'Gogglebox earned me £100k a year but now I'm totally skint'

Gogglebox has turned its stars into household names and provided them with immoderate beauteous awesome wage packets - and 1 erstwhile prima has revealed precisely however overmuch she made

Gogglebox has surely introduced america to immoderate unforgettable characters, providing endless amusement and immoderate genuinely iconic TV moments. But 1 question that's ever been connected our minds is conscionable however overmuch bash these Gogglebox stars rake successful for their hilarious commentary?

Former prima Sandra Martin, who was connected benefits earlier she changeable to fame connected the Channel 4 deed successful 2013, has claimed she bagged a staggering £100,000 annually from her stint connected the show. Although Sandra can't uncover the nonstop figures Channel 4 dished retired for her Gogglebox appearances, she did uncover to the Daily Mail: "It was the champion wage I ever earned successful my beingness and I got asked to bash loads of personage appearances astatine events which Channel 4 would besides wage maine for".

She added: "I paid taxation connected an income of £100,000. In fact, ever since I started doing Gogglebox successful 2012, I person earned astir £100,000 each year." The TV favourite besides mentioned that she lone had to perpetrate to Gogglebox 2 days a week for fractional the year, leaving her plentifulness of clip to proceed her long-standing contented of selling goods astatine car footwear sales, thing she's done since she was 18.

Sandra went connected to accidental that signing up for Gogglebox turned retired to beryllium the astir lucrative 'money decision' she's ever made aft being scouted for the amusement portion sipping a portion astatine her section pub successful Brixton. At that point, Sandra was surviving disconnected benefits and recalled successful different chat: "I was tipsy due to the fact that I'd been connected the brandy and the bartender told him 'Go to Queen Bee' and it was the champion happening that happened to me", reports OK!.

The Gogglebox favourite besides shared: "I got paid much than anyone else, much than immoderate of the different families due to the fact that they were moving and I had to travel disconnected benefits to look connected the show. All the bills that you person to wage for successful beingness they dealt with for maine and near maine astir £300 to £500 a week connected apical of that to get my hairsbreadth and nails done and different expenses.

"I could person bought a location with each the wealth I made but I gave it away, I took attraction of my household and friends. I filled their fridges, took them buying to bargain apparel and paid for meals."

She besides bagged herself an advert to beforehand a Chinese TV show, which lined her pockets with £10,000 - and that was £6,000 successful the slope aft the taxman took his share. But beingness has swung similar a pendulum for Sandra since she waved goodbye to Gogglebox successful 2017; from being sorted with "everything paid for" by the TV deed to being retired of work, couch-surfing, and peddling merchandise conscionable to support the larder stocked.

Earlier this year, Sandra confessed that she's skint and hanging by a thread connected £238-a-month Universal Credit, yet, she's defiantly enjoyed glitzy getaways to Ibiza, Amsterdam and Portugal, courtesy of her devoted followers who've coughed up the dough for her vivacious presence. In a chat with The Sun, the prima excitedly shared: "I've been connected 5 holidays since Christmas Day and I'm going to Malta too, it's each due to the fact that of Gogglebox.

"I've been to Amsterdam, Portugal, Benidorm and tons of different places. Soon I'm going to Skegness. People emotion maine and I springiness them amusement truthful they wage for my trips.

"It's due to the fact that I've got specified a ample platform, I'm connected societal media each time and speech to my fans. People are bored and I cheer them up. I get a batch of hatred for it due to the fact that I'm ever connected planes but radical acquisition these trips to me. It's a occurrence really, they indispensable person spent thousands of pounds connected me."