A few of coronation street’s longest members have been told that they should expect to see a large pay cut.
Betty Driver (Betty Williams), Barbara Knox (Rita Sullivan), Malcolm Hebden (Norris Cole) and Eileen Derbyshire (Emily Bishop) will stop being paid a regular salary and start to be paid on a scene-by-scene basis.
They current get between £180,000 and £250,000 per year. They will only now be able to reach this sort of level when they get involved in much high profile storys.
An insider told the newspaper: “It’s an absolute disgrace. These stars have given their heart and soul to Corrie over the years. None of them expect to be - or have the energy to be - at the centre of huge ratings-busting plots.
“Betty’s nearly 90, Eileen and Barbara are in their 70s and Malcolm Hebden is 68. Instead of being rewarded for their contribution, they are being treated little better than extras.”
A Coronation Street spokeswoman confirmed: “It is the season when a lot of the older stars will start negotiations for next year. But we do not discuss artists’ payments or contracts.”
Kate Winslet admitted that during love scenes for her new up and coming movie Revolutionary Road , it felt ‘a bit wierd’.
Kate’s co-star Leonardo DiCaprio (also starred along side her in Titanic) was not the main cause but her husband who happens to be the director for this movie, Sam Mendes.
She said: “I just kept saying, ‘This is too… weird’. And Leo was like, ‘Oh, get over it’. And I’m going, ‘Yeah, a little reminder: You’re my best friend. He’s my husband. This is a bit weird’.
“I hadn’t realised how much my chemistry with him since Titanic would still stick. It’s great to discover we can just slip right into it, like muscle memory.”
Mendes added that he was also feeling awkward directing his wife with DiCaprio. “I will admit it was quite bizarre to direct my wife in how to make love,” he said. “But it’s difficult whether you’re married to a person or not.”
Kiefer Sutherland has confirmed that the smash hit TV series ‘24′ are bringing out a movie once the show is over.
The lead male role in the show stated that the producers of the show don’t want his character ‘Jack Bauer’ in a movie until the TV series has been cancelled.
“It’s certainly on the table,” Sutherland told Extra. “We would certainly be thrilled to make it, but we’re going to wait until the series is finished.”
“It’s always been a desire but we’ve always known that for the writers, it’s so hard for them to actually get through the series every year that we put the film on the back burner, that we would do it after the series was over, and that might be as soon as next year.”
Paris Hilton is in trouble again! She has now been sued for not performing promotional duties for the 2006 movie Pledge This for $75,000.
The Worldwide Entertainment Group who paid a cool 1mil for her acting ability, accusing Paris of:-
“not providing the release with reasonable promotion and publicity”.
The movie is a comedy which sees Paris as a sorority president taking on new members to improve her house. It is number 15 on the Internet Movie Database’s lowest-rated films list.
Angelina Jolie has left the clinic in the South of France where she gave birth to her and Brad’s twins last week.
The twins were born by cesarean section 1 minute apart. Brad was at Angelina’s side and was reported to be over the moon with their new additions
Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline are the latest addition to the ‘Brangelina’ brand – bringing to six the celebrity couple’s number of offspring Angelina left at 4 a.m. in a blacked-out ambulance and is now back at Château Miraval with Brad, the kids, her brother James Haven and Bill and Jane Pitt, Brad’s Mum and Dad.”
The couple are now trying to sell pictures of the twins to the highest bidder for charity and are searching for a nanny.
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I wonder is this a nanny for the twins or have they a nanny each for the other kids.
Katie Holmes is suffering with embarrassment this week, as the tickets for her Broadway stage debut are selling painfully slow. Her pay packet isn’t as A-List as her husband Tom Cruise, who also quite fancies starring in a play.
Katie will earn £500,000 for her role in the play, All My Sons, which doesn’t compare well to Tom’s ex Nicole Kidman’s £2million for a role in the play in 1998, where she played a role in which she got naked in.
Tom who has recently been so concerned about his public image that he is considering to turn to the stage himself.
Maybe if they took a page out of Nicole’s book and got naked, the tickets would sell like hot cakes!
Clive Hornby who played Jack Sugden in the ITV soap Emmerdale has died aged 62. The veteran actor who has played this part for the last 28 years had not worked since January due to ill health
Jack’s character married three times in the series and had five children
Fact followed fiction when Clive married Helen Weir, who played his first on-screen wife, Pat, in 1986.
Together they had a son, Thomas, and after his birth Weir left the drama and was killed off in a car crash the same year. Clive later split with the actress.
Clive was very proud of the fact the he had worn the same flat cap since he started filming in 1980
He will be sadly missed by all the cast members.
Chris Chittell, who plays Eric Pollard in Emmerdale, said Clive “meant everything to everyone”.
“He was a very private and courageous man and not only a great contributor to the show but also to all our lives,” he added.
Roxanne McKee, or better know as Louise Summers on the soap Holly Oaks has admitted that she would like to pursue a role in a more serious drama.
Although she has claims not to have any plans to leave Holly Oaks in the near future, she is keeping her options open and considering a future in film and period dramas.
“I just try to think positive,” Roxanne told Celebs on Sunday magazine. “I want to do a period drama - I’d love to be in a bonnet and a big flouncy dress - and I’d like to do a play, because I’ve never done one before. And a film.”
When asked how long she will be staying at the channel 4 show, McKee said:-
“Well, I don’t think I’ll be there when I’m an old lady, but I’m contracted for a while yet. I’m still enjoying it. I will leave at some stage, though - my family and my home is in London.”
Kerry Katona is reported to be on the brink on bankruptcy. So what has she been doing with all her cash?
Maybe it could be all the cars Kerry has bought her hubby Mark Croft. A total of THIRTEEN cars and TWO super bikes in the past two years!
come on folks how many cars do you need and more to the point where do you keep them?
She will go to court in an attempt to have the bankruptcy order lifted so she can re mortgage her house to pay off her tax bills
perhaps she should have gone to …..A finacial consultant!
George Carlin, who is better know as ‘Rufus’ from the well know 1989 movie Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure sadly passed away yesterday.
He checked into the St. Johns Health Centre in Santa Monica yesterday complaining of chest pains and was soon after victim to heart failure.
George was born in Manhattan, his claim to fame started who his comedy routine ‘Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV’. He was even arrested in Milwaukee back in 1972 after his sketch on charges of disturbing the peace.
He produced 3 books and 23 comedy albums, he was the voice for Filmore in the animated movie Cars. He also stared in Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back and voiced episodes of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends.
George is survived by his wife Sally Wade, daughter Kelly, son-in-law Bob McCall, sister-in-law Marlene and brother Patrick.
