Jenny McCarthy has acted, produced, written, been a TV personality, and even modeled in the past. Jenny has a multi-million dollar net worth as a result of her many successful acting roles, most notably as a judge on the popular TV show The Masked Singer.
Jenny Mccarthy Net Worth
Jenny McCarthy has a $25 million net worth as an American model, Playboy Playmate, TV personality, actor, author, and activist. She and her husband, actor Donnie Wahlberg, have a combined net worth of $600 million as of 2018.
Jenny McCarthy’s early fame came from a series of nude magazine covers she did for Playboy. McCarthy, however, diversified quite a bit as her career progressed, finding fame in both the film and television industries. She has become well-known in recent years for her controversial stance on the issue of mandatory vaccinations.
Jenny McCarthy Made Bank Posing for Playboy Over the Years
When Jenny, then 21 years old, received an offer of $20,000 to pose for the iconic magazine’s October 1993 centerfold, she decided to give it a try. She won the title of Playmate of the Year in 1994, earning her a $100,000 payment, according to Hugh Hefner’s apparent admiration for her “wholesome” Catholic schoolgirl image (which was also the theme of the centerfold shoot).
Jenny’s job with Playboy has undoubtedly been lucrative, but how much exactly is unknown. She has posed for the magazine seven times and appeared on the cover six times. When she appeared on the cover of the July/August 2012 issue, she was 39 years old.
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Jenny’s Role in “Masked Singer” is Not Her Acting Debut
Jenny McCarthy’s fame from Playboy opened doors for her in the television industry. She began her career as a host on Playboy TV before landing a $500,000 contract to front MTV’s Singled Out. This was the beginning of her incredibly successful and wealthy career as a TV host.
Jenny McCarthy’s show on MTV premiered in 1997. In the fall of that year, NBC handed her Jenny, a sitcom. Though each show only lasted for one year, at the end of it she was already a household name and a multimillionaire.
She next turned to the silver screen, however, most of her five features were box office bombs (such as…Jenny authored, produced, and starred in the 2005 failure Dirty Love, for which she received Razzie Awards for Worst Actress, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Picture.
With Whoopi Goldberg and Ryan Seacrest, she was a correspondent for ABC’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Dick Clark in 2010. While Ryan’s claimed $1 million for the (one-night) special is a close approximation, Jenny’s remuneration remains a mystery. Jenny was the host for a total of ten consecutive years; just do the math.
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