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Tom Cruise got slammed last week in Australia, where he was named winner of the “Celebrity Ernie Award” for a so-called sexist comment that award organizers claim he made. Cruise, who was judged to be the winner in the celebrity list, managed to beat all contenders in his category by a past comment about his then-pregnant fiancée Katie Holmes.
“Tom’s comments that they have attributed to him are completely fabricated,” his rep, Arnold Robinson, tells PEOPLE. “Anyone who knows him knows that he is a complete gentleman and would never ever say such a thing. … He has the utmost respect for women.”

The award organizers cited one of Cruise’s comments from earlier this year, before the actress gave birth to Suri: “I’ve got Katie tucked away so no one will get to us until my child is born.” The apocryphal quote was named “worst derogatory public statement” by nearly 400 of Australia’s most powerful women who gathered in the New South Wales state parliament last week.
But according to Cruise’s rep, the actor – who was in the news last week after parting ways with Paramount Pictures – never uttered those words or made any such remarks to that effect.

The Ernie Awards are named after a former trade union leader that also represented sheep shearers for his comment that women were not welcome in shearing sheds because they were only after sex.