Who has the most annoying celebrity voice?
Posted by Jane Murphy
It’s pointless poll time again, folks.
The latest? A survey of more than 1,500 people by Magic 105.4 radio station found that seasoned broadcaster Janet Street-Porter has the most annoying celebrity voice in the UK.
(Incidentally, have you noticed how it’s absolutely impossible to say “Janet Street-Porter” out loud without doing an impression of her?)
Still, JSP only just made it to the top of the list: publicity-shy glamour girl Katie Price’s dulcet tones came a close second.
Meanwhile, national-treasure-in-waiting Alan Carr was voted people’s top choice to make announcements on the London Underground.
Alan’s response (via Twitter, of course)? “Wonderful. Am so flattered and surprised. Who would want to hear my voice when they’re six feet under?
“I’ve even been practising ‘Mind the gap’, ‘Doors are closing’ and my favourite phrase of the underground, ‘Turn left outside for the replacement bus service’.”
Fellow Twitter king Stephen Fry was voted the celebrity with the No.1 iconic voice, narrowly beating Sean Connery.
So which celebrity voices do you most love - and hate - to hear? Tell us here.
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Alan Carr's voice is an insult to men,however he cant
really be called a man.
Posted by: michael smith | 24 October 2009 at 10:17
TOP OF MY LIST HAS TO BE.....
GRAHAM NORTON
AND FERN COTTON....!
BOTH VERY ANNOYING AS WELL SEND THEM TO THE NORTH POLE TO TALK TO THE PENGUINS AND GIVE US THE CHANCE TO REST OUR EARS...!
Posted by: Dan Howell | 24 October 2009 at 09:43
MOST OF THESE CELEBRITY TYPES HAVE SOME SORT OF VOICE 'QUIRK', IT'S A REQUIREMENT,THEY ARE CONSTANTLY IN THE LIMELIGHT.
THEY ARE EXTREMELY 'RICHER THAN YOU, R THEY BOVUD?'
Posted by: GRAYDAY | 24 October 2009 at 09:36
The most awful voices in my opinion are
Jenny something or other on National Lottery
the person that acts the role of Karl's current girlfriend in Emmerdale
Posted by: Beryl | 24 October 2009 at 09:32
The best voice is the late Sir Lawrence Olivier, no one can match that rich, soft, gentle,yet authoratative voice.
Posted by: michael hayes | 24 October 2009 at 09:24
Carol Kirkwood, the weather presenter,has got to have the worst voice. That high pitched, strained,scottish brogue, is so irritating, I have to switch over until she has gone. Please reduce our exposure to her frequent gabblings Thank you.
Posted by: michael hayes | 24 October 2009 at 09:11
I can't stand the voice of the woman who does the voice over on Masterchef:
Completly monotone voice which grates on my nerves, I wish they could replace her.
Posted by: jan | 24 October 2009 at 08:41
Sir Anthony Hopkins.
His use of the English language is better than most English people, considering he is Welsh!
Posted by: Phil | 24 October 2009 at 08:14
willian harge sounds like a whale
Posted by: phil | 24 October 2009 at 07:00
Sorry forgot Jonathan Woss!
Posted by: madcap | 24 October 2009 at 01:31
Brian Sewell: pompous ass
Bruce Forsythe another one full himself
Jordan: show off
Harry Hill: complete idiot
and the fool who advertises the double glazed windows (you know the one get one free)
Posted by: madcap | 24 October 2009 at 01:30
Eamon Holmes who cannot say "how" or "now" as they are written.
Posted by: Stuart | 23 October 2009 at 23:29
Anyone who cannot say "celebrity" and similar ending words and comes out with something like "celebri/ee", "Communi/ee".
Really annoys. Lazy speech. UGH!!
Posted by: Stuart | 23 October 2009 at 23:28
Eamon Holmes.
Who cannot say "how" or "now" as they are written!
Posted by: Stuart | 23 October 2009 at 23:21
Simon Cowell, without a doubt,
coupled with that face.
Posted by: S. Cameron | 23 October 2009 at 21:55
Cerys Matthews (speaking not singing voice) - sounds like a little girl
Posted by: Heather | 23 October 2009 at 21:29
The MacDowell woman who does the L`Oreal Hair Colour advert "because you`re worth it"..Arghhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!My guinea pig swishes his hair around better than that .....without L`Oreal !!!
Also those annoying Meercats.com ....Eughhhhhhh!!
Posted by: Jill | 23 October 2009 at 21:16
"Vine" on radio Two
Posted by: shipwreck | 23 October 2009 at 21:05
Gordon Brown
Posted by: david webb | 23 October 2009 at 20:41
Voices that make me want to SLAP that celeb!:
Katie Price
Wossy
Melinda Messenger (who gave er the happy pill?)
Edith Bowman
Idiot geordie man on Channel 4 (speed up man, haven't got all day!)
Cilla Black (not to mention her "look at me i'm an important celebrity and therefore i'm better than you attitude. She puts on the nicey nicey scouser act- What a SNOB!)
Emma whats-her-name off GMTV + Lorraine Kelly, that one who left and basically ALL OF THEM! Oh and Ben Shepherd too!
Posted by: Rhee | 23 October 2009 at 20:04
If Janet Street Porter's voice is so annoying why do so many people listen to her???? I think Carol Vorderman has the most annoying voice and attitude I have ever heard.
Posted by: Heide | 23 October 2009 at 19:56
Bruce Forsythe, Linda Barker David Blunket, Paul OGrady,John Humphreys
Posted by: POWERFULL | 23 October 2009 at 19:43
Special mention to Sandra Crewidson(non celebrity) who yaks on the phone with a really anodyne voice!
Posted by: BomberHarris | 23 October 2009 at 19:27
Carol Vorderman and Jo Wiley
Posted by: BomberHarris | 23 October 2009 at 19:22
Jenni Falconer has the most irritating voice. I watch the lottery in silence every time she is on.
Posted by: Graham | 23 October 2009 at 19:12
Gordon Brown and all the Labour cronies.
They have the worst voices on this earth
Posted by: ockendon1 | 23 October 2009 at 18:17
Tess Daley + husband Vernon, Jordan, Jonathan Woss, Peggy Mitchell, Kate Walsh, Melinda Messenger - all have horrible voices!!
Posted by: Nikki | 23 October 2009 at 17:23
Gordon Brown
Posted by: edward | 23 October 2009 at 16:59
i find carol thatchers voice really annoying, glad she got kicked off the one show!!
& i really like george clooneys voice, its kinda gravelly & yet really smooth at the same time
Posted by: laura | 23 October 2009 at 16:38
The Radio 2 female station announcer. She's driven me away!
Paul O'Grady.
Anyone who makes every sentence sound like a question.
Posted by: jim | 23 October 2009 at 16:29
Natasha Kaplinsky - smug. smarmy and smirky
Posted by: majorparus | 23 October 2009 at 16:08
Mary Nightingale reading the news really grates on me. I have to switch over and I really like ITV news.
Also Linda Barker (cringe)
Posted by: Brenda G | 23 October 2009 at 16:06
peggy mitchell ugh
Posted by: ron | 23 October 2009 at 15:59
Davina Mccall, and the Geordie voice-over with her.
Posted by: Jimbo | 23 October 2009 at 15:32
graham norton and big mouth jonthan ross
Posted by: xxx | 23 October 2009 at 15:30
I can't believe that no one has mentioned Dan Cruickshank, who presents Historical and Architechtural programmes.His voice is like gas escaping through a small hole in a canister, and although low, drills into you. Just like Capt Janeway in Star Trek Voyager. Both of them, you just feel like knocking them out.
Trouble is, I actually like the programmes.
Posted by: Mick | 23 October 2009 at 15:29
Ann McAndrew. You don't know her. Unfortunately I do.
Posted by: Paul White | 23 October 2009 at 15:08
I can't believe Chris Evans name is not on this list!!!!
Grrr - am def not going to listen when he replaces Terry!
Posted by: carol | 23 October 2009 at 15:02
Jane Horrocks has the ugliest/most annoying voice bar none !!!
Posted by: simon | 23 October 2009 at 15:00
annoying john virgo best anthony hopkins
Posted by: john jones | 23 October 2009 at 14:42
On the radio, Zoe Ball, Sara Cox & Dermot O Leary all irritate me. I love listening to John Inverdale, Danny Baker & Aled Jones. Colin Firth as a rather sexy voice.
Posted by: Sal | 23 October 2009 at 14:34
Bucketmouth Jonathing Ross??
Posted by: old clothears | 23 October 2009 at 14:31
Linda Barker - particularly irritating voice. I'd never buy a sofa from DFS if she's got anything to do with it!
Posted by: Shoogle | 23 October 2009 at 14:00
Anne Robinson
Woss
Lloyd Grossman
Dale Winton
to name just four and thank goodness for the remote control!
Posted by: zipper | 23 October 2009 at 13:56
In no specific order
Cheryl Cole
Jimmy Saville
Paul Daniels
Cilla Black
Michael McIntyre
Lenny Henry
Louis Walsh
Joe Pasquale
Tongue in Cheek Stephen Hawking
Posted by: shockandawe | 23 October 2009 at 13:47
On a local level, the woman's voice heard on the travelator at Asda in Folkestone, when she says (in a sing-song voice) be-prepared-to-push-your-trolley-off-the-end-of-the-travelator. I want to push her off the top of the building!
Posted by: Heather | 23 October 2009 at 13:45
Sian Lloyd, as much for her continual hand movements as for her irritatingly faux posh accent
Posted by: Heather | 23 October 2009 at 13:40
------DALE WINTON-------
----AAARRRRHHHHH------
Posted by: dave | 23 October 2009 at 13:36
The London under is welcome to Alan Carr
Posted by: Roberto | 23 October 2009 at 13:22
Melinda Messenger.......She's annoying!!, if you watch that show on channel 5 about tea time... she thinks she's a know it all
Posted by: Eoin | 23 October 2009 at 13:19
Andy Gray with his bull---- rhetoric, its only offside if he says so.
Richard & Judy the pair of pontificating up themselves prats.
Celebrities who advertise "are you over 50"
cancer research with their obscene images & doleful tones
Posted by: Steve | 23 October 2009 at 13:00
Caroline Wyatt - war correspondent for the BBC's voice gives me the creeps and I have to turn off whenever she comes on.
Close second is that dreadful woman who does the monotone voiceover on Masterchef
And in 3rd place sanctamonious
Jeremy Vine
Posted by: Betsy | 23 October 2009 at 12:58
ANNOYING VOICE: PARIS HILTON AND ANY USA PERSON
ANNOYING PRESENTERS: Ferne cotton, becca wilcox, holly wilowby
annoying noses: Ferne cotton
boring presenters with nothing interesting in their heads: all above.
Posted by: dave d | 23 October 2009 at 12:52
Stacey from this year's X Factor, great singer, but when she talks, she sounds like she's on helium. Her voice gets faster & faster as she talks. So ANNOYING!
Posted by: Jane | 23 October 2009 at 12:49
The boy in the air-freshener advert who demands to "Do a poo at Paul's" Maybe he'll fall in and get flushed away! cringe; hit the mute button, quick!
Posted by: Yvonne | 23 October 2009 at 12:43
Last nights The One Show was completely spoilt by Aleisha Dixon raucous false laugh no wonder Adrian Chiles looked more naffed off than usual
Posted by: Lynda | 23 October 2009 at 12:04
And I agree with the comment about Harry Hill. Ugh.
Posted by: LINDA | 23 October 2009 at 11:39
Graham Norton,and his forced laugh, YUK
Posted by: E Hurrell | 23 October 2009 at 11:39
This dropping of "t's" in the middle of a word. It drives me mad! As for voices, well Ray Winston gets my vote for the most annoying. When he did that ad for Optivita missing the second t out!!!! And his add for VW Vaaan. It's not just cockney, the actors in northern soaps do it too.
Posted by: LINDA | 23 October 2009 at 11:38
Harry Hill takes some beating he has an irritating voice irritating expression irritating dress irritating actions and an irritating way of treating his subjects to get what is supposed to be entertainment from them, if he accidently gets on the screen there is a scramble for the remote
Posted by: richard l h | 23 October 2009 at 11:22
Any weather forecaster who can't pronouce Scotland correctly...."The cold front over Scot'and will move slowly south over the course of the day"...
Posted by: Patrick | 23 October 2009 at 11:16
Irritating voices - MPs who don't know their subject and have to keep looking at notes.
Posted by: David Bunyan | 23 October 2009 at 10:45
1 Lloyd Grossman
2 Brian Sewell (the art critic)
Posted by: Mike | 23 October 2009 at 10:40
JORDAN OR IS IT KATIE PRICE YAWN YAWN YAWN
Posted by: Paul | 23 October 2009 at 09:50
oh, and that woman on the tooth paste advert for sensodyne active
Posted by: S | 23 October 2009 at 09:43
daphne fowler
she irritates me to death
Posted by: S | 23 October 2009 at 09:42
Cilla Black!!
When she says "Cilla ere" it sounds like an infectious disease!
Posted by: Jen | 23 October 2009 at 09:36
Joe Pasquale, for sure.....very closely followed by Lloyd Grossman.
Posted by: Michael, Dunmow, Essex | 23 October 2009 at 09:35
Terry christian & joe pasquales voice really annoy me i switch the tv over when their on !!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Angie | 23 October 2009 at 09:34
that bloke that announces channel 4 programs, with the slow slurred Geordie accent,does my head in,I have to turn the volume down, day one in the big brother house,and all that,arrrgh,but normal geordie accent i love,
Posted by: b grant | 23 October 2009 at 09:28
graham norton,i hate his laugh and cilla blacks voice
Posted by: dave | 23 October 2009 at 09:25
Annoying: Fearne Cotton
Sexy: Mariella Frostrup
Iconic: Sean Connery
Posted by: Tim | 23 October 2009 at 09:13