Drew Barrymore doing cheesy bingo app commercials??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The question for me isn't why the celebrities do commercials for these apps, but how the apps can afford the celebrities.

That's a good question.

The celebrities clearly do it for the money, and big names are doing it such as the ones PPs have named and also Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow.

Do the apps make that much money? Must be a lot of people wasting money playing these things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t find it that surprising. Agree that she’s probably made a lot of money and it seems like she has a successful beauty business, and obviously the talk show, but how long do we really think that is going to last, she’s playing the long game. Her acting career is likely over for the most part, at some point her beauty business is going to sunset. I admire her success on daytime television, but it’s a pretty volatile sector of the industry and that could really go at any time. It’s probably also a lot of hard work and she might not want to do it for much longer.

I think it totally makes sense to get while the getting is good.

I agree she might be making easy money while she can. But I do think she could have a long acting career if she wants it. She's talented and likeable, and she could get the roles currently going to people like Helen Mirren. Maybe it's because of my age and the shows I choose to watch, but I see lots of older actors doing good work, and I enjoy seeing multiple generations represented. I'm glad the writers and creators of these shows are seeing the value in them. It's smart too because it broadens the target audience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure she pays a lot of child support. Nonetheless, she was a child Star who has worked steadily for decades and has had some lucrative gigs—including her current talk show and the game show (plus her production company). I mean, how much does a celebrity need to sustain themselves and set up their kids for life?

At some point it does seem crass…particularly when she acts like she’s so down to earth and low maintenance. But I guess she’s accustomed to a celebrity lifestyle and thinks she needs a gazillion dollars just in case.

Her alcoholic parents stole all her childhood acting money. By the time she was 16, she was living on her own and, because she couldn’t get acting jobs for a while, was working minimum wage jobs.

[Anonymous]

I suspect it’s very hard to stop working every job you can when you have been doing it since before your first birthday and your terrible exploitative parents probably conditioned you to believe your self worth was tied to it.

She had parents and a childhood that none of us can imagine. If doing bingo ads is our biggest criticism of her now, it shows how great she turned out despite her messed up childhood.

[Anonymous]

Her net worth is $85M, mostly from two movies when she was an adult.

This likely doesn’t include her more recent ventures, like her tv show, game show, commercials, etc.

She’s rich by any measure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone over age 40 in Hollywood is ancient. Wait, I take that back. Anyone over age 40 anywhere is ancient.

That’s why she’s doing it. Jobs could run out any day, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Drew is also doing hair dye commercials. At least she's not Katherine Heigl doing Depends commercials.

[Anonymous]

In her case, she's actually talked about why she works so hard and takes all these jobs--she remembers when she lost everything she made as a child star and then was unemployable in Hollywood in her teens and taking minimum wage jobs. She's rich, but always lives with the fear of losing everything again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drew is also doing hair dye commercials. At least she's not Katherine Heigl doing Depends commercials.

Whoever colors her hair does an amazing job. It always looks great on her show, and that’s not easy once you are 50 and have messed with your hair color for decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drew is also doing hair dye commercials. At least she's not Katherine Heigl doing Depends commercials.

Whoever colors her hair does an amazing job. It always looks great on her show, and that’s not easy once you are 50 and have messed with your hair color for decades.

I admire both Drew and Katherine Heigl. Heigl got black balled because she was on of the earliest Me Too actresses. That's impressive, in my book. Also, I may one day need Depends. I've got no problem with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t find it that surprising. Agree that she’s probably made a lot of money and it seems like she has a successful beauty business, and obviously the talk show, but how long do we really think that is going to last, she’s playing the long game. Her acting career is likely over for the most part, at some point her beauty business is going to sunset. I admire her success on daytime television, but it’s a pretty volatile sector of the industry and that could really go at any time. It’s probably also a lot of hard work and she might not want to do it for much longer.

I think it totally makes sense to get while the getting is good.

I agree she might be making easy money while she can. But I do think she could have a long acting career if she wants it. She's talented and likeable, and she could get the roles currently going to people like Helen Mirren. Maybe it's because of my age and the shows I choose to watch, but I see lots of older actors doing good work, and I enjoy seeing multiple generations represented. I'm glad the writers and creators of these shows are seeing the value in them. It's smart too because it broadens the target audience.

I know it seems like there’s a lot of actresses at 50 and older who are working, and you can probably rattle off some, but statistically it’s very rare. There are many more speaking parts for men versus women still, and ageism for women is very much there. Way more roles for women under 40 than over. I’m not saying Drew can’t ever do acting, but it would be competitive and there wouldn’t be endless roles to choose from.

Further, doing a limited series or a movie requires months away from home and she still has two pretty young kids. Jennifer Garner I’m sure would prefer acting over capital one commercials but she wants to be there for her kids and not every show or movie films in her backyard in LA. More and more projects are filmed in Canada and other parts of the US. It’s a big commitment. Ads are easy money that don’t take time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t find it that surprising. Agree that she’s probably made a lot of money and it seems like she has a successful beauty business, and obviously the talk show, but how long do we really think that is going to last, she’s playing the long game. Her acting career is likely over for the most part, at some point her beauty business is going to sunset. I admire her success on daytime television, but it’s a pretty volatile sector of the industry and that could really go at any time. It’s probably also a lot of hard work and she might not want to do it for much longer.

I think it totally makes sense to get while the getting is good.

I agree she might be making easy money while she can. But I do think she could have a long acting career if she wants it. She's talented and likeable, and she could get the roles currently going to people like Helen Mirren. Maybe it's because of my age and the shows I choose to watch, but I see lots of older actors doing good work, and I enjoy seeing multiple generations represented. I'm glad the writers and creators of these shows are seeing the value in them. It's smart too because it broadens the target audience.

I know it seems like there’s a lot of actresses at 50 and older who are working, and you can probably rattle off some, but statistically it’s very rare. There are many more speaking parts for men versus women still, and ageism for women is very much there. Way more roles for women under 40 than over. I’m not saying Drew can’t ever do acting, but it would be competitive and there wouldn’t be endless roles to choose from.

Further, doing a limited series or a movie requires months away from home and she still has two pretty young kids. Jennifer Garner I’m sure would prefer acting over capital one commercials but she wants to be there for her kids and not every show or movie films in her backyard in LA. More and more projects are filmed in Canada and other parts of the US. It’s a big commitment. Ads are easy money that don’t take time.

Her kids live with her ex and his wife. They have primary custody and are presumably raising them…and I bet she’s paying a lot of child support.

She films her show in NY to be near her kids.

But if she’s worth $85M, how much more does she really need? Most of us would probably retire if we had $5M (even less). I get that she has a lifestyle to maintain, but how much does that take?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drew is also doing hair dye commercials. At least she's not Katherine Heigl doing Depends commercials.

Whoever colors her hair does an amazing job. It always looks great on her show, and that’s not easy once you are 50 and have messed with your hair color for decades.

Agree her hair always looks great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t find it that surprising. Agree that she’s probably made a lot of money and it seems like she has a successful beauty business, and obviously the talk show, but how long do we really think that is going to last, she’s playing the long game. Her acting career is likely over for the most part, at some point her beauty business is going to sunset. I admire her success on daytime television, but it’s a pretty volatile sector of the industry and that could really go at any time. It’s probably also a lot of hard work and she might not want to do it for much longer.

I think it totally makes sense to get while the getting is good.

I agree she might be making easy money while she can. But I do think she could have a long acting career if she wants it. She's talented and likeable, and she could get the roles currently going to people like Helen Mirren. Maybe it's because of my age and the shows I choose to watch, but I see lots of older actors doing good work, and I enjoy seeing multiple generations represented. I'm glad the writers and creators of these shows are seeing the value in them. It's smart too because it broadens the target audience.

I know it seems like there’s a lot of actresses at 50 and older who are working, and you can probably rattle off some, but statistically it’s very rare. There are many more speaking parts for men versus women still, and ageism for women is very much there. Way more roles for women under 40 than over. I’m not saying Drew can’t ever do acting, but it would be competitive and there wouldn’t be endless roles to choose from.

Further, doing a limited series or a movie requires months away from home and she still has two pretty young kids. Jennifer Garner I’m sure would prefer acting over capital one commercials but she wants to be there for her kids and not every show or movie films in her backyard in LA. More and more projects are filmed in Canada and other parts of the US. It’s a big commitment. Ads are easy money that don’t take time.

Her kids live with her ex and his wife. They have primary custody and are presumably raising them…and I bet she’s paying a lot of child support.

She films her show in NY to be near her kids.

But if she’s worth $85M, how much more does she really need? Most of us would probably retire if we had $5M (even less). I get that she has a lifestyle to maintain, but how much does that take?

Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Drew seems to have a good relationship with her kids. Running a whole talk show would be absorbing. If their family has found that having her ex having primary custody is good for them, then more power to them. She seems to be very active in their lives regardless.

And if so, certainly child support is appropriate, no? I'm sure she could afford it with or without money from a bingo app.