Smileeys | Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 10:50 pm   Does anyone know how much players get paid for doing this? Big Brother was $750 a week - do you get anything with this one or is it only the winner that wins any money??? |
Voyeur | Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 11:06 pm   The winners get a million dollars. |
Sunshinemiss | Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 11:35 pm   Well Smileeys my guess is as far as weekly stipend goes, not likely. If there is an additional prize they haven't announced it... I suspect the only reason we found out about the weekly stipend on BB2 was the fact that the HG's discussed it and as such it was overheard on the feeds. Since this game happens in "real time" of about 2 weeks, I doubt they get any other pay than the daily travel expenses. But this is all JMHO. Anybody have any more concrete info? |
Badgercubs | Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 12:24 am   I would guess they do get a weekly stipend. They did on the Mole. Each team got paid depending on how long they stayed in the game. |
Sandyc | Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 10:32 am   What money are they spending? Were they given an allowance or are they spending their own money for taxis etc. |
Voyeur | Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 10:46 am   They receive a certain amount of cash in the packets they start each leg with. They have to use this money for everything except airfare. I'm not sure if they get to keep any leftovers for the next leg or not. |
Cinder | Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 11:55 am   I also wondered about keeping leftover money. In the first episode some were concerned about running out. No one seems to have that concern now. Also the players are NEVER shown exchanging the money. The grandparents mentioned it on the Early Show this morning. Evidently they had tried exchanging before getting off the boat and there was no time afterwards. Or maybe in the previous countries they were able to use American money with the taxis. In my experience traveling to Europe I never tried using American money for fear they would try to take advantage of me. |
Voyeur | Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 01:01 pm   In most places, they will accept American dollars, but at a premium. If the exchange is 1.6 dinars to the dollar, they probably could have easily found someone to exchange one for one. They only needed 6 dinars. Most retail type businesses here in Washington state used to accept Canadian dollars (at a modest premium) until the Canadian dollar started getting too volatile and it became a hassle to keep track of the exchange rate. When the Canadian dollar and American dollar were closer in value, small amounts of coins used to be accepted as equivalent, and I'd often get Canadian coins in my change, and could use them without difficulty just about anywhere. Once things settled down again, the use of credit cards had become a lot more widespread, so not accepting Canadian money wasn't costing businesses money. In some places you don't want to exchange at a bank because the official exchange rate is poor compared to what you can get on the street. |
Cinder | Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 06:03 pm   When I lived in North Dakota retail stores accepted Canadian money and vice versa. |
Tbear | Sunday, October 07, 2001 - 11:24 pm   Smileeys, Do you mean that EACH player on BB received an additional $750 per week to take home, aside fromthe money they did challenges for food???? |
Judy | Monday, October 08, 2001 - 05:11 am   Tbear: YUP! |
Seamonkey | Monday, October 08, 2001 - 07:22 pm   Nic and Will didn't get the stipend, since they won prizes at the end, Kent did get the stipend and the car so came in third, money wise. |
Smileeys | Saturday, October 13, 2001 - 07:07 pm   Yes, Tbear (as Judy and Seamonkey has stated) everyone but W and N got a stipend of $750 a week for each week they were on the show. And I was wondering if the contestants on this show is receiving anything similiar. I appreciate the responses - it seems there is not any official word on what they do receive, if anything. |