Is there a stereotype of an Essex boy like there is Essex Girl?

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CriticalBrickery@reddit

Yes, in the 90s it was the del boy wheeler dealer aspiring to be Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glenross and Gordon Gekko in Wall Street type. And now aspires to be Jordan Belfort in Wolf of Wall Street, I know because I know one of them. Works in Sales.

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DamoclesBDA@reddit

Del was a cockney.

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CriticalBrickery@reddit

Lots of cockneys moved out to Essex.

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DamoclesBDA@reddit

They tend to be in South Essex.

Essex is pretty large and varied.

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buy_me_lozenges@reddit

I remember seeing Liam from the Prodigy talking about the misconceptions of people from Essex due to the stereotypes associated with it. He's from Braintree, he commented that not everyone from Essex goes to Southend on the weekend, as many People think. When Keith Flint died, there was a huge mural painted of him in Southend.

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DamoclesBDA@reddit

I was born in North Essex, raised there and even got my second degree there.

I have never been to Southend.

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Unhappy_Clue701@reddit

Indeed. The East End of London got bombed to fuck during the war, and the housing there was slum like - old and decrepit - even before that, so the government used land further out into Essex and built a ton of housing there to take the displaced cockneys.

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Smiley_Dub@reddit

Where was Rodney's accent from though? Didnt sound anything like Del

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DamoclesBDA@reddit

It was supposed to be South London. So not Essex.

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Altruistic_Grocery81@reddit

Always sales or a form thereof. Car dealer, Estate Agent etc.

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Rawlinson20@reddit

Can't forget recruitment!

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clrthrn@reddit

I had the misfortune to work for 6 months in a recruitment agency as a temp controller in 1998. 90s Essex man was all my male colleagues, they were its purest essence. Like posh young Loadsamoney caricatures.

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Wretched_Colin@reddit

Also in the 90s, you had Harry Enfield as Loadsamoney who was an Essex Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PFAEcHbgHY

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WhiteDiamondK@reddit

Google “Joey Essex”.

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mattcannon2@reddit

Tom Skinner also gives off big Essex boy vibes, although I think he's a Londoner.

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buy_me_lozenges@reddit

He gives off Londoner that's moved to Essex.

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Over-Language2599@reddit

He was the best contender ever on the Crystal Maze. I was equally surprised and impressed.

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Dazz316@reddit

I don't watch him much. But I wonder if he's like Stacey Solomon, she totally plays up the blonde bimbo stereotype. I find her quite witty and smart.

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iykyk@reddit

I’ve had the unfortunate pleasure of working with Joey Essex a few times. Genuinely dumb as a bag of rocks, and the flimsiest handshake I’ve ever experienced. One of his famous quotes - after he did a tv show all about revising for a GCSE in general studies and got a D - was “I still don’t know what GCSE stands for”.

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WhiteDiamondK@reddit

I think it wasn’t MUCH of an act in the early days. I really do think he was a bit dumb when he first was on TOWIE. Likely still played up for comedic value.

Nowadays he comes across far more eloquently but still with that Joey Essex flint in his eye.

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WhiteDiamondK@reddit

Definitely was the poster Essex Boy in his younger years.

All about the looks, fashion, geezer, banter, shagger, but also wouldn’t be surprised if they enjoyed the touch of a man too.

He’s actually matured into a great bloke and always enjoy watching him on TV.

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Individual-Meeting@reddit

Ooof guesting you didn't watch him showing his true colours on love island then...

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vipros42@reddit

I was amazed at how dim David Coulthard seemed when he was on crystal maze

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hdhxuxufxufufiffif@reddit

I always assumed people called him Joey Essex because he's from Essex and looks and acts like it. Turns out it's his real name.

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WhiteDiamondK@reddit

I know! I was shocked when I found that out too. Thought it was a nickname for the longest while!

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catsaregreat78@reddit

Also shocked about that!

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hakc97@reddit (OP)

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Agitated_Parsnip_178@reddit

Yes. Cheeky chappies with turkey teeth, tans and obsessed with designer labels, cash in hand and working class. See TOWIE (2010).

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Fufflewaffle@reddit

This is often called Deano now, the ITV2 look.

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space_coyote_86@reddit

Drives a white car, either a Mercedes A45 AMG or an Audi RS3.

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colin_staples@reddit

Or a white Escort XR3i, if it’s the late 80s

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jeremybeadlesfingers@reddit

Entry level A3 more commonly.

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slade364@reddit

A45 is a bit of stretch! Maybe an A3 on finance.

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TheShakyHandsMan@reddit

Used to be a white Escort XR3i cabriolet back in the day

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DevilRenegade@reddit

See also; White 24 plate Audi A3 on finance, new build house with all grey furniture and "Live, Laugh, Love" decals on the wall.

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W35TH4M@reddit

Essentially just think Tommy Fury and Mollie Mae, that type of couple

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DevilRenegade@reddit

Bingo.

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Danielharris1260@reddit

I’ve noticed many of them actually seem to be relatively well off I know getting car on finance is probably easier than it should be but banks aren’t exactly giving mortgages on new builds to anyone and the constant holidays to Spain and Turkey must add up.

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VarangianWRLD@reddit

Deano

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Dazzling_Bat_Hat@reddit

Here’s an article about Micael Landys Essex man exhibition…

https://www.thomasdanegallery.com/artworks/19800/

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animatedgoblin@reddit

Deanomania

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ellasfella68@reddit

Came here for this!

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ellasfella68@reddit

I’m here for the brilliant video.

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Sendhimoffdiabolical@reddit

Craig Fairbrass as Pat Tate you mug.

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Tricky_Ricky83@reddit

I read this in the accent as well. Fack awf, yewww mug! 🤣

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Sendhimoffdiabolical@reddit

You what you jobsworth wrongun? I'm gonna open you up.

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Tricky_Ricky83@reddit

🤣🤣 brilliant!

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Youtalkingtomyboobs@reddit

The Essex boy that stereotype that I grew up with (in Essex) was that they were called Gary/Garry or Steve and drove a Ford Escort MK 4, VW Golf or Ford Sierra Cosworth - spent their time doing doughnuts in car parks, revving their engines and doing laps round the one way systems in the various Essex towns, north and south of the county.

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ImpactAffectionate86@reddit

Yes they’re called ‘Deanos’

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ThrowRASoooSleepy@reddit

Deanos flummoxed.

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No_transistory@reddit

Oh, deanos chundered

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VarangianWRLD@reddit

Love my girl, she is a diamond

I'd break up with her to go on Love Island

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Specialist-Prior-213@reddit

I think of Essex boys as the typical group of football lads that go on lads holidays to Ibiza. They'll either be really nice lads or total arseholes with very little inbetween

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Patecatli@reddit

In short, yes. Tanned, styled hair, "designer" labels, modified cars (typically hot hatches).

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LeTrolleur@reddit

All the designer labels are from Freeport Braintree.

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ToshPott@reddit

They talk through their teeth. I don't know how to explain it, but you can hear it on the phone.

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NewDate6115@reddit

Yeah, my mate who comes from Billericay talks like that.

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ihathtelekinesis@reddit

Is he called Dicky and doing very well?

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NewDate6115@reddit

He is doing very well but he's not called Dicky, or tricky for that matter. ;)

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whodunnit20@reddit

My daughter lives in Billericay.

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AirSorvete@reddit

I know what you mean. I can actually hear it my head now, damn you.

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llufnam@reddit

Tight clothes, no socks, sleeve tattoo, turkey teeth

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D-1-S-C-0@reddit

Cheeky chappy. Loves banter with the lads and being a slag. Drives a hot hatch with mods worth more than the car. Jumps on every trend and becomes a cliché of modern fashion. Might have a fake tan.

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TheNathanNS@reddit

pull up to my Barratt new build home with my 25 year fixed rate mortage in my grey Audi A3 on finance after a hard days work as deputy assistant head of sales targeting

open the boot and take out my River Island and Superdry bags with the new gear I bought on the way home from work

open the door

yell hello to my wife of 2-years in the kitchen as she is already home from her work as a Team Leader in a call centre

sit down on my leather sofa bought on sale at Sofology (haha I love those adverts, what is that sloth like haha, love sloths me)

put up my feet on the IKEA table

whap on the telly and tune in just in time to see Bradders going through the rules of the final chase with the contestants who made it through before they face Anne Hegarty

perfect timing as my wife comes in with the dinner, another one of Jamie Oliver's cracking 30 minute meals

tuck in as I pretend to listen to my wife's stories from her day at work

send a cheeky snap to Smithster and Deano to see if they can come round for the champions league match later to watch it on the ol' Sony Bravia, maybe sneak in a few rounds of Fifa '17 on the PS4 first, bloody Smithster ignoring the rule of no tap-ins what a melt haha

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TheNathanNS@reddit

Deano?

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Diligent_Reading_786@reddit

Is your name Gavin? 😂😂😂

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Fine-Home-2341@reddit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-55704468

This is the photo you are thinking about

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hhfugrr3@reddit

They're from Coventry and nothing like Essex boys of the 1990s. Back then the Essex boys wore a lot of baseball caps and designer gear - usually fake. There was a factory pumping out fake Burberry etc in the 90s and all the Essex boys were clad in it - I remember the police shutting it down and suddenly most of the fake gear disappeared. They also drove hot hatches - usually badly modified - like idiots to the point that councils like Southend had to install giant speed bumps to stop the Essex boy racers turning the seafront into a race track every weekend.

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anarchtea@reddit

This! Fucking TOWIE. I suppose that's an evolution of what came before, but there was definitely a stereotype before then. If it was in Max Power, you'd see it around my way.

TOWIE boys are caricatures of the 90s Essex lad, like taking moving all the photoshop sliders up to 100.

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fuck_peeps_not_sheep@reddit

Gel hair, smart casual clothes, white trainers, painfully white teeth

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VarangianWRLD@reddit

Deano & the Mrs

(Deano unironically lives a better quality life than the snobs who look down on him)

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burnaaccount3000@reddit

The real answer is the turkey teeff and fake bake style is up and down the country now geordie shore and towie helped that

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Former_Intern_8271@reddit

Will ospreay

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NightBusToGiro@reddit

Go there and find out.

West Ham, Peroni, slicked side part.

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Training_Ad_2014@reddit

Yes of course. In fact they were (and still probably are) a major force in UK politics.

Election campaigns were run around the Essex Man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_man

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astralwisdom7@reddit

Joey Essex.

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calmeilles@reddit

That's who I thought of too.

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spazbarracuda@reddit

Yes, think Charvas or the male love island contestants; sun bed tan, chains, designer clothing, turkey teeth, Mercedes etc

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Tacklestiffener@reddit

My friends have a young relative. He's very well groomed, well dressed (always) and perma-tanned. He speaks like dropping a bag of spanners down a fire escape and has Turkey teeth so he looks like he swallowed a torch.

BUT... he's a really nice bloke.

PS: The torch joke was originally Sean Lock - a truly funny man. (but a challenging wank)

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AirSorvete@reddit

Deano's

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happybaby00@reddit

Look up "deano Dubai" or guys like hstikkytokky and ed Matthews, that's the stereotype.

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Educational_Cow111@reddit

Sapnin darlin

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TheSBW@reddit

white trainers and a big watch. if wearing a suit it’s sprayed on

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Megaera1877@reddit

Back in the 90's it was Ben Sherman shirts or knock off Ralph Lauren polo tops with a french crop gelled down within an inch of its life and reeking of hooky farenheit aftershave

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Miserable-Ad7835@reddit

Thick as fuck and only care about their appearance...

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DamoclesBDA@reddit

You can't stereotype an entire county of 1.9 million people.

Stereotypes are stupid and shallow.

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porcelain_toenail@reddit

Just because they're stupid doesn't mean they don't exist. Stereotypes often exist for a reason.

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DamoclesBDA@reddit

"Stereotypes often exist for a reason."

Because people are stupid and shallow.

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porcelain_toenail@reddit

No, they exist because of a biological and cognitive drive for efficiency. Not all stereotypes are negative or born from malice.

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DamoclesBDA@reddit

It's intellectual laziness.

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MonkeyTheBlackCat@reddit

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Sea-Factor4603@reddit

I thought back in the 90's it was tracksuits & souped up Ford Escorts.

Back in the 80"s it was women in white stilettos, as well lots of Essex girl jokes.

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takemeawayimdone2@reddit

My Essex town has 18 Turkish barbers so the men here must be well groomed…..although they are always empty and the men here don’t look very groomed…..

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Ttime101010@reddit

Deep ass V neck t shirts oh and counter to that polo shirts buttoned to the top.

Wheres ya logic fellas.

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alaughatyourdriving@reddit

Absolutely

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Wretched_Colin@reddit

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, you had a load of people who were able to buy their council homes cheaply, sell them for a big profit and they all moved out to Essex, coming out with money in their pocket and happy to shout about it.

Whatever was left of Cockney / Eastenders communities was decimated by it, just when the Eastenders tv show started.

Ironically, it's all those ones who fucked off, or their kids and grandkids, that now bemoan the fact that places like Bethnal Green have a large immigrant population.

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IDPTheory@reddit

I went to a party in a very Essex part of Essex years ago. I'm a country lad, went wearing jeans and a casual shirt. The local lads were something to behold. I think they made more effort than the girls in some cases. They're very appearance oriented.

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MidnightOrdinary896@reddit

Think of guys on TOWIE.

I used to see a lot of guys in super sight jeans and trousers, on the weekend. So tight their smartphone would bulge in their pocket.

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hebejebez@reddit

Joey Essex used to wear shoes that were two sizes too small as it looked better even though it hurt to walk. That one kills me with laughing every time I remember that.

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cathie10101@reddit

When that program towie came on the t.v. we went on holiday and was in a small fishing village.and was in the Q for chips.and was asked where do u come from? And I said Essex. And then came the question 's did I know joey Essex? Errrr nope.only watched 10 mins of the first episode.switched it off.biggest load of rubbish ever.now if we are asked.we say north London.

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whodunnit20@reddit

Always dressed up, flashy jewellery, gelled back hair, brightest white teeth, flash car, holiday in Marbella. Is a massive flirt with women because he believes they all want him.

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arfur-sixpence@reddit

Why does an Essex girl wear knickers? To keep her ankles warm 😄

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Upper_Paramedic_2043@reddit

This is only a stereotype for the south part of Essex. The Northern part of the county is more like Suffolk and has it’s own carrot-cruncher stereotype once you get north of Colchester

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prestel@reddit

YouTube Harry Enfield 'loads of money'

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Dedward5@reddit

Back in the day Harry Enfields “Load’sa money”

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Quirky_Box5409@reddit

Greasy slicked back hair, violently blinding huge turkey teeth and a bit fick

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Shot_Net3794@reddit

Thomas Skinner

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hhfugrr3@reddit

Sadly my parents moved me to Essex in the 1990s. Typical essex boys were heavily groomed, wore bright white trainers often with white socks pulled up high - which seems to be making a return to fashion at the moment. They often drove obnoxiously loud cars very badly - to the point that Southend council were forced to install high speed bumps to prevent dickheads driving like dickheads along the seafront. You may have gathered I did not enjoy my time living in Essex.

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crooktimber@reddit

Essex boys and girls alike look like they'd leave stains on a pillow. Almost slimy with grease, a lot of them.

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Only-Tutor7115@reddit

Tanned, fade, sleeve tattoo, skinny jeans perhaps? But not only in Essex.

Popular media has a huge reach.

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StockKick4984@reddit

Joey Essex.

That's the stereotype.

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