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Ajay Rochester hits hard times

Former Biggest Loser host Ajay Rochester has told a magazine she is broke and jobless.

You wouldn’t really wish this on anybody….

Former Biggest Loser host Ajay Rochester has told Woman’s Day magazine she is broke and jobless.

“This is not the time to be too proud and so far I have applied for jobs ranging from checking for nits in kids’ hair to doing the night shift from 11pm until 5am in the laundry of a sports club,” she said.

Rochester moved to Los Angeles with her son in January last year, to pursue US opportunities and as part of a personal campaign to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show. That is yet to eventuate.

In January she was shortlisted to host a reality series PTA Moms.

“I even did a couple of days as a brickie for my friend who is a labourer,” she told the magazine. “Believe me, when you have no money you do not mind getting your hands dirty. But right now I can’t even land the more menial jobs.”

Character building stuff as they say. Certainly not good news when you have a kid to look after.

Source: news.com.au

20 Responses

  1. Someone mentioned Rowena Wallace earlier. Only a matter of time until we see her back in a mag. I can understand Ajay’s position – at least she’s in there having a go. And from what I read Ajay was only paid $50,000 a year for BL. If that is true the producers are cheap and nasty.

  2. I’m sure either Today Tonight or ACA would be willing to chuck her a wodge of cash to do some kind of “Biggest Loser threw me on the scrapheap” story.
    (Seriously, though, I wish her well).

  3. Sad story. Going to LA was a bit extreme. Seems like she dreamt it one day and left the next. Move back to Australia and work your way back into the media industry.

  4. @Dick – “She knows what’s best for her kid.” That is a fatuous observation. I’m going to go out on a limb here and state that you don’t know her any better than I do and so you can’t possibly know that. Dave has already pointed out that having ready access to a social support network is a big plus, and she would have left most of that behind.

    As for having dreams and aspirations, that’s all very well, but you still need to keep your feet firmly on the ground while your head is in the clouds. Hollywood is a big hungry machine that chews up hundreds of people like Ajay every day. She didn’t make it very far here.

  5. Can can someone host one of the biggest reality shows for 3 or 4 years and be broke?

    I know everyone has different circumstances but when you hear about these morning TV host getting $800k for a 2 year contract or whatever, you’ve got to wonder how TV people budget like the rest of us?

  6. @Dick – your point of view is equally valid as mine, or anybody else’s here.
    “You just have to take that first step” – you know what is best for her, do you?
    I don’t agree with your assessment of special needs are the same everywhere.
    If she has ties and friends here, she has more support and infrastructure, than she would have in another country, that is not her place of residence or birth.

  7. @Neon Kitten – It’s called having hopes, dreams and aspirations. A lot of Aussies have made it big in the US. You just have to take that first step.

    @dave – Nice to see the great sport of knowing what’s good for other people’s kids is still alive and kicking. A child with special needs is still going to have special needs whether they’re in Australia or LA or Russia. She knows what’s best for her kid.

  8. Your last sentence says it all David. Maybe Ajay will reflect upon this one day and say “did I really drag my child to another country just so I could hopefully appear on Oprah”.

  9. Perhaps she should have stayed home – in Australia. A child with special needs must be very difficult to maintain in a new surroundings with few familiar elements. I admire her wish to elevate her tv career, but she is the tiniest tadpole in a huge ocean in America. Come home Ajay. Do advertorials for KAK or Circle.

  10. I’m kind of mystified why everyone seems to want to take off for LA with dreams of being the next Crowe or Kidman.

    And the US film and TV industries are so creatively bankrupt, what’s the point anyway? Sure, you might get a supporting role in a cable show… as long as you can get past the long line of name-brand actors lining up for a gig.

    I remember in the ’70s when I was growing up watching Countdown, every time an artist or band – Sherbet comes to mind – said “we’re going to head to LA to make it big” it spelt career death. Little seems to have changed 🙂

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