A WILL Smith lookalike has revealed he faces losing stand-in work after some of the star's projects were postponed in the wake of his shocking Oscars slap - but requests for impersonations are booming.

Shad Ellis, 43, said prospective clients are offering him thousands of dollars to re-create the infamous moment Smith attacked Chris Rock onstage at this year's Academy Awards.Mr Ellis, who has been impersonating Will Smith for the last 25 years, was considering pulling the plug on his doppelganger act before the controversial spat sent demand for bookings soaring.

The surge in demand has included swarms of requests on the personalized video message website Cameo, with fans offering to pay him upwards of $90 to say "Keep my wife's name out your f**king mouth", as Smith warned Rock.

Mr Ellis told The US Sun that he was also offered upwards of $5,000 by a social media influencer with 29 million followers who wanted to fly him out to LA to film a parody of the Smith-Rock bust-up.