Since then, many leading BBC men have been shamed into taking substantial pay cuts, with the salary of the outgoing Today programme presenter John Humphrys falling by £110,000. Radio 2’s Steve Wright cut his pay by £75,000 and Jeremy Vine took a £150,000 reduction.

 

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The BBC’s annual pay disclosures only cover staff who earn £150,000 a year while working directly for the corporation.

 

They do not include presenters and actors who are employed by independent production companies to make programmes on the BBC’s behalf. As a result, many prominent figures associated with major BBC programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing, Top Gear and Doctor Who – which are made by the commercial BBC Studios arm – do not feature on the list.

 

01. Gary Lineker: £1.75m

02. Chris Evans: £1.25m

03. Graham Norton: £610,000

04. Huw Edwards: £490,000

05. Steve Wright: £465,000

06. Alan Shearer: £440,000

07. Andrew Marr: £390,000

08. Zoe Ball: £370,000

= Claudia Winkleman: £370,000

10. Vanessa Feltz: £355,000

=. Jason Mohammed: £355,000

12. Nicky Campbell: £340,000

13. Stephen Nolan: £325,000

14. George Alagiah: £315,000

15. Nick Grimshaw: £310,000

16. Lauren Laverne: £305,000

17. Nick Robinson: £290,000

18. John Humphrys: £290,000

= Jeremy Vine: £290,000

= Gabby Logan: £290,000

21. Scott Mills: £285,000

 

Full list: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jul/...again-women-gap

Vanessa Feltz is such a random addition to the Top 10?? It's like they were trying to fix the gender pay inbalance, worked out that a lot of the highest paid were the male BBC Radio 2 stars and found the woman who appears weekdays so gave her a payrise. I'm not really sure she has the level of star quality that justifies that high pay

 

With Chris Evans now gone, Gary Linekar is such an outlier now, especially with his BT Sports gig eek