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Ryan Seacrest has just signed a three year contract with American Idol to rival some of the highest paid sports stars. Seacrest will receive a whopping $45 million for three more years with Idol. This goes to a guy who has managed to alienate the worlds’ most famous couple and who once asked a pregnant actress on the red carpet at the Oscars if she planned to breastfeed. It doesn’t matter how Ryan screws up his side jobs, though, because he’s decent at talking to aspiring singers and lobbing stupid banter at Simon and will continue to do that for an astronomical sum of money:
Sought-after bachelor Ryan Seacrest has become an even bigger catch: The American Idol host has closed what is believed to be the biggest deal ever for a reality emcee and will triple his current salary, according to the Hollywood Reporter. His new paycheck: $45 million for three years.
In exchange, says the trade paper, Seacrest, 34, will work exclusively for CKX, parent of Idol producer 19 Entertainment. Best of all, the deal only covers broadcast-network work.
Separately, Seacrest will still maintain a cable agreement with Comcast and his gig as E! Entertainment’s main anchor. He’ll also continue to produce Keeping Up with the Kardashians for E! and a future Jamie Oliver reality series for ABC.
Reps for the producers and for Seacrest had no comment.
With Seacrest’s services secured, the Reporter also says that Idol now needs to nail down the future work of judges Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Kara DioGuardi. A question mark, however, hangs over a possible new contract for Simon Cowell, who is said to be paid in excess of $100 million a season – and who has made noises about leaving.
[From People]
The National Enquirer is reporting this week that judge Paula Abdul wants to double her salary to $20 million a year. They also say she’s “been talking to CBS Paramount Network Television about developing her own show.”
Paula also has a Las Vegas music and dance revue in the works “that Paula would create, choreograph and appear in occasionally.” Supposedly the Venetian and The Encore hotels are “in a bidding war over it.”
Now that we know that Ryan is getting $15 million a year, maybe Paula will get a raise too. They may have tried to edge her out with new judge Kara, but no one is as well liked as Paula and Kara kind of fell flat to many fans. Randy “yo dog, I repeat what Simon says in my poor approximation of slang” can get lost, though, as far as I’m concerned.
Ryan is shown on 7/11 and 4/5/09. Credit: PRPhotos
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in American Idol, Paula Abdul, Ryan Seacrest
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Talk about misguided money. There is no need for someone to be paid that much money.
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Am I the only one that finds him useless, I mean why is he so popular I when to me he comes across as an annoying di*k.
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I’m with ya Maddie!
Also, when I see him, I always think of that truly bizarre and slightly disturbing pic of him kissing Teri Hatcher. It just makes me heave.
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LMFAO!!! She has the nerve to think she deserves more money!!!! She should’ve been gone a long time ago!! Sick of her tired has-been ass!
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Too much money for 1 person, especially in the entertainment business, Hollywood is laughing it up while this country suffers, people losing their jobs, their homes, their lives. What a joke this country has become. Did he cure cancer? Is he a scientist, Dr. without borders? Does he contribute to the better of humanity? All he does is talk to aspiring singers!!!!! Sick!!!Hopefully with that $$$$ he will help people who need it,
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I don’t watch “IDOL” or actually anything else he is on or associated with. It has nothing to do with him, but just that I don’t find reality television to be of any quality or use to anyone, but I do remember that he hosted the Emmys (and sucked at it)–WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT IS IT THAT HE DOES THAT MERITS THIS KIND OF MONEY?????
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Ryan, call me. Your mother will like me; I promise.
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Idol needs to be cancelled and go off the air so that this greedy money bickering stops. These people are no more worth what they are asking for but what keeps it going on is that half of America is watching this nonsense. Stop watching!
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