UK's sexiest and least attractive accents revealed with Essex scooping top place

The Essex accent has been voted the sexiest in the UK.

The likes of The Only Way is Essex stars Mark Wright, Gemma Collins and Sam Faiers are considered more desirable because of their twang than those with a Geordie accent, such as Cheryl.

A poll by company Big 7 Travel ranked the Northern Irish accent as second, Glaswegian as third and Queen's English as fourth, with Mancunian coming fifth ahead of the Scouse accent at sixth.

And while it may be good enough for Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders, the Brummie twang was voted the least attractive at number 50 in the list.

Sam and Billie Faiers' Essex accent is more attractive that the Brummie one, according to the poll (Instagram)

Peaky Blinders' Tommy Shelby will be disappointed Brummie was voted the least attractive accent (Birmingham Mail)

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Gloucestershire came number 49, Hull at 48, and the West Country at 47.

Meanwhile the New Zealand accent has been voted the sexiest in the world, followed by South African and Irish. The Queen's English accent ranked number 12.

A spokesman from Big 7 Travel, who asked their 1.5m social audience, to poll the UK's sexiest accent said: "There’s very few other English-speaking countries with as many varieties of accents and language in such a small space, making the British Isles uniquely diverse when it comes to dialects.

Cheryl's Geordie accent ranked number 7 (BBC)

Paul O'Grady's scouse accent scooped sixth place (PA)

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"In fact, there’s a huge 56 recognised accents across the UK and Ireland."

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The list in full

1. Essex
2. Northern Irish
3. Glaswegian
4. Queen's English
5. Mancunian
6. Scouse
7. Geordie
8. South Welsh Valleys
9. Yorkshire
10. Cockney
11. Norfolk
12. Estuary English
13. Edinburgh
14. Cardiff
15. Lancashire
16. Somerset
17. Leeds
18. Multicultural London English
19. Highlands
20. Kentish
21. East Anglian
22. Surrey
23. Hebridean
24. Stoke-on-Trent
25. Northumberland
26. Middlesbrough
27. Bradford
28. Sunderland
29. Norwich
30. Crawley
31. Preston
32. Bolton
33. Manx
34. Nottingham
35. Cumbrian
36. Coventry
37. Devon
38. Durham
39. Hampshire
40. Leicester
41. Sheffield
42. Salford
43. Cheshire
44. Cornish
45. Bristolian
46. Wolverhampton
47. West Country
48. Hull City
49. Gloucestershire
50. Brummie