They’re never-ending, so here’s a ranked rundown of all the celebrity lookalike contests

Just when you thought the New York City lookalike competition for Timothée Chalamet was a random little hoot – it was simply never destined to be a one off. The viral chaos of the Chalamet one, which saw the actual Timothée turn up and and one of the lookalikes get arrested. This was followed by the Paul Mescal one in Dublin – which didn’t see Paul actually turn up but did see a lot of very ambitious men in Gaelic football shorts. Since London got a Harry Styles one and San Francisco did a Dev Patel one this weekend, the time has come for a ranked rundown of the celebrity lookalike competitions taking over the internet.

Good clean fun going viral for once! Just have to love to see it.

4. The Harry Styles one (London)

why are they all dressed like margaret thatcher https://t.co/tJ1WVJ0hwo

— haz ☭ (@emopunkloser) November 9, 2024

I think the fact this insanely viral tweet kind of took the wind out of the sails of every man who attended in the funniest way possible kind of solidifies the Harry Styles lookalike competition to be right at the bottom. Not one man I have seen who attended this looked remotely like Harry Styles. Margaret Thatcher probably looked more like him than these fellas.

I do enjoy how this all turned out, though – when remembering Harry Styles tweeted infamously “Rest in peace Baroness Thatcher” and sort of never lived it down.

Still, a merry day looked like it was had by all. And no amount of sniping at the lookalike quality can take that away from them.

3. The Paul Mescal one (Dublin)

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A Paul Mescal lookalike contest took place in Dublin today.

(🎥: @TodayFM) pic.twitter.com/qyARZ323l3

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) November 7, 2024

I think this one suffers with being the first to be compared to the mighty Chalamet saga, but fair play – it looked a laugh. And whilst I do think that the Paul Mescal uniform was seemingly doing a lot of the heavy lifting, it wasn’t as pitiful as the Harry Styles attempts. Really could have done with a Paul Mescal appearance to get it ranked higher amongst these celebrity lookalike competitions, but alas – streets saying he was in Sydney.

2. The Dev Patel one (San Francisco)

Moments from the sf Dev Patel lookalike contest, so blessed to have witnessed these beautiful devs pic.twitter.com/8iHso4uDl8

— ezra (@therealezrawr) November 10, 2024

I feel like the kind of people who would rock up to a Dev Patel one out of all the men here are people of taste. Not quite as widely discussed as being a true sex symbol like the others, there’s something a bit more carefree about this one. I love it. Wish I could have gone. And the winner is the spit of ar Dev.

the dev patel lookalike competition just being indian men randomly queening out https://t.co/QzxqAdXhEy

— gauri 🛺 (@bholibucket) November 11, 2024

Special shout out to this tweet. Honestly, if Dev himself turned up to this one I would have ranked it the best out of the celebrity lookalike competitions. Fickle? Perhaps.

1. The Timothée Chalamet one (New York City)

Timothée Chalamet makes surprise appearance at a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in New York.

pic.twitter.com/XdMMHWi2B8

— Pop Base (@PopBase) October 27, 2024

I mean, what can you say? Many have tried, but you can’t top the OG. The man himself was there! Be serious.

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