David Walliams has been compelled to take a pay lower for the Britain’s Received Expertise Christmas particular, bringing his charge consistent with fellow judges Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon, it has been claimed.
The comic has reportedly all the time been paid at the very least twice the ladies’s charge, and he’s understood to be sad that he couldn’t negotiate extra for tonight’s one-off, The Final Magician.
However bosses at ITV and manufacturing firm Thames wished to make sure that all of the judges’ salaries have been in line.
Crude: David Walliams has been compelled to take a pay lower for the Britain’s Received Expertise Christmas particular, bringing his charge consistent with fellow judges Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon, it has been claimed
Controversial: The comic has reportedly all the time been paid at the very least twice the ladies’s charge, and he’s understood to be sad that he couldn’t negotiate extra for tonight’s one-off, The Final Magician
Tonight’s episode was recorded earlier than vile feedback Walliams made about contestants got here to gentle.
He is not going to function on future sequence after making what he admitted have been ‘disrespectful’ asides throughout auditions.
One supply advised The Mail on Sunday: ‘David was advised he couldn’t be paid what he wished for the particular. The bosses understandably wished to pay everybody the identical.
‘For years, Amanda and Alesha have been incomes far lower than David and have felt that to be extraordinarily unfair.’
Two years in the past, the 2 girls demanded to be paid the identical as their male co-stars.
It was then reported that Ms Holden made about £700,000 per sequence and Ms Dixon £450,000, in comparison with £1.5 million for Walliams and £2.5 million for Simon Cowell, who helped create the present however just isn’t in tonight’s particular.
Thames and Walliams’ representatives declined to remark.
