Scott Mills has defended his BBC pay check after 'working my whole life' for the dream role. The broadcaster, 51, will take over the prestigious Radio 2 Breakfast Show from his friend Zoe Ball after she stepped down last year. Scott is reportedly taking a small pay rise and will earn £450,000 a year which is far below Zoe's £950,000.
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The dramatic pay difference comes as BBC bosses are under 'enormous pressure' to cut back on costs. He has said after 'playing the long game' and starting out earning just £20 show, people cannot say that he hasn't worked hard. Scott told The Sun's Bizarre: 'I’ve been doing this since I was 16 and I’ll tell you how much I got paid then - £20 a show. And it was a five-hour show in the middle of the night, 1 until 6am.'.
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Scott Mills has defended his BBC pay check after 'working my whole life' for the dream role. The broadcaster, 51, will take over the prestigious Radio 2 Breakfast Show from his friend Zoe Ball after she stepped down last year. He continued: 'It’s not like some hotshot’s turned up and is earning all this cash. No one likes discussing.
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'But I don’t think you can say that I haven’t played the long game. I hope people won’t think, ‘Well, he hasn’t worked very hard for that,’ because I’ve worked for this my whole life.'. Elsewhere, Scott revealed his emotional reaction when he was told he had landed his dream job as host of the Radio 2 Breakfast Show.
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