Getting paid to reside! Whether or not competing on TV for a money prize or just being filmed whereas dwelling your day-to-day life, actuality tv stars nearly all the time get a paycheck — and it could be larger than you suppose.
In 2021, Jason Tartick launched a “Buying and selling Secrets and techniques” podcast, throughout which he’s targeted on “break[ing] the stigma that we shouldn’t be speaking about cash,” shining the sunshine on actuality tv.
“As soon as a month, our purpose is to do a actuality TV sequence,” the Bachelorette alum advised Us Weekly on the time of his podcast. “And we wish to cowl each single actuality TV present on the market to know the variations — how are these folks compensated? How have they been compensated after the present? Did they return to work? Did they lose their job? How a lot did it price to go on the present? Did it positively or negatively impression [you] … perhaps you needed to search different bills, similar to remedy or issues like that, and what’s the price of that? We wish to uncover all that.”
Throughout his podcast, Tartick not solely opened up about his personal wage throughout his time on actuality TV, however he additionally interviews stars from numerous exhibits to seek out out what they made and what they spent when happening completely different sequence.
Though most stars aren’t allowed to element their contracts, many have been open concerning the amount of cash they’ve spent happening a actuality present. Elena Davies shared in 2021 that she spent round $5,000 on make-up, Botox, garments and hair merchandise earlier than competing on season 19 of Huge Brother.
Jillian Harris, who appeared on season 13 of The Bachelor and went on to develop into the Bachelorette, shared that whereas the ladies acquired goodie baggage, half of the garments didn’t match.
“That was it. The women do need to carry all of their very own clothes and naturally, they wish to be carrying the very best garments EVER to be seen on TV in,” she wrote on her weblog in 2016. “I had remortgaged my home and I spent one thing like $8,000 on clothes.”
With Bachelor Nation, there’s all the time additionally the chance for spinoffs or specials. The unique Bachelorette Trista Rehn, for instance, was paid $1 million for her ABC marriage ceremony particular to Ryan Sutter in 2003.
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