Marriage impossible - Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes split after five years

By Jahanzaib Bin Liaquat

Correspondent, SAM Daily Times

LOS ANGELES —Fairytale Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes announced Friday they were calling it quits after five years of marriage, ending an unexpected love story dogged by tabloid rumors. Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children, Amanda Lundberg, Cruise’s representative. 

Cruise, who turns 50 on Tuesday, wed Holmes, 33, in a storybook Italian castle in November 2006. It was Holmes’s first marriage and Cruise’s third. They have a six-year-old daughter, Suri. Holmes has admitted to having a teenage crush on Cruise, even saying she had put up a poster of the “Top Gun” star in her bedroom.
Glitterati from the worlds of cinema, Holmes offered her hand to the “Mission Impossible” star, which has three Oscar nominations.

Holmes—who converted to Scientology—would receive $3 million for every year of the marriage plus ownership of a California mansion if they split.

Cruise said, my family, my wife, they understand. It’s who I am, you just have to keep going and remember that. The other stuff, I hear it, I read it, and I get it. But life is not a matter of trying to prove anything to anybody. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

Cruise, still one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars as shown by recent box office smash “Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol,” was married to Australian actress Nicole Kidman from 1990 to 2001. The couple had two adopted children, 19-year-old Isabella and 17-year-old Connor.

He was also married to American actress Mimi Rogers from 1987 to 1990 and had a three-year relationship with Spanish star Penelope Cruz after splitting up with Kidman.

Holmes, who was born and raised in Ohio, appeared in “Batman Begins” (2005) and starred alongside Adam Sandler in the critically panned 2011 romantic comedy “Jack and Jill.”

News of the divorce set off an avalanche of messages on Twitter, many sarcastic in nature.
Mimi Rogers 1956; Nicole Kidman 1967; Katie Holmes 1978 - my supercomputer analysis says Tom Cruise’s next wife was born in 1989.