How breakdancing Tom Cruise stole the show at Victoria Beckham's 50th birthday: ... trends now
What could outshine a Spice Girls reunion, complete with dance moves? Tom Cruise doing the splits.
The A-list actor left guests at Victoria Beckham's 50th birthday party in London on Saturday night slack jawed in astonishment after performing an incredible 'breakdance' routine – which culminated in the splits.
Super-fit Cruise, 61, who famously does all his own stunts, was a surprise on the guest list at the bash. He has actually known the Beckhams for 20 years and David 'idolises' him.
He is in the UK while completing filming on Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part Two which is due in cinemas next year.
Tom Cruise, 61, arriving at Oswald's, Mayfair, for Victoria Beckham's 50th birthday party on Saturday
Super-fit Cruise, who famously does all his own stunts, was a surprise on the guest list at the bash
After a formal sit-down dinner, the Top Gun actor was one of the most enthusiastic dancers in the crowd of 120 at the private members club Oswalds, in Mayfair.
Wearing full black tie, including a waistcoat, Cruise stunned many when he demonstrated a series of breakdancing moves, culminating in the splits. One guest said: 'People were absolutely dumbfounded.'
Sadly, cameras were strictly banned by the Beckhams and its not thought that anyone sneaked a picture.
Cruise has famously been seen busting moves on screen – memorably in his breakout 1983 hit film Risky Business, when he slid across the floor wearing underwear and socks to Old Time Rock n Roll.
More recently when playing producer Les Grossman in the comedy Tropic Thunder, he grooved with improbable swagger to Get Back by Ludacris.
Cruise has famously been seen busting moves on screen – memorably in his breakout 1983 hit film Risky Business, when he slid across the floor wearing underwear and socks to Old Time Rock n Roll
Cruise dancing as Les Grossman from the film Tropic Thunder at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards in LA
Apparently his turn on the dance floor at Oswalds was much more in the Tropic Thunder vein. Emerging in the early hours, and wearing dark glasses, Cruise beamed from ear to ear, and signed autographs.
It was a joyous evening and Victoria was both 'elated' by the success of the party and 'moved' by the turn out which included good friends like chef Gordon Ramsay and his wife Tana, actress Eva Longoria, and singer Marc Anthony, who had flown in from Miami with his new wife Nadia. (David was the best man at Anthony's fourth wedding earlier this year and Anthony performed at Brooklyn Beckham's wedding.)
The actress Salma Hayek was there too with her fashion tycoon husband Francois-Henri Pinault.
