Special treatment! Shane Warne was paid a $2 million for I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here gig… and claims producers let him smoke and receive hair transplant treatments on set
He was arguably the biggest star to appear on the second season of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! back in 2016.
And now Shane Warne has revealed the massive pay packet he received for the reality TV gig, on top of the special treatment he was afforded by production.
In an excerpt from his upcoming autobiography published on the Daily Telegraph on Saturday, Warnie revealed that he earned a whopping $2 million for the role.
Cha-ching! Shane Warne has revealed the massive pay day and special perks he received for doing I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here
The 49-year-old claims that his $2 million fee was what Channel Ten had spent on the entire casting budget for the show’s first season.
On top of his massive payday, Warnie’s manager was also able to negotiate the star a few extras not usually afforded to other cast members.
‘One was smoking,’ Warnie wrote. ‘I could smoke but had to follow the process of being about a hundred yards from the camp with a security guard accompanying me.’
‘I could smoke!’ In addition to earning $1 million for the show, the cricketer was also allowed to smoke
He continued: ‘The next was my hair. It has to be redone by Advanced Hair every three weeks, so the company flew out to the bush midway through the filming of the program.
‘It was a simple enough strand-by-strand process to the crown of my head and took no more than 45 minutes.’
The former cricketer explained that producers drove him to a house near the camp while the rest of the cast were asleep so he could meet with the Advanced Hair stylist.
‘The next was my hair,’ he explained. ‘It has to be redone by Advanced Hair every three weeks, so the company flew out to the bush midway through the filming of the program’
‘I was back by 6.30am and, at exactly the time everyone else was getting up, I wandered into camp as if I’d just been to the dunny,’ he boasted.
Warnie’s been an ambassador for Advanced Hair since 2007 and credits the company for saving him from baldness.
Shane Warne’s autobiography No Spin hits shelves on October 1.
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