Britain's best-paid broadcasters are earning the big bucks as the nation's favourite TV stars.
Dynamic duo Ant and Dec and presenter Dermot O'Leary are just some of the famous faces raking in the cash thanks to their work on channels like ITV, as well as brand and advertisement deals.
As the national broadcaster, the BBC is required to reveal it's highest-paid stars every year, with the likes of Zoe Ball and Chris Evans often top of the list.
However, it is ITV staff who generally earn more, with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield raking it in as the hosts of This Morning, Birmingham Live reports.
Celebrity website MarkMeets has done the counting - and there are one or two surprise names in the top ten. There are no signs of any Strictly Come Dancing or Coronation Street stars - but a Britain's Got Talent judge is riding high.
10. Zoe Ball - £1.65m
Her £1.36 million BBC salary for her Radio 2 show makes her one of the broadcaster's best-paid stars.
9. Holly Willoughby - £1.8m
Holly Willoughby is well paid by ITV but makes more money away from her This Morning contract, thought to be worth £730,000 a year. The presenter, who also recently featured on The Games, has a reported net worth of £10million.
The latest accounts for her company Roxy Media Ltd show that she’s got earnings of nearly £1.5 million in 2019 and 2020.
8. Phillip Schofield – £2m
Holly's television partner Phillip Schofield is also said to earn at least £600,000 a year from his contract with This Morning. Like Holly, he has many other ventures including TV adverts.
He will rake in a few quid from those We Buy Any Car ads.
7. Dermot O’Leary – £2m
Fellow This Morning presenter Dermot makes a hefty amount from his various shows. In 2016, that he signed an £8million, four-year contract to stay with The X Factor. He also has his hugely successful BBC Radio 2 show, which he presents every Saturday morning.
6. Chris Evans – £2.2m
Evans has featured on these lists since the early 1990s - and once famously had an enormous fortune. The former TFI Friday innovator presents Virgin Radio in the mornings.
5. Gary Lineker – £2.8m
The BBC's top-paid reporter makes even more money away from the Beeb. He earned £1.35 million from the BBC last year and is also the face of Walkers Crisps, after signing a new three-year deal reportedly worth £1.2million
4. Stephen Mulhern - £3m
Perhaps a surprise entrant - but he is one of the busiest people on TV. You see him on Catchphrase, In For A Penny, Britain’s Got More Talent and Big Star’s Little Star and more.
3. Graham Norton – £3.23m
The second Virgin Radio DJ on the list. He is obviously well paid for his BBC show still, and has plenty of other things going on.
2. Amanda Holden - £5m
The Britain’s Got Talent judge is also a morning radio show host on Heart - and it doesn't stop there. She also secured a string of six-figure deals on top of her TV work, including being an ambassador for M&S and ranges with QVC interiors and a clothing line.
Her Heart deal was reportedly worth £3 million.
1. Ant And Dec – £13m
Ant and Dec are reported to have signed a £40million, three-year deal with ITV. The multi-award winning pair rake in something like £35,000 a day - far in excess of anyone else on the list.
They net worth rumoured to be around over £60 million each - helped by their own production company which makes the likes of Saturday Night Takeaway.
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