Cruise rep: Tom alive and well

Tom Cruise's publicist has rubbished bizarre reports that the actor has fallen to his death in New Zealand, insisting the star isn't even in the country.

Rumours surfaced online yesterday that the 'Mission: Impossible' star had perished after falling from the Kauri Cliffs.

Cruise's publicist Jeff Raymond has moved fast to quash the rumour, insisting the star is alive and well.

The spokesman says: "This is completely not true. Tom is not in New Zealand nor has he been there recently. This is erroneous and unreliable internet garbage."

The actor has been pictured out and about in New York this week as his wife Katie Holmes took to the Broadway stage on Tuesday for the official opening night of the play 'All My Sons'.

Cruise isn't the first celebrity wrongly reported to have fallen to his death from the Kauri Cliffs - Tom Hanks was the victim of similar rumours in 2006.