Celebrities who put on a fake their accent 24/7

Grayson · 27-12-2017 1:03pm

ligerdub wrote: »

Donna Air - Wy aya man!

I had no idea who she was so I googled her. On her wikipedia page it says

Air once famously asked Irish band The Corrs, which consists of four siblings, where they had met.

27-12-2017 4:01pm

George Hook. So unnatural.

dinorebel · 27-12-2017 4:20pm

John Bishop

velo.2010 · 27-12-2017 4:21pm

I always wondered if you served Larry Gogan or the late Tony Fenton at a late night service station, would they suddenly drop the accent and sound more like... 'howya bud, gives us 20 blue and a package eh crisps'.

I'm of the firm belief that Imelda May adds a little VAT to her Dublin accent. She's spent the last 20 years living in London, yet sounds like she worked her whole life on Moore Street.

Saoirse Ronan's accent is messed up but I think that's partly due to having lived in several countries in her relatively short life so far. Her father has a strong Dublin accent too which gives her that northside twang.

Charlie19 · 27-12-2017 4:25pm

Stephen hawking.

dinorebel · 27-12-2017 4:26pm

Mysterypunter wrote: »

Danny Dyer

elperello wrote: »

Diamond geezer.

You spelt wan*er wrong.

blade1 · 27-12-2017 4:34pm

Fred Rickwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEki3cs7Eeg

DrPhilG · 27-12-2017 4:34pm

A lot of people who end up with an American twang get accused of putting it on in other to appeal to an audience or deny where they are really from. Conor McGregor for example.

The fact is that if you go to the US and talk in your own accent you simply won't be understood. McGregor slows his accent down and over pronounces certain things because he would need subtitles otherwise.

I've been to the US and Canada a few times and my best friend lives in Canada. He obviously has developed a strong Canadian accent over the years and yet when he comes home he slips back into his own accent within a few days.

Even if he's on the phone to my his wife or friends will comment that they can't understand what he's saying to me.

brilou23 · 27-12-2017 4:35pm

Conor McGregor I cant stand it

DrPhilG · 27-12-2017 4:45pm

brilou23 wrote: »

Conor McGregor I cant stand it

See the post before yours.

He's not putting on an accent. He's slowing his own down to be understood.

The international language of louder and slower.

And I think he's a dick by the way, before anyone accuses me of being a fan boy.

Odhinn · 27-12-2017 4:48pm

Twink - she imitates human speech, but in truth her normal vocalisations are the screeches and howls of the Harridan.

tricky D · 27-12-2017 4:50pm

velo.2010 wrote: »

Saoirse Ronan's accent is messed up but I think that's partly due to having lived in several countries in her relatively short life so far. Her father has a strong Dublin accent too which gives her that northside twang.

Her mother is the northsider, father is the southsider, but both with fine Dublin accents. That's the base of her accent which does vary due to moving around and role requirements. She really isn't the type to put on accents despite what some reckon.

Omackeral · 27-12-2017 4:56pm

DrPhilG wrote: »

See the post before yours.

He's not putting on an accent. He's slowing his own down to be understood.

The international language of louder and slower.

And I think he's a dick by the way, before anyone accuses me of being a fan boy.

It's not just for the Yanks, it's just when he's "on" in general. This is not his real accent at all when speaking to Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q2h_JE6jhE

mzungu · 27-12-2017 5:02pm

Borat. I'll bet he's not even from Kazakhstan either.

elperello · 27-12-2017 6:29pm

dinorebel wrote: »

You spelt wan*er wrong.

You say that again and I'll punch you up the fhroath!

wakka12 · 27-12-2017 6:34pm

I don't think David norris accent is fake. I know 4 or 5 people personally who speak like that too for some reason

Elmer Blooker · 27-12-2017 8:58pm

No one has mentioned the originator of the fake accent yet! The one and only "mockney" Mick Jagger.
Mick was a clever boy in swinging sixties London when his phony east London accent worked wonders getting posh birds like Marianne Faithful into the sack.
It also impressed gullible upper class twits such as Princess Margaret who knew no better. He was years ahead of other "mockneys" such as Lily Allen, working class hero and son of a diplomat Joe Strummer and Blur to name a few.

27-12-2017 9:00pm

So called plastic accents (plastic as in malleable) are generally an unconscious thing, linked to accommodation and/or convergence. The more accents you're exposed to growing up, the more easily it happens.

Convergence happens when we're in the company of people or individuals we want to get along with, and whom we like or admire. We adopt not only speech patterns and sounds but also physical mannerisms and minor affectations in a mirroring process that we're generally unaware of.

Accommodation happens when someone with a strong accent finds themselves changing how they speak consciously, so that they are more easily and better understood. Over time, it becomes habit and you 'pick up' an accent.

Neither are negative things, and the tendency to both converge and accommodate are linked with empathy, the more in tune you are with the people you spend time with, the more likely you are to pick up their accent or aspects of it.

Of the examples given in the OP, I'd be interested in how an accent is ascertained to be fake.

PeterParker957 · 27-12-2017 9:36pm

dinorebel wrote: »

John Bishop

Not a bit of it.

Motivator · 27-12-2017 9:45pm

PeterParker957 wrote: »

Not fake. He went to university in the US.

Fake American accent or not, he’s still a tosser

Ralf and Florian · 27-12-2017 9:52pm

Grayson wrote: »

I had no idea who she was so I googled her. On her wikipedia page it says

Donna Air-head.

Dakota Dan · 27-12-2017 9:57pm

padd b1975 wrote: »

The Healy-Raes.

You think the Healy Rae's put on their accents, come out of the fcuking fog :rolleyes:

Muahahaha · 27-12-2017 9:57pm

velo.2010 wrote: »

I'm of the firm belief that Imelda May adds a little VAT to her Dublin accent. She's spent the last 20 years living in London, yet sounds like she worked her whole life on Moore Street.

Imelda May was born and bred in the Liberties, she sounds like anyone from around there would. iirc her real name is Imelda Clabby but Clabby doesnt sell records so she changed it.

Dakota Dan · 27-12-2017 10:01pm

Minderbinder wrote: »

When you move to another country and they don’t understand you, do you expect them to change?

Not saying it excuses everyone but I think it’s very understandable that someone moving from Scotland or Ireland to America will have to adapt in order to be understood.

I know a few Polish that have strong Cork accents, stronger than most people from Cork that have adopted that annoying false accent

Ralf and Florian · 27-12-2017 10:04pm

Yer wan Nadine Coyne who after a few years in the States couldn't pronounce Naas.

Dakota Dan · 27-12-2017 10:05pm

KellyXX wrote: »

A million times this.
Try asking for a mountain dew in a shop in the states and see how long it takes you to change your accent.

Very quick

I know an Irish woman trying to communicate with a few Polish and she spoke slow and loud in English thinking they might understand

I wouldn't mind but I had plenty conversations with the same men in English

Dakota Dan · 27-12-2017 10:18pm

KellyXX wrote: »

A million times this.
Try asking for a mountain dew in a shop in the states and see how long it takes you to change your accent.

Just talk slow and loud like a Texan

Dakota Dan · 27-12-2017 10:28pm

ziggy wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

I love the Scottish accent, I assume there's more than one as Billy Connolly talks too fast and sounds like double Dutch but I had two Scottish salesmen calling to me and I could understand them no bother, I could stay talking to them all day long. One fella told me ye call children berns if my memory is correct

donegaLroad · 27-12-2017 11:58pm

Dakota Dan wrote: »

I love the Scottish accent, I assume there's more than one as Billy Connolly talks too fast and sounds like double Dutch but I had two Scottish salesmen calling to me and I could understand them no bother, I could stay talking to them all day long. One fella told me ye call children berns if my memory is correct

yep, bairns or waynes... both words commonly used in Donegal

Waynes = wee ones (way uns)

Omackeral · 28-12-2017 8:32am

Candie wrote: »

So called plastic accents (plastic as in malleable) are generally an unconscious thing, linked to accommodation and/or convergence. The more accents you're exposed to growing up, the more easily it happens.

Convergence happens when we're in the company of people or individuals we want to get along with, and whom we like or admire. We adopt not only speech patterns and sounds but also physical mannerisms and minor affectations in a mirroring process that we're generally unaware of.

Accommodation happens when someone with a strong accent finds themselves changing how they speak consciously, so that they are more easily and better understood. Over time, it becomes habit and you 'pick up' an accent.

Neither are negative things, and the tendency to both converge and accommodate are linked with empathy, the more in tune you are with the people you spend time with, the more likely you are to pick up their accent or aspects of it.

Of the examples given in the OP, I'd be interested in how an accent is ascertained to be fake.

I've found quite the opposite in my experience. I notice my own accent a lot more in foreign places. I definitely don't conform to the local's way of speaking anyway. I dunno if it just sounds stronger among their speech or if I'm enunciating subconsciously as a territory thing. It's all fascinating,

ziggy · 28-12-2017 10:17am

This post has been deleted.

valoren · 28-12-2017 11:12am

I think Christian Bale has been working for so long he doesn't know what accent he truly has anymore.

splinter65 · 28-12-2017 12:21pm

elperello wrote: »

Diamond geezer.

A geezer is a water spout that comes out of the ground. Danny is a geeZAH.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 28-12-2017 12:32pm

tricky D wrote: »

Her mother is the northsider, father is the southsider, but both with fine Dublin accents. That's the base of her accent which does vary due to moving around and role requirements. She really isn't the type to put on accents despite what some reckon.

She has a very strong Dublin accent though, despite never having lived there. She sounds more like someone who grew up in a working class area of Dublin, than someone who grew up in a rural area with parents originally from Dublin.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 28-12-2017 1:02pm

splinter65 wrote: »

I don’t think D Norris’s accent is fake but Clare Daly went to a boarding school but gets clean away with her mock “howaya” tripe.
Graham Norton’s accent is totally unrealistic too.
Bono’s midatlantic twang is like everything else about U2, totally fake.

Graham Norton still speaks the exact same way he did long before he became famous, that just his voice, nothing put on about it.

Clare Daly has the most nauseating horrible vomit inducing voice/accent ever but I guess with a face like hers it would be hard to have a nice voice/accent.

Staff Infection · 28-12-2017 2:13pm

valoren wrote: »

I think Christian Bale has been working for so long he doesn't know what accent he truly has anymore.

Yeah I saw this interview yesterday and he sounds quasi-Australian https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/christian-bale-talks-hostiles-and-his-new-look/

dd972 · 28-12-2017 3:20pm

Russell Brand sounds like a regular Essex bloke save for the extensive vocabulary.

28-12-2017 3:27pm

ziggy wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

You're both wrong, it's wains. And I'm not even from Donegal.

Harry Palmr · 28-12-2017 3:55pm

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

No one has mentioned the originator of the fake accent yet! The one and only "mockney" Mick Jagger.
Mick was a clever boy in swinging sixties London when his phony east London accent worked wonders getting posh birds like Marianne Faithful into the sack.
It also impressed gullible upper class twits such as Princess Margaret who knew no better. He was years ahead of other "mockneys" such as Lily Allen, working class hero and son of a diplomat Joe Strummer and Blur to name a few.

The really early footage of Mick and the boys is illuminating.

No one has mentioned Gillian Anderson and her voices

(which one is the fake - one, both or neither?)

Stonedpilot · 28-12-2017 4:00pm

BrianBoru00 wrote: »

Sairse Ronan talks like a bogger. I can't fathom why people think she would fake that kind of an accent.

I know people who went on a J1 to the states and came back sounding like the kardashians.

I'm taking the Noel Gallagher stance on Bono

She is a bogger
But she hams it up. Diddly ei dee Im so sweet diddums type crap

Over rated actress too Brooklyn was over acted balls.

Arcade_Tryer · 28-12-2017 5:04pm

368100 wrote: »

John barrowman.....Scottish or U.S. ....grew up in Scotland so accent is fake. Comes out with some BS that he auto reverts to Scottish accent when talking to his family...he just uses whichever will be of more benefit to him at any time

What exactly is the problem with that? Sounds sensible if anything.

Ulysses Gaze · 28-12-2017 5:09pm

How about Madge and her English accent

miss flutter ups · 28-12-2017 7:41pm

I remember seeing Patrick Collison co founder of Stripe, born and bred in Limerick on the news, with the twangiest American accent

https://youtu.be/3QtOxvpdUMs

Don Kiddick · 28-12-2017 7:56pm

Probably the greatest fake accent from possibly the biggest twat alive...what's not to love!?

Joey Barton speaks English with a French accent – video https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2012/nov/26/joey-barton-english-french-accent-video?CMP=share_btn_tw

.

feargale · 28-12-2017 8:18pm

Stonedpilot wrote: »

She is a bogger
But she hams it up. Diddly ei dee Im so sweet diddums type crap

Over rated actress too Brooklyn was over acted balls.

"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow." - James Joyce.

What's all this fuss in Ireland about how people speak? I believe it is the product of a traditionally monolingual inward looking society. FFS how can you hear what they are saying if you are so hung up on how they say it. If you don't understand what they are saying just tell them so.
Most people's accents change when their environment changes. For some it takes three weeks, for others thirty years. An old friend of mine spent years in Latin America, then came home, and asking my kids their ages said "how many years have you?" But it was ok. We understood what he wanted to say. I suspect that most people bitching about how people talk speak no more than half a language at best.

Del.Monte · 28-12-2017 8:23pm

Stonedpilot wrote: »

She is a bogger
But she hams it up. Diddly ei dee Im so sweet diddums type crap

Over rated actress too Brooklyn was over acted balls.

In fairness to Saoirse Ronan she seems to be overrated by an awful lot of people and there's a fierce whiff of begrudgery off your post. Lighten up - it's Christmas.

feargale · 28-12-2017 8:25pm

Dakota Dan wrote: »

I know a few Polish that have strong Cork accents, stronger than most people from Cork that have adopted that annoying false accent

Jaypers wait till they go back to Poland! Every vodka swilling Karol will be totally turned off by what they will perceive to be a "put on" Cork accent! :rolleyes:

feargale · 28-12-2017 8:31pm

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Clare Daly has the most nauseating horrible vomit inducing voice/accent ever but I guess with a face like hers it would be hard to have a nice voice/accent.

I am far from being an unqualified admirer of Claire Daly, but I base that on what she says and does, not how she looks. You, on the other hand, make it seem as if you get your political education from glossy celebrity magazines or trashy tabloids or worse.

Joe prim · 28-12-2017 8:53pm

feargale wrote: »

I am far from being an unqualified admirer of Claire Daly, but I base that on what she says and does, not how she looks. You, on the other hand, make it seem as if you get your political education from glossy celebrity magazines or trashy tabloids or worse.

I know this slightly off-topic, but Clare Daly, whatever her other many fine qualities may be,and however dulcet her tones, is NOT a celebrity.

PeterParker957 · 28-12-2017 9:25pm

Joe prim wrote: »

feargale wrote: »

I am far from being an unqualified admirer of Claire Daly, but I base that on what she says and does, not how she looks. You, on the other hand, make it seem as if you get your political education from glossy celebrity magazines or trashy tabloids or worse.

I know this slightly off-topic, but Clare Daly, whatever her other many fine qualities may be,and however dulcet her tones, is NOT a celebrity.

She'd dearly love to be I'm sure. Woman of the People and all that crap

Celebrities who put on a fake their accent 24/7

Comments