Davina McCall and Vicky McClure are among stars on King's Birthday Honours list 2023
ok.co.ukDavina McCall and Line Of Duty actress Vicky McClure have been made MBEs on the King's first Birthday Honours list this year.The duo joined veteran broadcaster Ken Bruce, footballer Ian Wright, fashion editor Dame Anna Wintour and Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan in the list, with the latter two being awarded the highest honours as Companions of Honour.They joined Professor Sir John Bell, who is the Regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford.
Former England and Arsenal footballer-turned-pundit Ian was made an OBE, while late author Sir Martin Amis was knighted a day before he died last month at the age of 73.
Speaking to PA News, author Ian shared his "delight" at learning of the news, and admitted it was a "complete surprise". “I guess it amounts to a really good review.
I’m now entering my 54th year of writing fiction. As all dedicated writers know, a literary life is not a career so much as a way of being," the star went on. “The task in hand, the novel one is trying to create, is always there, a constant and intimate companion. “The writers who precede me in this award have long been companions too – Maugham, Greene, Larkin, Pinter, Margaret Atwood, Antonia Fraser, and my friend Salman Rushdie. "Truly, a companionable honour," he added, as Davina shared excitedly: “I can’t believe it.
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