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Naga Munchetty

Naga Munchetty

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who is paid over £255,000 a year, could have been paid £50,000 after multiple events paid her more than £10,000 for a single event in November, it was reported in February.

In 2021, she also tried her hand on radio. She took to social media ahead of her first day at BBC 5 Live, sharing a glimpse inside her work bag – including her BBC lanyard. “I’m thrilled to be joining the 5 Live team. I have always wanted to work more in radio and after such an enjoyable experience presenting on the station recently, I jumped at this opportunity,” says Munchetty, 45, about her new role. “5 Live has one of the most passionate, engaged audiences in radio. The prospect of talking to those listeners every week excites me. I can’t wait to get stuck into the role from January.”


The popular presenter joined the BBC in 2008 presenting business news programme, Working Lunch. She became one of BBC Breakfast’s lead presenters in 2014.

While covering the story on the US president Donald Trump’s racist tweets on BBC Breakfast, in September 2019, Munchetty says: “Furious. Absolutely furious and I can imagine lots of people in this country will be feeling absolutely furious a man in that position thinks it’s okay to skirt the lines by using language like that.”

Her reaction itself became a ‘big news story’ and following a complaint, the BBC initially said she had breached editorial guidelines. Later, after a public outcry, the BBC overturned its initial findings against her.

She was also a part of an equal pay campaign at the BBC. As a result of this, all the main presenters of BBC Breakfast were paid equally for their work.

Munchetty became a household name for co-hosting the BBC Breakfast show. She regularly appears on Newsnight and Victoria Derbyshire. She is also a former presenter of BBC World News and BBC Two’s weekday financial affairs programme Working Lunch.

Munchetty hosted the NFRN Awards by the Federation of Independent Retailers in 2020 and hosted the Logistics Award 2019. In 2018, she was honoured with the Media Personality of the Year award at Asian Media Awards.

She joined the cast of CBBC sketch show Class Dismissed playing a fictionalised version of herself. The TV star also contested on the 14th series of Strictly Come Dancing, having been paired with Pasha Kovalev in 2016.

Her real name is Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah. Her mother is Indian and her father is Mauritian. Her career originally started in print, working for the London Evening Standard and then writing for the business section of The Observer. Munchetty is married to ITV broadcast consultant James Haggar.

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