With the Cruise-Holmes clan in town, speculation is rife as to what Tom and Katie will get up to in Melbourne today in celebration of Tom’s 47th birthday.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have already had a busy few days of sightseeing after settling into their seriously top-notch luxury apartment at Crown Towers near Melbourne’s CBD.
On July 1, the couple went with their daughter, three-year-old Suri, on an excursion to the Melbourne Aquarium where a passer-by Robyn was surprised to encounter the Hollywood A-list family amongst the sharks.
“I turned around and there was Tom Cruise,” the mum told the Daily Telegraph. “It was a pleasant surprise.”
Also on the activity schedule this week was a trip for little Suri with her dad to Melbourne Zoo yesterday, where they were given a private behind-the-scenes tour which included meeting a koala, a tree kangaroo, and a tawny frogmouth named Georgie.
“They were absolutely charming,” a zoo spokeswoman said. “He is very, very nice and his daughter is so cute.”
Cruise then made time to pop into Myer, picking out a lavish hobby horse and toy kangaroo for Suri from the store’s toy sale.
He also treated his beloved daughter to two sequined dresses from the Big by Fiona Scanlan range, and some lip glosses that Suri took a fancy to at the Becca and Bloom cosmetics counters.
Security has been closely guarding the family’s privacy, scouring the Crown complex for cameramen. The cameramen have been doing their best to avert suspicion by using walkie-talkies to communicate with each other and hiding their lenses in backpacks and shopping bags.
For Tom’s birthday tonight all eyes will be on the MCG and the Collingwood vs Essendon AFL match where the partying is expected to kick-off.
There are even rumours that Australia’s own unofficial Scientology ambassador and singer Kate Ceberano might play a role in the celebrations.
Ceberano is friends with Tom and sang for the Hollywood star at his birthday in Los Angeles in 2005.
It will be back to work for Katie Holmes, 30, on Monday when filming begins for the movie that has brought her to Melbourne: the big-budget horror Don’t be Afraid of the Dark, with Aussie actor Guy Pearce.
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