Read more: Terrifying rabid fox attack had woman fearing she'd be 'eaten alive' by beast Joe, a singer, from Barry, South Wales, told Bristol Live: “I couldn’t believe it, the resemblance was crazy.
I was so surprised I even showed staff in the store, but they didn’t see how similar we looked."I even turned and said 'should’ve gone to Specsavers’ to them.”Joe went to a wedding the night before and his hair was styled in a flat-top - only making the resemblance even more uncanny.“The brochure made me smile because growing up as a queer person as colour, there wasn’t much representation in the media," he said. "When I saw someone who looked like me on the leaflet, it meant a lot.”His friends and family thought the cartoon was a custom creation because it looked so similar.
Specsavers have named the illustration Joe and have offered him free contacts on his return when his trial ends on September 2.READ NEXT:.
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