All aboard the gravy train
Gary Lineker's salary may have stagnated since last year, but he's still the top earner receiver among the BBC's crack team of TV and radio presenters, being given £1,350,000.* The top ten includes just three women, after Lauren Laverne dropped out when her wedge fell to a measly £380,000. Shitbag, it's hardly worth getting out of bed for that…if only I had a violin.
Radio 1 breakfast host Greg James is the only new entry in the top 10, with Huw Edwards the only name apart from Lineker in the top 10 to have seen a pay reduction. The news presenter's earnings fell from £425,000 in 2020/21 to £410,000 in 2021/22.
Zoe Ball, at number 2 on the list, didn't see a reduction in her £980,000 salary. She'd previously fallen out of the seven figure salary club in 2020 though, when it was cut by £380,000. Poor lamb.
The droid's salary is undisclosed. Presumably, it's not stratospheric enough to show up on the relevant spreadsheet at MostTrustedInternationalNewsBroadcaster Towers.
* The BBC's article notes him as taking £1.35m in the last financial year
, so there may be some rounding errors here. But I think that all those zeros look so much more impressive. Wouldn't you agree?