The DFS Wallace and Gromit adverts.

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  1. Mr Badger

    Mr Badger Well-Known Member

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    Ive been puzzling how they have kept Peter Sallis' voice wondering if they are old ads brought up to date with the same storyline.
    A bit of googling and have found out that it is a 43 year old actor doing a voiceover.
    Ben Whitehead.
    He has been doing Wallace since about 2010.
    That being the case I have been fooled for ten years thinking that Sallis was still doing it somehow.
    The "new" guy is brilliant and I wouldnt have had a clue that it wasnt Sallis. A very remarkable likeness !!!
     
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    Talking of remarkable likeness, has anyone seen that Mrs Browns lookalike that frequents these parts?

    Scroll down on the pictures & you'll see what I mean.

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/T...78add20089284b8!8m2!3d53.5445801!4d-1.3040759
     
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    dab spit
     
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    I always assumed Peter Sallis was a Yorkshireman, Londoner by all accounts.
     
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    Much as I liked the gentle humour of Summer Wine I thought the script never got it right with Compo.
    They got it wrong many times with his "thees and thas ".
    All see tha in a minute.
    What thee doing.
    Unless of course Yorkshire is spoken like that in the Huddersfield area.
     
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    Yep, know some of the rum chuffs in there.
     
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    Born in Twickenham, but buried in Yorkshire.
    My dad was a member there and The Ship. I remember as a kid queuing up outside to get my day-trip spending money....
     
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    £3 ?
     
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    I'm talking late 60s/early 70s so probably 10 bob....
     
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