Oh, look, Tom Cruise did a very straight, manly thing back in his formative days that will finally make everyone stop looking for signs the Hollywood star is a homosexual: He boned Cher! Cruise had a fling with the noted heterosexual icon and pop diva in the mid-1980s after running into her at a White House fundraising event, which apparently had to do with raising money for people with learning disabilities. Cruise was 23 and Cher 39. Cruise's breakthrough hit Risky Business had just come out. Cher told Oprah all about the affair recently at a show taping in Las Vegas. Oddly, things were a little awkward, according to a summary of Cher's comments in the Daily Mail:

In the show, to be seen on U.S. television next month, she spoke of Cruise, now 45, as an awkward young man who was struggling to adjust to his new life.



"He was shy," she said. "He said he felt like such a boob in school and nobody talked to him. We went on a date once for dinner in a New York restaurant and the waitress was from his old school.



"He told me she never talked to him back in school, but now he was recognised he got all her attention.



...As she recounted her time with the actor, the audience burst into a frenzy of cheering and whooping, especially when she spoke of one particularly "long night" in his arms.

[Daily Mail]