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Meet Armley's own Lily Allen look-a-like

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Published Date: 18 June 2009
Taking off the rich and famous runs in the blood for Armley teenager Pebbles Thomson.
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Not only is the 18-year-old the first girl in the UK to aquire the unusual name, she spent her childhood impersonating Pebbles Flintstone.

Now Pebbles is hoping to make her name as a Lily Allen look-a-like and she know there's money to be made.

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For uncle Aaron Stuart, 48, has spent years taking off the King himself – Elvis – and now lives on a 28-acre ranch in Benidorm where he entertains fans.

And bizarrely they are both doubles of the singers.

Pebbles, from Aviary Grove, is currently firing off a portfolio to agencies in London in the hope of finding work.

She told Armley Today: "Everyone tells me I look like Lily Allen! I even get stopped in the street. I do like her and I like her songs. I didn't even realise until people started to say I looked like her. I hope it goes as far as it can."

The former West Leeds High school pupil works in a bar where she is constantly told by punters as well as being stopped in the street by strangers.

And although it's a distant memory, Pebbles has been here before after taking off the Flintstones character when she was just five.

"I'd do photo shoots all the time. I was with a Manchester model agency and the film was just coming out."

Mum Lisa Thomson, 49, has managed her brother Aaron, 48, as well as now trying to get Pebbles some look-a-like work.

She said: "My brother has been Elvis since he was 18.

"He makes a living out of it. He brought 28 acres of land in Benidorm and has built it all up with his sons and does his own shows there.

"People drive out to his land to watch him perform. That gave us the inspiration for Pebbles. Where ever we have gone people stop us."
Pebbles' unique name came from the pebbled beach which lay in front of the family's holiday home in Scotland when she was born.

And it brought her fame in national newspapers which picked up on the fact she was the first girl in the UK to be given the name.
Now she's heading for stardom as Lily Allen's lookalike, the family have their fingers crossed.

Lisa added: "I think she could make a good living out of it. My brother did. It's funny how she's grown up to be the absolute double of the singer!"


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