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04/29/2008 (8:57 am)

Cher…And Tom Cruise?

Just think of how the course of Hollywood history would have been altered had these two stayed together! What’s that, you didn’t know they were an item at one time? Well, neither did the rest of the world, until Cher told everyone that back in the eighties, yes, she and Tom had a bit of a fling:

The singer had a brief relationship with the actor, 16 years her junior, at the start of his career.

Only now, as she publicises an upcoming run of shows in Las Vegas, has her version of events emerged.

Reflecting on their affair, she said it could have been a “great big romance” if they hadn’t been forced apart by their filming schedules.

They are thought to have met at a White House fund-raising event in the mid- eighties when he was basking in the success of his hit film Risky Business.

Cher, 39 at the time, is said to have been smitten almost immediately with the 23-year-old. […]

The couple are thought to have dated for several months.

Their affair is understood to have ended when Cruise met Mimi Rogers, six years his senior, who was to become his first wife. He separated from Miss Rogers after three years in 1990.

It’s said that it was Mimi who introduced Tom to Scientology. So think of where Tom might be today had he and Cher stayed together, or at least had more of a serious relationship. At the very least, poor Katie Holmes would have found a man more suitable to her age and interests.

But in all honesty…do you think that, in this photo, Tom is thinking about what a close call this one was? Cher, for all her plastic surgery, hasn’t aged well. She looks like a caricature of her former self. It’s sad when you see stars still playing the same character they’ve been playing for four decades.

Cher might be thinking the same thing, but it’s a tossup as to who escaped what fate.