Renee Bargh finally responds to rumors she secretly dated Tom Cruise in…
Australian TV presenter Renee Bargh has broken her silence on rumors she enjoyed a secret romance with actor Tom Cruise two years ago.
In July 2018, Woman’s Day magazine reported that Renee, a red carpet correspondent for U.S. entertainment show Extra, was discreetly dating the Mission: Impossible star after they’d ‘hit it off’ at a film premiere in Paris.
But the 33-year-old journalist rubbished the claims on Friday, telling The Kyle and Jackie O Show the speculation was ‘ridiculous’ and untrue.
Los Angeles-based Renee said she had ‘no idea where the false rumors came from
‘We just had a couple of great interviews on a red carpet, I think in Paris, and then someone just wrote that article… it came out of nowhere,’ she said.
Renee, who will return to screens on Sunday as host of the ninth season of The Voice Australia, also set the record straight on Tom’s height.
She disclosed that she was 5ft 7 inches and that Tom was ‘taller than me when I interviewed him. Everybody was mentioning that.
Mystery has surrounded Tom’s stature for years, and it’s believed the high-profile Scientologist sometimes wears elevator shoes to appear taller.
Celebrity Heights lists him as 5ft 7 ¾ inches (172.1 cm), but he reportedly described himself in 1988 as ‘5 feet 9 inches’.
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Scottish comedian Billy Connolly once said he was at least 5ft 10′.
His height has been scrutinized partly due to his fondness for taller women, including wives Nicole Kidman (5ft 10 ½ inches, or 179.1 cm) and Katie Holmes (5ft 9 inches, 175.3 cm).
Nicole, 52, was famously quoted as saying after her divorce from Tom in 2001: ‘I can wear heels again!’
It comes two years after Woman’s Day reported that Tom, 57, had flirted up a storm with Renee during an interview for his film Mission: Impossible – Fallout in Paris.
‘Tom usually loathes doing media, but it was like he forgot the camera was there as soon as he laid eyes on Renee,’ an insider reportedly claimed.