The cult of celebrity: Part one

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🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Goooood morning all! It’s the church-meet-cult that’s famous for indoctrinating celebrities - Elisabeth Moss, John Travolta, and most notably, Tom Cruise. So, what the hell do we know about Scientology? And how does it have such a star-studded list of devotees? Head here to read that LA Times piece on Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, and here for Laura Prepon’s interview with Celebrity Magazine. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast. Big thanks to Libra for making this episode possible. You can find their new Period Proof Undies exclusively at Coles Supermarkets or right here, and don’t forget to use the code ‘SHAMELESS20’ at checkout for 20% off the Period Undies range. Want to support our show? We are sending air kisses, air tea, and air hugs (too far?) to anyone who clicks ‘subscribe’ on Apple (bonus hugs for anyone who leaves a five-star review, too) or ‘follow’ on Spotify. Still not enough? Well! Our hearts! See below for everything else. Subscribe to the weekly ‘ASK SHAMELESS’ newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gFbYLT Join our book club: https://www.instagram.com/theshamelessbookclub/ Check out our website: https://shamelessmediaco.com/ Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours.

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0:59.0	It's the church meet cult that's famous for indoctrinating celebrities, Elizabeth Moss, John Travolta, and most notably Tom Cruz.
1:08.0	So what the hell do we know about Scientology?
1:10.0	And how does it have such a star-studded list of Devo teams?
1:13.4	Welcome to scandal from Shameless Podcast, The Stories of the Biggest Celebrity's
1:18.3	Revisited.
1:19.1	Hello! Hi, how are we? We are really good and really ready for this three-part series on
1:29.7	the Church of Celebrity, Scientology, Tom Cruise, his relationships, we are going to go everywhere.
1:36.5	Mitch, I want to start with why you are so interested him in this story and why we wanted to do it
1:40.6	as a series.
1:41.6	I think it's the story that has always evaded me slightly. Like I think I've picked
1:46.1	up little tidbits about Scientology or about the career of Tom Cruise along my life, but I don't think I've ever had like a meaty chunk at once.
1:55.3	I feel like this almost happened just before we really came to be conscious of the celebrity news cycle.
2:02.0	A lot of this was unfolding when we were children and by the time I got to being a teenager I felt like most of it passed me by
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