Mario Lopez reacts to Tiffani Thiessen saying “Saved by the Bell” cast’s residuals are ‘negative’ now

Mario Lopez affirmed his Saved by the Bell costar Tiffani Thiessen's claim that they make "negative" money from their residual checks.

Thiessen previously shared how she didn't start "making real money" until she was on Beverly Hills, 90210.

Their costar Mark-Paul Gosselaar once shared that the cast signed "bad deals."

Mario Lopez can attest to his Saved by the Bell costar Tiffani Thiessen 's measly residual checks.

After Thiessen's joked that her kickbacks for the teen sitcom, which ran from 1989 to 1993, were basically nonexistent, Lopez took to X to back up her claim.

Indeed, Thiessen recently got candid about how much money she made for her most iconic TV roles. While her stint as bad girl Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210 is when she started "making real money," she admitted that her time as girl-next-door Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell earned her very little.

"We made nothing and we just did our job," she said in an interview with SiriusXM's Page Six Radio .

And Saved by the Bell doesn't make her much to this day. In fact, she doesn't think that she receives residual checks for her work on the show at this point.

"I think it has dried out," Thiessen said. "It's like, negative now. It costs more to print the check."

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It's no secret that the stars of the show, which included Thiessen, Lopez, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Elizabeth Berkley, Lark Voorhies, the late Dennis Haskins, and the late Dustin Diamond, made low salaries. In fact, a recent episode of the docuseries Hollywood Demons shed light on how much Lopez actually made per episode , which was far less than one would expect given the success of the show.

"Mario Lopez said he started out making about $1500 an episode," Denise Simon, a child star manager, said during the episode touching on the struggles of Saved by the Bell' s cast. "That's a lot of money to a kid. But after a second season, in 1991, Saved by the Bell was pulling in roughly $15 million in advertising."

Meanwhile, Gosselaar previously explained that the cast "made really bad deals."

"Poor deals, back then," he said on Watch What Happens Live in 2019 . " It is what it is. You move on, you learn. Great experience."

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