This is one Hangover that feels goooood.
A beard, some sunglasses, a baby and a beer gut is the perfect formula for making a quarter of a million a year, without really trying.
Thaddeus Kalinoski discovered he looked like The Hangover’s Zach Galifianakis after the breakup of his marriage led him to let himself go.
It was probably the best thing he ever did.
After his wife left him, the hotel manager from Philadelphia gained a stone and a half in weight and sank into a depression, causing him to neglect his appearance.
Then one day he looked in the bathroom mirror, after several days of not shaving, and realised he had a moneymaker on his hands.
Now he parties most nights and is hired with a rate of $1,000 a gig to impersonate the Hollywood actor.
‘Becoming Alan [Zach’s character in The Hangover] has changed my life forever, I now live the life in Las Vegas partying round the clock and all because I look like a guy from a film,’ he told the Mail Online.
‘I still have to pinch myself that I actually make a living doing this.’
It began on a lad’s weekend to Las Vegas where he was given $100 for his uncanny likeness, and told to go buy himself a drink.
‘Every day I live out my life like I am in The Hangover with some of the adventures being as crazy as what people saw in the film.’
He has the props of the baby and the monkey to complete the look, and lives in Las Vegas playing the character full time. The impersonator has learned all of Alan Garner’s catchphrases and is said to have tourists ‘in stitches’ with his impressions.
His look is so convincing as Zach’s character Alan Garner, he was hired as a double in The Hangover III.
Prior to becoming an impersonator, Thaddeus’s life was pretty tough.
He quit his dream job as his marriage was failing to try to make it work, but it failed anyway. He then found himself divorced and jobless with seemingly no prospects.
But in a complete reversal of fortunes he now parties most nights, has to eat a great deal to maintain his beer belly, and he’s gone on to feature in the third movie of the franchise, hanging out with Bradley Cooper, Zach himself and Ed Helms while filming.
He’s enjoying it while it lasts, as there is no Hangover IV in the pipeline and Zach has since changed his appearance.
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