{"id":25865,"date":"2026-02-15T01:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/gary-lineker-tops-list-of-bbcs-highest-paid-stars-for-eighth-and-final-year\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:23:05","slug":"gary-lineker-tops-list-of-bbcs-highest-paid-stars-for-eighth-and-final-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/gary-lineker-tops-list-of-bbcs-highest-paid-stars-for-eighth-and-final-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Lineker tops list of BBC&#8217;s highest-paid stars for eighth and final year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HYqF3scu8fc?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Former Match Of The Day presenter Gary Lineker has topped the list of the BBC\u2019s highest-earning on-air talent for the eighth consecutive year and the final time.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old, who left the BBC early at the end of the last Premier League season in May, was reported to have earned between \u00a31,350,000 and \u00a31,354,999 in the corporation\u2019s latest annual report for 2024\/2025, for his work on Match Of The Day and coverage of European football.<\/p>\n<p>Radio presenter Zoe Ball was the second highest-paid, earning between \u00a3515,000 and \u00a3519,999, for her work on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, which she left on December 20 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Record Homepage:  https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/<\/p>\n<p>Daily Record Facebook: https:\/\/facebook.com\/TheScottishDailyRecord<br \/>\nDaily Record Instagram: https:\/\/instagram.com\/scottishdailyrecord<br \/>\nDaily Record Sport Instagram: https:\/\/instagram.com\/dailyrecord_sport<br \/>\nDaily Record TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@scottishdailyrecord<br \/>\nDaily Record Sport TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dailyrecord_sport<br \/>\nDaily Record Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/Daily_Record<br \/>\nDaily Record Newsletters: https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/<\/p>\n<p>Join our WhatsApp communities here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages:<\/p>\n<p>DAILY RECORD: https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/join-daily-records-whatsapp-community-31116469<\/p>\n<p>RECORD SPORT RANGERS: https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/join-record-sports-new-rangers-31111892<\/p>\n<p>RECORD SPORT CELTIC: https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/join-record-sports-new-celtic-31111589<\/p>\n<p>You can get all the latest news, sport, showbiz and comment at DailyRecord.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>LIKE | COMMENT | SUBSCRIBE | SHARE<br \/>\n#DailyRecord #bbc<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HYqF3scu8fc\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Match Of The Day presenter Gary Lineker has topped the list of the BBC\u2019s highest-earning on-air talent for the eighth consecutive year and the final time. The 64-year-old, who left the BBC early at the end of the last Premier League season in May, was reported to have earned between \u00a31,350,000 and \u00a31,354,999 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25867,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865\/revisions\/25867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}