Last week, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter, Suri Noelle, graduated from high school in New York City. Tom, meanwhile, was in London, watching Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour from the VIP tent. Tom reportedly hasn’t seen Suri since 2012 because, when her mother escaped from Tom, she also escaped from Scientology. Poor Nicole Kidman was labeled a Suppressive Person after their divorce, meaning Cruise and their two children, Isabella (“Bella”), 31, and Connor, 29, weren’t allowed to have any contact with her. That is most likely why Tom has not seen Suri in 12 years.
Bella and Connor largely stay out of the spotlight. They live their lives, occasionally posting to Instagram. As far as we know, they’re both still Scientologists. Once in a while, we see them in public with their dad, but sightings are few and far between. All three were spotted together late last year visiting the Tampa Bay Lightning ice hockey team, presumably to watch a game. On Friday, four days after Suri’s graduation, Tom and Connor were seen exiting a helicopter together in London.
Tom Cruise is spending some quality time with his son Connor. On Friday, June 28, the 61-year-old Top Gun: Maverick star was seen departing a helicopter in Central London, as his 29-year-old son followed behind.
The actor waved to onlookers as he wore a pair of sunglasses, jeans and an off-white fitted top. Connor, meanwhile, donned a navy baseball cap, a black hoodie, jeans and some athletic sneakers.
The rare public outing between the duo comes six months after another public appearance, when Cruise was spotted with both Connor and his older sister, Isabella “Bella,” 31.
Back in December, the trio were photographed together in an image shared on Instagram by former NFL player Derrick Brooks. In the photo, Cruise was front and center with his son, as his daughter poked her head through the back of the group image.
Cruise shares his two older kids with his ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, and shares his 18-year-old daughter Suri with his ex-wife, Katie Holmes. In October 2021, the Mission Impossible star was seen out with his son at a Los Angeles Dodgers game. Before then, the pair were photographed together in October 2019 in London.
While Bella often shares her artwork on Instagram, her brother tends to share glimpses of himself outside — and he usually updates fans with images involving golfing or fishing. His last Instagram post came in April 2023, when Connor shared a snap of himself at the Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida. In the photo, Connor gave a thumbs-up to the camera and wore some nice golfing attire. “🏌️♂️⛳️,” he captioned the image, his first since he shared a shot of himself and some fishing friends in 2022.
While Cruise’s eldest son has tried his hand at both acting and DJing, he isn’t often spotted in public these days.
“Connor has a pretty simple life in Clearwater,” a source told PEOPLE in 2018. “He lives in his own home in a Scientology community. His life is deep-sea fishing. He has a lot of friends and seems very well-liked.”
I did a little digging online and didn’t see any reporting on what Connor and Tom were doing prior or post departing said helicopter. Like their younger sister, Connor and Bella choose to live their lives out of the spotlight, so I will respect that, and not speculate too much about their lives other than what we’ve been publicly told. In 2016, Bella told the Australian website New Idea that she does speak with her mother. She actually goes by Bella Kidman Cruise now. Connor, like People says, still lives in a Scientology community in Clearwater, Florida (which is in Tampa Bay, hence why the Cruises were at a hockey game there). Something nice: For however terrible a father Tom was for Suri, it’s good that he shows up for Connor and Bella, even if we know it’s because they’re all in the same cult, so he’s “allowed” to be a part of their lives. As for Tom’s lack of a relationship with Suri, she may be better off, but the whole situation is still kinda sad. It didn’t have to be that way. Tom could have chosen to live his life differently.
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Connor and Bella were at Glastonbury watching Coldplay with Tom, Simon Pegg and Gillian Anderson.
Thank you!!! Did you see the clip of Michael J Fox playing on stage with them?
This isn’t entirely the in-your-face style of reporting someone like Brad Pitt would have used People for, but it is really odd that Connor (and therefore, Bella) are being linked to Tom so soon after Suri dropped his last name.
I believe Cruise’s camp has been using the British tabloids for their pr war. They’ve put out a bunch of stories painting him as the victim and are saying that his daughter cut off ties with him.
They’re spending time together. Nothing wrong with that.
Agree. He probabley flew in for his dad’s birthday.
Doesn’t his daughter live in London?
I’ve wondered if Tom has some deal with Katie where she doesn’t tell some really bad stuff she knows and in turn, he has no contact with Suri. I would think she would want to keep him away from influencing her, especially when she was younger. And I would think he’d be highly motivated to see her – especially in public – to make himself look good. Which makes me guess it’s more than this idea that he just doesn’t want to have anything to do with her.
Nope. This is all a Scientology thing. No contact. Katie and Suri are suppressive people.
Nope. Tom was seen with his sisters, also in Scientology, with Suri in NY with many toys, after the divorce. He is a deadbeat dad that chose Scientology over his daughter.He didn’t have too. I think it is because he is a narcississtic man that didn’t get his way. He wanted Sure in Scientology.
@ Sidney
Yes I remember he took Suri to Disney World post divorce before he abandoned her.
Serious question – how is Bella allowed to speak with Nicole Kidman without being disciplined for consorting with an SP? Not a Scientologist but this is always the reason given for why people are afraid of leaving that cult or challenging them, is that they will be cut off from their family in the church if they deal with SPs. In theory, Cruises would get special treatment but it seems like even Tom is pretty fastidious about that rule. I find the whole thing unclear.
All we have to go on are tabloid reports that are notoriously unreliable. Only that family knows how it really is.
Remember Nicole and Tom shared custody of the kids before they came of age and went full with Tom ( AKA Tom had replaced Nicole with Katie as the kid’s mom ) back in 2008 Nicole said “ My kids don’t call me mommy, they don’t even call me mom. They call me Nicole, which I hate” and how the kids don’t want her to talk about them in public anymore. Katie did an interview around the same time where she said Bella and Connor call her mom.
Nicole has always said that she is in contact with Bella and Connor. As long as Nicole keeps her mouth shut, which she has, despite the public and media trashing her. Nicole Is allowed to stay in contact with them. Leah Remini, in Going Clear, said that Tom and other higher-ups get special treatment that the lower-level members don’t get.
@SKE When I was googling around yesterday to see any updated news about their relationship, I saw that Bella does like Nicole’s Instagram posts, for whatever that’s worth,
I’m sorry but it just looks like PR to me. Scientology realised that people were gossiping about the fact that Cruise was living his best life at a Taylor Swift concert while his youngest daughter was graduating on the other side of the world. They probably told Cruise that he needed to be seen with one of the children who still want to be in his life in order to do some damage control.
Yes this is definitely a PR move from Tom’s camp because of him missing Suri Graduation and her changing her last name.
What do Bella and Connor do for a living? As in , money for food, clothing and shelter.
She does art and he tried acting /being a dj……so in other words they live off daddy.
Riddle me this – how is TC allowed to alienate two ex wives and a child yet the UK press embrace this level of crazy ?