Revisiting Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer’s ‘Today’ Showdown 20 Years Later

Revisiting Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer’s ‘Today’ Showdown 20 Years Later

We all remember Tom Cruise’s 2005 couch-jumping incident — where he exultantly declared his love for then-girlfriend Katie Holmes mid–interview — but just one month later, the actor would have another passionate outburst that lives on in infamy. While visiting Today to promote War of the Worlds (with Holmes looking on off-camera), Cruise, then 42, got heated when host Matt Lauer questioned him about his criticism of Brooke Shields, who had previ…