Holly Willoughby and husband owe £300,000 in unpaid tax as company risks closure

Holly Willoughby and husband owe £300,000 in unpaid tax as company risks closure

Holly Willoughby’s company is going through a courtroom battle (Image: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Pictures)

Holly Willoughby is going through a courtroom battle over an impressive tax invoice of over £300,000.

The Dancing On Ice presenter and her husband Dan Baldwin arrange Roxy Media, a media manufacturing and administration agency, in 2020 and now a listening to associated to the company is scheduled to happen on April 16.

Based on a submitting earlier this month, HMRC has hit Roxy Media with a wind-up order which might search to close the enterprise down over the tax subject.

The company’s most up-to-date accounts present it owned £329,715 in company tax for the 12 months as much as August 2023.

The extent of Roxy Media’s tax subject is just not clear.

A listening to was initially set for Wednesday this week, but it surely was adjourned with the brand new listening to set for April.

NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - JULY 10: Dan Baldwin (L) and Holly Willoughby attend the British Grand Prix in the Driver Lounge at Silverstone on July 10, 2016 in Northampton, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Holly arrange the company together with her husband Dan Baldwin (Image: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Pictures)

An HMRC spokeswoman mentioned: ‘We take a supportive method to coping with prospects who’ve tax money owed and solely file winding-up petitions as soon as we’ve exhausted all different choices, in order to guard taxpayers’ cash.’

The previous This Morning presenter, 44, stepped down from the ITV present in 2023 after 14 years on the enduring couch, having spent the final twenty years constructing her popularity as one of many UK’s largest telly stars.

As effectively as fronting Dancing On Ice, she not too long ago appeared on Netflix’s Superstar Bear Hunt with adventurer Bear Grylls.

Though the celebrities actually put themselves to the check, it’s been claimed Holly appeared for less than 24 minutes throughout greater than seven hours of the programme.

Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kieron McCarron/ITV/Shutterstock (15136927j) Stephen Mulhern and Holly Willoughby 'Dancing on Ice' TV Show, Series 17, Episode 5, Hertfordshire, UK - 09 Feb 2025
Holly is without doubt one of the largest UK stars on tv (Image: Kieron McCarron/ITV/Shutterstock)
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She hosted Netflix’s Superstar Bear Hunt (Image: Dave Hogan/Hogan Media/Shutterst)

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However for that point, she’s earned the equal of £40,000 for each minute, in line with The Solar, with claims she was paid virtually £1,000,000 to current the programme, regardless of being on display screen for a mean of three minutes per episode.

As a nationwide treasure and TV veteran, Holly is ready to command big charges, whereas Bear admitted she introduced rather a lot to the present when the celebrities have been struggling.

‘Holly goes into mum mode which could be very useful in these conditions,’ he instructed Metro.

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She has been praised for her position on the present (Image: Tom Dymond/Netflix)

‘However I do say from the beginning, “it is a dynamic, troublesome setting and stuff goes to occur. You may be alive, however I can’t assure you’re not going to have a number of scrapes and bumps alongside the best way.” ‘

At one level, Steph McGovern was feeling ‘a bit woozy’ and thought she is likely to be sick, and it was Holly – as effectively as the medical staff – who helped her in the second.

She recalled: ‘Holly did this actually beautiful factor the place she was type of out of shot, however she simply went to me, “It’s alright if you wish to cry.” So then I simply went, “Thanks!” and began crying.’

Metro has contacted representatives for Holly Willoughby for remark.

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