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He may be renowned for an instinctive austerity, but the first new year honours list of Gordon Brown's premiership is scattered with a handful of stardust, as a chatshow host, numerous actors and the nation's favourite diminutive pop singer, Kylie Minogue, receive accolades.Minogue, who battled back from cancer this year, is to receive an OBE, while Michael Parkinson, who retired from his sofa last week, will be knighted. Britain's grandest theatrical knight, Sir Ian McKellen, becomes a Companion of Honour for "services to drama and equality". Jacqueline Wilson, the children's author who has sold 20m books in Britain alone, becomes a dame.Source
He may be renowned for an instinctive austerity, but the first new year honours list of Gordon Brown's premiership is scattered with a handful of stardust, as a chatshow host, numerous actors and the nation's favourite diminutive pop singer, Kylie Minogue, receive accolades.
Minogue, who battled back from cancer this year, is to receive an OBE, while Michael Parkinson, who retired from his sofa last week, will be knighted. Britain's grandest theatrical knight, Sir Ian McKellen, becomes a Companion of Honour for "services to drama and equality". Jacqueline Wilson, the children's author who has sold 20m books in Britain alone, becomes a dame.
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