Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Divorcing (With Iconic Oprah Video)
- Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:20pm by
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are calling it quits after five years of marriage.
“This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family,” Holmes’s attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday. “Katie’s primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter’s best interest.”
Cruise’s lawyer Bert Fields said Holmes filed for divorce on Thursday.
Cruise, 49, wed the 33-year-old Holmes in 2006 in an Italian castle after publicly declaring his love on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” emphatically jumping on her couch.
The couple has a 6-year-old daughter, Suri, who has herself become a staple of the tabloids and celebrity magazines.
Their plan to divorce was first reported by People magazine.
“Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children,” Cruise’s representative, Amanda Lundberg, told The Associated Press. “Please allow them their privacy to work this out.”
Cruise and Holmes had a whirlwind romance – the “Dawson’s Creek“ actress confessed she had a childhood crush on the ”Top Gun” star – and were engaged at the Eiffel Tower. An elaborate wedding followed before a Church of Scientology minister.
“I can’t be cool. I can’t be laid-back,” a starry-eyed Cruise said on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.“ ”Something happened and I want to celebrate it.”
But the couple’s romance was instant fodder for the tabloids, who chattered about everything from the couple‘s fights and Suri’s clothing to Holmes’ conversion to Scientology.
Cruise, currently starring in “Rock of Ages,” was previously married to Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman, with whom he has two children.
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Comments (69)
docmd
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:24pmThis is what happens to those who believe their god lives under a volcano!! LOL!!!
Report Post »toto
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 7:38pmBeing successful playing pretend is one of the least qualifying characteristics for value of views that I could ever conceive, why the adoration I will never understand.
Report Post »Goldline_scam
Posted on July 1, 2012 at 7:58amI’m amazed she lasted 5 years with that batch*t crazy Scientology nut. Especially given that he’s gay.
Report Post »Simonne
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:19pmHe always seemed weird to me. He will eventually get married again. Nicole has a better life with Keith than she did with Cruise.
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 4:01pmI remember when Nichole Kidman and Cruise were also guests on Oprah. Seems actors believe they have to sell their marriage the way the sell their new movies. The tabloids take care of their divorces. What a shallow existence they lead.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 7:12pmCruises 1st wife Mimi Rogers introduced Cruise to Scientology. He needs to get away from it. If he had not been a scientologists Nicole would have still been married to him. it is too bad all the way around.
Report Post »thenewhickschick
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:14pmSofas everywhere commune in great sigh of relief.
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:10pmShe probably got tired of tinkerbell Tom and wanted a real man, not some ghey Travolta scandal hahaha…
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 8:10pmShe probably got tired of looking down on him. Well, she spent her time and has unlimited funds now, not including child care. It looked like a weird marriage anyway.
Report Post »He needs to get out of that un-Godly church (and they chide Romney for a better faith). If she was a devout Catholic, she probably had enough of that church he’s married to. Oh well, she’s still young and has untold amounts of money to spend the rest of her life, and just a hint: marry someone in your own religion.
blackyb
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:08pmHe seems like he is not playing with a full load of bricks, or deck of cards, or has a french fry missing from the pack. She must not be right by now staying with that man as long as she did. They all live in la la land. I do not see how any of them make a life when they have to play act for a living. That must be hard on people.
Report Post »Blahahahaha
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:08pmhummmm, another Scientology, John Travolta mess?
Report Post »obfuscatenot
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:08pmOff the sofa and into the pool….? People are just people.
Report Post »Special for making pretend for a living, nope. Who cares.
noleftturn
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:02pm…. I’d like to say I care, but I don’t.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 5:30pmI truly can say that 5 years ago I knew it was only a matter of time that a divorce was coming for these two, not that it’s important of course.
Report Post »FlowerBell
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:59pmPeople in Hollywood are disposable. Actors, Husbands, Wives, whoever is currently not making you money or making you feel good about yourself. They all recite the vows but vows and promises mean nothing to a liar. Talk is cheap and there are a lot of emotionally cheap people behaving badly everywhere you look. Take the White House for example.
Report Post »JBARRANCHAZ
Posted on June 30, 2012 at 10:54pmThey had a contract. 5 years, so many $ and the cult, er church, helps her career.
Report Post »She bailed at the age when her daughter can still be saved.
She is free to find a man that will actually love her and want to be with her, not keep his sputtering career running and gay rumors at bay.
Taquoshi
Posted on June 30, 2012 at 10:57pmYou’re right. It’s always on to the next “thing”. I’m almost interested enough to wonder who will fall for his line the next time around.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:59pmTom is “Trapped in the Closet”….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet_(South_Park)
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:55pmOne of Hollywoods leading… AH’s
Bucktoothed Godless Freak.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:54pmOh, I’m LOVE…oh., I”m in LOVE…… Oh, now I’m not…I’m an actor…. Call my agent….But I’ll still vote for Obama …love him and his teleprompter…so Hollywood….
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:53pmAfter hearing this news I cant go on any longer…sigh…I am so sad…Oh the humanity…
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:01pmEasy Doggy, the sun will come up tomorrow!
Report Post »castuslonginus
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:14pmWell,he screwed Nicole Kidman(figurativly,probably not literaly) on their division of property,maybe Katie is smarter.I don’t care either way.The country is circling the bowl and this is news.sigh,
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:45pmUm…. Yay? Did Xenu tell him to dump her?
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 5:32pmShe filed, not him BIO, just so you can sleep tonight, lol.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:44pmThe mother ship must be in the approach pattern with no room for Katie.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:43pmThings haven’t been the same between them since Katie was forced to sit through the premier of VALKYRIE.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:40pm… and this is news how? Is America that drunk on celebrities? Get over it.
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:37pmsounds like travoltaitis……..
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 5:34pmThat’s not good. Have you seen Travolta aka Revolta lately? Spooky!
Report Post »TeaDestroyer
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:37pmAnything to distract us from the Romney bait-and-switch.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 3:19pmOr the Obama Health Care Tax….
Report Post »Jim Henderson
Posted on June 30, 2012 at 3:13pmor the lying and incompetence of Holder regarding Fast & Furious and Obama claiming Executive Privilege to save his bacon.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:37pmwho cares .. just another liberal Hollywood couple changing partners .
Report Post »mopman64
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:35pmWhat’s worse him acting like an ass on Oprah or the ass hats in the audience acting like, well ass hats.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:35pmGood for her. Maybe she didn’t want to raise the kid in the cult of Scientology.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 4:00pmnothing like seeing a 6yr old out in NYC late at night, dressed in little high heels, and crying her eyes out cos after the pizza with JUST Mommy the kid is just so exhausted….and it seems like even at her age she gets carried everywhere by Mom too, bizarre bizarre. poor kid.
Report Post »AProudConservative
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:30pmI’m so overwelmed with joy watching this………. I’m jumping too……… out of my window.
Report Post »lainpa
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:26pmMaybe him and John Travolta are getting married now!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:57pmBwahahahaha!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:24pmWhoop – whoop! Big deal. Sorry Blaze, going the National Enquirer way now?
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:37pmMaybe they’ll have a video conference about it later and have a round table discussion about the two twits.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 4:25pmThat was pretty lame yesterday Tron.
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