PREACH IT! 'Jersey Shore' kids are getting paid, but are they getting paid like stars?

Just how lucrative is your life, if you're a "Jersey Shore" guidette? It's pretty freakin' sweet, is what it is.

A new US Weekly report -- and we do mean gym-tan-laundry fresh -- reveals that Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi commands $20,000 to merely walk from one end of a red carpet to another. (That’s the same amount that DJ Pauly D charges, though it should be noted that Pauly D must, you know, DJ.)

Ronnie demands $12,000 to $20,000, Sammi gets about $15,000, and Vinnie and Angelina each command in the four figures.

Exactly how might this pay change hands? Likely via check -- or, maybe not. Stars -- even mega-A-list ones -- have been known to collect such fees via good old-fashioned $100 bills.

In paper sacks, in fact.

According to someone involved in the transaction, Halle Berry was once paid $50,000 cash to wear ...

... a Bulgari necklace to the Oscars. (You can find more about such transactions -- why, yes! In my book!) On the afternoon of the Oscars, go-betweens stood out on a street corner with a paper bag. In said bag: $50,000 in $100 bills.

According to my source, Berry’s limousine arrived. The car window opened. The go-betweens handed the bag to Berry. And the driver took off.

Are the "Jersey Shore" kids also getting paid via limo drive-by? Maybe in dollars, but not the really good stuff. That is, unless free spray tans can now fit inside a paper sack.

-- Leslie Gornstein

Left photo: The original cast of "Jersey Shore." Credit: Scott Gries / MTV

Right photo: Halle Berry in the 2002 James Bond film "Die Another Day." Credit: Keith Hamshere / MGM Pictures / Eon Productions

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As always, the Ministry's 'Jersey Shore' archive awaits.

Comments

[MARK11]

Why do you waste time and money putting idiots like this in the news?

Sad thing about these morons and majority of reality tv?

When it's all said and done; with all the problems in American society
history will wonder just what was American journalism and news and the media overall was doing during this time period of genuflecting before the altar
of consumerism b.s.

I'm all for solid entertainment. JERSEY BORE is not even close.
And all my friends and co-workers, of Italian descent, of all ages,
especially in this age demographic group of 20s-30...?

Are appalled by this show and these people.
I guess if you feed it, it'll dumb.