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Bethenny Frankel thinks actuality TV stars ought to be part of the picket traces amid the continued SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.
“Hollywood is on strike, entertainers are fighting for residuals and no one will promote anything. Why isn’t reality TV on strike? I got paid $7,250 for my first season of reality TV and people are still watching those episodes,” Frankel, 52, stated in an Instagram video on Wednesday, July 19. “We’ve always been the losers … During the last writers strike, we were providing all the entertainment and that’s really when the gold rush of reality TV started.”
The former Real Housewives of New York City star famous that she herself has “generated millions and millions of dollars in online advertising and impressions” by being a part of actuality TV — however little or no of her cash was made out of really being featured on the Bravo franchise.
“I have never made a single residual,” she claimed. “So either I’m missing something or we’re getting screwed too.”
It isn’t simply the Real Housewives that Frankel thinks are recieving unfair remedy. Shows like The Bachelor and Bachelorette and Vanderpump Rules have been additionally on her checklist of uncared for packages that paid its solid “peanuts” regardless of making large imprints within the zeitgeist.
“Anyone shooting a Bravo show should not be shooting until they get paid residuals for all the episodes they’ve ever done or those episodes should be taken down,” she continued. including that stars of the early ‘00s hit The Hills — including Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari — “don’t make a rattling greenback” from their time on the MTV sequence although it was “getting ratings that network television doesn’t get” and is “still being watched today.”
“It’s total bulls—t,” she argued. “And I’m going to get into this because it just occurred to me everyone is talking about actors when we don’t get paid s-t.”
Frankel expanded on her ideas in her Instagram caption, writing, “I’m well aware that unscripted talent aka ‘reality stars’ should have a union or simply be treated fairly and valued. … The mentality that we were nobodies and that these streamers and networks have given us platforms and that we can capitalize on them is also moronic.”
She continued: “If a network or streamer is currently making money on me telling someone to GO TO SLEEP then maybe I should be compensated. And maybe I’m the one who needs to GET A HOBBY and maybe this will be it.”
Frankel’s feedback come on the heels of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) going through a breakdown in negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over points like residuals, honest pay and tips round using synthetic intelligence.
After failing to attract up a brand new contract accepted by each organizations earlier this month, SAG’s president, Fran Drescher, introduced on July 14 that each one members of the labor union have been on strike till a good deal was reached. Under strike tips, performers are not allowed to take part in or promote any struck work.
SAG joins the Writers Guild of America on the picket traces, who’ve additionally been on strike in opposition to the AMPTP since May over comparable contract negation points. This marks the primary time in over sixty years each unions have been on strike on the identical time.
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