Contract means Hopkins is set to pocket full fee

She may have been booted out of Australia on Tuesday, but right-wing motormouth Katie Hopkins looks set to laugh all the way to the bank back in England. Thanks to a ‘‘pay or play’’ clause in her contract with Big Brother production company Endemol Shine, which creates the show on behalf of the Seven Network, Hopkins is due to pocket all of the estimated A$200,000 (NZ$211,000) fee for which she had signed on, despite her aborted appearance. A spokeswoman for Big Brother declined to comment on Hopkins’ contract, or even confirm she was going to appear on the show. Hopkins was deported after wellpublicised breaches of the quarantine rules in a Sydney hotel.