The smile that says I'm free! Katie Holmes emerges without her wedding ring for the first time since filing for divorce
- Katie filmed a guest spot on Project Runway: All Stars
- She claims her marriage to Tom Cruise was 'irretrievably' broken for at least six months
- She 'fears Tom Cruise planned to send Suri away to hardcore Scientology organisation Sea Org'
- Police called to investigate 'heavily armed gunmen watching star'
- Her lawyer father helped to plot divorce action
By Daily Mail Reporter
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Katie Holmes has emerged for the first time since filing for divorce from her husband Tom Cruise last week.
The 33-year-old actress, who has looked decidedly tense and unkempt in recent weeks, cut a stylish and serene figure as she headed to film a guest spot on Project Runway: All Stars in New York today.
Her smile evoked memories of the famous picture of Nicole Kidman leaping with joy after her own divorce from Cruise in 2001.
She wore a navy and black shirt-dress, soft make-up and a slick ponytail for the outing but one accessory was noticeably absent - her wedding ring.
Single and smiling: Katie Holmes left the Parsons School
of Design after taping Project Runway in New York City today
Defiant: The 33-year-old looked in surprisingly good
spirits during the outing
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It's the first time the actress has removed her sparkling five-carat engagement diamond and band since marring the Top Gun star five years ago and she made a point of holding up her left hand for all to see.
Project Runaway judge Isaac Mizrahi said Holmes was professional and even upbeat during taping.
'She did great,' he told People after the show.
Added an insider: 'She was engaged, articulate and wonderful!'
The pre-arranged taping was filmed at Parsons The New School of Design and will air later this year.
It was risky business as usual for Cruise yesterday, who was once again spotted boarding a helicopter in Reykjavik, Iceland.
He was heading to the remote location where he is filming his new sci-fi movie, Oblivion.
Cruise will celebrate his 50th birthday tomorrow on the set of his new film, as friends told how he was ‘totally devastated and heartbroken’ by the marriage split.
At war: Katie's estranged husband Tom Cruise emerged in
Iceland today with a face like thunder
No ring: It is the first time Katie has been seen without
her wedding band
Sparkler: Katie's five carat engagement ring
She filed for divorce from her husband of five years last week in New York and, according to official documents, she said their union had been over for some time.
However, sources close to Tom says Katie's version of events are baffling, telling gossip website TMZ he had 'no idea' she was going to legally end their marriage.
Holmes - who wants sole custody of the couple's six-year-old daughter, Suri - also claimed both she and Tom have been residents of New York for 'at least two years', even though their main family home is in Beverly Hills, California.
Glowing review: Project Runaway judge Isaac Mizrahi said
Katie did a 'great' job
Back to her best: The actress (pictured left this morning
and right on May 30) looked polished today following a tense few weeks
New lease of life: Nicole Kidman was full of joy as she
left an attorney's office after her divorce settlement with Tom Cruise back in
2001
She must establish legal residency in New York in order for the court to have jurisdiction, which is something she wants because New York courts are more likely to grant her sole custody of Suri.
However, 49-year-old Tom - who also has two children, Isabella, 19, and 17-year-old Connor, with second wife Kidman - will fight the residency claim and wants the legal proceedings switched to California, where courts are more likely to grant joint custody of a child.
Since the news of the divorce was announced, Tom admitted he was 'deeply saddened' but sources claim he will respond by filing his own divorce papers in California.
Spotlight: She made her way through the media pack
Meanwhile it has been claimed that neighbours of the actress called police last week amid fears she was being followed.
Law enforcement were first alerted to the unidentified men surrounding Katie's Chelsea apartment building on Friday, but were unable to take any action because the former Dawson's Creek star didn't make the call herself, sources tell the New York Post.
Yesterday, the men, who were reportedly armed, were pictured sitting inside a white Cadillac Escalade, taking pictures and questioning several people outside of the actress's apartment building.
Focusing on work: The actor boarded a helicopter from
Reykjavik to the set of his new movie Oblivion
And as fears, suspicion and speculation mounted, the mysterious car was finally approached yesterday by police.
According to the Post, police checked the vehicle's Tennessee number plates and questioned the men inside, but could not elicit any substantial answers.
Even a reporter from the New York Post approached the car to question the men's intentions, but were met with stony silence.
Since being spotted in the cars there has been intense speculation about who the men are and where they come from.
Surrounded: Yesterday, the reportedly heavily armed men
were pictured sitting inside a white Cadillac Escalade, taking pictures and
questioning people outside of Katie's apartment building
Many reports speculate that they are members of the controversial Scientology church, while other say they are private Investigators, allegedly hired by Cruise, who are keeping tabs on Katie and her whereabouts.
However, a lawyer for the Church Gary Soter told TMZ that the Scientology movement is 'not following Katie or conducting surveillance on her in the wake of her divorce with Tom Cruise'.
Sources say that Katie saw this coming, prompting immediate action and secretive moves.
Surrounded: Men with cameras have been seen surrounding
Katie's apartment in Chelsea
Undercover: A man with an earpiece, thought to be part of
Katie's security team, is seen talking on the phone outside her apartment
building
'Katie saw all the pressure - [Scientologists] are professionals at pressuring people to be quiet,' a source told the Post. 'That’s why she did this in secret.
'Suri is at the age where they are going to start educating her in Scientology centers and indoctrinating her into the religion.
'Katie did convert when she and Tom were married, but she didn’t take to it. Behind closed doors, and when the private planes and the red carpets were gone, she didn’t like it.
'And she decided she does not want that for Suri.'
Followed? Katie is said to have been trailed for several
days
The actress was allegedly convinced husband Tom Cruise was planning to send Suri, six, away to Sea Organisation - an association of Scientologists established in 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer and founder of Scientology.
Sea Org, as it is known, is where the highest levels of Scientology are taught and children as young as five can be sent to live there - without their parents.
The company has been often compared to a boot camp and several ex-Scientologists (including Oscar winner Paul Haggis) have been outspoken against its military-like conditions.
Initially created at sea, maritime customs and traditions persist today even in the land-based branches of the organisation.
Support system: Katie's father Martin Holmes, a prominent
Ohio-based attorney, is said to be helping his daughter with the divorce
It claims to act as goodwill representatives and administrators of Scientology with the stated purpose to 'get ethics in on the planet.' And a source told website TMZ that Cruise is a big fan.
The website claims that Katie and Tom had been arguing over Suri's indoctrination into Scientology -- and it seems that for Katie talk of her six-year-old joining Sea Org was the final straw.
Katie was said to have been planning the big move from the Manhattan apartment she shared with Tom to her own Chelsea apartment for several weeks.
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