Tom Cruise Nearly Hit By A Bus In London, YouTube Videos Of Cruise Go Viral



Tom Cruise might be an action hero extraordinaire, but fans of Cruise certainly aren’t used to seeing the movie star nearly get clobbered by a bus due to having a hard time crossing the street.

In the above YouTube video titled “Tom Cruise Nearly Hit By London Bus While Crossing The Road, Tom Cruise Avoids Bus Accident,” Cruise can be seen looking the other way on a London street whilst narrowly avoiding an approaching famous red bus, one that must honk its horn to get Tom to recognize he’s in peril. The YouTube video of the incident has received more than 17,000 views in the less than 24 hours since it was uploaded on December 2.

Various combinations of the same video, with compelling titles like “Tom Cruise bus crash” and “Tom Cruise Nearly Hit by Double Decker Bus in London While Filming Mission: Impossible 5” are filling YouTube with copies of the funny footage and racking up the views.

At the same time, websites like the Hollywood Reporter are quipping that Tom Cruise nearly “came a cropper” because of not employing his Ethan Hunt movie skills while crossing a simple street. Thankfully, Cruise was unharmed during the street-crossing attempt – and even better, someone had the presence of mind to film the Tom Cruise near hit with the bus.

However, according to the Inquisitr, Tom might not be able to avoid the controversy coming his way when the movie titled Going Clear, based on the book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief, is released in 2015.

According the Huffington Post, the public’s opinion of Tom Cruise could be altered once audiences learn more details about the Church of Scientology and its hold on Cruise, even to the point of potentially dictating the outcome of the marriage of Tom and Nicole Kidman.

“[Tom] Cruise, the Church’s most visible adherent, had been drifting away. According to Rathbun, Miscavige, Scientology’s de facto head since Hubbard’s death, blamed the actor’s wife, Nicole Kidman, and viewed her as a gold digger who was faking Scientology. He says that Miscavige was hopeful that if they portrayed Nicole Kidman as a Suppressive Person, [Tom] Cruise could be peeled away from her.”

With the notoriously litigious reputation of the church that Tom Cruise supports being once again thrust into the spotlight, it’ll be interesting to see how the movie career of Cruise is affected once the Going Clear documentary hits theaters next year.

[Image credit: YouTube video of Tom Cruise]

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