BBC presenter under fire over failure to declare extra work

Another day, another drama at the BBC. Now it transpires that one of the corporation’s top newsreaders Clive Myrie failed to declare up to a quarter of a million pounds worth of ‘external events’ that he was involved in outside of his BBC job. Dear oh dear…

As well as undertaking his newsreader role, the Beeb staffer has also been paid for a number of speaking and hosting work – but when it came to logging the additional work on the broadcaster’s external events register, Myrie fell short. It took the press getting in touch with the BBC over the issue for the star presenter to register 29 late entries – charging £10,000 a pop for most gigs. Alright for some!

Taking to Twitter today, Myrie has apologised for his indiscretions – which date from the the first quarter of 2021 to July 2024 – writing:

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.