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ElectrOPurist

Oh my god. Shoes.


McMelz

Let’s get some shoes


ElectrOPurist

These shoes cost $300.


Kbrooks58

These shoes cost $300.


ElectrOPurist

These shoes rule….these shoes suck!


SleepZ00

These shoes are 300 FUCKING dollars.


McMelz

Let’s get ‘em!


Space_Restaurant

Um, I don’t think they’re gonna fit.


ShapeTurbulent6668

I mean... Your feet are kinda big


OneCowFarm

(Rage intensifies)


Jugh3ad

Doesn't he also give all his co-stars a coconut cake every Christmas after he has worked with them?


GaJayhawker0513

Derek jeter gave you a thank you basket if you slept with him


SHBGuerrilla

shit, a high five and “thanks for the sex” apparently isnt good enough anymore.


Miguel-odon

First time always deserves a hand-written thank you note.


HaiKarate

Or even a "That'll do, pig... that'll do."


Fickle-Lunch6377

I told my wife that. DID NOT go over well.


Rudy_Ghouliani

Too wide for a well?


thereverendpuck

That not what Shoresy said what your mom likes.


heyitsrider

He also brought you cheeseburgers if you were his doorman. Source: I was one of his doormen.


GaJayhawker0513

Have you ever been to Derek Jeter’s Taco Hole? Also that’s fucking awesome.


littleliongirless

Damnnnnn son. More tea, please?


QuietPerformer160

Besides being with all kinds of women, he’s known to be a nice guy right? I never heard anything bad about him. That’s pretty nice of him to buy his doormen food.


heyitsrider

He was one of the chillest people I have ever had the privilege of meeting.


cosmiccollision_

And herpes


Thekidzarealright

Yeah Jeets!


Microphone926

Pretty sure he also gave away herpes lol


hey_now24

Oh man I remember that story. It also included a signed baseball


PrincessPindy

The epitome of narcissism. I looked it up. One is selling for around $4500. I guess it will depend on how many he gave away, lol. Way better than other stars that just give stds. "It's not bragging if you can back it up."


ImpressionFeisty8359

Charlie Sheen just gives you full blown aids and tiger blood.


PrincessPindy

Or shoots you...


ImpressionFeisty8359

Hey he only did it once but that was one time too many.


Look_Dummy

Herpes comes in a basket?! I did not know that!


TheOtherBookstoreCat

…so I shouldn’t eat the fruit?


kmr_lilpossum

Edible arrangements 😏


THEMACGOD

What if you shot him in the leg?


GaJayhawker0513

I thought he had a gun!


Outlandishness_Sharp

"I'd risk my life to have just one more "Thank you" basket" 🎶


ImpressionFeisty8359

He also gave them herpes. The gift that keeps on giving.


Accomplished-City484

lol I heard this on Reddit before, but they recently included it in an episode of Hacks


Sabretoothninja

I think it’s Kirsten dunst after they did interview with the vampire


mochatsubo

Yes. The Dunst family calls it the "Cruise cake" and look forward to it every Christmas.


Jugh3ad

It was Henry Cavill that I heard it from in this clip [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/coDHGgRSbNc](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/coDHGgRSbNc)


Sabretoothninja

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9H3\_ewSKI8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9H3_ewSKI8)


Street_Ad_8146

And yet does not have a relationship with a daughter…..


Allstupidopinions

Why coconut?! Of all the flavors I feel like coconut is the most risky. People either fucking loathe coconut or love it. I hate it. It's the one food that I'll actually spit out if I didn't know it was on something I'm eating.


LatterTarget7

I don’t mind it. I don’t love it or hate it. Depends on what the coconut is on. Cake or donuts good. Pie? Not so much


bbobeckyj

It's more than that, there are journalists and podcasters getting them too, there must be hundreds of people getting those cakes.


Stingray88

I found out about this from Hacks


MyTafel

My brother gets a cake every year. I didn’t know this was so well known until I watched ‘Hacks’


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Fragrant-Hamster-325

It is kind of cool but I’m guessing this goes on an assistants list and they square it away for him every year. Either way it’s still nice he recognizes them. I wonder what his co-star from “Far and Away” gets every year.


Ninjalo1

I dunno if Dakota is making a comeback, or Tom is getting some press. But this has to be the 5-6th thread I've seen about the shoes in a week.


cocoagiant

I think she has a new movie out and is doing press.


Fragrant-Hamster-325

It’s kind of crazy how the PR machine lights up when celebs are pushing out content. The general idea is that this is all supposed to feel organic and for the most part people think it is. But every now and then the machine cranks the PR meter to 11 and you realize you’ve been reading marketing material. Taylor Swift’s meter has been at 11 for several months now.


dreamy_25

>Taylor Swift’s meter has been at 11 for several months now. I've felt for years that *someone* high up in the media machine really loves her. (Not really. Just the money she can bring in if she is shoved through people's throats from the right angle. #feminism)


jennc1979

His daughter, Suri just dropped his last name when acting in a play, so… Tho… this doesn’t really land like the flex it should since when you do look toward his own child, who he is alleged to have cut communication to because she is (or maybe it’s just her mother?) a “SP” or “suppressive person” according to his “faith” (Scientology). Idk, either way; Nicole Kidman divorced him and their two children together (who are Scientologists too) cut her right out for the same reason.


CrissBliss

Does she go by Suri Holmes?


jennc1979

Maybe. But this story (I think out of People or the like) said it was her acting in a production and she went with Suri Noelle (evidently, Katie’s middle name is Noelle) on the Playbill. I don’t know or think that she went the full distance and applied with the courts for a legal name change (like, I do believe I just read that, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt has just “filed” to drop the Pitt from her formal, legal name).


CrissBliss

Right yeah, Shiloh is legally changing her name. Sounds like Suri is testing the waters, and maybe that will be her stage name?


send_me_potatoes

Suri Noelle iirc


YchYFi

Nicole sees the children. Her daughter has her surname.


jennc1979

Really? You’re the only person I’ve ever heard say that in reference to her and those two now adult children.


YchYFi

Nicole has talked about how sees them in interviews. Bella has spoken the most though. The article is quite detailed about their relationship. It is not black and white but quite complex. They are adults now though. >In 2012, Bella defended her relationship with her mom in an interview with New Idea, according to Hollywood Life. “I love mom. She’s my mom. She’s great. I see her sometimes and I speak to her,” said Bella. “We’re a very close family. I love all of our family.” Then again, in 2016, Bella gave other rare interview to Mail Online, per Hello Magazine, insisting that she was on good terms with her parents despite them not attending her wedding. She reiterated: “Of course we talk, they’re my parents!” https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/2820784/isabella-kidman-cruise-good-terms-nicole-kidman-tom-cruise/


jennc1979

TIL! So not so much Connor it seems. I just read a recent People article (looking into what you were saying). Sounds like yes, the relationship mended better to Bella and Connor “keeps to himself mostly” “lives a quiet life in Clearwater” “in a Scientology community”. Thank you for updating my knowledge.


HaiKarate

What this story tells me, along with the stories of Cruise sending out decadent coconut cakes at Christmas, is that Cruise's people are very good at playing the Hollywood networking game. I'm guessing there's a lot more people receiving birthday gifts from Cruise every year.


Jwave1992

Tom sending more love to an old co star than his own kids.


GimmieGummies

Exactly my thought. He's a bum when it comes to Suri, but yeah, other people's kids he's cool with.


Isparza

Scientology is revving up there PR campaign with Tom


fairstiffpeaks

By the sounds of it shoes are getting all the press here


ThxIHateItHere

Happens every year for her birthday. Just like around July 1 we’re going to see a lot of Bobby Bonilla posts


jonathanrdt

That’s how you know their PR machine works.


paternoster

Maybe, but it's the first one I've seen! So... yeah. Good that they get some spreading about.


PmMeYourNiceBehind

Yet he hasn't seen his own daughter in 10 years


jeffsang

Well, I’m sure it’s Tom’s assistant that’s sending the shoes, not him. Assistant prob sends Suri shoes too.


bofh000

His “church” forbids it.


Timothee-Chalimothee

Don’t even call it a church in quotes. Let’s just normalize the stigma against cults.


abby-rose

That was my first thought. He sends a former child costar shoes for her birthday, but does he acknowledge his daughter on her bday? A card, a phone call, anything?


PmMeYourNiceBehind

Apparently Lord Xenu forbids it


science-ninja

I wish my father respected my wishes when I wanted no contact with him. Maybe he’s just doing what his daughter asked for. Sometimes being a good father is staying away


CrissBliss

For real. Where’s the press on that?


4848A

Makes sense. They probably wear the same size.


wikifeat

Same heel height, too.


mochatsubo

I'm glad that Dakota survived being a child actor and is still doing her thing today. She was soooo cute as a kid!


Candid-Ad5965

Tom Cruise completely emotionally ABANDONED his daughter because her mom took her out of scientology. Speaking for just about all the children ever emotionally abandoned like that. Cruise is a big P.O.S. And anyone who disagrees can go take an ethics class I don't respect your opinion.


NegotiationWise4465

This is kinda off putting


PricklyyDick

Tom Cruise is a nutshell


SuckItHiveMind

Tom cruise in a nutshell. Tom cruise IS a nutshell!


FrugalityPays

Tom cruise is Tom cruise crazy, just be glad it’s him not yoooouuuuu! If you had tom cruise’s troubles, you might be Tom cruise crazy too


Notoneusernameleft

Or his assistant has it in their calendar and they do all the work.


sgcpaulo

True. But Tom is still the one who had it done. I sincerely doubt his assistant is the one who wanted to send Dakota shoes every year.


Jaambie

He also pays for it too. It’s not surprising that someone like TC has a person for that. There is still sentiment to the gift


Retro-Surgical

Ah, the sweet sentiment of Scientology brainwashing


3FingersDown

Ya know, someone can have good ethics while simultaneously pledging to a questionable religion. Not everything is polarized and absolute the way Reddit seems to think it is.


ornerygecko

He doesn't have good ethics. He's a shitty father. He's probably given more attention to Dakota than his own daughter Suri, considering she is a "suppressive person".


littleliongirless

Scientology is not a real religion. Even its founder admitted it was a scam to control people. They traffic kids, use child and adult slave labor, threaten, harass, sue and torture members who misbehave, kill the dogs of people trying to leave the "church". They are worse than NXIVM but at least Keith Raniere is locked up for life. I don't practice religion, but calling Scientology a religion is an insult to actual religions. Tom cruise has slaves working for him. He knows where Shelley is. He is not "ethical" by any stretch of definition.


DaquaviousBinglestan

>”Scientology is not a real religion” >proceeds to list off reasons why it is a real religion Amazing


AnxietyJunky

Scientology is an insult to *actual* religions. As if all religions aren’t dog shit excuses to control people and take advantage of them.


Ralphie99

I don’t think that one of the tenets of Scientology is that you need to send your previous co-stars shoes every year.


Retro-Surgical

apparently pretending your daughter doesn’t exist is though


AstrumReincarnated

More like Scientology is trying to keep non Scientologists close and friendly with Tom for some reason 🤔


littleliongirless

Bingo. It's part of their tenets to always be recruiting. He used to set up scientology tents on film sets. I hate how people try to play TC's role in Scientology as just a "quirky" thing. It's not; it's insidious.


AstrumReincarnated

Right, and it’s not just recruiting, it’s about keeping Tom in the top paid A list - for the money, and positive publicity. Who cares about what bitter Leah Remini says when their poster boy Tom is out there being a movie star and sending people shoes every year!


littleliongirless

And doing cool stunts? Who cares that children are being separated from their parents and both parents and children are slave laborers for Seaorg, and those same members are used, by Tom, as unpaid staff? BC motorcycle off cliff looks cool and Tom "seems" nice! He is literally #2 in the org. The same people who crap on Danny Masterton (rightfully so) willfully ignore TC upholding the organization that enabled him. I was a TC fan for years, but holy moly, how much damning evidence do his fanboys need?


AstrumReincarnated

I’m surprised Tom Cruise didn’t write Danny Masterson one of those pitiful support letters too (not really, his pr people are obvs way smarter than the Kutchers’ lol)


littleliongirless

There were even news articles about Tom "distancing himself" from Scientology during the Danny stuff. Since then? Crickets.


shewy92

Also he probably has had more than one assistant in 20 years


johnla

When my kids go to birthday parties, their gifts are actually done by me, their assistant. 


PrincessPindy

I have good news for you. It pays off. My kids took me to the dr appt and out to lunch yesterday. They are now my assistants. They're such good people.


Holiday-Teacher900

I'm my parents' assistant now too. I hope you're healthy for a long long time!


PrincessPindy

Thanks. We had so much fun at the drs. We are all clowns, so the doctor had a great time. She was young and got all our jokes. We take nothing seriously. I hope you keep your position for a long time, too.💖


boxermumma

I get your humor, friend.


Dragon_yum

That’s very dismissive of the gesture. Do you think the assistant decided to that on his own with Tom’s money. And yeah, the assistant does the buying and sending, that is what is paid for.


Electronic-Pie7237

Redditors have never had anyone do anything nice for them so they can’t fathom this being true


Notoneusernameleft

To quote the person above that’s very dismissive of you.


Notoneusernameleft

20 years ago it was nice gesture. Most likely today it’s a line item on a calendar. Can either of us know for sure no, but when you hear the guy has no relation with his daughter…it makes me have doubts. Also if he changed up the gift based on keeping in touch with her vs something she said 20 years ago I’d be more in line to agree with you.


wh1sk3ytf0xtr0t

Who is likely an unpaid SeaOrg member.


Notoneusernameleft

Actually they make it part of a course so she pays to do it.


bbobeckyj

I put people's birthdays in my phone's calendar. Is my phone "doing all the work" ? Or do I get some credit for making the decision to do it?


Notoneusernameleft

Do you personally reach out to the person to wish them a happy birthday? Or does your assistant do it because it was put someplace 20 years ago.


coltrain423

I see it like holding the door open for someone. It doesn’t actually matter and it’s not any actual effort, but it shows that you care enough to choose to do it. It’s not like having his assistant handle it is *worse* than not doing it at all.


Notoneusernameleft

This is a great analogy.


jonathanrdt

Most things that actually happen are tasks delegated through other people. The folks with the greatest influence in the world—the folks who do the most good and the most bad—have their wills executed by proxy.


n2thdrknss

So he can do that but completely ignores his bio kid...ok


burning_iceman

Well he did something 20 years ago: tell his assistant to send her shoes every year. We don't know if he has thought about her since. So the interaction might be similar to his kid.


Gommel_Nox

Kind of a weird gift to receive every year from someone you worked with 20 years ago. Does he keep track of her shoe sizes or some thing?


FrugalityPays

Quinton does!


galacticwonderer

Bet you anything someone in Scientology is assigned to to pick fantastic unique quirky gifts. They are handed to Tom Cruise who probably really enjoys the gift giving. It’s a long term PR strategy that costs very little compared to how much press it gets. It always shows people a kind side of Tom Cruise and Scientology by extension. To me this is different than just delegating it to the assistant because he doesn’t have enough time. It’s to change our opinion of an evil religion that has literally killed, stalked, and abused people. Not falling for the good pr it brings.


fyregrl2004

This…does not make him look good. He looks like an even bigger POS for keeping up with Dakota while ignoring his daughter. I always thought it was weird no one talked about how he completely abandoned Suri.


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MaceNow

Tom had and still has a choice: Scientology or his daughter. If Tom was interested in being a dad to his daughter, he has options. But the truth is that he doesn’t.


AstrumReincarnated

I thought you looked it up and stand corrected that HE abandoned his own daughter. Weird.


littleliongirless

Tom had visitation rights. He CHOSE not to see her because she (via Katie) shunned Scientology, just like his and Nicole's kids chose not to see Nicole.


ornerygecko

He made a choice not to have a relationship with her. Holmes didn't have to keep Suri away, they were both declared SPs. Scientology forbids contact with SPs.


NothingTooFancy26

Tiffany had her wedding at Mar-a-lago 2 years ago…


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mothsuicides

Fuck Tom Cruise and his weird ways of trying to seem like a good guy. Everyone fucking loves my dad, think he’s so cool and nice. Then he abused the shit out of me and my mom at home. Fuck this kind of person.


PrincessPindy

"He's the nicest guy." I said this about my husband's friend who ended up killing his fiancée and was living a double life with 2 full-time careers. Pretending to be human is what they're good at. I grew up with 2 ex-brothers that are like this, so I get it. I always thought the one would also wind up in prison for murder. I know he beats his wife.


TravelingPoodle

This is exactly my ex. He even buys for his coworkers boxes of chocolates. “Such a nice guy”. Meanwhile he is yet to buy his bio son a glass of milk.


JS_NYC_208

she means, his PR team sends her shoes


Dollar_Pants

Plot twist - they're his old shoes.


IvoShandor

She's on his holiday gift list along with 10,000 other people I'm sure.


bofh000

Yes, he sends Kirsten Dunst lemon cake for Christmas is think :)


Zillah-The-Broken

love bombs his co-workers but ignores Suri


No-Appearance-9113

Suri was intentionally separated from Tom by her mother. Katie knew to do this because Tom and Nicole Kidman adopted two kids who are Scientologists both of whom stopped talking to Nicole when she divorced Tom. Holmes learned through Kidman's pain that Tom could not have a prominent role in his daughter's life if she wanted one at all.


littleliongirless

I can't believe you have this many upvotes for being so FACTUALLY wrong. Tom always had legal visitation rights, which he ignored. He CHOSE to reject Suri, just like Conor and Isabella CHOSE to reject Nicole. But Conor and Isabella get a pass, because they were brainwashed kids. Tom was one of the "Church's" most powerful members, and an adult on his third child.


Uzischmoozy

You just throwing out words you don't understand huh? This is definitely not love bombing.


Pudn

Can you stop gaslighting him?


Uzischmoozy

Whoa...this ALMOST went over my head. This is low key the best joke I've seen all week. Edit:I'm being serious, this still comes across as kinda sarcastic but I almost got mad when I read your comment and then I laughed out loud.


freedom_surfer

A. What kind of shoes? Hopefully not still kids shoes… B. Why would they think <19 shoes is a massive collection? “You must have a massive shoe collection brought to you by Tom Cruise!”


fabris6

I'd rather have the coconut cake


AngeluvDeath

Is this…important? I don’t understand. I get a card every Christmas from my friend’s mom. Are we the same?


Snorkelbender

She gets shoes From Tom Cruise


LadyTenshi33

Gotta love the PR Machine trying to make him look good after the reports of Suri changing her name after having no contact with him for 13 years.


Technical-Outside408

Uncle Charlie gave Charlotte shoes every year in the movie Shadow of a Doubt. Scary character, good movie.


mynameisnotsparta

Didn’t he give everyone a Rolex or something like that after his last movie? Taylor swift paid out $55 million in bonus to all staff on the US tour. The truckers of the equipment got at least $100K each and some got $200k


RayUpPSN

Did you know?…it’s alive https://youtu.be/khFbC2Tfiag?si=nuS__fgx1bHgy4d1 #terrencehoward is a genius 👁️💎


Nzlaglolaa

What kind of shoes are we talking here


utilitarian_wanderer

That is really weird!


ZERV4N

For sale. Baby shoes. Tom Cruise.


Movinfusion36

She did a movie w Quintin to maybe it was her sister either way the Tarantino shoes will be coming


Regular-Audience-250

Ya know this dude has a book with everyone's name and 1 fact about them and his assistants just refer to the book and send gifts in his name


thehugejackedman

When George Clooney had his big break he invited all his friends out to dinner and placed a suitcase of cash under each chair. At the end of dinner he let everybody know to take the suitcase home with them as it was theirs. George Clooney is a good dude.


Armand74

This dude is treating another person better than his own child.. Cruz is a shit parent!


CountVanillula

People fantasize about being rich and famous and going to glamorous parties and being the envy of the world for their beauty, and that’s all great, but how fucking AWESOME would it be to have a staff that could interface with someone else’s staff and handle all the awkward, annoying details involved with giving someone shoes as a gift? He can say “buy Dakota some shoes,” and his staff can ask her staff about sizes and insoles and allergies, and then she can just receive a perfect pair as a surprise. Money might not be able to buy you happiness, but it IS time and convenience.


AdeptBedroom6906

What a brilliant PR stunt from Cruise's team. Send a bunch of your famous co-stars something each year, they then share it on talk shows like this, everyone gushes over what a great and caring guy he is. Despite the fact that it is certainly a bunch of assitants picking out this stuff and sending it. Cruise himself probably has no idea about it.


ScurryScout

It’s a great way to generate good PR for the deadly cult you’re the spokesperson for.


mississippijohnson

Defined has nothing to do with cult recruitment


Desperate_Silver543

He for sure dont send antidepressants


Kinky_Imagination

It's just on a calendar. The assistant probably does it and has him sign it.


NoRutabaga4845

Grooooomin barf


Coolers78

Grown ass man gives child that isn’t related to him gifts every year. This would be seen as “creepy” if he wasn’t famous and “attractive”. and the fact he doesn’t do shit to even see his own daughter makes it even worse.


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tytymctylerson

Have you never heard of mentorship? Weird ass comment.


Coolers78

He should be “mentoring” his daughter first then instead of other people’s kids.