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Hatcher Stands to Make a Bundle
Upcoming merchandising for the hit show Desperate Housewives could have
star Teri Hatcher rolling in the dough.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
By FilmStew Staff Report
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Hatcher could be making some big bucks over the next year
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Not too long ago people only remembered Teri Hatcher as that girl that starred
with Dean Cain on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Now,
however, she's become a TV sensation starring in and winning both a Golden Globe
and a SAG Award for her work on the ABC mega-hit Desperate Housewives,
and according to London's The Sunday Times, she's about to become the
highest-paid actress in television.
Hatcher currently earns about $315,000 per episode for her work on the show,
and she will now be earning some extra income to help promote an upcoming video
game and online clothing store based on the hit show. Hatcher will earn an extra
$1 million for a week's worth of work that will have her promoting the upcoming
show merchandise and lending her voice to the video game, which has players
starting as amnesiacs and working their way through Wisteria Lane, where the
players will encounter the various women of the show, including Felicity Huffman,
Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria and Nicolette Sheridan, who will each be providing
voices for the game.
Hatcher also stands to benefit from other upcoming merchandising ploys the
show has planned, including a board game and a series of mobile phone ring tones,
a portion of which will benefit Hatcher directly. Combined with the predicted
sales of her upcoming memoir, Burnt Toast, about being unemployed and
a single mother, Hatcher could stand to bring in an estimated $6 million extra
when all is said and done.
Headlines have been abuzz with Hatcher's name over the past couple weeks as
she began to reveal the sexual abuse she faced from an uncle when she was younger;
a story, not to undermine her experience, that should also help the sales of
her upcoming book. She told The Sunday Times that the extra earnings
will "let me enjoy what is happening now to the fullest and make me smart
about securing a future for me and my family for the time, maybe two or five
years away, when I am not hot again".
Not bad for someone who considered herself a has-been just a year ago.
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