Feckers who seemed posher than their real background

[PalazioVecchio]

1. Richard Burton......a barefoot street urchin who shovelled horse-manure as a boy. Drunk at age 12.

2. Kenneth Williams.......Evacuated during the War, returned to London with a posh accent.

3. Marilyn Monroe......walking the red carpet for the Oscars. Seriously poverty & dysfunctional background.

4. Charlie Chaplin......he didn't seem particularly posh, but the South London boy's background was rock-bottom. And of course he achieved staggering wealth from his career.

 

[ex hibitionist]

I think Noel Coward was from fairly humble beginnings, and then there's me of course, no where near as posh as some would have you believe. Alf Ramsey's a great example, Dagenham boy who took elocution lessons, I think David Starkey's mum was a cleaner or ancillary worker. I think the sounding posher than you are thing was much more 'common' in the 50s, 60s and 70s, a few of my mum's friends who we called 'auntie' had hair-sprayed bouffants, cigarette holders and said 'awf' instead of 'off'.

 

[RubinsCube]

Ben Kingsley
Daniel Craig
Margaret Thatcher (arguably also Blair - not sure about his upbringing but it was in the north east)

 

[Apollofuzz]

Tom Allen Bromley born same school as Rob Beckett.