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Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:08 pm
by Jojo Apollo
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. ;)

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:31 pm
by D Eadie
James Hurrell - Buzz Lightyear
David Williams - Arsene Wenger
Junaid Mubeen - Bob Geldof.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:29 pm
by Charlie Reams
DAMIAN

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:37 am
by Jojo Apollo
Charlie Reams wrote:DAMIAN
Opps! Sorry Charlie and Damian. :oops:

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:07 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
Jon Corby - Pete Sampras

although less so nowadays, probably a conscious effort from one or the other...

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:51 pm
by Junaid Mubeen
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

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:09 pm
by Matt Morrison
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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Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:39 pm
by Chris Philpot
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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Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:16 pm
by Matt Morrison
Jojo Apollo wrote:Susie Dent = actress Jennifer Garner
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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.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm
by Paul Hammond
Since you were quite dismissive of the Roman Abramovich thing :mrgreen:, 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.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:29 pm
by Charlie Reams
Paul Hammond wrote:Since you were quite dismissive of the Roman Abramovich thing :mrgreen:, 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.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:34 pm
by Matt Morrison
Charlie Reams wrote:
Paul Hammond wrote:Since you were quite dismissive of the Roman Abramovich thing :mrgreen:, 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?

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Check out the beard.

and Paul - I made the picture, I didn't make the claim. As with Charlie and Hammond.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:47 pm
by Charlie Reams
Ha, that's pretty good.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:27 pm
by Martin Gardner
Charlie Reams wrote:Ha, that's pretty good.
Fucking excellent.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 1:17 pm
by Derek Hazell
Lou Kelly from Prisoner (Cell Block H) and Carol Vorderman:
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Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 1:28 pm
by JimBentley
:D Blimey Derek, that is uncanny! I think we have a winner.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 7:26 am
by Jon Corby
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 :)

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 8:13 am
by Matthew Green
What about Nick Wainwright and Si out of the Inbetweeners?

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 9:54 am
by Phil Reynolds
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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Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:28 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Matthew Green wrote:What about Nick Wainwright and Si out of the Inbetweeners?
Excellent!

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 10:44 pm
by Jon O'Neill
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Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 3:01 pm
by David O'Donnell
This is the first one where I actually see the resemblance!

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 4:42 pm
by Jojo Apollo
:lol: 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)

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 11:08 am
by Matthew Green
I think he looks more like Andy Murrays mum. No offence Jimmy, I honestly do.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:13 pm
by Clive Brooker
Harvey Freeman = Bobby Fischer

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:54 pm
by Matthew Green

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:09 pm
by Chris Philpot
Matthew Green wrote:What about Nick Wainwright and Si out of the Inbetweeners?
Yes, absolutely uncanny! Nick could be his slightly older brother.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:21 pm
by Ben Wilson
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Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:26 pm
by David O'Donnell
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.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:39 pm
by David O'Donnell
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In case you don't know who John Higgins is.

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Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:04 pm
by Matt Morrison
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Guess he'd declare a 4, either ISLE or CUES.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:41 pm
by David O'Donnell
Matt Morrison wrote:Image

Guess he'd declare a 4, either ISLE or CUES.
Awesome!

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:08 am
by Jimmy Gough
Matt Morrison wrote:Image

Guess he'd declare a 4, either ISLE or CUES.
That's fantastic.

Edit: or BAULKLINE :D

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:48 pm
by Matthew Green
Ben from Lost looks like what DoD would look like if he lived on a desert island for a few years.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:05 pm
by Kai Laddiman
Richard Brittain = Alun Cochrane

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:05 pm
by Mike Brailsford
Chris Davies reminds me of Paul O'Grady facially and vocally.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:11 pm
by Sue Sanders
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!)

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Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:58 pm
by Davy Affleck
Mike Brailsford wrote:Chris Davies reminds me of Paul O'Grady facially and vocally.

I bet he's chuffed with that - not.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:41 pm
by Douglas Wilson
My flatmate said Chris looks like Ozzy Osbourne.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:00 pm
by Jeffrey Burgin
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!)

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ZOMGZ- I put this theory forward yesterday in Aptochat and it was thoroughly dismissed by those present!

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:09 pm
by Ben Wilson
How has this thread gone so far already without a mention of Stewart Holden and Masi Oka?

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:11 pm
by Kieran Child
For people to make up their own minds:

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Also, I always thought Kirk looked more like England reserve footballer Wayne Bridge.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:44 pm
by Sue Sanders
Ta muchly - I'm happy that proves mine and Jeff's point!

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:17 pm
by Phil Reynolds
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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Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:38 pm
by Chris Davies
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.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:53 pm
by Gavin Chipper
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.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:55 pm
by Mike Brailsford
Posters on Digital Spy aren't too polite about Chris. Read for yourself.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/show ... ?t=1124756

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:59 pm
by Charlie Reams
Mike Brailsford wrote:Posters on Digital Spy aren't too polite about Chris. Read for yourself.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/show ... ?t=1124756
Next time we get accused of being "elitist" for hounding idiots off this board, I will refer the accuser to that thread.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:03 pm
by Ben Hunter
Mike Brailsford wrote:Posters on Digital Spy aren't too polite about Chris. Read for yourself.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/show ... ?t=1124756
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?

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:08 am
by Derek Hazell
Who did they say he loooked like in that thread? Blofeld?

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:19 am
by Jon Corby
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.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:04 pm
by Alec Rivers
Kirk tells me this was his first thought, too:

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Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:30 pm
by Derek Hazell
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.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:46 pm
by JimBentley
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).

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:44 pm
by JackHurst
Did he look of Oriental origin by any chance? You'd be surprised how many young oriental males look like me (roughly about 50%).

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:59 pm
by Matt Morrison
Bit of a reverse lookalike this one:

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No doubt just the sort of thing that will see Phil come back to these pleasant shores xx

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:32 pm
by Alec Rivers
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Chris Davies..............................Sarah Millican

Sorry, Chris, couldn't resist. ;)

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:39 am
by Phil Reynolds
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:

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They could almost be twin brother and sister.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:15 am
by Phil Reynolds
Puck from Glee = Jon Corby with a tan and a mohawk. Uncanny.

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:12 pm
by Jeff Clayton
Conor Travers = The Haribo kid.