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Drew Carey picked up a very large tab final yr and doesn’t remorse it.
The actor and host of “The Worth is Proper” coated meals for members of the Writers Guild of America at Bob’s Massive Boy and Swingers in Los Angeles throughout their 148-day strike final summer season and fall.
Carey appeared on the WGA Awards ceremony on Sunday night time, the place he joked in regards to the invoice they rang up.
“Truthfully, I didn’t realize it was going to value me a lot cash,” Carey stated on stage. “The final time, I feel the full invoice (throughout a 2007 strike) was like $67,000, fifteen years in the past. I assumed it was going to be about the identical factor, however then a few of you determined, ‘Oh yeah, I’m going to get a shake and dessert.’”
He stated his accountant known as him up involved about how lengthy the strike was occurring.
“When the payments began piling up, my accountant known as and was like, ‘Is there any manner we are able to dial this again?’” he stated.
However Carey stored on paying, he stated Sunday, as a result of “it was the precise factor to do.”
“You writers, nicely not all of you, ‘The Drew Carey Present’ writers — made me a f***ing million. Everyone on this room makes some actor 1,000,000. And also you deserve all the cash you get.”
Carey reportedly spent an estimated $1 million on the meals.
“Deeply recognize all of the love and thanks. It as [worth] each dime. However in case you actually need to thank somebody for these meals, thank Bruce Helford and all of the ‘Drew Carey Present’ writers,” Carey wrote on X in September. “They helped make me wealthy sufficient to afford it, No writers, no $. Easy as that.”