Movie Dialect Coach Says Liam Payne Had 'At Least Five' Accents Including Alien

A dialect coach has identified ‘at least five’ different accents from Liam Payne in a recent interview he did. 

In case you somehow missed it, the former One Direction singer spoke to Good Morning Britain live from Los Angeles where he was asked about his thoughts on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. 

Payne revealed that the Smith family were former neighbours, before adding: "I believe whatever he felt that he did, he had the right to do.

"I also felt there were three losers in one fight. He didn't know, being Chris Rock, he didn't want to do what he had to do, being Will Smith, and she did nothing, being Jada.

However, viewers were left confused by the Wolverhampton-native’s accent, which sounded very different to how it used to. 

And now, a movie dialect coach has said she hears ‘at least five’ different in the mix. 

Elspeth Morrison appeared on Good Morning Britain, where she said: "I could hear at least five accents in there. 

"I'm going to say Irish, Welsh, American, something European, and definitely alien."

“He’s all over the place - he was saying things like, ‘son, nothing and cut’ like he might do in his own Wolverhampton accent. And then he had things like, ‘daughter and beauty’ in a slightly more American way. 

“And then the way he was saying ‘do and you’ was, actually, like old-fashioned RP [Received Pronunciation].”

Fans have been trying to decipher the unusual accent on social media, with one person writing: "I detect a bit of a French, Irish, American and English accent throughout this entire interview. What is going on?"

Another said: "Bit of Welsh, bit of Birmingham, bit of Indian and a bit of Home Counties? Bloody bizarre mixture."

A third wrote: What the hell happened to Liam Payne accent? He sounds Irish, Australian, South-African, Welsh and countless of other accents.”

Accent coach Luke Nicholson, speaking on behalf of youth travel operator Contiki, has said Payne's new accent may be a result of his globetrotting lifestyle and having friends from different parts of the world.

He said: "Our accents reflect our identity. Given Liam's extensive travelling, it's not surprising that his speech sounds more international these days.

"It's also important to note that our accents change depending on who we are talking to (linguists call this 'accommodation'). Having friends from different parts of the globe may well influence the way he speaks."