....in the Diary Room last night. Listening to him nominating, at certain points he transported me back to the clipped tones and crystal-clear enunciation of male BBC presenters of yesteryear, when the world was still in black and white (at least on TV).

Then he returned to the house and reverted to that stupid 'street' accent. What a flaky little fake you truly are, Nappy-boy.

Sorry are you talking about Dappy or Ollie

Dappy well spoken? hahaha! I dont care how he speaks. If you think he sounded so well spoken in the diary room then its clear you have been stuck in Essex.

Not Ollie - he speaks nicely all the time.

Well, maybe I was exaggerating just a teeny bit, but the point I was actually trying to make was that whilst he was in the DR nominating, he was not only speaking normally, but pronouncing his words properly too, which in comparison to his usual 'dja get me breadbin init' lingo came as quite a surprise and got me wondering who the real Nappy is.

By the way, not all people from Essex speak like the village idiots of that dire TOWIE show - some of us are actually quite well-spoken ourselves and are therefore able to recognise good enunciation.

Yes, I noticed Dappys accent was suddenly gone and he spoke very correct English in the diary room.
Didn't surprise me though, I have noticed the street persona slipping a bit from time to time.

You can't hide in the BB house!

yes I noticed that as well. The "street" voice definitely vanished in the diary room.

When I first saw Dappy's appearances on Never Mind the Buzzcocks etc. I thought he might be a character played by an actor, in the same way that Leigh Francis always appears on programmes in character as Keith Lemon (or as Avid Merrion as he used to).

I've noticed the hige differences. He pronounces his words perfectly at times in the DR (i noticed this on the first HL show where he speaks about Liz) and then he gets out and changes his accent, He should just stick to one!

I suspect that he might have what we called in the olden days a 'telephone voice'. So that when he is in the Diary Room he acts on his best behavior and puts a 'posher' voice on. Just like my Mum does when the phone rings. Doesn't mean he is fake just means that maybe he tries hard to speak what he considers 'proper' when faced with people in authority.

Am I the only one that likes Dappy?

I consider myself very fortunate to have missed any NMTB episodes he appeared in, but I get exactly what you mean about him playing a character. He reminds me of that old Kevin & Perry sketch in which they both try and outdo each other by speaking in ridiculously OTT Northern accents, after Perry returns from a brief visit to his Aunt in Manchester. The irony is, that despite doing it in an attempt to make themselves appear 'cool', they both fail miserably and achieve the complete opposite, a fact which is not lost on the 'Mum' character who appears later on in the sketch. This was, of course, two adults portraying the characters of awkward teenage boys for a TV show, as part of their 'act'.

I wonder what 26 year old Nappy's excuse is?




Maybe your theory is correct, but if so, it then begs the question: How can someone then claim to be 'keeping it real'? I am fully aware that some people still put on a 'telephone voice' at times, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't involve them completely switching from one way of speaking to another, which results in their 'telephone voice' bearing no resemblance whatsoever to their usual way of speaking and is instead merely a subconscious effort to speak more clearly to the person at the other end of the phone, in order to try to avoid possible misunderstandings over pronunciation of words etc than they would when in their usual environment.

Interesting also that you say he 'acts on his best behaviour' in the Diary Room. Why should he feel the need to do that? Out of 'respect' for the authoritarian Big Bro maybe? Surely he can still be 'respectful' towards the various disembodied voices he converses with in his 'real' accent? After all, surely it's what he says rather than the accent he uses to say it which counts, as Abz clearly proved when he was in there last series. He maintained the same accent throughout, (which was not that dissimilar to Nappy's to my ear) and still proved popular enough to be voted runner-up. Then again, Abz proved himself to be respectful to everyone in there, be it his fellow HM's or the voice of BB in the Diary Room. Abz was consistent during his time in the house - Nappy is proving to be the opposite and therein lies the problem for me and no doubt other viewers.