Harry Styles Clones descend on London for the Celeb Lookalike competition
Oscar Journeaux
(Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)Another day, another celebrity lookalike contest.
On Saturday, November 9, hundreds of people with a similarity came forward Harry Styles descended on Soho Square in London’s West End for a lookalike competition dedicated to the former One Direction member.
Unlike other celebrity lookalike competitions held in recent months, no arrests were made in London on Saturday. “We have zero tolerance for filth,” says the competition organizer Katrina Mirpuritold the crowd at the start of the event, as reported by The Guardian. “My mother is here and she will reject you if you start being mean.”
The competition drew a crowd of about 500 people who filmed much of the competition on their phones as 13 competitors modeled themselves on a park bench. 22 year old singer and guitarist Oscar Journeaux ultimately took home the £50 prize for the best lookalike. Meanwhile, a man with a kilo of sugar and a small watermelon went home with the prize for the worst Harry: a four-pack of beer.
Mirpuri was inspired to enter the competition after reading about similar events for actors in both New York City and Dublin, Ireland Timothée Chalamet And Paul Mescalrespectively. “New York, Dublin – we will catch you,” Muripuri said at the London event. “Harry Styles is a London legend.”
She told me Observer“I felt like London was missing something. Harry is an iconic man and he is a Londoner now, he has lived here long enough.”
Unlike Styles, Chalamet, 28, attended his own lookalike contest when it was held in New York’s Washington Square Park on Oct. 27, which drew hundreds of Twin-othées from across the country dressed in some of the most iconic looks of Wonka actors, from his movie characters to his red carpet style. Chalamet sneaked into the crowd wearing a baseball cap and black mask, but ended up posing for photos with some of his lookalikes.
According to NBC, the contest was later dispersed by the New York City Police Department due to the lack of a formal permit.
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‘I expected to be taken away in handcuffs, so [the outcome] was much better than I thought,” event organizer Anthony Po told exclusively We weekly at the event after being fined $500. ‘My bodyguard here, Roberto, collected the fine. So I’m going to pay him.”
Even though the event was broken up by the police, a 21-year-old Miles Mitchell still managed to take home the $50 prize dressed as Chalamet’s character Wonka. “[It’s surreal] that I ended up winning,” Mitchell shared Us. “It’s so crazy. There were so many people who really looked like him, so it was really crazy.”
The event in Dublin, which aimed to find the city’s Mescal lookalike, was held on Thursday 7 November, with the first prize going to Jack Wall O’Reillywho received £20, or ‘three pints’, as written on the comically large check presented to the winner.
Wall O’Reilly told the Irish independent at the time: “I’m very proud, it was a good buzz,” adding that he won “the genetic Paul Mescal lottery.”
