Kirsten Dunst has a go-to story about Tom Cruise, and she’s told the story on many different talk shows and in many magazine interviews. The story is that after she worked with Tom on Interview with a Vampire – when she was just a little kid – he decided to send her a very fancy coconut cake on her birthday every single year. Kirsten has talked up her “Cruise cake” a lot, and it’s apparently a pretty amazing cake, baked by professional bakers at Doan’s Bakery in Woodland Hills. I’ve heard other stories about Tom gifting cakes to people he likes, and I guess he has just given this one bakery a ton of business for decades. So much so that he ordered 300 Christmas cakes and had them flown over to London as Christmas gifts to the crew of Mission: Impossible??
Tom Cruise flew 300 Christmas cakes over from the US on his private jet to treat his Mission: Impossible crew. Insiders said the Top Gun star, 59, paid thousands to have the plane flown 5,500 miles across the Atlantic and back — with the sweet gifts from his favourite bakery collected on the way.
A source said: “Tom wanted to give the team on Mission: Impossible a treat for Christmas and decided that only cakes from his favourite bakery in LA would do. He organised for the shop to make 300 cakes especially and they were then flown back to the UK on his jet. It is extravagant, but Tom is an incredibly generous person and he wanted to do something special for everyone who has worked on the movie with him.”
Production of the latest Mission: Impossible movie has been hampered by delays caused by Covid. Cruise, who plays Ethan Hunt in the spy franchise, wrapped filming in September after more than a 18 months of stop-start work on the action movie.
Yes, I was going to say, they’re STILL filming this fakakta movie?? Good lord. This production began early in the pandemic, like the spring of 2020. And they’re still filming. No wonder so many crew members have quit, my God. While Christmas cakes are nice, all of these people better be getting hazard pay as well. And Christmas bonuses. And even more. As for the cakes… I’m so curious about what makes this particular cake such a go-to gift beloved by all.
Also: British bakers are a thing! British baking culture is very real! I know Tom wanted a special treat and he loves this LA bakery, but surely he could have ordered a million cakes from a British baker?
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.
Way to go with that carbon footprint Tom. Like Kaiser said, there are bakers in the U.K. So ostentatious and unnecessary.
It was a nice thought, but those cakes are going to be a bit hard to swallow with all that carbon guilt.
Thanks for the global warming, you scientologist loon.
If he doesn’t like the bakers in the UK, France is right there!
No to French “cake”. There is nothing like American cake in Paris. You can find 3 cupcake shops and none of them get it right. Much less birthday cake. Birthday cake does not exist in France.
Yeah, he should give them bonuses instead.
Right??? Hey Tom instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars on flying freaking CAKE across the globe, how about taking that money and just GIVING it to the crew instead?? I’m sure they’d rather have that AND that’ll be a few less tons of pollutant spewed onto the planet. After all, you can’t pay rent with cake.
+1 That was my exact thought too.
I can see the t-shirt now…. I worked with Tom Cruise and all I got was a lousy cake!
So out of touch. Could’ve turned all that cash into a bonus for crew instead, and sourced some locally baked treats.
I hope he at least flew everyone home on that jet.
Carbon footprint is not cool, and generally I don’t like him, but I have to agree with him about loving coconut cakes!
Seriously England has amazing cakes and pastries. Why delivery from L.A.? Wonderful for the environment. Plus, why not support the local economy ?!
I still cant believe what happened to this once loveable megawatt movie star. Everytime i see him i just remember that he abondoned his child for a cult.
He spent more time with Coconut cakes than his own daughter.
Ouch. And…true.
This really miffs my muffin.
Well said!! Instead he could have given each of them a 4 or 5 digit bonus for the holidays, but he thinks buying everyone a cake is such an amazing bonus for working those long hours as he rakes in millions of dollars on the front and back end of each picture. Yes, what a generous gift of appreciation. 🙄
The crew might’ve got bonuses as well as the cake. Who’s to say? Anyone who’s a member of a cult may also a victim of a cult. They prey on insecure, anxious people – offering certainties and love.
Cruise comes from a chaotic, nomadic background, had an abusive father, attended 15 schools as a kid. He was a cult leader’s dream.
This was really fun to read out loud. Truly a holiday fuck up!