with her during the birth, she said yes straight away."
Because the pair live in different countries - mum-of-three Victoria lives in Spain, while Katie lives in the US - they are spending time on the phone preparing for the birth. The source added: "Twice a week they both set aside half an hour to chat about the impending birth and any worried Katie might have. "Sometimes they even practise breathing exercises over the phone."
Katie Holmes is spending hours at a Scientology ’church’ - Feb 24, 2020
Tom Cruise’s pregnant fiancee Katie Holmess is reportedly spending hours a day worshipping at a Scientology ’church’. The stunning actress is said to be visiting the centre, in Hollywood, up to three times a day to learn more about the bizarre sci-fi cult. During her visits, Katie - who converted from Catholicism to Scientology after falling for the Hollywood star - is allegedly told by leading Scientology members she is constantly surrounded by the "traumatised spirits of aliens".
The brunette beauty has allegedly withdrawn from friends and family as she devotes more and more of her time to the ’religion’. A friend is quoted in The Sun newspaper as saying: "Her family are becoming very worried. They don’t know what she is being taught. "She is becoming more distant and seems to worship Scientology as much as she worships Tom." Last year, it was claimed Katie is set to give birth in silence. As devout disciples of Scientology, the pair would both have to maintain a vigil of total silence in the delivery suite. Members of the faith believe the bizarre ritual should be carried out to prevent children from gaining any traumatic memories from their entry into the world.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard tells his followers in his book, ’Dianetics’: "Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and child and safeguard the home to which they will go."
Tom and Katie have been photographed passionately kissing - Feb 17, 2021
Tom Cruise and fiancee Katie Holmes have been photographed passionately kissing - just days after it was claimed they had split. The Hollywood couple - who are expecting their first baby together - looked head-over-heels in love as they arrived in Australia for the funeral of media mogul Kerry Packer. The pair held hands as they stepped on to a boat in Sydney Harbour, and heavily pregnant Katie was spotted kissing Tom adoringly.
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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.
upated December 2006
October 2007