A builder who looks just like Hugh Grant has said that he gets stopped for selfies every day by fans who can’t believe he’s not movie star Grant.
Nigel Lambert, 50, said the likeness causes strangers to stop him in the street and ask for photos, only for him to turn red and reveal that he is just a lookalike.
The father-of-four only noticed similarities to Grant when he got into his forties.
‘I do get mistaken for him. It’s constant. It’s everywhere I go,’ Nigel, from Port Talbot, south Wales said.
‘Almost every day someone will stop me and ask for a photo. My face goes red and I tell them I’m not him.
Nigel Lambert (pictured), 50, said the likeness causes strangers to stop him in the street and ask for photos, which usually causes his face to turn red as he reveals that he is just a lookalike
The father-of-four only noticed similarities to Hugh Grant (pictured above in 2009) when he got into his forties
‘I do get mistaken for him. It’s constant. It’s everywhere I go,’ Nigel, from Port Talbot, south Wales said
‘When I’m working, customers will point it out. If I take my wife to a restaurant, people come over and say “you look just like Hugh Grant”.
‘One guy in a restaurant asked me for a photo to send to his wife. It happens in the supermarket, the street, restaurants. I can see people looking and thinking “is that him?”.’
Nigel says it isn’t just his looks that make him resemble the actor as he’s also a ‘gentleman’.
Nigel said: ‘I’m a gentleman. I hold doors open for people, women and men. I’m nice to everyone.
‘Once I was coming out of a shop and I helped a lady who was struggling with her trolley.
‘When I’m working, customers will point it out. If I take my wife to a restaurant, people come over and say “you look just like Hugh Grant”,’ Nigel (pictured as a child) said
Nigel says it isn’t just his looks that make him resemble the actor as he’s also a ‘gentleman’
Wife Leah, 47, is a fan of Hugh Grant (pictured) and Nigel says she has ‘no complaints’ about her husband being his doppelganger
‘I only noticed it when I got into my forties. I’m not sure what’s changed about me. My hair got longer and my face started changing,’ Nigel said
‘I pulled it for her and put her bags in the car and she said ‘you do look like him, I can see what they’re talking about’.
‘I didn’t know this woman so I assumed she’d been discussing it with someone. I just go along with it.’
Wife Leah, 47, is a fan of the star and Nigel says she has ‘no complaints’ about her husband being his doppelganger.
Nigel added: ‘I’m flattered by it. We like Hugh Grant and we like his films. We like Notting Hill.
‘I hope my wife thinks he’s a handsome guy. She isn’t complaining though.
‘I only noticed it when I got into my forties. I’m not sure what’s changed about me. My hair got longer and my face started changing.’
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