Unlikely lookalikes – Harry Cole and Seb Coe
Posted on October 10, 2011One of the Party Conference season’s favourite sports is blagging – by hook or by crook getting into private parties and receptions to which only the great and the good are invited. Each conference has its legends of truly heroic blags, but possibly the most impressive in conference history occurred earlier this week in Manchester.
Guido Fawkes’ mini-Guido and News Editor Harry Cole decided to try to walk brazenly into the Telegraph’s star-studded bash in the Midland Hotel despite not being on the guestlist. He was promptly flagged down by the security on the door, leading to the following exchange:
Security: ‘Scuse me, what’s your name?
Cole: Harry Cole
Security (consulting guestlist): Lord Coe?
Cole: Err, yes…
And in he strolled – no longer Harry Cole, twenty-something blogger and gossip-monger of note, but newly ennobled as 55-year-old Sebastian Coe, Knight of the British Empire, Baron Coe of Ranmore, Olympic Gold medallist and Chairman of the London Organising Committee of the 2012 Olympic Games.
An impressive blag which will be hard for anyone to top. If you still doubt it, compare the two gentlemen in question:
Harry Cole Seb Coe
Tags: Bloggers, Conservative Party Conference, Conservatives, Guido Fawkes, Harry Cole, Manchester, Olympics, Politics, Sebastian Coe, Westminster
Categories: Politics, Westminster
Anyone for judo?
06.10.2011 13:31
An easy mistake to make – but surely you could have got a better picture of Harry. This one makes him look like a member of a Care in the Community Group on an outing to the New Forest.
That said, great blag, Harry…
FB
06.10.2011 14:37
Lord Comatose more like if that picture is anything to go by…
06.10.2011 18:00
It was the hair what did it. Unless the security guard as a fan og the Guido Fawkes blog and thought: “Oh! It’s Harry. I’ll pretend I thought he said he was Lord Coe! Cool! That worked! Now, who can I pretend Guido is, should he turn up and try to blag his way through!”
07.10.2011 09:23
Coe must be the most overrated, boring pretentious twerp in the land.
(the real one, not Harry, who is a thoroughly nice chap)
07.10.2011 14:34
You have the picture captions the wrong way round – Harry’s the one on the right.
07.10.2011 20:05
You obviously do not read Private Eye
09.10.2011 16:18
In time-honoured Private Eye fashion, shurley?
10.10.2011 11:49
@I.M.Golightly – read much Private Eye, do you?
09.10.2011 22:49
Gah! That was exactly what I meant – but because I have NoScript installed in Firefox it omitted the page formatting, leaving the captions looking the correct way round rather than the ‘right’ way round, with Harry’s pic on the left, hence my comment. Most annoying!
11.10.2011 15:09