Mel Giedroyc – £3.7 Million

In 2017, Evening Standard reported that Mel Giedroyc was making somewhere between £150k and £200k as an employee of the BBC. The exact figures have been a guarded secret in the broadcasting network, which has exploited a regulation loophole to keep mum about the pay figures of its employees making £150k and under.

In 2021, Giedroyc split from her long-time on-screen pal Sue Perkins as she began filming for her new woodwork competition-themed show “Britain’s Best Woodworker.” The two had been virtually inseparable in the years past, working as co-anchors since the ’90s on “Light Lunch” and “The Great British Bake Off.”