Mark Labbett has joked that The Chase stars "earn like Premier League footballers" when filming Beat The Chasers.
The spin-off show sees contestants face head-to-head challenges with not one, but all of the Chasers in a series of general knowledge questions.
All six Chasers appear in every episode unlike The Chase which sees just one quizzer take on a group of players.
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Mark and his co-stars, Anne Hegerty, Darragh Ennis, Shaun Wallace, Paul Sinha and Jenny Ryan, get paid a set fee per episode they appear on.
So when Beat The Chasers airs week-long series, the TV stars earn extra cash.
Speaking about filming the spin-off series at the National Reality TV Awards, Mark told Daily Star: "That's the week we earn like Premier League footballs so of course I'll do it.
"If I could get away with it I'd purge half of them because the fewer Chasers there are, the more money I get."
He continued: "We say that is because we've seen it in Australia.
"They've moved up to eight chasers and the problem is they are now in a horrible trap that they can't make a full-time living off it.
"They are spreading it so thin some of the Chasers are starting to think 'I can't do this unless you give me a certain number of shows a year'.
"We're lucky we've got extra curricular gigs in England but in Australia they've got next to nothing so I'm glad I don't have to rely on the Australian money.
Mark, who is also known to fans as The Beast, went on to reveal that there will be less episodes of The Chase filmed next year.
He explained: "We film three shows a day, normally four days a week.
"We do 200 and odd shows a year but it's dropped to 160 next year.
"We filmed so much during the latter part of lockdown they've got loads so we're getting to the point there's too many."
The Chase airs weekdays on ITV1 and ITVX at 5pm
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