Terry Wogan

@terry wrote:

At this time of year (since 1980 and the birth of Children in Need), Mr Wogan gets to take home a nice little earner for presenting the programme. That’ll be £10,000 he could (but won’t) donate to the charity.

Does he take home that £10,000?

At the end of CIN this evening the grand total was over £23,000,000 so what is £10,000 in comparison to that amount even if he does take it home?

If since 1980 if he has taken home £10,000 each year what does it amount to in the amount raised year in year out to the amount of money which increases each year in money to support CIN

What may be a more pertinent question is how much money raised by ‘charities’ is used to cover administration costs that never see’s it’s way to the reason it was donated

I don’t see anything wrong with Terry Wogan being paid for doing Children in Need… he is a popular personality and some people possibly contribute to the charity because of his charisma and involvement. We all have to earn a living and presenting the programme is not like merely appearing on it….. Im sure there is a huge time investment … anyway the formula works….. they raised more this year than they did last year….. so well done Terry and all involved.

A question…he may not donate his fee to the charity but how do you know he doesn’t make a (possibly more substantial donation) anonymously?

But if he took the payment from the BBC then made a more substantial donation…who knows?

I have heard he got paid either £10,000 or £40,000 so all we can assume is that it was a certain amount that went somewhere

Personally I found this years CIN rather boring and quite noticeable for the number of previous years star names that were not involved