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Tom Hanks 'is big on stocking stuffers'

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been married since 1988

Tom Hanks is "really big on stocking stuffers".

The Oscar-winning actor and his wife Rita Wilson spent the last festive season with their kids - Chet, 35, and Truman, 29 - and Rita has now revealed how Tom will approach Christmas this year.

Rita, 69 - who has been married to Tom since 1988 - told E! News: "My husband is really big on stocking stuffers.

"We always look to see what he’s going to do and I’m like, ‘I don’t need any more pens.’ He’s a pen freak. He’s very interested in little tech things."

Rita, on the other hand, is reliant on online retailers for his Christmas gifts.

She shared: "I try to find things in there, but it’s super fun."

Meanwhile, Tom previously admitted that he was inspired to become an actor because of his parents' divorce.

The award-wining star revealed that his acting ambitions stem from his childhood experiences.

Tom said on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast: "Because my parents were divorced, I spent a lot of time travelling to and from where my mom lived in this small town, or where my dad lived, in Oakland, in the Bay Area. And those hours on a Greyhound bus, starting when I was seven or eight years old. Five hours of just daydreaming. Five hours of looking out the window. Five hours of looking at people passing cars. Air, trains going by, farms and whatnot, buildings within it.

"The natural preponderance I had to sit there quietly and imagine what was going on. That fuelled me into realising that there's actually ... a pursuit that is, 'Let's put on a show. Let's tell the story.' That came along, and bang that that was it. And I'm telling you, it's the same exact now as it was then."

Tom actually became accustomed to being alone during his younger years.

The Forrest Gump star recalled: "Because I was so young when my parents split up and there were so many other factors that had to go into [it] - it was logistics and legal things and time and distance and stuff like that - I took care of myself and, you know, was satisfied, I think it was a reprieve for them.

"So I just got used to occupying myself by being alone. And that's really great. And it can be really detrimental."

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