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People whose appearance doesn't match their voice

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Undineimmor · 22/12/2023 12:39

I've been speaking to a client for a few months with a deep booming voice. He visited this week and I was expecting Brian Blessed but he's small, slim and cleanshaven. Has anyone's appearance ever surprised you?

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readymealeater · 22/12/2023 12:41

Decades ago, when I was a young secretary (as they were called then) I often had to put calls through to another manager at a different site. What a gorgeous warm, sexy voice he had. The other staff thought so too.

One day, he turned up for a meeting. He was a perfectly lovely man, but let's just say his appearance was a bit of a disappointment after that big build up!

Undineimmor · 22/12/2023 12:44

Haha I've had a similar experience- beautiful voice, shame about the face!

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ThePoshUns · 22/12/2023 12:47

There's a chap at work who has a lovely voice, even doing some official recordings for answer phone messages etc;
I had such an image of him in my head, the reality was rather disappointing!

cerisepanther73 · 22/12/2023 12:51

@Undineimmor
I have experienced this kind of thing when i was in dire straits with water rates or council tax debts with a balliff called out,

I went into panic mode he was right outside my house then he rang me i spoke to me,
he said he could sense someone was by side of me,

i later on came downstairs and was convinced he had been talking to someone else instead i didn't look feminine enough for the sound of my voice,

Twat

MargaretThursday · 22/12/2023 12:53

My uncle used to be a sports' commentator on the radio.
He sounded much younger (and fitter) than he looked.

When people came up to him and asked "Are you XX?" he said he often felt like saying "please can you say that again without the disappointment in your voice." 🤣

LadyMacbethssweetArabianhand · 22/12/2023 13:09

By all accounts I have an absolutely lovely phone voice. The reality is I'm a pensioner and most definitely show my age 😂

SlashBeef · 22/12/2023 13:11

We have a local radio presenter called Jonathan Vernon Smith and he looks very different to how he sounds, I think.

DNAHOY · 22/12/2023 13:17

Has to be Joe Wicks!

Riverlee · 22/12/2023 13:18

I always think George Ezra doesn’t look how he sounds.

Riverlee · 22/12/2023 13:20

ActuallyChristmas · 22/12/2023 13:15

A seasonal one - look up Gesualdo Six Gaudete on YouTube. The second soloist does not look like he will have such a deep voice

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NtAcZOrE8dE

Just listened to this. I agree with you.

Beautiful rendition as well.

spanishviola · 22/12/2023 13:41

Mark Regev, the Israeli spokesman. I imagined him to be quite different so was surprised when I saw him on TV.

17caterpillars1mouse · 22/12/2023 13:42

Ken Bruce

WetBandits · 22/12/2023 13:44

Rag’n’Bone Man!

Mrsjayy · 22/12/2023 13:44

Riverlee · 22/12/2023 13:18

I always think George Ezra doesn’t look how he sounds.

i was just coming to say George Ezra his deep speaking voice doesnt match his baby face.

Tallisker · 22/12/2023 13:45

Riverlee · 22/12/2023 13:18

I always think George Ezra doesn’t look how he sounds.

When I first heard Budapest, I thought it was sung by an old black guy from Alabama, not a teenage white boy from Bristol 🤣

WashItTomorrow · 22/12/2023 13:46

A young, glamorous Italian woman I knew in Italy -completely Italian-looking. But she spoke English with a broad Yorkshire accent -she’d been brought up in Leeds.

LenaLamont · 22/12/2023 13:49

David Beckham - looked like a Greek god when he was young, has a reedy little voice.

Almost every voiceover bloke I’ve ever met. They sound like James Earl Jones’s cousins and are mild small guys.

Amy Winehouse - I was expecting a black ex-gospel singer.

ReflectiveRogue1001 · 22/12/2023 13:50

A throwback, but I was sooooo disappointed the first time I saw Steve Wright on top of the pops.
Such a rich voice
Such a scrawny little man

GigiAnnna · 22/12/2023 13:51

There's an erotic hypnotist who I enjoy listening to on YouTube. He has a sexy Dutch accent with a deep sensual tone. I was a bit surprised to find out what he looked like, he is cute with a nice smile, but not what I was expecting.

HamHand · 22/12/2023 13:51

Richie Anderson does not look at all how I’d pictured him when he first popped up on radio 2.

AffIt · 22/12/2023 13:52

I am constantly surprised by the rugby player and former Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw.

Wee terrier of a fella with a booming bass voice. Gets me every time.

HRTQueen · 22/12/2023 13:54

Mine

I sound like a young woman not middle aged

I always found plumbers/mechanics so helpful over the phone they often squeeze me in even though very busy. It took one mechanics very obvious disappointment that I am HRTQueen for me to realise what was happening😆

The singer from Gomez has a lovely deeply gravely voice, it’s very hit. I thought the Adrian Mole lookalike was a junior roadie

Borris · 22/12/2023 13:55

Came on to say David beckham but I see a pp has beaten me. Such a disappointment when he speaks

HRTQueen · 22/12/2023 13:55

Very hot
not hit …