BBC paid stars £230 million last year

The BBC paid its top stars - including Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton - £70 million last year, more than a quarter of its £270 million wage bill for presenters and contributors, the Corporation will disclose today.
But the broadcaster was accused of acting like the "duckhouse" gang of MPs for refusing to disclose the individual salaries of its top stars to a House of Commons spending watchdog yesterday.
The total salary figures will be published today in an attempt to quell a growing row over the BBC’s secrecy about stars’ pay.
But the corporation has refused to reveal the identities of its top earners, claiming it would breach the Data Protection Act.
Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, told the Commons Public Accounts Committee yesterday: “The danger is they won't want to work for us. We actually in most cases try to pay less than the market rate where we can – so releasing individual salaries could push costs up,” he said.
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