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  • 5/18/2025
Simon Pegg shares daughter's sweet nickname for Tom CruiseVirgin Radio UK

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00:00He's known her since she was a baby. She used to call him The Blanket Man, because he bought us a cashmere blanket one Christmas, and she was about two, and I had to go off and do the second part of Rogue Nation, I think, and I said, Dad's got to go away for a month or two, and she said, where are you going? And I said, I've got to go and do a movie with Tom Cruise. And she went, who's he? And I said, you remember that blanket we got for Christmas? She went, oh yeah, The Blanket Man.
00:23So initially, that's what she used to call him. But then he saw her the other night at the screening, and she can't come to the premiere because she's got her GCSEs.
00:33Fair enough.
00:34And she's being incredibly noble about that, and she knows that's what she's got to do. So I showed her the film at the weekend. Tom then was like saying, oh, come on, you don't need exams.
00:45He's kind of like, look at me. I started work at 16. And I was like, okay, you can say this, but don't listen to him, Tilly.

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