Vanity Fair & Scientology Brouhaha Over Tom Cruise Girlfriend Auditions

Vanity Fair has reported on how the Church of Scientology had apparently conducted auditions to find a girlfriend for their poster-boy member, Tom Cruise. Scientologists and Cruise’s legal representatives have now vehemently denied the claims, calling them “tired old lies” and “hogwash”.

What’s particularly interesting is that the claims just don’t seem all that remarkable, compared to many other well-documented incidents involving the Church of Scientology and Tom Cruise. This doesn’t seem to quite qualify as “scandalous”, though it’s being reported upon as if it were. The fact that Cruise or his associates might “audition” or interview candidates for dating isn’t all that unusual — probably many celebrities have staff and friends that might help them with matchmaking to some degree. The more outrageous details involving the Scientology vetting process go on to talk about some women being asked/required to submit to Scientologist counseling/analysis processes for behavioral development, or candidates being dropped as dating partners because of having told someone the secret of being involved with Cruise.

Still, not all that scandalous.

It’s a bit mystifying as to why Cruise and Scientology are all that sensitive about this subject.

What’s funny, though is that their loud denials about the issue have probably resulted in far greater amounts of coverage than otherwise. This is probably a case where attempting to fight against the claims is actually resulting in a much larger news media feeding frenzy.

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