TOM CRUISE has lived in luxury and stayed in some of the world’s coolest celeb haunts, but even for the Hollywood titan, this latest pad is a bit special.

I’m told the A-list action hero is moving into an address previously held by one of the few guys whose save-the-day credentials surpass the Top Gun star’s own — Winston Churchill.

Leading man Tom has been renting a mansion inside a gated comm­unity in Kent for the past 18 months while working on the beleaguered new Mission Impossible film — which he has finally finished after endless Covid setbacks.

But when he returns to London in 2022 to start work on the next film in the franchise, he will be staying at Churchill’s former war rooms in London’s Whitehall.

Tom will move into a newly converted pent­house where the World War Two leader and his top generals masterminded their victory. That’s pretty cool by any standards.

A source tells me: “Tom is working in central London a lot next year and wanted somewhere nearby to base himself rather than commuting in and out of town.

“He saw that Churchill’s former offices had come on the market and was immediately excited — and was won over.

“They’ve been turned into the most incredible flats, seriously smart and right in the heart of Whitehall.

“Those buildings also inspired Ian Fleming when he was writing James Bond. You feel like 007 just walking through the doorway.”

Tom fell in love with the UK while making the most recent film — hosting an England-themed birthday bash at his home in July amid England’s run to the Euro 2020 final and even installing a dart board at his pad.

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He also began dating London-born co-star Hayley Atwell.

While the ro­mance didn’t work out, it clearly hasn’t damp­en­ed his enthusiasm for all things British — and when he turns 60 in July he is expected to celebrate here.

As well as the mile­stone birthday, two major film releases mean 2022 will be a big year for Tom.

His long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to the 1986 original, is on track to finally hit cinemas on May 27.

Then in September, Mission: Impossible 7 is scheduled to finally be released.

So in between shooting, prom­o­ting and celebrating his big birthday, he has a packed year in store.

No wonder he wants somewhere fancy to relax in.

Kanye in love split

KANYE WEST’s pleas for a reunion with his estranged wife Kim Kardashian have – not surprisingly – spelled the end of his relationship with his girlfriend.

It was revealed last month that the FourFiveSeconds rapper had been seeing model Vinetria for a while.

But now the pair have split up.

He has also unfollowed her on Instagram, suggesting it is done for good between them.

I’m not surprised it didn’t work out though, having watched his romance with model Irina Shayk go down the pan over the summer as well.

For months he has been saying he isn’t actually getting divorced from Kim, the mother of his four kids, and appeared to suggest he still loves her.

Then during his performance at a charity concert  this month, he rapped: “I need you to run right back to me, more specifically Kimberly.”

It has been ten months since she filed for divorce following an extremely turbulent time for their relationship, during which he slated her family on Twitter.

But given reality star Kim has moved on with comedian Pete Davidson, I can’t see her reuniting with Kanye any time soon.

Fury at Brit PA

BRITNEY SPEARS’s lawyer has lashed out at her father Jamie for trying to get more money out of her after the termination of her conservatorship last month.

Jamie, who had controlled Britney’s life and finances through the agreement, filed legal documents to try to make her estate pay for the lawyers’ fees involved with the ending of the conservatorship.

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But in a no-holds-barred statement, her lawyer brief Mathew Rosengart said: “The conservatorship has been terminated and Mr Spears was suspended ignominiously.

"Under the circumstances, his petition is not only legally meritless, it is an abomination.

“Britney poignantly testified about the pain her father caused her and this only adds to it. This is not what a father who loves his daughter does.”

Girls show coast is cheer

WHILE most people are locked away at home, either isolating with Covid or desperately trying to avoid it before Christmas Day, it’s good to see these girls out and about.

Love Islander Lucie Donlan was braver than me as she stripped down to her bikini on a beach in her native Cornwall.

In her red cossie, she looked just like Baywatch legend Pamela Anderson, but I imagine she would have needed to do more than a slow-motion run to keep warm after posing for this snap.

Ex-Hollyoaks actress Sarah Jayne Dunn faced no such problem.

She soaked up the sun on a beach in Dubai, right, where she jetted for a pre-Christmas getaway.

Ringo lifts lid on Beatles

RINGO STARR will spill stories about THE BEATLES and share images from his personal collection in a new book.

The snappily titled Lifted: Fab Images And Memories In My Life With The Beatles From Across The Universe, drops on February 14.

It will raise cash for a foundation that supports an array of good causes.

Ringo said: “In recent years I’d gather these Beatles photos that I didn’t have and sometimes barely remembered.

“I thought how great it would be that we can lift these fantastic photos for charity, tell my true tales about what we four went through and make a great new book out of it.

“And the best thing is  it’s all for a good cause, because the money is going to our Lotus Foundation.”

It's money on rewind for Sam

SAM SMITH’s touring company made a loss of almost £30,000 as Covid put paid to live music.

It wasn’t all bad news for Sam, left, though, as the singer – who boasts seven No1 singles including Money On My Mind, two chart-topping albums and uses the pronouns they/them – trousered  £500,000 in the same period.

The news comes after I revealed yesterday how Ed Sheeran has also been losing out due to the tedium of the pandemic.

His profits from his live shows had dropped from an incredible £192,000 per day to just £1.62 daily.

A source said: “Like Ed, not being able to play gigs hit Sam hard in the back pocket.

"The cash in Sam’s firm dropped from £1.23million to £664,000 in the 12 months to the end of March this year.

"Sam took a big payment from the business, worth over £500,000, leaving a loss of just over £29,700.”

Touring for the Diamonds singer has, like most musicians, been the way Sam makes megabucks.

On Sam’s The Thrill Of It tour in 2018 the star made £65million in just over a year.
Sam’s most recent album, Love Goes, came out in October last year and the singer has not yet revealed when they will hit the road to share the record live with fans.

Given the current state of the world, I hope we won’t be waiting until 2023 to hear Sam perform live.

Charli is on a crash course

CHARLI XCX is zooming into 2022 at full speed as she gears up to the release of her fifth album, Crash.

Here she is on a motorbike with her hair in curlers in a racy photoshoot for Gayletter mag ahead of the record’s release on March 18.

A bit too racy, actually, I have had to censor the picture on her bag.

Charli’s promo schedule hit a hiccup at the weekend in New York due to Covid.

She was to perform on US telly’s Saturday Night Live but that went west when it was decided only a skeleton TV crew could be on set.

She is now hoping to hit the road in the New Year, with her tour’s UK leg starting in May.

Tom top

TOM HOLLAND’s Spider-Man: No Way Home made a whopping £31.9million in the UK and Ireland during its opening five days, the fourth highest ever for the territory.

It took £19.5million from Friday to Sunday, on top of the  £12.39million it made during the previous two  days in cinemas. That meant it beat October’s No Time To Die which opened with £25.9million.

The reaction wowed actor Tom.

He wrote on Instagram about the figures: “Wow, guys, I can’t believe these.

"You made this possible. Your love and support means the world to me.

Thank you thank you thank you and if you haven’t seen Spider-Man: No Way Home yet . . . Merry Christmas and you know what to do.”

Other films aren’t faring so well, with takings for Disney’s West Side Story dropping by more than 50 per cent to £587,000 for its second week on screen.

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