Julia Morris Finally Addresses That Rumoured $900,000 I’m A Celeb Payday And Her Response Is Jaw-Dropping
The comedian was the original host of the show, alongside Dr Chris Brown, from when it kicked off in January 2015.
Julia Morris has addressed rumours she was paid $900,000 to host I’m A Celebrity….Get Me Out Of Here!
The comedian hosted the Channel 10 program from its 2015 launch until the most recent season earlier this year.
Even though TV stars can command hundreds of thousands of dollars for these shows, Julia was taken aback when she was told about the speculation surrounding her pay packet.
“What sort of drugs are people on? Who’s writing that?” Julia demanded to know while on the Mitch Churi Chat Show.
“I’m a woman.”
Podcast host Mitch didn’t elaborate on where that $900,000 figure came from, except that he found it floating around online.
Julia said the number needed to drop by 30 per cent, and then a further 18 per cent.
It didn’t seem like she was being literal about the quick maths, but if she was, that would bring her salary for the show to $595,000.
But she did open up about the tricky salary reality available for people on TV.
“From early in the jungle, when I first signed on, and everybody had lovely wages, and the wages are great, what you have to work out in television is, ‘What am I willing to accept for this job?'” she said.
“It doesn’t matter that old mate gets paid more, or this one’s paid less, or that I don’t want even wages for everybody.”
She said that every year she just asked to raise her salary by the Consumer Price Index.
Julia added that in the last 12 months, a lot of the more costly people in television have been “toppled”, and that continued down the line.
“And now poor old Lady J,” she joked.
Channel 7 recently took over broadcasting I’m A Celeb, and there are big questions around whether Julia and Robert Irwin will be asked to continue hosting the gig.
The 58-year-old said it “needs new life” and that Seven had a lot of young female talent it could tap into, before joking that the network couldn’t afford her.