Right now, he’s one of the BBC’s top-paid performers at nearly 6 million pounds yearly (about $9.6 million U.S). However, with his contract set to expire next July, and scorn over the taxpayer-funded BBC paying high-priced talent, Ross may be facing a big pay cut to stay with the BBC. The Sun newspaper says he may re-up with the BBC for Radio Two & TV duties at 3 million pounds annually. It cites a source at the BBC saying, “Jonathan is happy to stay at the BBC and is fully aware he needs to take a pay cut.” Ross is back in the BBC’s good graces after last year’s three-month suspension following the lewd phone messages left by Ross and Russell Brand to “Fawlty Towers” actor Andrew Sachs. That generated an unprecedented 40,000 complaints to the BBC, and led to Brand leaving Radio Two.