Mick Hastie of the Magic Bullet Infomercial: English or Australian?

Aussie, English accents…..I can’t tell the difference half the time.

Anyone who thinks Mick is Australian needs to get out more. No way does that accent remotely resemble Australian. Silly Yanks.

So there is no one on the entire continent of Australia who speaks with an English accent? Good to know.

“Even you can’t make it that fast Aunt Martha.” (The look of uncertainty on Martha’s face…thinking “i’m being replaced by a machine!”)

I also thought he was Australian…

I think the reason for confusion is his uncanny vocal resemblence to Robin Leach. Who is an aussie…but Mick does sound more northern England if you really listen 🙂

I just think the commercial is only telling half truths. Who cares what mick really is. Australians have a distinctive twang. Just listen to the way the late Steve Irwin the crocodile hunter speaks. Mick does not.
The results of the magic bullet are not only lucky but untrue. We had purchased one of these machines thinking it would be a quick alternative to a blender or cuisinart but it isn’t. Now on the results the salsa result did not come out for us. The onions tomatoes and garlic didn’t even chop up in that 3 second pulse. So, I had to run it longer and it liquidated everything into a unappetizing pink zero. The onion chopping, same result. The parmesan cheese does not pulverize completely. There is a chunk that doesn’t grind. If you notice they turn the container away from the camera, cap it or move it away quickly. Probably cause this is the result. The ice in the smoothy never crushes down that far. the thing that bothers me most of all is how easy that spinning mechanism made of plastic just snapped off and left me with an unuseable machine. The other thing is that one does not know how many takes they made on that show to get the results they demonstrate. Sorry, am not impressed with the magic bullet.

Mick’s accent is pretty clearly Mancunian: Manchester and environs.

1. Robin Leach is British, not Australian.

2. While Mick Hastie is definitely English (and, I’d agree, probably from Yorkshire) Australian slang (‘Strine’) infact uses a lot of Cockney rhyming slang.

Hope this is useful!

If anyone’s interested, ray Puxley has written anumber of books on rhyming and other Britslang.

Like you, I’m fascinated by the sheer silliness of infomercials, and have recently been particularly engaged by Mick and Mimi (the Nick and Nora of the shopping channels: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025878 ).

However, as a lad from the north of England, I can pretty definitively say that Mick Hastie is from Liverpool, with an accent slightly obscured by years of living in the US: for instance, he says ‘bay-sil’, ‘vye-tamin’ and ‘tomayto’ instead of ‘basil’ (with a short ‘a’ sound), ‘vitamin’ (short ‘i’ sound), and ‘tomahto’. For comparison, listen to other transatlantic Liverpudlians like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and you’ll hear what I mean.

Oh, and one odd coincidence: that other celebrated Liverpudlian, the late John Lennon, had an Aunt Mimi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Smith ).

Hope this helps.

Mick is not from Yorkshire!!!
He is from Preston, in Lancashire. I am also from the same area and know this to be a fact.

Stupid people, Australians and English sound very very different, I can prove this as I am an English person married to an Australian and living in Australia.

He’s definitely English and probably Yorkshire/Lancashire. To Trevor… not in anyway a Liverpudlian accent but definitely uses Americanisms.
The more unnerving thing is he sounds exactly like Mike Myers in The Cat In The Hat when he’s doing his “Cupcakeinator” thing in the kitchen! So, who came first… Mick “The Bullet” or Mike “The Cat”?!

Hes definately a pommie bastard not Orstrayun And yes Bobs your uncle is a saying used in Orstraya as well. Rythming slang carried over to Australia. Would your china plate steer you wrong. Anyway forget Mick I liked Mimi until I found out she is a professional actress….whos the old bag with the cigarette hanging perenially from her mouth

He’s English – his profile is here

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=39636917&privcapId=39636984&previousCapId=39636984&previousTitle=Alchemy%20Worldwide%20LLC

Mick Hastie serves as Vice-President of New Product Development / Founding Partner of Homeland Housewares LLC, a division of Alchemy Worldwide LLC. Mr. Hastie serves as Vice-President of New Product Development of Alchemy Worldwide LLC. For 14 years now, he has been a front runner in the DRTV industry and has nearly 20 years of expertise in the homewares industry, where he has enjoyed great success both in the U.S. and in his native home – England. He is responsible for creating and developing new product in the housewares category where his track record of repeatedly identifying and creating products that have gone on to become successful DRTV campaigns is second to none. In concert with Mr. Caverly and Mr. Clifford, Mr. Hastie identifies and develops all homeware products and is an integral part in the creative, writing and marketing process of each campaign. Prior to joining Alchemy and founding Homeland Housewares, Mr. Hastie established his own company, Hastie2Market, where he created numerous winning DRTV campaigns. Prior to that, he served as Senior Director of Product Development of National Media Corp., where he was responsible for identifying and creating some of the most successful products/campaigns launched by that company. To date, Mr. Hastie has played an extensive role in creating direct-to-consumer marketing campaigns that have grossed nearly $1 billion in sales worldwide.

The blender is rubbish

Mick was born and raised in Manchester, England.
I know this because he told me.

hes from preston, lancashire, and hes very, very lovely.

Mick hastie is from Preston lancshire I know this because he his my uncle

Mick Hastie had babies with Hazel.

why are you still debating where Mick is from his niece told you.He grew up in the same street as me his family are friends of our family, he is not from Yorkshire he is from Lancashire in North wes England see wars of the roses Lancashire V Yorkshire Billy Lancashire,also the rhyming slang is not cockney it originated in Lancashire see the book the lanky twang.