Love Is Blind UK's Emma Willis exposes 'real' accent after husband Matt's brutal swipe
Birmingham-born Emma Willis has shared why she has chosen to soften her hometown accent. During a podcast appearance with her husband Matt Willis, the couple discussed her apparent dual accents - one that viewers hear on television, and a more relaxed version she uses at home.
The 48-year-old confessed to purposefully moderating her tone while presenting, after previously disliking the way she sounded.
Appearing as guests on Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo's Nearly Parents podcast, the conversation kicked off with Sophie claiming that Jamie's accent has transformed through the years.
Claiming she understood this all too well, Emma explained: "I think when you can hear yourself, you take your pitch down a bit, not [just] you, generally, I do that.
"I start going, 'I must not be quite so Birmingham'. I bring it [down] a little bit lower, yeah."
Matt, who shot to stardom with Busted, chimed in to savagely compare his wife's natural tone to Beaker, the muppet character.
Following his impression of the puppet's distinctive high-pitched 'Mee-mee-mee-mee' noise, he added: "She's a bit Beaker sometimes."
When questioned about her current hometown accent, she joked that she no longer knew what it was.
"I don't know, I've tried to bash it out myself," she responded, chuckling. "No I haven't."
She then playfully shrieked in a more casual manner: "Matt!", before enquiring: "Are you ears okay?".
"That's it, welcome to my world, that's my life," he quipped back. Showing off her off-duty accent, she continued: "It's a bit like, 'You alright, how you doing, you okay?' Sing song in Birmingham."
"Sing song in Birmingham?", Matt queried, to which she responded: "Yeah, well, we [her family] are a bit sing song-y aren't we?".
Emma and Matt are back on screens today for the new series of Love is Blind: UK.
A testament to their own love story, the pair have been married since 2008 and share three children.
Reflecting on their journey through the highs and lows over the years, Matt shared of them sticking together: "The thing is, you balls it up on the way [with love]. It's... are you ready to go through the hard times? To go through it, I think," he shared.
"Because it's not easy being with someone for many, many years, but at the end of the day, do you love that person? And do you like them? And do you want to be with them forever?".
Emma chimed in during a chat with Yahoo UK: "Are you willing to stick through the s***? And so far, we have."
The first four episodes of Love Is Blind: UK season 2 are available on Netflix from today, with two more episodes set to drop on 20 and 27 August.
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