Being born and bred in East London I hate.....

[Primalsea]

People who have over the top Cockney accents and mannerisms. Danny Dyer springs to mind. He’s from Custom House, not far from where I grew up, but nobody I know speaks like him. Jamie Oliver went through a phase of OTT Cockney as well.

Just wondering if anyone else here feels similar about celebrities who seem to have bolt-on fake OTT parody way about them?

[Crackles]

People who have over the top Cockney accents and mannerisms. Danny Dyer springs to mind. He’s from Custom House, not far from where I grew up, but nobody I know speaks like him. Jamie Oliver went through a phase of OTT Cockney as well.

Just wondering if anyone else here feels similar about celebrities who seem to have bolt-on fake OTT parody way about them?100%. I come from Manchester and I detest professional Mancunians. The Gallaghers are the most obvious ones, Burnage where they come from is nowhere near as rough as they make out. It's in south Manchester but Liam speaks with a north Manchester accent to sound harder.

Ian Brown too. He's from Altrincham and went to Altrincham Grammar but speaks like nobody else I know from Altrincham, which is considered fairly posh. Same goes for anybody famous from Bolton. Every one of them lays on the accent and the daft northener routine.

I suppose people just dislike it when they know it's phoney.

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[Pigmy Pony]

Cilla Black's scouse accent became stronger the longer she stayed away from there.

[Macca]

Cilla Black's scouse accent became stronger the longer she stayed away from there.

I knew her mother and she didn't have a scouse accent so don't know where Cilla picked it up from.


I suppose if you are in show business you have to cultivate an image to some extent to stand out. There's a lot of competition.

[walpurgis]

It's all affectations. Something that really does not impress me. Like blokes who wear cowboy hats and boots. I just think they look like complete tits.

[Macca]

It's all affectations. Something that really does not impress me. Like blokes who wear cowboy hats and boots. I just think they look like complete tits.

Except Lemmy.

[walpurgis]

Except Lemmy.

Yeah. I'll give you that one! :D

[spm]

Wasn't Nigel Kennedy's accent completely mock - very irritating but then I don't think I've seen him on the tv in at least 10 years.

[narabdela]

Wasn't Nigel Kennedy's accent completely mock - very irritating but then I don't think I've seen him on the tv in at least 10 years.


Yep, completely fake; as is the whole laddish persona he projects. I reach for the 'off' button if there's any danger of hearing or seeing him. An even bigger twat than Dyer imho.

[hifi_dave]

Agree totally about Danny Dyer, he really winds me up. Being a true Cockney myself, I know the accent well and I have never heard anyone sound like that and as for that incessant rhyming slang..:mad:

[Minstrel SE]

100%. I come from Manchester and I detest professional Mancunians. The Gallaghers are the most obvious ones, Burnage where they come from is nowhere near as rough as they make out. It's in south Manchester but Liam speaks with a north Manchester accent to sound harder.

Ian Brown too. He's from Altrincham and went to Altrincham Grammar but speaks like nobody else I know from Altrincham, which is considered fairly posh. Same goes for anybody famous from Bolton. Every one of them lays on the accent and the daft northener routine.

I suppose people just dislike it when they know it's phoney.

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Yes you are bang on there. Ive done my tour of North and South Manchester and there are a lot of people egging it up to try and sound cool.

Ive always hated that thing with accents where people follow the crowd to be more Madchester than the next bod. I hate all that mad for it and our kid. Maybe I just dont like the Manchester accent or Im just a Cheshire mommies boy :)

If that Nigel Kennedy thing is true and I think it is.....its a mockney joke.

[Beobloke]

Dido always used to wind me up with her ‘Estuary’ accent.

I remain convinced that someone whose full name is ‘Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong’ does not speak like she did without adding an affectation.

[walpurgis]

Accents? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPAr3RpHugM

[Crackles]

Yes you are bang on there. Ive done my tour of North and South Manchester and there are a lot of people egging it up to try and sound cool.

Ive always hated that thing with accents where people follow the crowd to be more Madchester than the next bod. I hate all that mad for it and our kid. Maybe I just dont like the Manchester accent or Im just a Cheshire mommies boy :)

If that Nigel Kennedy thing is true and I think it is.....it a mockney joke.What Nigel Kennedy thing?

I also find the whole Madchester thing really tedious. It tends to be people from the suburban towns who aren't even Mancunians anyway - especially City fans.

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[Macca]

I like Danny Dyer and the Gallagher brothers and Madchester (although that is going back a bit now). At least the Gallaghers were proper rock stars not well-behaved 'role models'. Nothing worse than a rock star setting a good example. Makes me sick.

And Dyer did that 'Hard Men' documentary - one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[Barry]

Danny Dyer? Who he? Never heard of him.

(Don't bother answering - I'm sure it's not important.)

[Minstrel SE]

What Nigel Kennedy thing?

I also find the whole Madchester thing really tedious. It tends to be people from the suburban towns who aren't even Mancunians anyway - especially City fans.

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That Nigel is putting on an accent to sound cool and down with it. That and the spiky hair used to wind me up big time....he can certainly play though and theres no denying that.

I reckon that Danny Dyer speaks like Noel Coward when he's at home. As soon as his agent phones him up for the next football film its all apples, pairs and geezers. Hard man my arse! :)