LOS ANGELES: After the giddy fanfare of their highly public courtship, actress Katie Holmes is expected to give birth to Tom Cruise’s baby any day now as quietly as humanly possible. The “TomKat” baby may be the most hotly anticipated celebrity birth of the season, but it is expected to be delivered in line with the little understood Scientology met-hod of quiet or silent birth. Cruise, 43, is one of the best known adherents of the Church of Scientology fou-nded by L Ron Hubbard, who believed that the best possible start in life for a new baby is a calm and loving environment free of screaming obscenities, chatty doctors or shouts to “push”.

The Mission Impossible star this week denied one tabloid magazine report that he had bought an adult pacifier to muffle the moans and groans of his 27 year-old fiancee. According to another report, large posters have been given to the Catholic-raised Holmes reminding her to “be Silent and make all physical movements slow and understandable.”