We are well used to a whole host of British Z-listers turning up for a brief camera-shot in the X Factor audience but this year it could turn very A-list.

According to The Sun, Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is keen to get in on the X Factor action and has been asking one Mr Louis Walsh all about the show.

Louis met Tom at a party recently and told The Sun: “He was intense and wanted to know all about how it works and what goes on behind the scenes.”

It seems unlikely fan Tom has been catching up on previous shows via the internet and just can’t wait to hear all those wannabes singing live.

Of course, there could be more to it than that.

Louis claims that Cruise was keen to know if he himself would be part of the upcoming US version of the show and, presumably if Walsh was not going to present, whether he could get tickets for the British series.

Louis said: “I told him that wouldn’t be a problem. We don’t have tickets yet but I can’t imagine it’d be a problem getting Tom Cruise one.” [source]

The Mission: Impossible star, 47, was reported to have needed medical attention at a hospital following the incident.

But now publicist Amanda Lundberg has set the record straight.

‘Totally false,’ she tells E! Online. ‘Not true at all.’ [SOURCE]

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Today he signed on with public-relations firm 42West. Tom will be represented by film department co-head and partner Amanda Lundberg, who also personally reps MGM CEO Mary Parent. “42West handles MGM’s movies, and Tom was impressed by Amanda’s work on Valkyrie,” said an insider. “They’ve been talking about this for a long time.”

Tom had been a devoted client of Pat Kingsley at PMK until March 2004 when he fired the veteran publicist after 14 years. He replaced her with his sister Lee Anne DeVette. She announced in November 2005 that she was resigning as his publicist to work on philanthropic projects. Then Tom hired Rogers & Cowan’s veteran Paul Bloch and Arnold Robinson who specializes in repping mostly over-the-hill action stars.

Jeff Raymond who worked with Tom at his (now) former public relations firm responded to a request for comment by saying, “Rogers & Cowan and Tom Cruise remain friends and we wish him well in all his future endeavors.”

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