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Denise Welch has opened up on the night she spent with Tom Cruise while celebrating Michael Caine’s 90th birthday.
The Loose Women star, 64, was surrounded by A-list stars last week when she attended the Oscar winner's birthday dinner on Tuesday evening and they all appeared to get on like a house on fire.
The acting legend celebrated his milestone year with an intimate dinner at London's River Cafe, with Tom Cruise who just days earlier chose to skip the 2023 Oscars ceremony, one of the VIP guests.
Denise had the Hollywood guests in hysterics during her speech and opened up about the bizarre evening when she appeared on Wednesday's Loose Women.
She gushed over the 'absolutely incredible' evening as she revealed she'd made up a few anecdotes in order to get the crowd going.
Life and soul of the party: Denise Welch has opened up on the night she spent with Tom Cruise last week while celebrating Michael Caine’s 90th birthday
He's a fan: Last week Denise shared an amusing video of herself telling the crude joke, which left Hollywood star Tom Cruise and other guests in absolute stitches
Denise explained: '[Michael's wife] Shakira asked me to say a few words and as much as I was flattered, there isn’t a story that he hasn’t already told and I was really stuck for it so asked her If I could be a bit rude.
‘Shakira did a speech and David Walliams did a very funny speech and then Tom Cruise walked in, and Lincoln [Denise's husband] went bright red because Tom is his favourite actor.
'I wasn’t feeling well and I didn’t think I could do the speech, but then a few people did a speech and Joan Collins did one and got a laugh so I thought “no, I'm not having this”, so I got up and did mine!
‘Because I didn’t really have many stories for Michael I thought I’m going to have to personalise a few jokes and pretend that they’re about Michael and Shakira.
'She was looking at me like “that didn’t happen” and I’m like “you’re ruining it!"
'One of the stories was about as you get older you talk about age a lot more and our friends were all jumping in with their own lines about ageing.
‘I looked around and Tom Cruise was literally crying with laughter and rubbing his face with a napkin and saying "you’re killing it, you’re killing it".
'So either I was very on form that night or Tom Cruise goes to really boring dinner parties.’
Wow: Denise's fans were delighted by the video, with one quipping: 'Tom Cruise skipping the Oscars to watch Denise perform stand up was not on my 2023 bingo card'
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