Cash strapped-councils in the West Midlands handed over nearly £100, 000 for models from Spongebob iPhone 5s case Squarepants to Stavros Flatley to appear at award ceremony and events.
Birmingham City Authorities paid out £62, 000 in 2010/11, but that figure plunged to £2, 700 in the first in search of months of 2014/15.
Many of the bills have been covered by corporate funding and in addition sponsorship deals, but some have been realized directly from council budgets.
In Late 2009 Birmingham City Council based sponsorship to pay £3, 700 on the way to X Factor stars Chico and then on the way to £3, 000 to Stavros Flatley the following year.
Both celebrities asked awards and performed at ceremony for 200 disabled people who suffered gained qualifications or gone throughout to employment.
Wolverhampton City Council paid for a combined £9, 200 in the last five years for cartoon attitude to appear at its Christmas lights competition including Fireman Sam, iPhone 5 Spongebob case Squarepants, Peppa Pig, Mike The Dark night and Evie and Ben and in addition Holly.
For Birmingham's Beyond Summit gala dinner in October last year, Blackadder star Tony Robinson is paid £10, 000, Channel d?rt newsreader Samira Ahmed was professional £7, 500, author Charles Leadbeater received £6, 000 and an early Tomorrow's World presenter Maggie Philbin was paid £4, 000.
You will need experts Steve Bradley, Christine Walkden and Reg Moule were professional £10, 152 by Birmingham Authorities for taking part in a question separation at the Gardeners' Weekends in 2010 and in addition 2011.
Former athletes Sharon Revealed and Roger Black were professional £2, 500 and £3, 1000 respectively, to launch the last year Birmingham Half Marathon.
Dame Kelly Holmes was also paid £5, 1000 to start a half marathon jungle Half Marathon three months later.
And then Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy was paid £3, 000 and in addition £300 in travel costs intended for attending Birmingham City Council's zero conference in 2010.
But not all models are paid for their appearances.
Tony a2z Iommi, from Black Sabbath, ongoing the Home of Metal exhibition on Birmingham for nothing and Lenny Holly helped open the Archives and native History Centre in Dudley with no charge.
A Birmingham City Council speaker said: "The cost has distinctly reduced significantly. Private sponsorship secure the cost of hiring celebrities in the bulk of cases and for the small plenty of events where an outlay is incurred, the publicity generated throughout the appearance outweighed the expense. "
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