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by Jojo Apollo » Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:08 pm
We've had quite a few famous Countdown lookalikes. List your lookalikes here.
I'll start:
Susie Dent = actress Jennifer Garner
Damian Eadie = comedian Stewart Lee
Chris Wills = Tony Blair
Neil Zussman = legendary kids tv presenter Fred Harris
Jo Brand = John Sergeant
Charlie Reams = some famous footballer whose name I can't recall
p.s only a bit of fun folks.

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by D Eadie » Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:31 pm
James Hurrell - Buzz Lightyear
David Williams - Arsene Wenger
Junaid Mubeen - Bob Geldof.
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by Jojo Apollo » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:37 am
Charlie Reams wrote:DAMIAN
Opps! Sorry Charlie and Damian.

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by Kevin Thurlow » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:07 pm
Jon Corby - Pete Sampras
although less so nowadays, probably a conscious effort from one or the other...
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by Junaid Mubeen » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:51 pm
Some Snooker relations:
Jon Corby - Ronnie O'Sullivan (both flawed by their genius)
DoD - John Higgins
The following has also been suggested by a few people
Junaid Mubeen - Nick Wainwright
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by Matt Morrison » Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:09 pm
Just in case any of you didn't bother with the spoiler boards from last week, I may as well post these pics in this thread:

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by Chris Philpot » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:39 pm
Junaid Mubeen wrote:Some Snooker relations:
Jon Corby - Ronnie O'Sullivan (both flawed by their genius)
DoD - John Higgins
Have Damian Eadie and snooker's Ian McCulloch ever been seen in the same room at the same time?

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by Matt Morrison » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:16 pm
Jojo Apollo wrote:Susie Dent = actress Jennifer Garner
I'd be happy to make loads more of these, it's just hard to find decent-sized pictures of Countdown people.
So by all means point me in the right direction. I tried to find the thread of CoC photos by searching for "photobucket" but only found pictures of sexy golfers that Corby had posted.
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by Paul Hammond » Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm
Since you were quite dismissive of the Roman Abramovich thing

, I feel entitled to say that I don't see the Susie Dent vs. Jennifer Garner one at all. They've got quite similar hair, and ears, I suppose. But that does not a lookalike make.
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by Charlie Reams » Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:29 pm
Paul Hammond wrote:Since you were quite dismissive of the Roman Abramovich thing

, I feel entitled to say that I don't see the Susie Dent vs. Jennifer Garner one at all. They've got quite similar hair, and ears, I suppose. But that does not a lookalike make.
Well this is all very grown up.
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by Matt Morrison » Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:34 pm
Charlie Reams wrote:Paul Hammond wrote:Since you were quite dismissive of the Roman Abramovich thing

, I feel entitled to say that I don't see the Susie Dent vs. Jennifer Garner one at all. They've got quite similar hair, and ears, I suppose. But that does not a lookalike make.
Well this is all very grown up.
You want grown up do you?
Check out the beard.
and Paul - I made the picture, I didn't make the claim. As with Charlie and Hammond.
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by Charlie Reams » Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:47 pm
Ha, that's pretty good.
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by Martin Gardner » Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:27 pm
Charlie Reams wrote:Ha, that's pretty good.
Fucking excellent.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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by Derek Hazell » Mon May 04, 2009 1:17 pm
Lou Kelly from Prisoner (Cell Block H) and Carol Vorderman:

Living life in a gyratory circus kind of way.
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by JimBentley » Mon May 04, 2009 1:28 pm

Blimey Derek, that is uncanny! I think we have a winner.
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by Jon Corby » Tue May 05, 2009 7:26 am
Haha, that's superb Derek. I think that shot of Carol is the one on the front of my old 'Countdown' game for the BBC Micro

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by Matthew Green » Tue May 05, 2009 8:13 am
What about Nick Wainwright and Si out of the Inbetweeners?
If I suddenly have a squirming baby on my lap it probably means that I should start paying it some attention and stop wasting my time messing around on a Countdown forum
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by Phil Reynolds » Tue May 05, 2009 9:54 am
Derek Hazell wrote:Lou Kelly from Prisoner (Cell Block H) and Carol Vorderman
Just to prove they're not really the same person, here they are photographed together.

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by Jon O'Neill » Tue May 05, 2009 12:28 pm
Matthew Green wrote:What about Nick Wainwright and Si out of the Inbetweeners?
Excellent!
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by David O'Donnell » Thu May 14, 2009 3:01 pm
This is the first one where I actually see the resemblance!
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by Jojo Apollo » Thu May 14, 2009 4:42 pm

Yeah I noticed the resemblance too.
Some say Jimmy Gough looks like Andy Murray, I reckon he looks more like actor Billy Drago (the main hit man in The Untouchables film)
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by Matthew Green » Fri May 15, 2009 11:08 am
I think he looks more like Andy Murrays mum. No offence Jimmy, I honestly do.
If I suddenly have a squirming baby on my lap it probably means that I should start paying it some attention and stop wasting my time messing around on a Countdown forum
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by Matthew Green » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:54 pm
If I suddenly have a squirming baby on my lap it probably means that I should start paying it some attention and stop wasting my time messing around on a Countdown forum
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by Chris Philpot » Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:09 pm
Matthew Green wrote:What about Nick Wainwright and Si out of the Inbetweeners?
Yes, absolutely uncanny! Nick could be his slightly older brother.
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by David O'Donnell » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:26 pm
I think someone posted that lookalike on this thread already, Matthew Green maybe. I don't see it but then I wouldn't! I do get the John Higgins one though quite often.
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by David O'Donnell » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:39 pm
In case you don't know who John Higgins is.

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by Matt Morrison » Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:04 pm
Guess he'd declare a 4, either ISLE or CUES.
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by David O'Donnell » Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:41 pm
Matt Morrison wrote:
Guess he'd declare a 4, either ISLE or CUES.
Awesome!
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by Jimmy Gough » Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:08 am
Matt Morrison wrote:
Guess he'd declare a 4, either ISLE or CUES.
That's fantastic.
Edit: or BAULKLINE

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by Matthew Green » Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:48 pm
Ben from Lost looks like what DoD would look like if he lived on a desert island for a few years.
If I suddenly have a squirming baby on my lap it probably means that I should start paying it some attention and stop wasting my time messing around on a Countdown forum
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by Kai Laddiman » Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:05 pm
Richard Brittain = Alun Cochrane
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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by Mike Brailsford » Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:05 pm
Chris Davies reminds me of Paul O'Grady facially and vocally.
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by Sue Sanders » Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:11 pm
You don't see Chris and Ed Byrne in the same room. (Sorry, don't know how to put a pic of Chris - feel free to do it for me, someone!)

'This one goes up to eleven'
Fool's top.
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by Davy Affleck » Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:58 pm
Mike Brailsford wrote:Chris Davies reminds me of Paul O'Grady facially and vocally.
I bet he's chuffed with that - not.
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by Jeffrey Burgin » Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:00 pm
Sue Sanders wrote:You don't see Chris and Ed Byrne in the same room. (Sorry, don't know how to put a pic of Chris - feel free to do it for me, someone!)

ZOMGZ- I put this theory forward yesterday in Aptochat and it was thoroughly dismissed by those present!
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by Kieran Child » Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:11 pm
For people to make up their own minds:
Also, I always thought Kirk looked more like England reserve footballer Wayne Bridge.
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by Sue Sanders » Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:44 pm
Ta muchly - I'm happy that proves mine and Jeff's point!
'This one goes up to eleven'
Fool's top.
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by Phil Reynolds » Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:17 pm
Mike Brailsford wrote:Chris Davies reminds me of Paul O'Grady facially and vocally.
I can definitely see this. Chris resembles Ed Byrne superficially (long hair, glasses, pale complexion etc) but his underlying features look scarily like O'Grady's.

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by Chris Davies » Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:38 pm
My dad went to the same school (St. Anselm's) as Paul O'Grady. I'm actually quite a fan of his and would love to meet him.
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by Gavin Chipper » Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:53 pm
Chris Davies wrote:My dad went to the same school (St. Anselm's) as Paul O'Grady. I'm actually quite a fan of his and would love to meet him.
This latest revelation seems to indicate the impossibility of that.
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by Charlie Reams » Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:59 pm
Next time we get accused of being "elitist" for hounding idiots off this board, I will refer the accuser to that thread.
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by Ben Hunter » Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:03 pm
Wow what a bunch of fucking dicks, but what can you expect from a load of couch potatoes whose entire life experience consists of what they watch on telly?
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by Derek Hazell » Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:08 am
Who did they say he loooked like in that thread? Blofeld?
Living life in a gyratory circus kind of way.
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by Jon Corby » Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:19 am
I'd just like to thank everyone on Chris's behalf for drawing his attention to what people had been writing about him on digitalSpy, which he would otherwise have been completely unaware of. He's probably been pretty excited what with his awesome octochamp run just finishing being broadcast on national TV, which I guess is why he forgot to do it himself.
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by Alec Rivers » Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:04 pm
Kirk tells me this was his first thought, too:

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by Derek Hazell » Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:30 pm
I saw a guy who looked like Jack Hurst standing under the archway at my work smoking this morning. I have never seen anybody who looks like him before, so I had to do a double take. He must have thought I was very very odd looking at him like that!
No picture I'm afraid. That would have been just a step too far.
Living life in a gyratory circus kind of way.
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by JimBentley » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:46 pm
Derek Hazell wrote:I saw a guy who looked like Jack Hurst standing under the archway at my work smoking this morning. I have never seen anybody who looks like him before, so I had to do a double take. He must have thought I was very very odd looking at him like that!
No picture I'm afraid. That would have been just a step too far.
I think you should draw a picture of what the guy looked like, then beside it draw a picture of Jack (but you must do this from memory, you're not allowed to copy a picture of Jack off the internet or lure Jack round your house for a spot of life drawing). Then we can compare the likenesses of the mystery man and Mr. Hurst and decide if they really are lookalikes, and also laugh at your rubbish drawing skillz (unless of course you're an accomplished artist in which case you will have made me look a fool damn you).
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by JackHurst » Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:44 pm
Did he look of Oriental origin by any chance? You'd be surprised how many young oriental males look like me (roughly about 50%).
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by Matt Morrison » Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:59 pm
Bit of a reverse lookalike this one:
No doubt just the sort of thing that will see Phil come back to these pleasant shores xx
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by Phil Reynolds » Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:39 am
I've had to watch yesterday's game twice as I couldn't concentrate on the letters and numbers first time through. However, leaving aside the question of whether Alex Johnston may have unseated Andrew Laycock from the title of Sexiest Contestant of All Time, I wonder if anyone else was as troublingly stimulated as I was by a rather extraordinary resemblance:
They could almost be twin brother and sister.
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by Phil Reynolds » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:15 am
Puck from Glee = Jon Corby with a tan and a mohawk. Uncanny.
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