Fans held a contest to find actor Dev Patel's doppelganger and hundreds of people attended.
Dev Patel fans flocked to a San Francisco park to watch a contest to pick the actor's lookalike, but there was bad news—the winner is already taken.Hundreds of people were at the event in Dolores Park at the weekend and they went wild for winner Jaipreet Hundal, 25, who was chosen as the man who most closely resembled the Slumdog Millionaire star. He pocketed $50 and a monkey statue in a nod to Patel's movie Monkey Man, and charmed the crowd as he posed up a storm.
'My girlfriend hypes me up all the time... she always says I look like Dev Patel or Ranveer Singh,' he told the San Francisco Chronicle. 'I didn't realize I'd actually win.'The event was the latest in the current craze for celebrity lookalike contests. Others held recently have looked for members of the public who resemble stars such as Harry Styles and Timothee Chalamet.
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