We know that Benjamin Castaldi has never had his tongue in his pocket and has proven it once again. Guest at RTL Saturday February 6, 2021 in the show We're remaking the TV presented by Eric and Jade Dussart, the columnist of Do not touch My TV came back on this moment of his career during which he made a very good living, notably thanks to the animation of the cult show Secret Story. He revealed to have won between "one and two million euros per year" but admit that it is a good time "Didn't last very long. Between two or three years. When I signed with TF1, I was making a very good living, between 2009 and 2011. It oscillated in 400,000 and 650,000 euros per season of Secret Story".
Radio host Eric Dussart then asked him about the salaries in force in the television industry: "Is it the same today?" he says to Cyril Hanouna's sidekick in TPMP sure C8. "It's the same today. On The Voice, the jury who is in the premium takes 600,000 euros. Nikos him, he takes 27,500 euros per premium. He does 20, do the math, it's the same ".
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Astonished by such precision in the figures, Eric Dussart is ironic and calls out to Benjamin Castaldi: "Is that precise, do you have his payslip?" Not far from disassembling, the TV host answers: "No but hey, to TF1 we know that a premium is between 20,000 and 30,000 duty free, it's no open secret ".
So what about the salaries of the daily show hosts on TF1 ? "On a daily game, it goes between 8,000 and 15,000 euros per issue, without taxes" and add: "I was bullshit back then, I said how much I was making and I never should have said all of that because you're being blamed." Although he made a very good living, the 50-year-old was also victim of a scam and lost everything in the course of 2012 : "I was not very far-sighted, I thought I had been by buying different things but when things are not going we take the house, the cars, the furniture … At one time I held the fridge with one hand , and the other's TV ". Financial troubles for which he still bears the brunt to this day …
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