Los Angeles: Hollywood’s hot new couple, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, had never met until Cruise called her out of the blue and asked her for a date last month.

Holmes secretly flew to Los Angeles in early April after Cruise summoned her to a private meeting at his office. Four hours of banter later, Cruise asked the young actress on a sushi date. The next evening, the sushi date occurred not at a restaurant but aboard Cruise’s private jet, 15,000 feet above Southern California. That was followed by a ride on his motorcycle, a romantic beach trip and more secret dates. Tom and Katie — dubbed TomKat by celebrity blogs — stepped out publicly on April 27, when they arrived together in Rome for the David di Donatello Awards.The romance could be a dream for Holmes, who cooed to Seventeen magazine last year: “I used to think I was going to marry Tom Cruise.” — USA Today