{"id":2508518,"date":"2026-07-19T19:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2508518"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:27:22","slug":"bbc-uses-highest-paid-celebrities-to-beg-for-licence-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bbc-uses-highest-paid-celebrities-to-beg-for-licence-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC uses highest-paid celebrities to beg for licence fee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As usual, the star salaries list does not provide the complete picture of what top talent at the BBC earns.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of big names are not listed because they are paid via production companies, rather than by the BBC directly. Ranganathan, Alex Jones, Lord Sugar, Rylan Clark, Bradley Walsh, Paddy McGuinness, Stacey Solomon, the judges on Strictly Come Dancing and the Dragons\u2019 Den investors are among the celebrities whose earnings are not published.<\/p>\n

While the campaign boasts that the BBC \u201cthoroughly\u201d verifies news, the corporation is facing a $10bn (\u00a37.5bn) legal claim from Donald Trump, who claimed a Panorama documentary had defamed him because of an allegedly misleading edit of footage of one of his speeches.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump is pressing on with the case, but has dismissed defamation claims<\/a> against BBC Studios Distribution Limited and BBC Studios Productions Limited, the broadcaster\u2019s commercial and production arms.<\/p>\n

In November, The Telegraph revealed that Panorama had allegedly spliced separate parts of Mr Trump\u2019s speech on Jan 6, 2021, in a way that wrongly suggested he had urged his supporters to \u201cfight like hell\u201d and storm the Capitol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usual, the star salaries list does not provide the complete picture of what top talent at the BBC earns. Hundreds of big names are not listed because they are paid via production companies, rather than by the BBC directly. Ranganathan, Alex Jones, Lord Sugar, Rylan Clark, Bradley Walsh, Paddy McGuinness, Stacey Solomon, the judges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2508519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25507,494532,21738,344742,356051],"class_list":["post-2508518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bbc","tag-matt-brittin","tag-news","tag-standard","tag-uk-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BBC-uses-highest-paid-celebrities-to-beg-for-licence-fee.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508520,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508518\/revisions\/2508520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}