Sheridan Smith’s West Yorkshire accent mocked by viewers of Shannon Matthews drama

If you're in the acting business, it's inevitable that you'll have to try your best to master an unfamiliar accent every once in a while.

Naturally, it doesn't always work out well. Take Dick Van Dyke's attempt at a Cockney accent in Mary Poppins, for example... https://youtu.be/B_rVzBt20N0 Or this laughably bad Geordie accent on Castle... https://youtu.be/Ei1DnFdJrww Yep, not quite nailing an accent can happen to any actor or actress - even BAFTA winning ones like Sheridan Smith... On Tuesday night, she appeared in The Moorside, a new drama depicting the abduction of Dewsbury schoolgirl Shannon Matthews. While Lincolnshire-born Sheridan's attempt at a West Yorkshire accent wasn't anything like as comical as the two examples above, viewers were quick to pick up on it. https://twitter.com/Obliviroth/status/829082944102920192 https://twitter.com/JoeParkinn/status/829089747561758720 https://twitter.com/AdamWray2/status/829076554042994689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/Sam_T_Hall/status/829087511406338048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/peterhessuk/status/829082217188036608 https://twitter.com/rebeccamasseyHS/status/829073719750455296 The two-part series focuses on local efforts to find the nine-year-old, who went missing from her home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire in 2008. She was later found 'safe and well' 24 days later at the home of a family friend. It later emerged that her kidnap had been staged, with Shannon's mother, Karen, admitting she had arranged the abduction so she could receive the reward money. With Leeds-born Game of Thrones actress Gemma Whelan playing the role of Shannon's mother, Smith plays her friend Julie Bushby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQPwx0tJ0nI