Baker and TV star to receive royal honour

CELEBRITY baker and TV presenter Paul Hollywood will be made an MBE at a ceremony at Windsor Castle today.

Hollywood, 57, has been a judge on The Great British Bake Off since it started in 2010, co-hosting firstly with Dame Mary Berry and now Dame Prue Leith.

The hit programme made Hollywood a household name and he moved with the show when it switched from the BBC to Channel 4 in

2016.

Hollywood will be awarded an MBE for services to baking and broadcasting.

When the news was announced last year, he wrote on his Instagram page: “I’m over the moon to be mentioned in the King’s New Years Honours list and awarded an MBE!

“I’m thrilled ... wow Paul Hollywood MBE!!! Congratulations to everyone who was mentioned in the New Years Honours List.”

Marcus Trescothick and Felicity Dahl are also among the other famous faces set to receive honours.

Former Somerset and England cricketer Trescothick will be made an OBE for services to mental health.

Now an England cricket coach and cricket pundit, Trescothick is also a mental health ambassador with the Professional Cricketers’ Association.

Widow of the prolific children’s author Roald Dahl and producer of films based on two of his books – 1996’s Matilda and 2005’s Charlie And The Chocolate factory – Dame Felicity will be made a Dame Commander for services to philanthropy, to literature and young people.

Dame Felicity founded the Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s charity, which provides specialist nurses for seriously ill children, and the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Buckinghamshire.