People You've Been Mistaken For
Discussion
OK, here's another topic to while away the time - who are the most flattering and most soul-destroying people (animals, inanimate objects, etc. don't count but if you've been mistaken for a member of the opposite gender I'm sure everyone will want to hear about that!) you have ever been told you look like or, better yet, have been outright mistaken for?
On the good side (I think) I've been told I look like:
(a) Tom Cruise (twice)
(b) Ronan Keating (lost count)
(Before you get excited ladies, I really don't think I look anything like Tom Cruise or Ronan Keating - no-one was more baffled to be told that than I was!)
On the bad side:
(a) Brian, the g@y bloke off big brother (twice)
I've never been mistaken for anyone famous, more's the pity, I'm just waiting for the day I get mistaken for a famous rock star by a wannabe groupie!
On the good side (I think) I've been told I look like:
(a) Tom Cruise (twice)
(b) Ronan Keating (lost count)
(Before you get excited ladies, I really don't think I look anything like Tom Cruise or Ronan Keating - no-one was more baffled to be told that than I was!)
On the bad side:
(a) Brian, the g@y bloke off big brother (twice)
I've never been mistaken for anyone famous, more's the pity, I'm just waiting for the day I get mistaken for a famous rock star by a wannabe groupie!
pigme said:
Unfortunate!
Reminds me that my cousin (one and a half years older than me) once got mistken for my dad by a girl I'd just met when we were out one night!
Fortunately, he was out of earshot and no-one ever told him (he's quite a big bloke).
Also used to have a mate called, wait for it... Mike Gilette, (sp? as in the razor). He got mistaken for the big-haired guitar maestro Brian May from Queen! Laugh? I nearly p!ssed myself!
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My Dad
Unfortunate! Reminds me that my cousin (one and a half years older than me) once got mistken for my dad by a girl I'd just met when we were out one night!
Fortunately, he was out of earshot and no-one ever told him (he's quite a big bloke). Also used to have a mate called, wait for it... Mike Gilette, (sp? as in the razor). He got mistaken for the big-haired guitar maestro Brian May from Queen! Laugh? I nearly p!ssed myself!
bizzony said:
I have a mate who is a total double for Harry Potter - he even has a scar on his forehead in exactly the right place! He works for the same company as me so I'll see if I can get a link to his passport photo!
quote:No way! I hope you punched the person responsible!?
the woman from fairground attraction!
I have a mate who is a total double for Harry Potter - he even has a scar on his forehead in exactly the right place! He works for the same company as me so I'll see if I can get a link to his passport photo!
Some woman stumbled up to our table in some sh1tty pub and asked my mate in all seriousness if he was George Clooney. This was amazing, becoz he is in fact a fat irish bastard. Not a bad looking F.I.B. by the way, but he doesn't look much like George Clooney. And why she thought George Clooney might be hanging out in a crap pub nr Liverpool Str in a suit after work is beyond me too.
One more ... few of us were trying to get into Major Tom's crap night club in Dublin. Bouncer isn't having any of it. So genius in residence, James Toolbox Read, grabs a stranger off the street and pushes him at the bouncer saying "But look! We're with Melvyn Bragg!" ... so the bouncer lets us in. The bloke looked nothing like Melvyn Bragg, and nothing had fundamentally changed ... we were still a pissed up bunch of English w*nkers. But now the bouncer was happy.
Gustavo Poyet (footballer) - by the staff of the Tower Thistle Hotel restaurant
Paul Merson (sp?) (footballer) - by some bird in a club in Brighton
Gerard Depardieu () (Big Nosed French Film Gumby)- By someone who never did get the thorough shoeing they deserved. 
FWIW, the only one of those three to whom I might bear any resemblence whatsoever is Paul Merson.
Paul Merson (sp?) (footballer) - by some bird in a club in Brighton
Gerard Depardieu (
) (Big Nosed French Film Gumby)- By someone who never did get the thorough shoeing they deserved. FWIW, the only one of those three to whom I might bear any resemblence whatsoever is Paul Merson.
Tim Henman. Never picked up a tennis bat in my life...
Another funny tale of mistaken identity: a female, lacrosse and rugby playing friend of mine was in the Ladies in a club wearing a rugby shirt and baseball cap and heard from behind her "get out of here you pervert, this is the ladies!". Cue horribly embarrased girl when she turned around and pointed her 36DDs at her...
Another funny tale of mistaken identity: a female, lacrosse and rugby playing friend of mine was in the Ladies in a club wearing a rugby shirt and baseball cap and heard from behind her "get out of here you pervert, this is the ladies!". Cue horribly embarrased girl when she turned around and pointed her 36DDs at her...
quote:For me its every fcuking day.
harry potter (today)
At my previous place of work it was what people called me. Even over the bloody tannoy 
I'm sure a lot of people didn't actually know my real name. I was mistaken for a woman the other day too. Bloody cheek...
>> Edited by mattjbatch on Wednesday 4th September 23:54
Mate's wife thinks I look like Suggs from Madness but I can't see it.
He isn't ginger is he?
Chris Evans without the specs, blah blah
And once in The Shepherd's Bush Empire, while at a Brian Setzer Orcestra gig, I saw my ABSOLITE DOUBLE right in front of the stage. Couldn't get to him though. I'd have asked him why I'm a twat if I had.
He isn't ginger is he?
Chris Evans without the specs, blah blah
And once in The Shepherd's Bush Empire, while at a Brian Setzer Orcestra gig, I saw my ABSOLITE DOUBLE right in front of the stage. Couldn't get to him though. I'd have asked him why I'm a twat if I had.
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