Tom Cruise Did The Most ’80s Thing On First And Only Date With Heather Locklear

Heather Locklear said Tom Cruise showed off the iconic sliding-on-his-knees move that he would later perform in “Risky Business” on their first and only date in the 1980s.

Locklear told ’90s Con Florida fans on Saturday in Daytona Beach that she wasn’t sure how to react to the spectacle, People reported.

The former “T.J. Hooker” and “Melrose Place” star said she was “dancing along” with him at Club Lingerie in Los Angeles when she thought, “Do you stop dancing if they’re down there?”

“I was like, ‘Yay!’ But he was very nice to me,” Locklear added.

The 1983 teen comedy “Risky Business” famously featured Cruise’s character dancing in his underwear to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock & Roll.”

Locklear said they had auditioned for a project together earlier and performed poorly, People noted. But he was “really cute.” He later showed up at her residence with another actor who would become a huge star.

“So at that time he was just like this little baby boy that I feel like I was a little bit older, and he ended up coming over to my house with Sean Penn,” she said, per the magazine. “And they were just nice, but he was very, ‘yes ma’am’ to me, and I was like, ‘OK, sir.’”

She said she was a “rock and roll girl” ― she later married Tommy Lee of Motley Crue and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi ― and Cruise didn’t “quite cut it” as her type.

A wire photo shows Cruise and Locklear together at Club Lingerie in 1982, but it’s unclear whether that was their date.

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