'Americans can't understand Cheryl Cole's Geordian accent'.Byline: ANI London, July 10 (ANI): Cheryl Cole's alleged plans to appear on US version of talent show X-Factor may suffer a setback due to her thick Geordian accent which Americans seem to fail to understand. TV mogul Simon Cowell Simon Cowell (born 7 October, 1959) is a British artist and repertoire ("A&R") executive for Sony BMG in the United Kingdom and a television producer, more commonly known as a judge on television programmes such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, American Idol is reportedly keen on the singer to front the show but American TV bosses are worried about her strong accent. In fact, NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. executives flew to Manchester to watch the Newcastle-born in action at the live auditions. They were reportedly satisfied with everything except the harder edges of her North East tones. "They were bowled over by Cheryl and thought she was sassy sas·sy 1 adj. sas·si·er, sas·si·est 1. Rude and disrespectful; impudent. 2. Lively and spirited; jaunty. 3. Stylish; chic: a sassy little hat. , smart, charismatic and beautiful. There was just one small problem - they couldn't make head nor tail of her Geordie accent," The Mirror quoted a source as saying. The source said: "She was at her best at the weekend - witty, empathetic em·pa·thet·ic adj. Empathic. em  pa·thet i·cal·ly adv. and really encouraging to some of the acts.
"But while her accent isn't that thick, the Americans really seemed to struggle with it." There is also news that the Girls Aloud Girls Aloud are Smash Hits Poll Winners, TMF Award winning and BRIT Award nominated British girl group who found fame after winning the ITV1 talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002 on which they were created. singer might take elocution lessons to solve the problem. The source added: "Simon jokingly offered to pay for elocution lessons for her but, seriously, that may be the route she has to take if she is really considering breaking into television over there." TV chiefs have also taken copies of last year's show back to America to test if audiences in US understand Cheryl talk. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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