Happy to have his big bucks at the Beeb trimmed a bit

NORTON’S £600,000 BBC salary is for work on shows like his Radio 2 slot and Eurovision.

He also receives another pay cheque, thought to be about £750,000, for the Graham Norton Show from makers So Television.

He sold So in August 2012 and is now paid as an employee. With earnings totalling over £1.3million he will be paying the 45% top tax rate of income tax, in his case more than £500,000-a-year. A source close to Graham said: “He pays his tax just like everybody else should.”

He has also spoken several times about being happy to take pay cuts while working for the BBC.

In 2011 as he took a second pay cut in two years Norton said: “Will I take a pay cut? Absolutely. God yes. There should be no special cases.

“Cutbacks at the BBC are across the board, which is how it should be.”