![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/alison-hammond-reveals-she-was-told-to-drop-brummie-accent-and-learn-new-way-of-speaking/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_This-Morning-TV-show-London-UK-27-Jul-2023.jpg&description=The TV presenter said a staff member at a drama school told her she would need to lose her Birmingham twang and learn to speak in a standard English voice instead Alison Hammond has revealed she didn't go to drama school because they told her to drop her beloved Brummie accent. The TV presenter said a staff member at the school told her she would need to lose her Birmingham twang and learn to speak in a standard English voice instead. Hammond, 48, said: 'I applied for ALRA, The Academy of Live & Recorded Arts. And when I went there, the woman said 'You do realise we are going to have to modify your accent?'. "I was like 'Modify? What does that even mean?'. They said 'Because you've got a really Brummie accent so we will have to modify it'. So I was like, 'Oh, you mean RP?'' Hammond said the school wanted her to change her accent to Received Pronunciation, regarded as the standard form of spoken British English. She told the Rosebud podcast she can speak in an RP accent and while she described the Birmingham accent as having a 'drone', she added: 'I just thought, I am not doing that, I'm not modifying my voice - I love my voice... I think my Birmingham accent is quite nice, though. It's not too in your face.' ALRA was a drama school in London that closed in 2022. Hammond has gone on to huge success after appearing in Big Brother in 2002. Later this month she will begin co-hosting The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4, after Matt Lucas left. She was nominated for the TV Presenter prize at the National TV Awards this week but lost out to Ant and Dec. Celeb obsessed? Get a daily dose of showbiz gossip direct to your inbox){kind=link}
The TV presenter said a staff member at a drama school told her she would need to lose her Birmingham twang and learn to speak in a standard English voice instead
Alison Hammond has revealed she didn’t go to drama school because they told her to drop her beloved Brummie accent.
The TV presenter said a staff member at the school told her she would need to lose her Birmingham twang and learn to speak in a standard English voice instead. Hammond, 48, said: “I applied for ALRA, The Academy of Live & Recorded Arts. And when I went there, the woman said âYou do realise we are going to have to modify your accent?’.
“I was like âModify? What does that even mean?’. They said âBecause you’ve got a really Brummie accent so we will have to modify it’. So I was like, âOh, you mean RP?'” Hammond said the school wanted her to change her accent to Received Pronunciation, regarded as the standard form of spoken British English.
She told the Rosebud podcast she can speak in an RP accent and while she described the Birmingham accent as having a âdrone’, she added: “I just thought, I am not doing that, I’m not modifying my voice – I love my voice… I think my Birmingham accent is quite nice, though. It’s not too in your face.”