Age hasn’t dampened Sir David Attenborough’s work ethic or earning power, with reports of the national treasure raking in around £8m in past two years with more millions sitting in his production firm
Telly icon Sir David Attenborough still continues to rake in a fortune at the ripe old age of 99.
The National Treasure earned around £4m for the 12 months to September 2024 and he earned a similar sum in 2023. And he’s sitting on a cash pile of £1.2m in his production firm.
The TV naturalist has hardly been off the box in a career that began in the 1950s. His latest programme David Attenborough: Ocean came out earlier this month. And his long-time collaborator, Sharmila Choudhury said of him: “David keeps us on our toes. He sets the bar very high. And that’s a good thing.
“I think he work still works harder than most of us, usually seven days a week… When he commits himself to something, he gives it 100%.”
In 2024, he fronted the nature documentary Wild Isles on the BBC1 and he was voted the ‘UK’s Favourite TV Presenter of All Time’.
And he’s also penned a staggering 29 books – the latest A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future – was published in 2020.
His extraordinary telly output has meant that since 2017 alone, he’s recorded more than 10 TV series – including 2021’s A Perfect Planet and Life in Colour, a string of one-off programmes and appeared as a guest on countless other shows.
A third instalment of his epic Blue Planet came out last year. And his monster work ethic is recorded in the accounts of his firm David Attenborough (Productions) Limited.
Latest accounts show the firm has a tax bill of more than £880,000 – meaning his income for the year was around five times that figure.
A note on the books says: “The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible.”
The shareholders of the company are Sir David, his son Robert and daughter Susan. David, who supports many environmental and wildlife charities including WWF, World Land Trust and Cool Earth, owns 54% of the firm.
His Blue Planet series inspired a war on plastic waste.
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