1:13 pm, November 29th, 2009
President Obama & White House Crasher Michaele Salahi (White House Photo)Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the couple who crashed President Barack Obama’s first state dinner, are in discussions with TV networks to sell their story for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
An unnamed TV executive tells the Associated Press the Salahis, who were pictured chatting up the president and also photographed with Vice President Joe Biden, are looking for a payday “in the mid-six figures range.”
Networks don’t openly pay for interviews, but often find ways around it by claiming they are just buying rights to air private photos or video.
Gossip Cop has always found it a bit sketchy when networks “buy the rights” to seemingly ordinary photos and videos for tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars, and afterwards magically get that sought after interview, which they then claim was done for free.
The Salahis were slated to appear on “Larry King Live” tomorrow night, but have canceled, giving more credence to the report that they’re not talking for free these days.
But one really has to wonder about the Salahis and their desperate desire to be on TV. As you probably know, Michaele is trying to be chosen for “The Real Housewives of D.C.”
Gossip Cop wants to know: Do you think networks paying for interviews is a big deal or not? And would you watch the Salahis if they were interviewed by one of the networks?
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No, not intrested in these people. I think someone should be in some serious trouble. I hope they find something to charge these people with, hopefully that would discourage anyone else trying something similar. Security definitely dropped the ball.
With all the starving people in the world, it is positively shameful to think anyone would actually pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to hear these two idiots speak. By giving them money and tv-time, we are handing them the attention and results they want. I don’t want to see them on tv for anything other than a perp walk to face the charges they deserve.