Tom Cruise reportedly flirted with the Catholic Church before finally alighting on his home base of Scientology, the New York Daily News reports.
His “all-consuming infatuation” with the church even landed him in the seminary with plans to be a priest, a source claims. A priest at the school recalls that Cruise was given an IQ test to get in, and he barely made the cut.
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Is Katie Holmes dating Jake Gyllenhaal? The U.K. Sun says so.
Apparently Tom Cruise’s ex-wife was set up with the actor by her former “Dawson’s Creek” co-star Joshua Jackson.
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Tom Cruise is being sued by a man who claims that the actor hired an investigator who had his phones tapped in an effort to get the upper hand in a lawsuit, according to the NY Post.
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Gary Glitter’s big hit, “Rock & Roll Part 2,” used to be a staple at sporting events, but the song’s creator has a long history of being on the wrong side of the law — and we’re not talking jaywalking. Glitter has been imprisoned for child sex abuse and is a known pedophile.
Now he has been swept up in the current Jimmy Savile scandal in the U.K. and was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of abuse and then released on bail.
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Nicki Minaj does not like Mariah Carey, unless threatening to knock someone out is a sign of affection.
TMZ reports that the two “American Idol” judges have been at each other’s throats since day-one.
“I’m not f***ing putting up with her f***ing highness over there,” Minaj hollered at the auditions. Carey then called her a “little bitch.”
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U.K. rag The Sun — OK, not the most reliable source — is reporting that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have reunited, and yes, it feels so good.
Their love is timeless, they can’t live without each other and she has probably run out of his old T-shirts to be seen around town in. Never mind that there are no sources cited in the story, nor has either actor said as much to the press.
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Apparently that brooding James Dean-wannabe James Franco phones in his education just like he phoned in his disastrous hosting of the Oscars last year.
Now he’s being sued for defamation by a former New York University professor who gave the actor a D in his film class and was, he claims, subsequently fired for it.
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Everyone’s talking about the Vanity Fair piece on Tom Cruise that alleges he “auditioned” wives through some wacky Scientology filter before he settled on Katie Holmes. (Why is this a surprise?) But now a source tells the Huffington Post that none other than Lindsay Lohan was under consideration at one point. Wow. Who knows which Thetan level you have to reach to be attracted to that vain, vapid and voodoo-hoodoo hot mess … but thankfully, Lindsay dodged that bullet.
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Katherine Jackson is doing just fine — in fact, the R&B family matriarch, who was reported missing by a nephew on Saturday night, is getting a little R & R at an Arizona spa.
Siblings of the late Michael Jackson sent their mother on the trip to escape what TMZ sources called the “utter chaos” of her family’s home — where she takes care of the pop star’s three children.
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Tom Cruise is reportedly looking for a new home in New York. The newly single actor wants to be closer to where daughter Suri lives with Katie Holmes — but he’s not content with the digs he already owns.“Tom’s looking for a new home here,” a source told the New York Post. “He wants a fresh start. He doesn’t want to go back to the East Village apartment where he was living with Katie.”
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