Woman dubbed Harry Styles lookalike goes viral
A woman with a very familiar looking face and hair has gone viral – for being Harry Styles' double.
Nancy Mitchell, 23, from Bognor Regis, was first pinpointed as the One Direction star's lookalike after using the FaceApp, which allows you to see what you would look like as a different gender.
Mitchell's university friends compared her to the incredibly famous singer-songwriter, and ever since she first posted her first video on TikTok in 2020, she went viral with viewers and followers taken aback by how similar she looked to Styles.
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She now has more than 180,000 followers on the video-focused social platform and loves "playing up" to being Styles' uncanny lookalike.
Mitchell, an actor, explained, "I was on a uni night out and someone changed my gender on the app and said, you look like Harry Styles!
"I started getting hundreds of comments on TikTok saying the same thing so I started playing off it from there.
"Every now and then I'll have a video that goes viral and often it ends in arguments with people saying I do look like him and others saying I don't."
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In terms of whether she's a fan of the Watermelon Sugar singer herself or not, Mitchell said, "I didn't know much about Harry Styles until I started watching more videos of him and now I love his music."
Also touching on what the reaction is like in public, she said, "When I mention it to someone in real life, they tend to notice it once I've said his name. But it's online where I generate the most attention due to the algorithm sending my videos out to Harry Styles fans. My friends love to joke about it now!
"We always joke about Harry Styles finding my videos and commenting on how similar we look."
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She added, "I started creating more Harry Styles themed videos as I have always been an entertainer at heart.
"As soon as people started to enjoy the content, I wanted to make more people smile."
Mitchell regularly posts to her TikTok, making jokes in reference to her celebrity double, dressing up as him, posting about his concerts and using the music to his songs, with one even featuring her using the 'celebrity twin filter', as requested by fans, to see what match landed on her – Harry Styles of course.
Additional reporting Caters.
