Christine Quinn Worries She’ll Get Sued After ‘Call Her Daddy’: ‘Selling Sunset’ Salary, Editing Revelations

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Christine Quinn Worries She'll Get Sued After 'Call Her Daddy': 'Selling Sunset' Salary, Editing Revelations

Giving people a peek behind the curtain? Christine Quinn may be planning to return for season 6 of Selling Sunset, but not before she exposes all the secrets of the first five seasons. “We come to a scene and they want everything to be — I can't even say the word without laughing — organic,” the 33-year-old Netflix star said on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast on Wednesday, May 18. “They literally hold us away from each other. Chelsea [Lazkani] and I are best friends, Vanessa [Villela] and I are best friends. So we show up to set and they separate us in different rooms and then they wait until we're ready to film and they send us in. But in the meantime, they'll have someone say, ‘Oh, my gosh, you know Christine just said this about you in a previous scene,’ and they'll come to me [and say], ‘Chelsea said this about you [in] previous scenes.’ So they set up these scenarios which instigate our emotions intentionally. But I've been doing the show for four years. I'm on five seasons, so I know how it works.” Christine told host Alex Cooper that she and the cast of Selling Sunset — which also includes Chrishell Stause, Jason Oppenheim, Mary Fitzgerald, Heather Rae El Moussa (née Young), Emma Hernan, Davina Potratz and Maya Vander — shot seasons 4 and 5 of the Netflix series in one-month spans. “We shoot them back to back, so it's a very, very, very quick turnaround,” she said, adding that viewers may not realize “how hard it is to shoot a show” due to continuity issues. [jwplayer IABuQ69r-zhNYySv2] The How To Be a Boss B*tch author went on to make claims about how the show is crafted. “I’ve been into the office. There are six full-time storyboarders. What they do is they write the story lines and depending on how things change in [the] real world in our lives, they can kind of rotate the story lines,” she alleged. “But we have six full-time storyboarders who create narratives.” Christine previously opened up to Us Weekly earlier this month about the sides of her that she feels aren’t reflected on the real estate series. “When you watch the show, you have to understand, you know, we’re following so many characters and so many different people, so we can only show a certain amount, but there are different sides to me,” she said. “In addition to being funny and maybe a loudmouth, I also have a vulnerable side and I’m just like everyone else. I’m a human and I have a heart and things do hurt me. And even the relationships with the girls, I wish we could all be friends, but it is what it is. What you see on television is only just a small snippet of my life and what I put in the work behind the scenes and everything that took me here. So I hope that people read the book and understand where I’m coming from.” Scroll through for the biggest takeaways from “Call Her Daddy”:

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Who Gets Paid the Most on ‘Selling Sunset’?

According to Christine, she gets the biggest paycheck from production.

“I’m gonna get sued after this. I don't care. You can't afford my lawyers. …There's three different tiers,” she said when asked for salary details. "I get paid the most. Jason as well. … My entertainment attorney, you know, basically [said] this is my value and I think it's all about recognizing your worth.”

Christine added that she tried to “band together” with her costars to negotiate together, but they weren’t interested.

“When we went into the show, we all have separate lawyers. The majority of the cast is represented by one lawyer, but obviously, I had to find my own entertainment attorney and do my own thing,” she told Us. “They told us that there’s tiers. I was the one who came to the whole entire cast and said, ‘Listen, if we need to get paid what I believe we all deserve as a whole — because we are all equals — we need to band together and be on the same page.’ But it didn't work and some people were eager to sign their contracts right away, which immediately tiered them in a different group.”

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Unedited Scene With Heather

During the interview, Christine played a clip of an allegedly edited scene of her and Heather from season 5 that was supposedly included in press screeners. In the video, it appeared that Heather was dubbed to say, “You said comments about Chrishell sleeping with Jason when she was still married and you know that’s bulls—t.” Christine then appeared to reply, “Oh, my God, that’s hilarious, I did say that.”

“Heather never even brought that up in the scene,” Christine claimed. She then played the clip that ultimately aired on Netflix in which Heather said, “You said he’s always had good taste in women but I guess that’s, you know, that’s not true.” Christine’s response — “Oh my God, that’s hilarious, I did say that” — was in response to that quote.

Christine concluded: “You see the two scenes and the first scene that they were about to send out to the entire world accused me of confirming infidelity, which was dubbed over by production. Heather never said that to me.”

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Was Christine Prepared for the Reunion?

Christine doubled down on claims she tested positive for COVID-19 on the day of the season 5 reunion taping. “I was ready for the reunion,” she said. “I had my dress ready to go. I was so excited. … I came with receipts. I was read to f—k s—t up.”

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Christine Compares Heather to a Chick-fil-A Waffle Fry

When asked which relationship she would “redo” with one of her costars, Christine named Heather — but then threw some subtle shade.

“If there's anyone I want to reach out to it's Heather,” Christine said, agreeing with Alex that she’s a “really genuine, amazing” person. “But the problem is she’s like a Chick-fil-A waffle fry, you know, she waffles around, she listens to what other people say. … She did an interview and she's like, ‘I wish Christine would have come to the reunion so we could have hashed that out.’ I'm like, ‘Honey, I have a phone. I have eight phones, actually. Call me on one of my lines!'"

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Did Chrishell Fake Her Relationship With Jason?

“I think it was opportunistic,” Christine said when asked if she believes Chrishell and Jason faked their relationship for the show. “It was a great story line. I think that Jason did have genuine feelings for her. Do I think that she had genuine feelings for him? No.”

She added that she saw a “different side” of her boss with the former soap star. “He seemed happy and in love, but it was one-sided in my opinion. I've only seen them together twice, which was once at my broker's event where I was wearing the black dress, and even then, I could tell she was really uncomfortable.”

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Christine Compares ‘Selling Sunset’ to 'The Wizard of Oz’

“Season 3 I realized I can't win. There was a time [when] I was actually talking about Mary in a scene and I watched my mouth say Amanza,” Christine claimed. “And I didn't say Amanza’s name. And that's when I was like, ‘What Wizard of Oz s—t am I up against?’ Even the office scene when Mary got promoted — that was the best day we ever had together. We were so excited. We had so much fun. And it didn't happen that way on camera. We were all hugging each other and like, ‘Oh, my God, Mary, I'm so happy for you.’ We're all getting along. It was great. But the producers told me to keep walking out of the office. I walked out of the office probably 16 times and they were like, ‘No smile. No wave. No smile. No wave.’ But like, we're prisoners, right? We can't leave until, like, they get what they want.”