Gordon Brown ringer wanted

This ‘handsome’ chap on the right is Gordon Brown, the current British Prime Minister and dour Scot who spent 10 years in the wings as Chancellor of the Exchequer waiting for Tony Blair to get fed up with being PM.

Being a public figure for that long you’d think anyone with a passing resemblance would have been lining themselves up for a lucrative lookalike career once he took power. Strangely it seems there’s no one out there that looks like Gordon and that’s causing a problem for photographer and film-maker Alison Jackson who uses celebrity lookalikes in her picture and tv work.

She’s been searching for a Brown doppelganger for six years and has now organized two open casting sessions to find one for a documentary project she’s working on, the first in Glasgow on 18 January and the second in London on 21 January at the Metropolitan Hotel on Old Park Lane in Mayfair from 3pm-9pm. If your looks match the Prime Minister’s and you can maybe do a passable accent get along, it might be a money making gig.