Scarlett Moffatt says people think she’s thick because of her northern accent
EXCLUSIVE: The former Gogglebox favourite, who now fronts a podcast about aliens and conspiracies, thinks her intelligence is underestimated because of her accent
TV star Scarlett Moffatt reckons she is stereotyped for being thick – because she’s a northerner.
The I’m A Celebrity winner, 29, told how being a woman in the TV industry has its challenges.
“I just can’t win,” she said. “Maybe it’s the way I’ve portrayed myself, but people always assume I’m thick. I don’t know if it’s my accent or whatever.
“I always remember filming and this producer explaining the same thing to me three times.
“And me going, ‘OK, that’s fine, I understand’. And then explaining it again and then me going, ‘No, really, I understand!’
“Inside, I’m screaming but on the outside I would never show that.”
Scarlett, who shot to fame in Channel 4’s Gogglebox before being crowned Queen of the Jungle in 2016, said she finds it “really difficult to be arsey with people”, even if they treat her like she’s “stupid”.
She said: “If you actually have an opinion or idea, sometimes it’s sort of put across as, ‘Well done, you’re thinking like a man’, or, ‘Get back in your box because it’s not your place’.
“It is quite difficult being a woman. I’m either too quiet or too loud, or I’m too fake or I’m not fake enough.
“You can’t win, so you’ve just got to be yourself and not take anything personally.
“It’s other people’s ignorance and them being uneducated, not you.”
Scarlett isn’t the first to suffer regional accent woes.
In 2014, Middlesbrough-born BBC host Steph McGovern said a viewer sent her £20 in the post, asking her to “fix” her accent.
Strictly host Tess Daly vowed never to give her Stockport accent a makeover.
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