Now Zayn Malik has an Instagram twin – meet the Kosovan student who’s a dead ringer for the star

Seriously, what is it with all these real people looking like celebrities on Instagram?

Zayn Malik

by Lauren Smith |
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Guys, there's a new Zayn Malik! OK, so he's not an ACTUAL replacement for the former One Direction singer - but he sure looks like him. His name is Flamur Ukshini, he's a Kosovan student - and he's now properly internet famous.

Flamur's Instagram following has blown up since people realised the striking similarity between him and Malik, and he told the MailOnline it's been slightly surreal:

"In the beginning I didn't realise we looked the same, because I didn't know him."

"But when people on the street wanted to take pictures with me I was surprised, but then I started to realise that I look very much like somebody I don't know and who has to be famous. It started to happen when they got famous and when I started to post pictures on Instagram."

Apparently hoards of Directioners have been trying to contact him on Instagram, but he's generally quite happy with the attention:

"I feel blessed to look like him. One female fan did text me, "why travel to London to meet Zayn, if we can hang out in our country with a same handsome looking guy"."

Well that's nice. Although we'd rather it if people wanted to hang with us because we were totally awesome rather than because we looked a bit like a celeb - but everyone's different.

But it's not just Flamur who has become a celeb lookalike sensation - it's a bit of an Instagram trend. First there was Taylor Swift's lookalike, Morgan Jensen:

Taylor Swift's Lookalike
Taylor Swift's Lookalike

Then model Olivia Herdt, who is a dead ringer for Cara Delevingne.

Cara Doppelganger

It's all blowing our minds a bit, really. And it totally reminds us of how we used to do celeb crap-alike in* heat* with real people. Except the people really DO look like the celebrities everyone has matched them up with.

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