It looks like Waleed Aly has made a playful dig at his former The Project co-hosts Carrie Bickmore and Lisa Wilkinson.
During a recent episode of The Project, the panel were discussing the gender pay gap when Sam Taunton asked Waleed as well as Sarah Harris and Kate Langbroek to disclose their salaries to see who was earning the most money.
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And rather than revealing his salary, Waleed joked, “I really wish we’d done this last year.”
Sam replied, “Oh, I see what you’re getting at there.”
If you don’t understand what Waleed was getting at, here’s an explainer: it’s rumoured that Waleed earns $900,000 annually for hosting The Project.
Whereas, according to The Daily Telegraph, Carrie was earning $1.5 million and Lisa was earning $1.7 million annually when they were still presenters on The Project (they both left the show last year).
After the audience heartily laughed at Waleed’s comment, the conversation took a more serious turn when Kate revealed that she experienced a severe pay disparity in the past.
“Hughesy and I, we did a radio show together for 18 years, had never ever discussed what we got paid,” Kate said referencing Hughesy & Kate, the show she co-hosted with Dave Hughes from 2001 to 2019.
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“Then the second last job we did together, it turned out he was getting paid 40 per cent more than I was,” she continued.
“Now, in show business, we know that someone’s got a higher profile and whatever and all of that’s fine, but this was the Hughesy & Kate show that we had made together. It didn’t exist without Hughesy and Kate.”
Kate went on to divulge that learning she was getting paid significantly less than her business partner changed her relationship with him and led to her resigning from the show in 2019.
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