Sound like her majesty? Not TV’s queen of Scots Lorraine

‘Thought it was hilarious’

SHE is the queen of breakfast television – and as famous for her distinctive Scottish twang as for her chirpy personality.

But Lorraine Kelly has said she was once accused of speaking more like the Queen than a daughter of Glasgow.

The 58-year-old presenter said the strangest thing she had ever read about herself was that she faked her Caledonian burr to seem more like a ‘woman of the people’.

Miss Kelly – who was born in Glasgow but moved to Dundee in the 1980s – revealed the bizarre theory during an interview with The Sunday People magazine.

She said: ‘Someone said I didn’t have a Scottish accent and that I just put it on to be a woman of the people.

‘Well, as you can imagine me and my pals were wetting ourselves, we thought that was hilarious.

‘Yes, really, I talk like the Queen in The Crown. What sort of deranged mind would make that up?

‘That didn’t annoy me, it just made me howl. It was utterly ridiculous.’

Last summer, Miss Kelly signed a lucrative deal with ITV to remain as the face of breakfast TV, making her one of the UK’s highest-paid female stars.

The Lorraine show host agreed terms on a two-and-ahalf year ‘golden handcuffs’ contract, thought to be worth about £2.1million.

Miss Kelly also made her Saturday night prime-time TV debut this month, co-hosting BBC One’s new game show Wedding Day Winners.

The contest involves two couples competing to win a dream honeymoon and wedding ceremony, which is immediately broadcast on live TV.

Miss Kelly spends so much time in London that late last year she put her £825,000 home in Broughty Ferry, Angus – complete with walled garden – on the market.

The TV host said she wanted to spend more time with her husband, Steve Smith, and less time commuting.

Speaking about the sale, she said: ‘Steve and I want to be together a bit more but that’s not to say we won’t go home a lot as all our friends and family live up there.’