Jennifer Love Hewitt at Edition By Georges Chakra Fall 2009 fashion show (Front Row) during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, NYC, February 14


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Tom Cruise has been working on his Valentine’s Day plans for wife Katie Holmes for quite some time.
The star hinted to Us at the London premiere of Valkyrie — more than three weeks before the holiday — that he already had something sweet in store.
“I’ve got surprises!” Cruise told Usmagazine.com.
But he remained tight-lipped on what she’ll be getting from her husband of two years: “I’m not gonna share it with you because that would ruin it.”
This won’t be the first time Cruise has made an effort to surprise his wife.
For her birthday in December, the actor told Us that he arranged that Holmes be presented with a specially made birthday cake as the curtain fell on her Broadway show, All My Sons.
“I set up the whole thing,” he told Us at the Valkyrie premiere. “The cast came out with a huge cake. The audience sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to her. It was really nice. You know, I plan it out. I think ahead.”
He added that he had “a lot of surprises for her throughout the day.”
Cruise gushed to the British press that he enjoys “doing romantic things, such as bringing flowers and surprising her with things. I love candlelit evenings with nice music. I feel lucky to have Kate as my wife. She’s an extraordinary woman. She is funny and smart and she likes the same things that I do.”


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Speaking out for the first time since his son’s arrest, Chris Brown’s biological father, Clinton Brown, tells PEOPLE his son is at home, reflective and filled with concern.
“He’s reflecting on this situation,” Brown, 44, a corrections officer, tells PEOPLE in an interview at his home outside Tappahannock, Va. “He’s very remorseful. He’s very concerned about the situation and he wants to make sure that [Rihanna's] okay.
“This is unfortunate, this stumble, this situation,” Brown continues. “Hopefully, he will get past it. We all have our shortcomings. We all trip.”
And Brown – who flew to Los Angeles to attend the Grammys with his son but never made it to the show – says there are “two sides to every story.”
“If you are on his side, you are on his side,” he says. “Just because someone trips, if you are truly a fan, you are not going to demonize him instantaneously.”
The 19-year-old singer is under police investigation in Los Angeles for allegedly beating Rihanna, 20, early last Sunday morning.
Brown says he spoke to his son in person on Feb. 12. “Let’s just say he’s home,” Brown said, though he never offered a specific location. “Just know that he’s home. He needed some time to get his thoughts together and regroup.”
Calling his son a “lovable young man,” Brown says he worries about the public backlash following the allegations of assault his son faces.
“This music industry is very unforgiving when it comes to having indiscretions,” Brown says. “He will continue to be a good person. He loves people. And like most of us, most humans, things will occur. And hopefully a person won’t be judged simply on that alone.”
Like Chris’s friends, who have spoken about Brown’s easygoing nature, his father says Brown was well liked in school. “He had plenty of friends,” he says. “All the kids gravitated to Chris.”
As for how he feels about his son, Brown says, “As a father, I couldn’t be more proud … He’s the light of my life.”
And, he notes, as a teenager, he still has a lot of maturing to do. “I think he’s [going to] grow as an individual,” he says. “He’s going to take from this situation and learn from it.”
