Norman Reedus has played Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead since 2010 (Picture: Gene Page/AMC)

Norman Reedus’ salary for starring in The Walking Dead has been revealed.

Some of the highest-paid stars on TV have been revealed, and Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon on the AMC show, is among the top drama earners.

Norman gets a huge $1m (£775,000) pay day per episode, slightly less than Javier Bardem’s $1.2m (£930,000) pay packet for his upcoming Amazon drama. He has been a part of The Walking Dead since season one in 2010.

Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston’s pay for their currently untitled Apple drama is a whopping $1.1m (£930,000).


Meanwhile Julia Roberts is getting a huge $600k (£465,000) per episode for Universal Cable project Homecoming according to Variety’s report.



It was previously rumoured that Reedus was being lined up to take over from the departing Andrew Lincoln in the lead role.

But Lincoln squashed the idea in the summer saying, ‘no one is bigger than the show’.

The reveal comes after Norman spilled some behind-the-scenes secrets about Andrew Lincoln’s last day on set.

Norman revealed he helped Andrew get through his very last scene by tickling his feet off camera.

‘He was supposed to smile, and it was a close-up. So I kept sneaking in and tickling his feet and making him smile on this one line,’ he told Entertainment Weekly.

Andrew Lincoln is leaving his role as Rick Grimes (Picture: AMC)

‘And I thought it was funny. And he liked it. He kept asking me to keep doing it. So the last scene that he shot on this show, I’m below camera tickling his feet.’

Norman added that Andrew, who has played Rick Grimes for nine seasons, gave an emotional leaving speech to the cast and crew.

The British actor requested that the speech wasn’t shared on social media as it was a ‘family moment’.

‘I thought that was such a cool thing to do,’ Norman said.

‘Everybody understood it, and everybody got it, and it felt so right. And that’s the kinda guy that guy is.’

Norman says it has been ‘weird as f**k’ without Andrew on set (Picture: Araya Diaz/WireImage)

However he added that it has been ‘weird as f**k’ without Andrew on set.

Norman said: ‘I’ve never not had lunch in my trailer with him in nine years. We always get my lunch and go back to my trailer, the two of us.

‘So I just kinda sat there quietly, like, “where the f**k is Andy right now?”‘

The Walking Dead airs Mondays at 9pm on FOX in the UK

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