Tom Cruise is known for a lot of things , but gabbing about his kids isn't one of them. Naturally that has something to do with the fact that son Connor Cruise and daughter Isabella Cruise with ex-wife Nicole Kidman , as well as daughter Suri Cruise with ex-wife Katie Holmes , are leading relatively private lives outside of show business—though they can't help being famous-by-association thanks to their movie star parents. But you can't deny Tom's enigmatic ways, the Mission: Impossible star being so impressively out there—jumping off cliffs, riding motorcycles, sending his friends coconut cake every year—and yet increasingly private.
Though he rhapsodized about fatherhood when all of his children were little, his inclination to share exponentially decreased as the spotlight grew ever brighter (and he notched his third divorce in 2012). So, any rare sighting of him spending time in public with his now grown children tends to be an event. Such was the case when Tom was snapped in a group pic that included Isabella, 31, and Connor, 29 , at a Florida Panthers vs.
Tampa Bay Lightning hockey game last December, though it took until recently for the Internet to notice the photo on NFL Hall of Famer Derrick Brooks ' Instagram. "Wow, look who stopped by my office before our @tblightning game tonight! @tomcruise," the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker captioned the Dec. 27 post .
"I was a little star struck but played it cool and He said he was too!" Little did Derrick know.
