The Chase’s Mark ‘The Beast’ Labbett salary revealed as he rakes in £1m from being brainy and Bingo job

THE Chase star Mark ‘The Beast’ Labbett has coined in around £1million in two years from being one of telly’s biggest brain boxes.

While Mark’s job on the ITV show is to try and make sure contestants go home without a bean, his own coffers are bulging.

The quiz champ’s firm Brainy Best Media Ltd filed accounts this week showing Mark handed over £150,816 to HMRC in Corporation Tax covering the past two years – meaning that he earned well over five times his tax burden in 2020 and 2021.

He also earns extra dough as a bingo caller at boozy nightspots.

Last month he ordered eyes down for drinkers at a Barnsley nightclub.

Punters paid a tenner a head at Che Bar in the South Yorkshire town.

And after the telly star called the numbers in the bingo, revellers got  the chance to go head-to-head and pit their wits against Mark in a Chase-style quiz.

In 2019, he paid himself a dividend of £158,000 from his company coffers.

That was up from £54,250 in 2018 and a huge leap from 2017’s modest £22,750.

The cash was shared with the outfit’s other director, ex-wife Katie, and the accounts also revealed that they paid themselves a salary of £13,091 each for “services undertaken on behalf of the company” in 2019.

But this year’s accounts don’t disclose the amount of dividend cash shared.

However, Mark will have to go some to catch up with The Chase host Bradley Walsh – he’s sitting on a cash pile worth £10.4million in readies.

The star has enjoyed another money-spinning year on the box meaning one of his firm’s now has cash and assets worth £12.3m – up from £11.5m in 2019.

Latest figures for his firm Wingit Productions Ltd – which takes in money from his telly career – show it has £10.4m of its value in cash.