I'm a Happy Valley actress lookalike – everyone gives me funny looks… and it's only getting worse | The Sun
A SHOP worker has told how she looks just like a Happy Valley star – and gets the weird looks to prove it.
And now, Colette Allan, 59, wants to make a living out of looking like Sarah Lancashire after Happy Valley's huge success.
The shock hit it's shock climax on Sunday night, when the murderer set himself alight at the end of a clash with show heroine Sgt Catherine Cawood, played by Lancashire.
With fans longing for more, doppelganger Colette, from Cornwall, thinks the work will come flooding in.
She hopes to dress up as Sgt Catherine Cawood for parties and shows – and is now signed with an agent.
Her husband Andrew, 67, put her forward after noticing the close similarity.
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Colette said: “I really do look like her. I’m totally blown away by it all.
“And don’t know what to expect now after the show's success.
“It is so wonderful watching Happy Valley, I have been glued, she is amazing.”
The couple moved to Cornwall 18 months ago from Staffordshire.
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It's not the first time she has been recognised as the star.
Colette added: “When Sarah was Raquel in Coronation Street everyone was to call me Raquel.
“I used to work at the National Memorial Arboretum.
“Lots of visitors there would look at me and say ‘You look like someone off the telly’.
“I always get funny looks and even more so now.”
Happy Valley first aired in 2014 charting Sgt Cawood’s police heroics in catching cop killer and rapist, Tommy Lee Royce.
The nail-biting final episode of the series aired on Sunday.
It ended with Tommy, played by James Norton, breaking into Catherine’s home where they row and he sets himself ablaze.
She then frantically jumped on him and smothered the flames and he could be heard moaning in agony beneath her.
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Later, she received a text on her mobile that said: “TLR dead, hospital just rang.”
But because viewers never saw him die, and he was still breathing after the scorching, many speculated it could be a plot twist for a possible fourth series.
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