Graham Norton's income soars by £250k as he dwarfs BBC's top earner Gary Lineker

mirror.co.uk:

BBC star Graham Norton’s radio and TV earnings soared by a quarter of a million pounds, accounts show. The star received £3.23m from his production company So Television in 2019, an increase of £262,755 on the £2.97m he got the year before.

Along with his BBC Radio 2 salary of £725,000, he pocketed £3.96million. It dwarfs the £1.75m the BBC’s official top earner Gary Lineker was paid in 2019/20.

Last year he signed a new five-year deal to reduce his pay to £1.35m with immediate effect. Dennis Reed, whose group Silver Lines campaign is urging the Government to make the TV licence scheme free again for the over 75s, said news of Norton’s payday was a “shock”.