‘Tom Jones told me my Welsh accent was boss’
SIR Tom Jones has endorsed orsed
Stephen Graham’s Welsh lsh accent attempt on TV V drama White House e
Farm.
The Treforest-born singer was appearing on
Zoe Ball’s Breakfast
Show yesterday for the debut play of his latest single It’s Not Dark Yet when the host asked him about backing Scouse se actor Graham’s accent in the
2020 drama, which covered vered the story real-life murders ers that took place at White House use Farm in
Essex in 1985.
The Help and This is England actor played Welsh copper Taff Jones and got some stick for his accent when the show aired.
But last month Graham, also on the Zoe e Ball show on Radio 2, said that Sir Tom thought it t was “boss”.
When Ball asked the 81-year-old singer if the compliment was true, Sir Tom confirmed it was and that he knew people who talked in the kind ind of accent adopted by Graham.
Sir Tom said: “I went to see Johnny Depp’s ’s movie and Stephen Graham was there and I told him I know fellas that talk like that. It’s an n accent that Ruth Jones put on when she was as doing Gavin & Stacey. It’s not a typical south th Wales accent, it’s like a Cardiff accent or a Newwport or Barry Island accent.
“It’s a little bit Liverpudlian, a Cardiff accent nt is slightly like Liverpool. So for Stephen I don’t think it was too much of a stretch. He did do a good od job because I know men who talk exactly like the accent that he put on so there you go.”
When Graham appeared on Zoe Ball’s show, he told listeners: “Some people said it [the accent] was terrible but if I am honest I am going to drop a name here and Tom Jones told me it was boss, so I am happy with that!”