Celebrities that nobody seems to dislike

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This will probably bring people out the woodwork to say they hate so and so celebrity but who are the ones that you never really hear a bad word said about them? My nomination is: Dolly Parton.

Capaldi said "What's ye name hen, would ye like a selfie with the Doctor? Show it to all ye pals." Sounds unlikely. He doesn't speak like that in real life.

He has quite a refined Glasgow “eccent” so I am left confused too.

Alexander Armstrong supports blood sports.

Oh, I'm not questioning that Peter C said it per se – even people whose accent is naturally 'posh' can and do drop into colloquialisms like 'ye pals' (it probably made him sound warm and less intimidating to the poster's son).
It's just specifically 'hen' I'm not sure about.

DarlingNikita? Where is your original post?

I know actors do accents.

Georgiana, do you mean this one?

[ORIG]Capaldi said "What's ye name hen, would ye like a selfie with the Doctor? Show it to all ye pals."'
[ME]Really lovely story smile
BUT I can't help thinking, did he REALLY say 'hen'? That's for women, no?

I didn't mean putting on an accent in an actory way, I'm talking about how many of us do things like slipping naturally into a slightly lower register to try to put the DS at ease.

DarlingNikita. I commented on that post the other day

There's no way Peter Capaldi would have spoken like that. And the PP said her son. I too was confused by the inclusion of "hen"

Unless the poster was trying to reproduce what she thinks a Scot speaks like. I was trying not to be pissed off

I've told this story before about Peter Capaldi but he does seem lovely.
My daughter served a guy at the pub she works at when home from uni, and asked him "has anyone ever told you you look like Peter Capaldi?" No, he replied, who's that? "The guy who plays Doctor Who?" No they haven't, he says and takes his pint, walks away and turns back and winks at her as her boss is pissing himself in the background and tells her you do know that is Peter Capaldi don't you? Apparently he'd been in the pub a few times!

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AmIScary, again, I can imagine he would have talked like that, for reasons given. It's purely and simply the 'hen' for a male that I'm confused about.

Hen is female. The child was a boy. I think Peter Capaldi is old enough to know the difference.

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Who are you talking to there, Georgiana?

Anybody who thinks “hen” as addressed to a male is normal. It would get you a punch on the nose in many places.

It would get you a punch on the nose in many places. [gri] Yeah, very odd indeed.

• not [gri], obviously!

Jensen Ackles. Met him at a convention and he was absolutely lovely. He was also really kind to a very shy teen in one of the questions and answers panels.

DarlingNikita. I can't imagine

I don't know anyone who would say "ye"

"Show it to all ye pals"

Unless Peter was channeling a pirate

Show it tae aw yir pals

That would be colloquial

Still, consensus is that he meets the brief of the OP. Universally liked

I agree 'ye' isn't how I'd write the Scottish/Glasgow 'your', but I'm letting the OP off with that and assuming that's how she meant it.

Surely it would be “yer” not “ye”.

Really late to the thread, but Ruth Jones HAS to be lovely.

or 'yir', as AmIScary says.