Snooker chief Barry Hearn admits he hasn’t taken a salary in 17 YEARS and says ‘I don’t live that type of life’

BARRY HEARN has revealed that helium has not taken a wage successful 17 years.

The Matchroom president founded his institution successful 1982, gathering empires successful boxing, snooker and darts.

Hearn, 76, besides served arsenic president of Leyton Orient betwixt 1995 and 2014.

These days helium maintains an advisory relation successful the business, having handed astir of the power to lad Eddie.

Discussing his vocation connected The Barry Hearn Show, helium admitted: "I retired seventeen years ago.

"I stopped taking the wage seventeen years agone due to the fact that I don't request the wealth and I don't unrecorded that benignant of life.

"But astatine the aforesaid time, I can't discontinue from thing that's been my life.

"And extracurricular of my family, nothing's much important to maine than kids getting their chance, especially, and I'm biased, kids possibly with the inheritance I had. My dada was a autobus driver. My mum was a charlady.

"We didn't person immoderate money, but we were inactive happy. But then, erstwhile you get into the concern element, you get this competitory streak wherever you privation to beryllium fig 1 and beryllium the best.

"And I can't locomotion distant from that."

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His lad Eddie, 45, is present president of Matchroom - but that doesn't mean that the father-son combo ever agree.

He revealed: "I volition thrust Eddie huffy due to the fact that I'll pester him and say: ‘Why are we doing this? Why don't we bash that?’

"And a batch of the times, he'll crook astir and say: 'Dad, antithetic property now. You're yesterday. I'm tomorrow. Listen to me.'

"I bash perceive to him and I inactive sometimes disagree with him – and I'm invariably wrong.

"But I cognize the business, I've led the life, and I tin inactive marque a contribution.

"And I anticipation I'm large capable that erstwhile I get to a signifier wherever I can't marque a contribution, I anticipation I recognise it myself. By the way, I don't spot that spot coming successful the adjacent future."

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Barry and Eddie are presently being followed astir by Netflix cameras for a documentary.

Speaking to SunSport astir the task aft completing his latest podcast episode, Barry said: "Everything is simply a wholly unfastened book. It’s going to beryllium fun.

“But I’m frightened to person a bath, mate! Because I get up and go, ‘f***ing, who enactment this microphone connected me?’

“The rubric is ‘Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen’. It’s going to spell retired to 500 cardinal homes. They are spending millions and millions.

“The squad that are doing it are the ones who did Drive to Survive, truthful they person a hard enactment to follow. But they are precise excited astir it.

“You effort to region yourself from it. It’s a bully story. We had Succession, which was astir a take-off of the Murdoch empire.

“Well, we are not astatine that level but it is simply a akin taxable of an aged geezer that starts disconnected something, brings up kids successful a antithetic satellite to what helium came from.

“It’s not a powerfulness conflict but determination are decidedly antithetic influences throughout.

“But the institution has grown bigger and bigger, it’s a planetary 1 alternatively than a British one. There are a batch of bully stories.”