Claudia and Tess - Strictly salaries

Nankate it does irritate me that it’s us paying these ridiculous wages to two talentless wooden women and the BBC can’t give old people free licences
I can’t bare to watch them, and the non celebrities dancing, I used to watch when I could recognise the celebrities but they are scraping the barrel now.

I have never understood celebrity culture, and to me those two have zero personality, and I can't stand the way Tess paws all the dancers. I agree with the post about trying out new talent.
The BBC should ask all licence fee payers to vote if the prefer certain 'glamorous' presenters or no licence for over 75s.

Claudia is not that funny and they certainly are not worth that much for nine weekends
What on earth do they do ?

Well done NotSpaghetti for seeing the real post..... please Maybiteifstartled...do not stay in an abusive marriage. I know it’s difficult if money is a problem.... but NotSpaghetti has sent you a good link. Use it ...please

I think they are worth every penny.

I was surprised to see that Lauren Laverne is the 8th highest paid BBC presenter - on £395,000. I would rather watch Claudia anyday, at least she has some personality

£350k each? Hmm... They could've got someone decent for that price.

Reminds me of a Hancock sketch (Tony not the other one)much quoted in our house....'there's Adam Faith earning more than the Prime Minister'.

Yes we have a dated sense of humour.

But Claudia NEEDS that much to afford all that eyeliner she wears.

Panda-Eyes or what?

But celebrity pay is capitalism at its best! These celebs are a commodity that are in high demand because they pull in viewers to watch programmes. A basic princple of capitalism is to create demand for your " product" whilst limiting supply so price & profit goes up. And the viewing public feed it.

GG13 from personal experience some years ago the staff in County Council establishments were reasonably well paid. Pay was commensurate with experience, training, skills etc. Training facilities were good and staff had paid holiday/sick pay.
The care given in CC establishments was monitored and generally of a much higher standard than many private establishments charging large fees.

It beats me why these highly paid presenters also feel the need to supplement their earnings by advertising too!

EllanVannin I totally agree, there are some privately run homes, the owners with multiple care homes who make very large profits whilst paying their staff a pittance.

I have no experience of State/Council run/owned homes so cannot comment.

GG13, while we're on the subject, the pittances paid to many carers in nursing homes for their difficult and sometimes trying work at times looking after the elderly.

How much the BBC pays its presenters (and I include news presenters in that) has bugged me for quite a while.

I would like to see BBC find and use new talent where possible instead of established 'celebrities' - there must be a huge pool of people out there who could do their jobs just as well, for a tiny fraction of a price.
Once those people become established household names and acquired celebrity status, and want to make bigger bucks out of it, let them go do it elsewhere, and replace them with another newcomer!

If the fully commercial channels want to pay silly salaries, fair enough, I don't have a problem with them doing that - even if I genuinely don't understand why anyone would even employ half of these talentless 'celebrities" (I've kept it polite there), let alone the obscene amounts of money that they seem to get.

Zoe Balls salary might be high but it is not just for her radio 2 morning show, it covers her It Takes Two presenting and all other jobs across the BBC.

I cannot cross about large salaries, I save my crossness for the unscrupulous employers who pay less than the legal wage in back street sweat shops ?

Yes Zoe Ball’s salary is obscene !

Gulligranny I could have written your post word for word. ?

Why does it bother posters what other people earn? If you had the chance to earn that sort of money would you turn it down.
It's the industry they are in, it pays well.

The one that really annoys me is Zoe Ball earning £1,369,444 a year for her radio show.

It does seem we (society) have gone very wrong. I cannot imagine that any business , and the BBC is a business, would pay out high salaries unnecessarily. It seems that the general viewing public want/like glamour/celeb presenters on shows and that that, apparently, draws in the punters. The BBC needs to be competitive and so if commercial companies use highly paid celebs on shows the BBC has to do similarly.
It is a 'chicken and egg' situation..did the viewing public prefer shows fronted by 'beautiful people' so the TV companies were pushed to pay for 'the best'..or did TV companies persuade the viewers that they wanted glamour??

Maybiteifstartled
Seek out some help if you need to talk - it does help. I left it a long time before I went to see a counsellor. With no savings, (but I was earning), I eventually left him.

Claudia doesn't get that salary for just doing Strictly. It is for all her BBC work.

According to this list of salaries, Claudia is the 13th highest paid presenter:

www.radiotimes.com/news/2020-09-16/bbc-pay-2020-salaries/

Maybiteifstartled SO pleased to hear you are ok.

You are definitely fortunate that he's not in your head! Good luck with the plan.

@NotSpaghetti. Thanks hon, but I am safe. No physical danger. And I no longer let him get inside my head. I am biding my time, have a plan, and am OK. Although £350K would accelerate matters somewhat!!!

But thank you. xx