It was at that moment, the Mission: Impossible star “made a circle” on the dance floor, and decided to recreate his moves previously showcased in Tropic Thunder.
“We were all like dancing away and he goes ‘Come on, man! Come on!’ He starts getting together this circle,” she explained.
“So he goes in the circle first – Tom Cruise! – and starts doing all this,” Mel added, impersonating the Oscar nominee’s dance moves.
“I went ‘Oh my God!’, and that’s why I left the circle. It was the weirdest dance.”
Fellow Celebrity Bear Hunt contestant Shirley Ballas, best known these days as Head Judge on Strictly Come Dancing, then disclosed that she actually taught Tom how to dance, but Mel was undeterred.
“It didn’t work because the dance he did in that circle was terrible,” she responded.
Victoria’s 50th birthday was an especially star-studded affair, with the guest list including Gordon Ramsay, Salma Hayek, Guy Ritchie, Charlotte Tilbury, Jason Statham and Eva Longoria, as well as the fashion designer’s four children.
