Celebrity Traitors salaries REVEALED ahead of much-anticipated new series
Nineteen celebrities have already filmed the latest round of backstabbing and betrayals in Scotland's Ardross Castle, with fans eagerly awaiting the series' release.
Major names including Stephen Fry, Kate Garraway, Paloma Faith, Joe Marler and Alan Carr have joined the line-up as they will put their cunningness to the test.
As anticipation builds for the first ever UK celebrity iteration, the salaries of the high-profile cast have been revealed by The Rest Is Entertainment podcast.
Rather than being paid individual wages, all of the celebrities were paid the same £40,000 fee to appear on the show, according to journalist Marina Hyde.
'It's certainly interesting to compare something like Celebrity Traitors on the BBC to I'm a Celebrity on ITV,' she told her co-host Richard Osman while discussing BBC wages generally.
'Although we haven't seen the celebrity iteration yet, but we know it's gonna be massive. Look at the calibre of the people they got.'
'They were able to pay everybody a blanket 40k fee, right? I am spilling all my tea today. They're paying them a 40k fee,' she shared.
Pointless host Richard, 54, compared it to The White Lotus - where the celebrity cast were all paid a base rate of $40,000 (£29,000) per episode, not any individual rates.
'It's like White Lotus when everyone got paid the same, they got paid much less than you would normally do,' he said before hastening to add that 'everyone is massively overpaid in the entertainment business'.
Richard then teased that he knows someone who has seen the first episode, describing it as 'amazing' as he hinted fans won't be disappointed.
The BBC declined to comment when approached by MailOnline.
Filming for the Celebrity Traitors kicked off at the end of April as the cast were seen arriving at Inverness Airport, and shooting has already wrapped for the show.
Though the exact release date has not yet been confirmed, it is expected to land on the BBC in autumn 2025.
The celebrities who will transform into Traitors and Faithfuls include actors Stephen Fry, Ruth Codd, Celia Imrie, Tameka Empson and Mark Bonnar.
Comedians Alan Carr, Nick Mohammed, Joe Wilkinson and Lucy Beaumont will also take part, joining singers Paloma Faith, Cat Burns and Charlotte Church.
Also confirmed for the show are presenters Jonathan Ross, Clare Balding and Kate Garraway, Olympic diver Tom Daley, rugby player Joe Marler, historian and writer David Olusoga and YouTuber Niko Omilana.
Missing from the confirmed line-up was actress and comedian Jennifer Saunders, who was heavily rumoured to be taking part.
BBC bosses took extra precautions to keep the cast under wraps ahead of its reveal, following a series of leaks.
According to The Sun, executives put in place a military-style operation to transport the all-star cast to Ardross Castle.
And a no-fly zone was in place over host Claudia 's Highlands HQ to stop drone photographers from securing any images.
A source told the publication: 'For a show with secrecy and shocking plot twists at its heart, navigating the celebrity version has been a real puzzler.
'Casting the likes of TV presenter Kate Garraway, former rugby star Joe Marler, and singer Paloma Faith creates a situation which is a lot more open to leaks and gossip than recruiting a call centre manager from Liverpool or a retired opera singer.
'So execs have worked really hard to lock down every inch of the production.'
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