{"id":253181,"date":"2025-10-31T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253181\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:32:13","slug":"samantha-armytage-and-bear-myrdens-golden-bachelor-salaries-have-leaked-didnt-need-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253181\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Armytage and Bear Myrden’s Golden Bachelor salaries have leaked: ‘Didn’t need the money’"},"content":{"rendered":"

He may have signed up for The Golden Bachelor<\/a>\u00a0in the hopes of finding love, but Barry \u2018Bear\u2019 Myrden<\/a> also walked away from the Channel 9<\/a> reality show with an impressive pay cheque. As the series approaches the halfway mark, the salaries of both the show’s leading man and host, Samantha Armytage<\/a>, have leaked online.<\/p>\n

According to PEDESTRIAN.TV<\/a>, Samantha was paid $125,000 for just two days of filming a week. The former Sunrise host told Yahoo Lifestyle<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month that she was thrilled to be a part of the series and help bring the Bachelor franchise into the \u201cmodern era\u201d with a \u201cgolden shine\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so proud on every level, because I think it’s a great show,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the production of it has been absolutely brilliant, but I think from an emotional level, there are a lot of people in Australia in the same boat as these women and as Bear, perhaps, and they’re going through this stuff too, so this is going to resonate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Bear was reportedly paid $75,000 for his 10-week stint filming The Golden Bachelor earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t need the money. He just wanted to prove to his boys and himself that he\u2019s still got some game left,\u201d an insider told PEDESTRIAN.TV.<\/p>\n

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Bear was reportedly paid $75,000 to appear on the show. Photo: Channel 9<\/p>\n

How much money have previous Bachelors been paid?<\/p>\n

Bear\u2019s rumoured pay cheque puts him at the lower end of The Bachelor salaries over the years, with Nick \u2018The Honey Badger\u2019 Cummins reportedly paid $500,000 for his stint on the show in 2018.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, fan favourite Matty \u2018J\u2019 Johnson is said to have received $200,000 the previous year after coming second on Georgia Love\u2019s season of The Bachelorette.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also been reported that season eight Bachelor Locky Gilbert took home $100,000<\/a>, while Richie Strahan only received $10,000 when he was on The Bachelor in 2016.<\/p>\n

All of these figures are speculative; however, season 11\u2019s Luke Bateman<\/a> confirmed on the Confessions of a Reality Star<\/a>\u00a0podcast last year that he was paid $70,000 to star on the show alongside Wesley Senna Cortes and Ben Waddell in 2023.<\/p>\n

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As for The Bachelorette, Sophie Monk<\/a> is rumoured to have been paid $300,000 to star on the show in 2017, while Brooke Blurton reportedly earned $250,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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