Katy Perry‘s ‘American Idol‘ pay package is said to have spelled trouble backstage at the show as production kicks off.
The $25 million she picked up to judge on the show is said to have left pennies for her c0-hosts Lionel Ritchie and Luke Bryan.
A talkative source broke it down…
Ben Sherwood blew the budget on Katy without thinking how that would impact other areas of the show budget. He gambled on her because of her appeal to a younger audience and huge social-media following. But Katy is effectively taking money from the other judges, who then had to be paid way less.
The negotiations with Luke and Lionel have been fraught and difficult because of [Katy’s paycheck]. They expected similar deals to Katy, but are, in fact, getting a hell of a lot less.
“Idol” initially offered Richie and Bryan a measly $2.5 million each to take the gig, but the offended singers demanded more, and refused to sign their deals, which postponed ABC’s big talent announcement. They’re both making about $7 million each now. This has become a very expensive show. If ‘Idol’ doesn’t work, it will blow up big time in Sherwood’s face. If it does work, he’s a genius.
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David wrote a real article. Good job.
Shaaaaaaaaaaaade.
That David has plaques for his writing dear. Do you have plaques for all the schlongs you’ve taken.
If only there were a plaque for such things.
Qween Of Flop.
Nobody is forcing celebs to join Idol. They know the amounts of money offered for the gig before they sign a contract.
Shows how out of touch Ben is. Katy Perry is far from the force she once was and she’s not a legend like Mariah or an icon like J-Lo or even Nicki Minaj, so it doesn’t make sense to pay her that much.
As far as talent, even Paula was a great dancer and iconic choreographer, but Katy is neither a great singer, dancer or entertainer after all these years in the game. This era of AI will be a flop…They should have left it in the grave.
PREACH HUNNIE. KATY IS A GAG. THEY PAID HER CORNY ASS $25MIL AND SHE IS USUALLY FLAT LIVE. SHE IS NO LIONEL. NO MARIAH. NO SIMON. SHE’S A DAMAGED POP PRINCESS
Yaaas, Paula slays me with her choreography! And her videography is second to NONE! Straight Up, Cold Hearted, Forever Your Girl and The Way You Love Me were ALL directed by David Fincher…Rush Rush video was produced by LucasFilm! Ain’t no Katy cat heffa messing with Paula Julie Abdul, the original Idol lol
Ben Sherwood is toast.
By the way, if social media followings actually equated to sales and ratings successes, that would mean that Selena Gomez should be outselling Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Mariah, Adele, Gaga, etc. But…
PREACH! Old execs have no idea how this social media era works. #fail
KKaPerru and J H0 judging talent is a joke.
Of course is her talent worth 25 million dollars?!! ??♂️
Katy was paid WAY too much. There were so many other better options.
This looks like it’s gonna be syndicated on the game show network smh. Great idea but horrible execution.
Don’t see the problem of her getting paid more, maybe not half of the budget, but more than the other two for sure. People gotta tune in for this show to be a success, the masses ain’t tuning in to see the other two in 2017. They look at followers for a clear of ads and promotions. But like some said, if those followers ain’t buying their albums, then what make them think they’ll turn on the TV?
Lmao and you honestly think the masses will tune in for katy perry? Lmao the delusion. Lionel Ritchie is a LEGEND, and Luke Bryan is one the biggest selling country music stars of the moment. katy is a cartoon character struggling to maintain relevancy. If the masses were checking for her, she wouldn’t be playing half empty arenas and her album wouldn’t have disappeared from existence.
SMH you’re clearly delusional. While I agree that Lionel is a legend, Katy is one of the biggest popstars today, regardless of what you say or how you feel.
I don’t see any genius when you pay an artist 25 million dollars and you give peanuts to Lionel Richie who has been in the business for 30+ years.
I think they should from now on give the same amount to all the judges. There won’t be no delay and no jealousy because clearly, show working or not working, they already lost money just because of the show being postponed.
The show shouldn’t have been rebooted in the first place. Since it was, only a blubbering idiot would pay katy perry more money than a Music Legend and a current country music star that actually sells records unlike her.
If Katy performs Bon Appeflop on the premiere episode I will scream like a mountain goat
the other judges are seriously paid one tenth of what she’s getting paid. someone was delusional, lol.
lol, exactly…they could have paid each of them $10 million for their services and still saved some coin…but yeah, that bald headed, Bieber meets Miley looking heffa took that $25 million check and RAN hunnie!
This leak strikes me as an attempt to build up hype just like how that video of Mariah and Nicki Minaj arguing just popped up. I’m not surprised they’ve put so much weight on social media. Selena Gomez was considered for the panel and she’s hardly in a position to critique other’s vocals
She doesn’t deserve it and the show will hurt for it and I doubt the show will be a success to be honest. Maybe big first week ratings with a steady decline and no star created.
Yes, she’s overpaid… that’s an insult to Lionel
Honestly, Katy isn’t worth going over 5-8 million. 25 million is a bit much, I don’t care what era of Katy we’re talking.
This is a lie. ABC had already denounced this. They were within their budget! Stop believing all the falsehoods, you sheep!
Clearly Ben is out of touch with the Pop Market as he would’ve known Katy isn’t worth $25MIL. Katy isn’t even at the top of the current Pop Crop and hasn’t been for years since Teenage Dream. This show will be a Big Budget Flop for the network and tbh they deserve it for being so Tone Deaf to what viewers actually want.
Katy’s appeal has recently gone down the drain in floppage. So….
YES, SHE NOT WORTH $1 IN MY BOOKS, SHE A BABY AND A TROUBLE MAKER…….AMERICAN IDOL IS GOING DOWN…..