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Lorraine Kelly found critics of her accent ‘really disappointing’ when starting in TV
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evoke.ieLorraine Kelly may be a TV queen but it wasn’t always the case, in fact, things very nearly turned out differently for the broadcaster when a telly boss told her she’d never have a successful career because of her accent.
Appearing on Virgin Media’s The Six O’Clock Show, the Scottish TV presenter recalled how her bosses at BBC Scotland knocked her Glaswegian accent early in her career. ‘It was really, really disappointing,’ she told presenters Muireann O’Connell and Martin King before revealing that the criticism worked in her favour as it put a fire in her belly to prove them wrong. ‘They made me have the nerve to apply for a job at TV AM as it was back then,’ she explained. ‘I got the job, thank goodness, but I never would have had the
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