Do you know who the highest paid television star is? It happens to be Judge Judy herself. She earns over $47 million a year starring in her own program. That means she earns $900,000 a day, and that’s for working only 52 days in a single year.
Being a judge on TV pays quite a bit more than being a judge in real life.
Dress Down
The Judge is known for offering scathing attacks to litigants who show up looking anything but professional in her courtroom. Don’t' try wearing a casual shirt or a short skirt, she'll notice. But under those fancy black robes? Judy is usually wearing nothing mores than jeans and a t-shirt of her own.
You'll never see it on camera though; such are the tricks of television.
A Number Of Cases
Each season of Judge Judy sees about 650 cases presided over by Judge Judy herself. As of 2009 that means there have been over 8,450 cases that have felt the justice of Judge Judy.
It's 2019; can you imagine how many plaintiffs and defendants have come before Judy in over 20 years on television?
Drama And Fame
Not everyone who appears on Judge Judy is a no one scraped up by researchers. Roz Kelly, old star of "Happy Days," appeared on an episode in 1996 as a plaintiff when she was suing her plastic surgeon. She claimed she was given leaky breast implants that had all but finished her acting career.
It wasn't just actors, but rock stars that appeared on the show. John Lydon of the Sex Pistols acted as defendant against his drummer Robert Williams, who was hired to work during Lydon's solo tour and later sued Lydon for lost wages. More recently, meaning 2017, Amy Schumer even appeared before the Judge.
A Quick Reply
Judge Judy has never been one to take an attack laying down. Through her publicist she let Wapner know exactly what she thought of his words. And I quote, “I refuse to engage in similar mud slinging. I don’t know where or by whom Judge Wapner was raised.
But my parents taught me when you don’t have something nice to say about someone, say nothing. Clearly, Judge Wapner was absent on the day that lesson was taught.”