THE BBC’s famous names are to be forced not just to reveal their salaries but what they spend it on for the judgement of the viewing public.
The BBC Trust is to publish not just pay deals for their highest earners but an item-by-item breakdown of all their outgoings, particularly those which could be considered frivolous or woke by an impartial jury of hostile media rivals.
Fiona Bruce, presenter of Antiques Roadshow and Question Time, has already been outed for spending £1.2 million on a restored 16th-century cheese barn, kept fully stocked, that she sits in when she feels lonely.
University Challenge host Amol Rajan has defended his collection of clockwork massagers saying he had built it up over many years, there was nothing suspicious or unusual about it, only four of them were Nazi and they do a lovely job re-frothing a cappuccino.
It has also emerged that Paddy McGuinness has more than 800 china figurines with unusually large mouths, while Jeremy Vine pays funeral directors tens of thousands to supply him with buttock casts of deceased celebrities.
A BBC insider said: “Last year he paid £750,000 for Raquel Welch’s. He touches it before every show. Then he touches himself. I don’t like it here.”
Claudia Winkleman has insisted her massive collection of firearms is ‘purely sexual’.
