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Beverley Knight receives European Diversity Award

The West End star won the European Diversity Awards’ prize for Outstanding Commitment to Diversity at an awards ceremony on Friday
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Beverley Knight MBE has been chosen as the winner of the Outstanding Commitment to Diversity Award at the European Diversity Awards. The multitalented actor, singer, songwriter and producer received the award at a ceremony held in London on Friday (8 November).

Knight receives the award in recognition of her ‘advocacy for equality and social justice’ and, while accepting her award, she burst into song, performing The Greatest Love of All, written by Michael Masser and made famous by Whitney Houston in 1985. The European Diversity Awards, hosted this year by Sky News presenters Kamali Melbourne and Gillian Joseph, is designed to ‘celebrate leading diversity and inclusion champions while recognising achievements across all strands of Diversity’.

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