God, Katherine Heigl. The woman just doesn’t know when to shut her trap:
“Our first day back was Wednesday and it was — I’m going to keep saying this because I hope it embarrasses them — a 17-hour day,” Heigl told David Letterman during a visit to the Late Show on Monday, “which I think is cruel and mean.”
She’s talking, of course, about her return to the Grey’s Anatomy set that made her famous. She’s happy to have the job when it suits her, when she’s not biting the hands holding her massive paychecks.
And even if it really was a 17-hour day: Cry me a river. She just came off a two-month vacation, since Grey’s Anatomy wrapped in May. Earlier this month, she got to spend a few weeks working on her tan in the Bahamas. Oh, the inhumanity.
Not only does the job come with most of the summer off, but this overpaid diva made $200,000 per episode last year and presumably negotiated more for the coming season.
Let’s all throw a pity party for poor, overworked Katherine, shall we?
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Let’s not forget that she is playing a woman in a coma. How frickin hard can 17 hours in a bed be?
Uch, Ln. The fact that I’ve never in my life watched so much as two minutes of that show is something of which I’m very proud, so I didn’t know that. It really embiggens her assiness, though, which I would have thought impossible.
Wonder if she’s a good lay.
Beige,
I must admit I haven’t watched the show. One of my clients was airing their grief about this woman, because they have worked many many long lonely shifts and they are not getting paid 200K an episode. Hmmm think about it, 13 episodes, that 2.6 million and how many months did this twit get off? Wow. Some nerve. I wonder if anyone has told her she sounds like a petulant, spoiled brat.
Firstly she did not come off a vacation she worked all summer on a new movie. Secondly SHE WAS JOKING not complaining. She even laughed in the press conference about it and her co-star pointed out that the press would post idiotic stories just like…well this one to be honest.
Ok, and John Q Public gets paid what a year? I think I read somewhere that it was about 40K for the average person to make a year.
And she’s bitching about what, again?
I’d hit it.
I just haven’t seen Jrod in a while. I mean… Uh…Uh… Wait. You know what I meant.
Holly pulling a Keith Olbermann huh?
I’m doing my best Family Guy with the obscure reference for comedic effect.
I once worked a 16 hour shift, in a nursing home. They were short staffed because of a storm, and I was pretty much strong armed into doing. After that I had one day off then I came back to work and did a twelve hour. I make 12.00 bucks an hour. I kinda thought I had it pretty rough. But now I realize that my crummy experience is nothing compared to Ms. Heigl. I feel guilty now for even complaining about my achy back, and the fact that during my 16 hour experience an old man slapped me so hard that my glasses flew across the room and I was left with a nasty bruise. Like I said, nothing compared to what she went through. I mean, she had to work 17 hours, not just a paltry 16.
Crow Jane, you’re just a big old whiny slacker. That’s what you are.
Crow Jane, you have good cause to worry. If they made it through the whole episode on that day, Katherine made only $12,000 an hour. I’ll be sure to include you on the pity party invite list.
Put in longer hours than that myself — in Viet-Nam. No overtime wages.
Sorry, Princess, but lots of people work those hours — farmers, construction workers, offshore workers — for a lot less.
Rocko: For the “shut up” comment? I want to be in on the joke!
I nominate Katherine Heigl to be the next Mother Teresa.
Dan, read the related posts on Katherine and then see if she was joking. She makes a habit out of biting the hands that feed her.
Whether she’s in a coma or not, I doubt the whole 17 hours was actually spent *working*…How much time was she sitting around in makeup, in hair, drinking coffee, smoking…
And besides all that, I remember reading about the Uruk-hai captain in the Lord of the Rings…He had to have *20* hours of makeup a day. So he basically slept while they did his makeup. Now *that* is dedication!
Wow, those week long excursions into the mountains of Southern Afghanistan without a shower, shave, clean undies, and only a steady supply of MREs (actually, some of those are pretty good, but I digress) for sustenance sounds like Club Med after hearing about what twinkle-toes here has to put up with.
Thank God I dodged that bullet.
You only get points for risking your life in the Hollywood Hills, Scott.
Actually, being in Hollywood is probably worse for your brain than being in Afghanistan. At least most people in the military HAVE and USE brain cells.
give me a break, what a total twat.
Scott, I was just about to mention that. Hubby went 10 days or longer without a shower, a bed or a hot meal while in Astan. I guess he just needs to suck it up cause that was easy compared to what she had to go through. I bet she even had to get her own water!
Let’s be more charitable toward Ms Heigl!
Let’s assume that each week’s episode requires her to work 6 days a week, the poor dear.
$200,000 per episode / ( 6 days per week per episode * 17 hours per day ) = $1960 per hour
OMG! Who can live on an income of only $1960 per hour? That’s barely above SAG minimum wage!
Leave Katherine Heigl alone! Can’t you see she’s suffering trying to make ends meet earning only $1960 per hour and having to work grueling 17 hour days?!
Pasta, I missed you last night!
Kidding or not, I’d like to see her (and some other people) do a few episodes of Dirty Jobs, at $25/hr.
I’m sure there are thousands of better qualified, and more grateful actresses who would love to take her place. She needs to shut up and disappear. These spoiled brats should be ashamed of themselves. Milliosn of Americans would be happy if there workday was ONLY 17 hours, and they took home a fraction of what she makes.
What a waste of space !
Hey, if you were a junior doctor in the UK you’d have to be on take, roughly a 48 shift with the odd nap here and there. Oh, and in the days bfore I had a proper job and made my living as a roadie a 24 hour shift so that some pampered pop twat could make their gripping concept video
Unless Ms. Heigl was complaining on behalf of all the relatively underpaid production folks who had to work that 17-hour day, I’m calling ‘giant whiner.’
Pasta and Jrod sittin’ in a tree…who knew?
To be fair, Scott, MRE brownies are REALLY awesome…