£5,479 a day

James Corden

JAMES CORDEN is paid around £2 m a year for hosting The Late Show in the U.S. He moaned to Billboard magazine this year that he was the ‘lowest-paid talk show host on TV’ and that he ‘cannot imagine there is one paid less’. This salary is topped up by money for hosting events and by a share of the revenues from the successful Carpool Karaoke slot, which now has its own spin-off show.

HOW HE SPENDS IT: On a £7 m Los Angeles pad which he shares with wife Julia. It’s got an oak-panelled library and a pool.