Veteran radio and television presenter Sir Terry Wogan revealed in his most recent TV outing 'Terry Wogan's Ireland' (a personal documentary-style trip down memory lane to the land of his birth) that his first job was as a bank clerk with the Royal Bank of Ireland handling wads of cash and coins.
Terry Wogan: Reports suggest he is now worth well over £20mThat was 50 years ago, when Sir Terry routinely lugged bag loads of banknotes and coins in a bus across Dublin to the bank's headquarters.
Today he would struggle to carry his own vast stash, which reports suggest is now worth well over £20m.
The 72-year-old, who is married with two sons and a daughter, has accumulated his cash pile over five decades since switching from banking to broadcasting in the late 1950s.
Starting out with Irish national radio and television, he came to Britain in the late 60s where he steadily gained fame and fortune through presenting initially a BBC Radio 2 afternoon show and then prime time BBC television programmes, including Come Dancing, Blankety Blank, his own Wogan chat show and Auntie's Bloomers.
TV star: Wogan hosted quiz show Blankety Blank
He also provided the TV commentary for the annual Eurovision Song Contest for more than three decades until giving up in 2008 (latterly earning £150,000 for each gig).
He has also been the front man for the Children in Need fundraising telethon since it launched in 1978 (he gives the fee for this event to the charity).
Sir Terry is probably most famous for Wake up to Wogan, the Radio 2 breakfast radio show he hosted for 28 years with eight million fans (nicknamed Terry's Old Geezers and Gals or Togs for short) tuning in daily, until he handed over the reins to Chris Evans in late 2009.
He picked up megabucks at the radio microphone, at one point earning £800,000 a year.
Charity: He gives his Children in Need fee to the charity
In an interview with Hello magazine in 2006, Wogan said: 'I don't give a monkey's about people knowing it. Nor do I feel guilty. If you do the maths, factoring in my eight million listeners, I cost the BBC about 2p a fortnight. I think I'm cheap at the price'.
Nowadays, the man with the gift of the gab is winding down - at least with the BBC - and now earns more modest (although undisclosed) pay for a weekly Sunday slot on Radio 2.
He has just taken on another role that plays to his strengths as a chatterbox - as a member of the panel on the cult radio show Just A Minute.
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But the monster money still comes rolling in from television presenting. According to the Daily Mail, Channel 4 pays Sir Terry £1.2m a year to present the quiz Wogan's Perfect Recall
Radio 2: He hosted his show for 28 years
Meanwhile, he has also earned reams of royalties from writing over the years.
His books have included Banjaxed, The Day Job, Wogan on Wogan, Terry Wogan's Bumper Book of TOGs, Where Was I? The World According to Wogan (2009) and two autobiographies Is It Me? (2000) and Mustn't Grumble (2006), the latter of which is said to have netted him a £1m advance.
And there will more to pocket later this year when a book to accompany his BBC documentary on Ireland is published in September.
He also had some success in the past with his rendition of the brass band hit the Floral Song, which got to number 21 in the charts in 1978.
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Sir Terry's smooth Irish tones are also popular with advertisers, including WH Smith, Nescafe and Heinz. Tesco is said to have paid him £250,000 for voice over work.
Sir Terry and his wife Helen live relatively modestly for a couple with his means. They have a house in Taplow, Buckinghamshire and a holiday home in Gascony, south-west France.
Tel has a penchant for Bentleys, however, one of which was sold at auction in 2009 for £4,840 and is now in a museum in Hungary.