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West End star Elaine Paige ‘astonished’ to be given Damehood
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17/06/2025
West End performer Elaine Paige said she is still in “complete disbelief” that she has been given a Damehood in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to music and to charity.
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different emotions coming at me all at once i'm proud and i feel grateful and i'm thrilled and
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surprised and uh yeah so it's been quite a lot to take in
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western performer dame ellianne haige was born ellianne bickerstaff in north london in 1948
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and became an overnight star with her portrayal of eva perron in lord andrew lloyd weber's hit
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musical evita the 77 year old has had starring roles in cats chess piaf and sunset boulevard
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and has more recently starred in pantomimes at the london palladium across her career she has recorded
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more than 20 solo albums and has had one chart topping single with i know him so well featuring
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barbara dickens dixon she has also won a number of accolades including the gold badge of merit from
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the british academy of songwriters composers and authors in 1993. in 2014 she celebrated five
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decades on stage with a concert titled i'm still here staged at the royal albert hall and screened
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in cinemas accompanied by the 60-piece bbc concert orchestra dane ellianne's show included highlights
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from across her career which saw her originating the roles of eva in evita for isabella in cats and
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florence in chess she currently appears on bbc radio 2 with her own lunchtime show ellianne page on sunday
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which has been running for more than two decades on tv she has appeared in tv series marple where
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the heart is and midsummer murders outside of her work on stage she has supported a number of
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charities including the children's trust the royal voluntary service and dan muskell tennis trust which
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she has been president of since 2010. music has been the mainstay of my life really it's been all of my life
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the mainstay of my life musical theatre in particular
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