She is living proof, if indeed it were needed, that a whole career can be based on nothing more than a faux-Cockney accent and the moral turpitude to allow her pneumatically enhanced super-structure to muscle in on any scene that she was supposed to be 'acting' in.

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Smith talks with a London accent that even has a hint of cockney, but he was born and raised in Nottinghamshire, where the broader Midlands-accent dominates, and he opened his first shop in Nottingham when he was 24.

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