Mbe articles
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‘Beyond my wildest dreams’ – talkSPORT host Jeff Stelling picks up his MBE
talkSPORT host Jeff Stelling picked up his MBE and admitted he could never have dreamed of receiving such a prestigious honour. Stelling received his MBE for services to sport, broadcasting and cha
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Sky Sports legend Jeff Stelling details ‘unbelievable’ moment he received his MBE
Sports presenter Jeff Stelling said he “could have never dreamt of” his decades-long career when he was a young boy growing up on a North East council estate. The veteran broadcaster, who fronted the Sky Sports Soccer Saturday programme for 25 years before stepping down last year, was made an MBE on Wednesday for services to sport, broadcasting and charity at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Stelling said the honour, given by the Princess Royal, was “amazing, unexpected, thrilling and, on the...
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Annie Mac turned down MBE because she didn’t ‘want to be associated with the British Empire’
However, she added that if the language around the invitation was changed, she’d be ‘happy to receive it’.