The former 60 Minutes reporter and current news presenter, who has just celebrated 30 years with Channel 9, shared the hilarious stories on Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa this morning.“I remember Angelina Jolie, I interviewed her twice,” Overton said. “She was a fantastic woman. She didn’t have the whole entourage around her. “We were at the Odeon Theatre in Leceister Square in London for the premiere of one of her Tomb Raider movies and I was front and centre of the red carpet behind the rope. My producer said, ‘When she comes through … give her a kiss, it’ll be a great moment!’”Overton told the radio hosts he was initially hesitant but eventually agreed to the producer’s suggestion.“As she came by I went in to give her a kiss and I missed and headbutted her!” Overton recalled. “It was terrible. I can still feel our foreheads hitting.”The Channel 9 star said he apologised and Jolie quickly “moved on, never to be seen again”.Overton told Fitzy and Wippa that he has always found celebrity interviews the “most challenging” because a lot of actors “don’t have a story to tell other than the movie they’re spruiking”.He then singled out Die Hard star Bruce Willis who he said was “very, very challenging”.“I had great admiration for him and Demi Moore, his ex-wife, because it seems that they co-parent very well,” Overton explained. But Willis did not appreciate the comment.“He said, ‘What would you know?’ He was really angry.”And then of course there’s Overton’s infamous interview with Tom Cruise where the Top Gun star snapped and told him to “put your manners back in”.Overton recalled that he had to do a Scientology introduction course at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International before the interview, a fact he brought up to Cruise.“I asked him why it was a condition of the interview and I think I spoke to him about his former wife Nicole Kidman,” Overton told Fitzy and Wippa. “It just didn’t go so well and he told me I’d crossed the line and to put my manners back in.“Afterwards I said [to Cruise], ‘Well that was interesting,’ and he said, ‘It was’. He shook my hand then he got a bit agitated and then he shook my hand again.”
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