An ex-electrician has ditched his job to become a professional Jeff Bezos lookalike and now lives a lavish lifestyle as an entrepreneur.
Cagdas Halicilar bears an uncanny resemblance to the mega-rich Amazon chairman and now cashes in as a part-time doppelgänger.
The 46-year-old revealed that he is constantly mistaken for the billionaire businessman and has been swarmed with selfie requests from strangers.
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Cagdas says he naturally resembles Bezos in both smart and casual wear.
The doppelgänger admits that he regularly shaves his head to look like America’s richest man.
Bezos is the third wealthiest on the planet and is worth £155billion.
But he says the key to getting Bezos’ smooth complexion is to apply a generous amount of Nivea face cream daily.
He also confessed that his girlfriend, Barbara is at her wits ends because of the amount of attention Cagdas receives on the street.
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Cagdas, of Leimen, Germany, spent the first half of his life training and working as an electrician.
But he soon became miserable working long days on construction sites and dreamed of becoming a successful businessman.
A fed-up Cagdas decided to make the move and worked in logistics before he became self-employed as a self-confessed transport entrepreneur three years ago.
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After setting up his own German transport company, CB Transporte, the 46-year-old says his friends joked he would become a billionaire.
According to Cagdas, his pals then showed him a picture of Bezos and highlighted their similarities.
Just a few months later, the billionaire lookalike signed up to the doppelgänger agency.
His favourite gig so far is a guest appearance on the German Netflix mini-series, King of Stonks.
But he has also had smaller experiences on local German TV stations and at events.
After turning his life around, Cagdas says he is now able to live a similar life to Bezos – whose net worth is $196.4 billion.
He admits that he can now travel the world and loves spending time on boats and drinking expensive whiskey.
On one of his trips abroad in Seattle, Washington Cagdas revealed that he walked through the Amazon campus and was greeted by starstruck employees.
Cagdas told What’s The Jam: ”When I became an entrepreneur, my friends and acquaintances said to me that I looked like a billionaire.
I didn’t know what they meant by that until I was shown the picture of Jeff Bezos – some of my friends joked that he had cloned me.
“I look like his twin brother.
”When I see the photos of his brother Marc Bezos there is no resemblance at all between.
”My right eye gets smaller in the sunlight just like his.
”But I have to admit that no one has flirted with me yet because I look like Jeff Bezos.
“Because Jeff Bezos also dresses casually, it doesn’t matter whether I’m wearing a suit or wearing jeans and a polo shirt.
“The only thing I do is shave my head and regularly apply Nivea cream.
”But I have already been doing this for over ten years now.
”My partner sometimes gets annoyed when people come to me and want selfies, but many don’t dare to speak to me.
“When I was in Seattle with my friends, we walked through the Amazon campus.
”All the Amazon employees came to me, wanted selfies and thanked me for being proud to work at Amazon.
”I also have a lifestyle almost like him – I often travel on ships and even have a butler and drink a good whiskey like Jeff.
”My wish is to drink a whiskey with Jeff Bezos on his yacht, he is just as much of a yacht fanatic as I am.”
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