'My mum asked if she would ever be as cool as Honey G': Hilarious photos of mothers dressed as the X Factor rapper wearing shades and baseball caps take the Internet by storm

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She's the most talked-about contestant on this year's X Factor - and has even sparked a petition to get her booted off the show.

But controversial Harrow-born rapper Honey G beat all the odds by sailing through the first live shows in a gold tracksuit singing Tupac's hit California Love on Saturday night.

And it seems the secret to her popularity lies with mums everywhere, who have proclaimed their support for the 35-year-old by posting selfies dressed up in her signature sunglasses and cap.

Twitter has run amok with mums proclaiming their support for the X Factor rapper Honey G, and posting selfies dressed up in her signature sunglasses and cap

One long-suffering son shared a photo of his mother pouting with her arms crossed as she wore neon yellow shades, a beige baseball cap and a zipped-up jacket, captioning it: 'Mum could fully be Honey G'

Neon pink sunglasses and an adidas cap were all it took to transform this mother into a rapper 

Long-suffering users on Twitter have taken to posting pictures of their mothers dressed as the rapper

After Honey G stepped out in a gold tracksuit, hat, and shades on Saturday, mums everywhere have started to emulate her.

And it seems they have a certain talent for looking uncannily like the rapper - and those with dark straight hair proved all it took was a sports jacket and some attitude.

@AlexDay96 shared a photo of his mother pouting with her arms crossed as she wore neon yellow shades, a beige baseball cap and a zipped-up jacket. 

The long-suffering son captioned the hilarious snap: 'Mum could fully be Honey G'. 

One user even posted a video of her mother dancing and rapping, captioning it: 'Seriously mum ... HONEY G ?? Quite funny though' 

Lisa Bailey tagged Honey G in her caption, writing: 'You and my mum are basically the same person'

One mother may have taken inspiration from Saturday night's show as she rocked a metallic bomber jacket 

One likeness was so uncanny it was as though Honey G had a twin sister the nation didn't know about 

'Honey G in the house': One mother even got into the rapping spirit as she spit bars into a microphone 

One user wrote: 'I think my mum and I like Honey G' as she shared an excited chat between them

@lolscotty lamented: 'My mum just put on my hat and looked exactly like honey g w h y' while @chlo_dougal added: 'My mum is obsessed with Honey G'. 

Meanwhile one user's mum took her admiration for Honey G - real name Anna Gilford - to a new level, emulating the rapper's live performance on Saturday.

Jake Cockroft wrote: 'Mum just sent me a voice note singing H to the O to the N to the E to the Y to the G it's HONEY G'. 

Macauley added: 'Honey G reminds me of my mum the first time I blared Stormzy in her car (sic)'.

And some mums even followed the rapper on social media, with one user questioning: 'Why the F*** has my mum followed Honey G on my twitter account'.

Doppelgangers rocked the Internet, as the trend for Honey G selfies spread

One user's mother even dressed up as the rapper to FaceTime his son

This mum seemed to have Honey G's dance moves down to a T

This mother took a Honey G selfie in her car, and added mirrored sunglasses for maximum effect

Another said: 'Rhys mum came in his room with a hat and sunglasses going 'when I say honey you say g' and I honestly have never laughed so much.'

Meanwhile Honey G's own mother appeared in public for the first time during Saturday night's show to support her daughter.

After watching her closing performance on The X Factor, Honey's mum appeared on the ITV2 show to praise her daughter.

Dressed in a T-shirt emblazoned with her daughter's stage name, 'Mamma G' declared the entire family are supporting Honey to win the show.

Laura Morrison reached out to the X Factor performer, saying her mum was her biggest fan

She told the audience: 'On behalf of my family, I want to say we are so proud of her tonight. We admire her tenacity and courage.'

Honey G, who has been seen as this year's token comedy act, was mercilessly mocked online for her rendition of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise during the Judges Houses stage - but the song was enough to please judge Sharon.

And the unhappy family of unsuccessful X Factor contestant Samantha Atkinson have weighed in on the furore, starting a petition to have Honey G booted from the show.

Samantha lost out on a place at the Judge's Houses stage of the competition, when Sharon Osbourne opted for controversial contestant Honey G instead.

And within hours of the petition going live last week, it reached its goal of 5000 signatures.

Meanwhile Honey G's own mother (pictured) appeared in public for the first time during Saturday night's show to support her daughter

'Samantha Atkinson is my cousin and I and thousands of other X factor viewers feel she was robbed of her place on live shows tonight': Yasemin Kara posted the petition to get Honey G booted off the show on Care 2 Petitions

Devastated: Samantha (pictured) lost out on a place at the judge's houses stage of the competition, when Sharon Osbourne opted for controversial contestant Honey G instead

Yasemin Kara posted the petition on Care 2 Petitions, writing: 'Samantha Atkinson is my cousin and I and thousands of other X factor viewers feel she was robbed of her place on live shows tonight....when Sharon osbourne gave Honey G one of them laces in final 12.....'.

'Let's sign and show X factor bosses and Itv that they have made a huge mistake!!!'

Within hours the petition had already almost reached its target signature goal of five thousand, boasting over six thousand shares.

Honey initially didn't make it through to the judges' houses stage of the competition was but was drafted back in after contestant Ivy Grace couldn't get to Sharon's US mansion due to 'visa issues'.