One of daytime TV's biggest stars, Eric Braeden (Victor Newman on 'Young and the Restless') has quit the show in a salary dispute.Braeden walked off the show after refusing to have his pay cut.
Braeden told the NY Post that he signed a 3-year contract, and he expects CBS to honor it.
But producers CBS and Sony invoked a little-used clause giving them the right to review his salary every 26 weeks (and the right to cut that salary). "You expect to be talked to in a sensitive way, not suddenly hit over the head by invoking a clause that was never invoked before and to say 'What the f*** happened?' ," Braeden says.
He adds that there's a certain "hierarchy" among daytime soap stars, which he feels should have spared him from a salary cut.
"Let's call a spade a spade. Management always gives the impression that all [soap] actors are the same, but it's bulls**t to claim that. They aren't," he says.
Braeden could still return to "Y&R" if a new deal can be worked out. His last scene, taped Sept. 23, airs Nov. 2.
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