During the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Sunday night, August 11, Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise performed a dramatic stunt in the French capital by jumping off the roof of Stade de France, one of the largest stadiums.
After he nailed the landing, the Hollywood superstar was on his way to the stage when an incident caught him off-guard. An online video shows a fan forcefully kissing Cruise on the cheeks.
It has sparked widespread criticism online. In the clip, the fan is seen grabbing him by the neck and kissing him while recording the moment on her phone. Cruise, who kept a cool head, was able to evade being kissed on the lips as the woman planted a few on his cheeks.
How’d that lady almost make out with Tom Cruise on international TV 😂#ClosingCeremony pic.twitter.com/IxtmIUPdcA
— Georgia Rose 🇿🇦 🍉 (@Rasheeda_S) August 11, 2024
As soon as the video went viral, social media users criticised the female fan’s behaviour. Many asked the same question.
A user on X wrote, “Imagine if the roles were reversed.”
Another user said, “Cringe. If a man did that to a female celebrity there would be questions.”
A third user added, “Would hate to see what would happen if the roles were reversed.”
Another comment read, “Imagine if a guy tried the exact same thing with Taylor Swift or Ariana Grande. What a crazy world we live in.”
Meanwhile, Cruise took to his X handle and shared a photo of himself from the Paris Olympics, in which, he is dressed in a white shirt and black jacket. He wrote in the caption, “Thank you, Paris! Now off to LA.”
The next edition of the Olympics will be hosted by Los Angeles.
Cruise also reposted the video by LA28, the official X handle of the Los Angeles Olympics, which showed him carrying the Olympic flag.
On the work front, Cruise will be seen next in Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part Two. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on May 23, 2025.
(The article is published under a mutual content partnership arrangement between The Free Press Journal and Connected to India)
