Mission Possible! Moment Tom Cruise defies demo to chopper in to UK Scientology’s annual fundraiser
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This is the moment Tom Cruise defies demonstrators to chopper in to Scientology’s UK headquarters for the controversial church’s annual fundraiser.
The Hollywood star, 63, was helicoptered into Saint Hill Manor, the church’s British Base in East Grinstead in Sussex, to take part in the three day-event amid protests over the sect’s contentious practices.
The Mission: Impossible actor, dressed in a blue buttoned shirt and a navy suit, was seen staring at his phone after stepping out of the chopper as he steers clear of angry locals.
In exclusive pictures obtained by the Daily Mail, Cruise is spotted wearing an aviation headset as he lands.
He avoided crowds of protesters who were taking part in a demonstration against the event, which drew 7,000 Scientologists from across the globe, as it was held for the third consecutive year.
In a bid to disrupt the protesters, the church played loud bagpipe music on a large speaker.
One resident, wishing to remain anonymous, described the event as ‘very disruptive’.
He said: ‘For six to eight weeks they were laying down pallets in the field to make a car park, so we had the disruption and noise of that, with lorry after lorry coming.
‘Then they made all the neighbours listen to bagpipe music on a loop all day.
‘In the evening, they had two generators to power floodlights in the car park, and we could hear the generator no more than 60 yards from our back door.
‘One didn’t go off until 1am and the second generator stayed on all night, so all night an empty car park was lit up.
‘I’m tolerant – I don’t have religion but don’t object to others having it.
‘Scientology say they’ve cleaned up their act, but they still have the same boss and I don’t really believe they have changed their spots.’
Another resident said: ‘It’s an endless stream of people and so much noise – the infrastructure isn’t built for it so it ends up being chaos.’
‘Then you’ve got Tom flying over in his chopper and it causes a right old racket.
‘To top things off, a minibus ended up having an accident with another driver, which meant one of the roads ended up being closed.’
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