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I've just received an email on a very boring subject from an Emily Bishop. (True!)

Have you ever had your gas meter read by a Winston Churchill, or had your teeth polished by a Kate Middleton? Perhaps you had driving lessons from a Paul Daniels, or bought a house from an Anthea Turner?

Tell us all about your 'nearly celebrity' encounters!

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A teacher of mine was called Johnny Walker and I went out with a girl called Doris Day. Although not a cele-a-likie, one of my thesis advisors was aptly named Pratt.

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I was in school with the Curtis brothers, Tony and Ian. And no family get together is complete without an appearance by uncle Tom(my).

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Too hard to recollect. Easier would be, which celebrity have you been compared to (if any, and if willing to disclose!).

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One of the Dads at our old school was called Richard Burton, but did not have the same presence.

I was asked once if I was Jill Morrell.

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It's been said that I both resemble and possess the powers the the Devil himself. If you need proof of my satanic power, just cast your eyes to the left.



(This post will make no sense what so ever after my next one.)

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I've been stopped in the street, on numerous occasions, and had my photograph taken with people who have passed me off for (in no specific order :-

Allan Bateman
George Clooney
Mr Bean
That bloke off The Bill
Ray Donovan (Liebe Schreiber)

Countless dealings with celebs (with the exception of maybe 10 or so) were all genuinely nice people.

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I'm often compared to Jesus.

Many is the time I have heard people say, "Christ, here he comes."

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I've been called a cult (at least I think that's what they said!)

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I went to school with a David Gray

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I went to school with William Shakespeare

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I am Spartacus

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No, you're not.

Silly. Silly thread.

I used to be compared to Alan Shearer, then to Albert Einstein. After that Gandalf and more recently a Cheeky French Chappie (avec des baguettes mais sans des onions).

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I am as much as anyone else is

I'm only compared to Dawn French.. but i have much more restrained chocolate eating habits.

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I was at my neighbours house this morning. Their mailbox makes, me smile every time I see it - Ron and Flo Rider

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Pfft if we're talking look-a-likes I've been Toya Wilcox and some group of peole when we were on holiday were nudging each other across the dinner table and saying I looked like Celine Dion. I was made up with that til my husband nearly choked on his beef.

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I've been Penfold!

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Pierce Brosnan when I got short hair and Liam Gallagher when I've got longer hair. You do the maths.

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:)

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Once,...."some" years ago, while walking beside a pool in France wearing only my swimming trunks and my Raybans...a group of hysterically excited little girls ran up to me and asked if I was Tom Cruise...(and all my family and friends witnessed it....and promptly p****d themselves laughing!)

The little girls were far too young to be drunk...

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I can see the Celine Dion thing from your last avatar....now sadly gone! :( ;)

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This is not something I'm particularly proud of .....

In the early 90's I was travelling back from Helsinki to London and our plane got diverted to Oslo and we had to disembark. We were all put in a room (with a bar!) to wait for a replacement plane. Hubby wandered off to the bar to get us some drinks and a little while later someone appeared at my shoulder and said 'here you go darling' .... I glanced up and it was some woman - she apologised profusely and said she had mistaken me for her husband (hmmm ok I guess that may be an easy mistake to make).

At this point I have to mention that I am seriously hopeless at recognising famous people in real life.

I thought no more of it until hubby returned and said, "wow what was Geena Davis saying to you?" I told him that she thought I was her husband - I thought he was going to die laughing. He then pointed out her husband (at the time) - Renny Harlin (who??). I was horrified - I didn't think I looked a bit like him, well except maybe the hair.

They ended up sitting in front of us on the plane back to London and she insisted on buying us drinks. They were a friendly couple but I kept looking at him and thinking wow I need a serious makeover!

The older I get the funnier I find it now but at the time I was mortified.

OK if you have to google Renny Harlin please look for early 1990 photos and not his latest macho makeover. I am pleased to say that I have become less and less like him as time has passed and I'm sure he is just as happy.

J :)

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Twice upon boarding planes, I have been told by stewardesses that I resemble Tom Hanks. Never anywhere else. Perhaps its an Air Canada thing.

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I was told by a woman at a call centre that I was like James Bond.

I wonder if the next James Bond will be a bald, fat, geordie.

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Our plumber here is Mike Farrell - B.J. Hunnicutt from M*A*S*H

From surgeon to plumber. :)

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I went to school with Lisa Simpson.

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Well if cartoon characters count I was at school with Popeye. :rofl:

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I can see that!


Shirley McLaine (sp?) when I had shorter hair
Roxette when v short and bleached
Gwyneth Paltrow ???

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I couldn't resist :D Nice hair!

http://img.mtv3.fi/mn_kuvat/mtv3/vii.../03/903604.jpg

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LOL thanks - we have both aged. Somewhat unfairly he has done so better than me! :p

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My nan always get compared to Maya Angelou which is ridiculous as she's not fat.

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Apparently on occasion David O'Leary

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I used to get told I looked a little bit like Patrick Swayze. But then I got old, and bald, and fat, and still alive, and the resemblance is no longer as strong.

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As ever with celeb references, I had to google that.

Don't fool yourself.