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Katie Holmes On Media Tour Supporting ‘The Kennedys,’ But Being Asked About Suri’s X-Rated Gummies
(HMG Celebrity News) – Katie Holmes is busy doing the media rounds to promote her controversial new miniseries, “The Kennedys,” which premieres on April 3.
Airing on ReelzChannel after being dropped by The History Channel, Holmes stars as Jackie Kennedy in the Joel Surnow-produced eight part miniseries about America’s most famous political family.
While critics say the show unfairly portrays the family in a harsh light, Holmes told Entertainment Weekly that she gained a stronger admiration for her character.
“I had my idea of this lady, but I didn’t realize the extent of what she did for our country and her influence on foreign policy, how she brought such elegance to the White House,” Holmes said. “Her manners were impeccable. She created the idea of Camelot. She was so very wise. You never really know, playing a real character like that. The challenge was honoring her and also making it my own.”
Meanwhile, Katie also clearing the air on a far sillier media ruckus involving her four year old daughter Suri’s choice of gummi snacks, a parenting moment she wishes hadn’t played out in the media. Speaking to Ellen DeGeneres in an episode of her show set to air Friday, Holmes explained the situation behind the photos snapped of Suri with some X-rated candy.
“Recently, I took her to get ice cream in New York at this place called Serendipity that we go to all the time,” she said. “It’s for kids. The clientele is children. We go in and we are waiting for a table and she grabs some gummies that are boy part gummies. I was horrified.
“They are called p-e-n-i-s gummies (spelling it out) and they look like it,” Holmes continued. “She was holding the box and I was like ok, wow we don’t need that right now. Because I thought if I said put that back and then she’s going to say, what is this? And I really didn’t want to have that conversation. I was like, why are selling these here? This is for kids. And then it was on the cover of a magazine that I’m giving her those gummies.”
The former Dawson’s Creek star opened up about the Penis Gummies incident as she spoke about living her life in the glare of the media spotlight, saying she found it “intense” being followed around by photographers.
