X Factor reignites Russell Kane and Grimmy confusion

Russell Kane's Twitter feed apparently "lit up like a tree" this weekend because X Factor's back on television.

"I know we look alike but that's not me, that's Nick Grimshaw," Russell points out, referring to Grimmy's new judging gig.

"I'm sure Grimmy is horrified to be associated with a vaguely recognisable B-list comedian.

"For me it's great, I just wander into the club," Russell jokes.

Liz Goldthorpe tweeted "Nick Grimshaw and Russell Kane are twins right?"

"I don't actually personally run my Twitter anymore, my management does, as I got Twitter-addicted so I'm having six months detox.

"Apparently my Twitter lit up like a tree [on Saturday] going, 'You look great, how's Rita Ora?'"

Joe Odwyer tweeted he thought Russell and Nick were the same person until he put on X Factor.

The facial similarities between Kane and Grimshaw have been pointed out before.

Russell's wife Lindsey thinks her husband is better looking than the host of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show though.

"I'm not, obviously," says Russell. "Nick, you are so beautiful."

Russell jokingly appealed Nick to tell everyone he's not him in a video for Newsbeat.

Chatting to Newsbeat at the Reading Festival, where he's been performing in the comedy tent, Russell says that "people laugh when I do the Grimmy joke".

"But I've just come back from Ibiza," he adds, "and a couple of people actually got quite annoyed when I said I wasn't him.

"They think - sorry Nick - I am him, being up myself and not wanting to socialise.

"People end up Googling Grimmy and putting it next to my head and going, 'Tell me that's not you'."

It's not. Obviously.

Russell tweeted last year about middle-aged people in Crewe screaming "Grimmy" through his train window.

In 2013 he tweeted: "Five minutes in club: Three photos with people saying 'I love you Grimmy.'"

But Russell has a few thoughts on X Factor.

"Don't be a snob about it" is his main point.

"The rule with X Factor is pretend to dislike it whilst watch all of it.

"I got in last night, knackered from my gig, at 1am, knowing I needed to get sleep for Reading and I still watched half of the first episode of X Factor.

"Enjoy it. It's a rush of entertainment, get into it or don't watch it at all," says Russell.

"If you're intellectually confident you should be able to watch stuff like that no problem."

Juliet Evans tweeted that she didn't realise before that Nick and Russell were two different people.

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