oh, has anyone ever told you you look just like.... (and it's not good...)

[CaptainKarvol]

DELIA SMITH.

I mean, what????? How could she? I shouldn't have come into work today if I'd known someone was going to say something like that to me

And the worst thing is that someone else once told me this (about 10 years ago) and I've never got over it. She has always been a byword for 'eeugh' in my mum's book. So I've just been told (for the second time) that I look like someone who my mum has always said is revolting. Great.

Jeez. What can I do so that I look less like Delia bleedin' Smith?

Given that I have short dark hair and am just ordinary looking. And I'm 37.

I'm gutted. Really, quite seriously upset.

less of the gorgeous ones, please...

my uncle used to tell my mum that she looked like cindy lauper.

i used to get jordan when i was slimmer quite often. i have big boobs and had highlights in long hair. and britney once or twice i really didnt understand that one at all! i look nothing like her at all. we are the same age thats it!!!

im sure you dont really look delia! maybe she meant that you looked like a domestic goddess? all tidy and well kept?

Lisa Stansfield - and she is shit loads older then me!

And years ago someone told me I look like Rob Lowe - er I am a girl?????

Janine from Eastenders

Grand

(I saw her once in Richmond and she was wearing the coat in the picture, she looked nice to be fair. In that v. polished, minted sort of way where it's hard not to look good)

Oh god, please don't let my Janine-a-likeness kill the thread - surely someone's been told thay look like Pauline Fowler??

CaptainKarvol am in sympathy
In my 20s, I got told by a group of my patients on a ward,
LADIES: 'ooh DrDR, we have worked out who you look like'(excitedly, pleased emtion)
ME:'oh, who ' (thinks juliette lewis, jenifer aniston etc )
GROUP OF LADIES:'Celia Imrie'
Me:thump as jaw hits ground

DR

Tangentially...

Did you know that Celia Imrie is the voice of Nurse Sally the Hippo in Hilltop Hospital, cracks me up...

Oh Cariboo, I empathise, I too get the Cyndi Lauper thing.

"yes, that is a bit vicious! "

Pot and kettle eh littlelapin?

I was once asked if I was the eldest one in The Railway Children! ERRRRMMM, no - I may be old, but I ain't that old .

I was once told that I looked like a chubbier version of Amanda Holden (nooooooo !)

I once told somebody that my son though she looked like Jo Brand! She tspeak to me for a month!

A few years later, I told her she reminded me of Margo from the Good Life, she doesn't talk to me at all now !

I have been told by 4 different people that I look like Jade goody

Fern Britton (frequently including complete strangers stopping me in the street to tell me this) and Princess Ann

Even the good one had a kicker. Someone told me I looked "Like Brigitte Bardot...but as she is now"

Sally Webster from Coronation Street.

David Dickenson (and it was my kids who thought it - double )

Liza Minelli.

Cheryl from Girls aloud. I get this a lot. I don't like it.

Any of you tried this?

I'd far rather be Chezza from Girls aloud than Jade farking Goody

Little Mo from Eastenders... could have been big Mo I suppose.

Lol lol lol at this. Mine's Barbara Streisand. I promise I don't look a bit like her.

my ds says i look like aunt bessi

I just did the face recognition and I got:

Helena Christensen
Selma Blair
Heidi Klum
Melinda Clark (don't know who she is)
Ashley Tisdale (again, no clue)
Paris Hilton (..)
Dannii Minogue
and... Cheryl Cole!