Hello...is it me you're looking for? Following on from last week's brief addiction to YouTube, here's another way to waste your life 5 minutes if you're bored. Finding out which celebrity you look like! Remember how horrified you were that time a drunk old man in Wetherspoons told you that you look just like a character from Coronation Street? The one with a face like a slapped arse and 20 years on you? Or the momentary thrill when your ex-boyfriend told you looked a bit like Mylene Klass? If it was dark and she'd put on 3 stone? Well, why not relive those moments with me and upload your photo to this utterly useless website I found recently?
Here it is - the Celebrity Look Alike Generator - or as I prefer to call it, the 'Which balding old man do you least resemble? Generator'. Choose your latest least hideous photograph - aka Facebook profile pic - and let the magical face recognition gremlins do their work. Want to see?
Wow. I can't believe no-one ever mentioned how much I look like Michael Bloomberg, 70 year old mayor of New York City. Or star of Jaws, and rakish moustache wearer Richard Dreyfuss. I had no idea who the last dude was, but apparently Joseph Biden was the 47th Vice-President of the United States. Sorry Joe. And he's 70 as well. I mean, seriously?? No Richard Gere? No George Clooney? Sheesh, if I MUST be a silver fox I'd even take Philip Schofield over this lot. Ok, I did get Melanie Griffith as well, but I'm not considering that as much improvement.
Maybe it's a recent phenomenon? Perhaps turning 36 has turned me from a fresh faced nubile young thing into celebrity Grandpa. I'll try a photo from a few years ago:
FFS! Now I'm bald as well!
Ok, Richard Dreyfuss again. But in a very slightly different pose. That means I must look like him. [Note to self: buy Veet.] The only woman in the world who looks like Bruce Willis is his daughter Rumer, so we can assume that's a glitch in the matrix. But Rudolph Giuliani? As well as Michael Bloomberg? Well, spank my ass and call me mayor! It must be my DESTINY. I'm headed out for my first trip to the Big Apple next June - I'm guessing they're going to vote me right in.
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I fared a little bit better on Face Double, as at least I wasn't told I was a man. I was however matched with either black or Latina celebs, which is not a problem aside from the fact that my skin tone, hair and eyes all scream 'pasty white English girl'. I can see that with our round hamster cheeks stunning beauty we might have something in common, but otherwise I can't say anyone is ever likely to get me and Gabrielle Union confused. [What do you mean 'Who's Gabrielle Union?'. She was in Bring it On as head cheerleader of the Clovers. Like, duh.]
I can't say I'd be at all upset to be mistaken for America Ferrera either. That's assuming they were thinking of her as she actually looks in real life, and not this version:
Yeah, I'm not publishing the pictures of me with a fringe, just in case.
It's me...Ugly Betty!
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Basically, I think I have an old-school look. Celebs of today just don't gel with my style. I'm crap at hair much beyond a ponytail, so I'm not a blogger you'll see rocking pincurls or a beehive. Thank goodness for Yearbook Yourself. Check yourself out as you would have been from the 1950s to 2000.
PPS. Oh, and link up anyway. I will read, honest! And tell me who you look like - I insist.
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What a timeless beauty, huh?
Lakota x
PS. I appear to have killed my laptop. I've been keeping up with everyone on my phone, and this post was done on the aged computer, but sorry for the lack of comments. I believe I've mentioned electrical appliances' short lives around me before - this is why I rarely hoover.
PPS. Oh, and link up anyway. I will read, honest! And tell me who you look like - I insist.
I only have my phone at the moment too, and dodgy, expensive 3G to access the all important internet. Crap!
ReplyDeleteNot sure my ego could take this! I'm still getting over a 'compliment' I had in my early twenties; "you are pretty, you remind me of Linda Bellingham".
Who do you look.like? Maybe a mix of Katie Holmes and the girl off the latest toothpaste ad where she pretends to go to bed, then says her teeth are squeaking in the morning.
LOL at lovely Linda, that's exactly how I imagine things chez Lucy. I bloody KNEW I could have had Tom Cruise.
DeleteI will have to see tooth squeaking girl advert again before I decide whether we're still friends...
Hahaha! I got Condoleeza Rice, Michelle Pfeiffer and Jon Stewart in Celebrity Look Alike Generator... erm they look EXACTLY alike don't they? The only thing they have in common is they don't look like me!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely hilarious. Im curios to see who I'd be. People tell me I look like Anne Hathaway and I do not take that as a compliment. Im like isnt she the ugly girl who turned "pretty" after they washed her hair in that Disney movie with Julie Andrews? No thanks.
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ReplyDeleteNow I get why people are always yelling "Run, Forest, Run" at me...
Weirdly, my boyfriend and I almost dressed as "Castaway Tom Hanks" and Wilson for our Halloween party this year; good thing we didn't, because I was going to let my boyfriend be Tom Hanks. Haha
I guess that's marginally better than it telling you that you look like a basketball with a face done in magic markers.
DeleteWe tried my husband - with Movember moustache and soul patch and it came up with Jennifer Lopez and Alicia Silverstone.
I could not stop laughing! WHAT THE HELL is wrong with the generator you were using, I mean really you look nothing like any of those bald men. I think you need to find yourself some better celebrity compare links and ASAP. *HEHE*
ReplyDeleteI like the old yearbook photos I will have to give that one a try. But I am fearful of trying the other option in case it says I look like Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek.
There used to be a really good one on a family tree type website called My Heritage, but it's been crashing for ages and they haven't fixed it. You don't think I'm a shoo-in for mayor then?
DeleteI was told yesterday by a client some 30 years older than me that I looked like her best friend, equally some 30 years older than me. Errr, thanks?
ReplyDeleteAnd apparently you & I are twins, as I also get Richard Dreyfuss, Rudi Giuliani, Fred Durst & Oscar De La Renta, along with Gary Sinise. And it took 3 photos to even identify my face.
DeleteMy 2 year old, on the other hand, gets Gwen Stefani, Cate Blanchett, Britney Spears, Christina Aguelera & Madeleine Albright (one of these names does not belong!)
DeleteActually, truly laughing my socks off. Whatevs, though. You are GORGEOUS!!!
ReplyDeleteI used to get told alot I looked like Kirsten Dunst (not anymore, since becoming a mother, hehehe)but I have also been told I look like Chucky's Bride, which I had to kind of concur with a little bit.
When I was younger, I got compared to Claire Danes, Anna Chlumsky, Melissa George and, I kid you not, Angelina Jolie! Nothing for about 10 years as I gained in age and heft. The last person I got told I looked like was Kirstie Alsop:/ Mr N still thinks it's hilarious!
ReplyDeleteOne of these days I will have something interesting to link up to :) xxx
Thanks for the laughs, and the time waster!! I've wasted quite a bit of my morning finding out that when I have a big cheesy grin I apparently look like Sharon Stone (can I have her bod too!) Sarah Michelle Gellar & Gabrielle Union (thanks for explaining her she was!). But when I have a more serious lips sealed photo I look like Dustin Hoffman, Al Gore & Paul McCartney!! My hubby will be happy to know he's quite a lot like Ryan Seacrest and Madonna - must be the high cheekbones & his Chinese eyes!! While my daughter when she was 4 is like Elizabeth Shue and Princess Di. I had to stop then and do some work, or I'd still be there. S:)
ReplyDeleteI can see it with the America Ferreira!!! This is too funny!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear I am not the only who is 'crap with hair'- I can basically do that with my hair too!
Luckily person above who got called Anne Hathwaway- I wish!!!! I did get my voice compared to Sarah Brightman once. If this was in her Phantom days, I'll be happy but she sounds a little different nowadays! I didn't think to ask!
Another blogger said I looked like Lauren Bacall which I can confirm is NOT so, even if I squint!!!!!
Thank you for your honesty about vacuuming because it has supplied me with yet another excuse for not doing that chore ... that's enough Tah-Dah! for me!. I think the only look-a-like thingie I've done is a dog one - I came out as a spaniel. xo
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting! I've been told I look like Chris Evert Lloyd and Princess Dianna but that was in a previous incarnation as a blonde. If I cut my hair too short I look like Velma from Scooby Doo! :( That's enough incentive for me to keep away from the scissors.
ReplyDeleteThis is so funny, I must try it again, once I used 'My heritage', I can't remember well the results,some of them where flattering,I'm sure that there where some men too,but my boyfriend looked like Angelina Jolie and I'm very proud!
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ha ha ha ha bless you, yes i really do think you have far to much spare time on your hands ;-) dee x
ReplyDeleteOh hell! That's the last thing I need for my self confidence is to be told I look like a balding man. I do, however, get told I look familiar by people I just met. Maybe I remind them of a celebrity? NOT! LOL! :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you Lakota, I could not stop giggling. Tears came to my eyes. My husband came in to see what was going on. I dare not try it. Because of my haircut, I had been told I look like - what's her name? - is it Claire Bloom? Whatever. You certainly made my day!
ReplyDeletea man in a Wetherspoons said that I "looked like that Duchess of Wales" - sigh. I've also had Fergie and Courtney Love. Those first comparisons were hilarious!! that program is obviously useless. Though when I met you, you did keep saying Yipee Ki-aayy Motherfucker, so maybe there is something in the Bruce Willis one. The America Ferrera one is really nice though. Spookily, I did see this photo earlier and though it looked a lot like you http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fvJRF7pCWOg/TOgD2rYqwoI/AAAAAAAACd0/ruHvJp_g94M/S780/boymeetsgirl%2Bcopy.jpg
ReplyDeleteEek, even I can see that one! Who is it? *wonders when she last made out with random man up against a wall?*
DeleteThis is hilarious, but I'm afraid to see who they would say I look like, as I used to get mistaken for a guy when I was in my 30's when my hair was really short and I wore army boots all the time...I think you would be the most awesome mayor ever!!!
ReplyDeleteYour description of a drunken old man telling someone they look like some woman off Corry made me laugh because I saw that same scenario one time in a train station, then he looked like he was going to turn his attention to me and I was dreading who I'd be compared to in front of a horde of strangers, but he lost interest and drifted off, much to my relief. I have been told I "look beautiful when it's dark", erm, thanks.
ReplyDeleteI put in two different photos and got about 50/50 men and women so I was actually quite happy with that. Kate Blanchett popped up twice, which was nice though I know I'm not one bit like her, Rob Schneider from 'Deuce Bigelow Male Gigolo' and suchlike classics popped up twice too and I probably have a lot more resemblance to him. I did get Richard Dreyfus one time, along with Danny Glover and Brad Pitt. Eva Mendes was in there somewhere so she's the one I'm clinging to, if anyone asks, my celebrity lookalike is Eva Mendes. xx
Blimming Heck!! I apparently look like the 68 year old Ben Kingsly or Danny Glover quite a choice! Oh and old Richard Dreyfuss is in there as well, he must have been a busy boy in the 70's! Thanks for this it has certainly helped me to chuckle away my afternoon!
ReplyDeleteOh my God, that's it! We're all the bastard blogger offspring of Richard Dreyfuss!
DeleteThe last time I tried one of these I came up as lots of Chinese actresses I had never heard of. It was some years ago, maybe I should give it a try now. x
ReplyDeleteI love your look in 1952. And you are nowhere near Richard Dreyfuss. I used to get told I looked like Angelina Jolie during her Tomb Raider phase. Lately a couple of Ashely Judd comparisons have stoked my ego.
ReplyDeleteLoving the Yearbook Yourself pics.. I'm going to have to give these a try! I used to get told that I look like Billie Piper, not too bad except that her mouth is HUGE!
ReplyDeleteIf I had nads, I'd be laughing them off! Bloody funny. I was once told that I look like Julia Roberts, which is better than Alf Roberts, but I can't see it meself. She was trying to sell me something though. And a woman I worked with used to say I was a dead ringer for Jennifer Saunders which is fine....even if I'm not!!
ReplyDeleteYou don't half remind me of that actor...what's his name? Richard Dreyfuss.
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Love the photos esp the Year Book ones.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to try it on myself tomorrow. But I've been told Cher and Amy winehouse!! Better than Nana Mouskouri which is what I used to get in High School.
One time I had an "up-do" for an evening in the pub and the boys did the Star Trek theme all night as they said I looked like Lieutenant Uhuru!!
Thanks for the giggles as ever.
My mama cat looks like Denise Welch.
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Well, apparently I look like Richard Dreyfuss too. And Jerry Springer. I won't complain about the Cameron Diaz match though!
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