Tom Cruise likes to sniff fridges… or does he?

May 30th, 2013

It’s been a big week for celebrities and appliances. After examining Madonna’s vacuum cleaner fetish yesterday, today we turn our attention to everyone’s favourite A-list nut bag, Tom Cruise:

As legend has it, Tom was spotted doing a bit of shopping in Rochester, New York when he came upon a fridge and just had to know what it smelled like.

According to an eyewitness: “Tom came back in today, but seemed a little distanced. When we asked him if he needed any help, he ignored us and wandered away.”

“A moment later, he started sniffling appliances. It was pretty bizarre, when we asked him what he was doing he replied, “Just shopping…” He ended up buying the fridge, so it’s all good.”

However, further investigation reveals that this photo is, sadly, a fake. We’re as disappointed as you are. I know I would prefer to live in a world in which Tom Cruise sniffs appliances, but alas, it was just a gimmicky marketing ploy by an American appliance retailer. Boo!

Oh well. Hopefully next week will dredge up something equally ludicrous, like Gwen Stefani using a toaster as a pillow, or Tony Abbott using an ironing board as a water ski. We can dream.

Until next time, peeps!

Louise Carter

Louise is a writer with a passion for appliances, especially those that involve food. She is particularly fond of ovens because they enable her to make cake. Apart from baking Louise also enjoys listening to alternative music, dying her hair various unnatural colours and writing poetry that has been described (by her Nan) as 'quite nice'. On her appliance wish list is a Hello Kitty toaster and 'Hero' the barking dog-shaped hot dog maker. She lives in Sydney. Google+

2 responses to “Tom Cruise likes to sniff fridges… or does he?”

Laven Pillay says:

April 2, 2014 at 1:26 am

Hi Louise,
I can believe that this is a posed photo, and you mentioned “further investigation” – can you post us some links ? (I like to confirm things before i go around sharing them with my mates).

Thanks
Mark Bristow says:

April 4, 2014 at 9:23 am

Hi Laven,

This Examiner article has a pretty good list of links covering the whole Tom/Fridge thing: http://www.examiner.com/article/reddit-posts-tom-cruise-buys-a-fridge

Also, it looks like the appliance retailer’s original blog post is no longer live, alas. 🙁

Cheers

Mark