Tom Cruise may be setting himself up for a real-life not possible mission: Pursuing Latin music queen Shakira.
After the “High Gun” star and the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer have been photographed hanging out collectively on the Method 1 Grand Prix in Miami over the weekend, individuals started whispering a couple of attainable romance within the works. A supply instructed Web page Six that the 2 have “chemistry” and he despatched her flowers. “He's extraordinarily all for pursuing her,” the supply stated.
Which may be true however Cruise, 60, might face some severe hurdles in producing something severe with Shakira, 46.
On one hand, the pop diva is single and presumably out there, having break up from her longtime boyfriend, Gerard Piqué, final June, amid allegations he was having an affair along with his now-girlfriend Clara Chia Marti.
“Shakira wants a delicate pillow to fall on, and that may very well be Tom,” the supply instructed Web page Six. The supply added that Cruise has the good thing about being, “a nice-looking man, and he's proficient.” Web page Six moreover stated that the 5-foot-7-inch Cruise may recognize relationship a lady who's shorter than him: Shakira is a petite 5 toes 2 inches.
Alternatively, Shakira is managing a really busy profession as one of many best-selling feminine Latin artists of all time, and he or she’s rearing her two younger youngsters with Piqué. As well as, she’s mired in an ongoing tax controversy with the Spanish authorities, which claims she owes $13.9 million in taxes, as NBC Information reported. A trial date is pending.
With every little thing Shakira has happening, would she have time to suit Cruise into her life? Particularly with the best way he could be so evidently intense about something or anybody he places his thoughts to?
The Cruise lore consists of him leaping on Oprah Winfrey’s sofa to proclaim his love for third spouse Katie Holmes and insisting on doing his personal harmful film stunts. Cruise additionally is understood for his devotion to the controversial Church of Scientology, which has reportedly induced issues in his previous relationships.
He acknowledged in a 2013 courtroom deposition that Scientology was one cause Holmes gave for leaving him; she didn’t need their daughter Suri raised within the church.
A 2012 Vainness Honest report additionally detailed how the church tried to recruit and audition potential girlfriends for Cruise, following his divorce from second spouse Nichole Kidman in 2001. As with Holmes, Kidman reportedly refused to dedicate herself to the church. Vainness Honest additionally reported that Penelope Cruz, whom Cruise dated following his breakup with Kidman, additionally ran afoul of Scientology as a result of she was unwilling to forsake her Buddhist beliefs whereas taking Scientology programs.
Elaine Lui of Laney Gossip stated that Cruise’s Scientology beliefs can be an enormous deal in any future relationship. However Lui stated that Shakira may be in a spot in her life proper now when she may very well be open to Cruise’s romantic overtures and to studying extra about his religion in Scientology.
“Tom’s wooing model may simply hit presently in her life, after what she’s been by,” Lui stated, referring to Shakira’s breakup from Piqué, the daddy of her youngsters. “What she’s been by, nonetheless, can also be a priority.”
Cruise’s beloved Scientology has been accused by many, together with main defector and critic Leah Remini, of focusing on individuals who have suffered some type of private loss or who're experiencing private frustration and dissatisfaction and searching for something the guarantees “enlightenment,” Lui stated.
“On the one hand the Shaki Cruise is nice for gossip,” Lui stated, making a portmanteau nickname for his or her probably coupling. “On the opposite… we don’t need this for Shakira, proper?”