Have you ever been mistaken for someone famous?

sunflower27 · 15-03-2011 12:47PM #1

Years ago I was at a pub in Galway and was waiting to get served at the bar when I noticed a man staring at me. He came up to me the next time I was at the bar and asked if I was Billie Piper.

Shocked, and a with a few drinks under the belt, I said 'yes, but please don't tell anyone.'

He was pretty intoxicated and said 'oh, no problem. Is Chris (Evans) with you? Where is Chris?

I replied that he was in the nightclub 'pissed as usual'

So, anyone else been mistaken for someone famous or a 'sleb'?

cosmicfart · 15-03-2011 12:48PM

My hairy arse looks the same as Russels Brands, does this count?

prinz · 15-03-2011 12:50PM

Yes. A few times actually, mistaken for the same person.

sunflower27 · 15-03-2011 12:50PM

cosmicfart wrote: »

My hairy arse looks the same as Russels Brands, does this count?

It depends, his arse or his face?

AnonoBoy · 15-03-2011 12:51PM

I was mistaken for Jaroslav Drobný once or twice.

cosmicfart · 15-03-2011 12:51PM

sunflower27 wrote: »

It depends, his arse or his face?

put them side by side and we have twins :pac:

Pittybitty · 15-03-2011 12:52PM

When I was younger (10 or so years ago) I used to get mistaken for Christina Ricci. Not so much anymore

Kimono-Girl · 15-03-2011 12:59PM

yeah i get mistaken for Jessica Alba all the time....

Not

Wagon · 15-03-2011 01:02PM

Got mistaken for Luke Pritchard a handful of times. Thankfully, they were all pretty pissed drunk.

Badgermonkey · 15-03-2011 01:06PM

Been mistaken for Leonard Zelig more than once, don't see it myself.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 15-03-2011 01:09PM

Harry Potter.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 15-03-2011 01:16PM

Ted Bundy

curiousb · 15-03-2011 01:16PM

I once signed an autograph as Bob Geldof a long time ago for an American tourist

Was also mistaken for Phil Lynott at a ZZ Top gig in the SFX.

Gyalist · 15-03-2011 01:17PM

I am regularly mistaken for ?uestlove, the drummer for The Roots. I'm always being stopped and asked for photos and autographs. The funniest one was being stopped by a huge crowd of schoolgirls in Tokyo. Even though I told them that I wasn't him I still ended up posing for quite a while for photos with them.

Archeron · 15-03-2011 01:17PM

A couple of times for Brian O Driscoll, but I really dont see it.

chakotha · 15-03-2011 01:19PM

I've been told by various people I look like Michael O'Leary, Dave Fanning and Mr Bean.

LETHAL LADY · 15-03-2011 01:27PM

Ive been told I look like a couple of famous people unfortunately it was always in a charm offensive to get into my unmentionables.

Yearning4Stormy · 15-03-2011 01:28PM

All the time

Once: Mo Johnston, in a protestant man's working club in East Belfast. Words were exchanged. Then I soiled myself. Ref for peeps too young to remember: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Johnston

All the time. Phil Mitchell. Sigh.

AnnyHallsal · 15-03-2011 01:29PM

Gyalist wrote: »

I am regularly mistaken for ?uestlove, the drummer for The Roots. I'm always being stopped and asked for photos and autographs. The funniest one was being stopped by a huge crowd of schoolgirls in Tokyo. Even though I told them that I wasn't him I still ended up posing for quite a while for photos with them.

You win! I hope you wear a little comb in your hair too.

Thread = license for bragging. I'm far too modest for that :pac:

common sense brigade · 15-03-2011 01:32PM

always get told i look like Winnie from the wonder years! but never actaully mistaken as her as the shows pretty old. kinda funny

Pauleta · 15-03-2011 01:38PM

A couple of years ago i walked past some school girls and i could hear one of them say "He looks like Cristiano Ronaldo". I was chuffed

AnnyHallsal · 15-03-2011 01:40PM

Pauleta wrote: »

A couple of years ago i walked past some school girls and i could hear one of them say "He looks like Cristiano Ronaldo". I was chuffed

No offence, but, retch.

I realise that's probably pretty offensive. Sorry.

Leiva · 15-03-2011 01:41PM

A Phlebotomist once asked me if I was Charlie Sheen .

AnonoBoy · 15-03-2011 01:44PM

mixednuts wrote: »

A Phlebotomist once asked me if I was Charlie Sheen .

Surely they'd be able to tell you weren't because you didn't have tiger's blood in you.

xzanti · 15-03-2011 01:44PM

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

No offence, but, retch.

I realise that's probably pretty offensive. Sorry.

Seriously?

Leiva · 15-03-2011 01:46PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Surely they'd be able to tell you weren't because you didn't have tiger's blood in you.

It was at the point of extracting the blood that the question came up

AnnyHallsal · 15-03-2011 01:47PM

xzanti wrote: »

Seriously?

Deathly serious. Let's just say, not my type.

omen80 · 15-03-2011 01:48PM

Colin Farrell

Sonics2k · 15-03-2011 01:48PM

Recently I was told I look like David Tennant, not sure if I approve or not.

When I was about 18 I was being told I looked like Bam Margera, again, was never sure if I approved or not.

Dermo · 15-03-2011 01:51PM

A few years back I was drinking in Bruxelles after a gig. I was with a few members of the band, who I am good friends with.
At this particular stage of the night I was sitting at one of the old high tables in the downstairs bar with the drummer and a guy came up to the table and asked for the drummer's autograph. He then thought I was the bassist and asked me for my autograph, so I signed it. We all had a good laugh about it.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 15-03-2011 01:53PM

xzanti wrote: »

Seriously?

That's so heavily Photoshopped I probably look more like that than he does.

Have you ever been mistaken for someone famous?

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