...Dame Prue Leith, Sir Jonathan Pryce, Dame Arlene Phillips (of "Hot Gossip" choreography fame), and Our Patron Saint of Shout, Lulu (Kennedy-Cairns) CBE!
Joining them among the 1,129 awardees in HM The Queen’s Birthday Honours today are - CBE: tennis pundit Sue Barker, TV's Crimewatch host Nick Ross and the legendary Rick Wakeman; OBE: Skin (of Skunk Anansie), Julian Lloyd Webber and poet Lemn Sissay; and MBE: Englebert Humperdinck, trumpeter Jess Gillam, BBC Wales "easy listening" show host Beverley Humphreys and former Radios 1 and 2 stalwart Simon Mayo...
...and, last but not least, house fave here at Dolores Delargo Towers Alison Moyet MBE!
Congratulations, all.
Postscript:
Today also happens to be World Gin Day!
Clink, clink, dear reader...
14 comments:
Once again my Damehood must have got lost in the post. Bah!
Still, at least there's World Gin Day to fall back on. Although it'll take quite a few before there's any falling involved...
Mine, too, dear - I tried phoning the Palace but apparently they're all sunning their arses down Carbis Bay...
I hope your "Gin Corner" has plenty of soft, padded surfaces in case you're overcome by the tonic! Or something. Jx
My other half has recently taken up gin drinking and whiskey drinking. The gin I don't mind, but the smell of whiskey has me wondering if I've accidentally married my grandfather! I'll stick to my rums and wines.
Maybe you'll reach Damehood next year.
I like an occasional whisky (or brandy, or indeed dark rum), but Scotch does often have a disagreeable smell, I'll admit...
I'm banking my hopes on a Damehood in the New Year's Honours. Jx
Gin day... or as I call it... Friday and Saturday night. Kizzes. Oh. And Alison. Saw her a few years ago at the Fine Line... best concert ever. She was gorgeous, happy and engaged. I have never seen a veteran performer more engaged. I adored it. And it was one of the best I have ever seen. She deserves to be a dame, but back in the day.... would you ever have imagined??? Such a thing???
Oh. Favorite appearance... Alison on The French and Sanders Show. She totally ruled.
I'm sure Miss Moyet never imagined becoming a "national treaure"... Jx
She was their special guest in the very first ever episode of The French & Saunders Show, indeed! Jx
Champagne for Lu lu
or perhaps it should be
Gin.
A "French 75"..! Jx
Sue Barker...didn't she make Cliff Richard look ever-so good and straight a few years back?
I haven't drunk gin since my Swiss Cottage days!
Oh, yes - she was the most famous of Sir Cliff's "beards". She's straight, it would appear, but definitely more butch than he ever was... Jx
Dame Lulu!!! Did she only get a CBE? She should be a Dame.
Sx
I agree! And poor old Engelbert only got an MBE. An MBE is what they give you for being school lollipop lady. Jx
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