Josh Peck Reveals How Much Money He Made From 'Drake & Josh' & You May Be Surprised
justjared.comJosh Peck is opening up about how much money he actually made on Nickelodeon’s Drake & Josh, which ran from 2004 to 2007.
The 35-year-old Turner & Hooch actor revealed the exact numbers and you may be surprised by them. Click inside to read more… “I can only speak to my experience, but I think it’s quite public that if you were on a show like Two and a Half Men or Modern Family, and you were the kid on a massive network, syndicated show,” he said on Dear Media’s Trading Secrets podcast. “The case could be made that you’d have enough money to last you for the rest of your life.” He said, “But, the reality is that when we were making the show, we did 60 episodes and we made about $15,000 an episode.
So, when all is said and done, we were sort of left after agents and managers and taxes.” Josh continued, “You live with about $450,000 over five years, which breaks down to a little less than $100,000 a year—now, certainly a great amount of money, but not enough to set you up for life.
And a lot of it, we lived on, and I’m not gonna brag: My mom and I had a used BMW five series. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment with amenities… We lived a very middle-class life.” He added there is “no residuals on kids’ television.” “It was like we had 18 months of runway, you know,” he said. “It’s as though someone had lost their job.” Find out who called out Josh and called him a “f-cking liar.”
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