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Can I ask, which famous person do you get told you look like?

388 replies

FishingIsNotASport · 07/08/2018 13:18

Some friends were over at the weekend. Their kids love Mrs Doubtfire and had watched it again recently. They told me how much I look like the mum character in the film, Sally Field . My son-in-law then piped up and said "Yeah I thought that too when I first met you". I can't see it myself but it could have been worse (thank the lord they didn't think I look like Robin Williams in drag!).

Can I ask who you get told you look like and whether you're happy with the comparison?

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whatwouldkeithRichardsdo2 · 07/08/2018 15:43

Uma Thurman.

WillowRose79 · 07/08/2018 15:44

Paddy McGuinness wife! Get it all the time, no idea why I cannot see it at all!

MmeGuillotine · 07/08/2018 15:44

I often get told that I look like Drew Barrymore, Kate Winslet and Sophie Dahl, which is a type, I suppose? It'd be churlish of me to be unhappy about it though! :)

WillowRose79 · 07/08/2018 15:45

My husband looks exactly like example. We've even been into clubs and had free drinks because of it

CaitlinsYellowSocks · 07/08/2018 15:46

I once got mistaken for Rosamund Pike, which was nice.

Brainwashed · 07/08/2018 15:46

I was once told I looked like Julie Christie. I don't think I do but it made me very happy!

Cuppaorwine · 07/08/2018 15:47

Katie price Grin

timetodance · 07/08/2018 15:47

Since I was a child I've been told I look like kylie minogue. My hubby gets told he looks like Mark Wright. I think it hilarious and we don't look anything like those people! 😂

userabcname · 07/08/2018 15:57

When I was slimmer - Emma Watson.

MrSpock · 07/08/2018 16:05

Evanna Lynch but with dark hair

thisisannc · 07/08/2018 16:16

I was mistaken for Katherine Ryan a few months ago. At the checkout in an M&S the employee serving me apologised for being nervous and asked me if I know who Katherine is - explaining that he's a big fan of hers and had thought I was her when he saw me walking around.

Although a massive compliment, all it did was make me self-conscious of talking because she has an incredible smile and I have awful teeth (I have braces currently).

I wish I had her wardrobe, money, makeup skills and life in general!

CathyEarnshawsGhost · 07/08/2018 16:37

As a teenager I was told I looked like Candice from Corrie (when Nikki Sanderson would have also been about 16/17 and brunette).

As an adult, I've been told I look like Kirstie Allsop (although I tend to think I look more like the lady on the Aunt Bessie logo from c2010 to last year).

Quite a nice recent surprise though, was being told by a new student that I looked like Summer from Power Rangers. I'll take the loss of over a decade and several stone!

mydogishot · 07/08/2018 16:39

Davina McCall

I've been asked for an autograph.
She is older than me.

CheeseYesPlease · 07/08/2018 16:41

A Kardashian. Must be my long black hair. I always get told I look "exotic" 🤣

FishingIsNotASport · 07/08/2018 16:42

Loving this, what a glamorous and eclectic bunch we are! RoseWhiteTips that's a beautiful image.

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Cuppaorwine · 07/08/2018 16:43

Cheese

Better hair than arse Wink

CookPassBabtridge · 07/08/2018 16:44

Angelina Jolie and Arwen from LOTR, they are being FAR too kind Grin

Ethelswith · 07/08/2018 16:46

Previously, Cameron Diaz. These days, Clare Danes.

I think it's the really flat hair, filthy sense of humour and perpetual look of slight alarm that does it.

IAmInsignificunt · 07/08/2018 16:46

I get Zooey Deschanel or Kate Middleton. I don’t look like either of them at all and they don’t look alike.

DH gets told he looks like Alex from Blur. I wish Grin.

CheeseYesPlease · 07/08/2018 16:46

I am pretty proud of my booty and my curves hahaha never seen one of them girls with a belly sticking out like mine though haha

Toughtips · 07/08/2018 16:46

Perry from little mix. Can't see it myself 😂

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 07/08/2018 16:47

Back in the day I used to get told Cybill Shepard a lot.
It was not long post Moonlighting on the telly Grin

spidey66 · 07/08/2018 16:49

Pauline Quirke. Pisses me off big time.

bringbacksideburns · 07/08/2018 16:51

When I was much younger apparently Michelle Collins when she played Cindy Beale in Eastenders. Then more recently Gordon Brown's wife Hmm

DH has ( when younger) had everything from Nicholas Cage, Seve Ballesteros (golfer) Neil Morrissey ( when they both had the same hair) to Russ Abbott. (!)

Tomatoesrock · 07/08/2018 16:52

Gwen Stefani. So I have been told, Although my hair hasn't been that blonde in over a decade. I do love her style though.