All TV stars should get paid.

Growing up in a very beautiful National Park we knew early on not to go in front of the many TV and film cameras without first having the cash and a contract in your back pocket. It might be a privilege to share a shot with the stars if All Creatures Great and Small but privilege don't pay the rent so they have to pay. £20 was the going rate for not hiding among the Shambles when someone shouted "Action!", at the top of Settle marketplace. If they wanted a crowd they had to pay the partakers of crowding.
When Blair was first elected PM the flagwaving crowd greeting him to Downing Street were not doing it for free either - they were the staff of his election office. They cheered as if that was part of the job description.
Now we have "reality TV" where people agree to step out of the crowd and be filmed for nothing. Only idiots go in front of camera with the only aim of being famous assuming that in itself is a way of making a living. Stepping out of the crowd does not mean you are no longer part of the crowd. If not on the payroll proper you will be swallowed up by it again when the cameras stop rolling. What is the point of being famous for having agreed to work for nothing? What does that do for your CV? Neither it is acceptable for a major supermarket, or any other big employer, to ask job applicants to work unpaid fpr a trial period, two hours of shelf stacking does deserve a pay cheque, as does a month of working 7 to 3 trialling in a factory.
TV companies and film makers must stop paying a few a great deal and the rest nothing. That is not a right and proper business model. Stars undergo years of training like doctors and priests but the minions should not be taken for granted. Even charity shops have to pay their staff these days!