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So Who Do You Look Like?

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TheFrugalPiggy Fri 26-Jun-20 10:50:03

In my youth I was often likened to Sarah Ferguson, but with dark brown hair. I also had/have some of her personality traits - the good ones I'm sure. wink. When I look in the mirror I believe I can see the resemblance.

So who have you been likened to and do you agree?

Chewbacca Fri 26-Jun-20 23:54:55

grin harrigran

rubysong Sat 27-Jun-20 00:14:34

Years ago some people who worked for DH said I was like Delia Smith. I never saw it myself, however, more recently when I went (briefly) blonde I saw a picture of Grayson Perry. It was like looking in the mirror!

LadyGracie Sat 27-Jun-20 09:46:19

I was always told I looked like Wendy Craig, I still do but I’m a lot younger grin

TerryM Sat 27-Jun-20 09:54:35

My father for which I am grateful. There was a very dark humour about that.
My maternal line goes back at least three direct generations with dementia. So the joke was as I have dad's fat genes and not mum's beauty I better have dad's brain.
Still hoping to have his brain genes

knspol Sat 27-Jun-20 09:55:08

In younger days often told I looked like Cilla Black. Nowadays when I look in the mirror it's either my mother or Camilla Parker Bowles!

Taliya Sat 27-Jun-20 09:57:43

In my twenties in the 1980s people used to say I looked like Agnetha from Abba, sadly I didn't have the singing talent?

SparklyGrandma Sat 27-Jun-20 10:02:44

Judi Dench, someone told me when I was 25...in real life, completely like one grandmother, build like the other grandmother. Also some say my father.

Grandmabeach Sat 27-Jun-20 10:04:31

In my youth Princess Diana. I did have the same hair style and colour that she had in the early days of marriage. Now I look in the mirror and see my mother and sometimes my grandmother!
My sister was told she looked so much like Diana as she was in the later years that she deliberately died her hair.

longpinknails Sat 27-Jun-20 10:07:10

A taxi driver, in the early 80s when I was about 18, said I looked like Dallas’s Sue Ellen. I was going home with my friend after a night club and I remembered I wasn’t sure what to think at the time!

RomyP Sat 27-Jun-20 10:07:18

When younger I was often told I looked like a cross between a short version of Princess Diana and Bernadette Nolan. Sad to know I've outlived them both. Now I look like a much older version of my toddler granddaughter. ?

wot Sat 27-Jun-20 10:08:50

I look like Worzel Gummidge at the moment.

Nana29 Sat 27-Jun-20 10:09:48

In my youth I was told I looked like Hayley Mills

JaneJANE60 Sat 27-Jun-20 10:11:22

In the late 70s early 80s I was told I looked like Dana. My daughter is told she looks like Fern Cotton. I also look like my mum and grandmother as I get older.

lesleybs Sat 27-Jun-20 10:13:24

I also look like my mother, even more as i get older

Fernbergien Sat 27-Jun-20 10:14:45

I have often been told I look French! I then discovered that I had French origins on one side of family.

Buttonjugs Sat 27-Jun-20 10:15:26

My DIL thinks I am a dead ringer for Bette Midler, so much so that she has me as Bette on her phone!

Scrumptious Sat 27-Jun-20 10:15:34

I have been told many times I looked like & had the same characteristics of Diane Keaton I've always thought what a super compliment

Lindylou23 Sat 27-Jun-20 10:16:11

In my 20s I was told I looked like Sophia Loren, even now she's still a beauty, I wish I was.

4allweknow Sat 27-Jun-20 10:16:31

When young it was Doris Day people said I looked like. Same colouring ( at least what we saw in films) and physique. Now, I am my Mother!

brigid18 Sat 27-Jun-20 10:18:19

in the 60's Petula Clarke

pita Sat 27-Jun-20 10:19:23

When I was a child someone said i looked like Nana Miscouri, probably spelt wrong, the Greek singer with long black hair and glasses just like me. Thankfully as a teenager I was told I looked like Victoria Principal, I was happy with that ?

pce612 Sat 27-Jun-20 10:21:45

When I was at school I was told I looked like Veronica Lake (it was the hair, I'm sure) and that famous bust of Nefertiti.
Now I just look like me, but I was once asked, in a petrol station, if I was Brenda Blethyn.

Kenver60 Sat 27-Jun-20 10:23:06

In my younger days I was told I looked like Sandie Shaw .
But now when I look in the mirror I see my mum .

libra10 Sat 27-Jun-20 10:27:22

I decided long ago that I look like Jimmy Krankie (of the Krankies). I'm not much taller, have a round face, and my hairstyle is similar.

Froglady Sat 27-Jun-20 10:27:55

In my 20s people used to think I looked a bit like Wendy Craig but a few decades on I was said to look like Kathy Burke of comedian fame! Know which one I preferred!