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Post by marwood on Dec 17, 2014 20:59:05 GMT
My mate is a dead ringer for BOJAN and has been stopped in the street a fair few times already by people who thought it was him. I'm wondering if there is any money to be made here?
I searched a lookalike business website where you can hire celebrity impersonators. The top 3 most requested were
1- Del Boy 2- Ali g 3 - David Brent
None of those shows have been on tv for years. The only sports person there was David beck ham, they had about ten of him, None looked anything like him.
Anyone have any experience of making money from looking like a celebrity, and is the world ready for a BOJAN a like?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2014 21:03:04 GMT
I sometimes get mistaken for Norris of corrie
It sometimes goes to my head
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Post by marwood on Dec 17, 2014 21:04:52 GMT
I sometimes get mistaken for Norris of corrie It sometimes goes to my head I imagine Norris from coronation street would be a good one. Loads of people watch that programme. If he has a catchphrase you just just walk round repeating it. That's what these impersonators seem to do. I've been likened to Tyrone Power a few times but I don't think there's much call for his lookalikes
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2014 21:26:57 GMT
I sometimes get mistaken for Norris of corrie It sometimes goes to my head I imagine Norris from coronation street would be a good one. Loads of people watch that programme. If he has a catchphrase you just just walk round repeating it. That's what these impersonators seem to do. I've been likened to Tyrone Power a few times but I don't think there's much call for his lookalikes Not likened to how Tyrone would look now I hope?.....Altho zombie films are quite popular these days
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Post by scfcmacca on Dec 17, 2014 22:06:48 GMT
When I shaved my head and squinted in the sun I looked like Ian dowie
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Post by Clem Fandango on Dec 17, 2014 22:42:13 GMT
I once got mistaken for Louis Theroux in Selfridges in Birmingham.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2014 0:17:16 GMT
you've got to post a photo of your mate on here now, because 9/10 times people say this they look nothing like them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2014 0:27:12 GMT
I'm BUTFORD T JUSTICE's double.
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Post by marwood on Dec 18, 2014 8:51:47 GMT
Louis Theroux would be a good one. Im tempted to become my mates agent and see if we can raise a quid or two. I dont think you necessarily have to look a lot like them to be convincing, it seems all to be about props and cathphrases.
A firm I used to work for hired a Del Boy lookalike about 6 years ago for a corporate team building event. Without his getup he looked like just an ordinary 45 year old pot bellied man. He was dressed exactly as del boy was for about 3 episodes in 1986, ie flat cap, red roll neck, sheepskin coat, gold, cigar (unlit). No acting ability was required. He basically walked around the tables in between the teambuilding tasks saying "lovely Jubbly" and "rodney you plonker". He didnt say anything else. Now im a big fan of the programme, and would buttonhole him and ask things like 'how is grandad', 'do all the boys still know Marlene', and 'do you miss the old Vauxhall Vellox' - to which he had no answer. Repeated requests for him to fall through the bar were ignored. My mates Beano and Hanch from Accounts were a bit tiddly and cornered him coming out of the toilet and tried to push him through the bar and film it on their phones, but he squealed "gerrof moy" in a loud Brummie accent and managed to wriggle free.He avoided us for the rest of the day.
Best of it, my mate Beano checked his invoice some months later and he trousered £500 for his days work, plus return train fare to Stoke and taxi to the gig!
I knew then I was in the wrong game, but my mate looking like Bojan could be a good little earner
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Dec 18, 2014 9:34:57 GMT
I'm often mistaken for the Hollywood actor Bruce Willis. But on occasions when wearing me specs Harry Hill.
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Post by kbillyh on Dec 18, 2014 10:54:12 GMT
Louis Theroux is a dentist based in Butt Lane.
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Post by marwood on Dec 18, 2014 14:10:01 GMT
To be honest its all going to my mates head a bit. He has started walking a round with a Stoke top on looking innocent and sporting a neat haircut. He doesnt go to the games at all and lives by the Green Star in Smallthorne. If anything his peoples are Vale fans, his dad and his uncle etc. he is cashing in on his Bojan-ness. He has even started wearing his stoke top to work. he works on a production line in a pea factory.
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Post by scfcwebby on Dec 18, 2014 21:47:32 GMT
To be honest its all going to my mates head a bit. He has started walking a round with a Stoke top on looking innocent and sporting a neat haircut. He doesnt go to the games at all and lives by the Green Star in Smallthorne. If anything his peoples are Vale fans, his dad and his uncle etc. he is cashing in on his Bojan-ness. He has even started wearing his stoke top to work. he works on a production line in a pea factory. Why would "The real Bojan" wear a Stoke top while walking around town casually?
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Post by 2004 on Dec 18, 2014 21:53:55 GMT
Got to get a pic of him on here
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Post by marwood on Dec 18, 2014 22:52:23 GMT
Like I said it's gone to his head a bit. He came into the pub straight from his shift at the pea factory and was still wearing stoke top (6 nights on the trot not washed) . Yes the real BOJAN wouldn't wear a replica top or indeed know where smallthorne was. My mate used to have loads of product in his hair and have it spiked up but now it's a neat side parting. He says if I put a photo of him on the internet without his permission "he will batter me." Unlike the real BOJAN he has a real temper
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Post by scfcwebby on Dec 18, 2014 23:19:25 GMT
Why do I sense another "Stoke fans in Ozzie" type thread forming here??
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Dec 18, 2014 23:43:32 GMT
Just do what I'd do to my mate if he bowled around pretending to be a Stoke player, go out for a beer with the boys and kick the living shit out of him for being such a fucking dunderhead.
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Post by lastoftheldk on Dec 19, 2014 2:10:27 GMT
To be honest its all going to my mates head a bit. He has started walking a round with a Stoke top on looking innocent and sporting a neat haircut. He doesnt go to the games at all and lives by the Green Star in Smallthorne. If anything his peoples are Vale fans, his dad and his uncle etc. he is cashing in on his Bojan-ness. He has even started wearing his stoke top to work. he works on a production line in a pea factory. Processed or garden. .?
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Post by Northy on Dec 19, 2014 7:33:11 GMT
Like I said it's gone to his head a bit. He came into the pub straight from his shift at the pea factory and was still wearing stoke top (6 nights on the trot not washed) . Yes the real BOJAN wouldn't wear a replica top or indeed know where smallthorne was. My mate used to have loads of product in his hair and have it spiked up but now it's a neat side parting. He says if I put a photo of him on the internet without his permission "he will batter me." Unlike the real BOJAN he has a real temper Tell him Bojan wears clean clothes everyday, the dirty fooker I was once asked if I was Seb Coe, it was in Waitrose in Knutsford a sort of place you'd expect to see him
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Post by marwood on Dec 19, 2014 8:58:03 GMT
To be honest its all going to my mates head a bit. He has started walking a round with a Stoke top on looking innocent and sporting a neat haircut. He doesnt go to the games at all and lives by the Green Star in Smallthorne. If anything his peoples are Vale fans, his dad and his uncle etc. he is cashing in on his Bojan-ness. He has even started wearing his stoke top to work. he works on a production line in a pea factory. Processed or garden. .? Im not sure, I imagine processed. He does talk, at length, about his job in the pea factory in the pub but to be honest most of us switch off. I think he is on a production line and either puts peas in tins or sorts out dodgy peas and gets rid of them. I drove past him on the bus stop this morning, normally I avoid that way as he tries to jump out in front of me and demand a lift to work (4.5 miles out of my way-ive measured it on the mileometer) and -sure enough - there he was with Stoke top on (by now it must hum) -but get this - NO COAT JUMPER OR HAT OR SCARF (freezing). Interestingly he was wearing gloves though and trying to look innocent with side parting. Although his innocent smile stopped and he became angry when he saw me and realised I wasn't going to stop. I dropped the Micra into second and floored the accelerator and sped off as fast as I could. I burned rubber and I couldnt hear him (window wound up due to cold), but I saw him through my rear view mirror and he was surely cursing and waving his fist. Id better avoid the Green Star tonight or I'm sure to be threatened with another battering
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 9:18:03 GMT
Been told i look like Tom Cruise by random people in the pub, my old boss and my mates daughter. Don't see it myself but I'm not arguing. And no I'm not a midget either.
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Post by marwood on Dec 19, 2014 12:02:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 12:06:54 GMT
maybe you could let him join your band and turn into some kind of footballing tribute act?
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Post by marwood on Dec 19, 2014 12:44:18 GMT
maybe you could let him join your band and turn into some kind of footballing tribute act? its true there is a theme developing here. Most of my friends are valves and I am desperate to break into showbusiness
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 13:29:07 GMT
Not an exact Bojan lookalike, but they both have the same effect on me:
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Post by marwood on Dec 19, 2014 19:06:35 GMT
I'm avoiding my mate tonight but he's texted asking what type of food Spanish people eat. I replied paella, I don't know much about food, but he had never heard of it. I said it was like a lasagne made with potatoes (hopefully right) . He texted back
" how am I going eat Spanish lasagne walking round the streets so people can see me U BELLEND"
I texted back a load of reasons why people wouldn't think he was BOJAN, even if he did this, including he wouldn't work in a pea factory, wouldn't knock about Smallthorne , wouldn't wear a replica top (humming) and wouldn't catch the bus .
Later I had a brief reply saying
"I'm goin batter u" He could at least vary it a bit and threaten to snap me in half or something
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Post by tuum on Dec 20, 2014 16:50:17 GMT
Like I said it's gone to his head a bit. He came into the pub straight from his shift at the pea factory and was still wearing stoke top (6 nights on the trot not washed) . Yes the real BOJAN wouldn't wear a replica top or indeed know where smallthorne was. My mate used to have loads of product in his hair and have it spiked up but now it's a neat side parting. He says if I put a photo of him on the internet without his permission "he will batter me." Unlike the real BOJAN he has a real temper You write in the style of Adrian Mole aged 13 1/4. I like it. Have you considered keeping a diary?
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Post by marwood on Dec 20, 2014 20:24:09 GMT
Yes to the diary. It's mainly my thoughts since aged 11, but not much of it has made its way online.
I only delve into it to retrieve edited highlights for this site such as my day trips to Telford, attempts to join a rock band (failed-grr) and my latest venture to be an agent/impresario for a Bojanalike. I thought this latest bid for stardom with my mate the doppelgänger would be my golden ticket but all I've had so far is a couple of private messages to my oatcake inbox offering me £10 if they can borrow him for a quick bum
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Post by tuum on Dec 21, 2014 2:28:46 GMT
Sounds like there is more demand for him as a prostitute rather than as a 2nd rate entertainer. Rent him out as a gigolo rather than as a 'double'. He could be busy over Xmas once the housewives have had a Snowball or two....or a Strippagram. Get him to wear thirteen pairs of undies like Nello and remove them slowly in front of Brenda in the concert room at Smallthorne Vic Club whilst the bingo is on and you (and him) will be coining it in (literally). If you do interrupt the bingo, then make sure you are near an exit as you may have to run for your lives. I wish you well in your endeavour.
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Post by tuum on Dec 21, 2014 2:45:55 GMT
Note. In my previous post I am not implying that Bojan is a "2nd rate entertainer". Nothing could be further from the truth. I was referring to the people themselves who generally get involved in the lookalike business itself . I am sure your mate is a 1st class pea factory employee but is less certain of his abilities as a 2nd rate entertainer ..or a gigolo.
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