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Jennifer Grey is reaching caller heights successful her latest TV transformation.
The Dirty Dancing prima volition play the controversial precocious Christian fare guru and megachurch person Gwen Shamblin Lara successful the upcoming Lifetime film, Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation, which debuts successful aboriginal 2023. And Jennifer teased her caller relation connected Instagram, sharing a show photograph of herself with Gwen's infamous sky-high hair.
She captioned the Nov. 21 snap, "Call maine gwen #starvingforsalvation #gwenshamblin."
And Jennifer's heavy teased blonde tresses stopped followers successful their tracks with respective pals taking to the comments to telephone retired the uncanny resemblance to Gwen. "OMG‼️‼️‼️‼️" Katie Couric wrote, with actress Sasha Alexander adding, "AH-MA azing!!!!"
Celebrity hairstylist Tracey Cunningham shared a bid of occurrence emojis arsenic Michael J. Fox expressed his daze astatine the transformation, commenting, "Ok….. you person my afloat attention."
Jennifer's caller Lifetime task is 1 of 4 caller films from the web centered connected notorious women, including How to Murder Your Husband writer and killer Nancy Crampton-Brophy, murderer Jodi Arias and Sherri Papini, who faked her ain kidnapping successful 2016.
Starving for Salvation details Gwen Shamblin's hugely palmy Christian value nonaccomplishment program, the Weigh Down Workshop, and her consequent Tennessee-based megachurch Remnant Fellowship.
However, arsenic the movie tracks Gwen's beingness done to her sudden decease successful a 2021 level crash, on with her husband Joe and 5 others, it besides doesn't shy distant from the acheronian underbelly of her pursuits.
"At the highest of her powerfulness and influence," the web notes, "Gwen demanded that religion members alienate themselves from anyone who was not a member, banished those that became overweight, threatened ineligible enactment against dissenters, and advocated for strict punishment of those who failed to travel religion tenets."
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And Jennifer isn't the lone histrion to don Gwen's infamous 'do. Sarah Paulson is acceptable to prima successful an HBO Max adaptation of its 2021 docuseries The Way Down, which followed Gwen's beingness and abrupt demise,
Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation debuts connected Lifetime connected Feb. 4, 2023.
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