Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell made an appearance together at Wimbledon on July 10th, and it
looked like the Mission: Impossible 7 co-stars were very happy in each other's company.
In a number of photos taken during the event, the pair smiled in the crowd as they watched
the matchup between Ashleigh Barty and Karolina Pliskova. The official Wimbledon Twitter account
also shared a GIF of Cruise standing up and waving to the crowd, and he even took a small
bow.
Last December, the British tabloids reported that Cruise was "secretly" dating Atwell after
forming an instant connection with her on the Mission: Impossible 7 set. A source even
claimed that the COVID-19 protocols that caused Cruise so much stress played a role in their
supposed romance. They said:
"Tom and Hayley hit it off from day one. Lockdown, and all the difficulties that came with it,
brought them even closer and they've become fairly inseparable."
So is their tennis outing proof that something really is going on between them? Well, while
Cruise and Atwell are clearly comfortable spending time together outside of work, the
presence of one of their Mission: Impossible 7 co-stars, Pom Klementieff, made their outing
look like less of a date.
Cruise certainly doesn't seem to mind dating fellow A-listers, though. He has been married
to Mimi Rogers, Katie Holmes, and Nicole Kidman.
"But Nicole was a major part of your life, and the love of your life at the time."
"I loved Nic, very much. There's no question."
However, in December 2020, a source told People magazine that there's no truth to the rumors
that Cruise and Atwell are romantically involved, so it's one insider's word against another.
Indeed, whenever Cruise films a Mission Impossible movie, false romance rumors often blossom.
During a 2018 interview with Marie Claire UK Vanessa Kirby said that friends were texting
her boyfriend to make sure that the couple was okay after the tabloids used photos of
her and Cruise filming a kissing scene in Mission: Impossible – Fallout as evidence
that they were romantically involved.
For over two decades, Tom Cruise's love life has been closely followed by the media, and
headlines are made pretty much any time he's romantically linked to someone. However, between
2012 and 2021, the actor seemingly stopped publicizing his romances. This seemed out
of character for someone who has made it clear he's a total romantic. So what changed?
Well, after Cruise and Katie Holmes split in 2012, reports suggested that Cruise was
"hesitant" to fall in love again. In 2019, a source told HollywoodLife in 2019:
"Since his heartbreaking, very public split with Katie, Tom has been hesitant to live
out loud or fall in love again and sometimes he feels like it will be OK if he never marries
again."
They added:
"Tom does casually date women, but never in public. He is always very private and he does
not have a steady girlfriend."
According to HollywoodLife's source, the actor, who is fully committed to Scientology, "prefers
to romance women who share similar spiritual interests to him." They continued:
"While Tom enjoys falling in love, he also is happy being by himself and has accepted
that, after three failed marriages, he may never get married again."
The insider also said:
"[Cruise] values his privacy and his religion comes before relationships or anything else,
which is fine by him."
As for Atwell's romantic history, she and model Evan Jones split in 2015. In 2018, she
told Town & Country that she was dating a doctor whom she had known since childhood.
She said she doesn't want to go public with her relationships, however, unless there is
a ring on her finger.
It's unclear if Hayley Atwell shares the same spiritual values as Cruise, but a source told
one British tabloid that the two "get on brilliantly, and both seem very happy." They also reportedly
find time to be together in private. The insider added:
"They've been meeting up after hours, and she's been to his London pad."
Given both of their histories, however, if anything is indeed going on, it's likely to
stay private for quite some time.
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