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12th May 2016
11:27am BST

John Whittingdale, the Culture Secretary, told Parliament he wished "to see as much transparency as possible" at the BBC, but many stars are reportedly not happy with the government's perceived meddling with its independence.
The white paper also proposes that BBC regulation is passed on to Ofcom, which currently supervises its commercial rivals. The old BBC Trust will be abolished and replaced with a new board that is partly government-appointed.
Brian Cox was just one of the well-known names to speak out.
https://twitter.com/ProfBrianCox/status/730305167204225024
Other household names that could be hit by the new salary-declaring rules are news anchors Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce, and former political editor Andrew Marr.
The Guardian reports that the total number of stars earning between £500,000 and £5m fell from 14 to nine, but more of them were bumped up from the lower wage bracket to be paid more than £1m in 2015.
We reported last month on how Graham Norton last year earned £2.5 million between his salary and additional fees for his work on the Eurovision. His own production company, So Television, is also raking in the bills, making almost £12 million pounds in the last fiscal year.
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