British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

The Complainant requested information about the salaries paid to celebrities taking part in the 2025 series of The Celebrity Traitors and the amount donated to the winner’s nominated charity. The Commissioner’s decision is that this information, if held at all, would be held by the BBC for the purposes of ‘journalism, art or literature’ and so is not covered by FOIA. He therefore upholds the BBC’s position and requires no remedial steps to be taken in this case.