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Did Geri Halliwell always talk with a plum in her mouth?

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EachandEveryone · 04/10/2023 23:15

Ive just had to switch Jimmy Fallon off because she talks like shes from the royal family. Did she talk like that when she was Ginger Spice from Watford? Do any of her mates pull her up on it I wonder?

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Nitgel · 05/10/2023 11:18

I'm from Watford and we're actually quite posh

roarrfeckingroar · 05/10/2023 11:26

Christian Horner is seriously hot. That's all I have to add.

AlexaCanYouHearMe · 05/10/2023 11:29

JingsMahBucket · 05/10/2023 08:42

Why does MN always like to knock on Geri Halliwell?

I don't. I really like her. I think she's really pretty too. 😘

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inamarina · 05/10/2023 11:31

TheThunderer · 05/10/2023 09:23

It's pretty normal for people's accents to change over time, or according to who they're speaking to, or how they want to be perceived.

Sometimes it's unconscious and sometimes it's deliberate. I can't get too frothy about it either way. We all make choices about how we present ourselves; why shouldn't that be one of them?

(I'm quite happy to judge people who shag married guys whose wives are pregnant, though.)

Agree with all of this. People changing their accent/ style to be perceived in a certain way - who cares? It’s their decision.
Someone having an affair with a guy who’s cheating on his pregnant wife/ girlfriend though is definitely something I would judge.

Riverlee · 05/10/2023 11:34

roarrfeckingroar · 05/10/2023 11:26

Christian Horner is seriously hot. That's all I have to add.

I thought that once. However, went off him when he appeared to ditch his long term partner (and new baby) and get engaged to and marry Geri in a very quick time.

Madamwahselle · 05/10/2023 11:43

@JingsMahBucket

You think that's what I meant? Lolz

Talisin · 05/10/2023 11:43

AlexaCanYouHearMe · 05/10/2023 00:11

Not in Dr Who though.

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Rose’s accent wasn’t Billie’s normal accent. She had some difficulty recreating it when she cameoed a couple of years later.

Glittertwins · 05/10/2023 11:45

Not according to those who went to school with her or the boys equivalent!

BloodyHellKen · 05/10/2023 12:15

If she moved from where she was brought up 30 years years ago her accent is bound to have changed. When I go back to my northern 'home town' - ie where I was born and bred until I was 19 everyone I speak to who doesn't know me thinks I'm a southerner. When I was getting married there someone even asked me why I was choosing to get married in the north and not where I was from 😂

I have made no effort to change my accent, it's just morphed over time - and my DH is quite plummy so I've probably picked it up a bit from him.

Ironically down south, where I've lived for almost 30 years, everyone identifies my northern roots and takes the piss accordingly 😂

assietplat · 05/10/2023 12:37

I've just been saying on another thread that I've never heard it the other way. The person with a more neutral accent gaining a regional accent. It may happen of course, but I've never come across it.

It's almost always the other way, with so-and-so losing their regional accent and now sounding 'posh' which is a pity as there's nothing to be ashamed of with a regional accent.

Mirabai · 05/10/2023 12:49

assietplat · 05/10/2023 12:37

I've just been saying on another thread that I've never heard it the other way. The person with a more neutral accent gaining a regional accent. It may happen of course, but I've never come across it.

It's almost always the other way, with so-and-so losing their regional accent and now sounding 'posh' which is a pity as there's nothing to be ashamed of with a regional accent.

I’ve definitely heard southerners pick up northern intonation.

And people who move countries can pick up the new country’s accent to a greater or lesser degree - so it depends what you mean by regional.

Sunshinesky1981 · 05/10/2023 12:53

Cant be any worse than that god awful guest appearance on Sex and the City years ago.

assietplat · 05/10/2023 12:54

so it depends what you mean by regional.

Regional accents within the UK if that helps

BloodyHellKen · 05/10/2023 12:56

assietplat · 05/10/2023 12:37

I've just been saying on another thread that I've never heard it the other way. The person with a more neutral accent gaining a regional accent. It may happen of course, but I've never come across it.

It's almost always the other way, with so-and-so losing their regional accent and now sounding 'posh' which is a pity as there's nothing to be ashamed of with a regional accent.

I disagree. I think you pick up what you hear most. I am a northerner but have lived in the south for a very long time and my accent has definitely softened with no effort from me.

My husband is a southerner and so are our children. My children speak with southern accents, but with a northern twang - eg occasionally flat a's in things like bath, rather than barth because they spent their formative years when learning to speak in mainly my company 😁

assietplat · 05/10/2023 13:03

I havé heard it with children, gaining a slight regional accent from originally being neutral/posh (again, for simplicity, I'm talking about British accents) I will say, but not adults. They might have adopted the regional word or term for something, here and there, but their accent hasn't changed.

I find it all fascinating and interesting.

IncognitoMam · 05/10/2023 13:06

Just been reading about Gerri and him. She stalked him before they got together by the sounds of it? Gone off her now as I also hadn't known about his pg gf.

TootiiFrootii · 05/10/2023 13:14

My MIL still has a voice she saves just for the telephone. It's hilarious. It's her, but the version that did well for herself and went up in the world. She can't seem to help it. She also has a another change of voice when she's had a drink or two. That's even more funny, if slightly harder to understand.

Spongeeater · 05/10/2023 14:19

I wonder if she wears white for public events and changes to other colours in private so if she's down the local Waitrose she won't be recognised?

Mirabai · 05/10/2023 14:24

assietplat · 05/10/2023 12:54

so it depends what you mean by regional.

Regional accents within the UK if that helps

But you accept that people who emigrate can end up with some accent from their adopted region? Even when they start with ‘neutral’ accents? (No such thing as neutral of course I guess you mean RP).

User0000009 · 05/10/2023 14:37

Starseeking · 05/10/2023 04:48

No, but in the circles she moves in now, i.e. multi-millionaires, it's inevitable that her speech would have become more polished.

I also (unintentionally) find myself doing that annoying thing of enunciating more clearly than I normally do when speaking to Americans, and I end up sounding more well-spoken than usual, so it may be the same for her.

Being a multi millionaire makes you rich not posh.

Tighginn · 05/10/2023 15:01

Donna AIr is my favourite affected accent😂

assietplat · 05/10/2023 15:26

But you accept that people who emigrate can end up with some accent from their adopted region? Even when they start with ‘neutral’ accents? (No such thing as neutral of course I guess you mean RP).

I was discussing regional British accents only. That's my area of interest particularly.

I don't mean 'RP' as it's often argued that nobody speaks RP now. Of course nobody is entirely neutral, there are giveaways of origin/region/etc etc

cushioncovers · 05/10/2023 15:38

Just watched some of the interview and I didn't think she sound that different. Bit more guarded in what she says and elongates a few of her words but other than that she sounds very much the same I thought.

itsmyp4rty · 05/10/2023 15:47

I read back at the time that the way she spoke changed when she met her husband.

Tinklyheadtilt · 05/10/2023 15:53

She is from a council estate in Watford. She is trying to rebrand herself as posh, but the fact she stole her husband from a pregnant woman shows who she is really is.