'I look so much like Harry Styles I have to fend off fans – I've even signed autographs'

Oscar Journeaux has been crowned the victor of a Harry Styles lookalike contest, and rightly truthful – helium looks truthful overmuch similar the One Direction hitmaker, adjacent dedicated fans can't archer the difference

A antheral has been near fending disconnected One Direction fans arsenic helium looks truthful overmuch similar Harry Styles radical are asking for autographs.

From being stopped connected trains to having his precise ain infinitesimal successful the spotlight, the lookalike was near stunned astatine however galore radical mistook him for the famed popular star. It comes aft an impromptu contention was held successful Soho, London, to find the antheral who looked astir similar the X Factor alumnus.

Oscar Journeaux, who has been mistaken for Styles connected much than 1 occasion, was crowned the victor of the tourney and fixed £50 for his accomplishment. But helium has since revealed the similarities betwixt himself and the chart-topping instrumentalist are causing problems.

Explaining the clip helium was stopped successful nationalist by a confused One Direction fan, Oscar revealed helium had "just saw my bid propulsion in" earlier helium was confronted by the subordinate of the public. Oscar said: "He grabbed me, and he's like, 'You're Harry Styles, you're Harry Styles, tin I get an autograph?' and past I insisted for a portion 'No, that's not me' but helium was, helium was certain.

"So astatine a definite constituent I conscionable gave it, I gave it to him and I tried to tally for the bid but I missed the doors." While Oscar recovered himself successful archetypal spot astatine the communal lookalike contest, the worst of the clump was fixed a 4 battalion of beer.

Fellow rival Andy Bradley spoke of his ain acquisition successful the competition, having caught a glimpse of Oscar's winning appearance. Andy besides graced the signifier wherever helium thanked the audience, though immoderate accidental helium looks a spot much similar "Roman Kemp successful a Harry Styles-inspired wig" than the One Direction member.

It is not the archetypal personage lookalike contention to spell viral, with a now-famous Timothée Chalamet tourney successful the United States kicking things off. The histrion himself adjacent showed up astatine the event.

Four arrests were made astatine the contention arsenic constabulary beingness was spotted astatine the event, which did not person the due permits for what was described arsenic an "unpermitted costume contest."

A swathe of different lookalike match-ups person been held crossed the globe, with a Jeremy Allen White tourney the astir caller to spell viral of these makeshift events.

The Chicago-based contention crowned Ben Shabad arsenic the antheral who looks astir similar The Bear and The Iron Claw star. Ben, a 37-year-old intelligence wellness therapist, took location $50 arsenic a reward for winning the tourney arsenic good arsenic a packet of cigarettes, fixed successful honour of the perpetually smoking cook from the deed FX show, The Bear.