PLEASE STOP!

They all do it the same... badly..

'Oim 'enry the aith oi am oi am....'

'all roigt. cor blimey. luv a duck.'

Awful !!!

Oh please. You haven't heard all the Brits trying (and failing badly) to do American accents?

And that includes the housemates, the presenters, the guests on BBOTS, the audience .... need I go on?

My Fair Scoop does try
http://bigbrother.channel5.com/day-8-my-fair-scoop

But it's EVERY American HM, EVERY series. It's not clever or funny. On launch night every American tried to do the British accent. Every time i see American's talking about Britain or British people they try and do the accent, it has become very tedious now.

Keanu Reeves was on some channel this week in the film 1992 film "Dracula" I think its the first and last time he attempted it.

TBH, he did a decent go of it.

The worst British accent is Bobby Davro's.

he was getting right on my nerves during that task

Better than Don Cheadle in Oceans 11.

Nothing beats Dick Van Dykes accent in Mary Poppins

Overall I find it quite endearing (if they're not taking the piss!). I find it quite sad though that they revere the monarchy more than many do here, or perhaps they're just paying lip service because they think that's the majority view


I was going to mention that - these American types should learn from a Brit with proper diction

The best one ever for me is John Barrowman - a Scotsman with a completely natural (and thick) Scots accent that he generally refuses to use, who lived in the US for a fair few years and then came back here to become famous...for being an American

He would have been an amazing and very intriguing HM in this series in particular I think.

I actually thought he was a genuine cockney.

Let's be honest we all do shite stereotypical accents whether cockney or the queens English or brits doing LA bimbo or the deep south. They're all crap 9 outta 10 people suck at doing all accents let's be honest. Whether it's Scotland, Ireland, Welsh or English we all have generic ideals but we're are the regional accents?

I just thought he was a chimney sweep , I had no clue he was suppose to be British.

I always think it's funny when people overlook the fact that people are dancing with cartoon penguins and focus on the quality of their British accent.

They were cartoon penguins? You're trying to ruin my childhood here

The chim-chimeny-chim-chimeny-chim-chim-cheroos were real though, right? And the cannon?

Did I say cartoon penguins? I meant real penguins

Thanks so much for clarifying, I didn't think cartoon ones could be trained to ice skate like that like real ones

Can someone up the chimneys for me though please, I'm starting to doubt myself here

I thought he was truly British, but we all love an animation crossover don't we space jam, who framed Roger rabbit etc that was normal for us kids, we all wanted a dancing penguin for Christmas. Though personally I wanted a purple horse from the merry go round.




Let's be honest they try and pass Mary poppins of as the best nanny around, watching it now she's awful.

And it's every British person when they're starting in on Americans. EVERY TIME. You probably just don't even notice it. As an American, I find that tedious.

Besides which. Now that I've seen the show ...

It's a song, FFS. That's the way the song was sung. That's why Stevi, who doesn't have that accent, sang it with that accent.

http://bigbrother.channel5.com/day-1...-becomes-scoop

I rest my case.

There are scientific papers into why pop vocals sound better in American English...basically it's the resonance and whatnot. Elton John, Freddie Mercury...they all did/do it. Apart from distinctively British Indie bands it's meant to be a natural way to make it sound better.

The only regional accent Americans probably know is cockney, most don't go beyond London I suppose.

Not at all. Plenty get far (well, as "far" as you can get in the UK) from London.

It's because it's such a strong accent. Same reason when so many Brits think they "do" American accents, it's Southern.