With Carrie Bickmore, Waleed Aly and Lisa Wilkinson amongst their ranks, The Project panel undoubtedly boasts some of the biggest names in Aussie news.
And, it seems these home-grown A-listers don’t come cheap, with reports leaking their insanely high salaries, which sit well above the six-figure mark.
The Australian Media Diary has reported that Aly has signed a new “seven-figure” multi-year deal with Channel Ten that will see him continue to report on the show until “mid-2020s”. It has been widely reported that Aly’s former deal with the channel saw him take home $900,000 a year.
Aly first became a permanent co-host of Channel Ten’s The Project in 2015, and won a Gold Logie in 2016 for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television for his role on the show. He went on to win a Silver Logie in the same category the following year.
Aly isn’t the first of the Project hosts to have whispers of their generous salaries leaked. In November last year, The Daily Telegraph reported that Carrie Bickmore was earning $1.5 million per year for her role on the show and that Lisa Wilkinson was taking home $1.7 million.
The news of Aly’s staggering new deal comes just days after popular host Carrie Bickmore shared that she was be leaving the show for a few months.
“In April I’m going to be taking a few months off The Project desk. Chris and I and the kids are heading off on a family adventure together,” Bickmore emotionally revealed on the show.
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“We’ve been wanting to do it for a while but lots of reasons, timing hasn’t been right, but we figure it’s never going to be the perfect time to go”.
She added: “It’s something we really want to do before my son starts his final years at school so we’re doing term two in the UK. So I will be off for a couple of months.”
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