Timothee Chalamet crashes lookalike competition

Actor Timothee Chalamet has made a astonishment quality astatine his ain lookalike contention successful New York.

He posed for photos successful Lower Manhattan connected Sunday alongside fans and his dormant ringers - immoderate dressed arsenic the 28-year-old's characters from the Wonka and Dune movies.

But conscionable arsenic the wannabe-Chalamets began competing on a reddish carpet successful New York's Washington Square Park, constabulary ordered the radical to disperse.

Organisers were deed with a $500 (£385) good for an "unpermitted costume contest" and astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic was taken distant successful handcuffs.

The radical reassembled successful a adjacent playground, wherever much than a twelve contestants vied for assemblage support from a makeshift stage.

After whittling the radical down to the past four, the remaining participants were past tested connected assorted topics.

They were asked astir their French proficiency, their plans to marque the satellite a amended spot and their romanticist intentions with Kylie Jenner. Chalamet and Jenner are said to beryllium a couple.

Eventually, Miles Mitchell, 21, from Staten Island was picked arsenic the winner, taking location $50 (£38) successful prize wealth which appeared successful the signifier of a novelty-size cheque written retired to the "Best Tim".

He was dressed successful a purple Willy Wonka outfit and tossed candy to the assemblage from a briefcase.

"I'm excited and I'm besides overwhelmed," Mitchell said. "There were truthful galore bully look-alikes."

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Commenting connected the chaos of the lawsuit and the arrest, organiser Paige Nguyen said: "It started disconnected arsenic a silly gag and present it's turned pandemonium."

A spokesperson for the NYPD said charges were pending.