Dale Winton criticised over fee for Comic Relief shows

Howard Lake | 17 January 2001 | News

Dale Winton criticised over fee for Comic Relief shows

TV celebrity Dale Winton is criticised in today’s Guardian for taking a reported fee of £90,000 for hosting a series of programme’s promoting Comic Relief. The charity usually and famously succeeds in persuading all suppliers and participants to donate their time and services at no charge.

Dale Winton criticised over fee for Comic Relief shows

TV celebrity Dale Winton is criticised in today’s Guardian for taking a reported fee of £90,000 for hosting a series of programme’s promoting Comic Relief. The charity usually and famously succeeds in persuading all suppliers and participants to donate their time and services at no charge.

Although The Guardian featured comments from charity staff about the willingness of most celebrities to waive a fee when working for charity, Mr Winton does seem to have been a little unfortunate in being singled out for criticism. He is hosting a series of five programmes of a quiz show which will promote Comic Relief in the run-up to the event.

Read Dismay as Winton demands fee to host charity show by Nicola Hill at SocietyGuardian.

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.