NAMES IN THE NEWS : Tammy Look-Alike Cashes In

With batting eyelashes and smudged mascara, a north Georgia woman is a traffic-stopping look-alike of Tammy Faye Bakker, and is cashing in on it on the party circuit.

Teresa Martens, 42, of Rome said she jokingly told her daughter’s modeling agent about the time she dressed up and was mistaken for the televangelist.

Now, “she’s the hottest thing I’ve got,” said Shirley Lowry, owner of Party People in Atlanta. Party People books celebrity look-alikes for special events in the Atlanta area. Rates are $100 an hour or $500 a day.

“When I tell people my list of celebrity look-alikes, people laugh when I say Tammy Faye’s name,” Lowry said. “Tammy Faye Bakker is the most wanted look-alike.”