The television collaborator Belén Esteban is one of the stars of It’s not like we were Shhthe TEN and Quickie program which is the heir of Sálvamethe program that for 14 years was broadcasted on Telecincowhere it was cancelled without prior notice.
‘La Patrona’ as she now likes to call herself, better than ‘La princesa del pueblo’, because now she is 51 years old and the princess thing seems to be a thing of the past.she was a guest on the program Col-lapsefrom TV3, where he talked about his past and his future.
“Now we are in a small program, but little by little we are moving up. We had all these cameras, we had everything in Telecinco.Now we have robotic cameras. But we like what we do. There are a lot of people you meet who look at you like ‘but what are you doing on this show?’ Excuse me? What do I do? Working and doing what I want to do“, said the collaborator.
“Work cheaper, right?” the presenter, Ricard Ustrell, asked her. “Well, they never broke my contract. I have a closed contract with Óscar and Adrián’s company, it is also true that I have an exclusive contract.“, he said about his bosses and his company, the production company Fabricantes, heir of the extinct La Fábrica de la tele.
“Do you still charge the same as in Telecinco?”, insisted the presenter. “I wasn’t paid by Telecinco. I have always been paid by my bosses, not Telecinco.I still have the same contract, thank God”, explained Belén Esteban.
In the past it was published that the collaborator could earn around 1,100 euros per program in her last stage at Sálvamewhich, added to other exclusives and participations in programs such as Deluxe, could add up to close to half a million euros a year.
It was assured that they charged less
However, during the presentation of It’s not like we were Shhh some important faces, such as María Patiño, assured that they were paid less. “It is not the same format, it is not comparable in any sense, as producers we thank them for their willingnessThey deserve much more, they deserve everything, but they have decided to join this project because they trust it, but not for the money”, said Oscar Cornejo. “They are not doing it for free, but what they charge is light years away from what they were earning before.“, clarified the producer.
The presenter, María Patiño acknowledged: “It has nothing to do with what I charge with what I used to charge in Sálvame“. Lydia Lozano spoke months ago in the same sense: “When people like Fabricantes call you and tell you that we are going to do this, I don’t care where”.
Other sources of income
Belén Esteban also talked about her other sources of income, such as her facet as a food entrepreneur with Los sabores de la Esteban. “I have left the company I had, I have sold it. I still have the potatoesbut I also want to quit. I don’t want the supermarkets to earn more than the businessman. My thing is television and that took me a lot of time, many meetings”, he explained.
“I’m not going to be on TV all my life, maybe I’ll go back to it. People say ‘he’s ruined, he’s quit’ and we closed this year with a profit.. I feel very happy,” she revealed.
“You’ve made a lot of money …,” Ustrell insisted. “Yes, yes, what happened is that I had a man who took what he didn’t own.He stole 1.8 million euros from me”, she said about her lawsuit with her ex-representative, Toño Sanchís.
“I had to take his house and I sold it, because many things we could not claim because he had no documentation. I couldn’t prove it was one million eight hundred thousand, he owes me 500,000 euros plus costs. That money is mine and my family’s, especially my daughter’s, which is why her mother worked for it,” Esteban justified himself.
“On TV You make money and I’m privileged, you used to make more than now.. I’m not going to say how much. I’m not going to say, but I used to do TV every day”, concluded the collaborator.