A representative for Hollywood star Tom Cruise denied a report that the actor and his wife, Katie Holmes, were not attending the 83rd annual Academy Awards ceremony to avoid host Anne Hathaway. The spokesman told that a UK report to that effect was “not true” and that the couple had already decided not to attend the ceremony before a sketch — featuring a Hathaway impression of Holmes — aired on Saturday Night Live in November.
A report from the UK’s Daily Mail said the couple was angry about Hathaway’s unflattering portrayal in the SNL sketch. “Tom and Katie don’t want to have to cross paths with Anne,” the Mail quoted a source as saying. “Katie feels they were really supporting at a difficult time so she feels let down that Anne took to national TV to make fun of her.”
