Sherri Shepherd Reveals She Also Helped Loni Love and Sheryl Underwood Get Bigger Bucks on Talk Show Contracts (Video)
thewrap.comIt turns out that Sherri Shepherd helped more than just her “The View” colleague Sunny Hostin get more money while negotiating her contract.
On Monday’s episode of “Sherri,” the longtime media figure revealed that in her practice of “paying it forward,” she called Loni Love of “The Real” and Sheryl Underwood of “The Talk” to discuss their salary and help them negotiate for a higher number. “I decided to let people know who were going through the same thing.
I called Loni Love when she got ‘The Real’ and I told her what I made and what she should ask for,” Shepherd said. “I told Sheryl Underwood at ‘The Talk’ what I made and what she should ask for.“The least I can do is pay it forward, because if you pay it forward, and they pay it forward, we all can come up together!” she said.Shepherd recounted how she felt when when Jenny McCarthy signed onto “The View” in 2013 and she learned that the new host was making more than her. “Jenny McCarthy came into the show making more money than I had made after being there for six years.
She had negotiated. That’s not Jenny’s fault. Not at all,” Shepherd said. But it did inspire her to start pushing back on salaries and helping others do the same.
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