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"In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours"

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Celebrity privacy has always been a negotiated illusion, and Mary Hart casually pulls the curtain back on how the deal actually gets made. Her line is less gossip than logistics: when tabloids are "about to break the story", the stars and their teams decide it’s better to control the spill than mop it up later. The phrase "just let the news out" makes scandal sound like weather - inevitable, impersonal - which quietly absolves the celebrity machine of agency while still revealing its strategy.

Hart’s most telling move is the placement of responsibility. The tabloids aren’t framed as predators so much as a deadline. The real actors are the publicists and the celebrities who pre-empt the ambush by feeding a cleaner version of events to mainstream outlets. When she says "they called organizations such as ours", she’s defending entertainment news as the respectable middle layer: not the tabloid that pounces, not the star who hides, but the sanctioned channel that helps manage narrative and tone.

The Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman reference situates this in the era when celebrity breakup news became a high-stakes commodity, with competing outlets racing for exclusives. Hart implies that "letting it out" isn’t candor; it’s crisis PR. The subtext is that transparency is often just choreography - a release timed to blunt rumor, shape public sympathy, and preserve brand value. Hart, a veteran gatekeeper of TV entertainment culture, speaks like someone describing an industry norm: when the story is coming anyway, you might as well choose the version that survives.

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Hart, Mary. (n.d.). In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-a-lot-of-cases-as-in-tom-and-nicoles-case-the-104855/

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Hart, Mary. "In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-a-lot-of-cases-as-in-tom-and-nicoles-case-the-104855/.

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"In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-a-lot-of-cases-as-in-tom-and-nicoles-case-the-104855/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Mary Hart (born November 8, 1950) is a Entertainer from USA.

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