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"Twilight" Heart-Throb Seen in Omaha?

Omaha, NE - The "Twilight" saga has hit movie theaters and fans are going crazy over actor Robert Pattinson. Well, we had the chance to sit down with an Omaha man who gets mistaken for him all the time.

Teenage screams echo across the globe, girls swooning over Robert Pattinson. Turns out ladies in the metro discovered their own vampire hunk! "What's the craziest thing that's happened to you? You probably couldn't air that one." Alright, so the man I interviewed isn't actually Rob Pattinson, but Josh has certainly been mistaken for him. "They were freaking out, they were freaking out. It was just one of those overwhelming moments. And my son said dad when I grow up am I going to look at you? I said you might buddy. He said I hope I don't!" Josh's 6-year-old has seen his dad mauled by "Twilight" fans. And even his two-year-old daughter is getting in on the action. She comes home pretending to be a vampire.

But, if Josh thinks that's embarrassing, wait until he hears what the girls at UNO have to say about his Twilight star looks. "It looks like Robert Pattinson from afar." "It looks like Rob Pattinson." But, the ladies weren't convinced it was really Rob, of course they seemed just fine with the local version of him. "I mean he really did look like him just a little bit more clean shaven. So maybe better looking than him? Well, I like clean shaven so yeah." "To see a guy like that living in Omaha, what do you think about that? I think he probably has a lot of girls after him."

Even the men weighed in on our vampire double. Not a bad looking guy? Not a bad looking guy. But you have no idea who he is? I have no idea who he is." Maybe not, but the girls certainly wanted to know him. "So you might pick him over Robert Pattinson? Probably. Yeah especially if he's local."

Sorry ladies he's married. But his buddies are single. "Oh god if this would've happened to any of my friends they would have ran with it. In fact, they've benefited from it. You play the wing man now? Yeah."

But once this Twilight craze fades, and the screams die down, Josh looks forward to just being dad.

Reported by Molli Graham, mgraham@action3news.com

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