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Presenter Paddy McGuinness handed £250,000 to stay at the BBC after Top Gear and Question Of Sport were taken off air
Paddy McGuinness is set to stay at the BBC despite Top Gear and Question of Sport both being pulled. Insiders at the Corporation told The Mail on Sunday that the host was paid around £250,000
Bosses at the BBC were so keen to keep presenter Paddy McGuinness from working for ITV that they gave him a hefty retainer even after the shows he starred in had been axed, sources say. A source also claims that production staff were tasked with coming up with new concepts for McGuinness, whom they lured from ITV in 2018 to front the motoring show Top Gear. Top Gear is off air indefinitely after a horror car crash involving Paddy's former co-presenter Freddie Flintoff (Chris Harris also pictured, right)
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