The Chase star Mark Labbett is said to have raked in an eye-watering £1million in just two years after finding success on the ITV show.
The Sun claims that Labbett’s firm Brainy Best Media Ltd filed accounts this week showing Mark handed over £150,816 to HMRC in Corporation Tax covering the past two years – meaning that he earned well over five times his tax burden in 2020 and 2021.
According to the publication, 2019, he paid himself a dividend of £158,000 from his company coffers.
That was up from £54,250 in 2018 and a bigger increase from 2017’s modest £22,750.
The ITV star also has side jobs as a bingo caller at bars and clubs, with punters paying £10 each to go to Che Bar in Barnsley to see the star call out the numbers.
After he found a bingo winner, people then got a chance to take him on for a Chase style quiz as he performed in his Beast alter-ego.
However, the star has still got a long way to go to catch up with The Chase’s presenter Bradley Walsh.
The star is said to have amassed a fortune of over £10million in his firm Wingit Productions Ltd.
Bradley’s company has got cash and assets worth £12.3m, which was up from £11.5m in 2019, according to The Sun.
The star rakes in plenty of money from presenting on a number of ITV shows, including his new venture with his son Barney.
Bradley said in 2021 that he was thinking about retiring after 40 years on screen, saying: “You know what, in a couple of years time I won’t have to do any of it, I’ll be retired and that’ll be it.”
The Chase airs weekdays at 5pm on ITV.
For more of the latest showbiz news from Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk