The traditional Cockneyaccent is fading and is no longer so common even within earshot of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow church in east London, where by legend it was born.
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.
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.