As the proud recipient of four Tom Cruise Christmas cakes over the past two years, I appear to have become this publication’s unofficial Tom Cruise Christmas cake correspondent. And, as such, it brings me genuine pain to report the following important news: Brooke Shields no longer receives a Tom Cruise Christmas cake.
I’ve gone on about the cakes far too much lately, but for the uninitiated: every December, Tom Cruise buys hundreds of $126 (£101) white chocolate coconut cakes from Doan’s Bakery in California, packages them up with a note and a Christmas tree decoration, and sends them to his nearest and dearest. Colleagues. Close friends. Former co-stars. Journalists who kept asking Tom Cruise for a cake as a way to bulk out their word count two years ago. All the important people, basically. The cakes are very nice, and very rich, and – based on a sample size of just me – are often the only thing their recipients have to look forward to in this cruel joke of a life.
