| January 7, 2008 | Cruise is Second Most Powerful Scientologist, Morton Book Claims | Devotees of the Church of Scientology have gained access to thousands of British children through a charity that visits schools to lecture on the dangers of drugs. A Sunday Times investigation has found that Marlborough College is one of more than 500 schools across Britain where the charity has taught. Critics of the charity, Narconon, say it is a front to promote the teaching of Scientology - the controversial "religion" founded by L Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer. Schools contacted last week said they knew nothing about the charity's links with Scientology. | |
| October 30, 2007 | Beckham Scientology Shock | David Beckham has spoken of his respect for Scientology but denies showbiz pal Tom Cruise has tried to convert him to the religion. | |
| December 11, 2006 | Cruise Tops Least Favourite Poll | Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise is trying his best to change his image but most Americans still consider him too strange and have voted him the least favourite star in a recent poll. They were "creeped out" by his passion for Scientology, reports pagesix.com. | |
| November 18, 2006 | Love, Scientology-Style | Some marital advice Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes could receive today: Never go to bed angry at each other. They may be told that newlywed "girls" expect "frills," and maybe a cat, and young men are prone to "forget" their promises. | |
| November 13, 2006 | Read the Scientology Vows Cruise and Holmes Will Exchange at Their Wedding | The dreamy Italian wedding supposedly taking place in under a week between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes will see the Mission: Impossible star provide the bride with a 'comb' and a 'cat' during their scientologist marriage service. The traditional Scientology ceremony set to take place next weekend (17-19 Nov 06), will see the minister tell the bridegroom, "Now, Tom, girls need clothes and food and tender happiness and frills, a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat. All caprice if you will, but still they need them." | |
| October 8, 2006 | Too Much Control, Not Enough Cruise | First there was all that sofa-jumping, when Cruise demonstrated his love for new girlfriend Katie Holmes by behaving like a lovesick loon on primetime television. Then came the rumours about how his public devotion to Scientology was turning off the multiplexes. When Cruise suggested Brooke Shields should not have taken antidepressants for her postnatal depression but relied instead on vitamins, he alienated most of his female fans at a stroke. The climax came in August when Paramount announced it was dumping Cruise because his recent conduct had 'not been acceptable'. | |
| October 3, 2006 | Pandora: The Sect, the Shindig and the Party Animals | Our MPs receive small forests of embossed invitations to assorted freebee shindigs. There is to be a "Grand Opening" of the Church of Scientology's jazzy new London headquarters. The rich sect boasts such celebrities as John Travolta and Tom Cruise. "We would be quite nervous about going," says one parliamentary aide, "but we think a few female MPs will head down on the off chance that Cruise turns up." | |
| October 1, 2006 | A Punk's Life | At 14 she divorced her parents. By 18 she was an Oscar-nominated movie star. Now, post-rehab and with a little help from Scientology, Juliette Lewis is back as a rock chick. Nick Duerden met her | |
| April 16, 2006 | Baby Cruise's Silent Birth Raises A Lot Of Ruckus | Tom Cruise, a longtime Scientologist who introduced Holmes to the faith, is likely to follow Scientology's practice of quiet birth. Followers believe the absence of talk and other noise in the delivery room is more healthful for mother and baby. | |
| December 31, 2005 | Cruise a Prat? | No surprise that Tom Cruise has been named and shamed as the most irritating actor of all time in a new poll. Worse than his nauseating love fest has been Tom's increasingly bizarre outbursts on Scientology. He has blasted women for taking medication to help them overcome post-natal depression, having a right go at Brooke Shields who has been very brave and open about her battle with this serious illness. | |
| December 20, 2005 | Cruise Studied Scientology At Secret Desert Compound | Long before Cruise jumped onto talk-show host Oprah Winfrey's couch or blasted Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants, the Hollywood star undertook intensive study and counseling at the compound in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday, citing present and former Scientologists. | |
| December 20, 2005 | Cops Eye Tom's Medical Guru | Tom Cruise's onetime alternative medicine consultant - a Church of Scientology member and advocate - is the subject of a six-month investigation by Los Angeles police, who are asking the district attorney to indict her and a colleague for fraud, grand theft and malpractice. | |
| November 8, 2005 | Star Tom Axes Sis After PR Troubles | Tom Cruise has replaced his sister as his publicist after a string of PR disasters. Lee Anne DeVette has been axed following criticism of the Hollywood star's relationship with Katie Holmes, his feud with actress Brooke Shields and his support for Scientology. Cruise will be represented by veteran movie PR Paul Bloch, whose clients include Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone and Anthony Hopkins. | |
| October 30, 2005 | Tom Gets Cult Gong | Tom Cruise flew into Britain to receive an award for becoming the biggest-ever cash donor to Scientology. Cruise and his pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes received a standing ovation from thousands of members during a three-day gala meeting of the group. The Diamond Meritorious Award was specially created to reflect his donations of millions of dollars over the years. Last year he was presented with the Platinum Meritorious Award for handing over $2.5million (pounds 1.4m) since joining the sect. | |
| October 10, 2005 | How Did Katie Keep Her Secret So Long? | Although her conversion to Cruise's religion Scientology means she will not be allowed painkilling drugs and must remain silent throughout the birth, Miss Holmes is said to be 'excited' at the prospect of starting a family with the actor, who has never fathered a child before. | |
| October 9, 2005 | Sects Before Marriage Is Wrong, Katie | Katie seems so young and vulnerable. I wonder if she is worldly enough to satisfy a man so experienced and powerful. I mean, you can only do so much "nice and sweet" before you have to tell him who's really boss. If this relationship is to have a chance she should start as she means to go on and tell him where he can stick all that rubbish about drug-free labour and silent childbirth. | |
| October 7, 2005 | Katie Facing Cult's 'Silent Birth' | Katie Holmes will have to suffer in silence while having Tom Cruise's baby under the weird rules of Scientology. Batman actress Katie, 26, announced she is expecting and is known to be taking lessons in the cult, which fiance Tom follows devotedly. The controversial organisation believes pregnant women must remain silent during childbirth and shun painkilling drugs. | |
| October 7, 2005 | Tom and Katie Expecting | Even by Hollywood's skewed standards, the birth of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' baby is set to be decidedly odd. When Holmes is wheeled into the delivery room, she will be under strict instructions not to cry or scream out, no matter how painful her labour. She has agreed to convert to her fiance's Church of Scientology, which insists on "silent births" to avoid traumatising newborn babies. And that is only the start of the sect's unique take on how to bring up children. | |
| October 7, 2005 | The Face: Katie Holmes | There is speculation about the extent to which Holmes, who was raised a Catholic, has embraced Scientology, for which Cruise is an evangelist. She has reportedly said that Scientology allows her to continue as a practising Catholic but she has been learning about the sect and has allegedly had a "Scientologist chaperone" with her during interviews. Fans who fear that she doesn't know what she's getting into have set up a "free Katie" website. | |
| October 6, 2005 | Quit Yellin', It's Only Childbirth | Katie Holmes' mission impossible will be giving birth without painkillers - or screaming. That's because her fiance, "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise, is a Scientologist. Practitioners of Scientology are against drugs but insist on "silent birth" because they believe it's traumatic for babies to hear their mothers groan or cry. | |
| March 24, 2005 | Tom Cruise Makes Opportunities To Tout Scientology | Lately, doing business with Tom Cruise, one of Hollywood's most bankable actors, means a bow in the direction of his religion, the Church of Scientology. Increasingly public about his long association with Scientology, Cruise invited film executives on a four-hour tour of three different Scientology facilities in Los Angeles. | |
| December 23, 2004 | Dear David and Victoria, Happy Cultmas, With Love, Tom Cruise | Tom Cruise has sent a Christmas card to David and Victoria Beckham which promotes a controversial religious cult. The Hollywood star is a follower of the Church of Scientology - and the card to the England captain and his wife included its "Code of Honour". He also told the couple he had made a donation to the church - founded by the late science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard - on their behalf. | |
| November 2, 2003 | Critics Leary Of Fire Fund's Cruise Plan | FDNY officials are worried by the clinic's requirement that firefighters abandon their inhalers and medication. FDNY Deputy Commissioner Francis X. Gribbon told us that Downtown Medical "is not a bona-fide detox program. It should not be a substitute for the medical treatment that our doctors have advised. We don't endorse it." | |
| October 1, 2001 | Divvying Up The Millions (Tom & Nicole) | MX: Divvying Up The Millions (Tom & Nicole) | |
| August 1, 2001 | Cruise and Kidman to meet | South China Morning Post: Cruise and Kidman to meet | |
