Easy money: how much do talk show participants get paid? The incomes of Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, Mishulina and Borisova for participating in scandalous shows have been revealed. How much do participants in Solovyov’s talk show earn?

Perhaps not a single political talk show on Russian television is complete without foreign guests. Every time they speak out against our country, they receive insults and even kicks in response, but they do not stop going to the programs. It turned out that the role of a whipping boy is a very profitable business.

According to an informed source, some experts attend such shows for free, while others go to them as a job. For example, Ukrainians come to the program only for money.

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For example, the most expensive Ukrainian expert on the show is political scientist Vyacheslav Kovtun. He earns from 500 to 700 thousand rubles a month, and sometimes his income amounts to a million rubles, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda.

US journalist Michael Bohm earns the same amount. “The American generally has an exclusive contract and rate. He is obliged to attend a certain number of broadcasts,” the publication’s interlocutor said.

There are also more modest experts. For example, Polish political scientist Jakub Koreyba earns less than 500 thousand rubles a month. It’s just that the expert doesn’t manage to come to Moscow often for programs.

“Everything is official – they sign the contract, pay taxes,” the source added. An expert like Ukrainian blogger Dmitry Suvorov receives 10-15 thousand rubles per broadcast. More popular guests are paid up to 30 thousand rubles for participation.

Earlier it was reported that American journalist Michael Bohm was almost beaten in the midst of the “Time Will Tell” show on Channel One. The host of the program, Artem Sheinin, began to threaten the guest, and then jumped up to him and grabbed him by the jacket.

“What do you think, I can only use my tongue? Are you provoking me? Did I tell you to sit? Sit!” – he said angrily. Despite such humiliating treatment, Bom did not leave the studio and stated that he did not hold a grudge against Sheinin.

Actress Maria Shukshina said that she was offered 15 million rubles for participating in Andrei Malakhov’s talk show on the Rossiya 1 TV channel. According to her, all participants in such television programs receive fees for filming.

The actress mentioned the price for the participation of the stars in the comments to her post on Instagram. In them, she addressed Vadim Manukyan, a member of the expert council for the development of the information society and media under the State Duma:

Regarding the money, I’ll tell you what I know personally: the Malakhov show offered my son Makar a million rubles, they were ready to pay me 15 million just to come... But going to this obscurantism is not respecting yourself... Absolutely ALL participants in the show are paid there.

Shukshina called such issues a spiritual and moral war. “The more dirt, the more they pay!” - she concluded.

In the comments to Shukshina’s publication, subscribers discussed a petition that demands a legislative ban on discussing the personal lives of stars on television. Manukyan promised the actress that the perpetrators would be held accountable for their actions. In his opinion, federal channels waste the state budget inappropriately by producing such shows.

Previously, many Russian celebrities demanded to ban the TV shows “Live”, “Let Them Talk” and “You Won’t Believe It!”. In their opinion, such programs discredit the honor and dignity of famous personalities. Among those who supported the initiative are Maria Shukshina, Alika Smekhova and Nikita Dzhigurda.

State Duma deputies appealed to the general director of VGTRK with a request to “filter the dirt” on TV channels. They also sent a request to spend the government funds allocated to the channel.

VGTRK annually allocates 25 billion rubles from the state budget!

We are used to watching heated showdowns between stars and not only on TV. Talk shows of various channels work day and night to provide the viewer with hot details, and most importantly, to invite to the studio all those involved in the scandal that has broken out. However, few people know how much work, and most importantly, what expense it takes to invite all the heroes and even guests of the TV program.

Shurygina is paid 500,000 per hour

According to our source (for obvious reasons, he chose to remain anonymous, but his name is available in the editorial office), all the cream of the crop is, of course, skimmed by the main characters of the program. And it doesn’t matter whether they are artists or ordinary people: the louder the scandal, the greater the reward for the main characters.

Diana Shurygina, or rather, her rape, has been discussed throughout the country for a whole year. How much Diana earned from her first programs is unknown. But we know for sure: while Shurygina’s case died down, Andrei Malakhov himself supported the girl. Even the TV presenter paid for her pole dancing courses. When the case flared up with renewed vigor, namely, Sergei Semenov, Diana’s rapist, was released, the girl earned 500 thousand rubles from just one of the programs. For this amount of money, many Russians work hard for a year or even more.

And Diana sat in a chair with a lie detector connected for just an hour. Malakhov did not forget about Sergei Semenov. He kept in touch with the guy while he was behind bars, and as soon as Sergei came out, he invited him to his program. Semenov received no less than a million rubles. For this, he signed a contract for three months, which does not give him the right to take part in any programs other than “Live Broadcast”.

For several months now, passions have not subsided over the divorce of People's Artist of the USSR Armen Dzhigarkhanyan from Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya. The woman was accused of fraud, and her ex-husband called her nothing more than a “thief.” And no wonder, because after the divorce it was Armen Dzhigarkhanyan who was left with practically nothing, all the property turned out to be registered in Vitalina’s name. This situation was also discussed on popular talk shows; several issues were dedicated to it. Oddly enough, the People's Artist did not receive a penny from the channels. As the employees of the famous television project say, Armen Borisovich is a principled person. But Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya demanded a million rubles for her appearance on the program.

They don’t really want Buzova

There are media figures who have a certain price for appearing in the chair of the next talk show. For example, Natalya Bochkareva, star of the series “Happy Together,” clearly answers a call from editors: she is ready to come as an expert for 30 thousand rubles. Natalya Drozhzhina, a regular on broadcasts, especially those dedicated to the memory of artists, also charges 30,000 for her participation in the program together with her husband Mikhail Tsivin. Olga Buzova received only 100 pieces for her confession on “Male/Female”.

Many fans of the TV presenter and singer were perplexed why this particular program, why not “Let Them Talk” or “Live Broadcast”. As it turns out, the popular diva is simply not invited anywhere else, because she is only popular among Internet subscribers. TV viewers don't perceive it. The biggest surprise for us was the fee of the former participant of “House-2” Rustam Solntsev. For a scandal on air, for constant provocations and yelling, the showman receives one hundred thousand rubles.

One of the first interviews of People's Artist of the RSFSR Leonid Kuravlev in a talk show cost the producers only 80,000. The legendary actor had never participated in such programs before and did not know that he could ask for more.


Recently, an interview with a former foreman of extras on various talk shows named Radmir Kuznets appeared on the Internet. The 23-year-old guy literally told all the ins and outs of filming. But his information was somewhat different from what our source told us. Radmir said that experts such as Rustam Solntsev and public figure Pavel Pyatnitsky themselves pay to be shown on the first or second “button” broadcasts. We asked Rustam himself about this.

“It’s all a lie, I only go there for money,” the 41-year-old ex-participant of the reality show “Dom-2” is indignant. – I’ll also pay them! I don’t need to promote myself, this is all a passed stage. I go purely to earn money. As an expert, I charge from 15 to 50 thousand rubles. I no longer go for less money. If I am invited as a hero, then of course I ask for more - about 100-150 grand. This is purely my income. That's why that guy is lying - I declare with full responsibility as an honest person.

Regarding Pyatnitsky, I am also sure that he does not pay anything. He is not called so often, but is invited specifically on specialized topics. Television is just a Pandora's box of money that should pay for unique opinions, unique stories. So what? I myself don’t watch any of this, even if I’m filming, but for heroines like Shurygina, Dana Borisova, I wish that they would not die of their own importance. Borisova, by the way, is paid from 150 thousand rubles, she goes everywhere like a heroine. This is her only income. But on the last program “Live” it was clear that she was no longer able to pull it off.

In the same online interview, Radmir Kuznets also commented on the personality of Andrei Malakhov. According to him, the TV presenter is very rude behind the scenes, capable of calling names and even hitting an unfamiliar person on the set.

“I’ve known Andrei Malakhov since I was 23,” Solntsev contradicts Kuznets. – I can say that he is even better behind the scenes than on camera. He is the sweetest, he recently gave me a bottle of wine. Write to this Radmir, let him bang his head against the wall, he has the wrong information!

Kelmi sharpens his grudge against Malakhov

We also contacted the singer Danko, who also participated in various talk shows more than once. On one of the broadcasts in the “Actually” program, he spoke about his allegedly difficult relationship with his wife. But the artist’s main goal was completely different - to tell about his seriously ill daughter Agatha and announce a fundraiser to help the girl. But, unfortunately, his conditions were not met.

“Heroes come to talk shows, clownery, get money, and the audience applauds them,” says the singer. “People vote for it all themselves.” This is the need of our population. Well, what, are you proposing to impose on them what they don’t like?! Bach, for example, or ballet? The people consume it all, and the heroes are just actors who get paid for it. This is our kind of business. This is work!

You have to come, spend gasoline, you’ll probably be lowered from head to toe, of course, you have to take money for it. It happens that agreements on talk shows are not fulfilled. I went to Shepelev’s program to promote my Agatha’s page in support of her, since she is disabled. They promised and just deceived me. There they select such people as editors who are devoid of all moral principles. To work in such projects and deliver this crap, you need to have the psychology of a pathologist; they don’t care about people.

Singer Chris Kelmi also sharpens his teeth on talk shows. He has been promised airtime on Malakhov’s program for a whole month. The artist can’t wait to talk about his miraculous recovery in Thailand and about ending his friendship with alcohol.

“Before the New Year, the program administrator Malakhova called me,” Kelmi recalls. – We agreed to do a program with me immediately after the holidays. But then Nikita Lushnikov, the founder of my rehabilitation center, called me back and said that he was leaving on a business trip and asked to postpone the release to mid-January. But the administrator on the 16th said that everything was postponed again.

I decided that I would wait until Monday and if there was no broadcast, I would simply perform on another channel! It’s as if I have nothing else to do in life except wait for them to shoot. Moreover, I will soon go to my childhood friend Kostya Ernst’s birthday party. So I’ll tell him that I’m ready to come to Channel One in “Let Them Talk.”

Chris Kelmi also told us that his fee for participating in a talk show is about 100 thousand rubles. But it is usually not possible to receive the entire amount in hand.

“Now they don’t give us cash,” the singer admits. – I sign the contract, they then transfer the amount to my bank account. Since the money is not given in an envelope, of course, part of the fee goes to taxes. In this sense, I am an absolutely law-abiding person and have nothing against it.

By the way

Oddly enough, the following pattern emerged: the more a person achieved, the fewer demands he had. For example, Philip Kirkorov, Alla Pugacheva, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Igor Nikolaev, Valeria with Joseph Prigozhin, Stas Mikhailov, Vasily Lanovoy never take payment for their participation in a talk show - no matter whether in the role of a hero or a guest. Laima Vaikule, in addition to the fact that she does not require money, does not even prescribe a rider, is the most unpretentious star, as television workers say about Vaikule.

The unprecedented frankness of the heroes of such programs is ensured by impressive fees.

Graphics: Alexey Stefanov

Scandalous daytime talk shows are already popular, and now even more so - because of the noise on another channel. With the arrival of autumn, a new television season began and programs began to compete for viewers. The team of each talk show strives to find a hot topic and lure more interesting characters into the studio. In pursuit of ratings, channels are ready to spend money: it turns out that not only television workers receive money for filming, but also almost everyone you see on the screen! Remember: both ordinary Russians and pop stars openly tell their stories to the whole country, largely because they receive a lot of money for it. And we found out exactly who and how many.

Heroes of the plots

Often, the film crew travels to the regions to record stories, which are then shown on the screen in the studio (for example, you need to interview the neighbors of the hero, who will then come to the studio). No one will tell you sometimes unpleasant things for free. It’s another thing to “dump your neighbor” for a couple of tens of thousands of rubles.

Heroes in the studio

Some heroes agree to come for free (but they are paid for travel to Moscow and back, hotel accommodation, food): most often they are interested in publicity and a solution to their problem. For example, people who lost their homes in a fire, or a girl who dreams of proving her relationship with a star or being cured of anorexia.

But sometimes a person refuses to go because he is an anti-hero and he doesn’t want to embarrass himself on air. For example, this is a man who does not recognize his child. And without this guy the program will be boring! 50 - 70 thousand rubles (a colossal amount for many and a penny for television) solves the problem. People are greedy - that’s what provides the television crew with the necessary degree of scandal.

According to our sources, Anastasia Volochkova’s driver, who was persuaded to come to the Let Them Talk studio for 50 thousand rubles. The veteran, who transferred the apartment to his young wife and left his son with nothing, was paid 70 thousand. Rowdy Alexander Orlov, who beat up an NTV correspondent on Airborne Forces Day live, according to his words, was offered 100 thousand (although the show never got around to being recorded). Herself (now to Dmitry Shepelev in his show “Actually”). But because the family needs to be fed.

Show business stars and their relatives have higher prices. So, Danko’s wife received 150 thousand rubles for revelations about relationships in the family (we’ll tell you more about this). Nikita Dzhigurda and Marina Anisina, who periodically quarrel and then make up, are paid 500 thousand rubles for one program (which the actor himself wrote about on social networks). Nikita admitted that he once bargained for as much as 600 thousand and worked it out in full, staging a fiery performance on air. The father of one artist agreed to tell how he abandoned his son as a child and did not pay child support, and now expects reciprocity, for 200 thousand rubles.

Experts

Psychologists, nutritionists, lawyers and other people who comment on the problem in the studio often agree to broadcast for free - for the sake of PR. But some intractable but interesting people are still paid - from 30 to 50 thousand rubles. Of course, they are brought to the shooting and taken back by taxi, and provided with a make-up artist and hairdresser if necessary.

Extras

The audience in the studio gets the least. On the other hand, they see everything first and without cuts. For example, the country was still guessing, but they already knew that Dmitry Borisov.

Leading

How much does the “king of the booth” earn? In a recent interview with the Kommersant newspaper, Andrei Malakhov did not argue with the journalist, who named the presenter’s annual income when he hosted “Let Them Talk” on Channel One - $1 million (57 million rubles, or 4.75 million rubles in month). According to Andrey, at his new job his income is “comparable.” It’s hard for you and me to believe, but this is not much - considering that, for example, Olga Buzova receives an average of 50 million rubles a year for running “House-2”.

Andrei Malakhov's show “Let Them Talk” is one of the most popular on Russian television. Previously, it was published in a similar format, but under different names - “The Big Wash” and “Five Evenings.” Viewers witness touching stories, scandals and quarrels. We decided to find out what tricks the creators of the program resort to in order to achieve such a high rating.

The executive producer of documentary television projects, Natalya (not her real name), worked for some time next to the pavilion where the “Let Them Talk” program was filmed. For more than a year, the woman watched the process of creating the show and concluded that only an unscrupulous person who is ready to lie, deceive and persuade (not without compensation, of course) the heroes to come to the program can work there.

“An ordinary citizen can be offered 15 thousand to begin with (this is in addition to paid travel and accommodation). Rubles, of course. If he doesn’t agree, the rates will rise. Not to say that the editors were wasting money. 50 thousand - this is if the story is completely “chic”. Most potential heroes, if they are from the provinces, fall for the very opportunity to see Moscow, get on television - it turns out to be a free excursion,” Natalya said in an interview.

Celebrities receive more serious amounts. For example, the American actress Lindsay Lohan, who had a scandal with her Russian boyfriend, was lured to Moscow with a fee of 600,000 rubles, according to press reports. However, she did not come to the broadcast, so Malakhov had to go to her hotel to interview her.

The family of Diana Shurygina received about 200,000 rubles for five programs. Moreover, contracts are concluded with the heroes of all talk shows, implying non-participation in other television projects.

Smaller stars are paid around 100,000 rubles. “Prokhor Chaliapin, who had two scandalous affairs in a row, at one time turned out to be a kind of business: he gets married, then gets divorced, then starts a new one. The ratings are good, everyone is happy,” added Natalya.

It is worth saying that the “Let Them Talk” program has been criticized more than once by the public. Thus, the well-known actor Alexey Serebryakov publicly criticized the show:
“This program most clearly demonstrates to us that, it turns out, putting up for sale someone else’s pain, tears, troubles, digging through dirty laundry in full view of the whole country without any moral right today is called the simple word “format.” Or rather, a format that brings good money. The degree of cynicism simply boggles the mind<…>And what do you want?! Of course this will be in demand! Toilet paper, for example, will always be in greater demand than Dostoevsky's manuscripts! And stupid reality shows, in which participants endlessly sort things out and sleep with everyone, will a priori have a higher rating than a Tarkovsky film.”

Many people wonder how much it costs to participate in “Let Them Talk,” at least as a spectator? It turns out that it’s free, but they’ll also pay you money. So, the juiciest thing about the popular talk show.

How much will they pay for applause?

Many believe that the audience in the hall themselves pays money to watch the next freak episode. But in fact, the organizers pay them about 700 rubles for extras. The main characters of the show are paid tens of times more, starting from 10 thousand rubles, but the more interesting the story, the higher the payment.

There is interesting information about how much the Shurygina family was paid for participation, because the figure mentioned in the media is about half a million. This question was answered by ex-correspondent of the program A. Zaoksky

“I don’t think that Shurygina’s family was paid half a million, as the press writes about it. I think they were paid 200 thousand, maybe 300.”

What is the point of the transfer - if they pay for it?

In general, the program deals with real situations (not without some embellishment, of course). Those. talk shows need to interest the viewer (they succeed in this), and at the same time help (if required) in resolving the conflict between the heroes of the program. According to Malakhov, the project helped many people achieve justice.

From “The Big Wash” to “Let Them Talk”

Initially, the “Big Wash” project appeared (2001), but its focus was slightly different - personal (even intimate) stories of show business stars were brought up for discussion. Then the program was renamed “Five Evenings”, the problems became of a global scale - politics and public relations were discussed. In 2005, the show became known as “Let Them Talk.”

Salary of Andrey Malakhov

Undoubtedly, this is a personal question, but one that interests most of Russia. On the program “Let Them Talk,” the presenter not only made a career, but also earned good capital. Malakhov’s approximately monthly earnings were about a million rubles.

From “Let them talk” to blogging

The presenter decided to take blogging seriously and created a channel on YouTube - malakhov007, where you will see (you won’t believe it!) Diana Shurygina.

New presenter

Since the summer of 2017, Andrei Malakhov no longer hosts the “Let Them Talk” program, but went to a similar show “Live” (on the Russia channel). Replaced (as it seemed previously irreplaceable presenter) Dmitry Borisov.