Tom Cruise has observed himself “dragged” into David Beckham and Mark Wahlberg‘s epic $10 million dollar feud soon after attending Victoria Beckham‘s star-studded 50th birthday bash on Saturday evening.
As the Mission Extremely hard star, 61, rocked up at Beckham’s wife’s star studded birthday bash in London and reportedly did the splits on the dance ground cheered on by the likes of Eva Longoria and the reunited Spice Girls, he was probable oblivious to a storm brewing on-line.
Us Weekly confirmed that Beckham’s DB Ventures company filed a lawsuit against F45 Teaching, which is partly owned by his previous pal Wahlberg.
The soccer star, 48, alleges in court docket paperwork shared by TMZ that F45 “duped” him into signing an endorsement offer but he in no way obtained the $10 million he was offered in contract negotiations.
He mentioned he was promised shares as payment, which had been in no way delivered after share costs seemingly plummeted.
David Beckham and Victoria Beckham are witnessed leaving Victoria Beckham’s 50th Birthday Party. Ricky Vigil M / Justin E Palmer/GC Images
And as he battles it out with the Boogie Evenings actor, a contentious outdated online video has resurfaced including gasoline to the fireplace.
Very little did Beckham’s pal Cruise know that his visual appearance at the distinctive bash would only stir up his very own old “feud” with Wahlberg and lead to converse of him siding with Beckham in this clean one.
A 2013 clip started out doing the rounds on line displaying Wahlberg appearing to slam the Top rated Gun actor for suggesting that often it feels like performing is akin to serving as a soldier.
At the time he asked if shooting a film feels like currently being a soldier in Afghanistan and replied: “That’s what it feels like and definitely on this previous motion picture, it was brutal. it was brutal.”
Wahlberg saw purple at the suggestion that any actor would review the craft to currently being on the entrance line.
Tom Cruise found attending Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday bash. Ricky Vigil M / Justin E Palmer/GC Visuals
A movie attained by TMZ confirmed the star talking at a Q&A in Los Angeles ahead of a screening of his film Lone Survivor, in which he plays a Navy SEAL.
“For actors to sit there and communicate about, ‘Oh, I went to SEAL training’ — I never give a f—k about what you did,” he mentioned.
“You really don’t do what these fellas do. You just don’t. For someone to sit there and say my job was as hard as being in the armed forces. How f—king dare you, though you sit in a make-up chair for two hrs.
“I really don’t give a s—t if you are receiving your ass busted. You get to go residence at the conclude of the working day. You get to go to your resort space. You get to get f—king rooster or steak, whichever the f—k is.”
Afterwards, he questioned Q&A host not to question him any much more thoughts, though he calmed down just before apologizing for “losing his s—t.”
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Even so, Wahlberg then later on claimed that it was a misunderstanding. For the duration of an interview with TMZ, he stated: “I did not know that it was Tom Cruise that mentioned that. Any person just mentioned that people today are [making that comparison]. I really like Tom Cruise. I have much respect for Tom Cruise, but I have just as a lot respect for armed forces fellas, so it’s just unfair for anyone to remark on that.”
The pair have not crossed paths since nor have they embarked on any projects with each other. It hasn’t helped matters that Wahlberg has considering the fact that claimed that he bought into producing videos for the reason that he was fatigued of waiting around close to to be available films that Cruise experienced rejected.
Followers sharing the resurfaced clip of his angry 2013 rant recommended that Cruise has proven his loyalty to outdated pal Beckham by pausing his busy function schedule to rock up at the Saturday night bash amid the new drama.
Mark Wahlberg Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage
Wahlberg’s lawyers have denied the previous athlete’s $10 million promises, calling the “fraudulent conduct” accusations baseless in a motion to dismiss according to The Solar.
“The 209-page, 610-paragraph SAC [complaint] attempts to make up with duration what it lacks in advantage,” a response from Wahlberg’s legal professionals examine.
F45 launched in 2011 with Wahlberg, who owns extra than 30 % of the organization, serving as chief model officer. Beckham, who became friends with Wahlberg when he and Victoria moved to LA back again in 2012, and former golfer Greg Norman sued F45 Instruction alongside one another in late 2022, but a choose purchased them to different their lawsuits.
