‘Big Brother’ star banks a tidy sum

The cash pile at TV presenter Brian Dowling’s UK media firm soared last year to over €550,000.

The former Ryanair cabin crew supervisor was last year replaced by Channel 5 as presenter of Big Brother but can console himself with the €556,411 that lay in his firm’s bank account at the end of March 31 last.

The Co Kildare man shot to fame over 10 years ago when he won Big Brother and has carved out a very successful media career for himself since.