When Tom Cruise takes a stroll with his helicopter in the skies of London

When Tom Cruise takes a stroll with his helicopter in the skies of London
When Tom Cruise takes a stroll with his helicopter in the skies of London

Even when he’s not filming a new opus of « Mission Impossible »Tom Cruise flies his own craft. On Saturday, June 29, the actor was spotted landing his helicopter at a base in London’s Battersea district. A flight shared with his son Connor, 29.

Aviator sunglasses, chunky sneakers and bulging biceps: Tom Cruise did not go unnoticed when he got off the helicopter, so much so that fans were waiting for him not far from the tarmac. If the 61-year-old actor willingly takes the spotlight, it is difficult to say the same of his son Connor, who rarely appears in public.

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Connor and his sister Isabella (31 years old) are the children that Tom Cruise adopted with Nicole Kidman, while they were married, in 1990 and 2001. If they remained close to their father, and to the Church of Scientology , while living between London and Miami, they have been living far from their mother for many years…

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Tom Cruise may be close to his elders, but he cut ties a long time ago with his other daughter Suri, born from his marriage to Katie Holmes. Barely had she celebrated her 18th birthday when the young woman made the decision to abandon the name “Cruise” for that of “Noelle”, her mother’s middle name. A particularly complicit mother-daughter duo who regularly appear in the streets of New York.

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For 30 years now, Tom Cruise has been putting his private pilot’s license to good use, logging hours of flying in his various aircraft, including his 1946 North American P-51D Mustang, which made an appearance in “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022.

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Tom Cruise will soon be back in the shoes of Agent Ethan Hunt, in the eighth installment of the saga, “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, part 2”, which will be released in cinemas in May 2025. If filming began in March 2022, it was interrupted for a time during the strike of writers and actors of the SAG-AFTRA union, before resuming, with new scenes filmed in London last April.

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