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Xenophon V. Xenu: The Galactic Battle For Australia’s Soul
7:38AM John Cook | An Australian senator has called for a criminal investigation into Scientology, alleging that the cult is “an abusive, manipulative, violent and criminal organisation”. The senator’s name is Nick Xenophon. This is going to be good. More »
People
4:26AM Hamilton Nolan | Tom Cruise! He is so crazy, what with the Scientology madness. It’s been so long since we heard examples of his craziness. Thank god there is a new tell-all book! In which Tom Cruise controls inanimate objects, with brainwaves. More »
Tom Cruise Controls Books And Bottles With His Mind
4:26AM Hamilton Nolan | Tom Cruise! He is so crazy, what with the Scientology madness. It’s been so long since we heard examples of his craziness. Thank god there is a new tell-all book! In which Tom Cruise controls inanimate objects, with brainwaves. More »
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Tom Cruise’s Cook Exposes Scientology’s Scary Retention Practices
9:15AM Foster Kamer | Ruh-roh. The St. Petersburg Times—Scientology HQ’s hometown paper and perpetual investigative thorn in their side — has unleashed another scathing report on the religion. This time, it’s on the lengths they’ll go bringing deserters back, including Tom Cruise’s wedding chef. More »
People
Now You Can Make Money When A Celebrity Bolts From Scientology
7:13AM John Cook | The British bookmaker Paddy Power is taking bets on which celebrity will be the next to turn their backs on L. Ron Hubbard. John Travolta leads the pack at 9:4 odds, and Tom Cruise is at 50:1. Place your markers. More »
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French Convict The Church Of Scientology Of Fraud, Almost Ban It
10:53PM Ephraim Gadsby | The haughty, stubbornly secular French have convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud. Just for pressuring two women to pay tens of thousands of dollars for spurious Scientological products and services! Victimisation of religion says this oily spokesman. More »
Small Screen
9:00AM Clem Bastow | Do you remember, way back in the olden times of July 2008, when then-Australia’s Next Top Model host Jodhi Meares mysteriously disappeared from the live finale, because she’d apparently “never agreed to do a live show of that scale”? She swiftly disappeared from TV full stop after the kerfuffle, making way for new AusNTM host Sarah Murdoch, seemingly never to be heard of again. Until…
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Jodhi Meares Plans TV Return, With Help From Agent And Xenu
9:00AM Clem Bastow | Do you remember, way back in the olden times of July 2008, when then-Australia’s Next Top Model host Jodhi Meares mysteriously disappeared from the live finale, because she’d apparently “never agreed to do a live show of that scale”? She swiftly disappeared from TV full stop after the kerfuffle, making way for new AusNTM host Sarah Murdoch, seemingly never to be heard of again. Until…
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Scientology Thwarted (For Now)
8:15PM Andrew Belonsky | The Scientologists had their henchmen remove that scary jargon video. A new one is here.
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Melanie Griffith Is Bad And Good At Rehab
8:15PM Andrew Belonsky | Melanie Griffith’s drying out, an Amy Winehouse love letter sparks a lawsuit and Robin Williams may channel Susan Boyle. That — and more — in your Tuesday Gossip Roundup. Delicious! More »
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Lindsay Lohan Having Awful Week Of Unintended Confiscation
1:30AM Foster Kamer | Lindsay Lohan’s house may have been broken into, live! Katie Holmes inspired creepy Scientology fashion lines. Charles Dickens was a ladies’ man’s mumma’s boy. Jeremy Piven: alive. Bill Clinton: bedbugged. Anna Paquin: nekkid. Presenting your Monday Morning Gossip Roundup: More »
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