Colin Miller was recently stunned to find his application for a Barclays personalised photo card had been turned down – after staff suggested he didn’t own the copyright to the image of his own face. The confusion apparently arose because part-time Pavarotti impersonator Colin, 66, looks so much like the late Italian opera singer. When the Barclays team saw the photograph accompanying Colin’s online application, they assumed he’d uploaded a celebrity picture instead of one of his own. “I was shocked,” the disgruntled Colin – who also works as a train guard – told the press. “I can’t help who I look like. I don’t try to look like him. I have had no cosmetic surgery and I don’t try to do things to myself to look like him. I am being penalised for looking how I do.”Anyway, you’ll doubtless be relieved to hear that the misunderstanding has now been cleared up and the bank are keen to process the original application without further delay. Phew!
