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Radio 2 breakfast host Zoe Ball takes whopping £380k pay cut as she ‘felt uncomfortable’ over salary

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ZOE Ball took a pay cut of more than £380,000 as the BBC slashed its high-profile stars’ wages in a huge savings drive. As The Sun revealed last year, the Radio 2 presenter requested the 28 per cent reduction after feeling “uncomfortable” with her wage during a pandemic.

She still remains the corporation’s highest paid female on her £980,000 salary - earning more than double her nearest counterpart Vanessa Feltz.

But Zoe's paycut means a woman is still not top of the list despite a pledge from the BBC to balance gender pay. Match of the Day host Gary Lineker is the highest paid, earning more than £1.36million but he also took a pay cut of at least £390,000, as we revealed last September.

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