Carol 'quits' Countdown.
So Channel 4 have slashed her annual salary from 1.5 million to £150,000.
She says they wanted rid of her and felt she had no option but to quit.
I suppose it's all relative, but surely £150,000 is better than a slap in the face. Could she earn more elsewhere? I mean, what else could she do?
I'm bloody good at the numbers on Countdown. I'd do it for £149,999 + half a curly wurly.
So...who will take over from Carol? Who will take over from Des? I can hardly bare the suspense.
It's interesting the different perspective you get on this depending on whether you look at it as a 90% pay cut or the fact that £150k per annum is on offer.
Regardless of that I have always felt Carol Vordeman to be deeply unlikeable so I can't say I have shed any tears over this.
When she started doing the debt consolidating loan ads, I started to feel she was a bit of a money grabbing wannabe with delusions of importance and celebrity.
They are now talking about doing away with Countdown all together. I don't know how I'm going to cope...it took me years to get over the shelving of 15 to 1.
Well if she gets into financial problems through being unemployed, I'm sure Ocean Plus Loans Finance Norton Debt Consolidation Solutions Limited would stand her some cash secured on her house. It would mean that all her monthly outgoings would be turned into one manageable sum*. There may even be enough money left over for a family holiday, after all she'd deserve a treat for working so hard at getting herself into so much debt.
*Terms & Conditions apply.
If you do not keep up payments on your loan we may remove you knee caps, sell your internal organs and/or replace your current dwelling for a cardboard box in HMV's doorway. Children offered as security are at risk of being sent to Huntington Life Sciences for experimentation. In eleven years time when you're still paying us off remember that you are our b!tch now and that loan rates are variable and can climb faster than Spiderman on amphetamines.
...and I feel fine!
Alternately she could just quadruple her earnings from the daytime TV ads market. Admittedly, this would involve assassinating June Whitfield to get in on the geriatric insurance market, go round setting up a few dozen accidents for the ambulance chaser market, and then banging Barry Scott to get the Cillit Bang gig.
Barry Scott Bang and the dirt;s gone.
Well it is with a 9mm and attached silencer.
Actually it is more of a fffssshhh with silencer.
My rates are reasonable.
DTS XXX XXX
Last edited by dave the scaffolder; 29th-July-2008 at 03:33 PM.
Yeah, I know - it's bad, but it's the best I could come up with at short notice!
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