Real-life indecent proposal: George Clooney lookalike offered £5,500 to sleep with businessman’s wife

A successful George Clooney lookalike has revealed how he was offered £5,000 by a businessman to sleep with his wife for her 40th birthday. The conscientious doppelganger turned the money down because ‘it just felt so wrong’.

Gary Tate, 56, also runs a cleaning business – aptly titled Clooney’s Cleaning – despite turning up at countless red carpet events and glitzy balls over a 16-year period as George’s double. ‘I’ve been doing this since 1997. George was just starting to become famous as he had a major part in the TV programme ER, and that was when people started to comment on my similarity to him,’ Mr Tate said. ‘In 1998, the Sun newspaper did one of those “do you know anyone that looks like George” competitions. Out of thousands of pictures that were sent in, I won. My life as a lookalike started then. Since then, I’ve lost count of the red carpets I’ve walked down, the limos I’ve ridden in, and the many countries around the world I’ve visited.’

Mr Tate – who lives in Ashford, Kent – was surprised, however, to have been asked by a man to sleep with his wife in return for thousands of pounds. The lookalike was single at the time of the offer – six years ago – so considered the offer but ultimately turned it down. ‘When I asked why he would want me to do that he said “we have an open relationship, she’s mad about Clooney, and I can’t get him so I’m asking you”. When I turned him down, he upped his offer to £5,500. I ummed and ahhed about it but turned him down.’

Source: www.metro.co.uk

indecent proposal – tisztességtelen ajánlat
lookalike – hasonmás
to offer – felajánlani
to sleep with someone – lefeküdni valakivel
conscientious – lelkiismeretes
doppelganger – hasonmás
to turn something down – elutasítani valamit
to turn up – megjelenni
countless – számtalan
red carpet event – vörös szőnyeges esemény
ball – bál
similarity – hasonlóság
competition – verseny
to lose count of – nem tudja számon tartani
limo(usine) – limuzin
in return for – valamiért cserébe
single – egyedülálló
to consider an offer – meggondolni egy ajánlatot
ultimately – végül
open relationship – nyitott kapcsolat
to be mad about someone – bolondulni valakiért
to up something – megemelni (árat)
to umm and ah – hümmögni

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Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle’s black and white photos show his fascination with ‘doppelgangers’, people who have a look-alike. The essence of his project – started in 2000 – is to find people, totally unrelated to each other, sometimes from different corners of the world that share the same physical appearance and look more like twins than strangers, although, amazingly none of his portrait subjects are even related.

The pairs in these images are not twins – or even related. This stunning photo series shows complete strangers who look almost identical. The I’m Not a Look-Alike project is the brainchild of Francois Brunelle, who has spent 12 years tracking down people with eerily similar features.

Francois, 62, from Montréal has flown around the world in search of doppelgangers to shoot in black and white. And amazingly, it was British comedy character Mr. Bean that inspired the whole idea.

Francois explains: "I was inspired by two things: First I used to see look-alikes all over since a very long time. Second, my own likeness with TV character Mr. Bean. The project is about sharing the passion that I have for the likeliness in people. It allows me to concentrate on the face of my subjects and bring the spectator to a close encounter with them. Some of them are from the same city, others from different countries, different cultures. I am fascinated by the fact that a man born and raised in Hungary would bear a strong resemblance to a person born and raised in Canada. Or that couple, living together just look like brother and sister. This being said I am still looking for look-alikes, especially in the UK but in any country in fact, in order to finish the part of the project implying taking the actual photos. After that I have to find a museum willing to exhibit the 200 photos look-alikes taken by me since 2000."

fascination– vonzerő, varázs, elragadtatás
doppelganger– hasonmás
look-alike– hasonmás
essence– lényege valaminek
unrelated– nem rokon, nem függ össze
appearance– megjelenés
stranger– idegen
amazingly– lenyűgöző módon
portrait subject– portré alany
to be related– rokoni kapcsolatban lenni
stunning– lenyűgöző, pompás
photo series– fényképsorozat
to look identical – azonosan kinézni
brainchild– ötlet, agyszülemény
to track down– lenyomozni
eerily– hátborzongatóan
similar features– hasonló vonások
to inspire– inspirálni
to explain– kifejezni, elmagyarázni
likeness– hasonlóság
to allow somebody to  – valakinek megenged/lehetővé tesz valamit
spectator– néző
to encounter– találkozik, összeakad
to be fascinated – elragadtatva lenni
to bear a resemblance– hasonlóságot mutat
to be willing to– hajlandónak lenni valamire
to imply– maga után vonni, jelenteni
to exhibit– kiállítani