Keith Lemon OBE?
Telegraph View: it is only a matter of time. Many on this yr’s Honours checklist appear to be plucked from a replica of Take A spoil
Keith Lemon, presenter of in the course of the Keyhole, and Denise van Outen, narrator of the only approach Is Essex, are both appointed Officers of the most superb Order of the British Empire within the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Or possibly that’s next 12 months’s checklist. the rest seems imaginable. it will be a pity to ridicule the Honours listing, as lots of the 1,163 recipients have carried out admirable work without a glare of publicity. however a portion of the record is past parody. Eddie Redmayne, aged 33, is a excellent actor, however his OBE should not be considered as the same kind of honour as an Oscar, nor will have to Benedict Cumberbatch’s CBE be severely thought to be as a consolation prize, as some have put it, for lacking out in the Academy Awards.
Denise Van Outen as her Eastenders character Karin good. A future peer of the realm? photo: BBC
at the high end, the Companions of Honour are enriched by means of the appointment of Sir Neville Marriner, 91, the founding father of the Academy of St Martin within the Fields, and Lord Woolf, eighty two, the former Lord Chief Justice. however within the middling ranks of honour it seems to be nearly as if anyone had became over the television listings pages for concepts. it’s strange to assume at one second of the MBE for the selfless heroism of Will Pooley, the British nurse who helped individuals with Ebola in Sierra Leone and then caught and survived the illness, and the next moment of the OBE for Steven Moffat, producer of physician Who and Sherlock. For all its deserves, we cannot survey the Honours record with out, within the words of a song by way of the newly knighted Sir Van Morrison, underlying melancholy.
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