One day a stranger approached him with a life-changing tip — he had a friend making money as a lookalike and Ellis should give it a go.
One day a stranger approached him with a life-changing tip — he had a friend making money as a lookalike and Ellis should give it a go.
As this was pre-social media and selfie sticks, Ellis had to take photos of himself with a film camera as he recreated Will’s magazine poses.
He sent those to an agency he found in a newspaper and two weeks later they wrote to him saying he had the right look, but they warned that only royal family lookalikes make any real money.
“Within a week I had my first job which was the front cover of an electrical magazine as they were kind of re-enacting the Men in Black posters except we were holding these electronic wind-up torches.
“From there I started meetin
