Tom Cruise likes parties, especially his own.
The “Mission: Impossible” hero was just in London, where he has a glamorous apartment for entertaining.
The Scientologist star, who has extra time on his hands now because of the SAG-AFTRA strike, recently hosted one of his regular Sunday afternoon tea parties.
Cruise invites guests to his sprawling apartment at the exclusive 1 Hyde Park apartment building where he occupies an entire floor near the top of the building.
The parties always start at 4 o’clock. Cruise’s chef prepares an elaborate spread of traditional tea and scones, a healthy buffet and drinks.
When the superstar brings in outside staff or a DJ, they are required to sign long and specific non-disclosure agreements.
Guests sign shorter versions saying that no selfies or photos are allowed. If anyone breaks the “code of silence” they aren’t invited back.
Spies in the lobby say they “see lots of beautiful women coming and going from the apartment on Sundays,” said my source.
“Tom loves to blast the music loudly, the beats can be heard in the building, which is why he gives a tea party in the afternoon so no one complains about the noise. Tom is always polite and considerate of his neighbors. The parties generally end by 7 or 8 p.m. at the latest.”
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Sofia Vergara will not be single for long, according to her L.A. circle.
The Colombian beauty has never been alone, and is always involved in a serious relationship.
I was an eyewitness at the White House Correspondents Association dinner in 2014 when Joe Manganiello met Vergara. Sparks flew. They married a few months later.
Before that she was engaged to Nick Loeb and before that she was with Chris Paciello, even visiting him in jail.
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Kim Kardashian, Brooke Shields and Christie Brinkley are a few of the stars Devorah Rose, editor in chief of Social Life magazine, has secured for her covers.
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Rose had radio shock jock Howard Stern photograph his wife and animal advocate Beth Stern for the cover in a red bikini.
In 2008, Rose gave Kim K her second cover ever, and in 2013, at the dawn of the body positivity movement, Devorah invited a 59-year-old Christie Brinkley to pose in a swimsuit for the first time since her Sports Illustrated cover 30 years before.
The editor also put Brooke Shields back in Calvin Klein intimates in 2013 for the first time since Calvin’s infamous ad campaign that asked “What comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.”
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“Barbie” — the biggest movie of the year — might not exist if it weren’t for nightclub impresario Michael Ault, he claims in a recent Facebook post headlined “How I Saved Barbie.”
Before he ran Spy, Chaos and Pangaea, Ault was a trainee in the 1980s with Marine Midland Bank’s Credit Training Program and worked on a huge multimillion-dollar loan request from Mattel.
The toy company was struggling after the failure of its Masters of the Universe action figures, causing a $115 million loss.
Ault spent weeks studying the toy industry and Mattel’s plans to relaunch Barbie and Ken with new fashion lines and accessories, Ault told me.
He said Mattel’s strategy to revitalize Barbie were “compelling,” and the 100-page loan request he submitted was ultimately approved by the bank’s board of directors.
Ault said the loan led to the Barbie brand’s resurgence — and the eventual “monster success” of the blockbuster movie.
”Regarding all things Barbie, I would be lying if I didn’t feel a certain sense of pride.”
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Kyra Sedgwick and Method Man have just wrapped the Jewish comedy “Bad Shabbos” with film maker Zack Weiner’s Manhattan Movie Studio.
Weiner is also releasing a film starring NBA star Evan Mobley called “Magic Money” about a multimillion-dollar Nike sneaker deal gone awry. Weiner and Bitcoin pioneer Nick Spanos have just acquired a space at 2307 Broadway on the Upper West Side. They hope to turn it into a Gen Z version of Andy Warhol’s famous downtown Factory.
The studio is also releasing a documentary called “Citizen Weiner” about Zack’s bondage and sadomasochism scandal during his unsuccessful City Council run against Gale Brewer.
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King Charles and Queen Camilla met with Julia Haart, star of “My Unorthodox Life,” and billionaire metal magnate Andy Sabin in London at the Animal Ball to talk about saving elephants and the environment.
Haart, who just launched her luxury shapewear line +Body with revolutionary Powerbond technology, has just returned from a humanitarian mission to the Ukraine, where she opened a women’s health clinic, and to Rwanda, where she brought medical supplies to underserved women.
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