The BBC announced how much it paid it’s talent, some £229 million or 6.56% of the license fee - a fairly spectacular amount of money.

Understandably they’re not able to reveal individual contract values - somewhere in the region of 300,000 contracts were signed with the majority being under £1000.

Whilst the headline numbers sound huge, and a few of the contracts are, that’s what they need to pay to attract the talent everyone wants to watch…