Britain's Got Talent | Amanda Holden & judges in gender pay gap row

Despite being a key issue within the workplace for decades, 2017 was a milestone year in raising visibility for the financial inequality between men and women in the workplace due to the Government’s new legislation, requiring companies with 250 or more employees to publish an annual report noting these imbalances.

In 2019, the Office for National Statistics noted that across the country, women were paid just 83p for every £1 made by men – representing a 17.3% disparity in remuneration.

Yet despite the rise in publicity that the gender pay gap has received as a result of the 2017 ruling, there are still disparities. 

According to Metro, the popular, long-running TV show Britain’s Got Talent  is allegedly in a ‘gender pay gap row’ after show judges Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon were told that they were making half of what male judges Simon Cowell and David Walliams were.