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Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins believes that Tom Cruise mistook her for a member of the Royal Family<\/p>\n
Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins has described the evening she believed Hollywood actor Tom Cruise mistook her for royalty.<\/p>\n
The moment took place after the mezzo-soprano performed at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Concert in 2022.<\/p>\n
She said the action film star was “almost body-slammed” against the wall by armed forces as they passed each other in a narrow corridor. <\/p>\n
Jenkins is the UK’s best-selling classical music star, and a frequent performer for the Royal Family.<\/p>\n
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Jenkins said film star Tom Cruise was “almost body-slammed” against the wall when they passed each other backstage at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebration<\/p>\n
Speaking with The Independent, Neath-born Jenkins said her brief meeting with Cruise backstage at the royal concert was one of her most memorable celebrity encounters.<\/p>\n
She said: “Tom was walking off, being escorted on either side by military personnel. <\/p>\n
“Because I do so much with the military, they knew me. <\/p>\n
“They both bowed their heads and said ‘good evening ma’am’ at which point, because there wasn’t space, one of them pushed Tom out of my way and almost body-slammed him against the wall. <\/p>\n
When they came face-to-face again, Jenkins said he gave her “a very strange handshake\/nod\/bow thing”, which gave her the impression of a potential case of mistaken identity. <\/p>\n
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Jenkins most recently performed for the Prince and Princess of Wales at the 2025 Royal Variety Performance<\/p>\n
Cruise would not be wrong to think Jenkins had a connection to the royal family, as she’s a frequent feature of Royal Variety performances.<\/p>\n
Following her fifth performance at the event in November, the opera singer told Hello! magazine that it was a “huge honour” to perform for the Prince and Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n
She is also a trustee of the British Forces Foundation, whose patron is King Charles, and a supporter of the King’s Trust charity.<\/p>\n
This made her “comfortable” when she was given her OBE by the King, who was then the Prince of Wales.<\/p>\n
“We’ve met several times, so it was really lovely to receive my OBE from him,” Jenkins said.<\/p>\n
“We have things to talk about, which is nice.”<\/p>\n
Jenkins was awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 17. <\/p>\n
Since being offered a six-album record deal at 22, she has gone on to be one of the most recognisable names in classical music.<\/p>\n
As well as performing for royalty, the singer is known for belting out the Welsh national anthem at rugby games and singing for the armed forces. <\/p>\n
She splits her time between New York and London with her husband, painter Andrew Levitas, and their two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth Alaw WilliamsBBC Wales BBC Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins believes that Tom Cruise mistook her for a member…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-437826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}