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Andy Harmer

Lookalikes: Was that possibly the weirdest reality show ever?
Look, we've had Made in Chelsea. We've had Towie. Now, imagine a structured reality show featuring A-listers: agent squabbles, and Gordon Ramsay and Ricky Gervais swapping dating tips, and President Obama making a visit. Wouldn't that be amazing?

Lookalikes is not that show. But it's probably about as close as we're going to get.

Honestly, we don't really know what Lookalikes was, to be honest. The new Channel 4 show suggested that it was structured reality in the vein of Towie - real people, possibly artificial situations - but it was so bizarre that we couldn't really get our heads round it. What was real? What was fake? Normally, we can suspend our disbelief, but Lookalikes was actually a little distracting with it.

And not all of it worked. Really, the work of a lookalikes agency is probably enough for a standard reality series or documentary without the more ridiculous...
See full article at Digital Spy
  • 7/20/2015
  • Digital Spy
Belo to launch rival Towie show
Brian Belo is to launch a new show to rival the success of 'The Only Way Is Essex'. The former 'Big Brother' winner - who claims to have originally come up with the idea for the ITV2 reality series - will head out to the sun-soaked Spanish holiday destination of Marbella to shoot 'Marbella Beach', with Channel 5 believed to be leading the bidding to screen the programme. Following a group of gorgeous guys and girls - including professional David Beckham lookalike Andy Harmer, ex-'Big Brother' babe Amy Alexandra and former Miss Great Britain Rachael Tennant - who have moved to Marbella,...
See full article at Virgin Media - TV
  • 4/3/2012
  • Virgin Media - TV
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