Apr 25, 2008 9:59 am US/Eastern
Hold On To Your Couch: Cruise Returns To Oprah
CHICAGO (AP) ―
Oprah might want to nail down her furniture. Tom Cruise is scheduled
to return to "The Oprah Winfrey Show," nearly three years after a
couch-jumping appearance that spawned countless YouTube parodies and
late-night jokes.
The two-part show will coincide with the 25th anniversary of
Cruise's booty-shaking turn in the film "Risky Business." Friends and
colleagues will surprise Cruise with taped messages honoring his work
in movies, according to a statement Thursday from Harpo Productions.
Winfrey will interview Cruise from his home in Telluride, Colo., for
the first show on May 2, which will cover his "family, his life and the
future," Harpo said. Then on May 5, Cruise will appear in Winfrey's
Chicago studio.
Cruise became the butt of jokes after a May 2005 appearance on
Winfrey's show, where he repeatedly jumped on the talk-show host's
couch, saying his love for then-new girlfriend Katie Holmes was "beyond
cool."
Cruise and Holmes became parents in April 2006 with the birth of their daughter, Suri, and married in Italy in November 2006.
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