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Brynn Whitfield claims her Bravo salary wasn’t even enough to cover her DoorDash bills.
After starring in a full-time role for the past two seasons of The Real Housewives of New York City, Brynn, 39, opened up about what she was paid on Jason Tartick‘s podcast as she also spoke of her career and 2024 income, allegations of being a sugar baby, how she was cast on the show, and more.
“It’s grocery money. It’s my DoorDash money,” Brynn shared on the April 14 episode of Trading Secrets. “I spend more on DoorDash per week than what I made for a season. [I spend a] lot … I spend like $2,000 to $3,000 a week on DoorDash.”
That would mean Brynn’s paycheck was less than the $104,000 to $156,000 per year she spends on DoorDash.
Still, Brynn has made herself a success and pulled in 7-figures in 2024.
“It was seven figures. Below … barely. I barely made seven figures,” she clarified.
Although Brynn appeared secretive about her career on RHONY, she spoke about her consulting work with host Jason, 36, explaining what she does for work and how much she earns.
“I have gotten to the place in my career where the clients that I had and the brands that I worked with, and the agencies that I worked at were so well known that I’m able to step back, not be in the day-to-day office. Basically, they call me for advice or to work on a deck or create a campaign idea, and they pay me very well for it. Very well. I make as much as a lawyer does per hour,” she revealed, suggesting that she’s paid around $600 per hour.
“The value they’re getting me is like 60 minutes of me on Adderall and just like Don Drapering the f*ck out of them. Like, genius sh*t, like literally 60 minutes of me at my best and just like, taglines, creative ideas, something for the ad campaign,” she continued. “It’s kind of like standup comedy, but standup creative.”
Because a lot of Brynn’s work was white labeled by the companies she consulted for, she was not allowed to showcase it on television, leading to questions from her co-stars and fans.
“There’s actually one publication, I think it was nylon or something, that mentioned my company that I work with and the brand director was like, ‘We love you so much and we adore you but we don’t want to be associated with the show … or our competitor has advise with the network,’” she shared. “I had to be hush hush about everything … and when you don’t share everything and every detail and the reason why, people label you and they’re like, ‘Why? How?’ And they create their own story of what you are. ‘She’s a sugar baby. She gets money from dudes.’ I’m like, ‘I wish.’”
After suspicions arose about her being a sugar baby amid season 15, Brynn offered a stern warning to her castmates: “Don’t come at me and say gross things about me.”
“What I tell people and even what I told my castmates in a very long text message, the one time in my season that I went off on everybody that everyone keeps referencing and Jeff Lewis references, one time, which again, for being on for now three years, two seasons, three years, I went off on people one time. One text message. I sent a very long, lengthy one, where I read them the Riot Act, and I was like, ‘Here’s what’s up. Leave my name out of your mouth. You wanna throw receipts on the table? Do you want me to bring up my JP Morgan Chase right now? I have W2s. I have everything with everything trackable with every invoice I’ve ever spent. What do you do for a living?’” Brynn asked.
“I’m the only one that works a full-time job,” she continued. “We have influencers, we have models, we have art curators, we have people that did work at J. Crew three years ago, but now they’re just honorary positions, we have a real estate agent that hasn’t sold a house in seven years.”
While Brynn did applaud her co-stars for “being entrepreneurs” and “doing amazing stuff,” she pointed out that her life is far less glamorous.
“They’re not doing the boring a** job that most of America, we all do, which is 9 to 5. I sit at a desk and I make decks and I go on Zoom calls,” she reasoned.
Looking back on her start on RHONY, Brynn revealed that a casting director “slid into [her] DMs.”
“They had gotten my name from a mutual friend who’s a fashion publicist … and I was properly f*cking off in the South of France, with girlfriends. I was chugging rose … I thought it was a scam,” she admitted.
At the time, Brynn was an avid viewer of the Real Housewives franchise, especially The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
“Back in the day, I loved Kyle Richards. I loved [Dorit Kemsley]. I like [RHOBH], Lisa Vanderpump is my friend [Pandora Sabo]’s mom. I loved Lisa. I loved Camille Grammer. I loved [Porsha Williams]. I love [Nene Leakes]… Huge fan. Huge fan,” she gushed.
No word yet on when the potential 16th season of The Real Housewives of New York City will begin filming.
