Tom Cruise rehires his sister as publicist

Tom Cruise seems to have learned the error of his ways. After letting his sister Lee Anne Devette go as his publicist in 2004, Tom has rehired her. Lee Anne was excused from her position (it doesn’t seem like she was really fired) after Tom’s PR nightmare on the Oprah Winfrey show. He eventually hired a professional team to take over.

With Katie Holmes hard at work in Broadway’s All My Sons, her husband Tom Cruise has been relying more and more on the help of his sister, Lee Anne Devette, to keep his life running smoothly – and that includes his public life!

Devette, who was Tom’s publicist in 2004 when he did his now infamous couch jumping performance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, was pushed to the side when a new PR firm took over, just 20 months into the job. Now, OK! has learned exclusively that Tom’s sister is back in the driver’s seat, acting once again as his publicist.

“Lee Anne is running Tom’s life,” a source tells OK! exclusively. “She is back in his business meetings and playing a very influential role in his every decision.”

[From OK!]

Unfortunately for Tom, hiring a professional firm won’t do any good if you don’t stop acting like a nutball in public. And no one, no matter how professional, can make Xenu sound rational. Especially when you won’t stop talking about him. And accusing Matt Lauer of being glib. And criticizing Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants. And about any of the other PR hiccups he’s brought upon himself in the last few years. Unless Tom can hire someone to teach him to be more sane and rational, paying for PR services is kind of a waste. Unfortunately the people that teach you how to be sane are psychologists and psychiatrists. Oh well, he can just pop some more vitamins.

Here’s Tom and Katie on the second night of her Broadway show on Sept. 19th. Images thanks to Fame.

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  1. xiaoecho says:

    hmph!

  2. daisy424 says:

    He is doomed to fail.
    What’s up with his sister having such an intimate role in his life, does she wipe his ass for him also?

  3. Kaiser says:

    OMFG. In that header pic, KatE looks like a carbon copy of Jackie O circa 1976. 😯

    That was so disturbing I didn’t even read the post yet. 😡

  4. Kaiser says:

    Okay, now I’ve read it.

    CB – The couch-jumping Oprah incident was 2005, not 2004. And I believe Cruise had a real publicist at the time, whom he fired, and THEN hired his sister in late 2005-early 2006.

    I remember because I think for a short time, Cruise’s old publicist was briefly hired by Brad Pitt in 2006.

  5. Nick Pilla says:

    Not true! Tiny Tom fired Pat Kingsley – his capable publicist for over 10 years – in 2004 and hired his sister. The couch-jumping, Lauer tirade, and Brooke Shields assault all occurred when his sister was handling his PR.

    Apparently he decided that she was to blame, and sent her off to RPF, which is the Scientology rehabilitation camp.

    I expect more public outbursts from Crazy Tom in the near future. The only people he wants working for him now are Scienos, who aren’t exactly the most stable folks to begin with!!

  6. Spike says:

    Dumb move, but I’ve never thought he was that bright. Shrewd business person, at one point, but now he has allowed his personal life and beliefs to overshadow his “career”

    Back in the day, I thought he was more publicity shy, now he’s just another attention whore. He upstaged Christian Bale and the cast of the Dark Knight, which is why Katie was not asked back. Now he upstages Katie and the cast of All My Sons on opening night. Sad. Too bad, I love that play.

  7. Kaiser says:

    Yeah, I think Nick has the right timeline for publicists. But the couch jumping thing was in 2005, not 2004.

  8. geronimo says:

    @Nick Pilla – 100% right here, everything bad was kept in check by Pat Kingsley (for years!), the worst decision Tom ever made was to dump her. But I believe he did it under extreme pressure from the CoS – ie. the piper wanted its tune to be heard. Tom’s downfall began the day he decided he knew better than Pat Kingsley.

  9. elisha says:

    They have a jacket just like Katie’s that I want from the GAP.

  10. xiaoecho says:

    Nick Pilla……”…scienos” 😆

    Keiser….. the photo made me do a double take as well – she looks like her own very elegant mother

  11. Ron says:

    Yeah! This way he will give us all many hours of fun postings here! I can’t wait until he announces he’s the Grand Universe Master, and Suri is a Princessa of Galactic affairs!

  12. breederina says:

    Honestly I thought that was his sister in the top photo and ” damn his sister looks like an older version of Katie, weird” went through my head. Then, on double take I realized it was Katie in her Blanche from Boca drag heading off to the early bird special. Yowza, scary biz !

    Too true Ron, let the 54 flavors of crazy begin !

  13. vdantev says:

    that inane self-possessed smug grin….

  14. Ssshush says:

    Dear Tom,

    Why does your wife look freakishly a lot like you??

    I don’t like you Tom… What have you done to Katie?
    She doesn’t looks happy, and if she smiles, you can see that it’s fake.
    AND… she looks like an old lady right now..

    Depressing:(