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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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Dangermoo · 08/05/2025 21:45

So I guess the box office hit Maverick escaped you? 🥱

vipersputpaidtomylastusername · 08/05/2025 21:45

Shetlands · 08/05/2025 21:43

If David Beckham is ever awarded a knighthood, his wife won't be able to call herself Lady Victoria Beckham because her father isn't an Earl, Marquess or Duke. She'd just be Lady Beckham.

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Ah, interesting. Thank you for educating me!

Although, even the correct title / address for her is still not a great prospect tbh.

Sherararara · 08/05/2025 21:44

If you haven’t seen him in anything for 20/30 years that says a lot more about you than him.
Maybe time to crawl out from under your rock…

Shetlands · 08/05/2025 21:43

vipersputpaidtomylastusername · 08/05/2025 19:06

Rather he gets one than David Beckham.

It's going to happen isn't it , I mean it's what he's been schmoozing for for years.

Lady Victoria Beckham 🙄

If David Beckham is ever awarded a knighthood, his wife won't be able to call herself Lady Victoria Beckham because her father isn't an Earl, Marquess or Duke. She'd just be Lady Beckham.

wordler · 08/05/2025 21:36

He's done a lot of filming in the UK over the last ten years boosting the UK film industry economy. Presumably someone in the culture department in the government has been smoozed.

I assume he's been networking this for a while.

Gonners · 08/05/2025 21:32

Here's a helpful list of "honorary honours". Froth away!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_honorary_British_knights_and_dames

Devonshiregal · 08/05/2025 21:31

TomatoSandwiches · 08/05/2025 18:32

He is getting it for his services to the film industry, his projects have increased production in the UK in the last 2 decades at least. I don't think he is undeserving of being acknowledged.

His status as a father is an entirely separate issue.

Yes his films are like the only thing made here anymore right? Also acting is a tough career - I wonder how good the op is at it? Clearly not good enough for a knighthood.
OP I suggest you take some acting classes, maybe try a land an audition and then tell us how easy and simplistic it is.

knighthoods are bollocks anyway. And him being an evil cult leader who’s a terrible father snatching the knighthood prize has nothing to do with slagging off other peoples’ careers.

Mysterian · 08/05/2025 21:29

noblegiraffe · 08/05/2025 21:27

People falling over themselves to be dismissive of Tom Cruise is pretty funny.

People are always falling over Tom Cruise. It's cause he's the same height as a dachshund.

CrystalSingerFan · 08/05/2025 21:28

ForRealCat · 08/05/2025 19:23

If you want to start the list of who it SHOULD be, surely you should lead with Monty Don.

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Hell, no!

Simon Pegg, please. (He's soooo great as Benjy in the later Mission Impossible films, plus everything else he does,)

noblegiraffe · 08/05/2025 21:27

People falling over themselves to be dismissive of Tom Cruise is pretty funny.

Mysterian · 08/05/2025 21:24

A tiny little actor from a cult who pretends he's not gay by hiring wives. An honour. Great.

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 08/05/2025 21:24

Nanny0gg · 08/05/2025 19:00

For info:

  • George H W Bush GCB
  • Dwight D Eisenhower GCB
  • Bill Gates KBE
  • Melinda Gates DBE
  • Mark Getty KBE
  • Paul Getty KBE
  • Billy Graham KBE
  • J Edgar Hoover KBE
  • Bob Hope KBE
  • Angelina Jolie DCMG
  • Ralph Lauren KBE
  • Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin KBE
  • André Previn KBE
  • Ronald Reagan GCB
  • Dame Marjorie Scardino DBE
  • Steven Spielberg KBE

Menuhin was a British citizen, btw.

CrystalSingerFan · 08/05/2025 21:23

CaveMum · 08/05/2025 19:05

He’d be allowed to call himself “Tom Cruise, KBE” but he would not be allowed to call himself “Sir Tom Cruise”.

Only citizens of the Commonwealth can use the prefix “Sir”.

Cmpletely fascinated by this thread.

Why can't he call himself 'Sir'? How do the Commonwealth police this?

whitewineandsun · 08/05/2025 21:19

MinnieCauldwell · 08/05/2025 18:34

I think it maybe because his films use UK studious and crews, like Steven Spielberg who was also knighted.

It'll be this, I bet.

CoffeeCoffeeTea · 08/05/2025 21:18

Terry Wogan got a knighthood and used the title. Is Bob geldof a Sir as well

Temporarynameforthisone · 08/05/2025 21:11

Growsomeballswoman · 08/05/2025 18:30

Crikey, that will piss off David Beckham 😂

My first thought too! 🤣

ArminTamzerian · 08/05/2025 21:10

JudgeJ · 08/05/2025 21:08

Same as Geldorf who is Irish and there have been a few others.

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Yeah, same in that they don't actually have knighthoods.

ArminTamzerian · 08/05/2025 21:09

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!

He actually isn't though, is he?

Papyrophile · 08/05/2025 21:08

I really DON'T care about his religion. I do value his support for an important element of the economy.

JudgeJ · 08/05/2025 21:08

2024onwardsandup · 08/05/2025 18:32

How can he get a knighthood if he’s American?

Same as Geldorf who is Irish and there have been a few others.

Gonners · 08/05/2025 21:08

This is a Daily Mail story and therefore, obviously, 100% reliable.

SmoothRoads · 08/05/2025 21:04

YearlySubscriptionRenewal · 08/05/2025 20:57

I am sure you are correct (I haven't really studied that sect)
but in TC defense he never mentions it, doesn't lecture about it, and photos of him at Scientology events are extremely rare and taken from private grounds by private people.

He might be a great asset for Scientology in a subtle way, only by being associated with it.

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He does mention it in Scientology promotional videos, but I do not recall him every saying it in interviews or public events outside of this cult. Interviewers seem to avoid the topic too, when they speak to him.

Ghosttofu99 · 08/05/2025 21:04

Have you been under a rock? He was in one of the biggest post pandemic films (Top Gun 2) for one. He was the ‘star’ of the Olympics handover ceremony. He produces all his own films, including the Mission Impossible series much of which is filmed in the U.K.

So fair enough of you don’t like him for personal reasons but to say he has not done any services for film is just factually wrong.

JSMill · 08/05/2025 21:02

Growsomeballswoman · 08/05/2025 18:30

Crikey, that will piss off David Beckham 😂

That was my first thought too!!

CathyorClaire · 08/05/2025 21:01

ButteredRadish · 08/05/2025 20:55

JFC of allllllll the celebs, they picked the twatfaced religious deadbeat whacko?!

Not a K but if we're talking deadbeat twatfaced religious whackos Justin Welby got Archbishop Of Canterbury...

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