Are Scientologists behind Tom Cruise's poll results?

When a poll on Parade magazine’s website showed that 84% of respondents blamed the media for Tom Cruise's recent negative press, readers at celebrity gossip site, Oh No They Didn’t questioned the results. They ran their own poll with a far different outcome: 95.4% of the 3,445 respondents believed Cruise had brought his bad image on himself.

According to Page Six, Parade was skeptical about their survey’s results as well. Parade publicist Alexis Collado said, "We at Parade found [the poll results] a little bit fishy, so we did some investigating. We found out more than 14,000 (of the 18,000-plus votes) that came in were cast from only 10 computers! One computer was responsible for nearly 8,400 votes alone, all blaming the media for Tom's troubles. We also discovered that at least two other machines were the sources of inordinate numbers of votes. It seems these folks (whoever they may be) resorted to extraordinary measures to try to portray Tom in a positive light for the Parade.com survey. There is even a chance they wrote a special 'bot' program for the sole purpose of skewing the results, rather than casting the votes by hand on a computer."

So are Scientologists behind the voting shenanigans? Cruise’s spokesman denied having anything to do with it. “I know nothing about the poll, so we have nothing to comment on," he said.