Simon Cowell Rolling In It

Simon Cowell 
Simon Cowell: Smug

Simon Cowell has been named the third highest paid television personality in the US by business magazine Forbes, with earnings of £22.5 million between June 2006 and June 2007 – due to the hugely popular American Idol, as well as America’s Got Talent. He is listed behind chat-show queen Oprah Winfrey, who earned £128 million, and comedy legend Jerry Seinfeld who managed to earn £30 million from repeats of Seinfeld. (Wow! Although I can tell you, they really DO repeat Seinfeld A LOT on American TV.)

Great. This will just set the ball rolling for EVEN MORE of those useless shows like X Factor and American Idol, and Simon Cowell will only get richer and richer. When will people ever tire of programmes like that? THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE! If he gets richer and richer…he’ll take over the world. And then one day, we’ll only have one channel broadcasting around the planet. The “World Idol Channel”, with back to back shows of the contest.

The full list of earners:

1. Oprah Winfrey (£130m)
2. Jerry Seinfeld (£30m)
3. Simon Cowell (£22.5m)
4. David Letterman (£20m)
5. Donald Trump (£16m)
6. Jay Leno (£16m)
7. Dr Phil McGraw (£15m)
8. ‘Judge’ Judy Sheindlin (£15m)
9. George Lopez (£13m)
10. Kiefer Sutherland (£11m)

A list TV actors with the highest earnings per episode was also revealed. They are:

1. William Petersen (CSI): £250,000
2. Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men): £175,000
3. Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SUV): £175,000
4. Chris Meloni (Law & Order: SUV): £175,000
5. Hugh Laurie (House): £150,000
6. Julia Louis-Dreyfus (New Adventures of Old Christine): £112,000
7. Ellen Pompeo (Grey’s Anatomy): £100,000
8. Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives): £100,000

Hugh LaurieHugh Laurie 

Poor Hugh Laurie! I’d give him more money that Simon Cowell. And Charlie Sheen gets £175k for that sh…ow?

0 thoughts on “Simon Cowell Rolling In It

  1. Hey, here in America, we like capitalism. Good for Simon Cowell. As for the love of my life, Hugh Laurie, I know he got a nice raise (up to what WE in the U.S. call $300,000 an episode) after the show became a big success. Considering the usual way tv contracts are written, I would expect he’s contracted for 5 years, and so I would expect him to get a really whopping salary increase (pay rise?) to re-enlist for a couple more years. Heck, I think a lot of his fans would chip in to pay his salary themselves. He works really hard, and deserves every penny.

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