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/sports/off-the-field/Button-laughs-off-Coldplay-confusion/articleshow/6720051.cms

Fantastic guy Jenson!!! Made me laugh Jason Burton

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

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

 

this

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

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 :lol:

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..................:P

The above pic looks nothing like him to me:dozey:

Maybe he was wearing a striped beanie :P

He does not look like Chris ... nothing.

Maybe some people thought: Oh, he's famous, I don't know him, but he is famous!!!

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...

 

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

Ill take them both!

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

Ill take them both!

 

:D

Ill take them both!

 

Two-for-one deal?:rolleyes:

^Just imagine that. LOL.

Two-for-one deal?:rolleyes:

 

Yes Please :wideeyed:

 

 

...with fries and a chocolate shake.

i used to have a huge crush on Jensen button, i still think he's HOT

^+1

 

EDIT: and they dont look alike

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I lol'd :lol:

They have similarities they look alike sometimes esp in CHris Martins younger years

He looks like the American skateboarder Tony Hawk to me.

They don't look alike.... :inquisitive: or you have to be drunk to think so :lol: It's like the time where Chris' brother was with Gwyneth and was mistaken for Gary Lightbody... :facepalm: EPIC FAIL!!!

i don't really see the resemblance, but that Jensen Button is kinda pretty. :wacky:

I think they look alike a lot..

When ever anyone says formula 1 driver I think of baby food

lolz! same!