Tom Cruise Gets Squirted

[kitsch]

It was a hot day, maybe the man responsible thought Tom looked a little dehydrated.

 

[Alicia9]

TOM CRUISE ATTACK WAS MORONIC .. JUST LIKE HAPPY SLAPPING
Cruise was hurt and confused. It could have been acid or ammonia Channel 4 has let its employees act stupidly in the name of entertainment KING OF PRANKSTERS SLAMS 'CRUEL' WATER STUNT

By Jeremy Beadle

A PRACTICAL joke is only funny if the person you play it on laughs at the end.​

Tom Cruise definitely did not laugh when a Channel 4 comedy team squirted him in the face with water from a fake microphone at the War Of The Worlds premiere in London.







And I don't see why he was expected to.

I was furious when I heard about the sick stunt pulled on him on Sunday night. Firing water in his face wasn't a joke.​

What a deeply unintelligent, unkind and moronic thing to do. It wasn't acceptable on any level.​

Catching someone by surprise can be funny, but there comes a point when it's abuse.​

Tom wasn't to know whether he was being squirted with acid or ammonia. Ambushing someone like this is witless and cruel, especially if you just expect him to stand there and take it.​

When Tom was treated like this he was hurt and confused - as were his fans.


You could hear the pain in his voice as he kept asking: "Why? Why would you want to do this? What have I done to deserve this?"


Watching someone's pain is never a laughing matter.


By commissioning shows such as this and allowing its employees to act so irresponsibly in the name of entertainment, Channel 4 is empowering the lout.


It is legitimising humiliating, violent behaviour like "happy slapping" - a practice I seriously hate. There's nothing humorous or clever about it.


Happy slapping - a craze in which teens slapped strangers in the face, recording the attack on a mobile video phone - started out as simple, harmless fun in a TV advert and escalated until people were brutalised.


It's bullying of the slimiest kind and people who do it need serious help. In no way can this be considered a practical joke.


IF students did the Tom Cruise stunt we'd round on them and brand them incredibly stupid.


The fact that someone actually sat in a production office and agreed that this was a good idea, then paid money so it could be shown on TV, takes this incident to a far lower level.


If kids did the same thing to an old lady they'd probably be punished with an anti-social behaviour order.


The people who did this to Tom and then tried to run away like cowards should be named and shamed, and their families should also feel that shame.


For many years I was accused of being nasty because I used to trick the public. But my stitch-ups were entirely different.


First, we thoroughly researched everyone we tricked.


We received their family's permission, and the first question we asked was: "Will they laugh when we tell them it's all been a joke?"


If they wouldn't, we moved on to someone else. Then we asked their doctor if they had any heart trouble or problems with stress.


And we never transmitted anything without the permission of all the people involved.


I'd always liked the ingenuity of Candid Camera, but often thought: "What if this person had just suffered a bereavement? What if they were going for a job and trying to concentrate?"


That's why in my shows I tried to harness the humour and creativity of Candid Camera, but added far more consideration for the people involved.


There's a line between what's funny and what's cruel. To get scientific about it, what's funny is seeing someone's frustration, then confusion.


We'd always confuse the person, then frustrate them because they didn't know what's going on. We'd pick someone who was particularly proud of something, such as their garden or their extension.


THE fun came when that person tried to defend themselves and go to town on me. The Tom Cruise incident did none of those things.


Dom Joly and Dennis Pennis creator Paul Kaye used different tactics, but were still funny. Dom was his own prop - he was the fool and his comedy relied on people's reactions.


Dennis Pennis ventured into surrealism. He's ask a cutting question and goad the celebrity, who couldn't believe their ears and would say: "Pardon?"


Then he got his laugh. But once or twice I felt he got too personal. Actors have very fragile emotions. When it's done well, catching someone by surprise can be funny and sweet.


Everyone's jumped from behind a door and said: "Boo!" But there comes a point where it's just abuse - particularly when you abuse someone's good nature and rob them of their trust. And that's what happened to Tom.


I really felt for him. He is one of the few stars who makes a real effort to please his fans. He spends hours talking to them and gives them moments they will never forget.


He's a shining example of how stars should behave and it was awful to see him treated so badly by the brainless people who think being ambushed is funny.


I thought he behaved impeccably. He did the right thing and remained very controlled. He had a film to promote, but he was going over and above what he had to do. He's always been free and open, but now that's bound to change.


As a practical joker, I would like to apologise publicly to Tom Cruise on behalf of the British public, who wouldn't dream of behaving so stupidly.


I hope he knows that his fans in Britain were as shocked as he was. And I hope everybody learns a lesson from this distasteful act.


Something positive might come out of this sorry episode if Channel 4 reconsiders commissioning the show. And I sincerely hope they do before someone gets seriously hurt.

mirror.co.uk

 

[heynicepants]

he wasn't overreacting, he just stood up for himself..

 

[modelmama]

Thanks for posting Alicia9.

My sentiments exactly!

 

[Assembler]

I thought they were charged with assault? THat is criminal charges, and something of that nature is often only charged if the "victim" presses the charges.

But perhaps I heard wrong, or those charges have been since dropped.

In the one that happened with Sharon Osbourne, it was great how she reacted. It wasn't an over reaction and they have a picture of her smiling. I think the stuff that the Punk'd people do is far worse. They made Amber Tamblyn practically CRY!

Anyway, not really defending the reporters, but TOM has never struck me as a level or slightly humourus guy anyway, so I'm very Meh about the whole thing as opposed to "how dare they treat TOM that way!"

 

[miss_pixie]

B)

 

[fouroclock]

Tom Cruise squirted

That pretty much sums up his whole career.

 

[truebluejen]

The thing is, he started to laugh when it first happened then got annoyed. So even he found it funny really!

 

[tiffany]

and you think Tom's reaction was overboard:

the same "news crew" did it to Sharon Osbourne -

Channel 4 confirmed that a crew from the same show had squirted Sharon Osbourne with water at a cinema screening last month.

Rock manager and X Factor judge Osbourne responded by getting a bucket of water and going after her assailant.

that's kind of funny in a mad way

 

[Ms. Diorella]

That pretty much sums up his whole career.

haha, so true (Tom Cruise is a squirt would maybe sum it up better)

I thought it was a funny incident, there was no acid or anything like that so why moan about it, if stars are bothered about these things happeneing maybe they should step up their security.

I don't like Tom Cruise and i Do not like his acting either, he deserved it for crimes to cinema.