Connoisseur of the environment like few others, Marcelo Polino revealed how much television panelists earn, in order to demystify and show that just as all that glitters is not gold, not everyone who is on television wins a fortune.
“I was chatting with a channel, which offered me a job, regarding the salaries of the panelists. And, really, what a panelist earns, if we deduct the expenses she has plus the payment of a parking lot, she is left owing money”, began in his radio cycle Miter Polino Auténtico, in reference to the little money that is paid in some cycles.
The reason, mainly, is because in many programs the panelists are paid “by actors, as if it were a skittle”. Although he was not one hundred percent sure, he revealed that the bolus is regarding three thousand seven hundred pesos: “The TV business is complicated. There is less lighting, less publicity and this makes the salaries lower”.
“In addition, the panelists are the ones who work the most. Because they are the ones who carry the information, who have to row the driver. This to demystify a little that everyone who works on TV earns a fortune. They are very impoverished, because well, it does not escape what is the reality of the country”, analyzed the driver regarding his colleagues.
In this way, the driver made it clear that working on screen is not always synonymous with opulence, more so if travel expenses and other things are deducted from said bolus, since to be on TV, the panelist well or should Arrive earlier at the channel to put on makeup and comb your hair or do it earlier at home. Currently, all the channels have panel programs, whether it is a fixed staff with a contract, or rotating and with guests who charge a bolo, as the journalist exemplified.
Marcelo Polino He was born in Tres Arroyos, in the province of Buenos Aires, on January 30, 1964 and as a boy he dreamed of being on television. “When you live in a town and watch TV, Mirtha what he ate, Sofovich who gave away money, you say: ‘I want to be there, that’s the place of happiness’”, he once said, when his wish was already a reality.
His first job in show business was with Pipo Pescador, who was looking for a magician for one of his shows. After an affair with the daughter of a children’s entertainer that made him cross the ocean to settle in Spain and France, he returned to Buenos Aires where he joined a publishing house as a cleaning staff and there he took his first steps as a journalist.
Polino was interested in the lives of artists and when the journalists left the newsroom, he practiced typing with two fingers. . One Sunday it was necessary to cover a note and since nobody wanted to do it, Polino offered himself. “They wrote down five questions for me and I went. I remember that the note was to twins who had been separated at birth and had been reunited at the age of 45. Thus, he became a recognized journalist and one of the most feared juries that passed through Bailando.
On more than one occasion he expressed his desire to be a father: “It had to do with being able to give back to someone everything I received because I come from very low. I started out sleeping in a square and achieved everything I wanted and much more than I needed. So, I wanted to give a child health, education and accompany him. It didn’t happen, but that will always stay with me.”
On why he abandoned his desire to adopt, he explained on Mirtha’s program. “Every two years you have to do all the paperwork once more. There is a folder to write down and every two years you have to do the studies once more, the affidavit of assets, say where the child is going to live. It is something very invasive. I endured it twice, I was going to do the third now, and I gave up”. And I add: “time passed me. I am not the same person I was six years ago. It changed my life. It is a personal example, but six years ago my mother might accompany me. But last year she was not in good health, and I have to keep an eye on her. Priorities are changing.”
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