Would You Be a Tom Cruise Fan for a Day for $3 and a Buffet Lunch?

The folks at FirstPost.com are claiming that the crowd of cheering fans that greeted Tom Cruise in a Mumbai Airport earlier this week were nothing more than paid extras.

“Tom kaun? I don’t know who he is or what he does. We were told to come here by 1pm today and wait for a foreign VIP to come out of the airport gate and scream and shout when he came. None of us know who Tom is. There was a buffet lunch also for us and we were paid Rs 150 (about $3) for this job today. We do this for television shows and other such events where crowds are required,” said one of the junior artistes at the airport, who was hired as an excited Tom fan.

Representatives of both Paramount Pictures and Tom Cruise are denying the allegation that hundreds of people in India were paid to show up and cheer and scream for star when he appeared in Mubai to promote the new “Mission Impossible” movie. according to the Huffington Post:

“Tom Cruise is a massive star and attracts huge throngs of fans as he travels the world promoting ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,'” a spokesperson for Paramount said in a statement to The Huffington Post. “The only people paid were performers who danced outside the venue. The idea that fans were paid to cheer is completely ludicrous and entirely false.”

 

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