KATIE HOLMES LANDS IN LA FOR OSCARS WEEKEND, WILL SHE ATTEND THE VANITY FAIR BASH?

Ooh look. Katie Holmes managed to talk her parents into babysitting and is in Los Angeles for pre-Oscars parties without six-year-old Suri.

The 32-year-old actress is presumably wearing her own Holmes & Yang label and while I don’t hate this silk jumpsuit – she looks great – I’d have preferred that she’d worn a different shoe, those purple Manolo Blahniks that Vicky Beckham got him to design for her new shoe line would have looked fantastic.

Anyway, this is the first Oscar weekend in a long time that Katie’s not having to do a contractually-obliged red carpet appearance with stage-husband Tom Cruise.

Last year, of course, they attended the Vanity Fair after-party together, but given that the magazine savagely tore into Tom and $cientology after their divorce I doubt very much that he’ll be attending one of their bashes ever again.

Now Katie’s her own woman though, I wonder if she’ll go? – I’m sure that Editor-In-Chief Graydon Carter would have put her on the guest list just for the publicity that would result from her supporting a publication that angered her ex and his lawyers with their revelations about the goings on at $cientology Inc. (Interestingly, they’re suing Bauer Publishing because In Touch pointed out he hadn’t seen Suri for a couple of months last year but as of yet are yet to file legal proceedings against VF).

Please Katie – go and smile, kiss and hug Graydon Carter in the photo-booth while you’re there. It’d be such a brilliant FU to Tom and co. I think I’d love you forever.