Tom Cruise has a shrinkage problem, according to Star. The tabloid, which has a history of reporting outrageously inaccurate things about the actor, now claims Cruise, allegedly “insecure about his 5’7″ stature,” is suddenly alarmed that he’s getting even smaller.

“Since seeing the photos from the [Oblivion] red carpet with Olga Kurylenko, Tom is convinced he’s lost a quarter of an inch,” says a Star source. Star insists Cruise is frantic, reaching out to experts to see what can be done. “He’s not ready to resort to surgery or anything extreme. But he just wants to be sure he’s taking all the preventive measures,” explains the tab’s so-called “informant.”

Uh-huh.

We wonder if this Star source is the same one who fed the tab a bogus story about Cruise leaving Scientology?
The mag’s latest report is “beyond ridiculous,” a rep for Cruise tells Gossip Cop.

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She told People magazine: "He's a fantastic team leader. Every morning he has a smile on his face and a cup of coffee in his hand raring to go. He has a lightness of spirit and we were always giggling together. It was such a joy."While he may be laughing and joking between takes, Tom's co-stars say he doesn't hold back when it comes to fight scenes.

Defence Lab's Andy Norman, who was the fight consultant on Tom's recent 'Jack Reacher' film, said: "Tom gets right in there, he'll take the knock and the bruises and he doesn't want us to hold back. He'll still be there at 2am going over fight scenes, he's a total perfectionist."

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Post-Lone Ranger Armie Hammer is apparently set to be a big enough name to co-star with Tom Cruise in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Guy Ritchie's remake of the sixties TV show. Hammer will play "a version" of the Napoleon Solo character originated by Robert Vaughan in the series. Does that mean Cruise will be Illya Kuryakin, the Russian half of the secret agent duo? Doubtful, but hey, maybe. He did the eyepatch movie.

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Whether or not he's spinning a yarn, Russell Brand -- whose off-the-cuff observations and lack of a filter make him the perfect late-night guest -- has a way of making you think he's telling the unvarnished truth. The comic actor riffed on Tom Cruise and Scientology during his Tuesday night guest appearance on Conan, pronouncing to big laughs: "Firstly, he's a glorious man and he's very kind and sweet. That's what you say if you want to continue to work in the film industry."

Brand, who starred opposite Hollywood's most famous Scientologist in 2012's Rock of Ages, said he was interested in learning more about the religion from Cruise on set. "So every so often I'd say things like, 'Oh, Tom, sometimes I'm a bit lost in life' ... 'Tom, I wish I had a way of thinking more positively about the future.' That man had no interest in getting me in Scientology at all."Lamented Brand: "If there's a cult that don't want me, I want to know why!"

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A week before its U.S. release, Tom Cruise's sci-fi film "Oblivion" is killing it at the box office around the world. The film hit number one in 48 of the 52 territories in which it debuted over the weekend. It has so far earned $61.1 million" (half the film's budget). The film's success has given Cruise his biggest opening ever in Russia. It also opened strongly in Britain, France, Spain, Korea, Mexico and Australia.

Cruise plays Jack Harper, a drone repairmen stationed on Earth. After decades of war with the Scavs, his mission is to extract vital resources from the planet. Harper is brought crashing down from his life patrolling the skies after he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. This triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands. "Oblivion" hits theaters in the United States on Friday, April 19.

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Celebrities, be weary if you're headed to the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon set, because you may just end up with egg on your face. No, we don't mean the metaphorical type caused by embarrassing and prodding questions from Jimmy Fallon. We literally mean that the comedian will make you break eggs over your head like he did with Tom Cruise. When the movie star appeared on the talk show to promote his latest flick Oblivion, he and Fallon went head to head in a suspenseful game of Egg Roulette. The premise of the game was simple — eight of the 12 eggs were hard boiled, four were not.

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When it comes to dominating the movie promotional circuit, Tom Cruise is a genuine pro who can always be counted on to deliver a most charming performance or interview with whichever talk show host he visits. Aside from two memorable instances in 2005 with "Today Show" host Matt Lauer and the infamous couch-jumping with Oprah Winfrey, no one channels the classic charming movie star persona like Cruise.

Case in point, his recent visit to "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Thursday (April 11) where during an interview pegged to his upcoming sci-fi thriller "Oblivion," Kimmel challenged the star to deliver a few mundane lines in his best movie star voice. And to his movie star credit, Cruise got into it and turned sentences like "Is there a way to get the soup and the salad?" and "You forgot to include the attachment" into dramatic mini-movie scenes.

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Tom Cruise has given a rare glimpse into his feelings after the break-up of his relationship with Katie Holmes, saying that: "life is tragicomic". In an interview with a German TV station for the premiere of his new film Oblivion, Cruise said he was taken by surprise by the separation. The couple announced last year that they were separating after five years of marriage.

"I did not expect it," Cruise said in the interview. On his 50th birthday, soon after, he had: "an unbelievable amount of time to think."His conclusion was that: "Life is a challenge ... to be 50 and to have experiences and to think you have everything under control, and then it hits you – that's what life is."Cruise told the channel ProSieben: "Life is tragicomic, you need a sense of humour."

In a statement released at the time of the divorce, the couple said that they were committed to "working together as parents to accomplish what is in our daughter Suri's best interests." The statement said: "We want to keep matters affecting our family private, and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs, and support each other's roles as parents." Holmes, raised a Catholic, did not want her daughter brought up in the Church of Scientology.

In the interview, Cruise enthused about the filming of the science fiction movie 'Oblivion' in Iceland, saying: "I've done white water rafting, driven around by snowmobile on a glacier and climbed mountains." In the film, Cruise plays a soldier on a deserted future Earth.

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A $200,000 ticket for a trip to space may be in actor Tom Cruise's future. The mega-star says he just might sign up for a real-life launch on a private spaceship, according to media reports. The 50-year-old Cruise said he was interested in a spaceflight during the Moscow premiere for his new science fiction film "Oblivion." "I'm going to let a couple of other people test it out first but it would be great," the "Top Gun" star said, according to the U.K. newspaper The Sun. "I was always hoping when I was a kid that we would be traveling to different planets by now."

A few private companies, such as Mojave, Calif.-based Virgin Galactic, are working to develop spaceships capable of carrying people on quick trips to the edge of space. For the price of a ticket, customers will fly to space without making a full orbit around Earth. The trip will give them an experience of weightlessness for a few minutes and a view of Earth from above.

If Cruise signs up, he won't be the first celebrity to do so. Actor Ashton Kutcher has already paid a deposit to Virgin Galactic for his ticket, becoming the company's 500th confirmed customer in March of last year. And actress Kate Winslet was reportedly given a free ticket to space by Virgin Galactic's billionaire founder Sir Richard Branson in thanks for saving his mother from a fire.

Cruise stars in "Oblivion" as a drone repairmen on a post-apocalyptic Earth that's been nearly destroyed by an alien invasion. The actor said he was open to the idea that aliens exist in real life, and not just science fiction. "I don't think you can actually count it out," he said, according to the Sun. "It might be a little arrogant to think we were the only ones in all the galaxies throughout the universe — but I've never met one!"

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Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise has revealed that a fifth 'Mission: Impossible' film is in the works. Cruise confirmed the planned sequel during an appearance on The Graham Norton show, reported Digital Spy. He replied when asked about the series: "I am working on the story." However, he declined to give any more details.

Cruise had said in October that he would be keen to make another 'Mission: Impossible' film. "I started 'Mission: Impossible' hoping I could make many of them. It's a character that I can grow with. At that time it was the most expensive film in the history of Paramount Pictures, and the first film I was producing.

"It's been pretty exciting. Seeing an audience respond - to have that experience is really wonderful. I'll make a bunch of those. I'll make as many as people want to see... because they're very challenging, and so much fun to make," he had said. The actor also said that he "still felt good" about doing action roles, despite turning 50 last year. The last 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' released in 2011.

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