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Crowds that excitedly gathered in Castlefield to see the Peaky Blinders set were fooled by convincing lookalikes.
One of the professional imitators said they unintentionally caused a stir when they decided to go and take photos on the Manchester set.
Aron Walker, who works part-time as an Alfie Solomons doppelganger, says that hundreds of fans of the series followed him through Castlefield
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The Smiths has led to confusion for fans of the band.Shoplifters of the World is focused on a bunch of friends who are huge fans of the Manchester group – though when the band break up in 1987, one of the characters holds up a radio station and demands they play Smiths songs.The film’s trailer went viral over the weekend in the wake of the film’s US release, with many of the group’s fans reacting in horror.“Someone appears to have thought taking the plot of the Alan Partridge film and setting it
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