Ric.roar - "Fine - so what's wrong with donating his fee to Children In Need - which he manages not to do.
How do you know he doesn't?"
Extract from Wogan's Wikkipeida entry -
'He is reported to be the only celebrity paid for his participation in Children in Need, having received a fee every year since 1980 (£9,065 in 2005). Wogan, however, has stated that he would "quite happily do it for nothing" and that he "never asked for a fee". The BBC stated that the fee had "never been negotiated". Wogan's fee has been paid from BBC resources and not from the Children in Need charity fund.[20] There is no record, however, of Wogan ever having repaid his fee from previous years'
I believe he may present the show now without a fee, but as advised, he has never paid his previous fees back, or donated them.
What gets my goat is working out who is more sancitmonious - the BBC for paying him in the first place, and then defending that payment by saying it doesn't come out of CIN donations, or Wogan, saying he'd 'do it for nothing', and has 'never negotiated a fee' but was quite happy to trouser eight grand for an evening's work for several years, without thinking it might be nice to pop it in the pot he is busy urging people with far less money than him to contribute to.
The man is a disgrace.