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More Details on Tom & Katie's Honeymoon
The day after their wedding in Italy, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, with baby Suri in tow, hopped a private jet and traveled 4,500 miles to the Maldives, a remote archipelago of coral islands in the Indian Ocean. "Mr. and Mrs. Cruise were smiling so much," says a source who spotted the honeymooners at the Maldives airport, adding that they brought about 40 pieces of luggage and lots of toys. "They looked very happy." The jet that carried the newlyweds was owned by one of their wedding guests, Australian media mogul James Packer. A Cruise friend for several years, Packer was an extra in the actor's 2003 drama The Last Samurai; Cruise and Holmes flew to Australia to attend the memorial service of Packer's billionaire father, Kerry, in February. Situated on the equator southwest of Sri Lanka, the Maldives consist of more than 1190 small islands. Star Jones and Al Reynolds visited the country following their 2004 wedding. The tiny nation was devastated by the 2004 tsunami but has rebuilt much of its tourist infrastructure since then.
The guests, the ceremony and their record-setting kiss. Get all the details on Tom and Katie's big day in the latest issue of Us. Honeymooning Tom, Katie cruise around the Maldives COLOMBO (Reuters) - Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are spending their honeymoon yachting around the Maldives, a source in the idyllic Indian Ocean island chain said on Tuesday, but it won't all be smooth sailing. The couple are anchored off the island capital Male aboard luxury yacht the Arctic P and plan to visit a host of the tiny palm-fringed islands, the source told Reuters. "The yacht they're in is anchored within sight of Male," said one source familiar with the couple's itinerary who declined to be named because of strict privacy policies. "The yacht is not far from the main resorts in the Male area... They are going to stay on board and visit various islands." The Maldives is a chain of 1,200 mostly uninhabited islands renowned for its luxury resorts, sun-kissed beaches and world class scuba diving. The skies were cloudy however on Tuesday, and Website www.weather.com forecast scattered thunderstorms for the archipelago until the Cruises' departure on November 28. Government officials said they were not keeping tabs on the couple during their stay. "Is there a reason why we should be doing this? If someone wants their privacy and if there's no particular reason why we should be invading their privacy, we shouldn't," said Chief Government Spokesman Mohamed Shareef. The Arctic P is a former ice-breaker rebuilt into a super-yacht by late Australian media moghul Kerry Packer. It now belongs to his son, James Packer, a close friend of Cruise who attended the couple's star-studded wedding in Italy on Saturday. Twice-divorced Cruise belongs to the Church of Scientology and the ceremony was dubbed the "invisible wedding" by Italian newspapers because of the lack of public access to the event. Penelope Cruz Sends Her Best Tom's pre-Katie girlfriend, Penelope Cruz, has no hard feelings about her ex's recent wedding – even though she didn't go. "I'm not going to get into the details of why I didn't go, but I just talked to him last week before they left and he's one of my closest friends and he's someone very important in my life," Cruz tells Ellen DeGeneres on an episode of the talk show airing today. "He's been always so good to me. He has a huge heart, she's a wonderful woman, and I just wish them happiness forever. They are very, very happy and I love that family, all of them, (including) his kids and the baby. I'm very close to them." Mad About Katie Italy, where Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise first appeared as a couple, is also where they tied the knot this weekend. Looking back over the months in between, InStyle.com watched Holmes perfect her polished, classic look. |
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