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Cruise, Holmes to marry in castle near Rome: report

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-11-07 20:43




Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are seen in this May 4, 2006 file photo.
MILAN - Could an imposing medieval castle near Rome be the secret
location for the wedding of Hollywood hunk Tom Cruise and his actress
fiancee Katie Holmes?

Italian newspaper Il Messaggero emerged from the frenzy of a media hunt
for a celebrity wedding site to report on Tuesday that the "Mission:
Impossible" star and his future bride plan to marry at Castello
Odescalchi on the shores of Lake Bracciano.

The identification of Odescalchi, a castle which has hosted a pope and
kings, may be the end of the trail for reporters who have been trying to
track down the Cruise-Holmes venue ever since the couple announced their
nuptials last month.

But a receptionist at the castle told Reuters the report was not true and
that it had no such booking.


The paper wrote there would be a warm-up party with other celebrities on
November 16, a Catholic wedding ceremony for the pair on November 17 and
a final ritual on November 18 conducted by Scientology, the church
founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard and of which Cruise is a
member.

Rome-based Il Messaggero did not say how the twice-divorced Cruise could
have a Catholic wedding.

The couple announced in October that they would get married on November
18 in Italy, with Giorgio Armani designing Holmes' wedding gown. Since
then, the tabloid hunt has been on to find the exact location, with
northern Italian lakes Garda and Como also mentioned as possible wedding
sites.

Europe has already provided backdrops to some of the most public moments
for "TomKat", as tabloids have dubbed the couple: Cruise, 44, told
reporters in Rome about the joy of changing baby daughter Suri's nappies,
and the two announced their engagement at a Paris news conference after
he proposed to her at the Eiffel Tower.

Holmes, 27, gave birth to Suri in April. The baby has already had her own
22-page photo spread in Vanity Fair, further whipping up the media furor
around the couple.

But some of the publicity has backfired. Cruise became the butt of jokes
after an appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last year, when he
manically jumped up and down on a sofa while expressing his love for
Holmes.

Paramount Pictures ended their 14-year production deal with Cruise in
August citing the actor's off-screen behavior.











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