{"id":1058,"date":"2010-01-06T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ofah.webhostingireland.ie\/blog\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2019-10-27T10:14:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T10:14:39","slug":"sir-david-jason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/sir-david-jason\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir David Jason"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Suits you Sir !<\/h2>\n

Sir David Jason<\/strong> leads birthday honours list<\/p>\n

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\"Arise<\/a>HIS role as the brash wheeler-dealer Del Boy Trotter in Only Fools and Horses<\/em> ensured him a special place in the nation’s hearts, and now his talents have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, published today.<\/div>\n
David Jason, who has expressed a desire not to be remembered solely for his Del Boy role, said he feels “surprised, delighted and humbled” at being made a Sir.<\/div>\n
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The actor heads a host of stars from the world of showbusiness to grace the list, including Dame Judy Dench, the award-winning chat host Jonathan Ross and the veteran radio and television presenter, Terry Wogan, whose Irish nationality makes him the recipient of a special award.<\/div>\n
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Jason, 65, already an OBE, first became known playing the part of Granville, the put-upon shop assistant in Ronnie Barker’s Open All Hours in the Seventies.<\/div>\n
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But he achieved legendary status as the dodgy geezer from Peckham whose delusions of grandeur in the face of adversity kept Only Fools and Horses on television for 22 years.<\/div>\n
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Another television hit series followed, in the shape of The Darling Buds of May, with the then budding Hollywood star Catherine Zeta-Jones, before yet another success, A Touch of Frost, in which he plays the maverick detective Jack Frost.<\/div>\n
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Dame Judy, doyenne of the London stage who became an Oscar-winning Hollywood star in her sixties for her role as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, has become a Companion of Honour.<\/div>\n
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The award cements her place alongside Jason – the pair were recently voted among the top-ten best-loved actors in a recent poll – as one of the nation’s favourites.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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