Hell’s Kicthen 2009: ITV Can’t Get The Stars!
ITV bosses are said to be having problems signing up any celebrities to this years series of Hell’s Kitchen.
Channel bosses have put a salary limit of £8,000 for anyone appearing on the show. When you consider that in 2007, Abbey Clancy was said to have signed a £100,000 contract for the ITV1 reality show, £8000 does seem rather paltry.
An insider told The People: “There isn’t any money to pay for celebrities this year. Money is so tight at ITV that even though Hell’s Kitchen is one of its top shows, the budgets can’t be stretched.
“As a result, producers are struggling to pull in a full lineup at this late stage. They obviously want to make the programme as appealing to viewers as possible but it is difficult in the current climate.”
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The programme does not last that so even though the money is a lot less its still good.
If ITV and BBC had not been paying such ridiculous money to celebrities and managers neither would have the money problems they have now.
Trudy, I simply have to agree. I personally think that the television industry needs to be capping its celebrity earners. This is including all those big hosts of chat shows, quiz shows, newsreaders, judges on talent shows, the whole lot needs capping.
When you consider that the camera crews and researchers are on Salaries and are the first people who are made redundant are in this group and they are also the first to suffer wage cuts, it makes sense that celebrities are being paid to much.
Maybe over the years the viewer has engaged in actively supporting high wages of these celebrities without realising it. Talent show programmes and those which involve a viewers vote are misleading and add to the celebrity status of those on our screens.
I think in the present day and age nobody is worth more than 100k a year in a full time job. This is inclusive of all the other types of personality there are in the world of sport. It is an afront to human intelligence that a nurse slogging her guts out for her income in a hospital ward works every hour possible to feed clothe and cover all her bills whilst compared to some celebrity for sitting smiling and chatting on a tv screen can pick up 100’s of thousands of pounds.
The same goes for footballers.
In my view the highest wage earners in the country should be scientists working on research or cures for diseases and those who also work in medicine and are surgeons.
Why does the programme even need celebrities? Yes we all love 2 watch the desperate Z listers making complete tits of themselves but the Stateside’s version is gripping viewing with ordinary (well, if u can call them that!) members of the public taking part. Alternatively, give me £8k and I’ll more than happily do it! ;o)