Tom Cruise has a new movie out – Jack Reacher: Never Go Back – but his promotional tour in America has been relatively quiet, which CB discussed yesterday. I remember a time when Tom Cruise blanketed the American media whenever he had anything to promote, but these times they are a’ changin’. My point is that I was surprised to see Cruise on the cover of this week’s Us Weekly, and I was surprised to see that the cover story is more of a Cruise-friendly PR plant. Tom Cruise, it seems, wants us to know that he’s got a new girlfriend. Cruise has barely looked at a woman since Katie Holmes bolted back in 2012. Following Katie’s escape, there were many stories – notably this Vanity Fair story which is still profoundly disturbing – about how CoS’s #1 guy David Miscavige has hand-picked girlfriends for Cruise, and how there’s a whole process of “programming” these women, basically. So just keep that in mind when you read this.
Tom Cruise is jump-on-a-couch happy again. In the new issue of Us Weekly, a source reveals the veteran action star, 54, has been romancing a British woman for several months — his first significant relationship since splitting from ex-wife Katie Holmes in 2012. In early June, when he was in London filming The Mummy, Cruise charmed the unnamed woman with a date to Bourton-on-the-Water — an idyllic village in the Cotswolds, two hours outside the city.
He’s been smitten ever since. The Brit — who the source describes as “very normal and pretty” — has taken to bunking with the Jack Reacher: Never Go Back star at his rental cottage on the outskirts of London. There, says the source, “they go on bike rides through the countryside. Sometimes Tom’s sister would join them.” (The source adds the woman has also stayed at Cruise’s London pad.)
More than four years after his split from Holmes, 37, says the source, Cruise is eager to make this romance last. “He’s serious about this relationship and wants to make it work,” a source says of the dad of 10-year-old Suri (with Holmes) and Bella, 23, and Connor, 21 (with ex-wife Nicole Kidman). “Tom wants some companionship.”
Considering how much time Cruise has been spending in England over the past few years, it doesn’t surprise me that his girlfriend is British. I wonder if she eats breakfast beans? HA! But I’m really wondering if Miscavige has approved of her, if she is a Miscavige recruit, and if we’ll be hearing more about this mysterious British girlfriend in the coming months. I would personally love to know how old she is, because I suspect that even though Tom is a sucked, tucked and plucked “youthful” 54 years old, there’s zero chance that this woman is over the age of 35.
Photos courtesy of WENN, cover courtesy of Us Weekly.
But how does she make tea?
Breakfast beans? Baked beans. Between breakfast beans and the bacon cake on the Katy Perry thread it’s like breakfast just went crazy …. I have never been a fan of Tom’s looks but I think he is becoming weird looking and should stop trying to turn back time. His rotten cult beliefs are of course deeply unattractive anyhow.
I agree. We saw the Jack Reacher movie last weekend (don’t judge…we live in a small city and go to the movies every weekend because there’s so little to do, and we don’t get a lot of choices). To me, his face looks weird, off, plasticy. And the movie was so predictable. I have to admit it bugs me that he is doing Jack Reacher at all. I feel like the character in the books is a huge man, well over 6 feet with an imposing presence and Tom Cruise doesn’t fit the bill at all, plus he’s already doing an action franchise with the Mission Impossible stuff, so I feel like it’s all about his ego and how he likes to see himself in these roles because it makes him feel more manly. I mean, give a new young actor a chance for an action franchise! Do you have to have them all? Sheesh! Anyway, that aside… the whole Scientology thing creeps me out and despite how he defends it and says how it’s helped him get where he is today, I believe it’s hurt his image in a huge way. The fact that he’s allowed it to interfere with his relationships to such a degree, and then has basically abandoned his child over it… I’m sorry, but you don’t just abadon your little girl. That’s just pathetic, and even his relationship with his other kids is strange…like not being at his daughter’s wedding. He’s just “off”… and everything feels so phony and staged with him these days. How anyone could not only defend, but gush and praise a religion that has hurt so many people and has done things that are criminal imo… stalking/threatening people who have left or criticize them; turning people into slaves and making them sign contracts for life; people just vanishing… I don’t understand why the justice system isn’t investigating them more heavily as this stuff surfaces… anyway, it’s beyond me.
@ Suzy from Ontario: It’s not just your opinion that Scientology is criminal. It IS criminal! If you’ve never read Going Clear, please do. It’s a great exposee of this nasty, greedy and malignant cult. And yes, Tom playing Jack Reacher is because he wanted to and has the money. The acting isn’t bad but he’s no Jack Reacher.
“The acting isn’t bad but he’s no Jack Reacher. ”
eh, not so sure I agree…I think that he’s gotten to the point that, since all he plays is the same “SAVE THE WORLD!!!” character over and over, that his delivery is SO cliche and contrived.
I mean, I hear the ads on the radio and his “I’m trying to sound scary by using a level, calm voice when I make my threat” is SO TIRED. it’s almost camp at this point.
No normal woman would date this freak.
I thought it was odd they specifically described her as normal. Lol.
Bad movie. Tom Cruise trying to be sexy is cringeworthy. I’ll bet the new gal is in her twenties
Mimi Rogers-1956; Nicole Kidman-1967; Katie Holmes-1978. That means this one should’ve been born in 1989 just to keep them all eleven years apart. The next one-a few years down the line-was born in 2000.
If only Taylor Swift could be in the running, that would explode all gossip expectations!
Kaiser – I feel the breakfast bean reference is aimed directly at me. Why would you do such a thing? And linking baked beans to Tom Cruise is even the vaguest way is just mean! #selfimportant.
Ha! It was more of a general joke for all of our British readers and commenters! I loved how angry the British readers got regarding “breakfast beans.”
Just for the record cheese on toast..that’s a souped up melted/grilled cheese or Welsh Rarebit..with baked beans is great for breakfast or lunch and I love it!!
I was just about to type: Kaiser, I dub thee Breakfast Bean Baiter.
Cos y’know. Alliteration. It’s a bit like Angelina’s honorary damehood, only without the British Empire.
Beans and breakfast should never be in the same sentence.
I will never get used to my very british boyfriend defining beans on toast or cheese on toast a meal.
#britishlifeyouwillnevergetme
But you know to say cheese ON toast, not cheese toast! Dead giveaway.
Sorry my darling: the metamorphosis has already begun.
ahaha Sixer I am a foreigner in disguise. Or at least I try to be! 😀
What about beans ON cheese ON toast ? Oh, a gastronomic delight. I swoon at the thought of having that for a weekend breakfast…
Have you been introduced to black pudding yet? Also a good breakfast food.
As a Brit I’m ashamed for anyone getting involved with this weirdo. As a woman – ditto.
In the bottom picture, Colbie Smulders looks so … unimpressed? Over it? How soon can I go home? I’d rather be with the Avengers?
Um, she looks like she wants to be somewhere else, right?! That is cracking me up. She wants to teleport herself right out of there.
She looks like she’s in a hostage video. All she needs is a newspaper showing the date.
Yes! The expression on her face is priceless. She is *not* happy to be touching him.
You just know that she bolted immediately after the photos were taken.
She can’t even pretend to be happy! Hahah
Not only is she dating Tom, she is also dating Scientology.
Right? The sister make sure that when the poor girl isn’t immersed in it with Tiny Tom, she’s still getting immersed in it with her. Double-cult-wammy.
no I don’t know her but I bet she is happy Dating Tom but the Problem with that is she has to date the leader of the church and all the member too lol which is sad but true good luck to this Awesome number 4 4 4
Run British lady run!!!!
I can’t believe Suri is 10 years old already.
I think tom Dating life is More Important than his children
I feel she has been around for years. 😀😀I thinks it because when she was younger I got used to seeing so many photographs of her
Totally a PR plant to help shill Jack Reacharound and make this formaldehyde-preserved train wreck appear human.
Bike rides through the countryside, my ass. More like stilted dinners chaperoned by CO$ thought police hiding under the table, poised to jump out with their e-meters at the first hint of an original opinion.
Oh, and he “misses” Suri, according to the headline? Maybe he should take some of that energy spent on holding auditions for the next contract wife and put it towards getting on a plane to go see his kid. She could probably use a bike ride with her dad more than could whatever freakazoid is currently vying for the attentions of Mr. Kruise.
Sorry……,My husband woke me up long before he had a right to, and no coffee has yet been forthcoming.
ha ha thank you for this!
Romantic bike rides……accompanied by Tom’s sister! His sisters are heavy duty cult members. Would not be surprised if his new supposed lady friend has some connection to the Scientology operation in England (Saint Hill, is it called?)
Tony Ortega’s scientology website had a good post recently detailing Tom’s new residence in Clearwater, Florida near Sci. headquarters, complete with a car elevator and a a flight simulator room! Maverick, 30 years and a lot of cosmetic fillers later, prepare for takeoff!
It would actually make a lot of sense if he had a British $ci girlfriend. He’s been through the US list so many times I’d imagine that pickings are slim to find a girl that is both interested and appropriate. Hence new British blood.
don’t apologize, I love this rant!
To her family – you’re not losing your daughter, you’re gaining a cult.
But they will never feel lonely again with the guys in the Caddy following them & who doesn’t like the new group that comes around at Christmas to go through their trash?
I’m just glad a press outlet finally referred to Bella and Connor as his children instead of his adopted children. It only took 20 years.
No matter how he tries to be a macho action star he just looks so..impish.
How long is her contract for?
Tom cruise is over. I think it’s time to be giving up all these action roles for “serious ״ roles (ha -that would require acting!)
Trying to promote his movie: Tom cruise is normal, has normal girlfriend. Yeah, nice try, no one’s buying that. He comes across as asexual to me, no much interest in sex. Good help the next woman who plays his gf.
It’s strange because that report on his bizarre and abusive relationship with Nazinin Boniadi mentioned that he was really angry and unstable because he didn’t have a steady girlfriend to have sex with.
Also, apparently the reason why he had a bit of a fallout with Scientology during the 90’s was that he was madly in love with Nicole Kidman and she was never really into the cult.
So yes, I know he comes across as super weird, but apparently he isn’t asexual.
Aren, him not bein asexual makes it worse for me. I find him totally icky. Gross.
Apparently Tom’s sister arranged to have Suri come over and spend a long weekend in the Cotswolds with Tom…So in addition to his “Normal” British girlfriend he is also seeing Suri on the sly too.
Katie’s rep denied the story about Suri visiting him (to gossipcop).
I think he’s completely written that child off.
Re: the new girlfriend- It would probably be good for him to date an unknown scientologist. Trying to convert Hollywood actresses certainly hasn’t been working for him. Then again, his secret relationship with ex-scientologist actress, Nazinin Boniadi, was probably his most disturbing relationship if reports are true.
There is no way that is true. I live in the Cotswolds, and the town they were claiming. Bourton On the Water, is miniscule and yet a total tourist trap. To make it even more gossip ground zero, a local high school serves all the local villages, and has a thousand teenagers there daily in a town with a few thousand residents. Anyone famous visiting would have their photos taken every three minutes and splashed all over social media immediately. Tom Cruise and Suri’s visit would have been front page tabloid fodder if they went there – there were instant photos of the Beckhams when they did a Cotswold trip. It’s just idiotic.
The pictures they included in the Daily Mail story make me want to visit Bourton On the Water. It’s beautiful! They fooled me into believing it was true – I should have known the Daily Mail would be wrong.
Yup, the employee…sorry, girlfriend story is still out there but the Suri one was confirmed to be a lie. Xenu can rest easy, he’s still deep in the cult and apparently ignoring the daughter he (supposedly) once adored.
There’s really no way I could enjoy him in a movie ever again. He’s just repulsive.
If this story is in fact true, I cannot wait for more info on this woman to emerge. After the entire world seeing what Katie Holmes (and before her, Nicole) went through…
Although I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. For some reason, it reminds me of all of those women who write fan letters to/marry men in prison. It’s like – you *know* this cannot possibly end well, but you forge right on ahead anyway!
I pity this mystery woman already.
WTF are breakfast beans? Heinz Beans?
Suitable throughout the day, surely? Baked beans on toast with melted cheese, salt and pepper are forever known as Cheesy Beanos in our Scottish house. Food of the gods.
We need to stop calling them ‘breakfast beans.’ They are ‘baked beans,’ they are delicious and you can eat them whatever time of day you want!
Except baked beans is something entirely different here in the States. I would never eat our baked beans for breakfast unless I was camping or eating leftover barbecue.
Yes, Jo! Baked beans are very popular here in Australia, too – at any time of the day. I had them for dinner last night, complete with melted cheese on top! And who can resist a baked beans and cheese jaffle?!
Oh, and Cruise is an obnoxious little creep.
Slightly off topic : it bothers me SO MUCH that Tom Cruise plays Jack Reacher. I couldn’t even type “is” because he most certainly is not! I love Cobie Smulders & Aldis Hodge, so it makes me sad to not see the movie. But the Reacher series is one of my favorites & I can’t insult a fictional character like that.
For the record. I am an American who started eating beans on toast as soon as I was old enough to use a toaster. I had not known of that being an English tradition when I started. It could have been my DNA kicking in. My blood shows 28% English.
Call me crazy, but gosh darn golly Tom looks fantastic. He proves decades of living well physically pay off. I’m not promoting Scientology, but I can easily believe he has never smoked, drank, drugged or sexed to excess. Again, he looks fabulous, still soft and boyish, and he’s no young bud.
David Miscavige….is that you?
Just kidding 😉
And the best plastic surgeon in Brazil along with a whole vat of black hair dye?
Mmmmmmm … beans and eggs …YUM!