22 Problems Only People From Gateshead Will Understand

16. "DEEYUH FIFTY SIX IN THE BIG BRUTHAH HAUS"

That voice you hear every year when the next round of "hopefuls" and future Priory inhabitants belongs to Gateshead, despite the fact that everyone around the country thinks he's a Geordie. The man who launched a million terrible impressions is Marcus Bentley, the second most famous heavily-accented voice-over man from the North East. Behind Alan Robson, obviously. He was born in Gateshead and raised in Stockton, so the suggestion that he's a Geordie is like saying Penshaw Monument is in Sunderland. And when your claims to fame are as slim as Gateshead's, it's unfair that one of the most recognisable gets stolen by your near neighbours.