If the name Vince Offer doesn’t ring a bell, “ShamWow Guy” almost certainly will. Vince Offer, known as Billy Mays’s successor in the business of shilling super-absorbent towels, has been a member of the Church of Scientology since 1982, when he was an aspiring filmmaker. He allegedly got kicked out of the church in 1997, however, when church officials disapproved of a straight-to-DVD-film Offer was producing, called The Underground Comedy Movie (Slash was in it). And although in 1999 he’d been let back in, by 2004 Offer’s relationship with the church had soured again. He filed a complaint against the church in “a quest to expose the human cruelty and destructive practices committed, still to this day, by the Church of Scientology's leadership helmed by David Miscavige.”