Celebrity pairs

[Gavin Chipper]

Celebrities whose names are quite similar and people who don't know them might think they're just one person if they never hear both names too close together. E.g.

Rod Hull/Roy Hudd
Leonard Nimoy/Derek Nimmo
Bernard Matthews/Bernard Manning

I'll think of some more later.

[Matt Bayfield]

I'm not sure that "celebrity" is entirely the right word, but it would be easy to mistake famous criminals/prisoners Charles Bronson and Charles Manson. The fact that the former shares his name with a famous actor merely adds to the confusion.

[Matt Morrison]

Yes yes yes Matt! I do that one. Thanks.

[Ryan Taylor]

I often confuse Harper Lee and Ken Kesey. That is to say that if asked to name the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest my brain always thinks "Harper Lee, wait no shit it's the other one". I also used to think Harper Lee was a man for quite a while.

[Gavin Chipper]

I used to be surprsied that Gwyneth Paltrow didn't look like Phoebe from Friends (Lisa Kudrow) when she appeared in films and stuff.

[Andy Wilson]

I also used to think Harper Lee was a man for quite a while.

I also assumed same with George Eliot.

EDIT: There's another one for you Phil.

[Charlie Reams]

Tommy Lee and Tommy Lee Jones.

[Andy Wilson]

I always thought the Olsen twins were one person when I used to watch Full House.

[Phil Reynolds]

I regularly get confused between all the various ex-members of bubblegum pop bands who have "Lee" in their names: Jon Lee, Lee Latchford-Evans, Lisa Scott-Lee etc.

[JimBentley]

Shaun Wallace (ex-Mastermind champ and one of the Chasers in The Chase) and Shaun Williamson (Barry off of Eastenders). At least, I've got their surnames the wrong way round more than once when talking about them recently (I don't think it helped that Shaun Williamson also won Celebrity Mastermind when he was on a few years back).

[Mark James]

My Dad gets confused between Michael Essien and Man City sponsors Etihad Airways. He calls him Michael Etien. He also calls Patrice Evra Everett which makes me think of Kenny Everett. And he thinks Aiden McGeady is Aiden McGreedy. And not in a comedy way of suggesting he's a selfish player, just in a can't be arsed to learn how to pronounce peoples names way.

[Jon O'Neill]

Emma Thompson and Emma Watson. This troubles me to the extent that I've been trying to think of Emma Thompson's name since the OP was posted.

[Ryan Taylor]

The Chaser, Anne Hegarty and apteforumite Shaun Hegarty.

[Gavin Chipper]

Just realised that What a Wonderful World and We Have All the Time in the World by Louis Armstrong are two songs. This thread will do.

[Johnny Canuck]

Not so much celebrities as groups thereof, but U2 and The Who have similar names, and I sometimes embarrass myself by referring to one when I mean the other (especially after hearing one of their songs and saying "Hey, that's by _______!"). Same with Bon Jovi and Billy Joel.

[Matt Morrison]

This thread and the apterite lookalikes thread.

[Mark Deeks]

When I was a young, idiotic boy, I was convinced that the BBC Six o Clock News reader Nicholas Witchell was actually the first man on the moon Neil Armstrong, and that the actor Peter Sellars was actually Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, based solely off of this stamp. (Collected stamps as a boy and remember how happy I was to have my first ever Iraqi stamp. I distinctly remember my dad doggedly trying to break the news to me, then giving up and backing down. A young, idiotic, stubborn boy.)

[Ian Volante]

I often confuse Harper Lee and Ken Kesey. That is to say that if asked to name the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest my brain always thinks "Harper Lee, wait no shit it's the other one". I also used to think Harper Lee was a man for quite a while.

Relatedly, I can never remember which is which out of To Kill A Mocking Bird and The Catcher in the Rye. Even when one of them is rubbish.