Ellie Goulding regrets adopting a posh accent

The 26-year-old ‘Burn’ pop star grew up on a council estate in Hereford, west England, and was so embarrassed by her accent that she trained herself to speak differently – but now she wishes she had retained her hometown dialect.

She said: ”I became fixated on speaking well. I felt like people just knew I was from a council house and that I was poor because of the way I spoke.”

Ellie, who describes her original accent as ”quite Bristolian”, began studying British TV newsreader Nicholas Witchell to perfect her new, sophisticated accent, which she now regrets.

She lamented: ”I feel silly because I’m not ashamed of the Hereford accent now and it’s too late to get it back.”

Before finding fame as a musician, the ‘Burn’ hitmaker landed a publishing deal as a poet and was studying a drama course at a local university.

But she felt a pull towards music after playing her guitar for friends while they studied.

She said: ”[I] got my guitar out, sang to people, and it was the first time anyone ever said, ‘My God, you really should do something with that.’ ”

The positive feedback spurred Ellie to record demos and quit her university course with the blessing of her tutors, to whom she had played some of her music.

She enthused: ”All of them told me to go for it.”

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