New Year’s Honours List: 29 Celebrities Who Turned Down Their Honours

Hundreds of people are recognised every year in the New Year’s honours list, but not everyone is so eager to welcome the gesture from the Queen.Danny Boyle, Jon Snow and Stephen Hawking are among the celebrities to have shunned the offer or an MBE, OBE or CBE. But they’re far from alone.Here is a list of 29 famous faces who rejected a gong:The film director didn’t mince his words when he spoke about turning down an OBE in 1977.Ken Loach, whose films centre o