JUNE SARPONG

Presenter receives OBE

Broadcaster June Sarpong was presented with her OBE last week for services to broadcasting and charity. The Prince’s Trust ambassador, 44, was recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list in 2020 and received her insignia from the Princess Royal at St James’s Palace. June, the BBC’s director of creative diversity who was also awarded an MBE in 2007, said afterwards: “It has been a wonderful day. It is a day that is also about my parents and where you have come from.

“My parents are immigrants who came to the UK to try and make a better life for themselves. I think that, when you look at all [the things] that immigrant generations have had to go through, it really does mean something. I am thrilled.”