Are there any British celebrities who you were shocked to hear don't have awards (e.g. OBE, MBE, CBE, Knighthood, Damehood)? Are there any you think deserve them?

Posted by Ok-Scale9331@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 64 comments

For the last couple of years and for the majority of her time on Strictly Come Dancing last year I thought Angela Rippon was a Dame.

Just think: broadcasting legend, national treasure, almost 60 year career since 22 years old - you'd think so.

Nah, just a CBE (I say 'just', it's a bleedin' great achievement!)

I also think Stephen Fry deserves a Knighthood or an OBE at the very least and was shocked to hear he has neither. Whilst I'm not knocking them down, if Ant & Dec got OBE's at 41 and Fry hasn't had a single honour... come on now.

So, my question is - Are there any British celebrities who you were shocked to hear don't have awards (e.g. OBE, MBE, CBE, Knighthood, Damehood)? Are there any you think deserve them?

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Immorals1@reddit

There's tons of people who don't believe in knighthood/damehood and/or the royal family who turn it down and I respect those people more.

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Top_Instruction5539@reddit

blind resistance is not a virtue

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Awkward-Lawyer-406@reddit

Fry did coke in the palace.

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hoganpaul@reddit

So did most of the royal family

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Awkward-Lawyer-406@reddit

Very true lol

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JennyW93@reddit

Who hasn’t?

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waamoandy@reddit

Stephen Fry is unlikely to get anything as he's been to prison. That makes it difficult for the honours committee.

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6-foot-under@reddit

I think he has refused it. He was asked in Graham Norton once and he acted like he had been offered and refused it (without saying or hinting that).

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mrs-cunts@reddit

How could he act like that without so much as hinting it? I don’t understand

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6-foot-under@reddit

You just have to watch the clip. A normal reaction would be "they haven't offered it, what's going on. I'm waiting for the call" or some type of joke, but he kind of just goes silent and is grinning and saying "no no no".

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Jonography@reddit

But that would mean he hinted?

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6-foot-under@reddit

Just go and look at the clip. No I'm not sending you a link. Good day.

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RuneClash007@reddit

Anthony Joshua has one tbf

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Beaublu8@reddit

Anthony Joshua got a non custodial sentence and managed to turn his life around.

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RuneClash007@reddit

Nah I'm a big fan of AJ, I like how he turned his life around and has become a positive role model for kids, was just pointing out that being in trouble with the law doesn't restrict you from honours

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

If anything it should be the opposite. Somebody who’s been to prison and then come out, turned their life around and become a positive role model should be in strong consideration,

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Extreme-Kangaroo-842@reddit

You would assume that Bobby Moore is Sir Bobby Moore.

Nope.

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Brewer6066@reddit

He died pretty young. Charlton didn’t get his until 1994 when he was 57, Moore was 52 when he died.

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Extreme-Kangaroo-842@reddit

Yeah, I know. Far too young.

Bobby and Geoff Hurst absolutely deserved theirs but I was more getting at that you would think Bobby Moore was knighted in his lifetime, or even posthumously. Being the only England captain to lift the World Cup.

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alrighttreacle11@reddit

You can't be knighted posthumously, the knighthood ends on death

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alliedbiscuit6@reddit

Martin Amis was given his a day before his death.

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alrighttreacle11@reddit

That's unfortunate, there were calls to strip Jimmy Savile of his knighthood but they couldn't as they saod they don't exist after death so no need to

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alrighttreacle11@reddit

Sue pollard

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lurkmore95@reddit

David Beckham is very upset he doesn't have one. Long may that continue

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oudcedar@reddit

He’s had an OBE for decades

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lurkmore95@reddit

Should've clarified I meant knighthood

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Lenniel@reddit

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Lenniel@reddit

https://sunnymoney.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/6/4/19645963/robin-hood-taxes_orig.gif

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yourlocallidl@reddit

James Cordon, fight me

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Timothy_Claypole@reddit

Quite a few people have said that but for very different reasons

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PlasticLab3306@reddit

… Angela is this you?

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RaceFan1027@reddit

Would like to see Martin Lewis be made a Sir. Also probably agree with you on Angela Rippon.

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threeminutesoftime@reddit

Martin Lewis should be the King.

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RaceFan1027@reddit

Chancellor? Or make him his own ministerial position ‘minister for consumers/household finances’z

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benjm88@reddit

Just let him have ultimate power, better than anyone that's been in powerv or will be for a really long ring

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DaveBeBad@reddit

Some celebrities turn them down. Not saying that is the case for those two but others certainly have.

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EquivalentIsopod7717@reddit

Stephen Hawking rejected a knighthood and John Lennon returned his MBE.

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MojoMomma76@reddit

Stephen Fry has definitely turned down honours

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fjordsand@reddit

Some celebrities don’t want to be “members of the British empire”. Some are against unelected heads of state

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No_Sugar8791@reddit

Richard Dawkins. Hugely influential scientist and thinker.

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WVA1999@reddit

Lady Jane McDonald

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R2-Scotia@reddit

The person who was most overlooked was Alan Turing. It's well known that he saved untold lives by shortening WW2, but his larger contribution was founding computer science as an academic discipline. Either worthy of a knighthood.

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Willz093@reddit

Yes but let’s not forget he was gay!

/s obviously!

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Handbag31@reddit

Kevin sinfield is a hero and has been shown no respect for his dedication to rob burrow

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TheThistle123@reddit

Kevin Sinfield and Rob Burrow were made CBEs by Prince William

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greatdrams23@reddit

Jimmy page got an obe for his charity work, but really should be honoured for his work in revolutionising music.

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Shitelark@reddit

Knighthood for Brian Cox, both of them at the same time for the lolz.

"Do you mean Sir Brian Cox, or Prof. Sir Brian Cox?"

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R2-Scotia@reddit

Billy Connolly

Robbie Coltrane

Ian Rankine

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hoganpaul@reddit

Noddy Holder

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Dedj_McDedjson@reddit

Noddy, holder of an MBE?

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uncertain_expert@reddit

Adrian Newey has had an amazingly distinguished career in Automotive Engineering, yet he has only an OBE.

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TheJezster@reddit

I don't care what they have, if anything. They are just people on the telly.

It's not something that registers with me.

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