Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan was taunted by American kids when she attended school in the US so she dropped her British accent as a child to avoid being bullied.
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"I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me. You had the little English accent, you get up and read out loud in class and everybody was laughing and they used to call me 'Little English Muffin.' So I had a fabulous, intelligent retort. It was, 'Oh yeah? You American Cheese!' I had to practice a lot to get this American accent. I used to come home from school in tears from being called this English muffin and I'd go, 'I can't speak English anymore...' It was very difficult."
, Now, Sheridan says, the problem is reversed when she flies back across the pond. She says she's teased by her British pals about her American twang during visits to the UK: "I go home they're like, 'Oh, you bloody Yank!' And here in the US they're like, 'What are you? Are you from New York?'"
Oh my God. She's British??
Now, Sheridan says, the problem is reversed when she flies back across the pond. She says she's teased by her British pals about her American twang during visits to the UK: "I go home they're like, 'Oh, you bloody Yank!' And here in the US they're like, 'What are you? Are you from New York?'"
Oh my God. She's British??
