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Who's your doppelgänger?

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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    I was once told I looked like Peter Griffin. That was a spectacularly good day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Not as much in the last 4 years or so since I cut my hair shorter and usually grow out the stubble a bit, but I used to get Dylan moran every week it felt like. Even got asked to take a photo twice out in town with people thinking I was him in a smoking area, and had workmates in Australia download promotional photos of him and convince other workmates o was a failed model (which is really weird because he is absolutely huge over there). :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,907 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    Murderer Wayne O'Donoghue I was told once!

    https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dopetech.ie



  • Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭lemd


    The Glasgow lad from last years masterchef. Was living in Glasgow at the time too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭XsApollo


    Shayne ‘‘wasn’t me boss’’ Ward.
    When He Was the in thing at the time.
    Comments dissappeared when he dissappeared.
    Thankfully.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I used to be told I was like Brock Lesnar, but then due to a little health issue I've lost 30kg (five stone?) and now I look like Mother Teresa :(

    Another time then there was a killer on the loose in the UK, Raul Moute (I think thats the spelling) and I had to agree I was a dead ringer for him.

    I was even approached by a venue manager and told that a Sky News team at the venue had shown interest in me lol (I'm not even joking).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,161 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I was mistaken on 3 separate occasions for the lead singer of the Coronas by different ladies. I don't know if that could be considered a compliment or not :O


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    everlast75 wrote: »
    I was mistaken on 3 separate occasions for the lead singer of the Coronas by different ladies. I don't know if that could be considered a compliment or not :O

    Your their new gay bff!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    I used to work in a large contact centre and there was a guy that worked on another account on a different floor but I kept bumping into him in the canteen and in the gents and so on. I knew there was this mutual understanding of the situation and coworkers kept telling me about my doppelganger. This was going on for months and I found it embarrassing.

    One day about a week before I left the job, myself and a colleague rounded a corner in the hallway and practically bumped straight into him. I still have no idea what possessed me but in the awkwardness of the moment I blurted out "Mother?" - he started laughing!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Bambi985 is my doppelganger :mad:

    Also John Travolta circa Pulp Fiction back when I had long hair

    Now I just look like me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    A young lad tried to chat me up in Whelans one night and said he'd come over because he thought I was Ray Manzarek from the Doors.

    Dude is fúcking dead! I reminded him of a dead man? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    Given my curly hair and greying beard I get called one of these 3 regularly when out

    Tommy Tiernan
    Michael Sheen - Actor
    John C Reilly - Actor

    OK so that means any middle aged guy with side fading curly hair :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Look at the bright side, is there a single person in the entire world who doesn't like John C. Reilly!? :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    Billy86 wrote: »
    Look at the bright side, is there a single person in the entire world who doesn't like John C. Reilly!? :p

    If there are I never want to meet them!!!

    Dude practically made me cry in Chicago!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭MissMayo


    I've been told a lot that I look like Charlotte Church. Apparently it's a compliment........


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    A group of girls in a pub cleared some space around me once and proceeded to shout "So much space for activities":P - John c Reilly step brothers quote


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    MissMayo wrote: »
    I've been told a lot that I look like Charlotte Church. Apparently it's a compliment........

    It is :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    DominoDub wrote: »
    A group of girls in a pub cleared some space around me once and proceeded to shout "So much space for activities":P - John c Reilly step brothers quote

    Good news, you also look like a young Harrison Ford!! :p



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,676 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Steve Austin, same beard and bald head.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    Steve Austin, same beard and bald head.

    Stone Cold or the Six Million Dollar Man ???


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Bambi985 wrote: »
    "Stacey from Eastenders"

    For serious? Id ride her like Frankie Dettori. She's beautiful. Winona Ryder though, I'm not so sure. I'm a winer and diner, I'd be afraid to take her out to bon appetit for the night in case she robbed the tablecloth. Stacey Slater though...
    Mcdonalds and a bus shelter, and the only thing she'd steal would be my heart.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭9or10


    Met some women I used to work with - like 40 years ago :o.

    They said all the girls thought you looked like Lewis Collins (The Professionals).

    I said "Really". I thought
    FFS now ya tell me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Charlie Brooker. Similar mannerisms and way of carrying myself as well as similar appearance.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    I'm not allowed into the Zoo when they are stock-taking.

    Obviously , they must have a stock-taker who is only gorgeous like me-self and don't want the staff getting us confused with each other.

    I can understand that.


  • Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I like these threads. "Oh I've been told I look like a cross between Elle Mcpherson and Giselle Bundchen but I can't see it myself".

    As for me I look like absolutely nobody famous or in the public eye. I just look like me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭Snugglebunnies


    I've been told I look like Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kimberly Walsh from girls aloud, Ashley Benson and strangest of all... Beyonce... I'm white... Being blonde is my only resemblance to any of them imo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭Wailin


    When i was younger, Jason Macateer apparently. Now, Karl Pilkington :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    I like these threads. "Oh I've been told I look like a cross between Elle Mcpherson and Giselle Bundchen but I can't see it myself".

    As for me I look like absolutely nobody famous or in the public eye. I just look like me.

    Usually Jennifer Aniston, in my case. No wait, I may have invented that. :D

    Same, I just look like me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,170 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    I've been haunted by Johnny Logan since I was 10 in 1980. I've had people come up to me in public more than once. Hate Johnny Logan. Not heard it in a few years now, though.

    Others : Simon Le Bon, Patrick Swayze.

    Indian guy told me I look like actor Sanjay Kapoor. My wife agrees


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,487 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    I was in a pub in Laragh, near Glendalough the other day, and some Dutch tourists on a table near me were pointing at and talking about me in quite an agitated manner. Turns out they thought that I looked like someone called Jeremy Wade from some extreme fishing type program on Discovery Channel. Even wanted to get a photo taken of them with me to show their friends back home!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I've been told I look like a dark haired Holly Willoughby. Never saw it myself until I had a blond wig on at Halloween. We do look similar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    Ben Elton apparently. Always hated that comparison.

    All my friends call me Ben


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Every blonde famous person ever.

    Alicia Silverstone. Jessica Simpson. Reese Witherspoon. Grace Kelly. Kate Upton. Madonna. Holly Willoughby. Porn star Alexis Texas. Jo Joyner. Mary from Love Hate. Ellie Goulding.

    Considering none of them look remotely alike aside from their hair colour, I think it's safe to say I look like none of them.

    Eviltwin is the first person I've seen being compared to someone with a different hair colour so she probably does look like Holly! Wagon!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I get told I look like Sienna Miller or an Olsen twin.


    Right now I'm hanging and resemble Gollum.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭indioblack


    Bambi985 wrote: »
    Do people say you look like someone famous? Have you heard any names more than once?

    I've been to three work conferences in the past two weeks and got told I look like Sheryl Sandberg from Facebook twice, by totally random people. Besides that I've heard everyone from Helena Bonham Carter to Christina Ricci to"Stacey from Eastenders" to some girl called Rachel from Tipperary that seems to be a mutual acquaintance that I seemed to remind people of :confused:

    Who's your doppelgänger?
    My Irish relatives say I look like Rodney, [Dave], from Only Fools and Horses.
    And that I behave like him. [Plonker].


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    anna080 wrote: »
    I get told I look like Sienna Miller or an Olsen twin.


    Right now I'm hanging and resemble Gollum.

    My precious :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    I've been told I look like a young Marilyn Monroe....kinda weird since I'm a 45yo man

    Pat Mustard was just looking to spread himself around the southside of the island


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    Im fat Matt Damon...apparently.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPWJOJYVKc

    Matt Damon!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    anna080 wrote: »
    I get told I look like Sienna Miller or an Olsen twin.


    Right now I'm hanging and resemble Gollum.

    Sienna Miller is a babe


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I get a load of random ones

    That Amy one from evanescence
    Andrea corr
    Imelda may
    Whitney off eastenders
    Dita Von teese
    Cheryl cole
    Sile seoige
    Jennifer Metclafe from hollyoaks

    Can only see me in me though
    But basically anyone with dark hair and deathly pale


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    MissMayo wrote: »
    I've been told a lot that I look like Charlotte Church. Apparently it's a compliment........

    She is a fine looking woman, always reminds of this plank Pat Kenny:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3xFxaVucmE


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    At school, people told me I looked like Dougal from Father Ted. I think it was because of my hair. And also my permanently bewildered expression.

    SpiffyRegularAnnelida-max-1mb.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    I've been told I look like Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen

    That's ridiculous how could you look like two people


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    A Russian who appeared on a channel 4 documentary around 1990.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭redcup342


    My Doppelganger is some fúcking creep that tried to break into a pensioners house and was captured on CCTV.

    Their daughter put it up on Facebook appealing for information and apparently she gave my details to the Gardai.

    Luckily I don't even live in Ireland !!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Remember that thing on Facebook, maybe five years ago, where people would change their profile picture to their supposed doppelgänger. It was cringeworthy. Half the time, you’d be thinking “You do in your hoop look like him/her”.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭dmc17


    A lady working in a deli once told me I looked like Michael Fassbender :D Can't see it myself, but I'm gonna go with that :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Butterbean the American boxer :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    Charlie Brooker. Similar mannerisms and way of carrying myself as well as similar appearance.

    That is the best doppelganger ever! Wish I looked like Konnie Huq now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    20 odd years ago I was compared to Tony Slattery by a couple of people which was pretty good. Most recently people have said I look like Eamonn Holmes.


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