The fag end of 2024 is a great time to be alive if you know your pop culture and remotely resemble your favourite celeb. From New York to London, hilariously fun celebrity lookalike contests are all the rage right now. And, if you squint hard enough, you can even see some resemblance between the contestants and the stars.
Naturally, we couldn’t help but indulge and draw up a list of VIPs for whom we would love to witness celebrity lookalike contests. Which one of us hasn’t tried a ‘Who is your celebrity lookalike?’ quiz in our teens? Upload a photo and voila, the internet flatters your ego with a movie or music star in tow. But a sudden uptick in physical celebrity lookalike contests — for stars like Timothée Chalamet , Paul Mescal, Harry Styles and even Jeremy Allen White — all over the world to crown somewhat-similar-looking men and women has caught us by surprise.
After all, in this age of AI, when numerous tools can produce anyone with a celebrity likeness in seconds, how are these events gathering so much momentum? Sure, in these uncertain times, we love to be a little “ delulu ”, but is that all that’s really going on? How Timothée Chalamet sparked the celebrity lookalike contest trend (unknowingly) A post shared by Benjamin De Almeida (@benoftheweek) The story starts with Anthony Po, a YouTuber who, in late October, plastered quirky fliers regarding a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest all over New York. Was it a gag or was it a legit event? Th.
