Stacey Dooley ‘too busy’ to pick up her MBE from Buckingham Palace

Stacey Dooley has revealed she still hasn’t picked up her MBE from Buckingham Palace as she hasn’t made the time to collect it.

The 33-year-old investigative journalist was among the lucky few to be given the award in the Queen’s 2018 birthday honours list.

However, Stacey says she’s been too busy to bother making the time to pick up her Member of the Order of the British Empire medal – almost two years since winning the gong.

Stacey was awarded the honour for services to broadcasting after spending over ten years in the limelight, shining a journalistic torch on difficult subjects including sweat shop workers, sex trafficking, and domestic violence through her work.

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“I was meant to collect the medal but I didn’t have time,” Stacey told the Mail on Sunday.

“I was working and I never kind of rearranged, so I must sort that out. It’s mad, isn’t it?” she added.

The star – who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2018 and is now rumoured to be planning to expand her career alongside boyfriend Kevin Clifton as they rebrand themselves as a TV power couple – has struggled to find time due to promoting her book On the Frontline with the Women Who Fight Back.

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Stacey previously told the BBC that she was honoured to be awarded an MBE – and dedicated her appointment to her mother.

“My mum, Di, is my absolute hero. She’s the most remarkable woman in my life. It was just me and her for a long time growing up," she explained shortly after being awarded the MBE.

"She had me as a single mum, and moved with me down from Liverpool to Luton," she went on.

“She’s always worked incredibly hard. She used to work in pubs, clean houses, or do whatever she could to put food on the table," Stacey said.

"I remember she even used to work on Christmas Day, and I’d go with her to the pub to help clean the ashtrays,” she recalled.

“The thing I’ve taken most from her is her work ethic. She’s always worked really hard, and now I try to do the same. If I’m ever lucky enough to have children, I want them to look at me and think, 'Standard, mum goes to work’,” she added.

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