From 2000 to 2002, Jackie O took the helm of the Australian model of Popstars, judging alongside music govt Chris Moss and band supervisor Michal Napthali.
One among her first TV ventures, she later revealed she was not even paid for her work on the primary season of the present, which found and debuted Aussie lady group Bardot.
”I did Popstars without cost … I did not receives a commission for Popstars,” she defined on a 2019 episode of her and Sandiland’s KIIS FM radio present.
“Nobody talked about something about cash, so I did not point out cash. I bear in mind we had been in Adelaide doing auditions … and you know the way they hand out per diems, which is like $60 … they handed me this envelope, and I did not know what a per diem was.
“I opened it and I noticed $67 in there, and I went as much as the chief director and gave him a giant hug and mentioned, ‘Thanks a lot!’
“I used to be stoked I used to be getting money.”
