How much do The Celebrity Traitors get paid? Stars' huge BBC fees revealed

Ever wondered how much celebrities get paid to take part in reality shows? The salaries of the cast of the Celebrity Traitors have been revealed.

The show stars big names such as Stephen Fry and Alan Carr. Their salaries were revealed on The Rest is Entertainment podcast, which is hosted by Richard Osman and Marina Hyde.

According to Marina, all the celebrities on the show have been paid a flat fee of £40,000 to appear on the show. Everyone has been paid the same, regardless of their level of fame.

This means those that make it to the final will be paid the same as the first to be 'murdered' or banished. The prize pot will be donated to charity, so no celebrity will take home more cash than their fee.

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"It's certainly interesting to compare something like Celebrity Traitors on the BBC to I'm a Celebrity on ITV," Marina said in a podcast episode that aired before the show launched. "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 Thursday Murder Club author Richard compared the show to The White Lotus, which also paid their cast a flat fee - $40,000 (£29,000) - rather than an individual wage.

"It's like White Lotus when everyone got paid the same, they got paid much less than you would normally do," he said, before adding that "everyone is massively overpaid in the entertainment business".

The Celebrity Traitors started on 8 October and follows the same format as the original hit series, where people are split into 'faithfuls' and a group who are secretly 'traitors'. While everyone completes tasks to build up a prize pot, the faithfuls must root out the traitors, as if even one is left at the end, they will take all the money. Meanwhile, the traitors agree to 'murder' one faithful each night, to thin out the group.

Claudia Winkleman has also returned to host the show. The only difference between the celeb version and the main show, other than the start-studded cast, is that the prize pot will go to a charity of the winners' choice.

This is the first season of the Celebrity Traitors and the full cast includes actors Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie, Nick Mohammad, Tameka Empson, Mark Bonnar and Ruth Codd.

It also includes comedians Alan Carr, Joe Wilkinson and Lucy Beaumont, broadcasters Kate Garraway, Clare Balding and Jonathan Ross, singers Paloma Faith, Cat Burns and Charlotte Church, as well as sports stars Tom Daley and Joe Marler, writer David Olusoga and YouTuber Niko Omilana.

The traitors were chosen in the first episode, though no one was murdered, nor was there a banishment. As such, the entire cast remain, with singer Cat, Jonathan and Alan as the Traitors. The show was filmed during the spring.

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