One-time Cockney gangster John Pridmore from London is a former nightclub bouncer, drug dealer and self-confessed thug. He has just published the remarkable story of his transformation to youth ...

EastEnders is losing its diamond geezer Danny Dyer, who's quite possibly "The Most Cockney Man in the World" and thus a great embodiment of the fictional, mythical East End London of the long-running ...

Russell Brand has released his much-anticipated interview with Ed Miliband – an encounter David Cameron had already dismissed as a "joke". In the "relatively tame" 15-minute interview that was ...

Ever wonder how hard it would be to master a Cockney English accent? With an audition less than a day away, actor Marty is up to the challenge! Watch as dialect coach Page Clements teaches him a ...

It's a remarkable feat for anyone to live through four heart attacks and a close involvement with London’s underworld, but Stanley Melvin, 72, laughs as he tells me his tale. Known to his mates as ...

A guy walks into a doctor’s office and says, “Doc, wiv dis Billy Ray Cyrus, I can’t stop Wallace and Gromiting and I ‘ave a ‘orrible on and off. Do you ‘ave any Thomas Edison what won’t hurt me ...

It’s safe to say that Australian actress Emily Browning is no stranger to nudity in film, bearing all in the likes of Summer in February, to a brave, somewhat audacious performance in Julia Leigh’s ...

He was the frontman of the rock band Cockney Rebel, which landed several hits on the British charts in the 1970s. By Orlando Mayorquín Steve Harley, the 1970s British rock star who topped Britain’s ...

The biggest hit for 1970s glam rock band Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel was far and away their UK number one single Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me). While Harley’s lyrics were born out of ...

Cockney culture has long been a proud part of London’s storied landscape, boasting its own pitter-patter dialect of rhyming slang, a cuisine of eels, pie and liquor, and even an alternative royal ...

Of all the UK accents, Cockney is one of the most famous, but it’s also one of the trickiest to pull off. Best known for identifying working-class Londoners, actors like Michael Caine and Jason ...