I’ve never heard Katharine McPhee sing”’and, since I avoid American Idol like the plague it is, I never will”’but she’s certainly cute enough to become a star. And she knows how to connect with the audience; AI fans have named her the favorite to win this year’s sham-competition. Also, she has the nutball metaphysics of an authentic celebrity. The tabloid Star (not the most trustworthy source, but they seem to have done their homework on this one) notes that McPhee is into Scientology, according to Celebrity, the magazine of the cult’s Celebrity International Centre in LA. A family friend denied the report, stating flatly: “Katharine says she is not a Scientologist.”
Okay, maybe she’s just dabbling, as part of her personal spiritual quest. Although Celebrity does say McPhee is one of the lucky souls who took the Purification Procedure and Overcoming Life’s Ups and Downs Course, which is even weirder than the name suggests. The “purification procedure” involves gobbling massive doses of niacin, while cleansing your palate with generous gulps of cooking oil”’all of this while sitting in a sauna for a long, long time. Not fun, but it’s the only way to overcome “the biochemical barriers to spiritual gain.” That’s an impressive level of dabbling.
Where this spiritual search will take Katharine, only Xenu knows. Since she’s appearing on Idol, we can assume that her singing career is dead. But she can still hope for some fame by proxy, maybe through an arranged marriage to some other celebrity Scientologist in an effort to kill nagging rumors about his sexuality. Does anyone know how Clay Aiken feels about long, oily saunas?
