The BBC's top-earning stars missing from salary list
There will always be certain big-name stars who never make the BBC top earnings list.
Strictly's Winkleman, Rylan Clark, Michael McIntyre, Graham Norton and Bradley Walsh are among the BBC's top talent but their names are not featured on the salary list.
One thing they all have in common is that they are not directly employed by the BBC and instead, they are contracted through production companies. BBC Studios is one example and it is a commercial organisation that is not supported by the licence fee.
The BBC only publishes the big salaries of stars it employs directly. Stars employed directly by the BBC who earn more than £178,000 will have their names and salaries published.
Interestingly, some stars appear on the list but for only some of their BBC work.
One notable example is Vernon Kay who is named in ninth place on the list with a salary of £390,000 — £394,999. It only includes his Radio 2 job. Any money he earns for co-presenting The One Show doesn't feature in his published salary.
Kay's co-presenters Alex Jones, Roman Kemp and more, also wouldn't have their salary for The One Show appear in the BBC's top earning list.
There are too many well paid stars who are missing from the BBC's highest-paid salaries list to feature them all here.
McIntyre could be potentially at the top of the salary list because of his big Saturday night shows The Wheel and Big Show, BBC News reported.
Winkleman would likely feature high on the list thanks to her hosting jobs on Strictly Come Dancing and The Traitors. Graham Norton would appear in the list too and Winkleman also filled in for the star on his BBC chat show this year.
Strictly's main stars Tess Daly, Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Motsi Mabuse, Craig Revel Horwood don't make the list. Gladiators host Walsh is also absent from the BBC salary list.
More big names missing include: Rylan, Sort Your Life Out's Stacey Solomon, Would I Lie To You?'s Rob Brydon, Not Going Out star Lee Mack, David Mitchell, Romesh Ranganathan, Only Connect's Victoria Coren-Mitchell Amanda & Alan's Spanish Job stars Alan Carr and Amanda Holden as well as Alison Hammond for her Big Weekend series.
It wasn't surprising that Lineker and Zoe Ball led the highest-paid BBC stars once again.
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