How much each The Celebrity Traitors star get paid has been revealed

The surprising salary received by the cast of Celebrity Traitors has been revealed after the first two episodes of the show have aired.

The BBC show has for the first time launched a celebrity-focused spin off that rivals I’m A Celebrity for the most star-studded cast of a UK reality show ever.

Despite some fans being left disappointed by the first episode and others obsessing over the ‘worst traitor ever’, the show has so far been a massive success.

The premiere episode of the Traitors spin-off drew in a massive six million viewers, more than any other episode of the show bar the season three finale.

With the second episode seeing a major face killed off, some fans will be wondering if a producer somewhere is tearing their hair out because they paid someone huge amounts of money to appear in just two episodes.

Surprisingly, though, the cast of Celebrity Traitors have a very different structure of salary to shows like I’m A Celeb where they are paid depending on how famous they are.

Their salary has been revealed (BBC)

This structure was compared to Celebrity Traitors by Richard Osman and Marina Hyde on the podcast The Rest is Entertainment.

She said: “It's certainly interesting to compare something like Celebrity Traitors on the BBC to I'm a Celebrity on ITV.”

Speaking prior to the episodes being aired she said: “Although we haven't seen the celebrity iteration yet, but we know it's gonna be massive. Look at the calibre of the people they got.

“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.”

The trio of Traitors were each paid £40,000, the same as everyone else (BBC)

Compared to the last season of I’m A Celebrity that saw Coleen Rooney take in £1.5 million and previous iterations that saw Nigel Farage rake in the same fee, it is a very different structure of payment for all the celebs to be paid the same.

Thankfully though, where Celebrity Traitors has the advantage is that – unlike I’m A Celebrity – a number of celebs have spoken about how much they wanted to appear on Celebrity Traitors.

Sir Stephen Fry, when asked about appearing on the show prior to its launch, said: “With this, I've never done anything like it before. I just thought it would be a new experience.

Fry has spoken about how he wanted to go on the show for the experience (BBC)

“Everybody kept telling me it was a very good show and it sounded interesting. I watched and I had to agree, I did think it was very good.”

With the massive 19-person cast list for Celebrity Traitors this does total up to a whopping £760,000, but many will argue this has already paid for itself.

The first two episodes have seen the BBC unafraid of treating the celebrity contestants the same as regular ones, with the celebs forced to dig their own graves in the very first task of the entire show.

Celebrity Traitors airs Wednesday and Thursday nights at 9pm on BBC One.