Jennifer Hyatt Tedmori gave her followers a blunt look at the tiny residual checks she received from her time as a child star, and the numbers were small enough to set off a very public rant, as reported by Page Six.
Hyatt Tedmori, 37, shared the reveal in a Thursday Instagram video while holding a stack of envelopes tied to her work on “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.”
“It’s that time of the year for me: I got my Ned’s residual checks,” she said as she began opening them in the video.
She added, “Some of these could be a penny, some of these could be $5.”
Hyatt Tedmori played Doris Trembly for 11 episodes on “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide,” and she made it clear that she was prepared for a ridiculous moment before the first envelope was even fully processed.
She labeled the video with “crashout incoming” after opening the first check and seeing that it was for two cents.
The amount immediately became the focus of the video, as she reacted to the check and the paperwork that came with it while sitting in her car.
She said whoever sent the two-cent check could keep it, pointing out that the amount was so low it barely seemed worth receiving.
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The rest of the “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide” checks did not exactly turn the moment around.
Among the other checks she opened were 63 cents, $1.11, 68 cents, 87 cents, 36 cents and 45 cents.
She also received two checks for three cents, three checks for 81 cents and two checks for $1.01.
As the envelopes kept coming, Hyatt Tedmori pushed back in advance against anyone who might criticize her for not treating every coin-sized payment like a meaningful windfall.
She also acknowledged that the show was from a long time ago and said she was surprised to be receiving anything at all.
Still, the three-cent checks bothered her because she said it cost 75 cents to send the envelope.
The actress then pointed to another past role, noting that she briefly appeared as “Goth Girl” for two episodes of The CW’s “90210” reboot.
That residual check was much larger than the others she had opened from “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.”
“[I got] $21.43. I’m surprised,” she said on Thursday before adding up the full amount.
After tallying the checks, Hyatt Tedmori shared the total from both projects.
“For ‘Ned’s Declassified,’ that brings us to a grand total of $8.63. With ‘90210,’ [it’s] $30.06,” she said.
She then joked about what that total could cover, asking whether she could buy a coffee at Starbucks.
She also questioned whether the amount was even worth reporting to the IRS, keeping the same fed-up tone that ran through the video.
The clip ended with Hyatt Tedmori turning the tiny payday into a sendoff for her followers.
“I hope you all have a great day,” she said.
“I hope you get out there and make more than $8.63.”
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