TV star Tess Daly is in complete awe that she has been awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List.
Her fellow Strictly co-host, Claudia Winkleman, and football legend David Beckham are also to be given an MBE. However, in a touching post, Tess, 56, cannot believe her latest career accomplishment.
Tess Daly has been awarded an MBE (Credit: Splashnews.com)
Tess Daly reacts to MBE honour
Four hours ago (June 14), the mum-of-two shared a lengthy statement on Instagram about how she was feeling.
“Genuinely still pinching myself…” she began.
“Feeling extremely humbled and very honoured to be awarded an MBE for Services to Broadcasting in King Charles’ birthday honours list. If I could, I would dedicate it to all the wonderful people I have had the pleasure of working with over the past 26 years. What an utter privilege it has been to work with so many legends of broadcasting and Knights of the Realm including Sir Trevor Macdonald and Sir Terry Wogan-and also to the Strictly viewers who have brought us so much joy over the past 20 years-thank you to every one of you for being there for the ride; it means the world having you there,” Tess continued.
“From back in 2004 when it all began with the wonderful Sir Bruce Forsythe til now – 21 years later. Huge congrats to my brilliant girl @claudiawinkle on receiving her award too – who would’ve thought we’d be celebrating this together 20 years after we first met?Thank you so much for your lovely messages.”
Tess concluded: “Not sure I’ll ever be able to take this in! Xx.”
To accompany the post, she shared various photos of herself throughout the years. In the first slide, Tess uploaded a photo of herself smiling alongside Sir Bruce, who sadly died in 2017.
Other slides included pics with Claudia Winkleman, Trevor McDonald, Brian Dowling, and Sir Terry Wogan.
Vernon shared a sweet tribute to his wife (Credit: Splashnews.com)
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