[Matt_C]

Cos he is really grating on me! Since "rising to fame" on Big Brother (a programme I cannot stand I might add) we now have the pleasure of him being the announcer on Ch4 most of the time....

Goddam I hate the way he speaks! And it's not the accent, it's how he phrases and punctuates his words/sentences....

Tonight (just now) he can't even pronounce Woody Harrelson's name correctly! If you can't do that, what in the hell are you doing being a TV announcer?

[krish]

Originally Posted by Matt_C

..Goddam I hate the way he speaks! And it's not the accent, it's how he phrases and punctuates his words/sentences....

Tonight (just now) he can't even pronounce Woody Harrelson's name correctly! If you can't do that, what in the hell are you doing being a TV announcer?

Agree with you
The deliberately dropped ts etc does get tiresome

His name's Marcus Bentley and he was a Ch4 continuity announcer well before BB began

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Bentley

I'm fairly certain his normal accent isn't so strong... so why bother for frig's sake?? .... diversity tokenism

Also caught him saying Woody Harleyson

[Boy Named Sue]

I'm quite partial to a Geordie accent myself, even if it's a little OTT.

Heard a great story about him once - he came home to find 50+ messages on his answerphone, nearly all of them blank. It took him a bit of time to realise that someone had called it by accident, heard his answerphone message and went "oh god, it's the Big Brother bloke's answerphone" and promptly told all their mates, who told all their mates...

[Pincho Paxton]

I like his accent. Very cool.

[ba' heid]

Not half as much as I hate Russel Brand or Davina or the contestants or the show itself etc.

[krish]

... you forgot Dermot - he's smuggest of the lot!