{"id":38030,"date":"2023-10-13T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1905645"},"modified":"2023-10-14T01:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T23:08:04","slug":"ghosts-star-reveals-thomass-shock-scottish-roots-explain-classic-line","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/ghosts-star-reveals-thomass-shock-scottish-roots-explain-classic-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts star reveals Thomas\u2019s shock Scottish roots explain classic line"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Answer the question, damn your eyes!” <\/p>

By David Craig\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 13 October 2023 at 20:00 PM<\/p>

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Ghosts co-creator and star Mathew Baynton has explained a surprising twist in season 5 episode 2, which reveals that failed poet Thomas Thorne actually hails from Scotland.<\/p>\n

The information comes to light amid a fierce debate between Pat (Jim Howick) and Julian (Simon Farnaby) over England\u2019s north\/south divide.<\/p>\n

As Thomas passes through, he\u2019s asked to share his opinion on which region is the greatest to break the deadlock, but he abstains entirely as his allegiance is to his home country of Scotland.<\/p>\n

The character\u2019s southern English accent certainly gives no indication of those roots, leaving his fellow ghosts in disbelief \u2013 but they\u2019re quickly put in their place with a ferocious \u201chaud yer wheesht!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Thomas continues: \u201cI\u2019m as Scottish as shortbread in a tartan tin, sir!\u201d<\/p>

The surreal plot development is actually a callback to a moment in Ghosts<\/a> season 1, when Baynton accidentally broke into a Scottish accent while passionately delivering a line.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really makes me laugh when Thomas goes so big that he has a different voice,\u201d recalled co-star Laurence Rickard to RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press.<\/p>\n

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Mathew Baynton in Ghosts.<\/span><\/figcaption> Mark Johnson\/BBC<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Baynton responded: \u201cWe ended up with a whole storyline because of that. \u2018Answer the question, damn your eyes!\u2019 in the very first episode came out ever so slightly in a different accent. So we ended up writing an origin story to explain it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The line is bellowed by Thomas during a tense exchange between himself and Julian, as the former politician tries to avoid confirming whether he deliberately caused the high-storey fall that almost kills Alison (Charlotte Ritchie<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A blooper reel shared by the BBC earlier this year gave an insight into the several alternate versions of the line, some of which sound less Scottish than the take that was ultimately used. Watch below:<\/p>\n