Tom vs. Katie: Who's Winning the Battle of Cutest Suri?
Ever since the shocking news broke that TomKat was divorcing, Katie Holmes and daughter Suri Cruise have been spotted all around NYC in front of the paparazzi like they were the cutest Manhattan couple since Carrie and Big. Katie and Suri's omnipresence in the public eye even inspired our own tongue-in-cheek "Suri and the City" series. Indeed, "Kuri" has been Queen.Until now.
As we had been told would happen, Tom Cruise finally reunited with his 6-year-old daughter and—wouldn't you know it—a camera was there to capture the cuteness: his first volley in a parental public-relations battle.
Some find it hard to believe it was coincidence that Tom's reunion outside a Manhattan hotel just happened to be caught on camera by a photographer. In fact, with the legendary PR-savvy Cruise on the scene, we might have to expect more images of DadKat.
"We can expect to see much more 'imaging' PR because we can assume there are explicit contractual confidentiality limitations in place that prevent any verbal pronouncements or leaks," says Howard Bragman, longtime Hollywood publicist and vice chairman of Reputation.com. "So it's PR by photo op."
Tom didn't wait long, as early today he redoubled his efforts and was spotted yet again with Suri, this time for some high-flying fun as the duo was caught boarding a helicopter in NYC.
The wave of doting-dad snapshots seems to have come just in time, as it was only last week that tabloids began noticing Cruise's absence on the parental front—and if the new surge of photo ops doesn't put an end to that chatter, the scathing statement released by Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields today will.
"The tabloids are at it again, trying to make a buck by publishing more grotesquely false claims about Tom Cruise," he said. "For example, a sleazy magazine calling itself Life & Style has a bogus cover headline that Suri has been 'ABANDONED BY HER DAD.'"
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