Okay, let’s address the elephant in the room. James Martin has had a bit of a rocky ride with the press. There were controversies around his behavior on sets and allegations of bullying.
Did that hurt his net worth? Probably not as much as you’d think. He stepped back from some TV work, sure. But the public is weirdly loyal to him. People still eat at his restaurants and buy his books.
In a way, bad press is still press. It keeps his name in the conversation. And a famous name is a valuable name. He bounced back, hard.