Foxes: I get hunted down as Zooey Deschanel

Rising British singer Foxes is being hunted down on the streets of America – but mainly by fans of ‘lookalike’ celebrities.

The 23-year-old – real name  Louisa Rose Allen – has cracked the Billboard top ten with her track Clarity, in collaboration with German music producer Zedd.

‘I have been chased down the street,’ she told Metro, while by the pool in Los Angeles.

‘There was one time it was because they thought I was Zooey Deschanel. So that’s the reality of it.

‘I was just walking down Hollywood Boulevard and someone was like, “Oh my God, Zooey. Is that you?” And I was like “Um… no?” and then they got aggressive shouting, “It is. You’re lying!” and then chased me,’ she recalled.

Another well-wisher was ‘a crazy man, old, with a limp and a peg leg’, she recalled.

‘David Guest – that is probably the other one I get. We have the same eyes. I also get a bit of Hagrid from Harry Potter.

‘When I’m hungover, I get Hagrid hair,’ she added.

Foxes was speaking before taking to the stage to entertain the likes of Kelly Osbourne at the British Airways and Variety bash in Tinseltown on Wednesday.

She is preparing to release her single Youth on October 20 and her debut album early next year, after featuring on tracks with Fall Out Boy and Rudimental this summer.

‘I am now banned from features,’ she laughed. ‘Lots of DJs have approached me but my manager said “no”. It has been a running joke that it would be a Featuring Foxes album if I put it out in light of everything I’ve done this year.’

However she is holding out for one US superstar to call.

She admitted: ‘If Eminem asks, then I’m game.’

[Originally published Metro Guilty Pleasures Friday 27 September 2013]