Gary Lineker has his say over £1.75m salary, not everyone appreciates the joke
Gary Lineker has broken his silence over his £1.75m pay packet, making him the second highest earner at the BBC.
This whole BBC salary exposure business is an absolute outrage…I mean how can @achrisevans be on more than me?
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) July 19, 2017
The Match of the Day presenter earns £1.75m, second only to Evans, on £2.2m.
I'd have a word with his agent mate, yours clearly isn't pulling his weight.
— Jack Holmes (@Jack_Holmes_3) July 19, 2017
Yep, not good enough.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) July 19, 2017
Following publication of the BBC’s biggest stars’ salaries for the first time on Wednesday, it is a strategy best described as ‘high risk’.
Not a laughing matter dude!!
— 🖍 Thierry Courtois (@designbyTBC) July 19, 2017
Is it not? Think it's bloody hilarious
— Steve Underhill (@WWFC_Warwick) July 19, 2017
It's best to be humble during this, not sarcastic. Those of us that don't begrudge you a good salary might change our minds.
— Franky (@RangersFranky) July 19, 2017
It was a sentiment not surprisingly repeated elsewhere.
Sorry Gary but at a time of austerity & public sector pay cuts joking about this isn't helpful. Kinda leaves a taste in the mouth.
— Steve Clarke (@SteveClarke19) July 19, 2017
What kind of taste? Cheese & Onion? Salt & Vinegar?
— Alex Hotchkiss (@AlexHotch) July 19, 2017
it takes 12,450 licence fee payers to pay for your salary. But yeah, fucking hilarious
— jacobo (@Y2JAKE1991) July 19, 2017
Maybe you should ruin Top Gear next?
— Tosh (@Frasersskiving) July 19, 2017
Lineker earlier said it was ‘tin helmet’ time ahead of the publication of the BBC stars’ salaries.
Happy BBC salary day. I blame my agent and the other TV channels that pay more. Now where did I put my tin helmet?
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) July 19, 2017
Chris Evans, possibly for the first time ever, was keeping quiet.
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