Tom Cruise at the "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning" U.S. premiere on May 18, 2025 in New York; Ana de Armas at Lionsgate's "Ballerina" Los Angeles special screening on June 3, 2025 in Los Angeles.
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Tom Cruise at the “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” U.S. premiere on May 18, 2025 in New York; Ana de Armas at Lionsgate’s “Ballerina” Los Angeles special screening on June 3, 2025 in Los Angeles.Kristina Bumphrey, Michael Bucker/Variety

Tom Cruise may have a new love interest — but longtime observers are getting déjà vu. The 63-year-old actor touched down in London this week with Ana de Armas, 37, arriving via private helicopter with her two dogs and former F1 driver David Coulthard in tow. While neither star has confirmed a romance, the jet-setting, the grins, and the lavish gestures are starting to look familiar.

 

Cruise kept it casual in a navy T-shirt and jeans, waving enthusiastically as Ana followed behind in a Vermont sweatshirt and leggings, cradling her Maltese Elvis. Havanese pup Salsa trotted beside her. It looked like a cozy couple moment — and if you ask the internet, maybe something more.

“Tom has been showering Ana with gifts ever since they met,” a source told Daily Mail. “It’s his thing, he is thoughtful.” The gifts reportedly began with flowers and books — the latter of which has raised some eyebrows — then escalated to gold bracelets, designer clothes, and globe-hopping getaways. “Probably the biggest gift he has given her is being able to go anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice,” the insider added. “She loves to travel.”

 

Sound familiar? Cruise pulled the same moves with Sofía Vergara back in 2005, calling her constantly and sending flowers and chocolates after they met at a pre-Oscar party. According to reports, she was briefly dazzled — until she realized she was being “auditioned” for a role that came with a conversion clause. The romance fizzled when she refused to leave her Catholic faith for Scientology. Cruise reportedly attempted to rekindle the romance back in 2023 with no luck.

Cruise’s reputation for orchestrated courtship isn’t new. Between the Vergara chapter and the much-publicized relationship with Katie Holmes (who allegedly filed for divorce to protect daughter Suri from the Church), Cruise has kept his personal life meticulously private — but often telling in pattern.

The Mission Impossible star and de Armas have known each other since Wasp Network in 2019 and are now filming Deeper, a supernatural thriller directed by Doug Liman. “It’s so much fun, and we’re definitely working on a lot of things,” the Knives Out star teased in a May Good Morning America interview. “Not just one but a few projects with Doug Liman and Christopher McQuarrie and, of course, Tom. And I’m so excited.”

 Are they just colleagues? Longtime friends? Or is Cruise, once again, trying to script something more? One thing’s clear: the gifts are back. And fans who’ve seen this before are already predicting how the third act might play out.