'Enders star Brett fools public with accent

EastEnders star Laurie Brett has spoken of how she often fools the public with her Scottish accent.

The actress, who plays the long-suffering Jane Beale in the soap, also revealed that she has always "had a knack" for adapting her tongue to different accents.

Brett, 39, told People.co.uk: "I thought the fact that I am Scottish was quite well-known but there are a lot of people that just don't realise. It does come in handy sometimes when people ask me if I'm Jane from EastEnders.

"I just let the Scots accent come out. They always think they have got it wrong and say that I look really like her."

She continued: "The London accent is not something I have to put on, I have just always had a knack for accents. I tend to pick up on the way people speak wherever it is I happen to be.

"When I am in London I tend to have a London accent, when I speak to my mum Anne I talk pure-Hamilton and when I speak to my Aussie mates I end up talking just like them.

"It's just quite natural to me in the same way as saying 'Hola' is when I go to Spain."