Media captionJeremy Vine: Making a remuneration chip is ‘a no-brainer’

The BBC revealed the pay of on-air ability making over PS150, 000 in July, with two-thirds of adepts on the roll being men.

A BBC statement said: “We are very grateful to Huw Edwards, Nicky Campbell, John Humphrys, Jon Sopel, Nick Robinson and Jeremy Vine, who have agreed that their spend is now time be reduced.

“These are great writers and presenters, who have a real the purposes of the audience. We are proud to have them working at the BBC.

“The final details of some of these changes are still being discussed, and there are farther conferences that the BBC will have with others in due course.”

John Humphrys, who presents Radio 4’s Today programme and Mastermind, said it was his decision to earn less.

“It’s the third[ remuneration slash] and “theyve been” volunteered in all cases, ” he said, said acts were very different from its first year when presenters were “having fund pretty much thrust upon us”.

“There was no scarcity of cash, ” he said. “There is a shortage of cash. And it seems to me, and I felt this before the salary revealings last year, but the salary revealings fortified the relevant recommendations that some of us were giving much more than others.”

On his way into work at Radio 2 on Friday, Jeremy Vine was asked by reporters why he had agreed to a lower wage.

“I think it needs to be sorted out and I support my female colleagues who have rightly said they should be paid the same when they’re doing the same responsibility, ” he said.

“It’s simply a no-brainer, so it wasn’t a problem for me to accept one[ a pay stroke ]. “

An independent inspection into equal bribe at the BBC will be published next week.

When the list of the best-paid BBC presenters that was published last-place time, Chris Evans was at the top, earning between PS2. 2m and PS2. 25 m in 2016/2017.

The highest-paid woman, Claudia Winkleman, payed substantially lower – between PS450, 000 and PS500, 000.

BBC media journalist Amol Rajan said while challenger in the entertainment industry had intensified, the opposite had happened in news.

“Many of those now making spend chips ensure magnanimous spates years ago, ” he said.

“That world has disappeared – and these presenters now had recognized that a hunk of their wages will have to disappear with it.”

After leaving her pole as China editor, Gracie is now returning to the BBC newsroom in London, saying she expects to be “paid equally”.

She is due to appear before a select committee of MPs on Wednesday next week, shortly before director general of the BBC Tony Hall, his lieutenant Anne Bulford and administrator of news and current occasions Fran Unsworth.

They were called to discuss what activity “owners corporations” is taking to address the Gender Pay Gap.

Damian Collins MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said: “While it is admirable that these BBC presenters want to show solidarity for their female colleagues by taking a bribe trimmed, it doesn’t address the fundamental issues of money prejudice that Carrie Gracie and others have raised.”

He added that they would hear from Gracie and elderly BBC illustrations at the human rights commission session.

There have been three investigations into gender settle at the BBC TAGEND

A report was published in October, in accordance with a requirement on all vast organisations. It found the gender pay gap at the BBC was 9.3%, against a national average of 18. 1%

A judge-led examine of equal settle among rank-and-file organization publicized at the same age observed there are still “no question of any systemic gender discrimination”

A review into the BBC’s approach to the remuneration of on-air presenters, journalists and correspondents is due to be published next week

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