Famous faces who declined honours and returned them - from Nigella to Michael Sheen
offered a peerage by Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown in 1999 - he declined because he felt staying in England during the winter months to fulfil his role as a working peer was "too much of a price to pay". The former Beatle turned an OBE down in 2000 - after Paul McCartnery was awarded a knighthood.