Jason Tartick, Dean Unglert.Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty; John Sciulli/Getty
Jason TartickandDean Unglertare spilling the tea about their respectiveBachelorNation salaries.
On the first episode of Tartick’s newTrading Secretspodcast,The Bachelorettealums spoke in detail about how much money they’ve each been offered and given to appear on shows in the ABC franchise.
Unglert, 30, said that while he was not paid to be a contestant onRachel Lindsay’s season 13 ofThe Bachelorette, he was offered a salary for season 4 ofBachelor in Paradise.
“They hit me up, and they’re like, ‘Hey, do you want to doBachelor in Paradise, this other show? It pays $400 bucks a day, and you could be there for up to 30 days, or something like that,’ " he told Tartick, 32. “So I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, great. $400 a day, 30 days, $12,000, that’s fantastic.’ "
“And then I start talking to some friends, and they’re like, ‘Well, you should get more money because you’re who they want most from your season to go toParadise, minus [Lindsay’s runner-up Peter Kraus], obviously,’ " Unglert added.
Unglert asked producers for $800 a day but they countered with $600, which he accepted. “Out of principle, I wanted them to pay me more than they were offering everybody else, just because I thought I was hot s— or something,” he said with a laugh.
Dean Unglert.Bob D’Amico/Getty Images
Tartick, meanwhile, said that he was offered $600 a day, with a $5,000 guarantee in case he didn’t make it beyond the first week, to appear on season 5 ofBachelor in Paradiseafter he placed third onBecca Kufrin’s season 14 ofThe Bachelorette.He ultimately turned down the offer and is now engaged to formerBacheloretteKaitlyn Bristowe.
Both Unglert and Tartick said they were also approached about taking on a leading role onThe Bachelor. Unglert was offered $75,000 for season 22, which ultimately starredArie Luyendyk Jr., while Tartick was offered $100,000 for season 23. He said his fellowBachelorettealumsBlake HortsmannandColton Underwoodreceived the same offer, and Underwood ultimately took on the gig.
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Unglert did end up returning toBachelorNation for season 6 ofBachelor in Paradise, where he met his now-girlfriendCaelynn Miller-Keyes. For that season, he asked for “$20,000 an episode or some absurd amount,” he said, but was given another salary similar to his first stint on the show.
“When I said it, too, I was so vindicated. I was like, They’re not going to get me for a dollar less than what I need,' " he told Tartick. “And then eventually, as time wore on, I said, ‘Screw it.’ I think I went down to like $602 a day.”
“We were just doing it because it was interesting and fun,” he said of the spinoff. “The pay was bad, the setting wasn’t great. We were in Vermont and it hadn’t snowed in so long. We were like, ‘Why are we all here?’ It was just a waste of everyone’s time.”
Caelynn Miller-Keyes and Dean Unglert.Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images
Since season 6 ofParadise, Unglert has been going strong with Miller-Keyes, 25. Last June, theycelebrated the one-year anniversary of their breakupon the ABC reality show, which also unfolded on Miller-Keyes' birthday.
“Happy one year anniversary of the day you dumped me,” Miller-Keyes captioned a picture of the two onInstagram.
Tartick, meanwhile,finally proposedto Bristowe, 35, earlier this month while recording an episode of herOff the Vinepodcast. The two went public with their relationship January 2019 after meeting on the podcast.
source: people.com
