My recollection is that Alesha said some very nice things to Nancy. She certainly wasn't vile to her
Now Craig......

Graham Norton asks Nancy "what do you do"

and her explanation is as clear as mud

I am so delighted that Nancy is out of SCD as she is coming accross like a complete bitch - please say it to her face if you may.

Nancy Dell'Olio: 'I want Alesha Dixon axed'


don't we all dear.

I doubt there is any truth in this.

The more I hear about Nancy the more I start to think that she really is not the full shilling.

She's just desperate for publicity. Having had the SCD sleb experience, I am sure she'll appear in other reality stuff now... rather a sad case, really.

Perhaps ITV could stick her on I'm a Celeb , and then they could accidentally lose her in the jungle or fix that wobbly bridge so she goes flying off down a huge crevice, if they can find one bigger than her mouth that is.

You put her in there with her tortured speech and it'll be the rest of the celebs that will jump in the crevice to bash their heads senseless on the rocks below, like lemmings

But Nancy wants Bruce's job and should the BBC kowtow and offer her Alesha's job instead (as consolation) we would all be screaming.

hmmm...sorry, but if I have a 3 yr old who can speak limited Welsh (well, she is only 3) growing up in an English home (to the point we are doing some serious cramming), then Nancy, being born of an American speaking mother, can speak better English than she lets on....it's all an act...couldn't stand her & as much as I like Anton, he 'got on my wick' as well

She has a Law degree?

My hamster has more intelligence than Whasserface.

He can dance better too.

I know why she speaks in mangled English - she really speaks like Peggy Mitchell from EE and she thinks she sounds more interesting by being unintelligible and with a fake foreign accent.

And this is Graham Norton too - it's not like it's Paxman.

Although, apparently, she was interviewed by Paxman...

As the mother of three bilingual children and an EFL teacher to boot, I'm really not sure about that, Abigail's Mum: Jane Birkin is a good example of the kind of thing you are suggesting - when interviewed by the French press she speaks French with a heavy, stereotypical English accent - but when she played the role of a French maid in one of the Agatha Christie films her French was flawless.
However, when la Birkin speaks French she is still intelligible. The Oily One is not intelligible in that interview - I've just watched it again and have come to the conclusion that the word she is mangling when she says "create the new loo" is actually "law".
I know women married to blokes who speak a different language to them whose offspring only speak the language of the country in which they live - as you have discovered, it depends on how much effort the parents make... Wikipedia says her mother was born in the USA but English may not have been her first language, and the family moved to Italy when Nancy was five - my friend who lived in Italy until he was five has no memory of the language as an adult!

Wikipedia also says she is in a relationship with Sir Trevor Nunn: maybe he could give her elocution lessons?

I understand the Trevor Nunn thing is now off. She is back on the market (????)

She says she does "Public Affairs" - which sums it up pretty accurately, I think!

oops - duplicate.

Yes, her affairs are very public aren't they?

Maybe he can do a remix.
Oh sorry, that's Trevor Horn. what-a-mistake-a-to-make-a

I have friends in Canada with a 3 year old who's not only bilingual but has an amazing vocabulary for such a young child.

Her French Canadian father's first language is French and her mother's first language English. The child can switch from one to the other with ease.

Another experience was that of a university friend. She used to 'nanny' for a Greek couple and her main responsibility was to speak to the children, read them stories and play games etc. in English as their parents didn't want them growing up to speak their second language with an accent. It worked.

Nancy could speak intelligible if she wanted to - she probably thinks her heavy accent makes her more exotic.

Belgium, Switzerland,... loads of countries with three official languages - and expat children often speaking a couple more as taught by their parents of different nationality. The accents and grammar can be terrible, but most children retain the languages they learn when very young.

Having said that, there are people who genuinely find it very difficult to learn one language, let alone two. It's possible that verbal communication was not part of her legal training - not.

Nancy is just a puzzle - as Goran found out and spent several years trying to solve.