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On 31/5/04 11:28 am, in article , "Kay
Easton" wrote: In article , Sacha writes snip Irish and Cockney accents for Diarmuid and Joe - nothing else left, really. ;-) Somehow, Geoff Hamilton got by with a spade and fork and dirty hands. Nowadays, they'd probably tell him to have a perm, or something. Even Tommy's had a 'hair do'. Hey - that's overstating it a bit! Irish and cockney accents a 'gimmick'? - (good job you didn't say 'lancashire' else you'd have been well taken to task ;-) ) LOL. Gimmick in the sense that I think the ethnic bit is rather over-played as part of a personality cult - we have the fiery, argumentative Irishman and the cheeky chappie Cockney stuff. I don't like Diarmuid Gavin's voice because I find he swallows his words and is hard to follow which rather defeats the object of a telly or radio commentator and for me all this having to be a 'personality' is really just annoying and a distraction from the business in hand - gardening. Perhaps that's why I and many others appear to prefer Monty Don - he doesn't wear weird clothes, pull strange faces and muck about with fellow presenters - he talks about gardening. Or - wait! Maybe there's a sinister plot! Maybe that's his gimmick. ;-) Come to think of it, if they did a serious veg gardening programme, perhaps they *would* use a northern accent - northerners being perceived as thrifty, hard-working wo/men of the soil as opposed to the flighty southerners worrying about their pelargoniums. ;-) -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds after garden to email me) |
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