The changing BBC rich list: How host of new faces are set to top the cost-cutting Beeb's highest earners after Gary Lineker stepped down from MOTD, Zoe Ball quit breakfast show and Huw Edwards left in

Change is underway at the top of the BBC's rich list, with a host of big name departures leading to new faces at the top of the salary rankings. She is set to replaced by Scott Mills Earlier this month it was announced the BBC's highest paid star, Gary Lineker, was leaving Match of the Day - despite reportedly offering to take a £350,000 pay cut Huw Edwards is another of the BBC's top earners for 2024, but he will not be returning to our TV screens after being convicted for possessing indecent images of children These moves suggest Radio 1 breakfast host Greg James could be set to become the BBC's highest paid star on £419,999 - although Ball's replacement Scott Mills is likely to enjoy a substantial bump to his current salary of £319,999. BBC Director General Tim Davie was the highest paid executive, but his pay did not rise this year In joint ninth, with BBC Radio 4's Today programme presenter Nick Robinson, was BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty, whose pay went up slightly to £349,999. In the latest BBC pay rankings BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty was joint ninth, after her annual earnings from the corporation went up slightly to £349,999 That position in the pay scale was shared by the BBC's former political editor Nick Robinson who is now one of the main presenters of Radio 4's Today programme BBC News presenter Reeta Chakrabarti was given an increase in the region of £55,000 to up to £274,999, according to the latest annual figures Currently Mills, 51, who has hosted a number of different slots on the network and regularly stood in for his pal this year while she was off on compassionate leave, earns a comparably modest £315,000 each year. Scott Mills and Zoe Ball were pictured embracing after leaving Wogan House in central London on Tuesday as the BBC announced he would be replacing her on the Radio 2 breakfast show Lauren Laverne, soon to return to presenting Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4, was paid up to £399,999 - putting her in sixth place in the pay table and as one of four women in the top ten The move also means UK radio audiences, including those on Radio 2 and Radio 5 Live, will now get overnight news bulletins from the BBC World Service, while radio station Asian Network will also lose its own 'bespoke' news service.