Scottish Daily Mail

Call me Top Bun! Bake Off Sandi mistaken for Tom Cruise (and now you mention it ...)

- Daily Mail Reporter PICTURE RESEARCH: CLAIRE CISOTTI

ONE is a Hollywood heartthrob famed for performing his own daredevil stunts.

The other is definitely more Top Bun than Top Gun, having to cope with nothing more dangerous than innuendo about soggy bottoms.

Yet Great British Bake Off presenter Sandi Toksvig claims she is often mistaken for Tom Cruise.

Like the 56-year-old actor, the Danish-born comedienne, 60, has short hair, a toothy grin, crinkly eyes and prominent cheeks.

And she admits she is flattered to be likened to the Mission Impossible star.

Miss Toksvig, who is only 5ft – some seven inches shorter than Cruise – told the Daily Star: ‘It is so funny. It must be our flowing locks that get us mistaken.’ The QI host added: ‘It’s very flattering for me, but probably not for Tom.’

The resemblanc­e, which seems to include the colours of clothes they favour, has not gone unnoticed.

One fan tweeted images of them side by side, writing: ‘I have to say, I’d much rather have seen Sandi Toksvig star in Top Gun, Mission Impossible and, well, all other Tom Cruise films.’

Another wrote: ‘Tom Cruise is slowly turning into Sandi Toksvig.’

Scottish Conservati­ve leader Ruth Davidson has also picked up on the similariti­es, once tweeting: ‘Tom Cruise’s face. I don’t know what he’s doing to it, but he’s beginning to look like a late-90s era Sandi Toksvig.’

 ??  ?? Uncanny resemblanc­e: Sandi Toksvig, 60, is flattered that people say she looks like Tom Cruise, 56
Uncanny resemblanc­e: Sandi Toksvig, 60, is flattered that people say she looks like Tom Cruise, 56
 ??  ?? On a mission to match : The pair in grey jackets
On a mission to match : The pair in grey jackets
 ??  ?? Same cheeky grin: Sandi and doppelgang­er Tom
Same cheeky grin: Sandi and doppelgang­er Tom
 ??  ?? A shade unreal: They even sport similar sunglasses
A shade unreal: They even sport similar sunglasses
 ??  ?? Suited to blue: Do they share a wardrobe?
Suited to blue: Do they share a wardrobe?
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