Zoe Ball has been named the BBC's top earner after a whopping pay rise of £1 million. Following backlash over the gender pay gap, the BBC Radio 2 and Strictly It Takes Two presenter has taken over former top earner Gary Lineker when it comes to the broadcaster's staff pay packets.
Her pay rise comes just one month after reports that she'd lost a million listeners on her Radio 2 Breakfast Show. She pulled in 8.2 million listeners every week in the final quarter of 2019, compared to the 9.1m Chris Evans brought in before he left in 2018.
But the BBC Annual Report has today revealed that the 49-year-old's pay has soared from £370,000 last year to a minimum of £1.36m.
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