LOOKEY LIKEYS

Everyone has a double so they say; that somewhere out in the world there walks a person who is your mirror image.

A friend of mine has a doppelganger so eerily similar living here in the Medway towns that she’s got quite used to getting texts from friends saying they’ve just seen her in places she’s never been .

However unless you’re one of identical twins, triplets etc the chances of meeting yourself in duplicate is probably highly unlikely and it’s more probable that the person others will say you resemble is someone out there in the realm of celebrity.

My other half for instance has been told many a time that he looks like actor Martin Shaw both in his roles as Doyle from the professionals and Inspector George Gently.

And more recently he’s been christened with the nickname “ Mickey Pearce “ after some photos from his youth in which he sported a massive mop of curly hair and a dodgy moustache revealed a stunning likeness to the only fools and horses character .

However he’s not the only member of our household who resembles  a character from the world of comedy.

 Over the years I have been compared to both Mel and Sue, Dawn French and the character of Alice from the Vicar of Dibley but without fail if there’s someone trying to work out the answer to “who is it you remind me of “when faced with me and my “dazzling “personality more often than not it will be Kathy Burke.

Sometimes it’s her specifically as a comedy writer /actress and her mannerisms but generally it does seem to be her in the role of Kevin the teenager’s best friend Perry.

I could blame the years I wore my hair short, dark and clipped to the side or the fact that maybe sometimes I do come across a bit like an awkward teenage boy played by a woman I suppose but when I think about it , it could have been worse .

I’d much rather have people think “yes thank you Mrs. Patterson “when they look at me if I’m honest, than oh look its Waynetta Slob.

And at least it’s a step up from the lookalike I had before Kevin and Perry started “largin’ it up” in Ibiza.

For ,and I think you might be sensing some kind of theme here , previous to watching Kathy sending up Liam Gallagher whilst dressed as a young male with a drawn on beard , my short stature and tomboyish tendency drew many a comparison with Wee Jimmy Krankie .

So when during the leaders debates last week I noticed that Nicola Sturgeon was also being compared with Janette Tough’s naughty schoolboy comedy creation it brought back some memories and it got me thinking.

Much has been made of the comparison of Ed Miliband to Wallace of Wallace and Gromit  , David Cameron likening himself to Thomas the tank engine only to be rebuffed with the suggestion he’s more like posh engine Spencer  and I’m pretty sure green candidates must grow tiresome of references to the Wombles .

So it strikes me as odd that no-one else seems to have noticed the staggering likeness between a certain 80’s kids TV character and the leader of one of the other parties.

Come along you can’t fail to have noticed it as he stares out from billboards across the country and live into our front rooms via the medium of TV.

That smug look, that tendency to want to butt in and interrupt pompously while others are trying to have their say.

Surely I can’t be the only one who’s spotted the uncanny similarity between Nigel Farage and Zippy from Rainbow?

GIRL FROM THE NECK DOWN - MEDWAY MESSENGER 27/04/15