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To think itv should be ashamed

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ilovegin112 · 12/04/2018 13:34

The “female stars “ of the full monty were paid £10,00 while the charity’s were given approx £4000

To think itv should be ashamed
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causeimunderyourspell · 12/04/2018 13:57

It does seem a bit backwards but it doesn't take into account the awareness raised and the donations that might have been made by people who watched it. I'm quite shocked they didn't do it for free though?!

Donotdisturbme · 12/04/2018 13:58

What were the male stars paid?

bluebeau · 12/04/2018 13:59

its the stars who should be more ashamed.

all they did was cry through it all saying how hard it was. give me 10 grand i'll get my tits out

Redglitter · 12/04/2018 13:59

I was really surprised they were paid and such a large amount. I just assumed they were doing it for free.

ItsASairFecht · 12/04/2018 14:00

I think they were given £4000 because that's all that was raised? It wasn't a deliberate figure of discrepancy.

Mercurial123 · 12/04/2018 14:00

Ideally they should have donated their fee to the charity.

llangennith · 12/04/2018 14:01

Yes I also assumed they gave their time free as it was for a charitable cause. They should be ashamed of themselves.

ineedamoreadultieradult · 12/04/2018 14:03

It is standard to offer to pay people for such things, normally the stars donate their fee to the charity in question. Do we know that they didn't?

himalayansalt · 12/04/2018 14:05

Takes a lot to surprise me in these cynical money-grabbing times, but that absolutely has!

How can they have raised to little? It's pathetic! I wonder if there is more to this story yet to come out.

ilovegin112 · 12/04/2018 14:07

I think the £4000 was raised from between the men and women shows, I can’t find anything to say how much the men made,

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Piffle11 · 12/04/2018 14:08

The way it was portrayed on the programme was that Coleen Nolan was so moved by Ashley Banjo et al doing it, that she felt she and some women should do it too ... did it start out well-intentioned but then no-one would do it for free? I know not everyone can give up several days earnings to do it, but it does seem a bit off that they were paid so much. At the time of watching I remember wondering how much it had cost to take them to Paris to the Moulin Rouge, and the 'Calendar Girls' style shoot. I guess the way to look at it is that they raised awareness, and if one woman checked herself and found a lump, and it saved her life: well, it was worth it.

crazycatgal · 12/04/2018 14:09

The show made it seem like they decided to give their time up because they cared about the cause. I'm quite disappointed to find out that they were paid 10k each.

UpstartCrow · 12/04/2018 14:09

If the men were also paid, then that article is sexist.
I don't object to the stars being paid. But I do think that was an abysmal amount raised.

awishes · 12/04/2018 14:10

Disgraceful in my opinion

BringMeCoffeePlease · 12/04/2018 14:11

It's disgusting that they were paid. We would all be getting our boobs out for ten thousand pounds but this was for charity!!!

Plantlover · 12/04/2018 14:14

No mention of what the men got paid as a previous poster has said....

notacooldad · 12/04/2018 14:17

Was it touted about as a fund raiser or an awareness campaign?
Huge difference.

ForgivenessIsDivine · 12/04/2018 14:22

Typical misogynistic reporting from British media... THE FEES PAID TO THE MALE STARS HAS NOT BEEN REVEALED.

Report the full facts and the let's have the discussion.

BlancheM · 12/04/2018 14:22

I thought they were doing it for fucking charity?
Shame on the lot of them. I wonder if they gave their fees for the rounds they were doing promoting the show on Lorraine, This Morning, magazines ect to the charity or pocketed them aswell.

Tinkety · 12/04/2018 14:29

It is standard to offer to pay people for such things, normally the stars donate their fee to the charity in question. Do we know that they didn't?

This.

I work in the industry & it’s standard practice to pay the celebrity their normal fee & the celebrity then donates the fee back to the charity if they wish - 9/10 they do & money never changes hands however the contract always states that they will be paid X amount.

The main reason for this is to stop celebrities being inundated with requests to turn up for events in the name of charity & then the bad press if they refuse. Basically it stops the local village fair trying to book J-Lo as they simply wouldn’t be able to pay her fee or risk not getting it back.

BrendasUmbrella · 12/04/2018 14:31

Very strange headline. Someone with an agenda maybe? It just makes me want to know how much the men were paid...

UnicornRainbowColours · 12/04/2018 14:32

Do you mean 10.000 as 10 quid 💷 ain’t much to right home about.

00100001 · 12/04/2018 14:42

Come on - rather than just looking at the headline - let's critically read the article and see what it actually tells us:

It was one of the channel’s most-hyped shows to date this year, Was it? Source?

with the added silver-lining of advancing a noble cause. But ITV may have oversold the charitable effort they were embarking on with The Real Full Monty: Ladies Night, as it’s reported the stars of the show took home huge paychecks worth up to £10,000 while the show itself only raised just under half that sum for charity. - Again, no souce for this "reported paycheck" of "up to £10,000". Also it doesn't say £10,000 each, just £10,000. It might be that the "£10,000" was shared between the stars.

‘Viewers were made to think The Real Full Monty: Ladies Night was all about raising awareness and funds for breast cancer,’ an insider told The Sun. - it was...

‘While it did raise huge awareness and encourage viewers to check their bodies there we go...

a host of the stars took a massive payday in the name of charity.’ - no source for this...

‘It’s pretty appalling that this wasn’t made clear to viewers. Fans will be furious that they pocketed such huge sums.’ ... WHAT HUGE SUMS?

The likes of Megan McKenna and Coleen Nolan are said to have been paid up to £10,000 for appearing on the one-off special -- repetition, no source

while Coppafeel! and five other cancer charities only received just over £4,000 in donations - again each? or £4000 between the 6 charities? If they got £4k EACH, then it indicates that the amount raised was actually around £24,000. But sensationalism reports the lower figure for clicks!

According to the BT My Donate page for the show and its male counterpart both TV outings pulled in a combined total of £4,218. - that is only what was donated through ONE method. I'm guessing this is where the figure of £4,000 came from Hmm

The show, however, was never meant to be a fundraising vehicle but instead aimed to raise awareness of breast cancer; - well, there we go...

though the paper claims that ITV sold the show to the public as a bid to raise money for charity. - So this is a he says, she says thing. "Metro says, the Sun says that X happened. So, Metro isn't saying anything....

It reports that after contacting the channel, ITV removed all references from their website that the show was ‘in the name of charity’. - again with the he said, she said bullshit...

A spokesperson for ITV told Metro.co.uk: ‘The Real Full Monty shows clear focus and aim was raising awareness about cancer and encouraging people to make vital health checks which can save lives. ‘They clearly weren’t television charity fundraisers. The people who took part have all been touched by cancer in some way in their lives and their passion for raising awareness was obvious to everyone watching. They were ITV’s most watched factual shows this year, with overwhelmingly positive feedback, reaching millions of people with an important health message.’ - so actual rep saying it wasn't a fundraiser, but an awareness raiser

Coleen Nolan, Megan McKenna, broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire, Emmerdale actress Sally Dexter, actress Helen Lederer, TV legend Ruth Madoc, presenter Sarah-Jane Crawford and singer Michelle Heaton all took part in the performance at Sheffield’s City Hall. And it proved to be an exceptionally popular one-off as the famous ladies baring all peaked at an audience of 5.5million viewers, compared to their male compatriots the night before who managed 4.2million views. There’s no suggestion the stars of either show have been accused of any wrongdoing.

So the tl:dr version of the actual article is

The Sun reports that stars may have got paid an unknown amount to appear on a show that raises awareness of cancer. The show happened to raise at least £4,000 which was given to 6 charities.

JessicaJonesJacket · 12/04/2018 14:43

Isn't it odd that this is the first year the women did a show and there's a story like this but no mention at all of how much the men were paid either this year or last year?
Usual sexist shit-stirring by the media.
The fact is the programmes are more about awareness-raising than fundraising and the personal stories of the people involved will have raised awareness.
I don't think ITV should be ashamed. I think the media who are trying to create a negative anti-women story out of this should be ashamed.

Ellenripleysalienbaby · 12/04/2018 14:51

Ah, thanks for that explanation Tinkety, that makes sense. If that's then it's just media shit stirring then, but I guess some of the celebs will come out and explain soon enough if that's the case.

Still can't believe it raised such a small amount though, for a national televised charity thing?

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