Which celebrity have you been mistaken for?

[BigHewer]

An interesting thing happened to me today at the train station. Two older gents approached me, convinced I was the basketball coach Don Beck, which I can assure you I’m not. This is the third or fourth time in my life this has happened. Not always with Don Beck, thankfully .

Just wondering, who else has had this experience? Not just “you look a bit like ————“ but a genuine case of mistaken identity?

[King Cotton]

No, no such mistaken I/Ds that I can recall, apart from Father Christmas a few dozen times, about seventy years ago . . . always late Xmas Eve, too, for some strange reason 

[Changnam43]

Donny Osmond.  I kid you not.

I wasn't flattered.

[BigHewer]

The other “cases” for me were Bennet King, Phillipe Troussier and Tom Selleck. All older than me

When I was in Barbados in 2005, I was mistaken for Bennet King (West Indies cricket coach) several times a day. One guy wouldn’t take no for an answer, so I eventually held my hands up and said, “ok, it’s me”. I then outlined my team tactics for the upcoming test match with Pakistan.

[BigHewer]

5 minutes ago, Changnam43 said:

Donny Osmond.  I kid you not.

I wasn't flattered.

I would be, better than my four, except maybe Tom Selleck.

[Marc26]

Baldwin brothers, all the time

 

As I got fatter I went from the skinniest brother to the fattest brother 5555

[BigHewer]

2 minutes ago, Marc26 said:

Baldwin brothers, all the time

As I got fatter I went from the skinniest brother to the fattest brother 5555

There’s potential there: “The Stephen Baldwin Diet: When you are tired of being mistaken for Alec”

[King Cotton]

14 minutes ago, BigHewer said:

I would be, better than my four, except maybe Tom Selleck.

Yes, Magnum . . . wasn't he such a cool dude!   Looks like he's aged a bit now, though!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Tom_Selleck_at_PaleyFest_2014.jpg

[BigHewer]

1 minute ago, King Cotton said:

Yes, Magnum . . . wasn't he such a cool dude!   Looks like he's aged a bit now, though!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Tom_Selleck_at_PaleyFest_2014.jpg

I know KC and that bugs me a bit. I was in Semarang, Indonesia three years ago and a crowd started following me. My Indonesian wife translated the hoo ha and said “they think you are Tom Selleck”. What? Explained that I wasn’t but they still lined up for photos anyway. Surreal experience.

[NCC1701A]

my older sister's friends said i looked like Paul McCartney when i was 10 years old in 1965. 

i walked into a bar in the late 80's and someone whistled the 007 theme because i look a bit like Pierce Bronson back then. A girl painted herself all gold so she could meet me at a party. 

then in my 40's and 50's people said i look very much like John Cusack.

i would say if you were told to find me in a room by looking at Mr. Cusack's photo would be able to do it. i still have all my hair. 

now after 7 years in Thailand at 66 years old I look like a jaded, tired, sad, burned out porn star. i went from looking 10 years younger than i am to my real age in just two years of living here. 

and after two years of constant eating during lockdown i look like this:

[Marc26]

31 minutes ago, BigHewer said:

There’s potential there: “The Stephen Baldwin Diet: When you are tired of being mistaken for Alec”

Haha

I went from Billy(skinniest) to the fat one above Alec that no one knows 5555

[BigHewer]

My other “experience” was in Bangkok in the early 2000s. I was sat in a restaurant in Sukhumvit Soi 24… “if it swims we have it” or something like that, I was wearing a Japan football jersey and beige slacks, doing paperwork while I waited for my order. Two of the staff approached and addressed me as “Mr. Troussier”. I looked absolutely nothing like him, IMO

[JamesE]

US NASCAR driver Dale Jarrett (he of "Race the Truck" fame a marketing campaign by his primary sponsor UPS.). I was living in NASCAR country, AKA: The South, at the time and it happened a lot.

[Marble-eye]

I was in a pub in Scotland around the Fort William area and a guy there said I looked like Sean Connery, which at the time I took as a compliment. But later in life the likeness was so astounding I began to think I was the great man himself. It all became too much in the end and I had to go to bed with a 'post it note' stuck to my forehead with my name on it, so when I went and looked in the bathroom mirror next day I knew it was me and Sean had not snuck in during the night. 

I did eventually learn how to speak Connerish, but just to impresh the ladish you undershtand. 

[DwizzleyMatthews]

When i lived in Brazil people said that i looked like Mano Menezes , Manager for the Brazilian National side ( 2010-2012 ) and former player.

 

Can see the resemblance.

Over here, a couple of years ago while visiting a Wat a Thai fella insisted on getting a selfie with me without any indication of who he thought i was.

Perhaps an ageing Mano Menezes ??

[Bluesofa]

53 minutes ago, Marble-eye said:

I was in a pub in Scotland around the Fort William area and a guy there said I looked like Sean Connery, which at the time I took as a compliment. But later in life the likeness was so astounding I began to think I was the great man himself. It all became too much in the end and I had to go to bed with a 'post it note' stuck to my forehead with my name on it, so when I went and looked in the bathroom mirror next day I knew it was me and Sean had not snuck in during the night. 

I did eventually learn how to speak Connerish, but just to impresh the ladish you undershtand. 

What happened to the DIY you did to keep your books tidy. I heard it all fell down and you said, "I can only blame my shelf."

[Bluesofa]

Sadly, quite a few people think I look like Mr Bean. Stop laughing.

I don't see it as a compliment, although I wish I had Rowan Atkinson's millions. He's also got a degree in electronics, I never finished mine.

[PapayaBokBok]

George Clooney in BKK--Brad PItt up north,,,,,,,but then again we all look alike to thais...

[BlueSphinx]

When I take off my Blue Sphinx mask I am often mistaken for the legendary Peter Denis.  The resemblance is uncanny in many ways but I am pretty sure the great man wouldn't mind and even be flattered to be confounded with a ThaigerTalk Grand Master...

[Changnam43]

12 hours ago, BigHewer said:

I know KC and that bugs me a bit. I was in Semarang, Indonesia three years ago and a crowd started following me. My Indonesian wife translated the hoo ha and said “they think you are Tom Selleck”. What? Explained that I wasn’t but they still lined up for photos anyway. Surreal experience.

You need to up your eyebrow game.

Selleck's got you well beaten in that department

.

[Saltire]

2 hours ago, Bluesofa said:

Sadly, quite a few people think I look like Mr Bean. Stop laughing.

I don't see it as a compliment, although I wish I had Rowan Atkinson's millions. He's also got a degree in electronics, I never finished mine.

I got the same when I was in China for a few years teaching and all my students called me Mr Bean, but I saw no resemblance at all! Much to my chagrin, about 10 years later I moved to Cambodia again to be greeted with Mr Bean! So it must be true. Have to go crash my Mclaren now.

In real life this happens to me all the time as I have an identiical twin brother. Many times people would say hello to me but I'd not know them, as they worked or were friends with my brother. It was awkward as you never know if you just don't remember them or you really don't know them! He obviously got the same happen to him regularly.

One day in the local shopping centre I was pushed quite hard in the back by a laughing, cute girl who thought this was incredibly funny. She called me by my brothers name so I knew she was mistaken, but it took me ages to convince her.

One aother time I went to join my brothers works night out and we pranked his boss, but he only fell for it for a few minutes. He said my brother could never be so rude lol.

I have a thousand twin stories.

 

 

[gummy]

In my younger days people confused me with Prince Charles. Now that was either because I drove an Aston in those days or they saw me talking to cabbages  sorry to be flippant.

[BigHewer]

3 hours ago, Changnam43 said:

You need to up your eyebrow game.

Selleck's got you well beaten in that department

.

True that. It’s almost like Selleck has three mustaches.

[El_Trauco]

Jack Nickelson

 

[steve860]

On 10/12/2021 at 10:04 PM, NCC1701A said:

my older sister's friends said i looked like Paul McCartney when i was 10 years old in 1965. 

i walked into a bar in the late 80's and someone whistled the 007 theme because i look a bit like Pierce Bronson back then. A girl painted herself all gold so she could meet me at a party. 

then in my 40's and 50's people said i look very much like John Cusack.

i would say if you were told to find me in a room by looking at Mr. Cusack's photo would be able to do it. i still have all my hair. 

now after 7 years in Thailand at 66 years old I look like a jaded, tired, sad, burned out porn star. i went from looking 10 years younger than i am to my real age in just two years of living here. 

and after two years of constant eating during lockdown i look like this:

Nice ass.