Jed McIntosh was reportedly the highest-paid lead on The Bachelors this year, leaving the show with a huge six-figure salary.
Jed McIntosh, Felix Von Hofe and Thomas Malucelli were joint leads in the most recent season of The Bachelor, however, they received different sums of money for their time on the show, according to Yahoo Lifestyle. The publication reported that Jed was paid a whopping $400,000 to appear on the show.
“Jed was paid $415,000 in instalments based on certain production milestones,” an insider claimed.
Meanwhile, Thomas didn’t fare anywhere near as well as Jed, with the publication reporting that he was matched for six months of his salary and was paid $50,000.
It’s believed that Felix was paid slightly more than Thomas, at $90,000. He was signed up for a $5000 bonus but forfeited because he refused to take part in promotional media appearances during or after the show.
“Warner Bros. team were extremely pushy for Jed,” the source explained. “They had a lot of pressure to use him to gain new audience and put a lot of emphasis on ‘this is the make or break season’.”
Jed have his final rose to Alesia, and the pair left the show happily together, but not in a relationship. Shortly after the series finished airing, Alesia confessed that she’d “kissed a few (other) people” since filming wrapped.
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The Bachelor contestant added, “But (Jed has) known straight up that I have.”
“That’s OK, given the context, I think we’ve done quite well if that’s all it is, to be honest,” Jed replied.
He continued, “There was no malice at all.”
Alesia explained that while she and Jed didn’t technically break up, they did take a break-of-sorts from their relationship once filming finished.
“We were on the show for seven weeks, and then from the rendezvous, we were like, ‘OK, let’s be together, let’s make this official’,” Alesia said.
“Then there was stuff going on between then, Jed had some things going on, so we just said, ‘let’s take a step back until we have the opportunity to be together properly.”
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