‘I don’t look like him at all, I’m just tall’: Jacob Elordi lookalike crowned in Melbourne

No one actually showed up to compete for the $50 prize. It didn’t really matter

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“If I saw someone who looked like Jacob Elordi, I wouldn’t be mad,” says Milla, one of the spectators of Saturday’s Jacob Elordi lookalike competition, which is occurring on the lawn of the State Library of Victoria in the middle of a heatwave. The only thing hotter than the weather, apparently, is Australian actor Jacob Elordi.

“The dating pool in Melbourne is not that great,” she continues. “I think that he is a very attractive man, and if you look like him, then you are also an attractive man.” Another spectator, fanning themselves furiously as they wait for the contest to start, tells me that while they aren’t a fan of his acting, they like “free events” and want to “see some hot guys”.

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