An interesting story about Sydney Scientologist Andrew Banks:
It’s been several years since he quit Sydney to live the Beverly Hills dream, but self-made multi-millionaire turned freshly minted television celebrity Andrew Banks welcomes his new-found fame courtesy of Channel Ten’s Shark Tank series, in which he plays one of the “sharks” with a fat cheque book to invest in promising businesses.
“We don’t have a home in Sydney anymore, the kids have married Americans so we have made our home there too,” he told PS this week, adding that he enjoyed living in Los Angeles because “the people there are often much more open-minded than they are here in Australia.”
And that is probably a good thing, given his family’s involvement in the often controversial Church of Scientology.
“I don’t discuss my personal spiritual beliefs in public but the wonderful thing about LA is that people are not quite as judgmental about things, and that’s been a great thing for us. I wouldn’t say we have become heavily involved in it, that wouldn’t be correct … but I will say that people can be a little myopic in Australia,” Banks said.>>
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