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Soap Star Salaries
With Patsy Kensit signing a £120,000 deal to stay at Emmerdale for another year, Perry Fenwick getting £400,000 for 2 years in EE, and Letitia Dean offered £300,000, what do fans think of soap star salaries ?
Personally, when compared to the far less sums the Corrie stars get, i would say EE seem to have more money than sense! |
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Some of the quoted salaries from Eastenders are ridiculous, but then hey, they don't care, they're only spending OUR licence fees, so for them the money grows on trees. It stinks
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I think the eastender (cough) actors (cough) should stop getting paid, and then they can give us all a reduction in the TV licence.
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To be honest I'm sure that Emmerdale actors in general aren't exactly rolling in it and because Patsy is one of their "top" stars she will be on a higher wage slip. You do also have to put her travel costs into consideration.
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In saying that a few of the younger Corrie stars are now on 90,000 a year, Samia Ghadie, Nikki Sanderson and Tina O Brien all got big contract offers. Compared to the older stars who a few years ago had to take a reduction in salary because of cutbacks. I'm Ken Barlow is easily on 140.000 a year the length of time he's in the show.
I think in regards to EastEnders, Letitia Dean has been in EastEnders on an off for years since its beginning, and Perry Fenwick has been in the soap good few years now, so they're hardly blow ins. Patsy Kensit on the other hand, I think they could get someone else who could easily play the part of Sadie King. She's nothing spectacular is she, the soap won't go downhill should she decide to ditch the Dales. |
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I can't understand how they've upped her salary 50% when her first contract was £80,000....and she's hardly a favourite with the public.
I really like Perry Fenwick...but why should he and Pam St Clement be on so much more than Letitia....she isn't on £150000 at the moment...only if she re-signs |
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I agree that the BBC seems to have more money than sense, it's a shame that it's our money paying for it.
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None of them are not worth the money in EE. Corre stars earn their money at least.
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well the salaries that have been quoted are probabley rubbish....these have been quoted from tabloids
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Originally Posted by TheSarge
To be honest I'm sure that Emmerdale actors in general aren't exactly rolling in it and because Patsy is one of their "top" stars she will be on a higher wage slip. You do also have to put her travel costs into consideration.
If you think that Patsy is one of their TOP stars at the moment then i'm afraid i have to disagree there. Shes nothihng special, to be honest at the moment i don't think any of them outshine each other. Apart from the long standing actors who you would obviously notice a new actor coming into the role most of the cast that arrived in the last 18 months could be replaced with out any depreciation of the quality of the show. |
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Originally Posted by paddysu
If you think that Patsy is one of their TOP stars at the moment then i'm afraid i have to disagree there. Shes nothihng special, to be honest at the moment i don't think any of them outshine each other. Apart from the long standing actors who you would obviously notice a new actor coming into the role most of the cast that arrived in the last 18 months could be replaced with out any depreciation of the quality of the show. |
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I think it's time that soap actors got paid a 'retainer' wage of a pretty substantial rate to make it worth their while in staying with the show and then on top of that be paid on a air time per hour wage as a top up. This way as well they would be open to work on other things at the same time. Not other TV as that would be confusing but theather etc as some of them want to do. You get people being paid £100 000 for a few scenes a week and then the younger ones especially getting paid half of that for doube the hours and probably double the fan base.
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The press posts crap when it comes to this they said LG had signed a half a million contract to stay in EE for another year then two weeks later he was sacked.
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Originally Posted by Benc533
As far and the media and publicity is concerned she is their top star, she may not be the best actress on Emmerdale but she is the most famous.
But then it is the media who do all the name dropping to hype up their show which is fair enough after all thats what makes them money and allows them to pay the over rated wages. |
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Originally Posted by paddysu
I'm not particularly interested in how famous the actress is when they join a soap. It s the character that joins not the actress as far as i'm concerned. Alot of the popular actors on the soaps haven't had high profile careers before they came into the show, they'll leave with them but they didn't join with them. Patsy will as far as i'm concerned alway s be a film actress first and a nimor soap actress second.
But then it is the media who do all the name dropping to hype up their show which is fair enough after all thats what makes them money and allows them to pay the over rated wages. In an ideal world it would be nice to think that people will be paid on merit rather than on their past but we don't live in an ideal world and stuff like this will continue to happen. |
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True Ben, Emmerdale only signed her because of who she is :sleep: talent went out the window.
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Originally Posted by Trixie-Firecracker
The press posts crap when it comes to this they said LG had signed a half a million contract to stay in EE for another year then two weeks later he was sacked.
The moral is to expect the unexpected
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I think the Eastenders actors get paid far, far too much. Some of them are so bad it seems ridiculous really.
Coronation Street has a way better standard of acting (except maybe for £90,000 a year Kate Ford - sigh) and it isn't paid for by the lisence fee. As for the Patsy Kensit discussion, I have to admit that while she's a pretty average actress, she's nothing as bad as other soap "acteresses". Most from Hollyoaks, Kate Ford from Corrie or Michelle Ryan from Eastenders are just as bad or worse than her IMHO. As for the £120,000 well it is a little OTT, but she is probably good considering it all. I wonder who the top paid star in all of soapland is? It was Steve McFadden last year, but who is it now. I'll have to do a little research! |
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I wonder who the top paid star in all of soapland is? It was Steve McFadden last year, but who is it now. I'll have to do a little research!
Believe it or not but I'm sure it is Rita in Corrie.
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They should pay Patsy Kensit £120,000 to stay OFF the screen...
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Originally Posted by WarrenTVH
They should pay Patsy Kensit £120,000 to stay OFF the screen...
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how much does rita get?
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I too think the EE cast get paid far too much, and what makes it a lot worse is that we pay for it!
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