“I finally made 1,000,000, too. I all the time will credit score Rosie O’Donnell for being free with that,” Sherri revealed after itemizing what Rosie, Pleasure Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck all made in 2007.
Sherri Shepherd is recalling her time on The View ... and the salaries of her cohosts.
There was a little bit of forwards and backwards when it got here to locking Sherri down for her stint on the daytime speak present, with the 58-year-old comic detailing the journey she went on to land a seat on the desk in a brand new interview with Vulture.
“Pleasure Behar appreciated me a lot and requested for me again,” she stated after filling in for Star Jones when Jones needed to go to Johnnie Cochran’s funeral.
“I had simply discovered my then-husband was dishonest, and I went on there and instructed all people. They had been like, ‘She has bought diarrhea of the mouth.’ I hit so many checkboxes — they beloved that I used to be the Black single mother, humorous, and prepared to inform the whole lot about my life,” she recalled, calling it a “defining profession transfer.”
She made fairly the primary impression and co-creator of The View, Invoice Geddie, who she says requested her to be a “common,” including that Star was going to go away.
“I stated, ‘That is too messy for me,” and stated ‘no,'” she shared.
Then in 2006, Jones introduced on dwell tv that she was leaving The View after her contract was not renewed, later alleging she was “fired” by the community.
Sherri was nonetheless entrance of thoughts, main Barbara Walters to name Sherri to hitch the present — not as soon as, however twice. Each occasions the reply was nonetheless a tough no, per Shepherd, with Walters allegedly ending the decision with, “Goodbye, pricey.”
“They did not name me again for about 9 months; Invoice needed to speak to Barbara as a result of she holds stuff for a very long time,” she revealed.
Then got here the negotiations.
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“They did not wish to give me no cash; I’d have made extra in a sitcom, and I bought a boy with particular wants. Then all types of articles had been popping out that I used to be being troublesome, and I needed to cope with the tabloids. Rosie O’Donnell known as and was like, ‘Let me inform you what all people’s making — I make $2 million, Pleasure makes $500,000, Elisabeth Hasselbeck makes $500,000, so that you must ask for $2 million,” she claimed.
“That they had provided me $400,000. I finally made 1,000,000, too. I all the time will credit score Rosie O’Donnell for being free with that,” Sherri added.
She then joined the desk alongside Pleasure Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters from 2007 to 2014.
Now, she is main her personal daytime speak present, filling the void left when The Wendy Williams Present went off the air in 2021, following Wendy’s extremely publicized well being points.
The present, now known as Sherri, is about to start its fourth season. It’s the No. 1 syndicated speak program for Black ladies ages 25 to 54.
