Tom Cruise stopped a US TV channel from airing an episode of 'South Park' that mocks him - by threatening to refuse to promote 'Mission Impossible 3'.

The now infamous episode of the cartoon 'Trapped in the Closet' pokes fun at the actor's Scientology beliefs and shows the actor trapped inside a closet. The show, which was first aired last November, was set to be repeated on Wednesday night (03.15.06) on Paramount cable channel Comedy Central. Paramount, owned by US media giant Viacom, is the studio behind the latest 'Mission Impossible' sequel.



However, the show was removed from the schedule at the last minute because Cruise reportedly went to Viacom executives demanding the episode be pulled otherwise he would "boycott" all promotion for 'MI3', according to a report on website hollywoodinterrupted.com.

Company representatives deny the actor was behind the cancellation, insisting the episode was replaced to honour Isaac Hayes - who announced last week has was quitting voicing the character of Chef. Scientologist Hayes resigned from the series, created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, after complaining it encouraged people to ridicule religions.

A Viacom spokesperson said: "In light of the events of earlier this week, we wanted to give Chef an appropriate tribute by airing two episodes he is most
known for."



Meanwhile yesterday Tom and Katie made sure to make out in their luxury box at the World Classic Baseball game (USA vs Mexico) in Anaheim, CA.



How much longer can they pull this off...

He expects us to believe the biggest joke of all time, but obviously, the guy just can’t take one…

I set the VCR before bed and boy was I pissed the next morning! When will it be scheduled again company “reps”? Lil’ Tom has no balls, I wonder if they do.

The Virgin Katie is glowing with little Elron in her incubator. Too bad the father isn’t around to share her joy.

Patience Isabelle and Connor, let him put you through college and you never have to see him again unless you give him the chance to match bids on your tell-all books.

Duuude, she’s a HOOOOOUUUUSE!  How long has she been “pregnant”?  Like, 17 months?

she carries really big (that is how I was, looked like I was carrying twins but had a small baby - DAMN GENETICS)  WHatever, more power to them, let them live their little life.  At least they are not trashy like Brit Brit

Uhhh….she wasn’t that big just a week or so ago, was she???

I love how these 2 got ‘secretly married’ on that crappy Scientology loveboat on Tom’s b-day in July.  That’s where they put Katie sedated her and turkey-bastered John Travolta’s soldiers into her.  There was no sex because both are ASEXUAL people.  Katie had sex w/ a turkey-baster. 

Tom isn’t the only gay one in that relationship, so it works for both of them.

it just doesn’t look right to me.  for as big as she is, shouldn’t her mammaries be, like, way bigger?

Why is everyone commenting on Katie’s weight? she’s, oh you know, PREGNANT. That’s not what is important. Make fun of the basket case instead.

I can’t believe I used to like Tom Cruise back in the day. He’s such a freakshow now! And Tom, get over it! South Park is a joke!

That belly just doesn’t seem normal to me! I was thinking the same thing hoodini

one thing I respect, Tom is always with his kids, attending to his daughter’s games, etc. Where’s Nic? Does she feels like they are her kids too or what? Only Tom is with them!

She looks way better here than she has in a while though- way more relaxed. And lucky her she doesn’t have a huge set of boobs to lug around with that belly- although she WOULD have some place to rest them with that bump of hers!

actually, i was even bigger than her when i was pregnant and my boobs hardly grew at all!

he and all his fellow scientology cry-baby friends can go fuck off. south park rules, they suck, tom is gay, and katie looks like she’s having twin aliens she’s so fucking huge.

when is L. Ron Xune Jr. due?

No, we must never, EVER speculate about the GMD’s sexuality! How dare we! The very earth could stop spinning on it’s axis.  Actually, I think the very fact that he protests so much reveals a great deal about what he’s so afraid of. 

Up here in Canada-land, we were treated to this episode some weeks ago.  John Travolta and R. Kelly end up trapped in the closet along with Cruise.  It rocked.

Of course his publicist is denying it! That’s what they’re hired for! To protect their client’s image! Sheesh.  I don’t buy the Isaac Hayes excuse at all.  They will skewer him, too.

I think Kate is pulling a fast one.  She may be pregnant, but the baby is not his.  She was screwing around on him, and found herself in a pickle, and Tom was soo excited when she told him she was a having a baby, that she never had the heart to tell him it wasn’t his.

He’s not innocent, not by a LONG shot.  He has done this before and he will continue to do this until someone finally tells him that he’s not nearly as important as he seems to think he is.  There was no “tribute” to Isaac Hayes.  No one has a tribute to someone who slams a show and walks away.  Cruise was playing his “I’m the almighty and all powerful Oz, pay no attention to the man in the closet” act again.  He’s such a dick.

Liberty

Get a clue.  Do you think he or his reps would admit to something that so blatantly makes him look like a crazed, fanatic cult member?  Duh.

I guess scientology cures you of drug abuse, gayness and a sense of humor.  Lighten the fuck up Tom.  Issac remember what it used to mean to be “cool” ?

Tom is a crazed maniac(matt lauer knows that). South Park has made fun of everything in the book, so they can go to hell. Katie’s tummy does look like way bigger, weird. Since meeting katie, he has red crazy looking eyes.

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if this whole pregnancy thing was like one of those soap operas where the woman just has gradually bigger sizes of pillows or strap on bellies to trick everyone and then at the last minute, when they’re supposedly “in labor”, they actually steal someone else’s baby and pass it off as their own?

Can you tell the future? Because I can totally see it happening.

I think they’re both a joke.  He’s an idiot and she’s an idiot so they make a great idiot couple.

LOL badmammajamma!  btw - I’m thinking Nicole is never seen with the kids because Tom is such a control freak that he doesn’t let her except supervised by him or some such horseshit.  Either that or she doesn’t make sure the paparazzi are going to be around so she can put on a show like fuckface here.  I used to love that movie Vanilla Sky.  Now it’s just ruined because I can’t stand looking at his psycho rat face!

Isathefairy - Tom is a Scientologist and Nicole is no longer a Scientologist.  Tom is so committed to Scientology that he even INSISTED that the biological mothers of his two adopted have silent births.  SILENT BIRTHS or he wouldn’t adopt them! 

Scientology has rules restricting or even cutting off childrens’ contact with relatives who are not in the church of scientology.  Nicole left the church of Scientology.  So, after seeing how controlling Tom can be - bullying to prevent the South Park episode from airing among other things - and the way Scientologists are taught to raise their children, I have a suspicion he is keeping Nicole, who is Catholic, from seeing them as much as she may want to.

Nicole is rumored to be a less-than-interested parent.  Remember a little while ago a former nanny gave an interview and said that, when working with Tom and Nic’s kids, she never once saw Nicole? Hmmmm…..

I think it’s the blouse that makes her look bigger than she really is…

She looks so cute,makeing out with her little hot booty.

She is HUGE, but she does look cute in these photos.

Liberty, dude, this word you use, I do not think it means what you think it means…

What OT level are you at?

Thanks Dabitch!

I just watched it, and loved it - Matt Stone and Trey Parker are my heroes!

Hahaha great episode, was terribly funny,

Whoop

Bwahhaaaahhaaahaa!!!  Inconceivable!!!  I don’t know what SHE thinks it means, but I know I don’t know what it means.

“phantom you make me laufhs with your tabs conspirations?”

“He is not responsible to the war in Irak as he is not responsible for the Holmes missing scene, you are glib, read cnn.”

I’m with you, whoop.  What the hell?

Funny how Isaac Hayes had no problem w/ them joking about OTHER religions.  My guess is that the church FORCED him to leave.  What a bunch of whack-jobs. 

Katie Holmes needs to come out of the closet also.  Actually - they are in the ASEXUAL (not interested in sex) closet.

Katie’s bump DOES look extremely odd - all along it has.  Either their freak church has a ‘donated’ baby stowed away, or they turkey-bastered Katie w/ Tom’s sperm (if he has any) or John Travolta’s (MUCH more likely).

Hehe Liberty, it must be painfully hard for you to try to type a coherent post.  I haven’t been at Hollywood Rag very long but others probably already know this - you’re as crazy and brainwashed as ole Tom.  Anyone with even a quarter of a brain can do a little research and know that Tom insisted on the silent births. Even if I post plenty of proof of the things I wrote you probably won’t believe anything unless it comes straight out of Tom’s lying mouth. 

So go ahead, keep shelling out money for those OT levels and I’ll join Matt Stone and Trey Parker in their efforts to keep “Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies.”

I think Tom is an idiot who thinks he’s smart. This is what drives me crazy about the idiots actually. They mostly think they are great. Maybe the only thing that helps Tom to keep an image in entertainment industry is the gorgeous women he hangs out with; married to Nicole Kidman, having a baby with Katie… For an unknown reason, I used to think that Tom is gay and was very surprised that Katie wa pregnant from him. I won’t be surprised that the child isn’t his and just some other sperms from the sperm bank..

i hope mi3 bombs and tom neds up living in a cave…

I hate these two fucking idiots. They need to go away. Far, far away. They both suck equally>well I’m sure Tom knows how to suck (hehe)...always thought he was gay.

oh yeah….South Park rules! So fuck off Tom.

Alot of you guys are idiots, she looks bigger because her baby has ‘dropped’ so its sitting lower than usual, THis normally happens around 36weeks pregnancy, so she’s less than a month away!