Gwen Shamblin: Last News

Sarah Paulson is set to play a controversial figure in an upcoming HBO Max series. According to Deadline, the 47-year-old actress will play author and cult-like figure Gwen Shamblin. The series will be a scripted adaptation of The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, an HBO Max docuseries about Shamblin.  New role: Sarah Paulson is set to play a controversial figure in an upcoming HBO Max series (pictured 2018)Michelle Dean will serve as the series' showrunner. She was also the showrunner on The Act, a biopic limited series starring Joey King and Patricia Arquette.  Shamblin first rose to prominence for creating the Christian-based diet program Weigh Down Workshop. She then went on to found the Remnant Fellowship Church though she was later accused of 'emotional, psychological and physical abuse and exploitation for the church’s alleged cult-like practices,' according to Deadline's article.  Another real person: According to Deadline, the 47-year-old actress will play author and cult-like figure Gwen Shamblin Diet program: Shamblin first rose to prominence for creating the Christian-based diet program Weigh Down Workshop Controversial: She then went on to found the Remnant Fellowship Church though she was later accused of 'emotional, psychological and physical abuse and exploitation for the church’s alleged cult-like practices,' according to Deadline's article Shamblin and her husband Joe Lara died in a plane crash last year after three episodes of The Way Down were produced. The team behind the docuseries then interviewed others about the church she created and its practices for the last couple episodes. Paulson isn't new to becoming a real person on screen.

Addie Morfoot Contributor With the success of long-format cult-exposé documentaries such as Hulu’s “Stolen Youth,” HBO’s “The Vow” and Netflix’s “Wild Wild Country,” it’s not surprising that both Amazon and Netflix greenlit competing docuseries about Twin Flames Universe – an alleged online love cult run by YouTube influencers Jeff and Shaleia Divine.Amazon’s “Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe” is being released on Oct. 6, a month before Netflix’s “Escaping Twin Flames.”“Desperately Seeking Soulmate” is based on journalist Alice Hines’ 2020 Vanity Fair article about the “always online, all-consuming world of Twin Flames Universe.” The article and subsequent docuseries, which Hines leads, takes a deep dive into the alleged online love cult, which is still active.

Jennifer Grey has shared a sneak peek of her transformation into Christian cult leader Gwen Shamblin for the upcoming Lifetime series Starving for Salvation.The Dirty Dancing actress, 62, was unrecognizable channeling the late diet guru with her signature voluminous blonde hair style.She cast a cold and expressionless face in a photo shared to her Instagram account on Monday. 'Call me Gwen': Jennifer Grey has shared a sneak peek of her transformation into Christian cult leader Gwen Shamblin for the upcoming Lifetime film Starving for Salvation'call me gwen #starvingforsalvation #gwenshamblin @lifetime wig: @robpickens hair: @lynelapiana monitor grab: @nancydarabennett,' Jennifer captioned the photo.Jennifer appeared to share another glimpse at her new role with a photo shared last week.

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Grey is the latest actress to don the big hair to play cult-like figure Gwen Shamblin on television.

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has given a green light to How To Murder Your Husband, one of the network’s new Ripped from the Headlines movies announced today, starring Cybill Shepherd (The Client List) and Steve Guttenberg (Ballers, Diner). It’s slated for premiere on Saturday, January 14 at 8 pm/7c.

Sarah Paulson is set to play Gwen Shamblin, the founder of a diet program Weigh Down Workshop and Remnant Fellowship, in a scripted version of the investigative docuseries, The Way Down.

Sarah Paulson is set to star and exec produce the HBO Max scripted adaptation of its docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin.

Kate Aurthur editor Sarah Paulson is no stranger to playing real people: Among other roles, she won an Emmy award for her portrayal of Marcia Clark in 2016’s “The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” and was recently nominated for an Emmy for “Impeachment: American Crime Story” for playing Linda Tripp. Now, Paulson is attached to star and executive produce the scripted adaptation of “The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin,”  which HBO Max is developing from its own five-part docuseries. Michelle Dean, who was the co-creator of the 2019 Hulu limited series “The Act,” is the showrunner of the scripted adaptation. HBO Max dropped the first three episodes of Marina Zenovich’s investigative docuseries “The Way Down” on Sept. 30 of last year. It detailed Gwen Shamblin Lara’s rise from being a diet guru with her Weigh Down Workshop (launched in 1986) to the founding of her Tennessee church, Remnant Fellowship, in 1999. According to ex-congregants and diet followers featured in “The Way Down,” Shamblin Lara exerted unwelcome, cult-leader-like control over their lives.

Kate Aurthur editor The Aug. 6 address before the assembly at Remnant Fellowship — delivered to an in-person gathering in Brentwood, TN, and via webcast to anyone who might want to watch — began typically enough, with congregants watching an old video sermon from Gwen Shamblin Lara, the church’s late founder who died in a plane crash on May 29, 2021. What happened after the video portion ended, though, was unusual. In a portion of the sermon, obtained by Variety, Elizabeth Hannah, Lara’s daughter and a leader at Remnant, called in, as she sometimes does. But instead of her usual teachings for Saturday service, Hannah delivered a homily of schadenfreude aimed directly at HBO Max, the enemy of Remnant and the Shamblin family.

EXCLUSIVE: 7M Films, a management company that represents social media stars and TikTok dancers and is at the center of a controversy accusing it of being cult-like, is set to be the subject of a new documentary series.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed & The Cult of Gwen Shamblin is set to be adapted as a scripted series.

Chrissy Teigen shared stories about Tee-ball and the tooth fairy during an appearance on Monday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.The 36-year-old model appeared on the NBC talk show in an orange and grey slip dress to promote the documentary seriesThe Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin.Jimmy, 47, after playing a new game with Chrissy opened his interview by asking about her two children with husband John Legend, 43. Family life: Chrissy Teigen shared stories about Tee-ball and the tooth fairy during an appearance on Monday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'They are so good.

Chrissy Teigen looked business chic as she attended the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, on Saturday.The 36-year-old model was there to promote her documentary miniseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, of which she is the executive producer.The cookbook author donned a stylish black blazer for the occasion, over a white top casually tied in a knot at the front. Chic:Chrissy Teigen looked business chic as she attended the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, to promote her documentary miniseries The Way DownJohn Legend's wife paired the cool laid-back look with oversized blue jeans, and added an element of sparkle to the outfit with square-toe rhinestone heels.

The team behind HBO Max docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed & The Cult of Gwen Shamblin debuted footage from its second part at SXSW.

The star of Tarzan: The Epic Adventures has died after a small plane crash in Tennessee this weekend.