Elizabeth Banks: I Get Mistaken for Chelsea Handler Constantly
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It's no secret that Elizabeth Banks and E! comedienne Chelsea Handler bear a striking resemblance.
During an appearance on Chelsea Lately Monday, 37-year-old Banks admitted that while she's often mistaken for the Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang author, she rarely corrects people when they're wrong.
"I was sitting in Toronto and a guy walked up to me and said, 'Oh my god, my girlfriend loves you. She would die if I didn't get your autograph. This is so exciting!'" the Our Idiot Brother actress recalled. "He's like, 'I just love your books. I mean, My Horizontal Life....' I was like, 'Oh, he thinks he's meeting Chelsea Handler.' I couldn't ruin it for him!"
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"I was like, 'It's nice to meet you,'" Banks told the man, acting as Handler. "I was just hanging out, being Chelsea, drinking my vodka and having a good time. He couldn't have been happier."
Handler experienced a similar situation in April when Bill O'Reilly mistook her for Banks at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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"People always say, 'They look alike, but Chelsea's obviously much older.' Meanwhile, we're the same age," Handler, 36, quipped. "It's like, what is wrong with everybody? Why can't I just get a break?"
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8I've watched Chelsea Lately quite a few times and to be honest, I see more of Leann Rimes in her than Elizabeth Banks.
I agree with all of you, in pictures they don't like alike but in person they probably do. Celebrities look different in reality than how they look on screens and magaiznes
I agree with all of you, they don't like alike in pictures..but in person, they probably look much alike. For some reason, when I have run into a famous artist , there is something weirdly different in person
I don't see the resemblance at all.
Elizabeth you are way hotter than Chelsea Handler, there is no comparison.
I don't see the resemblance either. In some movies, I actually think that Elizabeth Banks looks a little like Rachel McAdams.
This is so stupid, they don't look anything alike, apart from a very general 'blonde Caucasian' similarity. Are people blind?
I don't see the resemblance at all...at least not looking at these 2 pics...and Elizabeth is way hotter.