It took Reddit four years to identify the sixth face on a set of curtains

In January 2020, a Finnish Reddit user posted a photo of curtains printed with eight celebrity faces and asked for help identifying them. Seven were quickly matched — Josh Holloway, Jessica Alba, Orlando Bloom, and others prominent in the mid-2000s. The sixth face, dubbed Celebrity Number Six, resisted identification for four years.

A dedicated subreddit pursued hundreds of leads. Members contacted the fabric supplier (Látky Mráz in the Czech Republic, who wouldn't name the designer), reviewed a decade of Getty Images photos, compiled spreadsheets, and tried every form of reverse image searching. Even the gender of Number Six was disputed. One user reviewed "all photographs on Getty Images between 1998 and 2007" that shared a photographer with any of the known matches.

In 2024, a Redditor colored in the image and ran it through the facial recognition tool PimEyes, which returned Spanish model Leticia Sardá as a likely match. Another user contacted the photographer, Leandre Escorsell, who confirmed he'd taken the original photo in 2006 for a Spanish magazine — an image that had "never appeared on the Internet." He was surprised anyone had found it. Sardá, who had quit modeling in 2009 and was working as a waitress, told the New York Times, "he tried to explain, but I didn't realize it was going to be so big." She has since resumed modeling.