According to a Daily Mail article Alesha is paid more then the other 3 judges who are all paid the same??

Not quite sure if I believe it as it is the Daily Mail, but if true is quite absurd really as she is imo probably the judge who would be least missed if she left and she is definitely the least experienced.

not just the highest paid judge but highest estimated annual earnings from other 'jobs'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...rs-judges.html

ridiculous when you think how much work the pro's have to put in.

Blame Brucie - he is the one who talked people into in the first place.

If DOI can bin Bunton then why haven't SCD got the the nreve to dump Dixon

Presumably all the much higher earnings that the judges get as a result of their fame (or notoriety) through Strictly Come Dancing also apply to the professional dancers.

Alesha is the only judge who had any fame before Strictly Come Dancing and as the article says they are worried that the Ex Factor might recruit her and they would be paying a much higher amount. At least she has not tried to squeeze more money out of the BBC like a certain breakfast TV presenter did.

Completely and unutterably unbelievable. So, a wonderful professional like Brendan Cole or Vincent gets £30,000 and yet that ludicrous woman who knows absolutely nothing about dance other than winning one competition is paid to be top dog. The BBC are quite mad. Nobody likes her, everybody has wondered why she has remained year after year and yet...Come on somebody at the BBC own up to the real story, not this rubbish about how in demand she was. There was absolutely no demand from Strictly's audience at all. She was a failed pop singer. End of.

What? There is no clamour to keep her on the BBC programme. Let her go. I'll even throw in some gift wrapping.

Sorry, me again, but I'm so angry. The only judge with any fame? Are you being serious? Arelene Phillips was famous all over the world and not just in the dance community. She did Cats, Les Miz and god knows how many other shows. You can't seriously believe that more people knew Alesha Dixon than Arlene Phillips?

I agree. Really wish the BBC would bin her. I don't know anybody who likes her as a judge and I still find the fact she is one completely ridiculous.

It stinks.

So true.

It's ironic that the industry she loves - music doesn't want her. Maybe she'll get herself in Harry's good books somehow and do a song with McFly - Alesha Dixon featuring McFly of course!!

SCD is the only thing keeping her in the limelight. If she lost her place as a judge, she'd lose a lot of products she endorses and the money that goes with it.

I am talking about fame to the general public. Arlene Philips was remembered by a few older people from her name being associated with Hot Gossip though I don't think she appeared on camera herself then. Apart from her period on Strictly Come Dancing she was completely unknown to the majority of people as were the other judges.

Alesha was not a major star but she was known through her singing group and attempt at a solo career before she appeared on Strictly Come Dancing. She still has a career in her singing which though enhanced by her appearances on Strictly Come Dancing is unrelated.

The other three obviously had reasonably successful careers before Strictly Come Dancing but it was unknown to the general public.

I quite like her, apart from Craig she is often the only one to make a genuine comment during judging. The others are more liable to put on a performance with some pre-scripted one-liners. Arlene Philips used to try to do the same but was never as successful at reading out jokes and I often just found her irritating.

As always with the tabloids you have to have a bit of caution because I doubt whether the BBC have published the individual payments to judges and professionals so it is quite likely speculation.

I do.

Very interesting post, tells me a lot about how people see fame. Arlene was really rather well known - and not just to a few older people as you so charmingly put it. I have managed to survive to the age of 51 (expecting telegram from Queen) and it may be a shock to you to realise that the majority of the population is over 50 and many of us do not consider ourselves old.

You on the other hand seem to consider that anybody who doesn't know the worlwide fame of Alesha Dixon, famous for ???, is not a member of the public. As I said, I am not a member of the dance world, but I do see a lot of shows and generally read the newspapers and I can tell you that Arlene was pretty well known - hence the outcry when she was booted off Strictly to make way for a failed singer with a pretty face, great legs and a poor grasp of English.

I don't want to sound bigoted but it does get up my whatever when people who consider that the only concept of fame is pop singers - and a not very good one at that.

I am already married

That's their problem

How many people had even heard of Alesha before she did Strictly? I certainly hadn't.

Pay rates are closely guarded secrets by all networks.
But if you apply a bit of logic you can hazard a guess.

The judges were "nobody's" as far as most of the public away from dance were concerned, so I guess they would have started at quite a comparatively low figure in series one.
If the BBC had any brains and they occasionally have, they may have contracted the judges for several series at the end of the first year and I guess the judges would have snatched their hands off. I doubt whether the BBC would put themselves in a position where they could be held to ransom for money by these people at the beginning of each series. Len's absence for a week would have made no difference to the ratings and didn't affect the show.
Alesha was brought in to replace Arlene as the BBC wanted to attract a wider audience, (ratings again) her success in the show gave her pop career a bit of a boost so she had at the time a much "higher market value."
It wouldn't surprise me if she's paid considerably more than any of the other judges.

omg i thought it would have been Len highest paid/ then bruno and craig on the same salary/ and alesha last

I just read the article. If it's true, I can'e believe the dancers get paid less than the judges. How did the judges manage to get such a huge pay rise?

I can understand Bruce getting paid considerably more, he already had a big celebrity statu when he joined the show and would've come a lot more expensive than the rest of the crew. But all the judges, including Alesha, earned their fame on this show. Just like the dancers. And according to this article they all started on £17000. So why do the dancers bow have a lower pay than the judges?!

Because they are easily replaced and few viewers would notice. It's "market value" again.
There's fourteen dancers and only four now well-established judges.

Little in the press about dancers not being re-engaged, but the rumblings about Arlene's departure went on for weeks.

Yes, and the BBC pointedly do not publish the salary details of their talent.

Therefore any firm figures for any of the judges quoted in that article must be open to question.


And I also like how the DM uses phrases designed to whip up opinion like "lives mortgage-free" - people with high incomes or with financial windfalls might be expected to have paid off any mortgage, especially those people in their later years. And quite frankly, the external business and financial affairs of any of the judges should have nothing to do with the story - again, the information is designed to whip up opinion via the politics of envy.

It's seems no coincidence that the DM does not like the BBC.

Since she lost her music contract, SCD is now her biggest profile gig and all her other work is dependent on it. She must be keener to keep her SCD job. Time for the BBC to renegotiate.

Ok, are you joking? How old are you? Anyone above the age of 40 would remember Hot Gossip.

Admittedly a) I wasn't born when Hot Gossip came out, b) I wasn't born in this country, and c) I'm a dancer, so I'm a bit biased here. But by the time SCD came out I had come to UK, and my host family were the ones who told me who Arlene was, and told me about Hot Gossip. And they were most certainly not old! Or dancers.

And Alesha Dixon had a failed single career before coming to SCD. I think her husband cheated on her and her record company dropped her in the same year... poor thing! In any case, it was her success in SCD that made her career. Even in the days of Mis-teeq her band wasn't all that successful. I was a teenager then, I remember well how unpopular they were with kids at school.

me neither, but then at the age of 51 I am practically dead

her success in the show? Almost universally disiliked and got the BEEB in terrific hot water for ageism