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Richest people in telly
degsyhufc
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Are there people in the industry out there that you didn't realise were at the top of the money list?
I was watching the Spy Behind the Scenes special when Jimmy Mulville popped up. Haven't seen him on telly for years so did a quick search and apparent;y his net worth is £50m due to Hat Trick.
I only found out last year how much Griff Rhys Jones was worth after selling Talkback.
Any others in the background?
I was watching the Spy Behind the Scenes special when Jimmy Mulville popped up. Haven't seen him on telly for years so did a quick search and apparent;y his net worth is £50m due to Hat Trick.
I only found out last year how much Griff Rhys Jones was worth after selling Talkback.
Any others in the background?
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Jasper Carrot. Sold interest in celador for over £10m.
Obvious one is Chris Evans, who sold ginger media group for over £200m:eek:
I think he gets some of that from the BBC and some of that from presenting football on Al Jazeera.
I read the company that owns the Top Gear franchise is worth over £50m and Clarkson owned a big chunk of it at one point. So his sell off (coupled with his annual wage) will put him up there too somewhere.
Peter Fincham had made his millions in the sale of Talkback long before he got to BBC1.
Maybe not nowadays but I was amazed to read when I was a kid that he sold his producton company for millions
The people that you don't really hear about or know that behind the scenes their companies are making them millions.
Since he doesn't need to work, perhaps he can stop making godawful programmes like It'll Be Alright On The Night where he spent more time waffling on than they did showing clips, and when they showed clips, only 1 made me laugh (the Aussie one, I think, about 'sucking off')
He took £3m out in 2013 alone.
There was a programme on SKY ARTS about Jerry Lewis, when he and Dean Martin split he had a multi picture deal, the first one being a Xmas film.
Paramount wanted to release a film quickly, so needed another one made quckly, so he made "The Bellboy" in a couple of weeks, shot in the hotel he was performing at in the evenings, mostly silent movie.
Paramount hated it, so refused to pay the costs, so Jerry Lewis personally owned all the negatives (which is very rare), he stated the movie had made him over $300 million over the years.
He got ALL the box office takings instead of being paid a %, and it was a huge hit all round the World as it was a silent film.