{"id":2162,"date":"2012-10-05T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2012-10-30T14:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:15:32","slug":"look-alikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/look-alikes\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Meets Celebrity Look Alikes in Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Celebrity Look Alikes in Leeds<\/h1>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Had the great pleasure of meeting and photographing:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Beckham<\/li>\n<li>Mr T<\/li>\n<li>Austin Powers<\/li>\n<li>Simon Cowell<\/li>\n<li>Britney Spears<\/li>\n<li>Will Smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or at least I thought I did!<\/p>\n<p>These were a great bunch of actors who make a career from looking like the actual celebrity &#8211; and it is uncanny when you meet them and they adopt the &#8220;celebrity pose&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The day was a pop music video shoot in Leeds which I was documenting &#8211; I&#8217;d taken the lights with me and set them up in the back garden to get some shots of Simon Cowell (aka Andy).<\/p>\n<p>As the day progressed, all of the look alikes came along and had a shoot and chat. At first, its totally surreal talking to Will Smith &#8211; he looks, acts and when he does the voice, sounds just like him.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; here&#8217;s a few shots from the day.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<style>\r\n.lwrp.link-whisper-related-posts{\r\n            \r\n            margin-top: 40px;\nmargin-bottom: 30px;\r\n        }\r\n        .lwrp .lwrp-title{\r\n            \r\n            \r\n        }.lwrp .lwrp-description{\r\n            \r\n            \r\n\r\n        }\r\n        .lwrp .lwrp-list-container{\r\n        }\r\n        .lwrp .lwrp-list-multi-container{\r\n            display: flex;\r\n        }\r\n        .lwrp .lwrp-list-double{\r\n            width: 48%;\r\n        }\r\n        .lwrp .lwrp-list-triple{\r\n            width: 32%;\r\n        }\r\n        .lwrp .lwrp-list-row-container{\r\n            display: flex;\r\n            justify-content: space-between;\r\n        }\r\n        .lwrp .lwrp-list-row-container .lwrp-list-item{\r\n            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These were a great bunch of actors who make a career from looking like the actual celebrity &#8211; and it is uncanny when&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}