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Generous Tom Cruise sends private jet on 5,500 mile round trip to fly 300 cakes from favourite bakery in LA to London

Simon Boyle

Published: 19:00, 13 Dec 2021
Updated: 10:10, 14 Dec 2021

TOM Cruise flew 300 Christmas cakes over from the US on his private jet to treat his Mission: Impossible crew.

Insiders said the Top Gun star, 59, paid thousands to have the plane flown 5,500 miles across the Atlantic and back — with the sweet gifts from his favourite bakery collected on the way.

Tom Cruise flew 300 Christmas cakes over from the US on his private jet to treat his Mission: Impossible crew — Tom Cruise flew 300 Christmas cakes over from the US on his private jet to treat his Mission: Impossible crewCredit: Getty

A source said: “Tom wanted to give the team on Mission: Impossible a treat for Christmas and decided that only cakes from his favourite bakery in LA would do.

“He organised for the shop to make 300 cakes especially and they were then flown back to the UK on his jet.

“It is extravagant, but Tom is an incredibly generous person and he wanted to do something special for everyone who has worked on the movie with him.”

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Production of the latest Mission: Impossible movie has been hampered by delays caused by Covid.

Cruise, who plays Ethan Hunt in the spy franchise, wrapped filming in September after more than a 18 months of stop-start work on the action movie.

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Tom paid thousands to have the plane flown 5,500 miles across the Atlantic and back — with the sweet gifts from his favourite bakery collected on the way — Tom paid thousands to have the plane flown 5,500 miles across the Atlantic and back — with the sweet gifts from his favourite bakery collected on the wayCredit: Getty

The source added: 'He organised for the shop to make 300 cakes especially and they were then flown back to the UK on his jet' — The source added: 'He organised for the shop to make 300 cakes especially and they were then flown back to the UK on his jet'Credit: Unknown, check with picture desk.

The source said: 'It is extravagant, but Tom is an incredibly generous person and he wanted to do something special for everyone who has worked on the movie with him' — The source said: 'It is extravagant, but Tom is an incredibly generous person and he wanted to do something special for everyone who has worked on the movie with him'Credit: Alamy

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