Sir Tom Cruise 🙄

[GeorgianaM]

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!

My first thought too! 🤣

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

It'll be this, I bet.

Cmpletely fascinated by this thread.

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

Menuhin was a British citizen, btw.

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

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

Hell, no!

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

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

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.

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_honorary_British_knights_and_dames

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.

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.

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…

Ah, interesting. Thank you for educating me!

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

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

😆 🤣 😂 😹

It's taken so long for him to be honoured. Yet again Tom Cruise has fallen through the cracks.

What on earth has his child go to do with an American getting an honoary knighthood, are you a bit too invested in this?

Did you even google him to see what he’s been in or done in the last 20/30 years?

I think Scientology is batshit, but if you want to give an honorary knighthood to an American actor, Tom Cruise is a solid choice, based on both skills and longevity in the industry:

Why would an American get a knighthood? Also, is the far fetched drama about Becks expecting a knighthood still going?

Lucas may have refused it.

This.^^ Cruise has done a lot for the UK film industry.

He got us going back to the cinema with Top Gun 2. He seems to have a golden touch with film making and clearly takes it very seriously.

If you want to know how to run as an actor in a film Cruise is your man.

No one seems to have a bad word about him professionally. His love life is a bit of a mystery.. especially Katie Holmes.