I always hoped that you were Steve Brookstein. But then he probably couldn't afford a Mac!

Here's my Facebook profile. Feel free to state frank opinions.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=801980030

I don't see it, of course, but hardy-har-har if every one else does - now including my two innocent daughters. "Oh, hah, look at this film that your Dad acts in."

Curiously - ironically? (whatever) - despite every fibre of my very being screaming, "Noooooo!!" I find Barbra Streisand bizarrely alluring (read "sexy") in this godforsaken movie.

Having rocked the beard and glasses combo for most of my adult life, it's usually a toss-up between Rolf and Gerry Adams. I was lucky enough to meet the former many years ago, and he drew a picture of the two of us to ensure there was no doubt about who was the real Rolf.

P.S. As stated regularly on this site, if anybody deserves the accolade of "National Treasure" it's Mr H, who is an absolute gent.

Double post. Doh!

So I'm told.

Move along, please.

For my 40th birthday in 1995 I spent a week visiting friends in New York. I had several people coming up to me when wandering around the city and in an art gallery one guy approached me sheepishly saying "Paul?"

I had never heard of Paul Shaffer, band leader on the David Letterman Show. The same happened in Florida in a record shop when an assistant summoned a co-worker to look at me, as if I did not understand English and knew what he was saying. Darned insulting really. Paul is 5 years older than me and I have all my own hair (I keep it in a box under the stairs).

It did get worse in Dublin. Over for a wild weekend with a mate - drinking tea, shopping for records and standing in St.Stephen's Green - we saw some ladies eyeing us up in a local hostelry. Going over to chat they said I reminded them of someone on the tellybox. "Oh yes. Who would that be pretty lady?"

"Mr.Burns off The Simpsons".

P.S. I don't mind being mistaken for James Warren of Stackridge & Korgis fame. In the early days of the band I was often asked for my autograph. I have met him many times and he's a lovely fellow. I have had my photo taken with him for comparison purposes.

Paul Shaffer on the David Letterman Show

I was once stuck in a traffic jam on the M1 next to a van full of builders who were keen to alert me to the fact that they thought I bore a passing resemblance to Jeremy from Airport.

I've had Moby, Michael Stipe, Jimmy Somerville. If there is a famous person without hair I have been compared to him...

just taller......

An ex-girlfriend's mother said I scared her because I looked like Malkovich. I've also been compared to Phil Spencer from Relocation Relocation and the bloke who plays Max in Eastenders (with dark hair). I do sound like Max mind so that might have something to do with it.

When I was seventeen a friend of mine was at school with Keith Richards' son Marlon, and the first time they met said 'hello Simon, what are you doing here?'. And if you look him up on Google he does look a bit like the others I've mentioned!

Another friend of mine is the double of Jimmy Carr, people are always asking him to be funny.

My best mate though probably has the best deal, he's the spit of Lenny Kravitz. That works in his favour quite a lot it has to be said.

it was

Age 28 it was

Age 38 onwards I've just been confused for an innocuous man shaped like a blimp.

Mark Thomas, to try and counterract the endless, endless remarks and comparisons. In the photo, we really do look *nothing* like one another. Yet still the remarks and mistaken IDs continue. It's a wonder I haven't been assassinated yet by MI6.

Standing at the back of the Hyena in Newcastle with the comics . For the umpteenth time a tipsy wifey on the way to the bar " do you know you look like Brian Blessed .

This started a session and finally James Robertson Justice or Mickey Droy was decided upon .

Being the reciepient of a couple of Fighting Talk mugs Colin Murray at the first live recording in Harrogate , refered to me as the " dangerous looking bastard at the back of the room "

Strangely there doesn't seem to be a queue of ladies determined to break my single status .

On holidays, I have a little competition to see how long it will be before someone says "Hey.. You're just like.."

My wife can't see it. Her main objection is that she thinks Hugh L is quite good-looking.

My mate Dave is the spit of Johhny Knoxville. Right down to the multiple piercings, loads of tattoos and mad look in the eye. The broad Pompey accent rather spoils the effect, though.

..Colin Meloy, Damon Albarn & Kyle MacLachlan. Can't see any one of those, myself.

In his younger years, at least. The nose isn't quite so bulbous but overall the look is there, although he has a few decades on me. Oddly enough a brief Google image search shows that Gerard himself now appears to be turning into Johnny Cash.

Alternatively, a few years ago my flatmate came home from a comedy show to tell me one of the acts she'd seen that night was the spitting image of me. She couldn't remember his name, but other friends decided it came down a choice between Will Smith (the posh, English one) and Milton Jones.

Form an orderly queue, ladies...

often accused of looking like....
in my early 20s Bobby Bluebell
of late Arsene Wenger.
(can't see it myself obviously)

No, not me - Mr Mandy.

We went on a tour of Paramount studios in LA a few years ago and eventually the tour guide couldn't contain himself any more, asking if anyone had ever commented on how much like Gary Oldman my beloved looked. I'd never noticed it before, but yes, the resemblance is striking.

At least, I used to look like Kate Winslet in my late teens / early 20s. I'd get people commenting on it daily. Time goes by, I put on some weight, Kate went all Hollywood and lost some, and the comments stopped. (am now back to my original KW weight, but I guess the resemblance is no longer there).

At the time of The Joshua Tree's release I was constantly being mistaken for Bono. I would be stopped in the street and asked for my autograph, that kind of thing.

The incident I remember most clearly happened when I was travelling around the United States with a friend in 1988. We ended up at a motel in Idaho one night and were greeted at the reception desk by a young girl. "Oh mah gawd, uh cayun't beleeyuv it!" she squealed when she saw me. Instantly realizing what was going through her mind, I put on the most ludicrous fake Irish accent I could muster and replied "Yes, to be sure to be sure, 'tis I, Bono, of the group U2 and resident of the Emerald Isle". Hearing this she turned a deep shade of crimson and from that moment on treated us like royalty. When we left the next morning she asked if she could give me a kiss and I said "Of course!" I honestly thought she was going to faint.

Shameful behaviour? Probably...

Timothy Spall the other night and decided there was more than a passing resemblance to me I'm a big admirer of Mr Spall. But do I really look like that?

a young Bob Hoskins in his On The Move days.

"SHUTTUPPP!"

This huge bloke with tattoos came up to me in a Wigan pub and asked if I was a vicar. I said I wasn't. He said: 'You look like a vicar'. I wasn't going to argue and blessed him.

No offence Pencilsqueezer/Paul W - but I think Mr Squeezer looks like a cheerful Michael Nyman while I always get a Peter Purves vibe from Paul.

I've been told I look like Raymond McGinlay from Teenage Fanclub, Wigan Athletic goalkeeper Chris Kirkland and (this is my favourite) Paris Hilton.

to the Black Eyed Peas' Fergie.

I have been told that I look like the long lost (& far uglier) sibling of Al Murray, Harry Hill & Adrian Chiles.

Oh, & did I mention, that I am not as good looking?

As teenagers she used to tell me I looked like Feargal Sharkey, and Rick from the Young Ones. I have forgiven her.

But I've had this guy a lot (John Corbett/Northern Exposure)

And this guy, which is not so flattering. The psycho from Fargo:

together on the same stage screaming "You are the son of a motherf**a..!"

Someone at the last mingle thought I was Ganglesprocket. I suspect I might be just generically short-haired and short-sighted (read: baldy with glasses).

Which raises a whole new thread - who is your Word Blog doppelganger?

EDIT: definitely not implying Mr Sprocket looks generic. He is unique, of course.

that I look like the sultan of swearing himself Malcolm Tucker.

It's gone from Curt Smith of Tears for Fears. I was cornered by a group of American girls at the Eiffel Tower in 1985 who wanted to have their picture taken with me because they thought I looked like him.

Then when Batman came out, it was Michael Keaton I got for years.

..and lately it seems to be James Nesbitt. I have more hair than him.

By more than one independent witness. So I guess there must be some sort of similarity but I'm damned if I can see it. Balding, overweight, on/off beard/lazy stubble and occasional glasses.

As you can guess, the Rafa look is a killer with the laydeeeez.

Richard Armitage, aka the baddie from Spooks.

That's only when I brood. When I smile and the crows' feet spread out (tough paper round), all the good work is undone.

I was graced with this fascinating comment, by a woman I know at the weekend. The Stalin bit is apparently "the eyebrows". Women eh, they won't admit it, but they clearly like the bad boys.

both with and without the ponytail

with lots of others; bald, goatee and glasses. It started when my son (then 18 months old) saw pictures of bearded men and said 'Daddy'. He wasn't fussy - Henry VIII, Colonel Sanders and Daddy Pig all ....., so I started to collect people who look a bit like me and put them in a blog. I then gave up, but they can all be seen at http://lookslikematthew.blogspot.com/.

I have now shaved the beard off.

...I went by the name of Burt (Deliverance era).

is a dead ringer for FC Köln and Germany striker Lukas Podolski. However, as he's five foot nothing, he's unlikely to be mistaken for him in real life.

Especially when my hair's been long.
In America in the 90s, people thought I looked like Eddie Vedder. I've also had Jim Morrison and Jason Patrick.
With short hair and Goatee, George Michael.
But the one that I really thought was my true doppelganger was in Wayne's World. The famous Bohemian Rhapsody Scene.
The Guy at 0.45 behind Garth.

Edward Fox . . .

but I got my own back when I was produced a single called Edward Fox for a great Manchester band called Smack.

Here are some dopplegangers I think we won't be hearing from:

someone who looks like Steve Howe of Yes
the spitting image of Susan Boyle
always mistaken for Morrissey
this bloke said I looked just like Joe Strummer
aren't you Stephen Merchant?
blimey, it's Art Garfunkel!

Joe Strummer and Bruce Springsteen looked a bit alike.

...mine is

If those guys had big purple bags under their eyes and were carrying 20 extra pounds.