You don’t get rich from acting Good times Bad Times. Many actors also do something besides it. They have a web shop, enjoy themselves on social media or are in the schnabbel circuit.
Fajah Lourens, who played in GTST between 2002 and 2005, once told Privé that he never earned more than 2000 euros a month. That’s why she always did odd jobs on the side. “Meanwhile I was at a fair to earn some extra money. Then I received 800 euros to sign autographs.”
Babette van Veen (54), who played in Good Times at the very beginning and has returned in recent years, responded in 2015 to a Twitter user who claimed that she would earn between 5,000 and 7,000 euros net: “Haha! From which planet, you come, then everyone immediately retrained!”
Babette van Veen still plays in the theater and has her own t-shirt line. Colleagues Everon Hooi and Marly van der Velden are also in the clothing. They sell boxer shorts and socks respectively.
Because the GTST stars have a large number of followers on social media, they manage to earn nice extra that way. Those who don’t are soapies from the very beginning, Erik de Vogel and Caroline de Bruijn. They would each earn 10,000 euros a month, but deny that themselves. They do say they have an above-average income.
But Caroline de Bruijn explains that acting in a Dutch soap is not paid very well. “What actors earn in a soap opera in Italy or Germany is just tenfold. That’s because of the reach. In America, after twenty years of playing in The bold really nothing left to do, you know, financially. That is simply not the case in the Netherlands.”
