Tom Cruise a turn-off says Viacom boss

Tom Cruise

The man who ended Tom Cruise's 14-year-relationship with Paramount Pictures says he was influenced in the shock decision by his wife, because she and "women everywhere" had started to hate the star.

Viacom boss Sumner Redstone told Vanity Fair it was his wife Paula who turned on Cruise first.

"Paula, like women everywhere, had come to hate him," Redstone said. "I did listen to her, but I make business decisions myself. His behaviour was entirely unacceptable to Paula, and to the rest of the world. He didn't just turn one [woman] off. He turned off all women, and a lot of men. He was embarrassing the studio.