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Kristen Doute shared how a lot she was paid for season one among Vanderpump Rules on her podcast on the finish of final month.
While additionally revealing that Jax Taylor, 44, and his ex-girlfriend Stassi Schroeder, 35, filmed an unaired pilot previous to the launch of Pump Rules in 2013, Kristen spoke of their Bravo salaries and admitted she could have gotten Jax’s season one therapist fired.
“I was in Australia, and I got a phone call from [Kristen] and [ex-girlfriend] Carmen [Dickman]. You were sitting in a bar, and you overheard the therapist talking about me,” Jax recalled on the July 27 episode of Sex, Love, and What Else Matters, by way of Us Weekly. “It is therapy 101 that you don’t talk about your clients. It’s a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) law.”
According to Kristen, the therapist had been standing “really close” to her and Carmen. And, at one level throughout their run-in, the women heard the lady say, “Jax.”
“I look over, and I immediately recognize her. She’s so wasted and comes up to us. I can’t remember what she said, but she was just spilling the f-cking tea,” Kristen revealed. “She was wasted and literally saying things that they would discuss during their session. Even though we knew, it was just so f-cked up. I think we got her fired because I know I called production and said, ‘This needs to be reported so she never does this again.’”
Although Jax was “totally against therapy” on the time, he stated he took manufacturing up on their provide to sit down down with somebody amid filming.
“They asked, ‘Do you need to see a therapist on the show?’ Every TV show offers a therapist if you need it,” he famous. “I was like, ‘Why don’t we film it?’ And they were like, ‘Are you sure? It has to go through a whole legal thing.’”
Moving on to Jax and Stassi’s pilot, Kristen defined Jax was “the hot dude” as Stassi and a few her lady mates had been additionally featured.
“They were all friends who were vacationing in the Bahamas, and then they see a hot boy. Who is going to get the hot boy?” Kristen revealed, additionally on Sex, Love, and What Else Matters, by way of Us Weekly, as Jax admitted the idea was “weird” since he and Stassi had been already a pair.
“I didn’t know where they were going to go with that,” Jax shared. “It was a pilot, and they used us as the guinea pigs to pitch this in Europe. It was a lot of fun. It was like two or three days, and I got a free trip to the Bahamas. I don’t even think I got paid for that. Maybe $500? I don’t even think I got paid.”
But he and Kristen did receives a commission for season one among Pump Rules, though the quantity was minimal.
“We had very little in our bank account,” Kristen stated. “It was $5,000 and if we became a primary, we got an additional $5,000.”
While Kristen wasn’t thrilled with the quantity, Jax was pleased with it as a result of he had “nothing at that time.”
“Whatever we got … [I felt like] I was rich. $5,000? I was paying $100 a week to live, so I [thought] I could retire. When we were filming, I felt like, ‘This is awesome,’” he shared. “I have been hustling my whole life and living paycheck to paycheck. I would do a lot of jobs, but by the time I got my paycheck I was so behind on my credit card bills.”
Kristen and Jax are at present in manufacturing on their upcoming Vanderpump Rules spinoff, which additionally options Jax’s spouse, Brittany Cartwright, 34, and different members of their good friend group.
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