Love birds Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes expecting baby
Peter David

LOS ANGELES—Katie Holmes, are expecting a baby, Cruise’s publicist announced. “Katie is pregnant,” the “Mission Impossible” and “Top Gun” star’s publicist and sister, Lee Anne DeVette, told newsmen. “They are expecting a baby. They are very excited,” she added. The publicist declined to say when the 26-year-old actress was expected to give birth to the famous couple’s first child, but said Holmes was doing well with her pregnancy and “had never felt better.”
But the couple have not yet set a day for their marriage. “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, who split up 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 took to 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 the 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 has the most talked about in Hollywood since the usually very private Cruise began giddily expressing his love for Holmes during television interviews and engaging in very public displays of affection on red carpets across the world.
He gave an extraordinary performance as a smitten lover on the US television queen Oprah Winfrey’s show in May. In the appearance, an uncharacteristically emotive and exuberant Cruise repeatedly jumped up and down on a sofa, laughed uproariously, threw his hands in the air and yelled: “I’m in love! I’m in love.”
US media had a field day poking fun — and suspicion — at Cruise’s schoolboyish enthusiasm, with some asking whether the gushing expressions of love could be a publicity stunt. But Cruise has insisted that Holmes is the new love of his life and said he has never been happier.