Cast your minds back to last year. Tom Cruise was in the middle of promoting War Of The Worlds using the unusual tactic of slagging off young mothers who take medication from post-natal depression.

“Just ye wait, Tom Cruise, just ye wait,” a group of wild-eyed, biblical-looking young women probably swore while probably standing on top of a hill in a furious thunderstorm, “When ye have ye first born, ye baby’s mother shall suffer a terrible depression lasting a thousand years! And we shall tut and say ye probably should have seen it coming.”

And the prophesy might have come true – Tom Cruise is frantically denying reports that Katie Holmes is herself suffering from post-natal depression amid reports that the couple have had all kinds of big fights.