Jamie no mockney rebel

And still on accents, Jamie Oliver denies being a mockney in the Guardian. In the Family Values column he comments:

I grew up in a pub in Clavering, Essex. When I was first on telly in The Naked Chef, people thought I was a mockney, that I was posh and had gone to private school. But I went to a comprehensive and my parents, Trevor and Sally, weren't middle class; they were publicans. That's where my estuary accent comes from.

Indeed, Jamie's so Essex that in Jamie's Great Britain he famously claimed to have been conceived at the end of Southend Pier  — was it a 30-minute recipe we wonder? Click on the link to read the whole piece.