Formula 1 Driver "Jenson Button" Confused for Chris Martin

Blazing_Javelin · 09-10-2010, 07:10 PM

SUZUKA (JAPAN): Formula One world champion Jenson Button knows plenty of good tracks but he was taken aback when a confused fan recently mixed him up with a global rock star.

"I had an American come up to me at the Heathrow airport, a few months back saying that she and her family are big fans of mine," the Briton said in a light-hearted moment at the rain-hit Japanese Grand Prix.

"After I thanked her saying I did not know that Formula One was so big in America, she said they've got all my records and all my albums." Button added. On being asked about his reply to it he said " I said, Fantastic. you think I'm Chris Martin, don't you? and she exclaimed 'Are you not?' And I said ' No, I am Jenson Button. I race in Formula One cars'."

Chris Martin, husband of Hollywood movie star Gwyneth Paltrow, is the singer-songwriter frontman for big-selling British band 'Coldplay' and also comes from south-west England like the 30-year-old McLaren driver.

A perceived resemblance between the two men has been highlighted on several lookalike websites.

Button is no stranger to admirers getting his name wrong, however, with his close entourage sometimes teasingly referring to him as Jason Burton after similarly confused encounters.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/s...ow/6720051.cms

cleeson7 · 09-10-2010, 07:23 PM

Fantastic guy Jenson!!! Made me laugh Jason Burton

Arwen Evenstar · 09-10-2010, 07:30 PM

I don't think he looks like Chris, but he is cute

Raphaele · 09-10-2010, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Arwen Evenstar;4482304
I don't think he looks like Chris, but he is cute

this

Cyan Kat · 09-10-2010, 07:53 PM

I Always thought Jenson was good looking but I Think I Would recognise Chris

laga · 09-10-2010, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by kat_iveson;4482342
I Always thought Jenson was good looking but I Think I Would recognise Chris

this ^^ and he doesn't really look like Chris. It must have been so embarrassing for those people

MartinFan · 09-10-2010, 08:19 PM

Well if you were a "Big" Fan of Chris, I would expect you would know him without hesitation, I would, but then I love Coldplay and have all of their albums, posters, books, empty water bottles, discarded gum, chocolate wrappers..................

The above pic looks nothing like him to me

ViVA Child · 09-10-2010, 08:35 PM

Maybe he was wearing a striped beanie

aniskywalker · 09-10-2010, 08:37 PM

He does not look like Chris ... nothing.
Maybe some people thought: Oh, he's famous, I don't know him, but he is famous!!!

Space Cadet · 09-10-2010, 08:48 PM

From a lookalike blog:

No fan of either of them would get them mixed up, but the features that someone who wasn't familiar with their faces would remember are the same. Same face shape, similar eyes, same hair colour, identical stubble...

I had crushes on both of them in my late teens/early 20s. They're definitely the same 'type'.

ViVA Child · 09-10-2010, 08:52 PM

Ill take them both!

christopher Martin · 09-10-2010, 09:08 PM

he looks like Chris in the sense that they both have brownish hair, stubble and are male.

maria_shiver · 10-10-2010, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ViVA Child;4482464
Ill take them both!

mc_squared · 10-10-2010, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ViVA Child;4482464
Ill take them both!

Two-for-one deal?

lucyb · 10-10-2010, 12:05 PM

^Just imagine that. LOL.

09-10-2010, 07:10 PM	#1
Blazing_Javelin Coldplayer Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 29 My Mood: Location: Ontario Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Formula 1 Driver "Jenson Button" Confused for Chris Martin SUZUKA (JAPAN): Formula One world champion Jenson Button knows plenty of good tracks but he was taken aback when a confused fan recently mixed him up with a global rock star. "I had an American come up to me at the Heathrow airport, a few months back saying that she and her family are big fans of mine," the Briton said in a light-hearted moment at the rain-hit Japanese Grand Prix. "After I thanked her saying I did not know that Formula One was so big in America, she said they've got all my records and all my albums." Button added. On being asked about his reply to it he said " I said, Fantastic. you think I'm Chris Martin, don't you? and she exclaimed 'Are you not?' And I said ' No, I am Jenson Button. I race in Formula One cars'." Chris Martin, husband of Hollywood movie star Gwyneth Paltrow, is the singer-songwriter frontman for big-selling British band 'Coldplay' and also comes from south-west England like the 30-year-old McLaren driver. A perceived resemblance between the two men has been highlighted on several lookalike websites. Button is no stranger to admirers getting his name wrong, however, with his close entourage sometimes teasingly referring to him as Jason Burton after similarly confused encounters. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/s...ow/6720051.cms __________________ "Under the surface trying to break through Deciphering the codes in you I need a compass, draw me a map I'm on the top, I can't get back"

09-10-2010, 07:23 PM	#2
cleeson7 A Message is God Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 789 My Mood: Location: UK Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Fantastic guy Jenson!!! Made me laugh Jason Burton __________________ MEN ARENA - 19/12/05, MEN ARENA - 12/12/08, WEMBLEY STADIUM - 19/09/09 17.04: "Could I see a picture of their dressing room, would be nice to see all the food and drinks they request" Christopher L http://www.coldplay.com/uploads/food.jpg - My request on Dusselforf Photoblog, but we all no there was a packet of cigarettes there! Original: http://i1015.photobucket.com/albums/...eson7/food.jpg Keeper of the projection on the pyramid stage @Glastonbury during ETIAW

09-10-2010, 07:30 PM	#4
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Cyan Kat Meh Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 12,718 Location: Yorkshire Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 287 Thanked 123 Times in 90 Posts	I Always thought Jenson was good looking but I Think I Would recognise Chris __________________ I'm not a prophet or a stone age man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. Quote: Originally Posted by MaxRide;5120728 Do you only fart one frequency of light? tv's deep freeze david bowie lp's

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09-10-2010, 07:30 PM	#3
Arwen Evenstar Elven Princess Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,603 My Mood: Location: Middle Earth Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I don't think he looks like Chris, but he is cute

09-10-2010, 08:19 PM	#7
MartinFan One I Love Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 4,770 My Mood: Location: Florida Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 554 Thanked 213 Times in 116 Posts	Well if you were a "Big" Fan of Chris, I would expect you would know him without hesitation, I would, but then I love Coldplay and have all of their albums, posters, books, empty water bottles, discarded gum, chocolate wrappers.................. The above pic looks nothing like him to me __________________ Light's will guide you home and ignite your bones and I will try to Fix You.... Chris Martin Munich, Germany 2012 QUOTE: "THAT'S TEAMWORK, MOTHER FUCKER!"

09-10-2010, 08:35 PM	#8
ViVA Child Banned Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 4,011 My Mood: Location: In the Shadow of Your Heart. Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Maybe he was wearing a striped beanie

09-10-2010, 08:37 PM	#9
aniskywalker Chrisaholic Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 7,746 My Mood: Location: near Berlin Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	He does not look like Chris ... nothing. Maybe some people thought: Oh, he's famous, I don't know him, but he is famous!!! __________________ Biggest Chris Fan 2010

09-10-2010, 08:48 PM	#10
Space Cadet You have been warned. Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6,738 My Mood: Location: Nova Scotia Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	From a lookalike blog: No fan of either of them would get them mixed up, but the features that someone who wasn't familiar with their faces would remember are the same. Same face shape, similar eyes, same hair colour, identical stubble... I had crushes on both of them in my late teens/early 20s. They're definitely the same 'type'. __________________ Spoiler http://img-fan.theonering.net/middle...trolls_als.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9WmxwgW2J0 "Troll sat alone on his seat of stone, And munched and mumbled a bare old bone; For many a year he had gnawed it near, For meat was hard to come by. Done by! Gum by! In a cave in the hills he dwelt alone, And meat was hard to come by. Up came Tom with his big boots on. Said he to Troll: 'Pray, what is yon? For it looks like the shin o' my nuncle Tim, As should be a-lyin' in graveyard. Caveyard! Paveyard! This many a year has Tim been gone, And I thought he were lyin' in graveyard.' 'My lad,' said Troll, 'this bone I stole. But what be bones that lie in a hole? Thy nuncle was dead as a lump o' lead, Afore I found his shinbone. Tinbone! Thinbone! He can spare a share for a poor old troll, For he don't need his shinbone.' Said Tom: 'I don't see why the likes o' thee Without axin' leave should go makin' free With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin; So hand the old bone over! Rover! Trover! Though dead he be, it belongs to he; So hand the old bone over!' 'For a couple o' pins,' says Troll, and grins, 'I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins. A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet! I'll try my teeth on thee now. Hee now! See now! I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins; I've a mind to dine on thee now.' But just as he thought his dinner was caught, He found his hands had hold of naught. Before he could mind, Tom slipped behind And gave him the boot to larn him. Warn him! Darn him! A bump o' the boot on the seat, Tom thought, Would be the way to larn him. But harder than stone is the flesh and bone Of a troll that sits in the hills alone. As well set your boot to the mountain's root, For the seat of a troll don't feel it. Peel it! Heal it! Old Troll laughed, when he heard Tom groan, And he knew his toes could feel it. Tom's leg is game, since home he came, And his bootless foot is lasting lame; But Troll don't care, and he's still there With the bone he boned from its owner. Doner! Boner! Troll's old seat is still the same, And the bone he boned from its owner!" Albums of the Year 2011 - Vote Here!

09-10-2010, 08:52 PM	#11
ViVA Child Banned Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 4,011 My Mood: Location: In the Shadow of Your Heart. Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Ill take them both!

09-10-2010, 09:08 PM	#12
christopher Martin Youtube.com/lowleyuk Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 694 Location: UK Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	he looks like Chris in the sense that they both have brownish hair, stubble and are male. __________________ Maybe I'm in the gap.

10-10-2010, 10:50 AM	#13
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mc_squared Banned Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 67,519 My Mood: Location: Wherever life takes me Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by ViVA Child;4482464 Ill take them both! Two-for-one deal? __________________ LIFE ISN'T MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY Be yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. Work to live - don't live to work...................... Age is purely a state of mind! Don't waste your time on jealousy. Success is a journey, NOT a destination. Life is a marathon, NOT a sprint! http://www.generationterrorists.com/...sunscreen.html

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