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To detest most scouse celebrities

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Afroturf · 07/09/2013 14:59

Cilla Black, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Tarbuck et al - celebrities who take every opportunity to remind us about their days in Scottie Road and all who, coincidentally, moved away from the city years ago.

What fake accents....I have never heard anyone else speak with Cilla Black's particular accent.

And now bloody Les Dennis has reared his head. God, how I've loathed him on Celebrity Masterchef - another one harking back about 'me Mam and Dad in Liverpool'. Fuck off. He was on radio 2 this morning with Rhod Gilbert and, my word, what a fucking name dropping twat. It was embarrassing.

I am not a fan.

Now I must mention that I'm from Liverpool, a city I love and live in today. I can't, however, abide these 'professional scousers' who go on and on about where they're from. Perhaps it's to try and fool us plebs that they are one of us. Again, do fuck off.

I don't want this thread to descend into an anti-Liverpool rant as my city is a very special place but wonder if anyone agrees with me. I think it's probably the fact that they come from the same place as me that I have a particular distain for them. I dare say that slebs from other parts of the UK annoy folk from their neck of the woods too.

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JoinYourPlayfellows · 07/09/2013 15:01

Does Alexei Sayle count?

I kind of love him.

redexpat · 07/09/2013 15:02

YANBU!

Silverfoxballs · 07/09/2013 15:05

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gordyslovesheep · 07/09/2013 15:05

YANBU CB had elocution lessons to lose the accent when she was a teen - she fakes it now

I dislike professional Scousers with a passion - almost as much as plastic paddies - being Scouse/Irish it's allowed Grin

Lizzylou · 07/09/2013 15:07

God yes.
Macca makes me want to stick forks in my eyes.

Lovecat · 07/09/2013 15:08

I'm originally from the Wirral but yes, I hate professional scousers like Cilla Black.

My mum used to go the Cavern when it was still a jazz cellar (she was really hacked off when the Beatles came along) and she remembers Ms Black as the coat check girl, being 'no better than she ought to be...' :o

Original poster
Afroturf · 07/09/2013 15:08

Gosh, yes Alexis Sayle. Arse

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JoinYourPlayfellows · 07/09/2013 15:15

:o

What are examples of acceptable famous scousers?

From an outsider's perspective, it's not easy to tell which ones are putting it on.

sweetestcup · 07/09/2013 15:18

Is John Bishop ok?

RobinSparkles · 07/09/2013 15:19

What about John Bishop? Do you like him?

headlesslambrini · 07/09/2013 15:19

But i love paul o'grady. He is who he is. I dont think he is a professional scouser

RobinSparkles · 07/09/2013 15:19

Ha ha! X post :o

Lovecat · 07/09/2013 15:20

Hmm... footballers? And actually, no, not Jamie Redknapp. Emlyn Hughes could be annoying too, God rest him.

Paul O'Grady doesn't wind me up but then he's not always going on about it - well, not that I've noticed (disclaimer: I don't watch his show, this is from the odd bit of him I see on other people's shows). And he knows how to take the piss out of himself.

Thing is, the famous scousers who don't wind me up tend not to make anything of their background at all, so they're harder to spot. Ian McCulloch is God, of course and thus above criticism. An insane God, but a God nonetheless.

ziggiestardust · 07/09/2013 15:20

I think I know what you mean, although the thread title is a bit misleading!

Do you mean that a lot of these slebs seem to play on the 'poor local kid done good' kind of attitude?

RobinSparkles · 07/09/2013 15:20

I can't stand Cilla Black, mainly because there has been lots on MN about her being such a cow in RL.

KoalaFace · 07/09/2013 15:20

I'm from Liverpool and I totally agree. YANBU.

But then I get annoyed when people not from Liverpool say they are scousers. John Bishop Simon Rimmer Don't get me wrong I like them but they're not from Liverpool.

ANormalOne · 07/09/2013 15:21

John Bishop is not okay, he's also an arrogant tosser who expects things for free because he's famous.

YANBU op.

ANormalOne · 07/09/2013 15:21

Oh and I'm from Liverpool too.

ChunkyMonkeyMother · 07/09/2013 15:23

O'Grady isn't a scouser though so he shouldn't count - he's from Birko (Birkenhead)

John Bishop would be still be a prick even if he was a Brummie!

KoalaFace · 07/09/2013 15:23

Isn't John Bishop from Runcorn not Liverpool? His accent is inexplicable!

LegoDragon · 07/09/2013 15:23

YANBU!

JoinYourPlayfellows · 07/09/2013 15:25

I KNEW John Bishop wouldn't be OK :o

Ian McCulloch from Echo and Bunnymen?

I guess I did know he was from Liverpool, because I know the band is a Liverpool band.

ANormalOne · 07/09/2013 15:25

My Nan dislikes Bishop, she calls him the 'plastic scouser'.

ThwartedbyMum · 07/09/2013 15:30

YANBU!

Greydog · 07/09/2013 15:31

I've never heard a real Liverpudlian talk like some of thes famous folk. My Aunties parish church is the Anglican Cathedral, my cousin got married there - no one speaks like Cilla Black. She was on with Paul O'grady the other week and I had to turn the telly off. Pretentious bitch