is one of Britain’s most loved sitcoms, and it graced our screens for over a decade before ending in 2018. Many famous faces have appeared in the ITV series over the years, and one star has revealed exactly how much he was paid.
If you cast your mind back to series five, Asa Elliot played the role of a cabaret singer at the infamous Solana Hotel. He appeared in six of the seven episodes and disclosed to how much his paycheck was.
“So in that series I appeared in six out of the seven episodes and I got paid quite a lot more than my first appearance, which was two years earlier in the Christmas special,” he revealed.
“For that, I got paid £750 – that was just for one scene.”
He continued: “When I went out for series five I was there for the long run for the whole series. So when I initially went to Spain to start filming, it was agreed I was going to get paid £4,000.”
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Asa Elliot was featured in almost every episode of series five (Image: ITV)
However, he later shared that the show hasn’t finished being written and some episodes needed to be completed. Asa then said: “In the end for those six episodes, I was there for months on end, got all my travel, accommodation and food – and I got £6,200 which is great.”
After the program was axed in 2018 after ten seasons, a three-day fan convention took place on Costa Blanca from November 18th to November 20th, 2022.
Guests who were lucky to go met iconic cast members, who were on hand to meet the Benidorm fans and some of the showwriters.
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Benidorm ran for ten seasons before being axed in 2018 (Image: ITV)
Confirmed stars who appeared at the Benicon included Siobhan Finneran (Janice Garvey), Sheila Reid (Madge Harvey), Sherrie Hewson (Joyce Temple-Savage) and Jake Canuso (Mateo).
The convention was held at the old filming location: Melia Benidorm Hotel. Just 900m away from the beach, it also boasted an indoor swimming pool, so fans lived like the characters from the show.
Benidorm can be streamed on ITVX.