By Becky Cunniffe

For the first time ever the BBC has revealed just how much it pays its pool of celebrity talent. The move, designed to show licence fee payers just where their money is going, has uncovered that Chris Evans is its biggest earner, pulling in £2.2m a year, and that only a third of women are classed as top earners. Claudia Winkleman is incidentally the highest paid woman at the BBC, earning £499,000.

The highest-paid man earns roughly £1.7million more than the highest-paid woman https://t.co/JfSwyYOG8n

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Source: The Drum