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It’s Not Just Austen – Posh Accents Are Ruining Period Dramas, Historian Says

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At this year’s Hay Festival, Jane Tranter – former executive vice-president of programming and production at the BBC and current producer of Austen adaptation The Other Bennet Sister – said actors “start speaking posh” when they get a Pride And Prejudice-era script in their hands.

“Not everybody spoke posh in those days, so you have to work with that as well,” she shared (via The Times).

Pinched voices, fussy hairdos, and “weird hats” can risk leading to “such a fetishised approach that it becomes a barrier between the audience and what is going on,” she adds.

So, we spoke to author and historian Katie Kennedy (of viral account @TheHistoryGossip and new SKY History series History Crush) about what we lose when costume drama accents all start to sound the same.

Katie Kennedy
Katie Kennedy

Katie Kennedy

It’s not an isolated trend

Kennedy tells us the tendency isn’t limited to period costume dramas.

“It is widely known that the acting industry is dominated by the middle and upper classes,” she says.

In 2024, the Sutton Trust found that people from working-class backgrounds were four times less likely than their middle-class peers to work in any creative industry.

BAFTA-nominated actors are five times more likely to have gone to private school than the general public.

“While this is an issue in itself,” Kennedy continued, “it also heavily influences how history gets portrayed on screen.

“We’ve been sold this idea that everyone in the past was super polished and polite, and we’ve equated that with the classic RP [received pronunciation] accent.”

That’s not to say you can’t change up voices, actors, stories, or perspectives, especially in looser adaptations like Bridget Jones (expertly nicked from Pride And Prejudice) – but would-be “faithful” adaptations tend to sound distractingly, and sometimes inaccurately, similar.

The Brontës have fallen victim to the issue, too, Kennedy says

Take, the historian says, the 2022 film Emily.

“The Brontës are portrayed with soft-spoken middle-class voices, even though they most likely would’ve had an Irish or at least an Irish/Yorkshire mixed accent as their father was Irish,” she shares.

Indeed, Charlotte Brontë’s friend Mary Taylor said the author “spoke with a strong Irish accent,” while the British Film Institute admits star Emma Mackey’s “Yorkshire accent sporadically wanders down the M1″ in the movie.

“A lot of the time” in period dramas, “the working-class accent has been attributed to comic relief, or a character who has had a troubled life,” she tells HuffPost UK.

“When everyone in a period drama speaks the same, you’re not just losing historical accuracy, you’re also reinforcing the idea that the only ‘serious’ or ‘worthy’ people in history were the ones who ‘spoke properly.’”

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Ambika Mod Highlights Double Standard When Comparing Her Career To One Day Co-Star Leo Woodall’s

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Ambika Mod is reflecting on how she and her One Day co-star Leo Woodall have been treated differently within the acting industry since the show’s debut.

The two stars played Emma and Dexter in Netflix’s TV adaptation of the classic David Nicholls novel One Day last year.

Since then, Leo, who had already played a supporting role in the second season of The White Lotus when One Day premiered, has starred opposite Renée Zellweger in the fourth Bridget Jones movie, took the lead in Apple TV+’s action series Citadel and currently has three film roles in the works.

Speaking to GQ, Ambika said she feels she’s had less opportunities come her way despite them having equal billing in the hit Netflix series, pointing out that she and Leo “just don’t get treated the same at all”.

“It’s mad because we wouldn’t be going for the same roles at all, and we’re very different people,” she said. “I think we’re going to have very different careers.”

Ambika Mod at the Newport Beach Film Festival earlier this year
Ambika Mod at the Newport Beach Film Festival earlier this year

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Ambika continued: “If I compare myself to someone like Leo, I’m always going to come up short, because there’s a privilege there that I don’t have access to.”

She lamented: “Being brown is not particularly easy in this industry. You don’t get the same opportunities. You don’t get the same ascension.

“I’ve been the lead of two very successful, critically-acclaimed TV shows [One Day and the medical drama This Is Going To Hurt, which aired two years earlier] and I still feel like I have to keep on proving myself. A lot of my white peers don’t really have to tackle that.”

Ambika also acknowledged that “at the same time, I’m so lucky to be here”, describing her situation as a “double-edged sword”, and expressing her hopes that “my being here makes it easier for a girl 10 or 20 years younger than me”.

In January, Ambika made her big-screen debut in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag.

She’ll next be seen in Sacrifice, a new action adventure featuring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans, Salma Hayek and Charli XCX.

Ambika also appeared in the miniseries The Stolen Girl, which premiered last month and included stars like Holliday Grainger and Jim Burgess, who played Dexter in the original film adaptation of One Day.

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Hannah Waddingham Reveals How She’s Really Feeling About Ted Lasso’s Surprise Return

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Hannah Waddingham has opened up about the return of Ted Lasso.

The British actor won an Emmy for her performance as Rebecca Welton in the Apple TV+ sports comedy, and later made no secret of her disappointment when it looked as though it would not be returning for a fourth season.

Eventually, earlier this year, it was confirmed that new episodes of Ted Lasso were in the works after all, two years after it last aired.

Speaking on Tuesday’s edition of Capital Breakfast, the former Game Of Thrones star admitted she had complicated feelings about the prospect of Ted Lasso coming back, as she and her co-stars initially thought they’d “mourned the loss”.

“We were all a bit like, ‘Oh’,” Hannah admitted. “We thought we’d mourned the loss, and now it’s rising from the dead.”

Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton in the most recent season of Ted Lasso
Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton in the most recent season of Ted Lasso

However, she added that the news was “amazing”, while letting slip that shooting is due to begin in July.

Putting the show’s continued popularity down to the writing, she enthused: “Our writers are literally Jedi Knights. They’re just incredible. And we’ve got, like, a full room of real feminist men. So, we’ve got all the fabulous women in there – but the men that are in there, I think you really see [that they are feminists[ in the scripts.

“You could easily have a show that was so male-dominated, because, you know, myself and Juno Temple are like the two main women in it. So, it could really be out of control – but you’d never feel that. It’s just so beautifully drawn.”

Ted Lasso star and creator Jason Sudeikis revealed in March that season four would centre around the titular character taking over a women’s football team.

Jason explained: “It’s daunting, because we told the story we wanted to tell. But there’s more there. And it is a neat group of people to work with, it’s a wonderful group of people, and characters to write around and for. It’s such a great group.”

Seasons one to three of Ted Lasso are now streaming on Apple TV+.

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Gwyneth Paltrow Sets The Record Straight On Where Her Friendship Stands With Meghan Markle

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Gwyneth Paltrow is setting the record straight on her relationship with Meghan Markle.

Over the weekend, People magazine published an interview with Gwyneth about the constant comparisons she and the Duchess of Sussex continue to face since the latter launched both her new lifestyle site and Netflix show.

“I don’t like that, when people try to pit women against each other,” the Oscar-winning actor told the outlet.

She said that the two, who both live in Montecito, California, have what she described as “a text friendship so far”.

Gwyneth seems open to collaborating with Meghan, though, and said she’d be down to make an appearance on the second season of the royal’s show, With Love, Meghan.

“Sure! Why not? You never know,” she said. “I don’t bake that well, but I can always try.”

The Goop founder previously spoke to Vanity Fair about feeling defensive of Meghan, without actually knowing her well.

“I was raised to see other women as friends, not foes,” she said at the time. “I think there’s always more than enough to go around. Everybody deserves an attempt at everything that they want to try.”

She said that when “there’s noise about certain women in the culture, I do have, always, a strong instinct to stand up for them”.

To make sure the masses knew that the Sliding Doors star and duchess were indeed on each other’s side, the two put out a memorable moment on Instagram in March.

In the Q&A video, Gwyneth read out an an enquiry saying: “Are you comprehending the Meghan Markle beef that social media says you two have?”

“I genuinely do not understand this at all, whatsoever,” she responded, at which point camera panned to a surprise cameo from Meghan, who was seen grinning and shrugging her shoulders as she ate a piece of pie.

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Elton John Brands Labour Ministers ‘Absolute Losers’ Over AI Copyright Row

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Elton John on the BBC this morning.
Elton John on the BBC this morning.

Sir Elton John has branded Labour ministers “absolute losers” amid the row over artificial intelligence (AI) laws.

The world-famous pop star said science secretary Peter Kyle was “a bit of a moron” for considering allowing tech companies to use artists’ work to create content without paying for it.

The row centres around the government’s Data (Use and Access) Bill, which is currently going through parliament.

Ministers last week rejected proposals from the House of Lords to force AI companies to disclose what material they were using to develop their programmes.

Speaking to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Sir Elton said the government’s current plans would allow AI firms to “commit theft, thievery on the highest scale”.

“Some people aren’t like me, they don’t earn as much as I do,” he said.

“When they’re creative, and it comes from the human soul and not from a machine – because a machine is not capable of writing anything with any soul in it – if you’re going to get rid of that and you’re going to rob young people of their legacy and their income, it’s a criminal offence, I think.

“I think the government are just being absolute losers. I’m very angry about it, as you can tell.”

Sir Elton said Keir Starmer needed to “wise up” about the threat to the creative industries and that Kyle – who has been accused of being too close to tech giants – was “a bit of a moron”.

Responding to Sir Elton’s comments, Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said: “The government is trying to find a way forward that is dealing with the concerns that are being raised quite passionately by the cultural sector, but also making sure that we maintain that world-leading position in AI.

“Pursuing those two objectives is the balance we need to strike.”

The minister also said he “profoundly disagreed” with Elton John’s claim that Peter Kyle is “a moron”.

A government spokesperson said: “We want our creative industries and AI companies to flourish, which is why we’re consulting on a package of measures that we hope will work for both sectors.

“We’re clear that changes will be considered unless we are completely satisfied they work for creators.”

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Celebrity Traitors Confirms Full Line-Up And All We Can Say Is Wow

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The Traitors bosses have finally confirmed the line-up for the show’s first ever celebrity outing.

The 19 contestants on the line-up are:

Now, one question we’ve always had about the proposed Celebrity Traitors is exactly how seriously the famous contestants would be taking the game, if there wasn’t a cash prize on the line.

However, it’s now been revealed that the famous Traitors and Faithfuls will be playing the game in the hopes of winning a share of a potential £100K cash prize for a charity of their choice – all under the watchful (and heavily made up) eye of Claudia Winkleman.

Claudia said: “We’re incredibly lucky these brilliant people have said yes. I’d love to say we’ll take it easy on them and they’ll just wander round the castle and eat toast for a couple of weeks but that would be a lie.”

A specific airdate is yet to be confirmed, although Celebrity Traitors will air on the BBC in the autumn, ahead of the regular series’ return in its usual January timeslot.

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This Is How Taylor Swift Has Been Dragged Into Blake Lively And Justin Baldoni’s Legal Drama

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Taylor Swift has been keeping a low profile as of late since the end of her Eras Tour at the end of last year – but she’s been forced to speak out after being dragged into one of the most talked-about news stories of the last few months.

Over the weekend, the Anti-Hero singer’s team issued a frustrated statement, lamenting that the Grammy winner had somehow become embroiled in the very public legal drama surrounding her friend, Blake Lively, and the Gossip Girl alum’s former director and It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni.

But what exactly is going on between the two Hollywood stars – and how is Taylor involved? Get yourself a cup of tea and allow us to bring you up to speed…

Before we even get to Taylor Swift – what is the beef between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively all about?

Frankly, we could be here all day with this one, so we’ll try and keep this short.

Last year, both actors starred in the big-screen adaptation of the novel It Ends With Us, which Justin also directed.

Blake Lively arriving at a screening of It Ends With Us in August 2024
Blake Lively arriving at a screening of It Ends With Us in August 2024

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Around the film’s summer release, people began to suspect there had been some behind-the-scenes drama after it was spotted that none of the cast followed Justin back on Instagram, with the film’s leads also not posing for any pictures together or doing joint interviews while promoting the movie.

Towards the end of last year, Blake then filed a legal complaint against Justin and his production company, accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of their film, and a subsequent effort to deliberately “destroy” her reputation.

He responded weeks later with a lawsuit of his own, accusing Blake, her husband Ryan Reynolds and her publicist of defamation and extortion.

The matter is expected to go to trial in March 2026, though a judge claimed earlier this year that this court date could be moved earlier were the legal teams on both sides able to follow court rules about public statements, which are in place to ensure as fair a trial as possible.

OK, so what has that between Justin Baldoni and Taylor Swift got to do with Taylor Swift?

On Friday, Deadline broke the story that a week earlier, Taylor – a long-time friend of both Blake and her famous husband Ryan – had been hit with a subpoena from Justin’s legal team earlier this week.

Justin Baldoni at the premiere of It Ends With Us
Justin Baldoni at the premiere of It Ends With Us

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It Ends With Us features a scene soundtracked by Taylor’s Folklore cut My Tears Ricochet, but aside from that, she was in no way linked with the movie.

Blake’s team later issued a statement to Deadline, accusing Justin and his team of trying to “turn a case of sexual harassment and retaliation into entertainment for the tabloids”.

“This is a very serious legal matter, not Barnum & Bailey’s Circus,” Blake’s team said. “The defendants continue to publicly intimidate, bully, shame and attack women’s rights and reputations. Including in the past month seeking to strike down ‘for all’, a powerful California victims’ rights law, calling it ‘unconstitutional.’

“The disturbing actions by a billionaire, men who made their careers as ‘female allies’ and their team continue to show their true colours.”

Back in January, Justin had also filed a legal complaint claiming that Taylor was one of the public figures (alongside Blake’s husband Ryan Reynolds) who had pressured him into accepting rewrites suggested by Blake on the It Ends With Us script.

Prior to that, Blake claimed that Ryan had helped rewrite one of the film’s key scenes.

What has Taylor Swift said after getting pulled into Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s legal drama?

Taylor Swift and Blake Lively have been friends and collaborators for years, and watched the Super Bowl together in February 2024
Taylor Swift and Blake Lively have been friends and collaborators for years, and watched the Super Bowl together in February 2024

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A spokesperson for Taylor told Hello! magazine on Friday evening: “Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was travelling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.

“The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, My Tears Ricochet. Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”

How do things now stand between Taylor Swift and Blake Lively?

Neither party has spoken out directly, but it’s worth pointing out that reports have been circulating suggesting that their friendship has cooled long before this latest development.

In February, the Daily Mail noted that Taylor had not invited Blake to join her to watch boyfriend Travis Kelce play at the 2025 Super Bowl, citing an anonymous “source” who claimed the singer “wants nothing to do with this trial and court case”.

A day later, the same outlet claimed that Blake was happy laying low until the drama involving Justin Baldoni blew over, quoting another “source” who said the A Simple Favour actor was happy to not be included so as not to “overshadow” Taylor and Travis’ big night.

Just three weeks ago, People magazine published a story suggesting the two women’s friendship was “weathering the storm” when Taylor was first named in a complaint filed by Justin Baldoni’s January complaint.

People’s own “source” said Taylor was initially “really hurt by this situation” but that they had been able to “recover from this and put it all behind them”.

Since the latest update, the Daily Mail published a new piece suggesting that Taylor felt “exploited” by her friend – though it’s important to note that she has said nothing publicly to indicate that this is the case.

HuffPost UK has contacted Taylor Swift’s team for comment.

Blake’s team were also complimentary about Taylor in their initial response to the subpoena, describing her as a “woman who has given a voice to millions the world over”.

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Eurovision Winner Nemo Backs Calls For Israel To Be Excluded From This Year’s Contest

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Eurovision champion Nemo has said that they do not support Israel’s continued presence in the contest.

Nemo won Eurovision on behalf of Switzerland in 2024 with their song The Code, in what proved to be an especially controversial year for the competition.

Amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, many critics last year called for a boycott of Eurovision if Israel were allowed to remain. Around this time, Nemo was also one of nine acts involved in the broadcast that issued a group statement expressing solidarity with Palestine prior to the event.

In the run-up to this year’s Eurovision, the contest is once again facing scrutiny over Israel’s participation, with more than 70 artists and performers associated with the contest in the past – including two former winners – sharing an open letter this week calling for Israel to be excluded from the upcoming event.

Asked during an interview with HuffPost UK if this is a subject they have an opinion on, Nemo responded: “Yeah, I do. I personally feel like it doesn’t make sense that Israel is a part of this Eurovision. And of Eurovision in general right now.

“I don’t know how much I want to get into detail, but I would say, I don’t support the fact that Israel is part of Eurovision at the moment.”

Nemo later supplied HuffPost UK with an additional statement, which read: “I support the call for Israel’s exclusion from the Eurovision Song Contest.

“Israel’s actions are fundamentally at odds with the values that Eurovision claims to uphold — peace, unity, and respect for human rights.”

Nemo celebrating their Eurovision win in May 2024
Nemo celebrating their Eurovision win in May 2024

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Responding to the artists’ calls for Israel to be banned from Eurovision, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said in a statement earlier this week: “We understand the concerns and deeply held views around the current conflict in the Middle East.

“The EBU is not immune to global events but, together, with our members, it is our role to ensure the Contest remains – at its heart – a universal event that promotes connections, diversity and inclusion through music.

“We all aspire to keep the Eurovision Song Contest positive and inclusive and aspire to show the world as it could be, rather than how it necessarily is.”

Their response continued: “As a reminder, the EBU is an association of public service broadcasters, not governments, who are all eligible to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest every year if they meet the requisite requirements.

“It is not our role to make comparisons between conflicts. As part of its mission to secure a sustainable future for public service media, the EBU is supporting our Israeli Member KAN against the threat from being privatised or shut down by the Israeli government.

“The EBU remains aligned with other international organisations that have similarly maintained their inclusive stance towards Israeli participants in major competitions at this time.”

Last week, Eurovision bosses issued a similarly-worded statement to HuffPost UK in response to questions from three competing countries’ national broadcasters about whether Israel should remain part of the contest.

Eurovision took place in Malmö, Sweden last year
Eurovision took place in Malmö, Sweden last year

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Despite their past support for Palestine, Nemo said elsewhere in the conversation that there was “never” a question of them withdrawing from last year’s competition, as they wanted to use the Eurovision stage to tell their personal story through their song, The Code.

“It was very much just me realising that this story is important to tell. And if I’m not there to tell it, and to say it, then no one else will,” they claimed.

Nemo continued: “I think I could have not gone through all of that if I was just singing kind of a song that was a cute song, and I would feel happy singing it. I needed this sense of direction and purpose, and that was what never made me even question being there.”

“And that’s how it feels for me this year, as well,” they added, looking ahead to their performance at the upcoming contest.

Meanwhile, Nemo also spoke about the changes to the rules around permitted flags at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

These changes mean audience members are allowed to wave any flags or emblems they like (as long as they don’t violate any Swiss laws), while acts on stage or in “official spaces” are forbidden from holding any flag other than that of their own country.

As a result, this means that Pride flags are effectively banned from the Eurovision stage this year, a move which Nemo branded “stupid as fuck”.

Nemo brought the non-binary flag with them on stage at last year's Eurovision
Nemo brought the non-binary flag with them on stage at last year’s Eurovision

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“That’s so dumb,” they said. “I don’t get it. It’s so random sometimes. I just feel like… why? You know what I mean?

“You can’t be known for like the queerest thing in the world, basically, a contest that has been associated with queerness and gay culture for so long, and then be like, ‘oh, we don’t allow Pride flags for the artists’.

“And especially after last year, when I had to smuggle in the non-binary flag, and they were like, ‘you can’t have it on stage’, they told me. And then after the contest, the official statement was like, ‘it was never forbidden’. But then this year, they’re pro-actively [forbidding flags on stage]. I don’t know, it’s very strange to me.”

“I don’t know, it feels a bit confusing to me,” Nemo continued. “Also, this rule feels not thought through, at all. I don’t know who decided that, and how they decided it, and what was the reason for it, especially after last year, but it just feels strange. It feels not really thought through. I don’t know.”

They added: “It doesn’t even feel ill-intended. I don’t know, I’m confused by it. I think that’s the only thing I can say. I don’t think it makes sense at all.

“And it’s harming, I feel like, the cause of Eurovision. I don’t know, it’s just weird to me.”

Following their win at Eurovision in 2024, Nemo is among the guest performers at this year’s contest, which is due to take place in Basel later this month.

They also recently unveiled their latest single Casanova, the music video for which you can watch below.

Read HuffPost UK’s full interview with Nemo next week.

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