Gary Lineker tops star salaries list in BBC annual report

Gary Lineker has topped a database of the BBC's best-paid stars for a sixth twelvemonth successful a row, earning £1.35m successful the past fiscal year.

The Match of the Day host's quality connected the yearly salaries database comes 4 months aft helium was concisely suspended over a enactment astir his impartiality.

BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball was the 2nd highest earner, with £980,000.

As usual, the BBC's yearly study does not overgarment the afloat representation of what prima presenters astatine the BBC earn.

A immense fig are missing due to the fact that the corp does not person to marque nationalist the salaries of stars who are paid done its commercialized limb BBC Studios oregon autarkic accumulation companies.

This year's yearly study has been published against a backdrop of turmoil for the corporation.

An unnamed antheral presenter who works for the BBC is progressive successful a highly-publicised dispute implicit the quality of his narration with a young idiosyncratic whom helium is alleged to person paid for sexually explicit photos.

Andrew Marr exited the corp successful December 2021, and arsenic a effect helium has dropped disconnected the database entirely.

His long-running Sunday greeting authorities programme was replaced by Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg successful September.

She earned £305,000 from that programme and her appearances connected Newscast, TV documentaries positive her enactment arsenic governmental exertion until May 2022.

The database besides reflects a play of important alteration for BBC Radio 2, which has seen respective presenters permission the presumption oregon trim the fig of shows they present.

Steve Wright was taken disconnected his weekday day programme successful September, and arsenic specified his net dropped by astir £100,000.

He made £360,000 successful the fiscal year, for his past 7 months hosting the day programme, arsenic good arsenic his continued presenting of Sunday Love Songs and different occasional programmes for the network.

Wright was replaced successful the daytime docket by Scott Mills, who halfway done the fiscal twelvemonth moved from hosting weekday afternoons connected Radio 1 to the aforesaid slot connected Radio 2.

Mills earned £300,000 from the BBC past year, a driblet of £100,000 from past year. This is apt to beryllium a reflection of the Radio 2 day amusement being chopped by an hour, arsenic good arsenic Mills' exit from his 5 Live Saturday programme.

Vanessa Feltz near her aboriginal meal amusement connected Radio 2 and her BBC Radio London greeting programme successful September for a caller occupation connected Talk TV, and arsenic specified she has dropped disconnected the prima salaries list.

Her erstwhile colleague Ken Bruce near his mid-morning programme successful March to articulation Greatest Hits Radio, but arsenic helium stayed with the BBC virtually until the extremity of the accounting period, his wage for past twelvemonth was dependable astatine £390,000.

He volition driblet disconnected adjacent twelvemonth and his replacement Vernon Kay volition astir surely diagnostic instead.

Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel besides near the BBC for the commercialized assemblage astatine the extremity of the erstwhile fiscal year, which means they excessively person some dropped retired of the database entirely.

But determination are besides caller entries. Rick Edwards made £178,000 aft replacing Nicky Campbell connected BBC Radio 5 Live's meal show. His co-host Rachel Burden's wage has gone up somewhat to £195,000.

Today programme presenter Justin Webb earned £25,000 much than past year, taking his wage to £280,000, aft helium took connected a caller relation presenting Americast.

Victoria Derbyshire has besides been fixed a rise of £50,000, bringing her wage to £295,000, arsenic she took connected a caller relation presenting Newsnight.

The wage database shows 4 women are successful the apical 10 this year, an betterment connected past year's 3 contempt the departure of Feltz.

Sophie Raworth and Lauren Laverne are present successful the apical 10 highest earners, arsenic Wright and Mills dropped out.

As mentioned, the salaries database is obscurity adjacent a implicit representation of what apical endowment astatine the BBC earn, arsenic truthful galore stars are paid done accumulation companies, including the BBC's ain commercialized limb BBC Studios.

That means household names specified arsenic Michael McIntyre, Tess Daly, Paddy McGuinness, Alex Jones, Jools Holland, and the Strictly judges are absent.

Quiz amusement hosts Richard Osman, Sandi Toksvig, Victoria Coren-Mitchell, Romesh Ranganathan and Alexander Armstrong are besides not named.

Similarly, the casts of immoderate of the corporation's biggest dramas specified arsenic EastEnders, Happy Valley, Peaky Blinders, Casualty, Call The Midwife and Doctor Who bash not look connected the database contempt galore actors undoubtedly making ample sums from the BBC.

Some stars look connected the list, but lone for immoderate of their BBC commitments. For example, Evan Davis has his wage listed for presenting BBC Radio 4's PM programme, but not for hosting Dragons' Den.

Claudia Winkleman and Graham Norton, who some marque immense sums of wealth from hosting BBC programmes and person featured precocious up the database successful erstwhile years, are besides some absent from the database due to the fact that of the mode they are paid.

The BBC's wage for apical endowment was astatine a six-year precocious past year, the yearly report's figures show.

The corporation's income from the licence interest was down from £3.8bn to £3.74bn, which the BBC said was owed to level licence interest pricing and a diminution successful paid-for TV licences.