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Are Cruise and Kidman back on track?
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-04-16 08:37 Tom Cruise, 41, announced March 25 that he had
split from Penelope Cruz, 29, in January and officially re-entered the love
market. Very soon, the concept of Cruise rekindling love with ex-wife Nicole
Kidman, 36, was on magazine covers. Fans, too, are hot to see the couple, who
were divorced in 2001, back together.
Tom Cruise and
Nicole Kidman used to have a ten-year marriage. [file
photo] | "They had a beautiful 10-year marriage
and seemed like the happiest couple in Hollywood,” says Louise Barile, senior
editor at In Touch magazine. The public loves each star individually, adds
professional matchmaker Samantha Daniels. “Put them together and you have this
great, happy power couple."
Driving the reconciliation mania: "The fact that neither of them has found a
serious relationship since they broke up," Barile says.
Kidman poured herself into her work and had a fling with Lenny Kravitz last
year. At red-carpet events, she consistently showed up with family. Cruise had
Cruz on his arm at Hollywood events for nearly three years. But for American
fans who “never got a feel” for the Spanish enchantress, “it didn’t seem like a
strong relationship,” Barile says.
Tom Cruise and
Penelope Cruz have ended their three-year relationship.
[AP/file] | Persistence in reuniting celebrity
divorcees isn't customary in the tabloid press, where scandalous affairs and
nasty divorces usually prevail. No one was clamoring for Demi Moore and Bruce
Willis to reconcile, even though they had one of the strongest marriages in
Hollywood in the 1990s. There’s no push for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez to
schedule another wedding. And fans seem quite content to see Jennifer Garner,
Jude Law and Meg Ryan move on.
But with Tom and Nicole, “there is the lack of scandals, the lack of general
weirdness that we get from a lot of celebs these days,” Barile says. “They were
what a Hollywood couple should look like and act like — like a couple in love.”
Cruise and Kidman stand apart, even though, on the surface, a 1.78 meters
Australian beauty and a 1.70 meters American icon don’t appear to be
well-matched.
“When they broke up, it was hard for both of them, and over time they’ve
grown into friends,” Daniels says. “Recently, you read about them being in touch
and being supportive of each other. (They also have two adopted children they
share.) It set the stage for, ‘Hmm. They’re getting along. Maybe they could get
back together.’”
Nicole
Kidman | As speculation mounts that they may get back together, Kidman continues to be
one of the busiest actresses in Hollywood.
She is now in New York filming The Interpreter, an action drama directed by
Sydney Pollack and also starring Sean Penn.
As well as The Interpreter, Kidman has committed herself to five movies to be
filmed in 2005, according to Web site IMDB.
She is said to be in contact with Cruise after he split with Cruz.
As for Cruise, he is also a busy man. Since splitting in 2001, Cruise and
Kidman have spent holidays together, and are believed to have an amiable
relationship.
Cruise met Cruz in 2000 when they were filming Vanilla Sky and began dating
in 2001 after his decade-long marriage to Nicole Kidman crumbled.
Cruise is currently in pre-production on a third Mission: Impossible film
while Cruz is in Morocco filming the action movie Sahara.
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