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‘This will cheer everyone up’: Harry Styles lookalikes lift London gloom
Colourful contest celebrates pop star and brings cheer after events for Timothée Chalamet and Paul Mescal go viral
Mirpuri, a journalist, had dreamed up the lookalike contest four days ago after reading about Chalamet’s New York event and another in Dublin for Paul Mescal, a lead in the lockdown TV hit Normal People and now the star of Gladiator II. Petabytes of the internet are devoted to galleries of Styles’s outfits: jumpsuits – harlequin, candy stripe, tinsel and more – a baby doll dress, a Gucci 70s wallpaper suit, shirts with 10-in collar flaps, pussybow tops and flared jackets, and a notorious fluffy white onesie. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty ImagesThe singer’s androgyny had encouraged Mirpuri’s team to believe that more women might take part than men, and three entered the contest, but the biggest and highest-pitched cheer went to Andy Bradley, nicknamed Daddy Harry.
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