Clive Myrie raked in eye-watering sum in just one day and not from BBC News job

BBC newsreader Clive Myrie has made around staggering £20,000 in just one day.

The sum is outside of his BBC earnings, in which he receives a salary of £310,000 for his work fronting BBC News and BBC One’s Mastermind. Away from his day job, the broadcaster, 60, takes part in paid speaking gigs – with his external earnings being published.

Those employed by the BBC, which is funded by the TV license payer, must disclose any external salaries they receive for gigs such as public speaking and any other work. New figures revealed that, in September, Clive undertook several public speaking jobs which saw a hefty return for his bank balance.

Figures published by the BBC state that on September 12, 2024, he was paid between £5,000 – £10,000 for hosting the UK Sector Skills Council. On the same day, he made between £5,000 – £10,000 for speaking at the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. In the same month, he managed to make the same amount for hosting Highways Magazine. On September 26, he also received between £5,000and £10,000 for hosting the National Communication Awards.

In the same month, he was paid over £10,00 for hosting the Legal Business Awards. Meanwhile, in December last year, Clive raked in a between £5,000 and £10,000 on December 11, for speaking for equity firm Trilantic and the same fee on December 6 for speaking for the International Steel Federation.

Last year, Clive issued an apology after failing to declare that he made at least £145,000 in extra earnings away from his lucrative BBC career – which he’s paid a staggering £310,000 per annum. He said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that this was due to “administrative issues” when filing his accounts.

Taking to X, Clive said: “An apology – I’ve had several administrative issues, and I didn’t fill out the correct paperwork for some of my external public events, so they haven’t been published until now. I’ve told the BBC I won’t be taking part in any more paid external events in the foreseeable future, beyond a handful of pre-existing commitments, so that this doesn’t happen again. My sincere apologies. Thanks, Clive.”

It came after it was reported in October that Myrie had not declared earnings of at least £65,000 from corporate events over the past 12 months. The Sunday Times claimed Myrie failed to declare his work as a debate chairman at GreenTalks Live, an event hosted by the Isle of Man’s Energy and Sustainability Centre, and as a keynote speaker at Dutch bank ING’s Views From The Top dinner at The Gherkin in London. Both events are reported to have commanded fees of more than £10,000.

The BBC said that staff who had failed to file their accounts properly had been “reminded of their responsibilities.” On their official external events register, the corporation say that they are “undertaking an internal review” of its guidance to “ensure all events in the register are processed, recorded and published correctly going forward.”

They added: “This guidance will remind staff of their obligations and will give consideration to the volume of external events and the value of the fees involved, to ensure the highest standards of impartiality across the organisation.” The register for Q4 of 2024 states that payments of £5,000 or less were made up of 81%, whereas 46% were for below £1,000.

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Source: Mirror