Classify two exotic Englishmen called 'Guy'

[Tooting Carmen]

No reported foreign ancestry in either case.

Guy Hedgecoe, journalist
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Guy Henry, actor
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[Rædwald]

Both look French, but hardly exotic in my mind

[Tooting Carmen]

Both look French, but hardly exotic in my mind

They both look wholesale Jewish or Southern Euro, especially the first one. Dark-featured Englishmen usually look different to this.

[Creoda]

First guy (ahem) is half Spanish.

[NSXD60]

First looks mixed, second looks like a Windsor.

[Oliver109]

first guy looks like a Flemish, atlantid and med, second looks southern English, atlantid and dinarid, i recall you saying a lot of Parisian councillors looked Jewish while imo they just looked French like these guys pardon the pun

[Tooting Carmen]

First guy (ahem) is half Spanish.

Source? Mind you, he certainly looks it, and he is now the BBC Spanish Correspondent.

[Oliver109]

Source? Mind you, he certainly looks it, and he is now the BBC Spanish Correspondent.

He doesn't look it in those pictures, actually one of the least exotic Brits you have posted under the "exotic" title

[Creoda]

Source? Mind you, he certainly looks it, and he is now the BBC Spanish Correspondent.
https://guyhedgecoe.com/

A Spanish and Portuguese speaker, he started out as a journalist in Ecuador, where he covered the country’s foreign debt default, 2000 coup d’état and dollarisation for CNN, The Financial Times, The Miami Herald and Bridge News. He also covered Peru, reporting from Lima when President Alberto Fujimori unleashed a political crisis by fleeing the country.

In Spain, he was editor-in-chief of El País newspaper’s English edition and founding editor of Spanish news website Iberosphere. In 2015, he published the essay Freezing Franco: The Battle for Spain’s Memory, looking at the country’s complex relationship with its recent past and in 2016 he published Skin Against Stone: Spain’s Basque Labyrinth, an examination of the Basque Country’s four decades of separatist violence and its aftermath.

Guy has close emotional ties with Madrid – his maternal grandparents met there during the civil war and his mother was born in the city.

[Oliver109]

https://guyhedgecoe.com/

Could they have been British expats? though i would say he passes in Spain anyway

[Tooting Carmen]

https://guyhedgecoe.com/

Cheers.

[Odelia]

They look like normal englishmen, hardly exotic --- maybe only in the sense that they pass better in other parts of europe like poland or czech republic cos they look more central european

[Xacal]

Exotic? Atlantids

[Ruggery]

The second looks like a young version of actor Peter Cushing.

[rothaer]

A Spanish and Portuguese speaker, he started out as a journalist in Ecuador, where he covered the country’s foreign debt default, 2000 coup d’état and dollarisation for CNN, The Financial Times, The Miami Herald and Bridge News. He also covered Peru, reporting from Lima when President Alberto Fujimori unleashed a political crisis by fleeing the country.

In Spain, he was editor-in-chief of El País newspaper’s English edition and founding editor of Spanish news website Iberosphere. In 2015, he published the essay Freezing Franco: The Battle for Spain’s Memory, looking at the country’s complex relationship with its recent past and in 2016 he published Skin Against Stone: Spain’s Basque Labyrinth, an examination of the Basque Country’s four decades of separatist violence and its aftermath.

Guy has close emotional ties with Madrid – his maternal grandparents met there during the civil war and his mother was born in the city.

These formulations make the impression to me that he is not half Spanish. Otherwise there would hardly be made explanations where is grandparents met while the civil war (where a lot of foreigners from various countries took part btw.) but simply telling that his Spanish mother is from Madrid and period. But I'm curious as for the facts.

[Gallop]

They don't look Spanish to me as a native. Maybe the second photo of the first and the second guy might remind some Catalans.

[Zevoos]

I can't believe I'm going to agree with Gallop but both of them look very Catalan. The first guy in the first pic not as much though.

[Smaug]

Absolutely nothing exotic about them, they just look a little bit more continental, speacially the second one, which is ironic, considering he looks like Tom Hiddleston, who looks very British.

[Flamingo]

Could pass as Tunisians imo, especially the guy without glasses. Or as Italians.

[B01AB20]

Source? Mind you, he certainly looks it, and he is now the BBC Spanish Correspondent.

It's kind of consolation that not only some idiotic iberians feel entitled to sentence is someone can or cannot be, based on how this someone looks. :clap
Sometimes an almost imperceptible characteristic is enough for these experts to exclude someone from their master race.

Enjoy your own illuminati on the anglosphere Tooting, and think about them when you, with all the reason yeah, rant about some hysterical iberians.

[Hellenas]

First Med, second Dinaricized Med.