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What is about television that rewards some of the most annoying people ever? It boggles the mind how people like Ryan Seacrest, Simon Cowell and Mark Burnett are consistently rewarded for the most boring, repetitive, lowest-common-denominator programming ever. It’s in this vein that Forbes Magazine has released their list of the top-earning women of primetime television. Guess which monstrosity is the top of the heap? Oh, yes. Tyra Banks. Her estimated earning for the past year are $30 million - that for America’s Next Top Model as well as her daytime talk show, which is weird. If they’re counting daytime stuff, Oprah should be on the list. But nevermind.
The number-two (and I mean that in every way) slot is filled by none other than Dame Katherine Heigl herself, although she might have tried to withdraw from the list at the last moment citing bad material that could have affected Forbes’ analysis. I jest! Katherine made so much last year because of Grey’s Anatomy and because of all of the film work she’s gotten. Radar has more, including the rest of the top ten:
Forbes have released their prime time top earning women list and there’s a few surprises in there!
Heading up the list is Trya Banks, with an estimated annual earnings of $30million. Tyra earns the majority of her money from the hugely successful America’s Next Top Model and her daytime talk show as well as various TV cameos.
Second on the list is Grey’s Anatomy cutie Katherine Heigl earning $18 million for her turn as a TV doctor as well as her role as leading lady in films such as The Ugly Truth.
The rest of the list reads:
3. Marg Helgenberger - $9.5 million
4. Eva Longoria Parker - $9 million
5. Mariska Hargitay - $8.5 million
6. Julia Louis-Dreyfus - $8 million (tie)
6. Maura Tierney - $8 million (tie)
8. Tina Fey - $7 million
9. Marcia Cross - $6.2 million
10. Jennifer Love Hewitt - $6 million
[From Radar]
Jennifer Love Pear Ass makes $6 million this year? How is that even possible? I thought The Ghost Whisperer was just some crappy, “nobody watches the Pear Ass”, weepy, faux-supernatural drama. But the Pear Ass is getting paid, for real. Other than that… meh. I love me some Mariska Hargitay and Tina Fey, those ladies deserve their paychecks. The only other “what the hell?” person on the list for me is Eva Longoria. Isn’t Desperate Housewives pretty much done? Does anyone even watch that crap anymore? And people have finally come to their senses and realized that Eva really isn’t as hot as she thinks she is, thank God. So why the huge paychecks?
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Jennifer Love Hewitt, Katherine Heigl, Lists, Money, Television, Tyra Banks
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7 Responses to “Tyra Banks & Katherine Heigl are Forbes’ top-earning primetime women”
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a model - but she is over the top
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Is it just me, or has Tyra’s face taken a weird turn for the worse?
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To be fair, Heigl makes way more for her movies than from Grey’s..and to be fair her last 3 movies have taken well over $500 million worldwide in total. Don’t think anyone else on the list has made any movies let alone any with those numbers.
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Tyra’s looking good. Still can’t stand her fake, narcissistic ass though.
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The popularity of Tyra Banks blows my mind.
JLH earns THAT much for THAT show? Even the commercials make me cringe.I have to wonder about Eva Longoria too - I don’t think she’s going to have much of a career post-DH, and that’s really dipped in popularity too. She had some movie roles when the show was hot and they all tanked, and she hasn’t done much else. It must be all the hair dye commercials or whatever she does, but whoever is paying her, they’re seriously overpaying her.
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I keep thinking about the woman (PR person/advisor) telling Tyra to shut her face in the last controversial interview posted here.
If people want to fund that machine I suppose that’s their business.
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Tyra is weird……….constantly and consistantly! just look at those above pics?!?! Who takes pics like that all the time.
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