This is a pretty amusing story, actually. While Lindsay Lohan was planning, scheming, and tooling around in New York City over the weekend while hosting “SNL,” she stayed at the Mercer Hotel; so naturally, the paparazzi were on high alert for crackhead antics in the area. Meanwhile, an unaware Debbie Harry (who’s shown above, in case you couldn’t tell) was also staying at the Mercer and left the building on Sunday morning to be greeted by numerous flashbulbs from paps who mistook her for Lohan. Silly paps should’ve known that Lohan doesn’t rise until at least midday, right?
Kaiser, CB, and myself all pretty much had the same response to this, which was “Gee, it must suck to be Debbie Harry right now.” On one hand, Debbie was mistaken for a 25-year-old woman. On the other, Debbie was mistaken for a 25-year-old crackhead. Meanwhile, a legend was mistaken for Lohan. It doesn’t really seem like a fair trade off, does it?
When Debbie Harry of the band Blondie left the Mercer Hotel on Sunday, photographers crowded around the 66-year-old. Several of the snappers report believing that they were shooting photos of 25-year-old Lindsay Lohan, who had hosted “SNL” the night before.
Harry did appear rather Lohan-like, with her platinum blonde, face-framing fringe and aviator sunglasses visible amidst her hooded jacket. The image looks very similar to one snapped of Lohan two days before, as she exited the same hotel wearing similar sunglasses. The two women do share a similar complexion and face structure, despite their 41 year age difference.
Lohan has been criticized in recent months for looking far older than her age. When she appeared at the amFAR Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in February, many commented that her overly bleached hair, nude makeup and matronly dress made her look like a woman 20 years older.
[From NY Post]
Indeed, Lohan looked like absolutely hell at the aforementioned amFAR Gala, but she’s been looking quite rough for so many years at this point. Will Lohan take it as a wake-up call that a 66-year-old woman could, as far as physicality is concerned, be her barely older sister? Probably not. Lohan doesn’t know the meaning of wake-up calls unless it involves her dealer rapping on the door with her latest delivery.
In the meantime … poor Debbie Harry. She deserves so much better than to be aesthetically associated with a crackhead.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet
What did Debbie Harry do to deserve that ?!
That is exactly what I thought when I read this article. Poor Debbie!
What an insult to Debbie Harry!
She has tighter face skin than Blohan does!
at 66, debbie is still glowing and i can’t say the same for hohan-if that isn’t a wake up call for her, nothing ever will be.
I laughed so hard at this.
I’m pretty sure that DH did as well; she seems pretty cool.
Also:
(1) I want DH’s bag.
(2) I’d rather look like DH at 65, than BloHan at – srsly? – 25.
Ditto!
Agreed on all counts! This made my day.
hilarious
omg! Poor poor debbie, of all pple in the world she had to be compare to crackhead lilo.
Debbie looks great!
You are forever hot, girl!
when i was a little girl i wanted to be debbie harry and i’d sing all of their songs in front of a mirror… now my inner child is crying.
I wanted to be her too, I still do 😉
Radar has an item that Lindsay hooked up with Terry Richardson (no surprise) and wants a relationship but he doesn’t…ugh & lol at the same time!
Relationship is too much, I think she wants Uncle Pervy to pay her bills.
Sounds about right. And get her coke. All in a day’s work.
I don’t know if this funny or sad concerning Lindsay.
How funny that the paps saw a 66-year-old and thought, “hey, LiLo!”
Debbie Harry looks great, though.
Poor Debbie!
I don’t think it was the makeup and dress that made Blohan look older at that event, unless “makeup” is code for drugs and “dress” for “alcohol”. She has destroyed her face and everything else.
Blondie rules!!!
Last week, I went up to someone I was sure was famous and asked for her autograph. I was disappointed when I saw the signature was Lindsay Lohans; I was sure she was Zsa Zsa Gabor!
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That is the worst insult you can get! She should have went off on them I’m mad for her right now.
Debbie Harry is way too cool to care. She probably thought it was hilarious.
Uncanny! Laughed. Out. Loud.
Poor Debbie! On her worst day she still looks better than The Cracken!
poor debbie indeed. it’s sort of a compliment, but not really since the cracken looks, well, like a cracken.
I don’t know how Debbit could be mistaken for The Cracken. Debbie looks younger than Lindsay.
Blondie definitely looks younger than Lohan (and Dina, too, for that matter). I’d loooovve to be a fly on the crack wall when Lohan hears about this. She’s so delusional, though, that she’d probably take it as a compliment.
Have you guys seen pics of Lohan and Ali at the airport recently? They both look like cranky 40+ year old housewives. Just scary.
LMFAO, poor DH. She looks better than the Cracktini But I fail to see how the paps could confuse Debbie’s Class with Crackhead Trash. They should have known 1) too fresh looking 2) carrying herself with some dignity and 3) wearing a bra it wasn’t Lindsey!
If I was Debbie I’d sue Lindsay.
Obviously Debbie Harry is just using Lindsay……
Mistaken for Lohan? That would be the ultimate insult.
HA! Lindsay WISHES she looked as good as Debbie Harry or had an ounce of her talent and swagger.
YES YES YES!! Totally agree! Debbie was and is a stunner – stupid Lindsey never was.
DH and LL got the same lip fillers, that is what makes them look so similar.
We’ve all been saying that 25 year old Lohan looks 45 for a while now. But to think that the papparazzi, whose job it is to look at Lohan all the time, mistake a 66 year old for her, well, that’s really sad.
Still, with that oversize parka and the sunglasses, I’m having a hard time telling them apart.
I LOVE ME SOME BLONDIE!! If I was Debbie Harry, I would be thinking, “slander”! Debbies’ ass would make the Cracken a Sunday face. LL wishes she looked that good….
Twinzies! LOL!
i just googled Debbie Harry. OMG, back in the day she was smashing!
Yup, she had it going on!
In a contest in looks, I’d pick Debbie any day. Lilo’s looks are ruined and if she keeps it up, she’ll be mistaken for Courtney Love.
How can you mistake Debbie Harry(natural, un-puffed) for The Thing?
Do we need to build a pap vocational school now?
Well, Debbie was a bit of a crackhead herself in the 70’s and 80’s. A private one, but into drugs, at any rate.
Yes, but Debbie actually made it to 65. Blohan won’t see 30.
Can’t deny that.
I thought that myself–Harry made her way through a ton of drugs and drink back in the day. And even 40 years later, she looks better than Lohan. Exactly how much drugs has Lohan done?!
I am laughing hard at this one! Harry didn’t even start Blondie until she was thirty!
Lindsay wished she looked as good as Ms. Debbie!
LOL!! xD
Poor Debbie Harry. Wonder how Lilo took the news?? Nothing like being mistaken for someone FORTY years older than yourself!
The other day I posted that I thought LiLo looked older than 65.
Take that, doubters!
Debbie looks MUCH BETTER than the Cracken!
Hell yeah! Debbie looks amazing. Lohan, not so much.
Winner ‘best separated at birth’ award 2012… which is an insult to the legend that is Debbie Harry…sorry Deb
Hahaha how awkward for everyone involved. Silly Crackie. I’m still second-hand embarrassed about the way she publicly strong-armed Jimmy Fallon into appearing on SNL, and going after Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey too. If that whole thing didn’t humiliate her, this probably won’t even register. Sigh.
How dare they assume such things about Deborah Harry?!!? Just goes to show that the snapping-rats don’t know when they are in the presence of real talent.
The peroxide Lohans wish they looked as good as Ms. Harry now, nevermind in her heyday when she was seriously foxy.
Hey! Debby Harry had actual TALENT. I loved her songs and her voice. And, of course, her look. Maybe her looks are kind of like Lilo’s at 66 but hey, she’s almost 70!!! WTF is Lilo’s excuse? Lilo should be shocked out of her shoes by the comparison but sadly she’s too in denial/drugged out to care.
Yes. Absolutely. Poor Debbie!
When I first looked at the photo, I honestly thought “hey, Lindsay’s looking a lot better! ” Oh, dear. I can definitely see why they made the mistake. Debbie looks younger than her years and just looks healthy and happy. OK, usually Lindsay doesn’t look too healthy these days and not too happy either. But healthy and happy translates easily into younger-looking. Combine it with the hair color and covered-upness, and the fact that Lindsay looks so much older than her years (and not in a good way), there you go. They met in the middle.