Holmes’ new beau comes with baggage
It’s starting to sound like Katie Holmes can’t catch a break when it comes to finding a nice, uncomplicated guy to date.
Holmes’ reported new romantic interest, chef and aspiring actor Emilio Vitolo Jr., has a fiancee, the Daily Mail is reporting. Or rather, Vitolo, 33, had a fiancee and was set to marry her, but the engagement recently ended, possibly after photos emerged of him and Holmes, 41, getting affectionate outside different New York City restaurants in the past week, the Daily Mail said.
Vitolo was engaged to marry designer Rachel Emmons, 24, but a friend, who declined to to give the Daily Mail her name, said Vitolo reportedly broke up with Emmons via text, shortly before the Daily Mail published photos of him and Holmes together, kissing outside a restaurant on Sunday night.
“They had concrete wedding plans in the works,” the friend said. “Now she is just left with bad press and forced to move home.”
Emmons has not been reached for comment by the Daily Mail or anyone else, but her Instagram is filled with photos of her with Vitolo, one from as recently as six weeks ago: a sunset photo, captioned with a “love face” emoji. They look like a happy young Manhattan couple in love. There are other photos of the two kissing, dressing up for glamorous date nights, attending a Yankees game, or enjoying romantic getaways to Capri, Italy and the South of France.
“You are my favorite part of life & I will love you forever,” Emmons captioned a photo of her and Vitolo embracing, posted more than a year ago.
Over the past week, the usually private Holmes has been photographed openly enjoying alfresco date nights with Vitolo, the boyishly handsome chef who helps run his father’s popular Emilio’s Ballato restaurant in SoHo.
The “Dawson’s Creek” star was previously married to Tom Cruise, 58, until their tumultuous, highprofile divorce in 2012. Holmes and Cruise share daughter Suri, though a reported divorce settlement left her with custody, and she’s effectively been raising Suri as a single mother.