{"id":39034,"date":"2025-12-30T00:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/idris-elba-knighted-in-new-year-honours-list-also-featuring-torvill-and-dean\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T00:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:15:42","slug":"idris-elba-knighted-in-new-year-honours-list-also-featuring-torvill-and-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/idris-elba-knighted-in-new-year-honours-list-also-featuring-torvill-and-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Idris Elba knighted in new year honours list also featuring Torvill and Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meera Syal also made dame while England women\u2019s football and rugby winners feature prominently<\/p>\n<p>The actors Idris Elba and Meera Syal have been made a knight and a dame in the new year honours list, with top awards also going to the ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/feb\/25\/amanda-pritchard-quits-nhs-england-chief-executive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former head of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard<\/a>, was also made a dame and there were knighthoods for Patrick McCabe, a former UN official responsible for clearing unexploded bombs in Gaza; Tristram Hunt, the former Labour MP and now director of the V&amp;A, for services to museums; and Roy Clarke, creator of the sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/dec\/29\/idris-elba-knighted-in-new-year-honours-list-also-featuring-torvill-and-dean\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meera Syal also made dame while England women\u2019s football and rugby winners feature prominently The actors Idris Elba and Meera Syal have been made a knight and a dame in the new year honours list, with top awards also going to the ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. The former head of NHS England, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 13:49:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}