15 Famous Doppelgängers Who Are Debatably Hotter Than The Real Thing
Pitching one for the birds, doppelgängers (German for “double-walkers”) are believed to be quixotic duplicates of a real person, who may manifest in various ways. There are many elucidations for the doppelgänger marvel - the most common being those set out by the mystics who, across epochs, have understood them to be supernatural creatures. They can either be spiritual replicas of the person or their outright demonic twins - you can spot them out of the corner of your eye, meet them on a desolate road or, fate forbid, witness them standing right behind you when looking in to the mirror! Then again, that's folklore! As far as science goes, (hold your breath now), a version of doppelgängers do exist, but thankfully they are a little less menacing than the legendary variety!
Unlike most chimerical figures, they are everyday people with everyday faces… and some, with very famous faces! The idea of having a clone roaming somewhere in the world may be fascinating, but for those imprinting on celebs, it sure is a heck of a task! It isn't easy being one of the hottest people on the planet, more so if you happen not to be the real thing but a dead ringer, dangerously close to the original! Constantly living in the shadow of their famous counterparts, some doubles have however, carved out a niche in their own rights. While upstaging the authentic is out of line, here are 15 such celebrity doppelgängers who may debatably be hotter than the real thing.
15 Jennifer Lopez
Most fans of JLO did a double take when the Instagram pictures of Jessica Burciaga started doing the rounds. A spitting image of the Hollywood star, Burciaga, is an American model and playmate in her own right. Moreover, her striking resemblance to Jennifer Lopez has earned her over 1.4 million followers on Instagram, with thousands of them vouching for her obvious similarity with the Shall We Dance actress. Born to Mexican parents with French and Irish roots, Burciaga began her career as a waitress in a Hooters restaurant in Anaheim. She first tasted success as a professional model in 2005 when she participated in a photo shoot for Staff Magazine. Ever since, she has featured in multiple other magazines including Maxim and Latino Future. In 2006, she started as a black-jack designer at Playboy Mansion, Las Vegas, and finally in February 2009, she was featured as Playmate of the month.
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14 Christian Bale
Just so you know, the picture on the right is not a still from the 2000 film, American Psycho, starring Christian Bale. But, of a random man who looks so much like Bale that we have a million questions but not enough answers! Once the image was posted on Reddit, the long-lost Bale twin sent social media into a frenzy with his Halloween replication of Patrick Bateman, originally played by Christian, in the film. Not only has his look grabbed the desired eye-balls, this chip off the old block has also got the costume down to a T - including the axe - leaving no stone unturned to express his obvious devotion for The Dark Knight star. The likeness, to say the least, is downright spooky and we can't think of any plausible explanation to this phenomenon except that they might in some bizarre way, may have shared the same gene pool?
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13 Benedict Cumberbatch
For all those Sher“locked”, you have more to feast your eyes on, now with this teen Cumberbatch painting the town red with his freaky resemblance to the real deal. Thanks to a few selfies posted on Insta, this 16-year-old Briton has become an internet sensation with a legion of swooning followers. Tyler Michell, who lives in Norwich, UK, now has over 17,000 followers on Instagram and more than 5,000 fans on Facebook. “It started out as a joke - my close friends and family would tease me and say I looked like Benedict Cumberbatch… now people are messaging me and saying I should have won the Oscar,” Michell told the Daily Mail, after The Imitation Game star lost the Academy Award for Best Actor to Theory of Everything hero Eddy Redmayne in 2015. Reportedly, Michell even had a few fans consoling him on the streets for his loss.
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12 Cara Delevingne
If the Suicide Squad star isn't careful, she may soon be faced with some serious competition from her 14-year-old doppelganger! Olivia Herdt from Uruguay is a spot-on perfect lookalike - from facial features to Cara Delevingne's perfect eyebrows, this teenage sensation has it all. What more, she has even acquired a 7,500-plus strong following on Instagram thanks to her likeness with the Paper Towns actress. Herdt keeps posting pictures of herself and Cara on the photo-sharing site, imitating the latter's facial movements down pat! Her uncanny ability to copy Cara's signature silly photo faces is why fans are most drawn to this South American beauty. A die-hard “Delevingner”, as Herdt calls herself, she hopes, “Cara could follow [me] or like [my] pic.” We wonder what Miss Delevingne might have to say to that?
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11 Ryan Gosling
What's better than one Ryan Gosling, you ask? Two. There you go! The La La Land star seems to have found himself a European look-alike and the internet sure can't handle it. Johannes Laschet, also known as Joe, is a fashion blogger and law student from Germany, who boats a whopping 32,600 followers on Instagram - although we can't be sure if it's because of his super-suave posts or the unmistakable semblance he bears with Ryan Gosling. The son of a German politician - the recently elected minister president of North Rhine-Westphalia, Joe told GQ Germany that the comparisons between him and Gosling are often “exhausting.” He said: “It often occurs and sometimes [it] is exhausting… There are worse things and you shouldn't complain about it now.”
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10 Rihanna
Meet Andele Lara from Boston, who can't step out of the house without being mobbed by shrieking Rihanna fans - no prizes for guessing why! This 25-year-old is the mirror image of RiRi with a life not too different from the "Umbrella" singer, all credits to the resemblance. In 2013, Lara bagged clothing line contracts worth over £13,000 and she is now on her way to pursuing a career as a full-time Rihanna look-alike. She has also signed deals to endorse sneakers, mascara and hair accessories with very little effort on her end. She told the Daily Mail, “The moment I step out anywhere, everyone starts staring and whispering before I get bombarded by strangers asking to take their photo with me.” Lara, who now has 65.5K followers on Instagram, also admitted, “I can't go 24 hours without hearing Rihanna's name.”
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9 Maisie Williams
Twenty-six-year old Ginny DiGuiseppi (right) is so similar to Maisie Williams that she has even appeared in a parody video of Game of Thrones as Arya Stark, raking in fans and followers by the thousands. The video, titled A Character I Used To Know, has since been viral with over a million views on YouTube. Commenting on her likeness to Maisie, founder of a web-production company, Ginny, told the Express, “Before I had even heard of the show, I had friends telling me that I looked like one of the characters. At first, I didn't see the resemblance because Maisie Wiliams was only 13 years old when the Game of Thrones was launched.” The Fort Collins-resident added: “After putting on Arya [Stark]'s costume and getting my make-up done for the film, I looked in the mirror and was like 'Oh. Now I get It!'”
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8 Johnny Depp
He has always been the UK's Number One Award Winning Johnny Depp lookalike and now, he is also the Hollywood star's photo-double in the Pirates of the Caribbean flicks. A natural born entertainer, Melo Masi comes with an uncanny resemblance and all the eccentric mannerisms of captain Jack Sparrow to boot. He is so close to the real thing, that he is not just stopped for photos but even by requests for autographs from unsuspecting fans. The Berkshire-based man is also in demand across the world for a horde of special appearances and meet and greets. Available for hire as a lookalike, Melo comes complete in full character costume, designed and created by Hollywood professionals. He has appeared at many prestigious events, including corporate functions for Bluechip companies, private parties, weddings and charity functions. Bee in your bonnet, ladies?
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7 Miley Cyrus
Her name is Mardee Shackleford and the first time she realized the extent of her resemblance was when Miley Cyrus's father, Billy Ray Cyrus pointed it out to her at one of his daughter's concerts. But Billy, as it appears, wasn't the only person who thought they looked similar as soon after, Mardee went on to win a $2,500 at a Miley Cyrus look-alike contest in Chicago. The waitress from California told the Daily Mail: “Several times I have been stuck in traffic and people have slid open the back door of their car and kids have started yelling, 'Miley'!” She added: “Almost every table that I waited on, someone would say I looked like her. I couldn't go anywhere without hearing it.” Mardee also feels like a celebrity these days. She revealed, “Sometimes it feels like I am actually famous… It's been really fun for me.”
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6 Morgan Freeman
When he set off on a stag vacation to Magaluf - on the Spanish island of Majorca - little did this older gentleman know that he was about become the most popular dude on the island. And eventually, the world, thanks to his Twitter-savvy nephew. The ordinary trip took an all-new turn for Norman, after flocks of drunk party-goers misidentified him for the living legend Morgan Freeman. Soon after, Lois Dorsett, Norman's nephew, tweeted pictures of his uncle smiling cheekily as he enjoyed getting all the attention from being mistaken for Freeman - the likeness was too much to handle and the internet went berserk with 62,000 likes and 20,000 retweets of the post. What more, Norman not only relished the free drinks from mesmerized fans but was also profusely thanked for his unparalleled contributions to the world.
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5 Taylor Swift
While the “Blank Space” star is taking a break from the limelight after her Texas concert, this make-up artiste is taking the internet by a storm. Meet April Gloria - Taylor Swift's carbon copy - who looks so much like the singer that most have been left baffled, trying to tell one from the other. The cosplayer from Kansas has even gone to the extent of copying Tay Tay's signature new bob immediately after the “Shake It Off” singer switched up her hairdo. Needless to say, with her blonde bob hair and swept over fringes, blue eyes and the trademark red pout, even Taylor's most hardened fans would be fooled. She now has over 70,000 followers on Instagram and Gloria's poses too are exactly the same as the singer's with occasional poses with cats, just like Taylor often does.
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4 Hugh Laurie
Stares and whispers must be following this man everywhere, yet he has no clue why. We have seen celebrities who often resemble other celebrities and there are those who have taken the 'looking-alike' business as a serious profession but imagine the plight of a Russian plumber who, is the exact replica of Hugh Laurie, but has absolutely no idea as to who the latter might be! In such a case, being constantly mistaken for a celebrity must be quite troublesome, not to mention the hindrance that it might pose for his occupation! The confusion has to be out-and-out annoying because you get all the hassles, but not a dime of the money that the House star makes! Not a place many of us would fancy!
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3 Emma Watson
Is there a time-turner we don't know about? How else can anyone explain that the lady on the right is not Emma Watson, but her doppelgänger Kari Lewis? A video store employee from Indianapolis, Indiana, Lewis bears an incredible similarity to the Beauty and the Beast actress, which apparently, she was unaware of until it was pointed out to her by two strangers one day. This revelation, who now cosplays as Emma's characters told BuzzFeed, “I didn't know who Emma Watson was when I was first spotted at a postal office and a couple of young girls told me I looked like 'Hermione Granger'.” She added: “I think they sort of started my dive into the Harry Potter universe… I've always related to Hermione in the books (smart, bossy, avid reader, etc). So, it makes cosplaying as Hermione at conventions a thousand times better!”
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2 George Clooney
With his chiselled jawline, cocky smile and the famous salt and paper hair, David Siegel, has been for long enjoying a successful career as one of the world's most popular George Clooney lookalikes, earning thousands from imitating the Money Monster star. Because of his dashing looks that can even give the real thing a run for his money, Siegel is known for charging over £2,000 per gig! However, the New Jersey resident seems to have landed himself in a sticky spot after appearing in an Israeli Espresso Club ad. Nespresso, of which Clooney has been the face since 2006, has sued this Israeli competitor for hiring the doppelgänger. Though the brand had issued a disclaimer warning that the silver-haired actor “is not George Clooney”, Nespresso has demanded $US50,000 in damages and for the ad to be removed “to prevent customers from being misled.”
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1 Harry Styles
This 15-year-old schoolboy from the Lone Star State happens to look just like the One Direction superstar, even if he didn't always see the similarities - not until he grew out his short tresses. Bailey Davila soon realized that the change was making him look exactly like Harry Styles and with time he even learnt to perfect the singer's infamous pout as is evident from most of his snaps. His mother, Cristin, who loves clicking her son's profiles, says that the Texan teenager is also beginning to enjoy the attention he is getting from the girls, thanks to his alikeness to the star. Reportedly, he even gets stopped on the streets these days. “I get stopped quite often now… no one has asked me for an autograph yet!”, Bailey told DailyMailOnline. He added, “I quite like the attention, although sometimes when I think about it, it's shocking.”
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