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Gareth Gates on Loose Women 19/6/12 - stuttering
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5c85z1EgU
did anyone see this?..I know it is very patronising but I couldn't help feeling sorry for him..It must be so hard to deal with it..I wonder if the loose women were expecting it, as Carol's face is a picture!..even his vocal couch shouting at him to "breathe" during the interview!
did anyone see this?..I know it is very patronising but I couldn't help feeling sorry for him..It must be so hard to deal with it..I wonder if the loose women were expecting it, as Carol's face is a picture!..even his vocal couch shouting at him to "breathe" during the interview!
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thats what I thought to. it's clearly an on going process.
There's a link to the documentary here, it was interesting to watch.
He's come a long way though. And he is lovely.
It's a common misconception that nerves make a person stammer when they talk, but the reality is that talking situations make a person who stammers nervous.
It's a neurological condition that is variable with good days and bad days and is worse when tired and stress and also anxious. Gareth tweeted that he'd been having a tough time speech wise lately and just crumbled. All the speech tools and techniques were forgotten about in the live setting with questions coming from all sides.
Getting tongue tied when you don't know what to say is a completely different thing.
There is a programme on BBC2 at 1:30 today about British Stammering Association presented by Gareth that has more to say. Gareth's speech is much better in it.
I know it's live so they need to get on with it so to speak , but this can't have been helpful. i know we all felt sympathy toward him but i was just cringing at how far this seemed to patronise him
On a more positive note, Gareth got a lot of tweets from other stammers saying how glad they were he was able to go on tv and stammer, as it shows that it's an ongoing battle.
This is the appeal Gareth did with the British Stammering Association, where his speech is much better.
http://youtu.be/Xj4UYZNHtxY
And this is the documentary he did for the BBC where he's actually the coach, working with people who are right back at square one, going on their first course then seeing how they get on afterwards.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB90119A759612638
It is indeed but so easy to ignore and wade in as I have done in the past with my friend who has a bad stutter. OT she met her husband on a stuttering course. Yes every joke there is has been said but it was sweet and they both managed their vows with a minimum of stuttering!:D
Genuine question: does anybody know why stutterers don't stutter when singing? Gareth doesn't and neither does my cousin and both suffer quite badly when talking in normal conversation but can sing fine. Is it the way you breathe when singing?
The mind connects differently to the vocal cords when you apply either rhythm or melody.
Over the last month or so he has been extremely busy work wise, Loserville started last week in Leeds and he's also rehearsing for Legally Blonde which starts its run two days after Loserville ends and then between those two he's doing a one off concert in the West End for Momentous Musicals. He's also been fitting in several live music gigs up and down the country which he has to get to and from. He even resorted to traveling by Helicopter to one of them last week. I think all this may well have contributed to the way his speech was on Tuesday. He just hasn't had time to do his exercises.
People tend to think after the Documentary was shown where he was coaching other stammerers and his own speech was really good, that he's cured his problem, but that just isn't the case. He has to work very hard on a daily basis to maintain what he's achieved.
I watched the documentary and thought he had moved forward so much since the first time he appeared on stage. Like a muscle it looks like he needs to constantly train to keep it at this level.
Denise Welch asked the same question.