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Tom Cruise has defended his infamous couch-jumping appearance on The Oprah Winfrey show in a new interview with the US chat-show host.

The Hollywood actor was widely ridiculed in 2005 when he repeatedly jumped on Oprah’s couch and pumped his fist in an exuberant profession of his love for then fiancée Katie Holmes.

But in Friday’s interview, the second part of which will be shown on US TV on Monday, the 45-year-old said he would not go back in time to change his actions.

“That was a moment, and it was real, and I don’t know if I would [do it differently],” he said.

“I really don’t.”

But in the interview, recorded at the Colorado home he shares with Holmes and their two-year-old daughter Suri, he admitted regretting his apparent criticism of the medicated treatment of depression in comments made in the weeks after his original Oprah interview.

“When you look at something, it’s an individual’s right to make a decision on what they’re going to do with their life,” he said.

Cruise also defended his Scientology faith to the chat-show host and insisted it allowed for the “respect [of] the religious beliefs of others”.

And he laughed off rumors his marriage was a publicity stunt and that Suri, two, was not his daughter.

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes filled a rented Hollywood Hills home with $17,000 worth of fresh flowers and spent almost $5,000 on cakes for daughter Suri’s second birthday bash on Saturday.

The couple ordered personalized cakes from Los Angeles’ Sweet Lady Jane bakery for all 24 guests, and a four-tiered treat was served up to the birthday girl. Cruise also ordered $230 worth of cupcakes from L.A. bakery Sprinkles - wife Holmes’ favorite cake shop.

Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck catered the event, according to In Touch magazine. He also took charge of a later party for the Cruises’ famous friends like Victoria Beckham, who also celebrated a birthday last week and Will Smith.

Must be nice!!

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have asked Mark Ronson to DJ at Suri’s second birthday party. Suri turns two on April 18th and the couple are planning a huge bash to mark the occasion.

Mark Ronson was the official DJ when Tom and Katie got married on November 18, 2006. Reportedly, he impressed the groom with a re-worked version of the Top Gun theme song.

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Perhaps Suri Cruise will be an entertainer after all.

Not only is the 21-month-old a fan of the Spice Girls, she also digs American Idol.

Mom Katie Holmes — who is getting panned by critics for her latest comedy Mad Money — revealed the scoop on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM show this morning.

When Seacrest said he could hook the Cruise clan up with some tickets, the soft-spoken Holmes said, “I would be very grateful.”

Holmes, who made several TV appearances this week, gushed (some more) about Tom Cruise.

“I married the biggest movie star in the world,” she said.

Holmes said she wants to have another baby, but “not in the immediate future. Long term, of course.”

For now she has her hands full with Suri, who is “is growing and talking more. I am constantly surprised and challenged.”

Holmes also talked about her friends, the Beckhams. She called Victoria “very sexy.”

When asked about her thoughts on David’s good looks, she laughed and said, “He’s such a … nice man. He’s very good at what he does!”

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Tom Cruise and daughter Suri Cruise returning to their hotel on Upper East Side in New York City on January 16th.

Tom Cruise is a total nut, but Suri is adorable.

Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and daughter Suri Cruise leaving the Carlyle hotel on the East Side in New York City on January 14th.

Katie Holmes discussed the three M’s with David Letterman Monday night: marathons, her movie Mad Money and, most importantly, motherhood.

“They do grow up so quickly,” Holmes, mother of daughter Suri, who turns 2 in April, told the Late Show host (who is father of son Harry, who turned 4 in November).

Of being a parent, Holmes, 29, said, “It is beautiful [to] become part of that club. It’s sweet, and suddenly your life is just magical.”

Letterman wondered if, like he, Holmes tends to wake up her child when she’s napping, because she misses her so much. Holmes said she does do that to Suri, “and stare and kind of kiss her and see if, maybe, she’ll wake up.”

Bedtime for Suri? “She goes to sleep pretty late, because we go to sleep late,” says the mother. “Around 11.” She wakes up at 9 the next morning.

“Jackpot!” exclaimed Letterman, whose Harry is up at 6 every morning. “It’s like he was driving the Today Show crew to work.”

Holmes also said she wouldn’t mind if Suri grew up to become an actress. “I’m excited,” she said. “She’s so sweet and already talking a lot. You can already see she’s a wonderful artist.”

Not touched upon during Holmes’s visit was Andrew Morton’s controversial, unauthorized biography of Holmes’s husband, Tom Cruise, despite the publicity that the new book is receiving. Similarly, earlier on Monday Holmes spent eight minutes on Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer, who also never broached the subject.

But in the GMA case, the program’s executive producer Jim Murphy told Tuesday’s New York Post’s Page Six that it had been Sawyer’s intention to inquire about Holmes’s reaction to the book, but the segment simply ran out of time.

“It was one of those bad calls on my part,” Murphy is quoted as saying. “Diane doesn’t generally get angry, but was she disappointed in how I handled it, yes.”

Murphy also told New York’s Daily News that there were no restrictions placed on Sawyer’s questions before the interview. “She had every intention of going there,” he said.

Cruise’s rep has called the book a “false, vicious and bigoted attack” on the actor and his family.

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