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“You’re twins!”: Kate Middleton look-alike goes viral

<p dir="ltr">An Australian woman has gone viral on social media, thanks to her eerie resemblance to Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge.</p> <p dir="ltr">Brittany Dixon, an artist from Queensland, took to TikTok with a series of side-by-side photos of herself and the Duchess after a deluge of fans urged her to answer Netflix’s recent casting call for Middleton lookalikes for <em>The Crown</em>’s upcoming season, per the <em><a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/02/kate-middletons-twin-applies-to-play-her-in-the-crown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a></em>.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-4c7445aa-7fff-9b6a-4b92-87b7b9fee909">“Okay you are all bullying me into actually doing this,” she captioned <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanydixonart/video/7091536687943257345?_t=8RycV3L7Mcd&amp;_r=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the clip</a>, which came as a response to another user who tagged her in a clip from Monica Riviera, the casting director for <em>The Crown</em>.</span></p> <p><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2022/05/middle2.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="720" /></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: TikTok</em></p> <p dir="ltr">“We’re looking for a young Kate Middleton, 18 years old, to play her in Netflix’s series <em>The Crown</em>,” Riviera said in the clip, which included a screenshot of the role’s requirements.</p> <p dir="ltr">Other users on the social media platform quickly flooded Dixon’s comments, insisting she’d be a shoo-in for the role.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I know exactly who you’re applying for no backstory needed - you’re twins!” one supporter said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“If you, her identical twin, [do] not get the part … I give up,” another joked.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Please remember me when you’re rich and famous on ‘The Crown’ @Netflix,” a third wrote.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-27fbe912-7fff-d767-c9c3-ef1b48e32656"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">With all of this support, Dixon created a follow-up video confirming she did apply for the part.</p> <p dir="ltr"><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2022/05/middle1.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="720" /></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: TikTok</em></p> <p dir="ltr">“They just wanted a selfie, some general information and a 30-second video of me talking about something I love - obviously I talked about painting,” she explained in <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanydixonart/video/7092218076527168770?_t=8RycbFx3TeE&amp;_r=1https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanydixonart/video/7092218076527168770?_t=8RycbFx3TeE&amp;_r=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the clip</a>, which has since garnered over 612,000 views.</p> <p dir="ltr">“So we’ll see how it goes. We’ll see if [the Netflix casting directors] even see it,” she added, thanking her followers for encouraging her to do it.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Thanks guys for being so nice.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Back to painting.”</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e8108066-7fff-ed94-a842-956386788027"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: TikTok</em></p>

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10 famous mothers and daughters at the same age

<p>It is always special to see daughters who share the same striking features as their mothers. Hollywood is all too familiar with daughters being blessed with their mother’s genes. There are many celebrity daughters who tremendously resemble their mothers from supermodel Cindy Crawford and daughter Kaia to Meryl Streep and her three daughters. However, it is even more astonishing to see their resemblance when you see what they looked like at the same age. Scroll through the gallery above to compare famous mothers and daughters at the same age.</p> <p>Which mother-daughter duo do you think looks the most similar? Let us know in the comments below.</p>

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Celebrity and animals look alikes

<p>Is that a dog, or is it…? We’ve selected 10 celebrities that have animals who look just like them and the resemblance will have you barking with laughter. Our favourite has to be Richard Branson’s look alike, this will surely make you smile.<strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p> <p><strong><em><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/family-pets/2015/11/cats-are-like-psychopaths-gallery/">11 ways cats are like “psychopaths”</a></em></strong></p> <div> <div class="advert"> <div id="adspot-300x250-pos3" class="ad"> <div id="google_ads_iframe_/6411/oversixty/news_2__container__"> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/01/dogs-with-no-concept-of-personal-space/"><em>Dogs with no concept of perosnal space</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/01/photos-of-animals-hitchhiking/">Hilarious photos of animals hitchhiking</a></em></strong></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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Why do some couples look alike? Science has two explanations

<p>It seems the age-old belief that married couples look alike might actually be true. Here we look at two possibilities, according to science.</p> <p><strong>You look like each other to begin with</strong></p> <p>It’s no secret that most people marry someone who has similar characteristics to them – like religion, age, race, education, income and body type. It’s not difficult to understand why that’s the case but scientists have also found we’re attracted to people who look like ourselves or our parents. In a 2010 study published in<em> Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</em>, participants were shown pictures of strangers which were preceded by a short glimpse of either their parent or a stranger. Participants who saw the glimpse of their parent before the target picture were more likely to assign higher ratings of attractiveness to the person in the target picture.In a second experiment, a picture of the stranger was morphed together with a picture of the participants themselves or a picture of another stranger. The study participants rated the portrait of the amalgamation of a stranger and themselves as more attractive than the other.</p> <p>Another 2013 study, published in <em>Psychological Science</em>, found that we tend to trust people who look similar to us. The scientists from the Royal Holloway University note “our perceptions of similarity between us and others extend beyond objective physical characteristics, into the specific nature of social interactions that we have.” In other words, it’s a way for us to monitor genetic relatedness and “evidence of trust in others also serves as a cue to kinship.”</p> <p><strong>You share the same experiences</strong></p> <p>In a landmark 1987 study of “facial likeness”, psychologist Robert Zajonc of the University of Michigan, asked participants to match photographs of men and women based on their facial similarity. Two dozen of the photographs were of couples when first married and another two dozen were of the same couples 25 years later. The study participants found only a chance similarity between the young couples but saw definite resemblances when couples had been married a quarter of a century. In many cases the similarities were not dramatic – some involved subtle shifts in facial wrinkles and other facial contours – but they were marked enough that the participants were able to match husband and wife more often when they were older than when they were newlyweds. Zajonc’s study also found couples with the happiest marriages had the greatest facial resemblance.</p> <p>Zajonc proposed that a long life together of shared experiences shaped the face. He believed people, often unconsciously, mimic the facial expressions of their husband or wife, in empathy and that over the years of sharing the same expression, their faces would look similar. For example, if one partner often smiles in a particular way, the other is likely to unconsciously mimic it which would create similar patterns of lines and alterations of muscles on the face.</p>

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