12 July 2006
PROOF CRUISE BABY REALLY EXISTS
Suri's official
By Hannah Lorch
IT'S OFFICIAL ... Tom Cruise's baby really does exist.
The movie idol and his actress fiancee Katie Holmes have kept little Suri completely hidden since her birth was announced in April.
Even close friends of the couple haven't seen the tot. And the news blackout about Suri is so total that Hollywood gossips have started asking whether she could be a figment of Tom's imagination.
The rumours were laid to rest yesterday when a copy of Suri's birth certificate appeared on a showbiz website.
But the document a l s o revealed more unusual conduct by 44-year-old Tom - a devoted fol lower of the Church of Scientology - and former Dawson's Creek star Katie, 27.
The hospital where Suri was born, St John's Health Centre in Santa Monica, California, have a policy of registering all births within 10 days.
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But Tom and Katie didn't file for a birth certificate until May 8 - 20 days after Suri arrived on April 18.
And even then, they didn't turn up at the hospital to sign the papers. They sent a "friend", whose signature on t h e document is impossible to read.
The friend told hospital staff the certificate was needed to obtain a passport for Suri.
After appearing in public so often during their courtship that cynics thought it was all a publicity stunt, Tom and Katie have gone to ground since Suri was born.
Showbiz insiders claim the couple's close friends and fellow Scientologists, John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston, have yet to be allowed to see the baby.
And two more of the couple's best pals - Will Smith and his wife Jada - are said to think it's "weird" that they still haven't met Suri.
Experts on Scientology think Tom may be following the church's guidelines that babies should be kept away from noise.
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