007 star Daniel Craig is expected to get a special New Year’s honour usually reserved for senior diplomats and spies. The actor, 53, is believed to be in line for a CMG — Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George — from the Queen.
It is the same honour received by James Bond in the novels by creator Ian Fleming — and a nod to the character he has played since 2006 up to his fifth and final 007 film, No Time to Die.
Bond movies producer Barbara Broccoli, 61, is also reported to be getting the same reward. Both are likely to be confirmed in the New Year’s honours announced at the end of the week.
The CMG is an unusual choice of honour for an actor, rather than an ambassador or former spook — but Daniel can claim to have helped the.
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