Drop Gary Lineker to help BBC pay for better programmes – Yorkshire Post Letters

THE BBC’s previously highest paid presenter Gary Lineker has taken a modest pay cut so that his annual salary is a still 
massive £1.35m or so (The Yorkshire Post, September 16 and 19).

New BBC Director General Tim Davie said: “We are highly honoured to have a broadcaster of such brilliance at the BBC.”

Well, that is very much a matter of opinion and certainly not mine.

In my view he offers nothing overly special when he fronts Match of the Day, and that role could just as well be taken, at much lesser cost, by someone such as the BBC’s Mark Chapman, every bit as professional and certainly not as smarmy.

The loss of Lineker is something the BBC could well afford to do, and with no 
great detriment to his programmes.

From: Hilary Andrews, Nursery Lane, Leeds.

WHEN you consider how much knowledge Donald Fear required to win £1m on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? it seems ludicrous that Gary Lineker gets £1.35m for reading an autocue on Match of the Day.

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