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http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201009115874757
Nothing for Simon Cowell yet!
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201009115874757
Nothing for Simon Cowell yet!
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Particularly pleased about Annie.
Full lists
Ummm, not that I really approve of the honours list.
Can't understand Sheila Hancock's award - she is a very good actress and has written a book about her late husband, John Thaw, but what else?
David Suchet - love him as an actor but why the hell should we honour services to drama?
I'm a great sports fan but should Graeme McDowall be honoured simply because he sank the winning putt that won the Ryder Cup for Europe?
Of course one can always look on the bright side of life - Bruce Forsyth is denied the knighthood he craves: let's be thankful for small mercies.
No wonder I, like many others, regard the honours with such disdain.
The truly honourable often spend a lifetime working for others without either need or hope of public recognition.
I would imagine being the first person from the UK to win the US Open since what, Faldo?, might have helped to.
Telegraph do it in pictures
It's so wrong. Doubt most of them would last a month if they had to come out of the cosiness and work in the real world.
The honours are at the best when some old girl who was a school crossing patrol for 20 years and never took a day off sick gets one, but there's always near the bottom of the list and get little publicity.
Good. Unless being irritating for decades makes one worthy
Brucie won't get one yet because!, i read recently that he got an obe/mbe/cbe?.. something like that only a few years ago and you can't receive another award until i think it's 5 years has elapsed...
piersmorgan Utterly ridiculous that Bruce Forsyth still hasn't been knighted. What more must he do than be a multi-talented star for SEVEN decades?
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Amongst my acquaintances are many whose talents will never grab the headlines but whose work and consideration for the less fortunate have made considerable impact on the lives of others. Some work to alleviate the impact of poverty, disability or mental health: others offer support to the victims of physical/mental/sexual abuse and some to the terminally ill and their families - the list is endless.
These are the unsung heroes who deserve recognition - those who look beyond their own limitations to make the world a better place for the less fortuante.
Hmm I take your point... but remember when these awards are given to sports people or people with other talents its always "was given for services to golf/acting/football" etc... All sports figures like that influence others to take up the sport and increase investment in that area... something the tireless coach of the local school time can never do despite he may be putting in more efforts... fame and being number 1 in the sport gets you influence to promote that sport.
Suddenly I have even more dislike for the Queen than I had before & even I didn't think that was possible.
I will continue to be totally uninterested in these lists until they give Stephen Fry a knighthood. Or name him ruler of the world. I'm flexible on that.
Applause applause...
I say that as a Liverpool supporter.
Seven decades? How did he work that out?
Multi talented Bruce Forsyth's act is only about one minute long. He has been repeating his sixty second act again and again ever since his time on Sunday Night at the London Palladium. It almost never changes. He sings badly, dances all gangly, waits for someone to laugh at his jokes and often has to instruct people to laugh. Bog off Brucie, time to let others have a go!
I see Trevor Horne, former Buggles member, who co-wrote Video Killed The Radio Star, and producer of 80s hit band, ABC got a CBE. But that's his job (as a record producer). Why an honour for again just doing your job, albeit in his case a very well paid one?