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Posted by bridget-e (U2352320) on Saturday, 29th October 2005
I am in the US at the moment, listening to each episode on line the day after it's broadcast...some time ago, I may have missed a few episodes, and it's a long time since I heard Hayley. And now she has a completely different voice. It's not quite as odd as when Kate came back from her jaunt with the New Age Travellers as a completely different person, but not far off. What's going on?
new actress playing Hayley. Previous one off doing other work following success of 'The Office'.
Oh. Thank you. That's a shame. The new one's voice is nice and friendly enough to be Hayley, but it's as if her Birmingham accent has been infected by her friendship with Emma.
Well this is not impossible - in fact it's a linguistic feature called assimilation: when you make your pronunciation more like that of people with whom you are in contact.
Did the actress playing Kate change then? I thought it had been Kellie Bright for absolutely ages.
Kate was originally played by Henrietta Smethurst: then Susie Riddell: then Kellie Bright.
I didn't know there had been *two* other Kates! Goodness. I just remember one running away with the New Age Travellers as a small child with an Essex twang and coming back a few months later as a posh slacker twenty-year-old.
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