280 euros per month
Jungle legend Kader Loth plagued by pension worries
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Kader Loth is currently afraid of nasty creatures and annoying fellow campers in the South African jungle. In real life, the 51-year-old is afraid of the future. Her small pension will not be enough to live on, as she bravely reveals.
You don't talk about money? Kader Loth doesn't follow this still widespread rule. For understandable reasons. “I recently got my pension notice – 280 euros a month, from the age of 65. That's really frightening,” she revealed in an interview with the “Bild” newspaper.
The fact that she has so little left in her old age is a fate that she shares with many of her prominent colleagues, explains Loth. “It feels like we celebrities don't get a statutory pension, and if we do, it's not enough to live on. That really scares me.” She has “absolute respect for old age – also in financial terms.”
So that she doesn't have to live on a 280 euro pension a month later, she is making provisions now. Among other things, by taking part in the format “I'm a Celebrity – Showdown of the Jungle Legends” currently running on RTL and RTL+. In it, Loth, who made it to fifth place in “I'm a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!” (IBES) in 2017, has ventured into the notorious jungle camp for a second time. Together with twelve other “jungle legends” she is now fighting for the jungle crown and 100,000 euros in prize money.
“I don't want to end up on the streets when I'm old”
However, Loth receives a “tempting” fee just for her participation, which should certainly fill the gap in her pension account. This is of course “also one of the reasons” why she is venturing into the RTL jungle again, the 51-year-old explains to the “Bild” newspaper. After all, it's about securing her future: “I don't want to end up on the streets when I'm old.”
She claims to have received a fee of 80,000 euros for her participation in IBES in 2017. However, one should not forget that “some of this sum goes to the tax office,” emphasises Loth.
But she doesn't just want to use TV appearances like these to provide for her retirement. She is also investing in her private pension and has taken out several insurance policies, Loth reveals. She is even thinking about buying a property, even though these have become very expensive at the moment.
