TV star Stephen Merchant’s yearly salary revealed as he rakes in a HUGE £4.3m in just a YEAR
COMEDIAN Stephen Merchant is laughing all the way to the bank – making £4.3million last year.
The TV star, 47, has gone from camera-shy co-creator of The Office to heart-throb A-lister worth millions.
He is raking in nearly £12,000 a day but paid himself just £300,000 in dividends from the coffers of his firm that receives cash from his telly and film work.
Stephen – who co-wrote and starred in The Office with Ricky Gervais – has got a whopping £17.1m invested across a range of risks chosen by the Queen’s banker Coutts & Co.
And with cash reserves of £5m, the firm is worth an eye-watering £22.6m for 2021.
Accounts filed this week revealed that the firm had made a profit £4.3m in 2021 – up from £2.9m in 2020.
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His firm SJJM Ltd reveals in its annual accounts: “The company has an investment portfolio that is managed by Coutts & Co.
“The nature of the investments is a combination of cash holdings, bonds, equities, property, commodities and alternative investments.”
He paid Corporation Tax of £668,755.
The 6ft 7in star last year appeared in BBC drama The Outlaws alongside Hollywood legend Christopher Walken.
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They played offenders on community service in Bristol.
And this year he took on the chilling role of serial killer Stephen Port in the drama Four Lives alongside Sheridan Smith.
Stephen previously admitted he was a geek before finding fame.
“I was a teenage geek. I wore glasses. I was socially awkward. I collected comic books. For a while I took to wearing a bow tie — couldn’t understand why I didn’t have a girlfriend," he said.
But he has since found out his nerdy comic charm works on women.
First, he was seen out with Australian Rose, then he was linked to Marvel beauty Hayley and for three years he dated Christine.
Now Stephen appears to be settling down with model-turned-actress Mircea Monroe, who he met at a pre-award ceremony in LA in 2017.
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Stephen, who admits he did a lot of dating in LA before meeting Mircea, said of his girlfriend: “Aside from the fact that she’s great, hitting 40, there’s something very pleasing about not having the endless concern about filling that part of your life.
“The life of a single person is a very lonely life. There’s a lot of nights where you’re watching DVDs on your own.”
