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Jeremy Clarkson is estimated to have earned more than £3m ($4.7m) from his work presenting Top Gear, making the controversial presenter easily the highest-paid BBC star – according to documents filed by commercial arm Worldwide.
His income from the motoring programme was boosted by £900,000 after it emerged that dividends from the company behind the commercial exploitation of Top Gear had lept to £9m from £6m a year ago.
BBC Worldwide owns 50% of Bedder 6 and an obscure note to its accounts disclosed that it received a £4.5m dividend in 2011/12 up from £3m a year ago – fuelled by Top Gear DVD sales and income from live shows.
Bedder 6 has not yet filed its own accounts with Companies House, but its figures for the year to 31 March 2011 showed it paid a total dividend of £5.95m – which would fit in with the £3m received by the BBC last year.
Clarkson owns 30% of the company – making his share £2.7m, up from £1.8m the year before. On top of that Clarkson has previous drawn a fee of £350,000 and is paid a separate "talent fee" from the BBC licence fee of widely believed to be just short of £500,000.
That would take his estimated income to £3.5m – and compares to an estimated £2.65m for a year before. The increases make Clarkson easily the best-paid BBC star, ahead of Graham Norton who earns a little above £2m from the licence fee and his production company So Television and Gary Lineker who earns a presenter fee from the licence fee of about £2m a year.
However, because the majority of Clarkson's pay does not come from the licence fee, he will not be included as one of the BBC's 16 stars who earn more than £500,000, let alone one of the handful – estimated at between three and six – who earn more than £1m a year.
The remainder of Bedder 6, a 20% stake, is owned by Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman. A £9m dividend will mean he will receive £1.8m. Wilman has also previously drawn a £60,000 fee for his role on the programme.
Bedder 6 was set up to allow Clarkson to benefit from the commercialisation of Top Gear without drawing large sums from the licence fee. The growth of Top Gear has meant that the deal has proved particularly lucrative, at a time when other BBC stars have had to face pay cuts because the Corporation is cutting back on its licence fee spending.
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Top Gear is one of the BBC's biggest selling programme brands around the world.
Jeremy Clarkson and his fellow Top Gear hosts are to remain with the show for at least another three years following a new contract with the BBC.
The corporation's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, has also bought full rights to the show, after a deal with Clarkson and Top Gear producer Andy Wilman.
Top Gear has generated substantial earnings for BBC Worldwide.
A spokesman said the agreement will allow BBC Worldwide to "continue to grow the brand around the world".
BBC Worldwide held a 50% stake in Bedder 6, a joint venture between Clarkson and Wilman which controlled the commercial rights to Top Gear, while Clarkson and Wilman shared the remaining 50% stake.
Bedder 6 is believed to have grown its profits five-fold since the business started around five years ago.
The BBC Worldwide buy-out will see it own 100% of the business and take all profits from book and DVD sales, as well as international sales of the programme.
In addition Clarkson and his fellow hosts James May and Richard Hammond will have new commercial contracts with Worldwide for their work on the Top Gear brand for the next three years, which will see them promote the show globally.
A similar agreement has been reached with Wilman.
A spokesman for BBC Worldwide said it would not speculate on how much it paid for the remaining 50% stake in Bedder 6, due to commercial confidentiality.
When Clarkson and Wilman held their share of the company, they received an annual dividend, with Clarkson's most recent payout amounting to £2.7 million.
A BBC Worldwide spokesman added: "This agreement secures the commercial future of Top Gear without using a penny of licence fee money and allows us to continue to grow the brand around the world, reinvest in Top Gear and return profits to the BBC."
As well as being BBC Two's most popular programme, Top Gear has been sold to 212 territories.
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