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Hollywood lovebirds Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes remain engaged to be
married and are proceeding with wedding plans, his publicist said on
Tuesday, denying a Valentine's Day report to the contrary.
"It should be known that the story (of a breakup) is 100 percent
false," spokesman Paul Bloch said in a statement sent to news agencies in
response to the report, from celebrity magazine Life & Style.
"Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes are still engaged and are moving forward
with their wedding plans, as well as planning for the arrival of their
child. Despite the malicious
fallacies put forth ... the couple is looking forward to a
long and happy life together as a family."
Twice-married Cruise, 43, and Holmes, 27, began dating in April, but
far from keeping their relationship low-key, the "Mission: Impossible"
star became the butt of jokes in May after publicly declaring his passion
for his new girlfriend in a manic, couch-jumping appearance on "The Oprah
Winfrey Show."
He proposed to Holmes in June at the Eiffel Tower in Paris and
announced their engagement the next day at a news conference. The pair
said in October they were expecting a baby and the next month Cruise said
he had bought a sonogram
machine so they could monitor the development of their child in utero.
In an ABC interview in the fall, the couple said they planned to marry
in 2006, but no precise date was set.
Citing unnamed sources described only as "multiple insiders," Life
& Style reported on Tuesday that Cruise and Holmes had agreed to call
off their engagement but maintain the "charade" of a romance until after the birth
of their baby.
In the meantime, the magazine said, the two stars planned to live in
Cruise's Beverly Hills home, though sleep in separate bedrooms, through
the summer.
The report anonymously quoted a friend of Cruise as saying, "Their
relationship is basically over," but that the actor plans to buy Holmes
her own home nearby and share custody of the child.
A spokeswoman for Life & Style said the magazine stood behind its
story "100 percent."
(Agencies)
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Updated: 2006-02-15 13:40
