12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Singer Nadine Coyle pokes fun at Nicola Coughlan's Derry accent
The actress based her accent in the hit show Derry Girls on the singer's speaking voice
The Galway-born star played the role of Clare Devlin in BBC sitcom Derry Girls.
Appearing on the Late Late Show, the Girls Aloud singer was dubbed the 'original Derry girl' asked if she knew that Coughlan had 'based her accent' in the show on her.
'I've heard her say that! I've heard her say that she did…,' Nadine said.
'She watched YouTube videos of me saying stuff – I was like, 'You could have watched a few more, you could have watched a few more Nicola'.
Nicola Coughlan in Derry Girls
'I can help you out. Anytime you need to do another Derry character we can like get together,' she added.
In 2020 during an appearance on the Graham Norton show, Nicola said she prepared for the role by watching old videos of Coyle
'I don't know if people will know this, but there was an extremely controversial incident in the early noughties in Ireland.
'I feel like it was sort of the first Irish pop culture TV moment, it was Popstars the Irish version,' she continued.
'So she went on and lied about her age, but she got found out on camera.
'She had got into the band and then her on-camera interview, the first one to introduce yourself and who you are.
'She said 'my name is Nadine Coyle, I'm from Lark Hill in Derry, my date of birth is 15/6/85 making me a Gemini', and then she thinks for a second and goes 'what date of birth did I say?' and then it fades and she's outed herself on camera,' she explained, doing her best impression of the iconic moment.
'Everyone lost the plot.'
Nadine Coyle
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Continuing her impression of Nadine, Coughlan mimicked the moment when she called her mother to look for her passport.
'It was all a lie, she knew. She was 16, but she was meant to be 18,' she added.
Nadine was kicked out of the band 'Six' once her real age was outed.
The group went on to achieve the fastest-selling single in Irish chart history with their smash hit song There's a Whole Lot of Loving Going On.
Louis Walsh, who was a judge on the programme encouraged Coyle to audition for Popstars: The Rivals once she turned 18.
During the competition, she sang for a place in a girlband which ultimately became Girls Aloud.
