[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...hmmm, has Jimmy Savill not still got his though..?..maybe he can't be 'stripped' posthumously..?...I think though that if Gary wanted to give it back that would be one thing but I don't think that he should necessarily have any pressure to do so though, Joey...what he did was wrong and he's paying it back, which even for someone so wealthy is no small thing...it's kind of to me, where does it all end...?...

I think he has been posthumously stripped of his Knighthood but I am not 100% surea s to that,no one however refers him as Sir Jimmy Saville now that's for sure but he is, as you rightly point out, dead.
Even if he hasn't been officially stripped of it, he would have been I am sure had he still been alive now.

For me it could end by stopping giving such awards to people who are and have been for ages paid very handsomely as to status and wealth for their showbusiness achievements.
They get plenty other awards from the music business anyway.

If doing things for charity and using such events to plug an album or new single should result in an OBE or whatever then give them out to all who assist with charitable events and not just the better known and richer of those that do.

I think Gary Barlow is a really good singer, a brilliant songwriter and performer but aside from his massive wealth as to charitable events,he is no better than anyone else who does such things in my view.