ON OCTOBER 30TH 2009 DUGGIE RECEIVED AN MBE FOR HIS SERVICES TO LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT AND CHARITY FROM HRH PRINCE CHARLES AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

An entertainer and producer of international status Duggie actually began his career as an 11-year-old film star. Duggie landed the part through auditions for a northern boy for the Robert Donat film The Cure for Love.

He got the showbiz bug at the age of 15, on leaving school, went on tour with a boy singing group The Four Blue Pages. During three years of continuous touring in variety his voice broke and developed an unmusical croak overnight.