Rumour mill in overdrive ahead of Cruise wedding

TOM CRUISE flew into a Rome airport yesterday on a private jet, airport officials said, setting off a frenzy among media and fans anticipating the star’s high-profile wedding to Katie Holmes on Saturday.

Cruise arrived at Rome’s small Ciampino airport from Los Angeles with 10 people, including his mother and his three children, airport officials said.

Cruise and Holmes are set to marry in an undisclosed Italian location on Saturday.

Speculation on the location has focused on Odescalchi Castle on Lake Bracciano, near the capital.

The romantic, 15th-century castle, with its halls and gardens, can host up to 1,400 guests.

Local officials and residents remain tight-lipped, and Bracciano’s mayor has only acknowledged that authorities received a request to clear the square in front of the castle.

Some 100 fans mingled with photographers and camera crews in front of the Hassler, the luxury Rome hotel on top of the Spanish Steps where Cruise was reported to be staying.

An employee at the hotel’s front desk, who refused to give her name, denied that Cruise was staying there.

Meanwhile, Jude Law and Sienna Miller have split for good, it was reported yesterday. The couple agreed to end their on-off relationship after three stormy years.

They have broken up due to “fundamental differences” in their approaches to life, according to the Daily Mirror.

“It was a mutual agreement because they both thought the relationship had run its course,” a friend said. “They both tried and tried to make it work but they couldn’t see a future together.”

Hollywood star Law proposed to Miller on Christmas Day in 2004. But they split seven months later after Law had an affair with his children’s nanny.

Law, 33, issued a public apology and the couple were reunited shortly after.