To detest most scouse celebrities

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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.

In fact, Matalan is from Liverpool!

Can I nominate Crissy Rock for the BANNED list?

What about the famous Scouse wags, Abbey Clancy and Alex Thingumy?

y,y, agree that Brookside is responsible for that type of "Scouse" accent. Older people from Liverpool never seemed to speak like that

And for the dead-but-great list, Rex Harrison! I'd forgotten him.

Did you all know that Michael Jackson was actually born in Liverpool?

Simon Rattle on the acceptable list, surely.

No he wasn't?? Really?

I used to work in the council offices in Dale Street. I was on a bus going to work one morning that passed Pete Postlethwaite taking a morning constitutional past St. John's market. rock and roll, me

I think Pete Postlethwaite was a brilliant actor but cannot for the life of me recall a film where his character was still alive at the end credits.

No word of a lie

yy, Simon Rattle very acceptable.

My nan was from West Derby, she had a beautiful speaking voice and pronounced every letter. She had an old school Liverpudlian accent that was nothing like the lazy accent used by the young.

That's me, Mistyshore. An old lady accent

When I hear the Scouse accent my ears shut down automatically.

Ah, I'll wager you are not hearing genuine old-school Scouse, LaGuardia, which should be soft and mellifluous.

thewooley he was alive at the end of The Usual Suspects

BOF
I take it you mean the actor Michael J Jackson

The other one was definitely born in the US

Alex Curran, now Alex Gerrard, you mean? I don't like her, but that is because we grew up on the same street and she was horrible to me as a child.

Heidi Range from the Sugababes and Neil Buchanan are acceptable. All of the above are from Aintree.

You got me

Pick a McGann any McCann... Paul,Joe, mark or Stephen. All proper scousers born in Kenny!

Oh, Alex Eyebrow is a HORROR. Heidi Range is a nice girl, from what I've heard. Colette Rooney comes from a nice family. Wayne, on the other hand, not so much...

And don't even go there with Amanda Harrington. Awful, just awful.

Ah, just thought. For "real" accent, see Ken Dodd.

Heidi is lovely. She is friends with my sister's friend's older sister. If you can follow that...

Oh I love a gentle Scouse accent, I could listen to one for ages. Agree with all the Paul O'Grady fans - he's lovely.

I'm Glaswegian and cannot stand ham-it-up professional Glaswegians in the public eye. I do tend to find most of the folk who go on and on and on about "ah'm fae Glasgow" have perhaps only lived here for 2 years. The rest of us are not that fussed.

BOF! I am so gullible

usererror yeah I've heard a few rumours about Alex Gerard, none of them positive

Can someone cuff me round the ear? I'm not even from Liverpool and here I am jumping in like a local!

Can't help it I'm invested now, plus I really do hate Cilla Black and John Bishop and Jimmy "I've played golf with the stars" Tarbuck. Every time he's on the tele - it's all about crap golf stories about that time he played golf with "big Sean Connery"! Jimmy my man, nobody gives a flying fuck.

And Cilla - it's those evil eyes and the "Lorra, Lorra laughs". Oh and that show "surprise surprise" (can't even be bothered to put the caps in, doesn't warrant the effort), when she used to walk through the streets somewhere with big shoulder pads and a brass band bloody singing.
Actually my dad hated her so much when I was growing up and especially "surprise surprise" when the singing started. He'd be running around tearing the living room apart looking for the remote - and the language would have made a sailor blush ...... Never occurred to him to manually switch the channel, although he did actually turn off mains electricity switch because he couldn't cope with Cilla anymore and "if he had to suffer then we all would"