Highest paid stars, with a bbc salary of over £400,000. Yeah, you just started alluding to it there, such a huge figure for the bbc, of course, and Bbc News but also, wider than that, part of the national fabric, because he was the face of so many high profile major events here in the uk. Absolutely, he was the person that the public really associated with big national events whether it was presenting general election coverage, whether it was great state events. People will, of course, remember he was the person who, on television, delivered the sad news that Queen Elizabeth ii had passed away. So, for so many members of the audience, millions of people watching, he really was the face of the bbc for so many big, important national events that really had resonance with people at home watching