Louise Thompson has slammed Made in Chelsea.
The former reality TV contestant who appeared on the popular E4 programme for nine years called it a "waste of a good education". Now an influencer, the 34-year-old dragged the show after her exit in 2020 and exposed her surprisingly low salary.
Speaking on Elizabeth Day's How To Fail podcast, Louise said: "I'd gone through quite a rough break-up in Edinburgh and I was ready to try something new. I just couldn't keep saying no. It was a funny old time for me because I was trying to be a serious student."
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Revealing her day rate from E4, Louise explained: "At the beginning it was £25 a day, then it went up to £50 after one series." She continued: "Then after a while I was paid £200 a day and that was capped at that – that was the absolute max."
She went on to claim that producers would favour male cast members, saying: "They were celebrated for being naughty and for being mean and for playing us around. I always felt as though I was fairly nice and treated people with respect.
"I would end up looking really weak and like a doormat. It's really odd that the nation seemed to always be backing someone that was horrible…" Louise got candid about her experience as she added: "I would go through these break-ups, I'd be genuinely really upset, and people would watch it and think that I was weak for crying."
She'd starred on the show alongside her now fiancé Ryan Libbey. Her life recently turned upside down due to ill-health after the birth of her now two-year-old son Leo. She haemorrhaged after an emergency C-section and has now had a stoma bag fitted.
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