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  • Handful of gay and lesbian talent in BBC’s highest paid staff

    Just over a handful of openly LGB stars are paid more than £150,000 per year the BBC’s annual report reveals.

    Graham Norton, who hosts the Eurovision and his own show on the BBC takes the top slot earning somewhere between £850,000 and £899,999 after the BBC released its annual report today. For the first time it includes the salaries taken by some of its biggest stars. Graham was followed by Radio 1 host Nick Grimshaw who earns between £350,000 and £399,999 per year. His fellow presenter Scott Mills earns £100,000 less.

    The BBC used multiples of £50,000 to denote its staff’s salary rather than give accurate figures.

    Elsewhere, Strictly Come Dancing‘s judges Bruno Tonioli and Craig Revel Horwood are not equally compensated for their stints on the show. Horwood takes home up to £199,999 whilst Bruno trumps with a take home of up to £299,999.

    There are no openly trans stars paid over £150,000 on the BBC’s books.

    Clare Balding was the only openly lesbian to be featured on the list and she takes home up to £199,999.

    Overall 96 on-air stars were featured in the new annual report from the corporation.

     

  • You won’t believe what a sexy-time session with Craig Revel Horwood costs

    So the news that Craig Revel-Horwood was once a rent boy isn’t news anymore, but you might be surprised at how much he charged for “his wares”.

    (C) BBC – Guy Levy

     

    Strictly judge Craig Revel-Horwood revealed in a recent interview with Timmy ‘Alexis Carrington’ Ward exactly how much sexy time with him cost. When asked what his “tariff” was by Timmy, Craig replied, “it was a year’s worth of dance lessons, so add that up, darling”.

    Famously, Craig’s escorting history made the headlines in 2008, when he admitted that he had worked as a rent boy at the age of 17. He used the money he earned to fund his dance lessons. Apparently, his main customer was a famous Australian TV personality, who was 43 at the time.

    In a tell-all interview with Here She Is hosted by Tim Ward, a sort of YouTube, x rated Graham Norton meets Vanessa Feltz circa Big Breakfast, Craig looked relaxed as he answered questions about his escorting past, having an eating disorder and revealing which Strictly celebrity he had a bust-up with.

    Watch the interview here!

     

     

     

     

     

  • Craig Revel Horwood is open to a relationship with a woman!

    So the Strictly Come Dancing judge might not be just exclusively gay anymore, after revealing that he could consider women for a relationship, after splitting with his boyfriend in May.

    (C) BBC – Guy Levy

     

    Speaking to the Loose Women panel earlier today, Craig Revel Horwood said he wouldn’t put himself “out of any department” when they asked if he would date a women after splitting with his partner, Damon Scott back in May.

    The outspoken dance judge, who’s currently starring in BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, said that he was loving the single life and joked with the panel that the next person he’d like to date would be “honest and doesn’t sell stories on you”.

    He thought that he an Janet Street-Porter would make a great couple.

    He also revealed that his former partner, Mr Scott refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement, which Craig apparently gets people to sign before they get too close.

    He said,

    “He didn’t want to, I guess that is sort of lacking trust in the relationship. It is hard.”

     

  • 10 Things You Did Not Know About Craig Revel Horwood

    Mr Harsh but fair Craig Revel Horwood is quite the character, much loved by audiences but often loathed by contestants.

    Here are 11 things you probably didn’t know about the Strictly Come Dancing judge.

    1) Craig Revel Horwood was born in Australia in 1965, making him 50. He was born in Ballarat in Victoria,

    2) One of his first paid jobs was as a drag queen in bars and clubs. His drag name was Lavish.

    3) At one time Craig identified as bisexual before coming out as gay. He told a reporter from OK magazine that after his wife (Jane) left him for another man he “fell in love with a bloke. I have been gay ever since.”

    4) He rarely gives the perfect 10 on Strictly. It is a highly prized honour.

    5) He’s had two cosmetic surgeries including a nose job and male breast reduction. He had his “moobs” reduced in 2010 and it cost a whopping £3000.

    6) He still does drag. Craig is still known to glam up or dress up as a dame. He’s often a dame in Panto or more recently as Miss Hannigan in Annie.

    7) He’s currently dating Britain’s Got Talent runner up Damon Scott. They live together in Hampshire and have been dating since 2013.

    8) He moved from Oz to the UK in 1989. In 2011 he officially became a British Citizen.

    9) In his tell-all book he talks about giving sexual favours to an anonymous showbiz “sugar daddy”. He said,

    “I have to refer to him as ‘Mr X’ for legal reasons. Basically I got favours from him for sexual favours, so I likened that to being a rent boy, only because I didn’t feel anything for this character.

    “But he paid for my dance tuition which was brilliant as it got me out of my hometown and to Melbourne where I trained.

    10) He was once anorexic. As a child he was very overweight and became ill with at one point eating just lettuce for two weeks.

    Craig Revel Horwood is currently appearing on Strictly Come Dancing on BBC one

  • Craig Revel Horwood As You Have Never Seen Him Before, As A Woman!

    Fearsome Craig Revel Horwood has unveiled a new look – as Miss Hannigan from the hit show Annie.

    We know Craig for his usual antics and as a no-nonsense judge on the BBC flagship shows Strictly Come Dancing, but now he’s displaying a whole new look altogether in full drag as the loathsome orphanage owner Miss Hannigan in Annie.

    He’s playing the part for the national tour of Annie that stops off at the Alhambra Theatre, in Bradford, for one week only from Tuesday 29 September to Saturday 3 October 2015.

    This is not the first time the openly gay judge and theatre star has been in drag, as a seventeen-year-old Craig made money as a drag queen in bars and clubs. He currently lives with his partner, Damon Scott in Hampshire.

  • Strictly Off To A Glittery Start

    More fake tan than the entire cast of Towie, do not adjust the colour on your TV sets – it can only mean one thing, the Strictly Come Dancing extravaganza has come to our screens.

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