Payments to celebrities

Release date:
19 July 2017

You asked

I am looking for information about payments to celebrities. Please could you provide me with the following:

  1. Please could you provide a list of celebrities who have received payments over the past three calendar years (2015/16/17) up until the present date.

  2. In each case where a celebrity has been paid please could you state how much they were paid, the date they were paid and why they were paid (i.e. promotional campaign/advert, speaking fee, performing fee, appearance fee etc).

  3. In each case where a celebrity has been paid please could you include any expenses that were also paid and detail what they were for (travel, accommodation etc). Please could you break down what was paid to the celebrities in fees and what was paid to them in expenses.

Please note, for the purpose of this request a ‘celebrity’ should be taken to mean a famous person in sport, entertainment, film, music, reality TV, vlogging, or any other field.

If FOI requests of a similar nature have already been asked could you also please include your responses to those requests.

We said

Thank you for your recent enquiry.

There have been no payments made to celebrities as defined by the request in the years of 2015, 2016 and 2017, and we have not received requests of this nature previously.

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