Kellie
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GMTV pay cuts | Quote: | The presenters of GMTV are facing pay cuts of up to 25 per cent and shorter holidays when they sign their new contracts later this year.
Stars of the early morning show including Kate Garraway, Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will see their salaries drop as the broadcaster tries to cope with the recession, reports the Daily Mail.
Only the show's highest paid star Lorraine Kelly, who is believed to earn £350,000 a year, will not be affected by the cost-cutting.
Ben Shephard faces the biggest drop in earnings and could see his annual pay cheque slashed by as much as £75,000, while Kate Garraway could see her salary drop by £70,000 when she enters contract negotiations in August.
The presenters also face having their holiday entitlement cut by up to 50 per cent to get more value for money.
A GMTV insider told the Mail: "They used to have much longer holidays. Some of them used to have something like 12 weeks off. I think now they are going down to six of seven.
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How the hell does Lorraine Kelly warrant earnings of £350,000 a year, she only does 4 days and a hour show 
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julie
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Yes some people's wages in this country far out strip their usefulness or talent but when they negotiated their pay no one held a knife to the executive who authorised it I assume. Hopefully one thing this recession may do is help realign some wages.
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Crazychick
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Re: GMTV pay cuts[quote="Kellie"] | Quote: |
How the hell does Lorraine Kelly warrant earnings of £350,000 a year, she only does 4 days and a hour show |
I was just thinking the exact same thing...The others do more than her
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sam
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But she could turn around and say that she covers all sorts of things in her show where as the others don't, haven't watched it in a quite a while but I remember fashion being one thing that she covers in her show.
To me it isn't fair that others, like Ben Shepherd for example, should get their wages cut and Lorraine doesn't
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Maid Marian
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I was reading in the Mirror that Kate Garraway has threatened to quit if she has her salary reduced! I think that may just be the wrong card to play because I'm sure ITV will be only too happy to let her go if they're trying to save money  
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devilwoman
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if they're going to cut one persons salary the yshould cut them all, its not fair on them playing favourites by letting one person keep their full salary, its a ridiculous amount anyway
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sam
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| devilwoman wrote: | | if they're going to cut one persons salary the yshould cut them all, its not fair on them playing favourites by letting one person keep their full salary, its a ridiculous amount anyway |
I agree with you on the bit about it being a ridiculous salary.
Would any of them get that amount of money if they were to get another job somewhere else.
What I'm trying to say is that if they were made redundant and applied for a job as a cleaner (for example) they would get no where near the money a year (or the holidays) that they are on now
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julie
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This all comes back to the skewed way we value people really - look at footballers do they really do as important a job as a Doctor or nurse - do Doctors deserve so much more than a nurse ?
It's all out of whack IMO but I cannot see anyone on high wages being willing to admit that !
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