Juliette Porter revealed that starring on Siesta Key “formed” who she is — and padded her checking account within the course of.
Porter, 28, recalled being 17 when she filmed the MTV pilot earlier than attending Florida State College with the dream of changing into a lawyer.
She stated through the Monday, August 11, episode of the “Buying and selling Secrets and techniques” podcast that after the collection was picked up in 2017, she was solely 19 and shortly her life trajectory modified, noting that being an lawyer isn’t who she was “at my core.”
Porter claimed that in season 1 of the fact present, which adopted a younger group of associates within the Florida metropolis, she made $1,500 an episode, totaling roughly $20,000 for the season.
“I believe season 2 I made about $60,000. However we did double the quantity of episodes,” she shared, confirming that her pay scale continued to go up earlier than the present resulted in 2022 after 5 seasons.
Porter claimed that she’s now “a billionaire” due to changing into a actuality TV star so younger. Her pivotal function because the collection’ narrator additionally helped her make more cash.

“I’d narrate it, and we’d all must receives a commission for the sake of equity the identical episodically,” she recalled.
The JMP The Label founder defined she “tried to combat it” as a result of she was “sorta the primary character.” Porter paused earlier than confessing, “I simply don’t wish to sound like a douche.”
Being the present’s narrator a.ok.a. the voice over who guides every episode, she had the ability to up her wage.
“I’d negotiate my narration price to be enormous,” Porter advised host Jason Tartick. “I bought one thing like $120,000 for narration. That might be about I believe whole 5 hours of labor. That was what we’d do.”

Siesta Key premiered in 2017 and starred Porter, Madisson Hausburg, Kelsey Owens, Garrett Miller, Amanda Marie Mizell, Alex Kompothecras, Chloe Trautman and Brandon Gomes.
As soon as the collection ended, Porter unfold her wings and branched out on her personal. She now cohosts her personal podcast and is a swimwear designer.
“The explanation I believe the present ended is I do assume lots of issues had modified,” Porter stated on a March episode of her “Don’t Be Ridiculous” podcast. “These are my associates from highschool by means of early, early 20s. I don’t actually discuss to them anymore. It’s a special period.”
She confessed, “Issues have been dying. I used to be able to develop. I knew I used to be going to remain in Miami. They didn’t essentially belong in Miami.” (The fifth and remaining season filmed in Miami.)