Oh, publicists and their dirty, dirty tricks! Yesterday afternoon, we passed along a press release from Extra promoting yet another defense of Tom Cruise by producing partner/octogenarian-bully deflector Paula Wagner in such a way that one might reasonably assume we'd be seeing an on-camera interview. Alas, as you can see in the clip above, all we got was some stock footage of the little-seen Cruise/Wagner enforcer and the minimal voiceover paraphrasing of a telephone conversation, leaving us with the disturbing impression that Wagner actually sounds like excitable, celebrity-positive reporter Jerry Penacoli. Thanks for nothing, deliberately deceptive TV flacks!

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