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Leaked, Lucrative 'Hills' Salaries Prompt a Flurry of Texted OMG's
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 5:40 AM on August 26, 2008
We've learned a lot about MTV over the past week, and now, thanks to In Touch, we've discovered just how big a paycheck the network will write for spouting banal words of wisdom and emotionally abusing your TV girlfriend. Yes, someone has leaked the per-episode salaries for each personality on The Hills, and never have so many earned so much for doing so little. Star Lauren Conrad is the biggest grosser (pulling down $75,000 each time a curious Whitney asks, "So what went down last weekend?") but the rest of the cast earns a pretty penny, too. Salaries and analysis after the jump:
Heidi Montag: $65,000 per episode ($1.25 million per year)
Spencer Pratt: $65,000 per episode ($1.25 million per year)
Audrina Patridge: $35,000 per episode ($665,000 annually)
Whitney Port: $20,000 per episode ($380,000 per season)
Brody Jenner: $10,000 per episode ($190,000 a year)
Lauren "Lo" Bosworth: $10,000 per episode ($190,000 for The Hills Season 4)
Stephanie Pratt: $8,000 per episode ($152,000 for The Hills Season 4)
Congratulations to fledgling villainess Lo, who has finally reached the "Brody Jenner threshold" that separates the wannabes from the bros. Audrina, too, has seen her rift with Lauren pay dividends; we hope that with the extra cash on hand, she will finally be able to afford more Dermalogica face cleanser, then the toner, and then Active Moist the moisturizer. Only Whitney's salary disappoints — though we've always found her pulled faces priceless, apparently to MTV, each shocked expression is worth less than the time it takes to comb Spencer Pratt's abominable snow-mustache.
[photo credit: AP]
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Desk_hack
Posted 6:18 AM 26/8/08
I went to a show at UCB Saturday night that was a dramatic reading of one of the Hills episodes - verbatim - with Janeane Garafalo as Lauren, Rachael Harris as Heidi, Rob Huebel as Spencer, and Dannah Feinglass as Audrina. When you hear these conversations come out of the mouths of someone else, especially talented comedic performers, it's even more ridiculous. And hilarious.
Desk_hack
Douglas Reinhardt
Posted 6:17 AM 26/8/08
I hope the guy that's playing me this season makes at least as much as Stephanie Pratt.
Douglas Reinhardt
Cam/ron
Posted 6:05 AM 26/8/08
$65K for just being yourself on-camera for one episode(supposedly without a screenwriter coaching her via earphone, makeup artist, and a director who tells her to redo her performance 50 times in each scene)?
That salary is more than I'll ever earn as a journalist. Well, an informed public is a greater reward than all of the gold in the world, right? (sniff, sniff)
Cam/ron
Old No.7
Posted 5:59 AM 26/8/08
I hope the caterer (who's getting paid minimum wage) reads this.
Old No.7
Unrequited Narcissism
Posted 5:58 AM 26/8/08
@getbackloretta:
This is exactly the sort of news that makes the rest of the World ambivalent about 9/11.
Unrequited Narcissism
Unrequited Narcissism
Posted 5:54 AM 26/8/08
OMFG!
Unrequited Narcissism
Juancho
Posted 5:53 AM 26/8/08
@Tiger_Tanaka: fifty bucks and a case of Stroh's.
Juancho
Tiger_Tanaka
Posted 5:52 AM 26/8/08
The price tag to put a hit on Spencer, however, is much lower.
Tiger_Tanaka
getbackloretta
Posted 5:50 AM 26/8/08
no wonder everybody hates us
getbackloretta
Desk_hack
Posted 6:41 AM 26/8/08
@secretagentman: @bess marvin, girl detective: They're doing another one Sept 13th. My only beefs were that they only did one episode (so the show was super short) and Janeane didn't get into character at all. But Rachael and Dannah fucking rocked, as did the woman who played Whitney.
Desk_hack
bess marvin, girl detective
Posted 6:25 AM 26/8/08
@Desk_hack: my friend and i almost went to that. but we got stoned and stayed in burbank instead. boo.
bess marvin, girl detective
secretagentman
Posted 6:24 AM 26/8/08
@Desk_hack: I am so jealous!!
secretagentman
TryThisAtHome
Posted 7:09 AM 26/8/08
wow. NOW will you please stop watching this show!
TryThisAtHome
TurdBlossom
Posted 7:03 AM 26/8/08
I feel sick.
TurdBlossom
Mymoustache
Posted 6:54 AM 26/8/08
What.the.fuck. I mean what the fuck is with that pic of lauren conrad. She looks like she has a tumor in the lower right. And by tumor, I don't mean spencer pratt.
Mymoustache
OneWag
Posted 7:59 AM 26/8/08
@Mymoustache: Oh, that's just Paris' old ass-goiter.
OneWag
OneWag
Posted 7:58 AM 26/8/08
@Desk_hack: Rachael Harris ALWAYS rocks.
OneWag
derby
Posted 7:49 AM 26/8/08
i just killed myself.
derby
Miss Anne Thrope
Posted 8:21 AM 26/8/08
Is this a real show?
Miss Anne Thrope
IamXenu!
Posted 8:40 AM 26/8/08
Well, Heidi's no Charlie Sheen.
IamXenu!
Cam/ron
Posted 9:15 AM 26/8/08
@Desk_hack: I've tried, TRIED reading one page of an episode's transcript and I swear that I've read better dialogue in a "Sweet Valley High" novel. It's not as bad as the reality show about Tommy Hilfiger's daughter.
Cam/ron
DarkKnightShyamalan
Posted 10:01 AM 26/8/08
@Unrequited Narcissism: The rest of the world?
DarkKnightShyamalan
Hullacious
Posted 10:40 AM 26/8/08
I've never seen the show, but have seen enough stills of the cast to feel as if I do.
I swear on my life that I thought they were publicity hounds, doing the show for free.
Come to think of it, why does MTV(?) pay them?! What else are these zeros going to do?
Hullacious
Pomalina
Posted 1:13 PM 26/8/08
@Hullacious: They could just sit around and spend all their parents' OC money. Show or no show, their lives would be pretty much the same, minus some fame.
Pomalina
LLH
Posted 2:38 PM 26/8/08
going full retard sure does pay off!
LLH