Clive Myrie has issued an apology and vowed a huge career change after failing to declare outside earnings.
The 60-year-old BBC Newsreader and Mastermind host, who recently published a memoir and also has a travel series, didn’t declare £65,000 from corporate events over the last year, it was reported in October.
It was claimed he failed to include 11 engagements in his list to the corporation, after BBC director-general Tim Davie asked for on-screen talent to declare outside earnings and publish declarations every three months in an attempt for more transparency.
Myrie has now apologised and said he won’t be taking part in any more paid external events for ‘the foreseeable future’.
He wrote on X: ‘An apology – I’ve had several administrative issues, and I didn’t fill out the correct paperwork for some of my external public events, so they haven’t been published until now.
‘I’ve told the BBCI won’t be taking part in any …