Have you ever been mistaken for someone famous....

[BigonaBianchi]

Yep. Gary Moore. And have been told by nurse I look like Brian may.

I even played enter sandman and parisienne walkways with a reggae band on a beach in malaysia
Who thought I was Gary Moore. I got two drinks out of it before I mentioned
I was not .

 

[Night Train]

I was in a pub with an ex gf about to go and see a mate's band play. I went to the bar to get drinks and the barman did a double take and said:
BM: "Blimey (or words to that effect), it you! From that film on the telly! How you doing mate?"
Me: "Errmm, I'm not who you think I am."
BM: "Oh, right. I see what you mean. (winks) I thought you were really good. Love your stuff. You working on something now?"
Me: "Look, I'm with someone and I'd quite like to just get my drinks."
BM: "Oh, Yeah right, sorry"

I order and get my drinks.

BM: "Really great to see you in our pub, can't wait to tell the others."


To this day I have no idea who he thought I was.

 

[Chris S]

[QUOTE 2471620, member: 259"]I was mistaken for Tom Robinson, twice over the years, and I looked about as much unlike Tom Robinson as you could possibly get, apart from sharing the same number of limbs, etc.[/quote]
It could have been a chat-up line

 

[Archie_tect]

The Tom Robinson of 2-4-6-8-Motorway?

 

[User169]

When I was much younger I had a passing resemblance to Suede guitar-botherer, Bernard Butler. That certainly never did me any harm. I've been told (on here) that I look like Robert Downey Jr. I can sort of see it.

Nah - you're Eli Roth!

 

[User169]

Got asked if i were Michael Fassbender recently. Mind you, this was in Belgium.

 

[Boris Bajic]

Someone said I had the biceps of Cameron Diaz....

I think he's a boxer or a cage fighter.

I was pretty chuffed!

 

[potsy]

A young Alf Roberts (ask your parents)

 

[pauldavid]

I'm often mistaken for Cameron Diaz

Because of the gentlemens relish in your fringe?

 

[pauldavid]

Usually a badly groomed John Merrick

 

[nickyboy]

I was in a bar in Shanghai a few years back. It was quite dark, I was wearing a white t-shirt and had (still have) hair shaved down to stubble.
Couple of French people came up to me and told me that their Chinese colleagues were sure I was Bruce Willis. They knew I wasn't but would I play along for a laugh.
I'd had a few beers so of course I said "yes". Went over and used my best US accent to introduce myself as said actor. Told them I was working in Shanghai on a new film. Signed a few beermats "With best wishes, Bruce" and then told then that I needed to get back to the hotel as filming was early in the morning.
No harm done, those beermats are probably adorning some Shanghai apartments still

 

[slowmotion]

I was sitting on an end of aisle seat at a Squeeze concert five years ago. In a gap between songs, a bloke rushed up the aisle, stared me sternly straight in the eye, and held out his hand for me to shake...
"You're a ****ing legend", he said as we shook, and off he went.

To this day I have absolutely no idea who I was supposed to be. Most odd, but I kind of liked being famous for two seconds.

 

[Arch]

My Dad worked for a while as travelling engineer for Avery the scales people, in the 60's. He went into a pub he regularly visited for lunch one day and the landlord said "Hello, Mr Archer". The landlord's elderly mother happened to be staying, overheard this, and asked for his autograph. He never found out which of The Archers she thought he was, but he signed one anyway.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Get told I sound like a famous person, Never been mistaken for said celeb though

 

[stephec]

I used to work with a guy who was once asked for his autograph in a nightclub, the girl looked quite confused when he signed it Pete, and not Wayne Sleep.