Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise and Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz are dating, his publicist Pat Kingsley confirmed this week. The Vanilla Sky co-stars were spotted enjoying an intimate lunch at celebrity haven Spago in Beverly Hills on Friday, and have been out on “a couple of dates”, Kingsley reports.
Though rumours of a romance between Tom and Penelope first surfaced on the set of the upcoming thriller Vanilla Sky, Tom and the Spanish Enchantress only started seeing each other after the two hooked up at posh LA lounge Buffalo Club for his 39th birthday bash earlier this month.
“He’s been separated for months now, and I think both he and Nicole have had enough time to get adjusted to not being married,” Kingsley says.
Tom and Penelope were recently spotted canoodling around LA, but despite rumours to the contrary, she has not joined the Mission Impossible star on the secluded Fijian island of Wakaya. The “mystery” woman travelling with Tom’s entourage is reportedly his sister.
Nicole Kidman, however, was holidaying on the island with the couple’s two children, Isabella and Conor, but the previous week. Tom and Nicole had planned the Fijian getaway together before they parted ways in January, and later decided to split the two week block with Nicole taking the first half and Tom the second.
The Jerry Maguire star arrived by private jet on Sunday morning along with a ten-person posse including director Cameron Crowe and his wife, Nancy Wilson. The group holed up at the hilltop home Vale O, a three-bedroom abode that fetches $11,000 per night and requires a minimum five-night stay.
While Nicole’s longtime confidante Russell Crowe was on holiday on the same island earlier last week, he spent his time with a female companion believed to be fellow antipodean star Peta Wilson of La Femme Nikita fame. The Gladiator heart-throb, who has reportedly been seen out with Meg Ryan and Courtney Love just this month, left the island for Los Angeles before Tom arrived.
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