Pedro Pascal Lookalike Contest: NYC Dad Wins Big with Burritos
New Yorkers celebrated Father's Day by participating in a lookalike contest of one of pop culture's favorite 'daddies', aka Pedro Pascal. A Brooklyn dad took home the top prize, winning $50 and free burritos for a year. Here's what went down.
The lookalike contest, hosted by Lower East Side Mexican eatery Son del North, turned into an unexpected spectacle as dozens of Pascal doppelgangers and a cheering crowd braved the rain to crown the city's most convincing double. George Gountas, a lighting technician at The Daily Show, won the contest, but he never saw this coming.
Gountas, a self-proclaimed social media ghost, was brought into the contest by his wife, Jenny. 'It started when the Game of Thrones came out the first time, that's when we first heard it,' she admitted about how much her husband looks like Pascal. 'So I was like, when we saw this [contest], I was like, 'It's Father's Day. You have to go'…It's funny because he's not on social media at all. But now he's going to be everywhere,' she added. (via New York Post)
The contest was Son del North's playful clapback after Pascal once claimed NYC lacked good Mexican food. Chef Annisha Garcia, seemingly inspired by last year's viral Timothée Chalamet lookalike event, threw the Pedro Pascal lookalike contest together last-minute.
'We just did a little Canva thing, and then we posted, and yeah, that was it,' Garcia said while talking to The Independent. The response was so huge, the restaurant had to close early to prepare itself for the crowd. Despite the rain, 26 hopeful Pedro-lookalikes showed up, some with kids, some with dogs.
A panel of three judges narrowed the group down to 10, then three. Then, finally, Gountas, known as 'Pedro #5,' won by a good majority. Alongside his $50 prize, the Pedro Pascal lookalike contest winner now gets one year of free burritos.
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