England star Jill Scott pays herself £350,000 on the back of Euros and I’m A Celeb success
ENGLAND footie hero Jill Scott has paid herself a £350,000 dividend on the back of her Euros and I’m A Celeb success.
The hugely popular former Lioness, 37, has enjoyed a bumper financial period, latest accounts show.
Jill helped England triumph at Euro 2022 before retiring.
She was crowned jungle queen on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity a few months later.
As her earnings rocketed, she treated herself to a six- figure payout in two chunks — her first worth £50,000 before a larger sum of £300,000.
Equity in her company — Jill Scott 8 Limited — shot up from £5,213 to £477,479 for the year ending May 31, 2023.
Sunderland-born Jill, who won 161 caps for England, is set for further bumper pay days as a football pundit and captain on Sky’s A League of Their Own.
She also features on the Stick To Football podcast with Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Ian Wright.
And Jill runs a successful coffee shop Boxx2Boxx in Manchester, with her fiancée Shelly Unitt.
In a stellar 18-year career with Everton and Manchester City, she won four FA Cups, four league cups and a WSL title before being inducted into the WSL Hall of Fame.
Last year Jill opened up on her passion for coaching and hailed Pep Guardiola’s emotional intelligence.
In April 2023, the retired City and Lionesses ace was set to coach girls and boys coming up through the ranks at Manchester City.