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Katie Holmes, 43, confirms she’s dating musician Bobby Wooten III, 33

Katie Holmes is off the market.

The “Dawson’s Creek” alum confirmed with a steamy stroll that she and musician Bobby Wooten III are dating.

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Katie Holmes and new boyfriend Bobby Wooten III were all smiles as they held hands and strolled through the park in NYC.Fernando Ramales / BACKGRID
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Katie Holmes and new boyfriend Bobby Wooten III were all smiles as they held hands and strolled through the park in NYC.Fernando Ramales / BACKGRID
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Holmes, 43, and Wooten, 33, passionately kissed Thursday in Central Park, only to come up for air for him to hug her mother, Kathy, so the relationship must be serious already.

When the pair weren’t making out, they either walked hand in hand or with their arms wrapped around each other. The magazine reported that they eventually left the park to visit the Guggenheim Museum.

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Holmes and Wooten paused to share a smooch.Fernando Ramales / BACKGRID
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Holmes and Wooten paused to share a smooch.Fernando Ramales / BACKGRID
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The “Thank You for Smoking” star’s rep didn’t immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.

Wooten is a Grammy-nominated composer who might be best known as the high-energy bassist in David Byrne’s “American Utopia.”

The new couple’s afternoon walk got a little steamy when the actress stuck her hand down the bassist’s pants. Fernando Ramales / BACKGRID

This is Holmes’ first public romance since she and chef Emilio Vitolo Jr. broke up in May 2021 after about eight months of dating. Prior to their split, Page Six reported that the relationship had begun to fizzle out.

“Katie has a lot of big priorities in her life — she’s a single mom, her daughter [Suri] always comes first, and things were moving very fast,” a source told us at the time.

The musician gave Holmes’ mom a hug. Fernando Ramales / BACKGRID

The pair were said to have met at Vitolo’s family’s Soho restaurant, Emilio’s Ballato, in early 2020. They quickly became inseparable and were photographed packing on the PDA throughout the Big Apple — including in Central Park, a clear favorite for the actress — but their careers ultimately took them in different directions.

She last dated chef Emilio Vitolo Jr. (pictured here in 2020). LRNYC / MEGA

Prior to Vitolo, Holmes dated Jamie Foxx for six years and was married to Tom Cruise from 2006 to 2012. She shares 16-year-old daughter Suri with Cruise.