Jamie DeWolf, L. Ron Hubbard Great-Grandson, Gaining More Notoriety for His Views on Scientology
Kudos to CBS Channel 5 in the San Francisco Bay Area for putting the full 12-minute, raw interview they did with Jamie DeWolf up on their website.
We can't help point out what we said about Jamie last year: "Jamie DeWolf has the opportunity, with his talent for writing and even more talent for delivery, to become a major embarrassment to Scientology, and it sounds like he's just beginning to tap that potential."
We wrote that last summer when we named Jamie #22 on our list, Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, and we heard some grumbling from readers who said he wasn't well known enough to be included with the rest of the people on that accounting.
But we noted that he's actually been around for quite a while, talking about Scientology on occasion. It was in 2000 that he was invited to Clearwater by the folks at the Lisa McPherson Trust, who asked him to make his first public performance. He called it an incoherent mess, and was surprised when it got a reaction from the church -- in the form of a couple of goons visiting his mother.
He then kept pretty quiet about Scientology until last year, when he was asked by a friend to put together a performance piece about his famous great-grandfather. When video of that performance began to spread, we took notice of it. Here's that spell-binding stage monologue...
Our piece about that brought Jamie to the notice of the Washington Post, but since then he's again been more concerned with the performances of his troupe, Tourettes Without Regrets, as it competes in shows around the country.
Then, the TomKat split happened. In the last few weeks, Jamie's been much in demand, and it's been a real pleasure to see him get the attention he deserves.
Inside Edition, which has been doing some really great stuff on Scientology lately, featured Jamie on a recent program.
Jamie contacted me when that show was being prepared. He said that Tom Cruise was turning out to be "the gateway drug" for news organizations now in a feeding frenzy for Scientology news.
He's got a point there!
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