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You can't go through life expecting to get prizes. You just get on with things, which is how it should be. It's a great surprise. I'm completely gobsmacked really. My dad would have been absolutely delighted.

The actorhas been awarded anin the Queen's Birthday Honours list, released today; he receives the honour forCribbins has been an actor for over fifty years, having appeared in films likeand, television roles including, and remembered by a generation as a presenter of Jackanory andvoice of the Wombles.Of course, forfans he is now firmly part of the 'family' as Donna Noble's comradely grandfather, from his brief appearance into achieving fully fledged "companion status" - not to mention the inadvertent cause of the Tenth Doctor's demise - inThe actor said: