Louise Thompson has revealed she was paid just £25 per day when she first appeared on E4 reality series Made In Chelsea.
The influencer, 34, who launched her career on the show, has claimed the show favoured badly-behaved men and made her look like a ‘weak doormat’.
Louise briefly appeared in the first series of the show, before joining as a full time cast member when the programme returned for a second season.
The reality personality was introduced to the show as Jamie Laing’s love interest and went on to also date her co-stars Spencer Matthews and Andy Jordan.
Louise features in one of the most memorable scenes of all time, where her then-boyfriend Spencer insisted she ‘allowed him’ to cheated on her.
Louise Thompson has revealed she was paid just £25 per day when she first appeared on E4 reality series Made In Chelsea
The influencer, 34, who launched her career on the show, has claimed the show favoured badly-behaved men and made her look like a ‘weak doormat’
Last year, Spencer said he regrets the famous scene, saying: ‘I feel embarrassed about it.’
During the very heated shouting match Spencer said to Louise: ‘It’s very hard to respect you when you allow me to cheat on you’.
The mother of one has claimed that the show celebrated men for ‘playing women off against each other’, resulting in their female counterparts looking ‘weak’.
During the tense moment, Louise broke down in tears as her on-off romance hit another bump in the road as Spencer admitted to his infidelities.
Speaking on Elizabeth Day’s How To Fail podcast, Louise slammed the show as a ‘waste of a good education’, after securing a geography degree at the University of Edinburgh.
Louise said: ‘I’d gone through quite a rough break-up in Edinburgh and I was ready to try something new and I just couldn’t keep saying no.
‘I came to London and it was a funny old time for me because I was trying to be a serious student up in Edinburgh and had cool friends up there.
‘They’re all a bit more academic and studious and then I was going to film on Made in Chelsea where we were just filming in nightclubs and driving fast cars – that kind of thing.
Louise briefly appeared in the first series of the show, before joining as a full time cast member when the programme returned for a second season
Louise features in one of the most memorable scenes of all time, where her then-boyfriend Spencer insisted she ‘allowed him’ to cheated on her
‘At the beginning it was £25 a day, then it went up to £50 after one series, and then after a while I was paid £200 a day and that was capped at that – that was the absolute max.’
Louise, who left the programme in 2020 after nine years, went on to discuss how the show favoured the male members of the cast.
She said: ‘The men always came out on top, which is ridiculous because most of the people working on the show were female.
‘They were celebrated for being naughty and for being mean and for playing us around.
‘I always felt as though I was fairly nice and treated people with respect: and I would end up looking really weak and like a doormat.
‘It’s really odd that the nation seemed to always be backing someone that was horrible… I would go through these break-ups, I’d be genuinely really upset, and people would watch it and think that I was weak for crying.’
Louise, who left the programme in 2020 after nine years, went on to discuss how the show favoured the male members of the cast
Louise was also diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and recently revealed in a candid Instagram post she had a stoma bag fitted to help with her condition
Louise, who appeared on the show with her fiance Ryan Libbey, has since gone on to build a successful fitness empire.
Louise has had a difficult few years, suffering from major health complications following the birth of her son Leo, now two.
She had a ‘catastrophic’ labour, during which she haemorrhaged after an emergency C-section and then again a week later.
Louise was also diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and recently revealed in a candid Instagram post she had a stoma bag fitted to help with her condition.
Her comments come after her Made In Chelsea alum Mimi Bouchard slammed the show’s producers for ‘manipulating’ the young cast.
Canadian reality personality Mimi joined the E4 programme for series 13 in 2017, filming when she was just 19 years old.
Her time on MIC was made memorable by a love triangle storyline with Liv Bentley and Frederick Ferrier and a spat with Tiffany Watson over her then on/off boyfriend Sam Thompson.
But six years after her final appearance on the programme in 2018, Mimi has revealed she was living a ‘double life’ on the show in a new interview on John R. Miles’s Passion Struck Podcast.
The show portrayed Chelsea’s social elite living a life of decadence in some of the capital’s most exclusive postcodes, but Mimi said she would struggle to ‘make her rent’ and had to babysit in the evenings after filming to do so.
Her comments come after her Made In Chelsea alum Mimi Bouchard slammed the show’s producers for ‘manipulating’ the young cast
Canadian reality personality Mimi joined the E4 programme for series 13 in 2017, filming when she was just 19 years old (pictured)
Speaking on the podcast, Mimi, now 27, said: ‘They pay like c**p, by the way. I was getting paid 50 pounds a day for filming for a 12 hour day when I first started.
‘And they push you in a manipulative way, really take advantage of young, kind of weaker people, and I was that at the time.
‘I was really young and I just kind of did what they told me to because they were also dancing this visa over my head.’
Mimi, who returned for the 15th season of the show in 2018 with her now-fiance Ben Darby, said the show shouldn’t be called a ‘reality show’ as a lot of it is ‘not real’.
She continued: ‘It really shouldn’t be called reality. From my experience, it’s not.
‘There are Xs on the ground, where to go stand. You don’t have a script, but you are being briefed and told essentially if you want to do well on the scene, if you want to be able to film more, if you want to be able to make more money, because the more you film, the more money you make.’
‘Some things on it were real but a lot of it wasn’t because the cast was pressured to make up storylines to get more filming days booked.’
And despite the show filming ‘these young, supposedly rich kids’, Mimi said she was forced to babysit as she ‘could not make rent’, calling it a ‘double life’.
Mimi fell out with Tiffany Watson after a fling with Sam Thompson (pictured together) when they were on a break
Mimi is pictured on the show in 2018, when she returned for the 15th series
Made In Chelsea – Ibiza. Back row: Georgia Toffolo, Sam Prince, Emily Blackwell, Olivia Bentley and Harry Baron, Jamie Laing and Frankie Gaff. Front Row: Mimi Bouchard, Ella Willis, Daisy Robins, Alex Mytton and Sam Thompson
Since leaving Chelsea behind, Mimi, now 27, has turned into a wellness powerhouse and runs her own company. She also runs an app called Superhuman, which offers guided meditations and lifestyle advice.
She says the app is for ‘people that don’t like to meditate’ and offers cooking and cleaning meditations to meditations for getting ready in the morning.
She says she is now worth ‘tens of millions of dollars at 27 years old’ despite a rocky start that saw her start drinking and doing drugs at the age of just 12.
