Piers Morgan – TV presenter & journalist – £21,917 per day
Love him or hate him (most people fall into the latter category!), Piers Morgan has seemingly always commanded a hefty fee. He bagged a $4 million contract to host a talk show on US television and is now sitting nicely on an annual income of over £1.5 million, fronting Good Morning Britain on ITV and writing his opinion columns for the Daily Mail.