‘Selling Sunset’ Star Chelsea Lazkani’s Wedding Video Surfaces After She Denies Faking Accent
09.05.2022 - 20:15
/ usmagazine.com
Fans couldn’t help but dig into Chelsea Lazkani’s dialect after she joined the cast of Selling Sunset season 5.
During the season 5 reunion, which started streaming on Netflix on Friday, May 6, the 29-year-old real estate agent addressed speculation about her voice.
“So clearly, everyone thinks I’m faking my accent,” Chelsea told host Tan France. “My parents are Nigerian, so I grew up in a household where my parents had an accent, right? I lived in London for the first 10 years of my life. Then, I moved to Switzerland. And then, I moved to New Jersey. Then, I moved to New York. And now, I live in Los Angeles.”
She added: “I’m working on it. But this is me, OK? This is what you’re getting. I’m not faking it. If I was, I’d be a really f—king good actress.”
After the reunion aired, a social media user made a TikTok with reunion footage and Chelsea’s 2017 wedding video, in which her accent doesn’t sound quite as strong as she exchanged vows with Jeff Lazkani.
Chelsea previously spoke about fans commenting on her voice last month.
“The word on the street is that my accent is fake. I know it’s all over the place but listen there’s an explanation, OK?” she said via Instagram at the time. “I’ve lived in four countries in my short 29 years of life. I’ve lived in London, I’ve lived in Switzerland, I’ve lived in New Jersey, I now live in Los Angeles so my accent is a mish-mosh of all the places I’ve lived but I’m a London girl at heart.”
Chelsea is hardly the first celebrity to be accused of changing their dialect over the years. Meghan Markle, Hilaria Baldwin, Madonna and Lindsay Lohan are among the most famous potential accent adaptors, while fellow reality star Dorit Kemsley has fired back at resurfaced clips from her past after