Gogglebox’s Sophie and Pete Sandiford have received a surprise message from music superstar Mariah Carey after comparing her to Yorkshire star Jane McDonald.
In a short clip shared to Twitter, the siblings were sitting on the sofa bobbing away to Mariah Cary’s Christmas song Baby Please Come Home.
Pete went on to make an interesting comparison and claimed she was the American’s version of Jane McDonald.
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While dancing away he said: "You know what it reminds me of this? "An American style Jane McDonald."
His sister, Sophie agrees with the remark and replied: "She is! She's America's Jane."
The Channel 4 star's passing comment managed to reach Mariah and Jane who responded to their remark.
Mariah Carey took to the comment section and pinned to her 21.6M followers: "I'm American's Jane? Thank you gorgeous."
Not long after Loose Women star Jane replied to Mariah saying: "Wow!!!! Well, I must be the UK's Mariah! Merry Christmas Mariah!"
As expected the response was flooded with fans in disbelief that the pair have responded to the siblings comments.
Mariah reply alone reserved 4,400 likes and 288 retweets and Pete tried to play it cool as he responded to the pair and said: “Merry Christmas Ladies,” with a Christmas Tree emoji.
Fans and Celebrity friends couldn’t help but comment on the stars response.
Love Island star Shaughna phillips commented: "I mean I would retire on this."
While @Daz600 wrote: “How has this happened?”
@urban_idol_tv commented: “I can’t believe you got a reply from America's Jane and our Jane to!”
And @Stevencowrfield added: “This is brilliant! Love these two.”
Some fans are now hoping the pair will collaborate soon with @GemKelly Tweeting: “Please do a Cruising With Mariah show! Maybe even team up with Jane and do a cruise together! Would be incredible TV!”
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