Olivia Newton-John to be made a Dame

[Denver]

GREASE star Olivia Newton-John is to be made a Dame in a New Year Honours list packed with names from the world of entertainment.

The singer, 71, gets the gong for services to charity, cancer research and entertainment.

Olivia, who was born in England but moved to Australia aged five, said: “I am extremely excited, honoured and grateful beyond words to be included with such an esteemed group of women who have received this distinguished award before me.

“As a girl born in Cambridge, I am very proud of my British ancestry and so appreciative to be recognised in this way by the United Kingdom.”

James Bond director Sam Mendes, 54, is to be knighted for his contribution to drama.

Meanwhile, Sir Elton John, 72, will have his knighthood upgraded to a Companion of Honour — becoming one of only 65 living recipients of the award.

Steve McQueen, the 50-year-old Oscar-winning director of 12 Years a Slave, will also be knighted for services to film.

Queen drummer Roger Taylor, 70 becomes an OBE while singer Billy Ocean, 69, becomes an MBE for services to music.

Snow Patrol’s lead singer Gary Lightbody, 43, will be made an OBE for services to music and charity. But the news will be bittersweet for him as it comes days after the death of his dad Jack, who had suffered from dementia. His funeral was on Christmas Eve.

TV presenter and campaigner June Sarpong, 42, will be made an OBE, while BBC Sport presenter Gabby Logan, 46, is to become an MBE.

Long-serving Radio 1 DJ Annie Nightingale, 79, will be upgraded to a CBE from an MBE.

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, 60, becomes a CBE — and joked that he would be celebrating like Tommy Shelby, the hard-drinking lead character of the hit BBC drama.

Playwright James Graham, 37, whose stage production of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? cheating scandal was recently adapted for TV, will be made an OBE.

And stage star Giles Terera, 43, best known for playing Aaron Burr in Hamilton, becomes an MBE.

There are also awards for several TV cooks. Nigel Slater, 61, will become an OBE, while Ainsley Harriott, 62, and Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, 35, are both made MBEs for services to broadcasting and the culinary arts.

In total, 1,097 people will receive honours, the Cabinet Office said, with 50.7 per cent going to women — the second highest for a New Year Honours list, after 51 per cent in 2014.
http://thesun.co.uk/news/10628410/new-years-honour-list-olivia-newton-john-nadiya-hussain/

[Mitchell]

Ainsley, Nadiya, Gok, Billy and June are great choices, shame about Iain Duncan Smith

[Marsh.]

Some of those names. :unsure:

[Oliver_W]

Ainsley, Nadiya, Gok, Billy and June are great choices, shame about Iain Duncan Smith
What the hell, why is IDS being honoured? People were saying Farage should get a knighthood, and while I don't necessarily agree he's as valid as some of the others, plus he got a bunch of people interested in politics ... but IDS?! NO! Unless they want to give him a Victoria Cross for casualties in the war against the poor.

I had to google some of the others, Nadiya had Debbie Harry show up in her "people also search for" ... why is Queen Blondie in the same search results as a random tv chef? :joker:

[Zizu]

http://thesun.co.uk/news/10628410/new-years-honour-list-olivia-newton-john-nadiya-hussain/



Interesting .. weren’t the Bee Gees also English born but moved to Australia when they were toddlers !?

Must have been a thing back then ..


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[Oliver_W]

Interesting .. weren’t the Bee Gees also English born but moved to Australia when they were toddlers !?

Must have been a thing back then ..


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Did they still send criminals to Australia when they were young?

[Denver]

Interesting .. weren’t the Bee Gees also English born but moved to Australia when they were toddlers !?

Must have been a thing back then ..


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It was a common thing back then they also use to send children off to be adopted their back when it was more under British power then it is now

[Oliver_W]

Where are Sir John Cleese and Dame JK Rowling? Long overdue!

[Denver]

Where are Sir John Cleese and Dame JK Rowling? Long overdue!

John Cleese wont get one after hinting he will stop paying tax because of his age a few years back

[Kizzy]

Where are Sir John Cleese and Dame JK Rowling? Long overdue!

JK Rowling has the companion of honour that has just been awarded to Elton John.

It's for having so much money but not giving too much away probably :idc:

[Oliver_W]

JK Rowling has the companion of honour that has just been awarded to Elton John.

It's for having so much money but not giving too much away probably :idc:

She lost her billionaire status from giving so much to charity!

[Kizzy]

She lost her billionaire status from giving so much to charity!

I'm sure that was a crushing blow. I'm not for a second suggesting that it is the job of self made people to fund charity. However, if awards are for philanthropy then let's see where these tax free lump sums ..I mean charity donations go.

[Oliver_W]

John Cleese wont get one after hinting he will stop paying tax because of his age a few years back

To be fair I think people over the retirement age should be tax emempt :shrug:

[Kizzy]

To be fair I think people over the retirement age should be tax emempt :shrug:

Retirement age is a suggestion not an order. It just means you have reached an age where you are entitled to claim a pension. Nothing to do with tax.

[Twosugars]

I'm sure that was a crushing blow. I'm not for a second suggesting that it is the job of self made people to fund charity. However, if awards are for philanthropy then let's see where these tax free lump sums ..I mean charity donations go.
She does a lot but is not flashy about it
To be fair I think people over the retirement age should be tax emempt :shrug:

Not if he's still earning from interviews and various appearances as he is

[Mitchell]

but IDS?! NO! Unless they want to give him a Victoria Cross for casualties in the war against the poor.


It’s not very often I agree with you, but spot on, absolute joke.

[Zizu]

Did they still send criminals to Australia when they were young?



As I recall the Gibb brothers were all getting into trouble around the Manchester area and the parents decided a new start in Australia was the solution !?!?


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[Kizzy]

She does a lot but it is not flashy about it

Well obviously...There's no JK Rowling homeless shelter is there?

Proportionally her donating 10k would be the equivalent of us donating about 10p. So to be worthy if any 'award' her donations must be substantial. I'm wondering who the lucky beneficiaries are?

[Twosugars]

Well obviously...There's no JK Rowling homeless shelter is there?

Proportionally her donating 10k would be the equivalent of us donating about 10p. So to be worthy if any 'award' her donations must be substantial. I'm wondering who the lucky beneficiaries are?

Google it, it's too many to mention

As of 2011 she donated over 100 million.
Most causes are about children.

Rowling has contributed money and support for research and treatment of multiple sclerosis, from which her mother suffered before her death in 1990. In 2006, Rowling contributed a substantial sum toward the creation of a new Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University, later named the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.[190] In 2010, she donated another £10 million to the centre,[191] and in 2019 a further £15 million.[192] wikipedia

Some of the later hp universe books were written exclusively for charity with all profits going there

[Kizzy]

Google it, it's too many to mention

As of 2011 she donated over 100 million.
Most causes are about children.

Rowling has contributed money and support for research and treatment of multiple sclerosis, from which her mother suffered before her death in 1990. In 2006, Rowling contributed a substantial sum toward the creation of a new Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University, later named the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.[190] In 2010, she donated another £10 million to the centre,[191] and in 2019 a further £15 million.[192] wikipedia

Some of the later hp universe books were written exclusively for charity with all profits going there

I'll have a look..is this from her wiki page?

[Twosugars]

The wikipedia quote about MS is

Not the total as of 2011, that from 2 different sources from 1 page of google

[Crimson Dynamo]

Ainsley Harriott, 62, and Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, 35, are both made MBEs for services to broadcasting and the culinary arts.

:laugh2:

[bots]

i see that the government kindly published the addresses of the 1000 recipients so that we can all go round to their houses and thank them personally :skull:

[Marsh.]

JK Rowling has the companion of honour that has just been awarded to Elton John.

It's for having so much money but not giving too much away probably :idc:

JK Rowling does tonnes, not just giving money but actually running charities herself like Lumos.

[Marsh.]

I don't really know Nadiya Hussain but she won Bake Off and it's an outstanding achievement to culinary arts?

[Nicky91]

I don't really know Nadiya Hussain but she won Bake Off and it's an outstanding achievement to culinary arts?

she also did some culinary presenting gigs for BBC

[Crimson Dynamo]

I don't really know Nadiya Hussain but she won Bake Off and it's an outstanding achievement to culinary arts?

Its because she is a POC and a muslim. box ticking of the worst kind.

awful

[Marsh.]

Its because she is a POC and a muslim. box ticking of the worst kind.

awful

Oh don't be stupid. There's plenty POC that actually have contributed something that could be honoured in her place.

Maybe it's like the Oscars and her agent paid for it.

[Liam-]

I don't really know Nadiya Hussain but she won Bake Off and it's an outstanding achievement to culinary arts?

She baked Lizzie’s birthday cake

[Crimson Dynamo]

Oh don't be stupid. There's plenty POC that actually have contributed something that could be honoured in her place.

Maybe it's like the Oscars and her agent paid for it.

They gave an MBE to David camerons hairdresser so the whole disgusting corrupt system is fked

[Marsh.]

She baked Lizzie’s birthday cake

:joker:

[Marsh.]

They gave an MBE to David camerons hairdresser so the whole disgusting corrupt system is fked

Well Cameron definitely paid for that. Probs slept with her so got it her to keep her sweet.

[Denver]

Nadiya has done a lot to help young Muslim women have a career in TV with her representation

[Crimson Dynamo]

Nadiya has done a lot to help young Muslim women have a career in TV with her representation

why should helping muslim women get jobs in TV be anything?

and i doubt there is any evidence she helped a single one

[Marsh.]

Her representing a portion of the viewing audience is important of course. But that's not a personal achievement of her own. She won a reality show, she didn't do anything revolutionary.

[Liam-]

Sophie Reade deserves an OBE at least.

‘Dogface OBE’ has a nice ring to it

[bots]

ive never agreed with the honours lists and the fact that they grade the honour as well just makes it twice as bad. Acknowledge people of courage that can be identified in a specific event ... great ... but when someone gets a knighthood for services to the blah industry/charity/music etc ... they can bog off

[Oliver_W]

Nadiya has done a lot to help young Muslim women have a career in TV with her representation

Who has she helped get on TV?

[Crimson Dynamo]

surely its Paul Hollywood who needs a gong not some forgettable winner of HIS show?

[Cherie]

It’s the one that she wants uh uh uuuuuuu

[Cherie]

She baked Lizzie’s birthday cake

She did

[Marsh.]

It’s the one that she wants uh uh uuuuuuu

*places the lid on the Baileys and calls Mr C*

[Mitchell]

Nadiya is fab

[Kizzy]

As nan would say... worraloadofol****!!!!