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.
Speaking to the PA news agency, Stelling said the honour, given by the Princess Royal, was “amazing, unexpected, thrilling and, on the day, nerve-racking”.“I remember growing up on a council estate in Hartlepool and, you know, your main aspiration was actually to get a job to earn a living, because unemployment was so rife.
The 69-year-old broadcaster is also an ambassador to Cancer Research UK and said de-stigmatizing the disease was the “raison d’etre” of his charity work.“We don’t go to the doctors – and certainly not if it’s anything to do with something below the waist.Figures from Cancer Research UK estimate 12,000 lives are lost to prostate cancer in the UK each year.
Her son, now 18, founded the charity Teach Us Too in 2018 and launched a petition to teach disabled children to read and write – which has garnered more than 875,000 signatures.Helen Holtam was honoured with an MBE for services to prisoners after running origami classes for inmates at Erlestoke Prison in Wiltshire since 2017.
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