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Tom Cruise has gotten Dakota Fanning the same gift every year since the two starred in 2005's "War of the Worlds" together. Fanning recently sat down with Kelly Clarkson on The Kelly Clarkson Show and revealed a few of the gifts that Cruise has so graciously given her over the course of the last 19 years.
“I turned 11 on ‘War of the Worlds,’ when we worked together and he gave me my first cell phone for that birthday. It was a Motorola Razr…I didn’t have anyone to call, but I wanted a Razr so bad. I must have been talking about it a lot because that’s what he got me. It’s such a great memory.”
The Uptown Girls actress continued:
“He always sends me the same thing every year after the cell phone. I loved shoes when I was little, and I started to be able to fit into really small adult shoes when I was on the ‘War of the Worlds’ press tour, so I was very excited about them. So from that birthday on, he always sends me shoes.”
The silver screen queen, who recently turned 30, played Cruise's daughter in the 2005 Blockbuster hit and has enormous success and a giant shoe collection fueled by her on-screen father to show for it. Considering not many 30-year-olds get an annual gift from the Top Gun: Maverick star, Clarkson inquired if Fanning ever gets star struck when interacting with other celebrities, to which she replied:
"Of course I do you know, somebody that you admire or have watched a lot growing up... of course I still do. But I do mostly get starstruck by realty TV stars...so I'm totally guilty of being a super fan when I see like Lisa Vanderpump."