# Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Divorcing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716 "2012-06-29T17:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/1 "2012-06-29T17:54:46Z")
[Longer than we expected it to last, but it is ending.](http://omg.yahoo.com/news/tom-cruise--katie-holmes-split-after-five-years-of-marriag.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/2 "2012-06-29T17:55:55Z")
Good for Katie. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/3 "2012-06-29T17:57:29Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Good for Katie. I for one am ecstatic for her! ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/4 "2012-06-29T17:59:15Z")
I hope she can escape the $cientology insanity. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/5 "2012-06-29T18:01:54Z")
I blame Xenu. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/6 "2012-06-29T18:04:40Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > I hope she can escape the $cientology insanity. +1 I hope/expect she’ll revert to her Catholicism. (She’s Catholic IIRC) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/7 "2012-06-29T18:06:41Z")
But he loved her so much? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/8 "2012-06-29T18:07:28Z")
He owes Oprah a couch! ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/9 "2012-06-29T18:07:45Z")
etv78: > [@](#): > > I for one am ecstatic for her! Have you jumped up and down on the couch in your ecstasy? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/10 "2012-06-29T18:08:12Z")
He’s supposed to be a nutjob of questionable sexual preference whose mind is in the grip of an insane cult/moneymaking scam. She’s a somewhat dopey and not particularly talented younger actress who needed a career boost. I don’t understand why it didn’t work out. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/11 "2012-06-29T18:08:20Z")
I concur good for her… Tom takes another in a long line or PR hits… Just not interested in seeing him on a screen either big or small… ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/12 "2012-06-29T18:11:34Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Longer than we expected it to last, but it is ending.](http://omg.yahoo.com/news/tom-cruise--katie-holmes-split-after-five-years-of-marriag.html) What a completely awkward photo of them. That’s the most UNgenuine kiss (even cheek-kiss) that I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/13 "2012-06-29T18:16:06Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > +1 I hope/expect she’ll revert to her Catholicism. (She’s Catholic IIRC) Cruise was too, at one time. Albeit a long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/14 "2012-06-29T18:22:01Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > What a completely awkward photo of them. That’s the most UNgenuine kiss (even cheek-kiss) that I’ve ever seen. Yes, but he is probably a bit shaky, what with standing on two stacked milk crates and all. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/15 "2012-06-29T18:27:12Z")
Mimi Rogers Nicole Kidman Katie Holmes Just for giggles, anybody want to guess who’s next? Someone younger than Katie, obviously, up-and-coming actress trying to make a career move, etc. I’m gonna go with Blake Lively. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/16 "2012-06-29T18:32:42Z")
Does Scientology require that the divorce be a silent procedure? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/17 "2012-06-29T18:43:01Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Does Scientology require that the divorce be a silent procedure? You sure don’t want any engrams of **that**! ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/18 "2012-06-29T18:43:41Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > She’s a somewhat dopey and not particularly talented younger actress who needed a career boost. She’s 33. She does look young for her age, but I don’t think she qualifies as a younger actress anymore. She’s two days older than me and I don’t think of myself as young anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/19 "2012-06-29T18:46:21Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > He’s supposed to be a nutjob of questionable sexual preference whose mind is in the grip of an insane cult/moneymaking scam. She’s a somewhat dopey and not particularly talented younger actress who needed a career boost. Together, they fight crime! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716/20 "2012-06-29T18:47:44Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > She’s 33. She does look young for her age, but I don’t think she qualifies as a younger actress anymore. She’s two days older than me and I don’t think of myself as young anymore. She’s 16 years younger than he is, though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-divorcing/626716.md?page=2)