{"id":519929,"date":"2026-07-10T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/519929\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:19:08","slug":"erling-haalands-doppelganger-emma-kate-willman-breaks-silence-on-their-unreal-resemblance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/519929\/","title":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland\u2019s \u2018doppelganger\u2019 Emma Kate Willman breaks silence on their \u2018unreal\u2019 resemblance"},"content":{"rendered":"Willman told People: \u201c[It\u2019s been] so surreal … I never expected braiding my hair to turn into millions of people comparing me to Erling Haaland.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been amazing to watch the internet have so much fun with it, and seeing Erling comment on my video made the whole thing feel even more unreal.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a creator, you never know what\u2019s going to resonate, so I\u2019m just grateful people have embraced it and had fun along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
She went on to reveal she will be going to see Haaland\u2019s team Norway take on England in the World Cup quarter-final in Miami, Florida on Saturday (local time) and she\u2019d love to meet her \u201ctwin\u201d.<\/p>\n
Erling told the publication: \u201cIt would be pretty funny if our paths crossed in real life after all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The influencer is even holding an Erling Haaland lookalike contest in Miami on the day of the match and the winner will get tickets to the game.<\/p>\n
In a post on her Instagram page, she wrote: \u201cIf you have ever been told you look like Haaland and are a Norway fan, you\u2019re in for a surprise! @kalshi is helping me host an Erling Haaland lookalike contest right before the game on Saturday for 2 FREE TICKETS TO THE GAME!<\/p>\n
\u201cMeet us at the location [in Miami], and bring your best Haaland moves! See you there and good luck!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willman told People: \u201c[It\u2019s been] so surreal … I never expected braiding my hair to turn into millions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[38501,13912,257849,790,65828,257848,2517,111,139,69,90,132253,11165,213,165,257851,257850],"class_list":["post-519929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-breaks","tag-broken","tag-doppelganger","tag-emma","tag-erling","tag-haalands","tag-kate","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-resemblance","tag-silence","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-unreal","tag-willman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}