To think Charlie from Casualty is overpaid?

[HarryBiscuit]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40653383

£350-400k for the last financial year.

He has ONE facial expression!

He has been on casualty so long now that he's typecast, it would be a toss up between continuing as Charlie or regional panto.

He left for a bit a few years ago when I used to watch it. I remember because I can't stand him and was glad he left.

I don't recall seeing him in anything else EVER. I wonder if he couldn't get any other work being such a great actor and came crawling back. I guess if he's being paid that sort of money, he now doesn't need any other work.

TBH you could prop a cardboard cut out just to the edge of shot and achieve the same impact...

Yes ant and Dec are on about £4 million each according to the press. Simon cowell owns the format for things like X factor and that talent show thing so makes a packet from that - not just presenting fees.

Crisps in a chair is not even my best joke, hey I'm cheap too BBC!

I love the BBC. I have no problem with people being paid very well for what they do. But it's seeing men getting paid far more than female talent in equsl j9bs thats pissed me off.

I would like to know if sarah montague was not on that list because she gets paid less than her co-presenters or because she gets paid via a production company.

I can't get excited about it really. Like a pp said it just means anyone with any talent will go and work for someone who is willing to pay more and that would be a great shame.

There are too many variables to compare them like for like. I don't think people should have their earnings published for all and sundry to read.

I think it's good to be transparent on pay (maybe particularly good for women!)

Plus the BBC is paid for by the licence fee payers. Why shouldn't they know?

margo I think it said she does less presenting than the others on Today.

Woman's Hour presenters Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey don't even get into the £150k bracket but that plank Nick Knowles gets £300k plus [shocked]

Gah! I meant to do a [Shock] face

Oh I give up!

Woman's Hour presenters Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey don't even get into the £150k bracket but that plank Nick Knowles gets £300k plus Exactly.

No issue with how much any of them are paid - it would be so much more if they went to a commercial station anyway. I would like to know how many of them pay their income tax in full and how many make themselves a limited company so they can pay a much lower rate (a legal but unethical tax dodge).

I can't believe how much Nick Knowles gets paid. He's dire.

Nick knowles does loads though - he does one of those lottery quiz things, various afternoon quizzes and voice overs for practically everything else. I dint think it's that he's a real "talent", just that he does an awful lot.

They are all overpaid. The BBC clearly has money to burn.

Definitely all overpaid. And not very talented either.

I wonder what some of the celebs will say when they find they are getting paid less than someone else. No doubt they will demand more.

And the gender gap is amazing.

I do laugh at claims the BBC is a leftie paradise when they’re giving that tosser John Humphry’s £650K

Some of these salaries are crazy and not quite sure how it all gets worked out. However, the rival commercial channels/stations tend to pay more so the BBC has to pay these crazy salaries to keep people. That said I am astounded Steve Wright is paid as much! It's all a bit like footballers salaries.

Haven't seen casualty for years as don't have a tv license, but remember him being pretty meh about 10 years ago, I'm shocked he's paid so much, would he really be missed if he left

Gah! Steve Wright has done the same show for the last 30 years. I can't bear him Factoids! And Charlie has actually stopped me watching Casualty because he makes me want to smash things. That crazy eyed thing he does with the head slightly turned away whenever he is talking to anyone like he can't actually face them or his devastating charm will overpower them. Phew!... and yes the pay gap is shameful.

I bet Duffy wishes she'd held on until retirement!

HarryBiscuit You beat me to it. I was going to post about how astounded I was that Dereck Thompson can even be described as an actor as he is so wooden.Don't know how he has lasted so long on Casualty, he makes the entire cast of Eastenders look Oscar worthy!

These salaries have been published because the Tories wish to reduce the BBC, especially in the areas of news and current affairs. Nothing to do with equalities, though it has shone a light on what we probably suspected anyway.