Donna air. Master chef. Wtf has happened to her accent

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We aye bonnie lass. Where's her geordie accent gone!? Have I misheard. Aibu

Btw who were the other two celebs

DP - who had never heard of her before - heard her speak and said "so she's a Geordie then" so I guess it's not diluted that much.

Accents do tend to dilute when you live somewhere else though. My home town has a distinctive accent. People on the town I now live always say they can tell where I'm from, but when I go back to my home town people ask where I'm from and then are surprised because they can't hear my home town accent any more.

She didn't have a particularly broad accent as a teenager (I went to school with her), she put it on for byker grove and other TV appearances. She sounded more Geordie back then but had one of the softer accents at our school.

I don't think she should work at keeping an accent from a place she hasn't lived for a couple of decades. I don't sound Geordie any more and I left Newcastle around the same time as her, the difference being that I now sound Cumbrian and she sounds posh, but surely that's due to the company we keep.

She was with that posh zoo guy for years i guess years of living away from tyneside has diluted her accent and she is going about saying wey aye man anymore

Isnt* loads of people lose their accents I dont think its a massive deal

When she was getting tired & stressed her Geordie accent was more noticeable. My boss has lived outside Newcastle for about 20 years and still has a lovely strong accent.

Gino di Campo anyone (or does anyone else think he really sounds like Phil Mitchell off camera ?)

But like Robson Green. He sounds like an arse as well. And before anyone says he hasn't lived on Tyneside for years- he kept his Geordie accent for years after leaving. He talks like he's got a plum in his mouth!

Oh, that's who she is - what is she famous for?

MsMermaid - we went to the same school and you were in my brother's year! Small world

I left Newcastle 20+ years ago and my accent's softened and altered as well. I now sound Irish / Devonian (depending on listener) despite never having lived in either place!

Charlie Hunnam is another Geordie actor with a strange, almost Gemanic, American accent now.

I imagine Geordies can tell Donna Air is a Geordie; I can always detect a hint of Welsh in someone's voice. I'm amazed she's mid thirties though, she seems to have been around forever.

She started to change her image and her accent about the time she got together with the very much older, very much richer and ver ver Posh father of her kid (kids?).

I'm sure that the accent she has now is the accent she uses most of the time but then she's come a long way from Byker Grove.

Gino di Campo, that's got to be a put on. I like the idea he really sounds like Phil Mitchell!

I don't think she looks old, I think she is a beauty. I too, think her accent has changed due to the circles she mixes in. She's been swimming in the posh pool for years now