--- description: The "brouhaha" lives on even after a decade. title: It's Been 10 Years Since Tom Cruise Made Oprah's Couch Famous image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # It's Been 10 Years Since Tom Cruise Made Oprah's Couch Famous ## Video: Oprah Gives Away 'Essence' Magazine Cover Dress To Twitter Follower [Watch (HLS stream): Oprah Gives Away 'Essence' Magazine Cover Dress To Twitter Follower](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nKvAJzLW.m3u8) (1:27)  _Published 2014-03-07. When Atlanta resident Brandi saw Oprah Winfrey on the cover of Essence Magazine’s March issue, she fell in love with O’s over-the-top gown. She Tweeted the media mogul asking if she could have it. And it turns out, ask and you shall receive._ by [Alex Heigl / People](/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl / People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 21, 2015 10:24 PM CUT by [Alex Heigl / People](/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl / People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 21, 2015 10:24 PM CUT Tom Cruise’s infamous _Oprah_ interview turns 10 on May 23\. And while the episode of the show has been exaggerated in the popular consciousness (Cruise never really jumped up and down on the couch, merely stood on it briefly and then did a lot of kneeling), the Internet never forgets. That’s thanks largely to videos like “Tom Cruise Kills Oprah” and an endless succession of GIFs and memes that cemented Cruise’s appearance on the show in the zeitgeist. “Certainly, I did not think it would turn into the brouhaha that it did,” [Oprah told _TV Guide_ later](http://www.oprah.com/own-tv-guide-magazines-top-25-best-oprah-show-moments/Moment-2-Oprah-Reflects-on-Tom-Cruises-Couch-Jumping-Video%5F1 "undefined"). She has since refused to re-air the footage, calling the wave of viral clips that have sprung up around it “unfair.” But it continues to live on, particularly in situations like the one above, in which Wayfair PR placed a couch in Boston’s Copley Square and asked people what would make them happy enough to jump up on it, à la Cruise, complete with Oprah and Cruise masks. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/tom-cruise-oprah-couch-10-year-anniversary "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3893385/tom-cruise-oprah-couch-10-years/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3893385/tom-cruise-oprah-couch-10-years/"},"headline":"It's Been 10 Years Since Tom Cruise Made Oprah's Couch Famous","datePublished":"2015-05-21T22:24:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:11.107Z","description":"The \"brouhaha\" lives on even after a decade","url":"https://time.com/3893385/tom-cruise-oprah-couch-10-years/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Oprah","celebrity","tom cruise"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Heigl / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3893385/tom-cruise-oprah-couch-10-years/","name":"It's Been 10 Years Since Tom Cruise Made Oprah's Couch Famous"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Oprah Gives Away 'Essence' Magazine Cover Dress To Twitter Follower","description":"When Atlanta resident Brandi saw Oprah Winfrey on the cover of Essence Magazine’s March issue, she fell in love with O’s over-the-top gown. She Tweeted the media mogul asking if she could have it. And it turns out, ask and you shall receive.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/nKvAJzLW/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-03-07T14:29:22.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nKvAJzLW.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3893385/tom-cruise-oprah-couch-10-years/","duration":"PT1M27S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3893385/tom-cruise-oprah-couch-10-years/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```