Spring baby for Cruise and Katie

Expecting: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
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Tom Cruise and girlfriend Katie Holmes are expecting their first child.

The 43-year-old actor's sister and spokesman, Lee Anne Devette, confirmed the news last night and said: 'Tom and Katie are very excited and the entire family is very excited.'

Cruise, who has two adopted children, Connor, ten, and Isabella, 12, with ex-wife actress Nicole Kidman, began dating Miss Holmes in April.

Just eight weeks later he proposed to her at the top of the Eiffel Tower with press photographers on hand to record the occasion.

The pair's relationship attracted suspicion because they both appeared to be overly and very openly besotted with each other at the same time that their summer blockbuster films were opening.

Cruise was banking on the success of his Steven Spielberg film War Of The Worlds, while Miss Holmes was hoping her first major motion picture, Batman Returns, would do big things at the box office.

Hours after his very public engagement proposal Cruise told journalists about their close relationship at a press conference in Paris to promote War Of The Worlds. Only two weeks after their first date he was proclaiming his love for Miss Holmes and was seen jumping on the sofa on the Oprah Winfrey TV show saying: 'I'm in love. I'm in love.'

Miss Holmes, 26, is thought to be three months pregnant - making the baby due in the spring - but the sex of the child is not known.

Cruise, who was married to Miss Kidman for 11 years, is currently shooting Mission: Impossible III in Los Angeles.

He came to prominence in the 1980s with a string of successful films including Risky Business, Top Gun and The Colour of Money.

Miss Holmes split earlier this year from American Pie actor Chris Klein, ending their engagement after five years together.

In the summer Cruise, an outspoken follower of Scientology, caused controversy by criticising actress Brooke Shields for revealing she had taken medication for post-natal depression, and later clashed with an American television host about antidepressants.

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