American TV personality Jason Kennedy's wife had defended him after his "E! News" co-host Catt Sadler quit the network over a "massive disparity in pay".
While Sadlert, 43, has made it clear she does not blame Kennedy for the huge difference in their salaries, she quit her role at E! after discovering that he was making almost twice as much money as her, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
However, Kennedy's wife Lauren Scruggs Kennedy, 29, has taken to Instagram to insist that Jason deserved his higher salary.
"I have always said that there are negatives and positives to social media, and these last 48 hours have proven that to be true. I believe in female empowerment and gender equality, but it's heartbreaking that a network is being deemed sexist when that is simply not true. At one time my husband had a female co-anchor on E! News who made 3 times his salary.
"Women are paid accordingly on this network, and the difference in his salary versus hers did not affect Jason. He knows there are always more components to consider when determining one's salary," she wrote.
"In a New York Times article, an E! spokeswoman confirmed quote "Sadler's and Kennedy's roles were not comparable."
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