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Celebrity Centres are Church of Scientology centers that are open to the public but serve mostly artists and celebrities and other "professionals, leaders and promising new-comers in the fields of the arts, sports, management and government," and "for those are the people who are sculpting the present into the future." [1] The Celebrity Centre International was established in Hollywood, California, in 1969 by Yvonne Gilham, a Sea Org member who worked with L. Ron Hubbard. Since then, other centers have been established in London, Paris, and a number of other cities across the world.

The Church often quotes L. Ron Hubbard as saying that A culture is only as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamed by artists, citing this as the reason that Celebrity Centres were established - to create a good environment for "artists". Critics of Scientology point to the fact that Hubbard launched "Project Celebrity" in 1955 to recruit celebrities into the church and say that the centres were established for this purpose, because celebrity members give Scientology the publicity it needs to recruit more members. [2]

The Centre features a restaurant, a spa, a hotel and classrooms for the teaching of various celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Kelly Preston and other special dignitaries, such as Cruise's mother.

The head of the Centre is Tom Davis, the son of actress and Scientologist Anne Archer.

The Church consistently uses the British spelling, Celebrity Centre over the American spelling.

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