Tuesday, 12 November 2013

From $10m a movie to $7.25 an hour: Mark Wahlberg to cook up fast food with brother Donnie for new A&E reality show Wahlburgers


Move over Kardashians, the reality TV world just got a new star: Mark Wahlberg.
Though he commands $10m a movie and lives in a sprawling Beverly Hills mansion with his supermodel wife, the Transformers star will travel back home to Boston get his hands dirty flipping burgers for A&E's Wahlburgers, according to a Tuesday report from Deadline.
The reality series will also star his brother Donnie - that's Jenny McCarthy's boyfriend - and premiere in January.
Don't forget the fries!: Brothers Mark (left) and Donnie (right) Wahlberg are teaming up for the A&E reality series Wahlburgers, reports Deadline on Tuesday
Don't forget the fries!: Brothers Mark (left) and Donnie (right) Wahlberg are teaming up for the A&E reality series Wahlburgers, reports Deadline on Tuesday
Don't forget the fries!: Brothers Mark (left) and Donnie (right) Wahlberg are teaming up for the A&E reality series Wahlburgers, reports Deadline on Tuesday
Cast: Wahlburgers will feature the real-life version of the characters Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon (seen here with Cheryl Hines in 2012) played in Entourage, which Mark produced
Cast: Wahlburgers will feature the real-life version of the characters Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon (seen here with Cheryl Hines in 2012) played in Entourage, which Mark produced
Mark, 42, and Donnie, 44 - who have 10 siblings - are joining one of their non-famous brothers, Paul, who is running a hamburger restaurant in Massachusetts.
The place is so successful, they're already building a second one, which will serve as the home base for the boys from the old hood to talk things out.
Mark - who is worth $200m according to CelebrityWorth - has often discussed his rough-and-tumble childhood where he grew up in the poorer section of Boston and often resorted to petty crime.
Family: Mark (far right) with brothers Donnie and Paul, and mother Alma during the 2011 opening of Wahlburgers at the Hingham Shipyard in Boston, Massachusetts
Family: Mark (far right) with brothers Donnie and Paul, and mother Alma during the 2011 opening of Wahlburgers at the Hingham Shipyard in Boston, Massachusetts
Mark based several of the characters from Entourage - the HBO series he produced - on his old buddies from back home.
For example, Johnny 'Drama' Alves is really Mark's cousin. Others characters that will pop up on Wahlburgers include pals Henry 'Nacho' Laun and Billy Leonard.
Family matriarch Alma will also be a part of the show, per Deadline. It is not yet known if Mark's wife Rhea Durham - who he wed in 2009 and has four children with - or Donnie's girlfriend Jenny will appear on the series.
Their bombshell babes: Mark with model wife Rhea Durham in 2011 (left) and Donnie with The View host Jenny McCarthy in August (right)
Their bombshell babes: Mark with model wife Rhea Durham in 2011 (left) and Donnie with The View host Jenny McCarthy in August (right)
Their bombshell babes: Mark with model wife Rhea Durham in 2011 (left) and Donnie with The View host Jenny McCarthy in August (right)
'We’re thrilled to partner with the entire Wahlberg family as they graciously lift the curtain to share this new side of their story,' said A&E exec vp and GM David McKillop of the series, on which Mark and Donnie are among the executive producers.
Wahlburgers is not to be confused with the teamsters reality-series pilot A&E had ordered from Mark, explains Deadline, nor with Donnie’s reality series Boston Finest.
Mark has had a busy year, starring in 2 Guns with Denzel Washington and filming a Transformers sequel with director Michael Bay.
Donnie - who used to be in New Kids On The Block - has been in the spotlight for dating Playboy centerfold Jenny. He's even popped up alongside her on her show The View, where the two have shown PDAs and complimented each other.
Last week the blonde bombshell said she could see herself proposing to the former singer.

Wahlburgers is produced for A&E Networks by 44 Blue Productions, in association with Closest to the Hole Productions, Leverage Entertainment and Donnie D Productions, per Deadline.
Both successful in Hollywood: (Seen here in 2007) Mark (left) has starred in dozens of movies and Donnie (right) broke out with New Kids On The Block
Both successful in Hollywood: (Seen here in 2007) Mark (left) has starred in dozens of movies and Donnie (right) broke out with New Kids On The Block

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