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Do you, or anyone in your family, look like anyone famous?

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Kandinsky Wed 24-Aug-22 09:19:46

My dh looks a bit like Martin Shaw ( judge John Deed, The Professionals etc )

pen50 Fri 26-Aug-22 11:31:51

20 years ago, I was mistaken - by a London taxi driver - for Kate O'Mara. Apart from the fact that she was born 17 years before me, it was tolerably good for the soul...

Annaram1 Fri 26-Aug-22 11:32:08

I used to look like Julie Christie as she was in Dr. Zhivago. Sadly not now.

Twopence Fri 26-Aug-22 11:34:09

Late FIL looked like Rex Harrison.

Mishy Fri 26-Aug-22 11:35:35

I've been mistaken for Cilla Black a number of times and DH looks like John Major and found it difficult to travel on the tube during his premiership.

Ashcombe Fri 26-Aug-22 11:47:56

As a teenager, I was told I looked like Julie Felix, a folk singer on The Frost Report in the Sixties. We both had long, dark straight hair.

Later, I had short, permed hair which apparently made me resemble Joan Collins!

Thirdinline Fri 26-Aug-22 11:50:59

My husband bore a passing resemblance to Mel Smith & a friend looked very like Princess Diana. Sadly neither of those celebrities are still with us, so their chances of earning £££s as lookalikes has gone with them. DS1 looks like Ed Sheeran, but without the tattoos

Thirdinline Fri 26-Aug-22 11:53:13

I forgot my Grandad: he was mistaken for Benjamin Britten once at Lords. Having seen photos of the composer I can confirm that they did look very alike. Both long gone now though.

inishowen Fri 26-Aug-22 12:03:15

My hubby looks like Gene Pitney.

sustar Fri 26-Aug-22 12:06:47

From my late teens various random people - eg people in the street, shop assistant, taxi driver, relatives of friends and so on - told me I looked like Bette Davis. I never saw it myself, and unfortunately no one has told me that since I turned 50 (all too long ago)!

pascal30 Fri 26-Aug-22 12:24:31

I used to be told I looked like Anouk Aimee

missdeke Fri 26-Aug-22 12:41:05

When I was younger my friend's mum said I was a dead ringer for Marain Faithfull, no-one else did though. But when I used to work in photographic production a colleague from the weddings section asked if I enjoyed the wedding at the weekend. I hadn't been to a wedding so she showed me the photos. If I hadn't known I hadn't been even I would have thought it was me right down to the same hairstyle and glasses!

hollysteers Fri 26-Aug-22 12:44:49

My sister resembled Julie Walters, a close friend (dead at 37?) was the absolute spit of Bamber Gascoigne and I apparently look like Jane MacDonald. I hear it a lot and a friend went along with it when on holiday and the people on the next table remarked on it. She stood up and said
“What would you like to drink Jane?”?
I don’t sound like her, but I do like a nice pie…

Blossom5 Fri 26-Aug-22 12:46:13

When i was a teenager a lot of people told me I looked like Liza Minelli, I look more like a wrinkled prune now lol

Scottiebear Fri 26-Aug-22 12:47:22

As a young teenager I was constantly being told I looked like Hayley Mills.

Leosgaggy Fri 26-Aug-22 12:48:48

I remember someone telling me as a child that I looked like Princess Anne (a huge compliment in those deferential times). I was very flattered and begged my mother to get me a kilt to enhance the likeness. We lived in a tropical country at the time so, needless to say, she didn’t.

Iwtwab12bow Fri 26-Aug-22 12:55:54

I look and speak a bit like Joanna Lumley and when my husband was younger, he looked like Michael Caine.

pce612 Fri 26-Aug-22 12:58:42

Some years ago, I was fuelling up the car and a woman asked me if I was Brenda Blethyn.

Paperbackwriter Fri 26-Aug-22 13:07:05

When I was about 17 I looked a lot like Cathy MacGowan. No longer, though!

fuseta Fri 26-Aug-22 13:27:51

My DS looked like Hugh Grant at the time that 4 weddings and a funeral came out. When we moved and he started a new college cours he was asked to stand up and introduce himself. The teacher commented that he looked just like Hugh Grant and DS piped up 'No, Hugh Grant looks like me actually'!

PamSJ1 Fri 26-Aug-22 13:31:10

My late husband (when younger) looked like Elvis. I recently went to see the Elvis movie with my son and daughter. My daughter came out commenting that she could see the resemblance that I had talked about.

Foxyferret Fri 26-Aug-22 13:40:31

When I was younger, I was told I looked like the late Judith Durham from The Seekers. If only I had been able to have her wonderful voice also.

GrauntyHelen Fri 26-Aug-22 13:47:33

I was once described as a thinner taller Dawn French I used her as a profile pic for a while and noone realised it wasn't me lol

Sawsage2 Fri 26-Aug-22 14:10:57

My OH ĺooks like Sting.

SparklyGrandma Fri 26-Aug-22 14:16:15

When my father grew a beard in the 1970’s he looked like Rolf Harris.

We then all of us got called ‘Rolf’ at school for about six months. Even the girls.

libra10 Fri 26-Aug-22 15:02:53

Jimmy Krankie!