Vanessa Feltz Net Worth: How the Broadcaster Built Her Fortune Over Four Decades of British TV and Radio
Vanessa Feltz’s net worth is put at roughly £10 million by most online estimates, the product of a career spanning newspapers, daytime television and more than two decades of radio. At 64, she is still on air at LBC and still turning up on screen.
From columnist to chat show queen
Born in Islington, north London, in 1962, Vanessa Feltz began in print. She was the first female columnist at The Jewish Chronicle and later wrote for the Daily Mirror. Television came in the early 1990s, when she took over from Paula Yates on Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast. Her own ITV talk show, Vanessa, launched in 1994 and quickly became a ratings hit.
The BBC then poached her in a deal reported at £2.5 million to front The Vanessa Show, which made her one of the highest-paid TV personalities in Britain.
It did not last. In 1999 the corporation cancelled the programme after it emerged that actors had been posing as guests. Feltz said she had no knowledge of it, but her television career stalled for years afterwards.
The radio years
She rebuilt through radio. Feltz joined BBC London 94.9 in 2001 with a phone-in show, and in January 2011 she took over the BBC Radio 2 Early Breakfast Show. For years she presented that and the Radio London breakfast show back to back, a punishing schedule that earned her awards and a loyal following.
The BBC’s 2019 annual report listed her salary at £355,000, making her one of three women in the corporation’s ten highest-paid presenters. She left both shows in 2022 after almost 20 years, moved to TalkTV for a drivetime slot, and joined LBC in May 2024.
Her BBC ties ended on a sour note. She gave up a Saturday show on BBC Radio Wales in 2024 after a dispute over the corporation’s social media guidelines. LBC later handed her a weekend presenting slot after Carol Vorderman stepped away from her Sunday show.
Back on television
Feltz had been a regular on ITV’s This Morning since 2006, and in March 2025 she returned to her own daytime format when Vanessa was revived on Channel 5. It won best talk show at the National Reality Television Awards that year. The final episode aired on 17 July 2026.
Where the money comes from
Her income has come from several places: broadcasting salaries, newspaper columns, and her autobiography, Vanessa Bares All, which came out in paperback in 2025. Property is also often cited as part of her wealth, including a home in north London.
The numbers should be treated with caution. Feltz has not published accounts, and online estimates are all over the place, from around £6 million to as high as £30 million, with some sites quoting dollar figures far above that. Without verified filings, £10 million is a reasonable ballpark rather than a hard fact.
What is clear is the staying power. Few British broadcasters have survived a career-denting scandal, switched networks several times and still held a prominent presenting job into their sixties. With a steady radio presence at LBC and a long record of reinventing herself, Feltz looks well placed to keep adding to her fortune.
