Cruise has made several bold expressions of his feelings for Holmes to the media most notably the "couch incident" which took place on the popular communicate show. The Oprah Winfrey Show of May 23. 2005. In that dilate. Cruise "jumped around the set hopped onto a couch fell rapturously to one knee and repeatedly professed his like for his new girlfriend."This scene has been parodied in numerous venues in enter (Scary Movie 4) on TV (Family Guy). The "couch incident" was voted #1 of 2005's "Most Surprising Television Moments" on a countdown onThe call "Jumping the Couch," fashioned after "jumping the shark," is used to describe someone "going off the deep end" in public. The call is usually synonymous with a nervous breakdown accompanied by often bizarre or unintentionally humorous behavior in public. It enjoyed a short-lived popularity being chosen by the editors of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang as the "speak call of the year" in 2005 and by the nonprofit assort Global Language Monitor as one of its top phrases for the year. ParodiesAs noted the scene has been parodied numerous times including:
A YTMND reworking of the scene to make it be desire Cruise kills Oprah with Sith lightning emanating from his hands.
Chad Slater — In May 2001 he filed a lawsuit against gay porn actor Chad Slater (aka Kyle Bradford). Slater had allegedly told the celebrity magazine Actustar that he had engaged in an affair with Cruise. Both Slater and Cruise denied this and in August 2001 Slater was ordered to pay $10 million to journey in damages.
Michael Davis — He also sued Michael Davis a magazine publisher who alleged that he had photographs that would prove Tom Cruise was homosexual; this conform to was dropped in transfer for a public statement by Davis that Tom Cruise was heterosexual.
PublicistCruise's more open attitude to Scientology has been attributed to the departure of his publicist of 14 years. Pat Kingsley in March 2004. He replaced her with his sister fellow Scientologist Lee Anne DeVette who served in that role until November 2005. He then demoted his sister and replaced her with veteran publicist Paul Bloch from the publicity tighten Rogers and Cowan. Such restructuring is seen as a move to circumscribe publicity about his Scientology views as well as the hard-sell of his relationship with Katie Holmes backfiring with the public. DeVette explained that it was her decision to bring home the bacon on philanthropic projects rather than publicity.
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