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PROBE Police at the venue THIS news is a major breakthrough.
It shows that while the BBC is having a very public struggle to close the gender pay gap, ITV is already getting its house in order.
When Holly started on This Morning with Phillip, she was less experienced than him and couldn’t have hoped to earn the same.
Now ITV bosses are finally recognising that the reason the show still wins awards after so many years is thanks to the skills of both presenters.
Hopefully this paves the way for others.
JEREMY Paxman has blasted huge wages the BBC pays top stars as “ridiculous”.
And the ex-Newsnight host, 67, said female talent would leave for commercial channels after the pay gap was revealed in the list of high earners.
Paxman, once a top BBC earner himself, said: “It’s absolutely ridiculous anybody is paid anything like that.
“There are really important jobs out there for which people should be paid better.”
And talking about the gender gap he said: “This is the Kirsty Wark WINNING ACT Holly and Phillip on This Morning
It seemed ridiculous Holly was lagging on This Morning
ITV SOURCE ON DEAL MATCHING PHILLIP’S PAY argument – about would I get paid more if I had a penis.” The host of University Challenge said there was a market and stars had “not negotiated big enough deals”. He added: “You will find some go off to Sky or ITV and get WARNING Paxman vastly greater amounts.” At the Edinburgh Book Festival he also said he had planned to vote for Brexit but changed his mind en route to the polls.
He said: “Would I vote the same tomorrow? I’m not sure.”
David Cameron would go down as “one of the worst PMs of modern times”, he added.