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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 )

Wyllow3 Mon 01-May-23 18:46:00

When young was told I looked like Julie Andrews.

Got any clones, Kandinsky?

Ashcombe Mon 01-May-23 18:52:02

As a teenager with long dark hair, I was told more than once that I resembled Julie Felix, a folk/protest singer who regularly appeared on The Frost Report.

www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/24/julie-felix-obituary

A photo taken during Charades, Christmas, 2021 for comparison.

overthehill Mon 01-May-23 19:18:47

As a child I apparently looked like the child star Hayley Mills. A few people remarked on this, so guess I must have.
Hubs looked liked Alan Davies in earlier years then developed into Harold Shipman.....oh dear!

bytheway Mon 01-May-23 19:42:25

My son looks like Jon Richardson (comedian) and my b-I-l like Michael McIntyre. Neither is particularly funny though 😜

bytheway Mon 01-May-23 19:44:53

As a much younger lady I was told on more than one occasion that I looked liked Lady Diane, i really don’t but put it down to a similar hair cut and colour, and also living in the north (when I was raised in the Home Counties) I think they thought I sounded posh…I’m truly not.

Aldom Mon 01-May-23 19:46:54

My brother looked very like Ring Star and was often asked to sign autographs. grin

AreWeThereYet Mon 01-May-23 19:47:05

...said I looked like the actress Frances de la Tour

Sadly me too 😰 Although as I get older I'm beginning to think I look more like a horse 😂

Aldom Mon 01-May-23 19:48:07

RINGO grin

Bubbe Mon 01-May-23 20:17:44

Lady Diana looked very like me ~ but I was the one with short legs and dark hair. I could never understand why she was considered a beauty.

rubysong Mon 01-May-23 22:27:19

I was referred to as 'Delia Smith' in the past by my DH's workmates. A few years ago, when I was (briefly) blonde, I saw a photo of Grayson Perry. Oh dear, it was me!

Hetty58 Mon 01-May-23 22:44:56

People say I look just like Anneka Rice - but no, - she looks like me, as I'm older!

Witzend Tue 02-May-23 11:23:33

When she had fairly well advanced dementia and was in a care home, my mother used to think that Noel Edmonds (on the care home TV) was my brother! (In the room!)
When I told him, he was horrified to think he looked anything like him!
(He did, just a bit, though.)

Skydancer Tue 02-May-23 11:31:43

|Someone in my family IS famous but I guess I had better not say on here.

twinnytwin Tue 02-May-23 11:38:41

Years ago, there was a huge billboard poster of Peter Sutcliffe the Yorkshire Ripper near where I worked in Coventry, and so many folk commented how much my husband (now ex) looked like him.
To me, my son-in-law is the image of Taron Egerton who played Elton John in the recent biopic. No-one else agrees.
My twin sister and I both used to be compared to Denise Welch, and mistaken for each other too of course!

AreWeThereYet Tue 02-May-23 13:32:10

My SiL looks like Keeley Hawes - beautiful cheek bones and skin. There used to be pictures all over Boots of Keely Hawes and every time I saw them I did a double-take.

Marydoll Tue 02-May-23 13:41:39

My pupils used to call me, Anne Robinson.
We did look alike. The only difference was that I was scarier.😉

Myfriend was a dead ringer for Barbara Streisand. We were youth hostelling in Oban, of all places, where we were pursued by Japanese tourists, wanting her autograph.

HousePlantQueen Tue 02-May-23 15:02:07

My late Father looked like Jimmy Greaves the footballer, when he was in his forties.

Poppyred Tue 02-May-23 16:05:52

My DH used to get mistaken for Ian Rush (liverpool footballer).

Clairefontaine Tue 02-May-23 17:03:13

One of our DDs has often been mistaken for Natalie Portman.

SachaMac Tue 02-May-23 17:41:02

When much younger I used to get told I looked like Twiggy (I’ve plonked a few pounds on since then) in the 70’s some of my friends used to say my lovely late dad resembled John Thaw in his Sweeney days. We also had a neighbour who was the spitting image of Bella Emberg.