Amy Duggar King is setting the report straight about her time on 19 Youngsters and Counting—and the paycheck, or lack thereof, that got here with it.
The 30-year-old niece of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, and cousin to their 19 youngsters, revealed on the Oct. 1 episode of “The Viall Recordsdata” that she didn’t earn a dime for her appearances on the hit TLC collection.
“My uncle,” Amy shared, “he instructed all of us that 19 Youngsters and Counting was a ministry—and that we have been on the present to shine a lightweight within the darkness, to be part of this ministry and that God has referred to as us to this.” She added bluntly, “Was there any compensation? Nada.”
How A lot Did 19 Youngsters and Counting Make?
Regardless of Amy’s surprising revelation, she believes the present itself pulled in a fortune. The collection, which aired from 2008 to 2015, spanned 10 seasons and, in keeping with Amy, made “over $6 million” throughout its run.
The Holy Disruptor: Shattering the Shiny Facade by Getting Louder with the Reality creator additionally admitted she didn’t absolutely perceive what she was signing when she first joined the household actuality empire. “I signed a contract blindly,” Amy defined, declaring that her uncle Jim Bob had full management. “He’s very good, he actually is. He’s a businessman and he is aware of the way to do it.”
Jill Duggar’s Comparable Claims
Amy isn’t the one Duggar member of the family to return ahead with allegations of withheld pay. Jill Duggar Dillard beforehand shared that she too was omitted of the earnings from each 19 Youngsters and Counting and its spinoff Counting On.
“I by no means obtained any payout—no verify, no money, no nothing,” Jill revealed in Amazon’s 2023 docuseries Shiny, Joyful Individuals: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques. “For seven and a half years of my grownup life, I used to be by no means paid.”
In line with Jill, Jim Bob later supplied his youngsters a lump sum for his or her TV work, however provided that they agreed to “signal one other deal.” Jill and her husband Derick Dillard refused. “We have been robotically like, ‘We’re performed,’” she defined. The couple left Counting On in 2017, years earlier than the present’s cancellation.
Jill added in a 2020 YouTube vlog that after hiring an lawyer, they have been finally in a position to get well some cash. Her husband Derick famous it “in all probability ended up being slightly greater than minimal wage,” however mentioned, “We have been in a position to get well at the very least one thing.”
The Duggar Dad and mom Response
Jim Bob has not addressed Jill or Amy’s newest allegations immediately, although each he and spouse Michelle have spoken out in opposition to the household docuseries.
“The latest ‘documentary’ that talks about our household is unhappy as a result of in it we see the media and people with in poor health intentions hurting folks we love,” the couple wrote in an announcement on the time of its launch. “Like different households, ours too has skilled the thrill and heartbreaks of life, simply in a really public format.”
They added, “This ‘documentary’ paints a lot and so many in a derogatory and sensationalized method as a result of sadly that’s the course of leisure lately.”
