FORMER Friends star Courteney Cox has been trying to teach her family how to speak like her Derry fiancé. The 50-year-old actress told US
chatshow host Jimmy Kimmel how she struggles with how Snow Patrol musician Johnny McDaid (38) pronounces certain words. The couple announced their engagement last year, several months after they were introduced by their mutual friend, musician Ed Sheeran.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actress showed a video clip of her family attempting to say "how now brown cow" in a northern accent.
Her mother was reluctant to try at all, and none of the rest of her family managed to get it quite right.
"My fiancé is from Northern Ireland and it's a great place - nice people there," she said.
"But you know, I'm from Alabama and we're real southern.
"He's got this beautiful accent - so we were celebrating our engagement a year ago and in Northern Ireland you say the word 'now', not like n-o-w but it's like n-a-u-w. It's weird and it's hard to do - I cannot get it.
"So we were sitting at this table and I was trying to get these southerners to try to say 'how now brown cow' in the way he says it."
After the video was shown, she laughed at her own attempt.
Kimmel joked: "I love that Johnny is just sitting there being abused by your whole family, thinking 'I came here from Northern Ireland to be made fun of?'"
Cox replied: "He wanted to go home after that."