TOM CRUISE - CRUISE PLANS HILLTOP RETREAT

TOM CRUISE is looking to build his dream family home overlooking California's San Fernando Valley after secretly acquiring a plot from the Church of Scientology. Church officials reportedly bought the remote hilltop plot last year (05) for $10 million (GBP5.5 million) and now top Sientologist Cruise hopes to build a home there for himself, wife-to-be KATIE HOLMES, their baby daughter SURI and his two adopted children, ISABELLA and CONNOR. A source tells American publication In Touch that the movie star plans to spend upto $25 million (GBP13.9 million) on the project after agreeing to knock down one existing property and buying up a second next door. But Cruise and his clan won't be alone on their hilltop retreat, according to a real estate insider his plans to buy a third neighbour's home have been thwarted because the family has no wishes to move. Cruise plans to wed fiancee Holmes at the end of the summer (06).