Bless her remember seeing her around the streets of West Newcastle when she was she was on Byker Grove and seeing her drinking down town when she was 16 ! ha ha we all start so young in Newcastle.
She says her accent has changed just because she's lived away from Newcastle for 15 years. Well, I have a northern accent, from the age of 4 and I still have it now even though I haven't lived up north for 16 years so far. If I was her, I would just admit that she is speaking differently on purpose because she is sick and tired of being misunderstood. I tried that for a while myself, but soon gave up when I realised it was other people that had a problem with the way I speak and not me.
@OhNoThanks Balderdash...lovely Donna often goes back to Newcastle to see her family..still a down-to-earth Cannie Lass! Everyone adapts to a certain extent to the environment/circumstances they live in to fit in.
So many Geordies and north-easterners lost their native accents, do I have to remind you of Sting, Mark Knopfler, Neil Tennant, Bryan Ferry and on and on and on? I'm from Scotland, and to be honest I never ever met anyone in Britain so able to cut loose from their native accents as the people from the North-East of England... Mancunians can try, you'll still hear they're from up there... Scousers just can't escape... Brummies too... Cockneys are so proud of their accent they'd never even think of losing it, pretty much like us Scots... some West Country guys (young ones and people from big cities) are dropping many of their native features (strong 'r's before vowels, etc.), but at least they're from the South of England... Welsh people are mixed, I've heard people who were so keen on the way they sounded like and others who completely got rid of it... the Irish are a bit like us Scots, it's hard for them to escape... I couldn't say those things about people from Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham, though. You will of course have the Alan Shearer/Paul Gascoigne kind, but too many so-called celebrities easily lose their accent. Is there any reason why? I'd like to know.
It's honestly based on shame and 'BBC English'. I'm from south Northumberland and my dad (who was born in the 50s) has been able to almost completely eradicate his accent. He was brought up not to speak Geordie because 'You'll sound thick' and he raised me the same way but while I don't speak the dialect much I have a strong accent and he and his family always bring it up to embarrass me. Anyone that comes from a middle class family or one that has such aspirations are essentially raised to hate their accent and to erase it. I admire those Geordie celebrities that don't acquiesce because there's a lot of pressure to be 'proper,' but our dialect is actually based on old Germanic English and is something worth preserving.
I was just watcing her on BFI institute theatre in Byker Grove and I'm carrying book about John Aspinal casino owner and gambler and she's married to his son. ( Inside the mind of a gambler )
Not actually married, but Damian Aspinall is the father of her daughter Freya. I *think* John was more into the wildlife parks, whereas Damian owns Aspers casinos (including the one in Newcastle where certain bars and restaurants on the site are named after Donna and Freya).
***** Did'nt know that. John used to entertain at clubs and made alot of money charging 5% on Chemin de fer. He made alot of money that way. I am a gambler, I have always been a gambler, and I will always to a certain extent gamble. John Aspinal. He used to wrestle with gorrilas. talk to them etc.
I still think she sounds like a Geordie... But there's nothing wrong with trying to be better understood. Standard english is nicer on the ears and easily to understand. Having an accent is nice, but personally they aren't for me.
Bless her remember seeing her around the streets of West Newcastle when she was she was on Byker Grove and seeing her drinking down town when she was 16 ! ha ha we all start so young in Newcastle.
She says her accent has changed just because she's lived away from Newcastle for 15 years. Well, I have a northern accent, from the age of 4 and I still have it now even though I haven't lived up north for 16 years so far. If I was her, I would just admit that she is speaking differently on purpose because she is sick and tired of being misunderstood. I tried that for a while myself, but soon gave up when I realised it was other people that had a problem with the way I speak and not me.
donna air is a stunning, stylish women!
trying to define Donna with a geordie accent when by that point she had nothing to do with the north east whatsoever. she handled it very well
@OhNoThanks Balderdash...lovely Donna often goes back to Newcastle to see her family..still a down-to-earth Cannie Lass! Everyone adapts to a certain extent to the environment/circumstances they live in to fit in.
So many Geordies and north-easterners lost their native accents, do I have to remind you of Sting, Mark Knopfler, Neil Tennant, Bryan Ferry and on and on and on?
I'm from Scotland, and to be honest I never ever met anyone in Britain so able to cut loose from their native accents as the people from the North-East of England...
Mancunians can try, you'll still hear they're from up there... Scousers just can't escape... Brummies too... Cockneys are so proud of their accent they'd never even think of losing it, pretty much like us Scots... some West Country guys (young ones and people from big cities) are dropping many of their native features (strong 'r's before vowels, etc.), but at least they're from the South of England... Welsh people are mixed, I've heard people who were so keen on the way they sounded like and others who completely got rid of it... the Irish are a bit like us Scots, it's hard for them to escape...
I couldn't say those things about people from Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham, though. You will of course have the Alan Shearer/Paul Gascoigne kind, but too many so-called celebrities easily lose their accent.
Is there any reason why? I'd like to know.
BTW, funny enough how Sting kept his accent when singing in The Police but had already lost it when it came down to speaking!!!
It's honestly based on shame and 'BBC English'. I'm from south Northumberland and my dad (who was born in the 50s) has been able to almost completely eradicate his accent. He was brought up not to speak Geordie because 'You'll sound thick' and he raised me the same way but while I don't speak the dialect much I have a strong accent and he and his family always bring it up to embarrass me. Anyone that comes from a middle class family or one that has such aspirations are essentially raised to hate their accent and to erase it.
I admire those Geordie celebrities that don't acquiesce because there's a lot of pressure to be 'proper,' but our dialect is actually based on old Germanic English and is something worth preserving.
@@zephyrsky__ Aye man, you're totally right.
her laugh at 7:56 reminds me of someone i know
I was just watcing her on BFI institute theatre in Byker Grove and I'm carrying book about John Aspinal casino owner and gambler and she's married to his son. ( Inside the mind of a gambler )
Not actually married, but Damian Aspinall is the father of her daughter Freya. I *think* John was more into the wildlife parks, whereas Damian owns Aspers casinos (including the one in Newcastle where certain bars and restaurants on the site are named after Donna and Freya).
***** Did'nt know that. John used to entertain at clubs and made alot of money charging 5% on Chemin de fer. He made alot of money that way. I am a gambler, I have always been a gambler, and I will always to a certain extent gamble. John Aspinal. He used to wrestle with gorrilas. talk to them etc.
The Geordie accent sounds 100 times better than the London Accent
always fancied her since i was a young lad. seems a nice girl.
Aye, she's a belter I met her a couple of times at MTV Select & The Big Breakfast she's nice.
I still think she sounds like a Geordie... But there's nothing wrong with trying to be better understood. Standard english is nicer on the ears and easily to understand. Having an accent is nice, but personally they aren't for me.