Category talk:Pink List 2010
To be merged into the main article etc.
Note 68 missing.
Contents
Top 101
1= (new entry) Gareth Thomas; Rugby player
1= (new entry) Mary Portas; Broadcaster, PR and Queen of Shops
3 (2nd last year) Stephen Fry; Broadcaster and writer
4 (12) Evan Davis; Broadcaster
5 (9) Carol Ann Duffy; Poet Laureate
6 (21) Alan Carr; Comedian
7 (34) Peter Tatchell; Human rights activist
8 (new entry) Michael Salter; Broadcast adviser to PM
9 (20) Sir Nicholas Hytner; Theatre director
10 (58) Sue Perkins; Comedian and writer
11 (new entry) Simon Hughes; Deputy leader, Lib Dems
12 (50) Scott Mills; Radio 1 DJ
13 (42) Christopher Bailey; Chief Creative Officer, Burberry
14 (57) Dominic Cooke; Theatre director
15 (27) Michael Grandage; Theatre director
16 (35) Johann Hari; Journalist
17 (28) John Barrowman; Actor
18 (17) Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Impresario
19 (new entry) James Wharton; Trooper, Household Cavalry
20 (25) Sir Michael Bishop; Businessman
21 (24) Henry Badenhorst; Co-founder of gaydar.co.uk
22 (7) Phyllida Lloyd; Film and theatre director
23 (41) Neil MacGregor; Director, British Museum
24 (53) Lord Alli; TV producer and peer
25 (new entry) Lord Justice Etherton; Judge
26 (53) Sarah Waters; Author
27 (70) Nick Herbert; Minister for Policing
28 (55) Fiona Shaw (actress)
29 (new entry) Alan Davey; Chief exec, Arts Council
30 (46) Margot James; Tory party vice-chair
31 (re-entry) Robert Taylor; CEO of Kleinwort Benson
32 (13) Simon Russell Beale; Actor
33 (15) Dawn Airey; CEO of Five
34 (38) Matt Lucas; Comedian and actor
35 (63) Eileen Gallagher; CEO Shed Productions
36 (32) Simon Amstell; Comedian
37 (new entry) Steve Reed; Leader of Lambeth Council
38 (re-entry) Mark Gatiss; Actor and writer
39 (68) Sir Adrian Fulford; Judge
40 (new entry) Heather Peace; Actor
41 (80) Dame Janet Paraskeva; Civil servant
42 (47) Angela Eagle; Shadow treasury minister
43 (67) Deborah Warner; Director
44 (98) Stephen K Amos; Comedian
45 (new entry) Richard Heaton; Civil servant
46 (48) John Galliano; Fashion designer
47 (51) Derren Brown; Illusionist
48 (31) Stephen Daldry; Theatre and film director
49 (69) Matthew Parris; Times columnist
50 (new entry) Allegra McEvedy; Chef and broadcaster
51 (71) Mandy McBain; Lt-Cmdr, Royal Navy
52 (1) Lord Mandelson; Labour peer
53 (new entry) Sue Sanders; Human rights advocate
54 (74) Tim Hely Hutchinson; CEO Hachette Livre UK
55 (85) Matthew Todd; Editor, Attitude magazine
56 (11) Gok Wan; Broadcaster and designer
57 (new entry) Jean Osborne; Campaigner
58 (new entry) Ravi Mirchandani; Publisher
59 (new entry) Kele Okereke; Musician
60 (86) Philip Hensher; Writer
61 (92) Val McDermid; Crime novelist
62 (new entry) Patrick Strudwick; Journalist
63 (new entry) Clare Dimyon; Activist
64 (14) Russell T Davies; Writer
65 (96) Lord Black; Exec director, Telegraph Group
66 (re-entry) Stella Duffy; Actress, writer, campaigner
67 (new entry) Susie Orbach; Psychoanalyst and writer
69 (95) Sir Howard Hodgkin; Artist
70 (78) Julian Clary; Entertainer
71 (new entry) Alison Goldfrapp; Musician
72 (re-entry) Jackie Kay; Poet and novelist
73 (72) Ray Collins; General secretary, Labour
74 (54) Rabbi Lionel Blue; Author and commentator
75 (89) Sir Nick Partridge; Aids activist
76 (33) Will Young; Musician
77 (37) Alan Duncan; Minister of State, DfID
78 (82) Mark Abrahams; RAF Wing Commander
79 (83) Richard Barnes; Deputy Mayor of London
80 (new entry) Michael Clark; Dancer/choreographer
81 (new entry) Tris Reid-Smith; Editor, Gay Times, and pinkpaper.com
82 (new entry) Andrew Davis; Founder, Von Essen Hotels
83 (new entry) Jane Hill; BBC newsreader
84 (26) Iain Dale; Tory blogger and pundit
85 (90) Paul Burston; Writer and salonista
86 (99) Alice Arnold; Radio 4 announcer
87 (new entry) Russell Tovey; Actor
88 (new entry) Natalie Gamble; Partner, Gamble & Ghevaert
89 (49) Chris Bryant; Shadow foreign minister
90 (new entry) Femi Otitoju; Activist
91 (new entry) Jeffrey John; Dean of St Albans
92 (new entry) Rikki Beadle-Blair; Polymath
93 (new entry) Tim Franks; CEO Pace
94 (new entry) Tim Teeman; Journalist
95 (re-entry) Jonathan Harvey; Playwright, screenwriter
96 (88) Reverend Scott Rennie; Church of Scotland minister
97 (52) Murray Chalmers; Music executive
98 (new entry) Julie Bindel; Journalist and campaigner
99 (new entry) Sheila Shulman; Rabbi
100 (new entry) Joe McElderry; Musician
101 (new entry) David Laws; Former chief secretary to the treasury
Judges at the top of their game
IoS judges
Brian Brady, Whitehall editor; Katy Guest, literary editor; Lisa Markwell, executive editor; Hugh Montgomery, arts & music correspondent; Susannah Frankel, fashion editor of The Independent; Marc Padgett, sports editor; Margareta Pagano, business editor; Matthew Bell, media editor.
Another country:
They're not on the list because they weren't born here – but they deserve a mention
Tyler Brûlé Magazine proprietor
David Collins Designer
Beth Ditto Musician
Tom Ford Designer
Daniel Kramer Theatre director
Graham Norton Presenter
Jake Shears Musician
Wolgang Tillmans Photographer
Colm Tóibín Writer
Sandi Toksvig Comedian
National treasures:
What would we do without them?
Alan Bennett Writer
Maggi Hambling Artist
Simon Callow Actor
Jasper Conran Fashion designer
Sir Ian McKellen Actor
Neil Tennant Musician
Paul O'Grady TV personality
Jeanette Winterson Author
David Hockney Artist
Rupert Everett Actor
Rogues' gallery:
They're out... but they're not in
Peter Ackroyd Novelist and biographer Dazzling and prolific author Ackroyd qualifies for the list on all counts but the one that matters. "Is it some sort of gay thing? ... I'm not even gay," he claimed after hearing that he'd made it on to last year's list. We pray that you won't be weeping into your cornflakes as we bid this impostor adieu.
Lord Browne President of the Royal Academy of Engineering The former BP Chief Exec (until he resigned in 2007 when he was rudely outed) bounced back as the new government's "super non-exec". John Browne has appealed to others to be bold and come out. A bit rich given his official response to the 2006 Pink List's compilers: "I don't know what you are suggesting, but it is not in the least appropriate that his name is associated with that article."
Samantha Fox Model/Singer/TV personality From Page 3 queen to renowned autocue reader and I'm A Celebrity ... survivor, Fox has been a true renaissance lesbian over her three-decade career. But then we heard her recent Greatest Hits CD, and felt that single-handedly killing off the Eighties revival might be considered achievement enough for one year
Jason Gardiner TV Mr Nasty Omitted on the basis that influence should not be confused with a devotion to self-publicity, Dancing on Ice's Mr Nasty has done his best to stir up controversy with quips about Sharron Davies' resemblance to faecal matter. Said show's resemblance to said faecal matter is seemingly a moot point.
Boy George Musician Refused entry to the Celebrity Big Brother house and now to the Pink List as well? We do hate to kick a man when he's down, but it may take more than a Mark Ronson collaboration for this escort-assaulting chameleon to regain his pop crown.
Sir Elton John Musician Oh Elton. Long have we admired you for your tireless dedication to Aids fundraising and consumerist excess, but cadging $1m to play at the wedding of homophobic shock jock Rush Limbaugh? Really? Please atone by forwarding said cheque to The Independent on Sunday, and your position will be restored forthwith.
George Michael Musician Ever since his 1998 outing, we've admired Michael's unapologetic refusal to play by pop's squeaky clean rules. But there's a fine line between liberated hedonist and abject train-wreck, and he may just have crossed that with his recent fourth arrest in five years, for ploughing his car into Snappy Snaps, no less.
Andrew Pierce Journalist Following last year's Jan Moir uproar, the hope was that this recent Daily Mail signing might ruffle some feathers within that bastion of fine feeling. More fools us, of course, as witnessed by his February article offering support to the Pope in the face of the "madness" of Harriet Harman's Equality Bill.
Louie Spence Choreographer and TV star Had this been a list for the greatest reinforcers of gay stereotypes, the star of Sky 1's car-crash reality show Pineapple Dance Studios would obviously mince it. Alas, as it stands, we can't help but hear the clock ticking on those 15 minutes of his.
David Starkey Historian The Tudor expert made it to No 4 last year, but in 2010 his notorious acid tongue finally obscured all academic prowess, with ex-culture secretary Ben Bradshaw ("The French take culture seriously. We have Ben Bradshaw") and female historians (writers of "historical Mills and Boon") among those on the receiving end.
