Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

gwen mcrae
gwen guthrie

^^^^

Jeff Chandler
Jeffey Hunter

... not very similar but both called Jeff and both died young.

... Jeffrey Hunter, of course.

unexpectedly sad when i discovered a couple of weeks ago gwen guthrie was no longer with us

(she died in 1999 so i've had ample time to discover this)

There's also Gwen Dickey, to add to the confusion.

everyone having different first names to help diminish mark and tom's befuddlement 2020 challenge

Indeed, when it comes to Jeff Chandler and Jeffrey Hunter, I always have to stop and ask myself which one was Jesus, and that would be Hunter - Chandler was too Jewish and looked like he'd wouldn't merely throw the money lenders out of the temple but give them a good doing in the process.

Finn Wittrock
Finn Wolfhard

Too Jewish to be Jeuus? xp

Worzel Gummidge
Catweazle

Probably because I never watched either of them when I was a kid, so they kind of blend into one in my non-memory of them.

(xp) Of course! Can't have a Jewish Jesus!

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf

This, on like a monthly basis.

Seeing Maj Sjöwall (R.I.P.) in the obituary thread gave rise to...

The Laughing Policeman
The Singing Detective

Might as well throw in "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" by Whistling Jack Smith

This is very niche, in my world of underground electronic music, but:

Bassbear
Bearcat

Every single time.

Chaki
Lulu Gainsbourg

Frankie Valli / Frankie Avalon

Nathan Robinson
Nathan Fielder

This is a weird one but:

Amanda Palmer
Laura Palmer

I guess I only kind of barely know who Amanda Palmer is so whenever I see her name pop up somewhere I immediately think of Twin Peaks

The Eyes of Laura Palmer is one where I quickly shake my head and go, wait, that's not right.

Jeez, as if being brutally murdered and wrapped in plastic weren't bad enough

PPE
PPP

Daryl Hannah
Darrell Hammond

James Nesbitt
John Hannah

YES

My "who's that guy who's not John Hannah?" guy is Alan Cumming.

never even heard of John Hannah before, just thought James Nesbitt was in Four Weddings etc.

Yeah, and I've forever thought it was Hannah in Cold Feet.

yeah I've done Nesbitt / Hannah

they don't even look alike, they just both have foreheads that are wider at the top

Twinkly Celt alert.

yeah I've done Nesbitt / Hannah

they don't even look alike, they just both have foreheads that are wider at the top

they became famous at moreorless the same time, iirc. I had a similar thing with John Simm and Simon Pegg.

(xp) Dark hair, receding hairline, accent.

+ prominent eyebrows.

furlough
curfew

Huntington's disease
Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's
Alzheimer's

Leonard Cheshire
Anthony Nolan

Also...
muscular dystrophy / multiple sclerosis
cystic fibrosis / cerebral palsy
rickets / shingles

Matt Healy
Fran Healy

muscular dystrophy / multiple sclerosis / cystic fibrosis

Rock and roller / cola wars / I can't take it anymore

lol

Angelina Jolie
Catherine Zeta-Jones

Not sure why, but I can never remember which is which.

people you thought were dead but aren't
the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

Fred Ward
Fred Willard

^I never had that mix up, but I did often confuse Fred Willard's real name with that of his Fernwood 2 Night character. As in, "You should see Best in Show if only for Jerry Hubbard's performance. He steals the picture."

None of that stuff ever got shown over here, so he was really not well known at all in the UK. As for Fred Ward, as well as getting his name mixed up with Fred Willard, I get his face mixed up with Robert Forster (the late actor, not the guy from the Go-Betweens).

Grace Blakely
Grace Lavery

Robert Forster (late actor)
Robert Forster (guy from the Go-Betweens)

Doncha know your hoover max extracts from your dysons either?