To think Mr Bloom is just too northern?

[Rattner]

He sounds like no one I've ever heard and more like a caricature of a northerner! Honestly it winds me up whenever I see him. Sorry.

I am from the Leeds area.

No one I know speaks like that.

He does sound like dhs grandad, a bit, who was from Lancashire

I used to live in Leeds and have always thought his accent was pretty good. I'm northern too.

Also Bretton hall is part of the university of Leeds but is quite far out, past Wakefield.

YANBU. Why don't they use a northern actor instead of someone with a fake northern accent?

Celtic he made up the character so that's why he gets to be the star!

YANBU. Why don't they use a northern actor instead of someone with a fake northern accent?

Because he came up with and wrote the show?

It's a fake yorkshire accent but they do talk like that!

None of us in Yorkshire sound like that.

HTH

He sounded very odd in the xmas show last year as he didn't have a northern accent.

Because he came up with and wrote the show?

Ah, didn't realise that! Fair enough then

However, I do think there are too many instances where actors with fake accents are used, instead of finding an actor that comes from the place in the programme and has the real accent.

Like Poldark celtic? A genuine Cornish accent is a rare thing on tv

Mr bloom is definitely cornish I went to school with him :) :)

Watched a brief clip. He has a generic Lancashire accent. I didn't think it sounded exaggerated. When he said 'Hey' it was bordering on 'Ey up duck' but otherwise it's fine.

He sounds sweet fuck all like a manc coming from a manc

Sounds Oldham/Rochdale to me

Sorry, there is no such thing as 'too Northern'