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Beau Ryan: $800k for hosting Amazing Race Straya
It's not often a host will admit to their salary....
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It’s not often a host will admit to their salary but this morning on Kyle & Jackie O, 10 host Beau Ryan revealed his salary for The Amazing Race Australia.
He said he negotiates based on work input, regardless of whether it’s airing as breakfast TV or primetime.
“When you get paid for something you look at the hours. How long are we working here? I don’t care what time it is.”
With Amazing Race he considered how long he was away from home, being two and a half months.
“How much did you get for that?” Kyle asked.
“Ahhhh…. 800,” he replied.
“$800? That’s better than Jobstart allowance,” Kyle quipped.
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18 Responses
David, would you please have a look at The Amazing Race Australia, to see how they have lost control of the concept this season? It’s just gone a second week without any eliminations, and there seems to have been an abundance of non-elimination rounds this time. Also, why is it after 14 episodes in, there are still 8 teams on the run? TEN has stretched this season so badly, it has run out of suspense and steam. I am about to turn off. TEN, you flogged this one to death.
Agree it is stretched, and have filed on this before…. it’s important to remember that at the time of production it was hard to get anything made. So yes I think they have stretched the format because they had mounted the production. There was 1 team culled last week and should be 1 tonight. Not ideal, but there’s the context.
Hey 10, I’ll do the gig for 1/16th of the price and you can put the rest of the savings into having some decent tasks for TARAus.
Channel ten did pay Lisa Wilkinson $2 million.
Beau’s annualised rate would be almost $5mil. So Lisa is looking like a bargain, and provides much more value.
Not bad for a footballer. He would have to thank the NRL Footy Show for his success.
With so much cost cutting in the past 12 months due to plunging ad revenue because of both covid and the overall well-documented steady shift away from FTA TV to the point where some famous faces have been dumped all together, it’s pretty amazing people like this are still getting paid sums like this.
So 10 stopped making their hosts do elocution lessons?
Woah mumma
That’s horrendous if true, ten are never allowed to cry poor over any other cost cutting if they are being this wasteful.
Maybe he meant eight hundred dollars since it’s like a holiday for him, or – worse for 10 – he meant eight hundred million dollars. :p
Agree that is outrageous. What is wrong with the world.
$800,000 for doing the best hosting job on television? That’s obscene! Beau, if you ever decide to “retire” from hosting duties, I’ll happily take on your role fir that amount of money!
I’m sorry but that is outrageous!
As if, there’s no way ten could afford that. Perhaps for a three year deal. But not for one
I agree it’s probably a 3 year deal. For Beau Ryan, on TV, he’s not a 800k per year talent – for those dollars, you get the A+ talent such as the Sunrise people, Today, certain Project cast etc. Lisa Wilkinson being the exception and he’s not in that class. 2019/2021 is 32 episodes total. Add another 20 episodes for 2022 makes at total of 52 episodes which works out at $15,385 per ep – which is about the right fee for the hosting gig on a show like that on a channel like 10.
He was on $800,000 a year when he was at Nine. His salary came out in court
3 year deal sounds closer to the money, literally.