Gemma's accent is real???

AniDonia · Post by **AniDonia** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:56 am

I just saw on Jackie Jandrell's lgpedia page that she is from South Africa, but she moved and lived in England for many years. Wow... and I thought she was just an American girl doing a very shoddy accent.

Apparently a lot of other people thought so too. How was this confirmed, and what are your thoughts on that?

nobackspacebutton · Post by **nobackspacebutton** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:58 am

She could have lived in England for years and still have a bad accent.

I thought her accent was more forced than anything.

yoruba · Post by **yoruba** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:03 pm

Real or not, to me her accent is really pleasant.
Actually I could listen to her talking all day

breewithcrackers · Post by **breewithcrackers** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:26 pm

yea Jackie could have had the accent originally but just tried to emphasize it for the sake of the show. it would make sense that gemma would have decided to emphasize her accent in her vids so that she would seem more "authentically london" so as not to cause suspicion. maybe we were supposed to find her accent fake in the first place, as a clue that she wasn't telling the truth to Bree.

I'd be interested to see if Gemma is in another vid and, if so, if she has a less britishy accent in it... (that would resolve whether it was gemma or jackie who was faking...)

Lois_Meet_Clark · Post by **Lois_Meet_Clark** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:57 pm

South African british accents are not as soft as those from England

MrsCop · Post by **MrsCop** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:49 pm

if only she'd never say "home" again

enigma117 · Post by **enigma117** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:11 pm

Hehe...."I told you to go horrwm."

Beckers · Post by **Beckers** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:25 pm

Her accent is real it is just muttled from her living in different places....she mentioned it in a message once before.

kellylen · Post by **kellylen** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:50 pm

it makes sense why her accent sounds more south african to me than british.

emerrs11 · Post by **emerrs11** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:14 pm

Its not real because in Gemma part whatever she doesn't have an accent at all.

iamcool · Post by **iamcool** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:15 pm

its about as real as sex every night after marraige

Beckers · Post by **Beckers** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:28 am

emerrs11 wrote:Its not real because in Gemma part whatever she doesn't have an accent at all.

however...the sound was also distorted a bit.

Killthesmiley · Post by **Killthesmiley** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:15 am

Beckers wrote:
emerrs11 wrote:Its not real because in Gemma part whatever she doesn't have an accent at all.
however...the sound was also distorted a bit.

she definately does have an accent in gemma part III

Beckers · Post by **Beckers** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:17 am

yes I just watched part 3 again and noticed that as well

Joyleaf · Post by **Joyleaf** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:21 am

Beckers wrote:Her accent is real it is just muttled from her living in different places....she mentioned it in a message once before.

I live in London, and have a few friends that have equally bizarre accents, from living all over the place. The South African accent sounded pretty loopy to my American ears the first time I heard it, mainly because I was fairly used to British or Australian accents, and the SA accent sounded a bit like those two put in a blender together with some other mystery components.

Sooo... I will say that if Gemma's accent was meant to be straight-up British, two thumbs down. However, she sounds a lot like a friend of mine who grew up between SA, Britain and Australia, so I'm not so sure that Gemma's accent is down to being a poor fake.

(As an interesting side note, this video on YouTube has some commentary going from New Zealanders about whether or not the accents are real, stemming partly from the fact that they never hear their own accents on film, according to one poster.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfdNVbN4GC4