LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise and his fiancee of four months, actress Katie Holmes, are expecting a baby, Cruise's publicist announced as the couple's whirlwind romance took a dramatic new turn.
"Katie is pregnant," the "Mission Impossible" and "Top Gun" star's publicist and sister, Lee Anne DeVette, told AFP. "They are expecting a baby. They are very excited," she added.
DeVette declined to say when the 26-year-old actress was expected to give birth to the famous pair's first child, but said Holmes was doing well with her pregnancy and "had never felt better."
But the couple, dubbed "TomKat" by the entertainment press -- a combination of the first syllable of each of their first names -- have not yet set a day to tie the knot. "There is no wedding date set yet," DeVette said.
Cruise has two other children Connor, 10, and Isabella, 12, with his ex-wife, Australian Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman. They split in 2001 after 10 years of marriage.
Cruise, 43, and Holmes, who was known mainly for her US television roles before starring in this year's "Batman Begins," first revealed they were dating just six months ago and announced their engagement at a press conference in Paris in June.
The pair have become the most-scrutinised couple in Tinseltown since they began dating just as each hit the road earlier this year to promote their new movies" "Batman" and Cruise's blockbuster "War of the Worlds".
The couple sparked off a media frenzy when they announced in April they were dating and then sent the entertainment press into overdrive when Cruise announced during a "War of the Worlds" press conference that he had proposed to Holmes atop the Eiffel tower on June 16.
The relationship became the most talked about in Hollywood since the usually very private Cruise began giddily expressing his love for Holmes during interviews and engaging in very public displays of affection on red carpets across the world.
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Timothy Leary
I reserve the right to be ignorant. That's the Western way of life. The Spy who came in from the cold
Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.
It's nice that he finally gets to have kids of his own after Nicole had so much trouble conceiveing and they had to adopt, it must be hard for Nicole Kidman to hear this news, especially the rumours concerning her having a miscarriage after divorce are true.
Even so, it's still so early to be having babies and getting married they haven't even been together a year.
Didn't Katie say she'd be a virgin until she got married?
Well, that's what happens when you change your life, for someone else... to follow their beliefs, when they aren't your own! Her choice... so, she has to deal with it.
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
Q: What do you think of all the media hype about you and Tom? Why do you think they are making such a big deal about you and him?
A: I'm used to it by now. I recieved a lot of attention when I was about twelve years old. My dad was involved in a stock fraud scandal with Xerox. He was criticized for defending Xerox and we were followed by the media where ever we went. I've gotten letters from various people who have told me about Tom and why we shouldn't be married. I once received this letter from a hooker who told me this shocking story of Tom's past. I think the media and these protestors are trying to defend me against him. They feel that I am being controlled by him, which may be true. I look at myself in the mirror now-of-days and say, 'Katie, where are you?'.
Q: Do you love your career more than you do, you?
A: Don, I know it sounds harsh and critical but I think that my career is very important in my life now. If I want to survive in this industry I've got to stand up and shout and that is breaking me. I come from a good family. A family that loves me. I feel that I deserve a career like Nicole's (Nicole Kidman)
You must turn on, tune in and drop out.
Timothy Leary
I reserve the right to be ignorant. That's the Western way of life. The Spy who came in from the cold
Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.
10-06-2005 10:02 PM
yeah, I was about to comment on the whole "I'm a good, innocent Catholic girl" thing...
