Brendan Fevola has revealed his salary for winning I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in 2016.
“I was going to the jungle, I was on about $500,000,” Fevola said told the Herald Sun.
“It was $350,000 and $5000 a day after that. All up close to half a mill.”
His special clause was the right to puff on a dart (smoke), much like Shane Warne who wrote in his autobiography of a $2m fee and the freedom to puff on a ciggie.
“I could smoke but had to follow the process of being about a hundred yards from the camp with a security guard accompanying me,” Warne wrote.
In the case of the jungle, it has previously been reported that if any celebrity quits the show they will forfeit a significant portion of their potential salary.
One who walked early was US comedian Tom Arnold in 2017. During a subsequent contract dispute it was revealed Arnold agreed to a $US425,000 ($A560k) salary and subsequent comedy tour of Australia. He claimed he was owed $US140,000 ($A184k) while the comedy tour did not proceed. It isn’t clear how that dispute was resolved.
Only rarely has talent confirmed their salaries for TV appearances.
Hamish Blake confirmed his fee for Celebrity Gogglebox when rumours ran wild.
“[We were paid] $5000. Five, zero, zero zero. Everyone gets the same thing. There was never any discussion of money,” he said.
Jackie O. once revealed she was never paid a salary at all for judging 2000 reality series Popstars.
“I did Popstars for free … I didn’t get paid for Popstars,” she said on radio.
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