While another said: “There’s no resemblance to Elvis whatsoever, but there is to Vernon.

“Vernon Presley and Jimmy Ellis look like the same person. I could see the same look, the same hairline, the same ears.

“The same. It was just…can that be a coincidence, to have this vocal? I don’t know.”

One friend of Orion’s claimed they had seen Jimmy’s birth certificate, saying: “I remember it was from the state of Mississippi and it said mother, Gladys Bell.”