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Daily Mail, Tuesday 1 June 1999

50 facts you are allowed to know about Tom & Nicole

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are the most famous couple in the world. They are also the most secretive. Yesterday the Daily Mail revealed that their personal staff are forced to sign extraordinarily confidentiality agreements to prevent them from discussing the couple's private lives. Anyone in the Cruises' employment who breaks the rigid rules is liable to penalties of hundreds of thousands of pounds. The Daily Mail has, thankfully, signed no such confidentiality agreement. So today we offer you 50 facts you never knew about Tom and Nicole...

1 Tom and 'Nic' (as he lovingly calls her) are aliens

2 And so, by the way, are the rest of us. As devout members of the Church of Scientology, the Cruises believe that humans are an exlied race from outer space called Thetans.

3 Mel Gibson once teased Tom about Scientology. "Tom lost his cool completely," said an observer. "Unfortunately, Mel couldn't stop laughing at his own joke and this made it worse."

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16 Following their divorce, Mimi Rogers offered an apparent explanation for the lack of children from the union, citing Tom's religious beliefs. She said "He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument."

17 She added; "My instrument, on the other hand, needed tuning."

18 But the second Mrs Cruise, a card-carrying Scientologist, has no such complaints. Tom is everything a woman could want of a man, Nicole Kidman invariably tells interviewers.

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22 There's nothing peculiar about their involvement in Scientology? The birth of their adopted daughter Isabella sounds a little odd.

23 Isabella's natural mother- an impoverished follower of Scientology - was instructed to remain silent during the delivery because Scientologists believe that noise at birth can damage children's brains.

24 The Church of Scientology also reportedly helped to arrange the adoption.

25 So when did Tom discover Scientology? This remains a little unclear. But as a young man he was a fervent Roman Catholic.

[snip the rest of the 50 things you are allowed to know]

...and five you're not

1 Why Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are so obsessed with secrecy.

2 What have Cruise and Kidman got to hide?

3 Why two apparently healthy young people who have been married for nine years have not had children of their own and why Tom did not have children with his first wife Mimi Rogers.

4 Why Tom seems so obsessed with people not looking him in the eye.

5 Why the couple do not seem to like talking about their religion, the Church of Scientology.

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