How much Celebrity Traitors get paid by the BBC
The new series of Celebrity Traitors is well underway at this point as the second crop of celebrities attempt to banish, murder and bamboozle each other.
It was remarkably successful first time around, and while the regular version of The Traitors has people competing to win a cash prize of up to £125,000 the celebrity version instead has the money they earn going to charity.
That's not to say the celebrities don't get paid for their time, as each of them reportedly gets £40,000 for being on Celebrity Traitors to sweeten the deal after they'd all pretty much said they wanted to be on the show.
That figure is according to journalist Marina Hyde, who told Richard Osman on their The Rest is Entertainment podcast: "They were able to pay everybody a blanket £40k fee, right? I am spilling all my tea today. They're paying them a £40k fee."
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It's a different method to shows such as I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! where each participant negotiates their own appearance fee and can earn a massive amount for being on the show, provided they don't leave early of course.
Since the cast of Celebrity Traitors could be killed off or voted out at any time a blanket fee makes sense to avoid overpaying for big stars who know they can name their price.
The celebrities also have enviable net worths which mean they won't be too worried that the money is going to charity instead of them.
This year's cast are as stacked with faces as famous as the first season and there's already been plenty of drama, which is no doubt by design as executive producer Lewis Thurlow told The Times they were looking for contestants who would 'throw themselves into the game'.
They've definitely done that as by now everyone is very familiar with how The Traitors works and are very eager to get involved in the shenanigans of the game.
In the case of Richard E Grant they were perhaps a little bit too eager to throw themselves into it, as in the first episode he told the other contestants he was a traitor very shortly after being picked, but it made for some great TV.
Celebrity Traitors season two full cast
The full cast can be seen below:
- Amol Rajan – Journalist and Broadcaster
- Bella Ramsey – Actor
- James Acaster – Comedian and Podcaster
- James Blunt – Singer/Songwriter
- Jerry Hall – Model and Actress
- Joanne McNally – Comedian
- Joe Lycett – Comedian
- Julie Hesmondhalgh – Actor
- King Kenny – Content Creator
- Leigh-Anne Pinnock – Singer/Songwriter
- Maya Jama – Broadcaster and Entrepreneur
- Michael Sheen – Actor and Presenter
- Miranda Hart – Actor and Author
- Myha’la – Actor
- Professor Hannah Fry – Broadcaster and Mathematician
- Richard E. Grant – Actor and Author
- Rob Beckett – Comedian
- Romesh Ranganathan – Comedian
- Ross Kemp – Actor and Presenter
- Sebastian Croft – Musician and Actor
- Sharon Rooney – Actor
Celebrity Traitors continues with new episodes this week on Thursday and Friday at 8pm on BBC One.
Topics: BBC, TV and Film, TV, Im A Celebrity, The Traitors, Celebrity
Joe Harker