I look so much like Harry Kane that people stop me on the street and ask for selfies
With the 2024 European Championship final taking place this Sunday, a Harry Kane lookalike has shown what it’s really like to look like the country’s captain.
Danny Bullen, 32, from Bradford, was recently crowned ‘the ultimate lookalike’, due to his striking resemblance to Harry Kane, 30.
More than 1,000 fans turned out en masse to vote for eight lookalikes in a public voting poll on the @deboxbaruk Instagram, featuring other nominees including Jack Grealish, Gary Neville and Erling Haaland.
The 6ft 3in man, who works as a sales manager at Hope Park Workspaces, said he is not only regularly stopped on the street because of his resemblance to the football legend, but is also constantly asked for selfies.
And if that wasn’t enough, Danny told us that people even buy him drinks and pick him up when England score.
Despite this, Danny admitted that things aren’t always rosy when he watches football in bars and pubs, and when England lose, he often gets the full brunt of it.
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Despite this, Danny explained that he takes it as a compliment when he is compared to the Bayern Munich player, as he told Fabulous: “He’s a nice lad, isn’t he? So I don’t mind.
“I get comments all the time about how I look like Harry Kane, so I’m finally embracing it now.
“I think it’s pretty cool. I get it quite often, some people go completely crazy about it.”
Danny said that six years ago he actually pocketed some money for his likeness to the rush hour.
He revealed: “My friends dressed me up as Harry Kane for my stag party, knowing I’m an Arsenal fan and he played for Spurs at the time, so they thought it was funny.
“And what they did was, they all went to a bar in York and I had to sit on the ground across the street with a sign that said, ‘Harry Kane lookalike, taking selfies for money’.
“I made about £6 in about ten minutes, from people just wanting pictures. Then I thought, ‘Okay, maybe there’s something in this’.”
So Danny’s friend entered a doppelganger competition and sure enough, he won the £250 prize.
The stadium for the 2024 European Championship final is the scene of the most shameful episode in English football
GARETH SOUTHGATE and his players follow in the footsteps of sporting mishaps on Sunday.
And they also get the chance to erase the memories of the most shameful episode in English football history by replacing it with a glorious victory.
For many, the Olympiastadion will always be the place where Jesse Owens humiliated Adolf Hitler in his own backyard.
But the 1936 Olympics WERE used by the Nazis as pure propaganda, as a statement about the supposed supremacy of the ‘Aryan race’.
The ghosts of those Games still linger among the towers and Colosseum-style architecture.
Fans entering the stadium on Sunday will still see the plinth on which Fritz Schilgen lit the Olympic flame – carefully selected by propagandist and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl – high up in the stands, above the goal.
And two years later, when the English Football Association shamefully ordered England players to raise their arms in the Hitler salute before beating Germany in a friendly, the British state seemed to be implicitly accepting Hitler’s authority and power.
The Three Lions have the chance to right this age-old wrong, but nothing can detract from the stadium’s place in the pantheon of the darkest hours of sporting history.
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Danny added: “My friend put me in that Harry Kane competition. I won quite easily.
“Sometimes I find it a bit strange, but I’ve had it for a long time. I think I know.” [look like Harry Kane].
“I go a bit by people’s reactions to me. It dies down in the off-season, but when there’s a tournament, especially the European Championship or World Cup, I get it quite often.”
It’s funny until people get really drunk and start picking you up
Danny Bullen
Danny explained that while watching matches in the pub can be ‘fun’, things can often get a bit grim.
He admitted: “It’s positive, people like it. It’s fun.
“It’s funny until people get really drunk and start picking you up and stuff. I guess I’ll just have to live with that if something good happens on Sunday.
People ask for selfies quite often. I’ve been stopped on the street before
Danny Bullen
“I get abused too. Sometimes in bars, when I watch England play, when they’re not playing so well and people have had a few, I get abused.
“They can’t even tell that I look like Harry Kane. They say: ‘You play shit too, what are you doing?’
“After a game they just grab you. Everyone wants to join in and wants to take a selfie, wants to pick me up.”
Danny said people buy him drinks, strangers ask him for selfies “all the time” and he’s used to being stared at and whispered about.
He continued: “I have bought drinks before, but it was mainly for selfies and occasionally when people just grabbed you.
“Normally you notice people talking about you. When people whisper to the person they are with and look at you, I realize they are talking about me.
“People ask for selfies quite often. I’ve been stopped a few times on the street. I think they just want to share it with their mates.
My wife laughs about it, [but] She doesn’t get jealous because only boys ask for selfies.
“Usually you just see them whispering. But I don’t mind that, honestly. I have to look at it from a kind of, you know, this is just a bit of fun, otherwise I would absolutely hate it.
“Sometimes it can get a bit dicey. I mean, it’s all a joke, but when people have had too much to drink, especially when he’s not playing well, people just take their anger out on whatever they want to take their anger out on, and I’m a bit like Harry Kane, so sometimes I get the beating for that.”
Sometimes in bars when I watch England play, if they’re not playing that well and people have had a few, I actually get yelled at.
Danny Bullen
Danny was very excited about Sunday’s match after winning the match.
He beamed: ‘My mates and I are huge football fans so we all went wild in the group chat when we saw the news We were going to get a table and pay £250 at the bar to watch the final at BOX.
“I expect it to be pretty wild, especially if we win. It’s going to be crazy.
“I might even wear a complete set for the occasion. I’m totally excited.”
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