Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Unfortunate celebrity/public figure lookalikes

112 replies

Redheadedstepchild · 15/02/2025 17:39

I've just realised that JD Vance is the absolute dead spit of my dad at the same age. When he's with Atlas the German Shepherd the double doppelganger effect of Vance/Atlas, our dog/dad is quite uncanny. I'm going to lie down quietly now. Has anything like this happened in your life? (Lighthearted.)

OP posts:
CherryRipe1 · 17/02/2025 17:57

My sister looks like Debbie harry. Her son, my nephew, looked like Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet & got threatened by two casuals aiming to duff him over because he was that New Romantic w#nk#r

BobbyBiscuits · 18/02/2025 12:33

@Simonjt @Friendofdennis I can't believe there's two other people with a West-alike?!

catin8oots · 18/02/2025 12:45

There's a young picture of Fred West that could easily be mistaken for DS1 aged about 15

Mymanyellow · 18/02/2025 12:56

My ex bil looks like a cross between John Prescott and Nick Griffiths from the BNP.
His politics are not the same as Nick’s though.

MyFavouriteSpoon · 18/02/2025 13:01

When I was a teenager I resembled Ian Beale. Not good.

HailtotheBop · 18/02/2025 13:37

My Dad apparently looks like Woody Allen! Unfortunate.

PrehistoricMonster · 18/02/2025 13:51

My DH is the spitting image of Adrien Brody, I cannot unsee it😄

Soonenough · 18/02/2025 14:29

My Ex also looked like Peter Sutcliffe . I noticed a passport size picture on a corkboard and wondered why he would pin a picture of a serial killer in his home . It was my Ex's photo.

YopMeMama · 18/02/2025 14:38

When she first came onto the scene, I used to get compared with Melanie Slade a lot - we had the same hair, same build, same dress sense. Nothing dramatic, just people saying "Oh, you really look like her" and a few double-takes every so often.

But then I started dating a mixed-race bloke and it got weird. We'd often get stopped and asked for photos, especially if we were on a night out. When we'd tell people that we weren't Theo/Melanie people would get irrationally angry. So fucking odd.

SunsetCocktails · 18/02/2025 14:50

My mum's passport picture from the 1960s looks like Myra Hindley 😬

TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis · 18/02/2025 14:54

My dad is a spit of an ex Archbishop of Canterbury. Frequently accosted in public. Always a worry whenever there was/is a scandal about one of them.

Xenomoth · 18/02/2025 14:59

My (lovely) MIL is the spitting image of Blanche from Coronation Street.

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 18/02/2025 15:01

Xenomoth · 18/02/2025 14:59

My (lovely) MIL is the spitting image of Blanche from Coronation Street.

Blanche what a legend.

Cattery · 18/02/2025 15:03

Soonenough · 18/02/2025 14:29

My Ex also looked like Peter Sutcliffe . I noticed a passport size picture on a corkboard and wondered why he would pin a picture of a serial killer in his home . It was my Ex's photo.

🤣🤣🤣

KnoblesseOblige · 18/02/2025 15:05

hereismydog · 15/02/2025 20:11

Oh, and DP is an absolute dead ringer for Teddy Swims! The face, the beard, everything apart from the facial tattoos and flamboyant dress sense.

Ohhhh I have such a crush on Teddy Swims. Lucky you!

Xenomoth · 18/02/2025 15:07

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 18/02/2025 15:01

Blanche what a legend.

Total legend. MIL has the same fiery temperament too so it’s just perfect.

MayaPinion · 18/02/2025 15:08

My ex looked like Eric Cantona in his prime. When we lived in Manchester in the 90s girls would try to chat him up all the time, and would even elbow me out of the way!

Coffeeishot · 18/02/2025 15:11

Steve McFadden (phill Mitchell)is starting to look like my step dad it's really odd .

DuchessDissasster · 18/02/2025 15:20

My dad looked like Elvis at one time then Saddam Hussein 😂

DuchessDissasster · 18/02/2025 15:22

There was a woman in my Zumba class who was a cross between Fred West and Tommy Cooper 😬

TinyRebel · 18/02/2025 15:27

My dad looked just like David Jason when they were both younger.

Coffeeishot · 18/02/2025 15:28

This is terrible but my friends Aunty looked like Les Dawson !

RosaMoline · 18/02/2025 15:30

My Dad (RIP) looked like Peter Sellers.
DS looks like Rodney in OFAH.
I’ve been told on many occasions (when young and present day…late 50s) I resemble Carrie Fisher.

thenightsky · 18/02/2025 15:33

RhannionKPSS · 15/02/2025 23:26

My dad looked like William Shatner, Captain Kirk from Star Trek when I was little, he grew into Captain Mainwaring from Dad’s Army in his later years.

That's funny. My dad looked like Leonard Nimoy, Spock from Star Trek Grin

My sister looked like Princess Diana. They were the same age too.

DareDevil223 · 18/02/2025 15:36

TobiasForgesContactLense · 15/02/2025 19:15

My Dad looks like Harold Bishop from Neighbours.

My late dad did as well, to the level that he would be approached on holiday and asked if he was the actor Grin

Swipe left for the next trending thread