The woman who failed her audition to be Tom Cruise's wife

An interesting article in this week's Vanity Fair about a "secret wife-auditioning process" conducted by Scentology for Tom Cruise. The magazine claims that one of the candidates who came pretty far along in the process before Katie Holmes was Nazanin Boniadi.

The Iranian-born, London-raised actress and Scientologist dated Cruise from November 2004 until January 2005. Her preparation began in October 2004, when she was told only that she was preparing for "a very important mission" on behalf of Scientology.

She just didn't quite make the cut, thanks to a couple verbal missteps with Scientology leader David Miscavige and Cruise. Boniadi moved in with Cruise and shared a bedroom, but by the third week of January, she was asked to move into Scientology's Celebrity Centre. Cruise reportedly had the Scientologists do the dirty work of breaking up with his live-in girlfriend.

You can never get tired of reading about Scientology.