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Sir Tom Cruise 🙄

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GeorgianaM · 08/05/2025 18:29

Tom Cruise is getting a Knighthood for services to the film industry!

I don’t think I’ve seen him in anything for 20/30 years!

Why are we rewarding a man who earns millions just for pretending to be someone else and speaking the words that someone else has written and who is instructed where to stand, sit, walk and move around?

A man who has not seen his daughter since she was 7 years old nearly 12 years ago!

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ellyeth · 26/05/2025 23:44

I think it's all a lot of nonsense.

Dangermoo · 10/05/2025 10:50

babymamalove · 09/05/2025 00:18

I’m sorry, what?

DM weren’t the only ones who published that story hun x

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Much like ever other story, hun.

ArminTamzerian · 10/05/2025 09:08

JohnTheRevelator · 09/05/2025 23:07

I thought you had to be British to get a knighthood?

Seriously

Butchyrestingface · 09/05/2025 23:10

Unfortunately, I think OP peaked way, WAY too soon with the attempt to imply that Tom Cruise hasn't made any movies in 20-30 years.

There's a skill to this malarkey and so many posters these days seem to lack the patience.

JohnTheRevelator · 09/05/2025 23:07

I thought you had to be British to get a knighthood?

Shotokan101 · 09/05/2025 22:56

Where's this rock you've been living up der?

....not saying g that I agree with him getting a knighthood but there's been many many many many many others who've done much much much much less (for anything) who've been 8n the Honours List over the years......

...and it can't be a "proper knighthood" as he's "a foreigner"......

ArminTamzerian · 09/05/2025 22:09

Sallyssn · 09/05/2025 22:05

Suri has been kept away from her father due to his scientology influences.

No. He has kept away from her due to her not being a Scientologist.

Sallyssn · 09/05/2025 22:05

Suri has been kept away from her father due to his scientology influences.

ReginaPhalange01 · 09/05/2025 22:00

HoskinsChoice · 08/05/2025 18:40

I hadn't heard this anywhere other than in the OP's post so I googled it. The only media reporting it as fact is... the Daily Mail. So the OP does know everything about Cruise' relationship with his daughter because she's outed herself as a Daily Mail reader and everything you read in there is definitely true.

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In scientology terms Suri and Katie would be called as “suppressive people” that you’re supposed to stay away from once they leave the religion. It’s why Nicole Kidman’s older two children don’t speak to her anymore because she got out

Uricon2 · 09/05/2025 21:56

I'm his age more or less, I think he's a complete kook in many ways and find the Scientology stuff baffling, but he's also a fantastic actor. Much, much worse people have been knighted (examples upthread) and he spends more time here than some Brits who have been awarded honours.

Arise, Sir Tom of Maverick.

Arlanymor · 09/05/2025 21:37

ArminTamzerian · 09/05/2025 21:21

An honorary knighthood is not an actual knighthood. Like you can get an honorary degree...it's not real. You don't go to the palace, there's no investiture, no sword etc.
It's not the same

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Fair enough, can't say I care at all. As per my earlier posts. I think the whole thing is nonsense.

ArminTamzerian · 09/05/2025 21:21

Arlanymor · 09/05/2025 20:49

You CAN get a knighthood, you can't be called SIR if you are honorary.

Here's the difference...

Sir Michael Caine KBE
Tom Cruise KBE

It's really not that hard to grasp! Still a knighthood - as evidenced by the letters at the end of the name... but non-commonwealth citizens cannot use Sir.

An honorary knighthood is not an actual knighthood. Like you can get an honorary degree...it's not real. You don't go to the palace, there's no investiture, no sword etc.
It's not the same

Arlanymor · 09/05/2025 20:49

You CAN get a knighthood, you can't be called SIR if you are honorary.

Here's the difference...

Sir Michael Caine KBE
Tom Cruise KBE

It's really not that hard to grasp! Still a knighthood - as evidenced by the letters at the end of the name... but non-commonwealth citizens cannot use Sir.

gingercat02 · 09/05/2025 20:45

He can't be Sir Tom, but he can be Tom Cruise KBE (Knight of the British Empire) I believe

ArminTamzerian · 09/05/2025 20:17

canyouseemyhousefromhere · 09/05/2025 19:07

I didn’t think non Brits could get a knighthood.

You live & learn I guess.

Apparently you don't, since it's been said at least nineteen tubes just on this thread that non Brits can't get knighthoods.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 09/05/2025 20:14

canyouseemyhousefromhere · 09/05/2025 19:07

I didn’t think non Brits could get a knighthood.

You live & learn I guess.

They can't. Non Brits CAN'T get a knighthood! The story isn't true.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 09/05/2025 20:13

luckylavender · 09/05/2025 15:28

Where us this reported?

Daily Mail. 😆

Rhaenys · 09/05/2025 20:08

I can’t find any reports on this.

Lailatov · 09/05/2025 20:03

Please can people on this thread do some research on Scientology.

Sillyname63 · 09/05/2025 19:53

Never mind David Beckham, Trump will be positively catatonic or Say that Tom Cruise is famous because of him😂😂

Butterflyarms · 09/05/2025 19:49

Growsomeballswoman · 08/05/2025 18:30

Crikey, that will piss off David Beckham 😂

My first thought too!

canyouseemyhousefromhere · 09/05/2025 19:07

I didn’t think non Brits could get a knighthood.

You live & learn I guess.

TunnocksOrDeath · 09/05/2025 18:47

The only main UK paper reporting this is the Daily Heil, and their evidence for this is that he's getting a BFI award, and someone else who got one once also got a knighthood, so I'd take it with a hefty pinch of salt...
BUT people who are not a citizen of a commonwealth country can receive honorary knighthoods, they can't call themselves "Sir/Dame", but can put the letters after their name. Steven Spielberg, Placido Domingo and Bill Gates all have a KBE, for example.
Tom Cruise's films aren't really my thing, but apparently a lot of the production is in the UK, which creates work for British technicians and people who work at British studios. Mr Spielberg's award was for "services to British film" i.e. a thank-you for keeping so many people here in work.

ednakenneth · 09/05/2025 18:21

Tom cruise has done several mission in possible films and the last is due to be released at the end of this month. He came to Birmingham to film several scenes and visited the largest scientologist church. He came in on a helicopter.
Don't you remember the pictures when he helped the princess of Wales get up some stairs at a film premiere. She wore long black gloves.
I think he's a great actor and he is supposed to be very nice

Snakebite61 · 09/05/2025 18:01

GeorgianaM · 08/05/2025 18:29

Tom Cruise is getting a Knighthood for services to the film industry!

I don’t think I’ve seen him in anything for 20/30 years!

Why are we rewarding a man who earns millions just for pretending to be someone else and speaking the words that someone else has written and who is instructed where to stand, sit, walk and move around?

A man who has not seen his daughter since she was 7 years old nearly 12 years ago!

The honours system is a disgrace. 14 years of tory corruption and cronyism has proved that