Television presenter Michael Parkinson will be knighted in the New Year Honours list, it has been reported.
The Sun says Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Queen have approved the award, which the newspaper says will be announced on Saturday.
Parkinson, 72, was made a CBE in the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
In a television career spanning more than three decades, he has hosted memorable interviews with some of the world's most famous names, from the likes of Muhammad Ali and Nelson Mandela to Rod Hull and Emu, who infamously attacked him.
He was first given a talk show on the BBC in 1971, which he hosted for 11 years interviewing almost a thousand guests in 361 editions, regularly pulling in audiences of up to 12 million. He returned to the BBC in 1995.