We figured there was something fishy going on
HOLLYWOOD’S HOT NEW COUPLE, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, had never met until Cruise called her out of the blue and asked her for a date last month, Us Weekly reports.
Holmes secretly flew to Los Angeles after Cruise summoned her to a private meeting at his office, where he asked her out on a sushi date, the magazine says.
The next evening, the date occurred not at a restaurant but aboard Cruise’s private jet, 15,000 feet above Southern California.
That was followed by a ride on his motorcycle, a romantic beach trip and more secret dates.
Cruise and Holmes – dubbed “TomKat” by celebrity blogs (think “Bennifer”) – first stepped out publicly on April 27, when they arrived together in Rome for an awards show.
When asked by the syndicated entertainment show Extra how they met, Cruise would only say: “I’m going to hold on to that one for myself for the time being.”
From chaotic to idiotic
The online casino Golden Palace has paid $5,001 for what allegedly is Britney Spears‘ home pregnancy test, reportedly retrieved from the trash outside a Los Angeles hotel room where she stayed.
“It’s hard to put a price on Britney Spears’ urine,” said a spokesman for Golden Palace, which also owns a grilled cheese sandwich resembling the Virgin Mary and a Doritos chip that looks like the Pope’s hat.
Meanwhile, Spears’ and Kevin Federline‘s new UPN reality show about their courtship and wedding now has a title: “Britney and Kevin: Chaotic.” It debuts May 17.
He swears it’s true
Pat O’Brien says he didn’t escape into alcohol rehabilitation because of obscene telephone calls he made that were circulating on the Internet.
“I fled because I was dying,” the “Insider” TV host, who completed his treatment last week, told Dr. Phil McGraw in a CBS special Wednesday night. “Thank God on some level this happened, and I’m not dead.”
Guess Carlos is a Zen taskmaster
A former employee of Carlos Santana has filed a wrongful-termination suit, saying the Grammy-winning guitarist fired him because he wasn’t enlightened enough.
Bruce Kuhlman says he was axed after Santana’s wife’s spiritual guru determined through a test called “Dr. Dan’s Neuro-Emotional Technique” that Kuhlman’s “enlightenment/consciousness level” was too low.
Dr. Dan is quoted in the suit as saying “that the more enlightened a person was, the closer to God he was and the better employee he was.”
In the matter of his domain …
In other legal news, Jerry Seinfeld and his wife have been sued over the purchase of a Manhattan brownstone.
A real estate broker claims her company was never paid the $117,000 commission after the Seinfelds purchased the property for nearly $4 million. Their rep says she failed to fulfill basic broker duties, but that the couple offered her a “generous fee” anyway.
Quoteworthy
Jimmy Fallon, on being tabbed Wednesday to return as host of the MTV Movie Awards: “I’m kinda bummed because I thought I had a shot at being named Pope … but this is cool, too.”
The birthday bunch
Actress Ann B. Davis (“The Brady Bunch”) is 79. Actor Lance Henriksen (“Millennium”) is 67. Comedian-actor Michael Palin (Monty Python) is 62. Actress Tina Yothers (“Family Ties”) is 32. Actress Danielle Fishel (“Boy Meets World”) is 24.