‘I think this will cheer everyone up’: Harry Styles lookalikes lift London gloom

Colourful contest celebrates pop icon and brings cheer after events for Timothee Chalamet and Paul Mescal go viral

It looked a lot like the other lookalike contests that have captured the imagination in the last few days, but the London event was not quite the same as it was in New York and Dublin.

For a start, Harry Styles did not gatecrash his own lookalike contest in Soho Square in the West End, as Timothee Chalamet had two weeks earlier in New York.