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On Sunday in Washington, DC, a dozen men and two women gathered in Meridian Hill Park in front of an audience of hundreds, hoping to be crowned Jack Schlossberg lookalike champion.

“He was the perfect subject to respond to the timing of this celebrity lookalike trend,” co-organizer Georgia Parolski told the Washington Post. “Its content and its way of evolving in the political and entertainment spaces linked to the 25-35 year olds that I know and with whom I am friends… It is also a bit of a chronicle online.”

The winner was Daniel Bonomo, 25, a graduate student at Georgetown University. “People love the community,” Bonomo said. “Let’s get a group of people together to do something silly and fun.” Why not?”

Shortly after, Schlossberg himself reacted to the contest on Instagram, posting a few photos from the contest and a shirtless mirror selfie:

He also shared a series of posts on his Instagram Stories, questioning whether the winner was Jewish (Schlossberg is Jewish), but adding of Bonomo: “This person has 1) great teeth 2) a great nose 3) a beautiful skin 4) great hair. .”

He also wrote, “Thank you to everyone who supported my lookalike contest,” adding on another slide, “This is what joy looks, tastes and feels like.” »

From the end of October with a Timothée Chalamet lookalike competition in New Yorkthe trend of celebrity lookalike contests has taken hold. There was one from Paul Mescal in Ireland; a Glen Powell in Austin, judged by Powell’s own mother; a Dev Patel competition in San Francisco; and many more.

“These lookalike contests give us the opportunity to make new connections with people we may not have known before and would never meet or even say hello to in a gym, a club, in a bar, in a supermarket or anywhere,” said British sociologist and cultural critic Ellis Cashmore. CNN on trend. “But the fact is that they share a common interest, which is fame.”

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